I’m back from Nagoya and FUNERAL (I escaped into the countryside of Wakayama for a few days, too), and one of the biggest pieces of news of the last week are the changes with Carbon Based. DJ E-nrg has left the group, but the numbers are made up again by DJ Rx! For the scene to lose E-nrg is a real shame, but Rx’s collabs with CB have been very nice up to now and it’s safe to expect big things (such as Fleshfest, the tune made alongside Proteus). Rx will still be producing under his original name, but focusing there on breaks/drum and bass. Below is the statement from the boys themselves:
12th of March 2010, Lahti, Finland.
We are now ready to release possibly the biggest news in history of our band!
Ari Virtanen (DJ E-nrg) has left the group in standing friendship and we are more than proud to welcome our new member – Ville Sorsa, better known as DJ Rx.
Ville has also done a long career developing harder edge of Finnish electronic music and for the last ten years been like a fifth member of the crew. He is also a key member of our record company FINRG Recordings so decision wasn’t hard. We are sure that Ville will bring fresh ideas, whole lot of creativity and energy that keeps us going and believing in what we do from the bottom of our hearts. Ville’s first gig as a new member will be at Monday Bar Spring Break Cruise on 13th of March 2010.
We have a noteworthy tune in the production pipeline called “Fleshfest”. It’s been produced in co-operation with DJ Proteus and Mika Tauriainen from Finnish heavy metal band Entwine. We’ve planned doing a video out of it and the tune itself will be released during summer.
We are releasing “Carbon Based – Singles 2000 – 2010” double collection during spring. Collection will feature our most important releases during last decade as well as some unreleased material. Collection will be downloadable FOR FREE at http://www.finrg.com/downloads
I’ve already wished Ville good luck, but i’ll do it again! Go go go!