No cause of death given for artist whose track We Are IE had a huge impact on the breakbeat-driven, bass-focused sound of jungle, drum’n’bass and dubstep
Lennie De Ice, the British music producer whose track We Are IE helped to shape the jungle genre in the 1990s, has died.
Born Lenworth Green in London, he later recalled being immersed in music as a boy: “I was into the new wave of hip-hop and electro like Mantronix, Jonzun Crew and Afrika Bambaataa, plus I’d grown up in the era of Gary Numan, the new romantics and ska,” he said. He began creating his own music in 1986, using synths and drum machines, and became immersed in London’s nascent acid house scene.
Using a six-track mixing desk at home, Green utilised the “Amen break”, a breakbeat sampled from the Winstons’ 1969 soul track Amen, Brother which had already been used in early hip-hop. He was one of the first to use it in the context of dance music, and it became a core component of the sound of jungle, later developing into drum’n’bass.
It was originally released in 1991 but Green was jailed for what he later called “something that happened about four or five years prior which had caught up with me”. He was released in 1993.
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