David Ross is a 17 year
old Hip-Hop and Experimental producer from the small town of Lanark in the west
coast of Scotland. Even though he is still at high school he has already worked
with some of the best MCs in the Scottish hip hop scene, he has done his own
remix of Werd and Deeko’s Mad World, he also made the beat for Whatever she
Demands on Zayn’s Dazed and Diffused Mixtape, Whatever She Demands was played on radio 1. He had started making music at
the age of 10 when upon hearing Eminem he developed a passion for writing
poetry with his primary school level English skills. At the age of 12 he bought
an MTV Music Generator for Xbox which enabled him to create his own
instrumentals using loops that were part of the game, but it also allowed him
to import samples, so he started getting into the ways of sampling as well as
loops. At the age of 13 he then joined his cousins group "Ambiguous
Tek" who then only consisted of 2 members his cousin and one of his best
friends. It was something that he viewed as an amazing opportunity to work with
his cousin on tracks, who had some of his poetry published in books. Over the next
couple of years he was involved with the group but they never managed to
release a single track. He was a member up until spring of 2011 when he decided
with the group not actually going in any direction he had wanted to see them he
thought it was best to leave and focus less on the group and more on working as
an independent artist and beatmaker. He took the most recent instrumentals he
had made for the group and created a project called the "No Phase EP"
out of them. The idea behind the project was to do tracks with the various
artists in Scotland and therefore try and connect himself with a scene that he
belonged but had never got involved with for the 5-6 years he had been
producing. He had only one hip-hop contact in the whole of Scotland who was
Sound Thief, a friend of his cousin in the group "Ambiguous Tek". His
cousin had received a cd featuring Scottish hip hop artists. This cd amazed him
hearing Scottish MCs for the first time in your life is a strange feeling but
it was one he never mocked. The first track he heard was Genetically Prone by
Loki, and still to this day it is one of his biggest drives is to work with
Loki, for the reason being that he was the very first hip hop artist he heard
from Scotland. Hopes of completing the "No Phase EP" slowly faded but
he has released another EP entitled "The Fun Of It EP" which was a collection
of tracks he had enjoyed making more than others. He has begun working on an EP
with one of Scotland’s best up and coming MCs Zayn. David has given up on
writing poetry and focused mainly on creating beats. This is one young beatmaker
and producer to watch. David Ross has also made the beat for Louie's track Excuse My Fucking French which was part of The Discernable Truth EP.
Daniel
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