DJ SS, born Leroy Small (on August 27 1970), is a Drum and Bass DJ and producer from Leicester, United Kingdom. His artist name has nothing to do with the Nazi SS. His name actually stands for Scratchenstein which is a name he used when he was a Hip Hop scratch DJ and a part of the Hip Hop act The Formation Five whose name inspired the name of his label. Originally a breakdancer, DJ Stratch Stein began playing electro music as a teenager in the early 1980s.

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  • DJ SS, born Leroy Small (on August 27 1970), is a Drum and Bass DJ and producer from Leicester, United Kingdom. His artist name has nothing to do with the Nazi SS. His name actually stands for Scratchenstein which is a name he used when he was a Hip Hop scratch DJ and a part of the Hip Hop act The Formation Five whose name inspired the name of his label. Originally a breakdancer, DJ Stratch Stein began playing electro music as a teenager in the early 1980s. He then played Hip Hop and Rare Groove before turning to producing in 1988 initially Acid House, Hardcore, Breakbeat and finally Jungle/Drum and Bass tracks. SS got his big break DJ'ing at the big British raves of the early 1990s such as Telepathy. Since then he has gone on to DJ world wide. SS is the co-founder and head of the Formation Records label and has released over 100 tracks using a number of aliases. These include the "Color Series" and the "Country Series", MA3 "Those DJs", the piano-theme-from-Love Story-sampling "Lighter" (the label's biggest hit) plus many more popular Drum and Bass / Jump-Up Jungle tunes, He has also remixed No Good (Start the Dance) by The Prodigy. The Formation label has become a stable for new Drum and Bass producers such as John B and Twisted Individual. As well as the record label, SS used to own a nightclub in Sheffield, off Division Street, which was home to weekly Drum and Bass nights (usually on a Wednesday), between 1998-1999.
  • DJ SS (bürgerlich Leroy Small) * 27. August 1970 in Leicester, England ist ein bekannter Drum-’n’-Bass-DJ und -Produzent aus Leicester, England. Laut dem Rough Guide prägte er das Hardcore- und Hardstep-Genre entscheidend. Neben Ray Keith, Dillinja und Shy FX gehört er zu den prototypischen Vertretern des Hardstep. Aus der beginnenden Hardcore-Szene der frühen Neunziger war er einer der wenigen, die mehrere Jahre überlebten und im Laufe der Zeit innerhalb der Jungle-Szene als Künstler anerkannt wurden. Sein Künstlername steht für „Scratchenstein“. Small und sein Partner Eidris veranstalteten 1991 unter dem Namen „Total Kaos“ eine Serie von Freitag-Nacht-Partys in Leicester. Sie organisierten auch eine zu jener Zeit größten Indoor-Veranstaltungen der neu aufkommenden British Hardcore-Szene: im Donington Park, mit 6000 Gästen. So fasste Small bereits zu Beginn der British Hardcore-, Jungle- und Drum'n'Bass-Bewegung Fuß in der Szene und gewann schnell an Bekanntheit. Seine erste Veröffentlichung, die EP The Psycho auf Formation Records prägte die bestimmenden Elemente der Hardcore-Blaupause: knirschende Breakbeats und Synth-Riffs, die an Alarmsirenen erinnerten. Während sich in der 1980/1990er-Zeit die Jungle-Szene mehr in Richtung Melodie orientierte, gehörte DJ SS zusammen mit Asend, Deep Blue, Aphrodite und DJ Hype zur jüngeren Generation derer, die das Schwergewicht auf Perkussion und Beats legten. Als DJ SS tritt er in der ganzen Welt auf.
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  • DJ SS, born Leroy Small (on August 27 1970), is a Drum and Bass DJ and producer from Leicester, United Kingdom. His artist name has nothing to do with the Nazi SS. His name actually stands for Scratchenstein which is a name he used when he was a Hip Hop scratch DJ and a part of the Hip Hop act The Formation Five whose name inspired the name of his label. Originally a breakdancer, DJ Stratch Stein began playing electro music as a teenager in the early 1980s.
  • DJ SS (bürgerlich Leroy Small) * 27. August 1970 in Leicester, England ist ein bekannter Drum-’n’-Bass-DJ und -Produzent aus Leicester, England. Laut dem Rough Guide prägte er das Hardcore- und Hardstep-Genre entscheidend. Neben Ray Keith, Dillinja und Shy FX gehört er zu den prototypischen Vertretern des Hardstep.
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