Blame, aka Conrad Shafie, is perhaps the most innovative producer on the drum & bass scene - an accolade hard won over years of consistently breaking musical boundaries in an attempt to bring true innovation to the music that he loves. It all began over ten years ago when, whilst in the studio with college friend Tony Justice, Conrad started to create tracks which would be synonymous with the early hardcore scene. ‘Music Takes You’, a solo project for Moving Shadow, saw him break into the UK charts and become number one in the dance chart; many books charting the early days of dance music have since credited this tune as a seminal moment in what was to soon become drum & bass. After experiencing – and celebrating – such early chart success, Conrad decided to focus on his musical direction, and received critical acclaim for tunes such as ‘Planet Neptune’, also released on Moving Shadow. In late 1996, he joined LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking Records, and it was here that he began to try out more new sounds, soon becoming one of the label’s most important artists. Conrad hadn’t been at the label long before he was experimenting with unusual time signatures on tunes such as ‘Solitude’, exploring his jazz influences on tracks such as ‘J-Walkin’ and ‘360? Click’, and mixing the second in the famous ‘Logical Progression’ series. He not only made waves with innovative, space-age tunes such as ‘Visions Of Mars’ and ‘Alpha:7’, but he also became one of Good Looking’s best DJs, touring the world with LTJ Bukem. In 1997, Conrad set up his own subsidiary label at Good Looking - 720. ‘Cuban Lynx’ / ‘Solitude’ was its first release, and since then Conrad has used the label as a platform for innovative drum & bass, releasing his own tunes alongside tracks from Odyssey, Seba, Future Engineers and Pariah amongst others. 1999 saw the release of ‘Two Revolutions’, a 720 compilation album that showcased the label’s increasingly dancefloor-orientated sound. It was a direction in which Conrad’s own music was heading – his 1999 ‘Between Worlds’ EP featured a fiercely robotic tune called ‘Mechanism’, which seemed to manifest the evolution of his musical vision. “I wanted to get tracks like it out on 720 as much as I could,” he explains. “It crosses the board from the more musical styles of drum & bass to the harder stuff. For me, that’s the future, that versatility.” In 2000, after releasing Pariah’s ‘Censure’ / ‘Living Cell’ on 720, Conrad locked himself in his studio, intent on pursuing that vision further and creating his first artist album for Good Looking. His next release was the ‘Sigma’ EP in early 2001, which explored styles from the eerie urban jazz of ‘Spectre’ to the uncompromising twisted amen of ‘Point 4’. The autumn of the same year saw his album finished and another EP released on Good Looking, namely the ‘Firestorm’ EP. Showcasing material from his new album, the EP yet again proved his aptitude for creating tunes as innovative and ground-breaking as they are addictive and dancefloor-friendly. For Conrad, operating on the far reaches of this drum & bass in this way is what it’s all about: “Drum & bass is the most futuristic, forward thinking music on the planet. It’s come a long way in a relatively short space of time, and my sound has grown and evolved within this journey. Also whenever I work on a track,” he adds, “I picture it in a visual domain. This gives the music a depth, which enables the listener to lock into your frame of mind.” After his debut release on Metalheadz in 2004 "Burnout / Medusa" , the "Rise Of The Machines EP" swiftly followed on Charge Recordings, which saw Blame take a slightly heavier dancefloor approach.  In May Blame also had two tracks appearing on Mampi Swifts "Music Forever LP" and was part of the Charge UK tour with Swift and Metalheadz club nights in the UK, as well as continuously touring Europe, and the USA. 720 Degrees kicked off a busy release schedule in 2005 with the first release in March by K.O.T.P (Blame & Pedge) entitled "Krypton Factor / Android", and swiftly following that in April was a release showcasing Blames trademark deeper vibes with  "Shadows Of Technology". Further work for Metalheadz followed in the form of "Psychotropic" on the "Winter of Content" compilation and another single "The Search / Landspeed", were both released in autumn 2005. Finally in 2006 Blames latest album "The Turning Point" was released on 720 Degrees. Tracks included the club smash "Solar Burn, Skyline, Congress, Desert Planet and Sabotage" to name a few. The support on the tracks was huge and included all the big players in the drum and bass scene, firmly cementing Blames position in the future of drum and bass. ARTISTS | BLAME | PLEX | SEBA | K.O.T.P