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AGENT: tom@platdujour-bcn.com
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Both hailing from the same side of Stockholm, Sweden, the two reggae-fanatics Dj Niceness and Mastah L linked up during their high school years when they discovered their mutual love for Jamaican music. As teens they formed their first record label and soundsystem KBC Music during the late 90s. KBC arranged parties and produced riddims for local artists such as Flimpoman and their childhood friend Million Stylez. Traveling to Jamaica numerous times during the first years of the new millennium they built up an impressive network and recorded with several of the biggest stars on the dancehall scene – Sean Paul, Beenie Man, Sizzla, Busy Signal and more. When they produced Million Stylez hit single ”Miss Fatty” a couple of years later they pulled off a quite spectacular stunt, making Swedish dancehall a successful export. 

Somewhere around 2006 the duo started to feel more and more disappointed with the direction that modern dancehall was going – the lyrics becoming more and more violent and the sound that they had fallen in love with a decade earlier becoming more lightweight and less well-produced. With one foot still in Jamaica the two friends discovered a new love in the electronic sounds of electro, house and techno. 

In early 2008 the duo locked themselves in their studio and started digging through the extensive catalogue of recordings that KBC built up during the ten years that passed, giving them new life under the name Jamtech Foundation. In the world of Jamtech Foundation the musical borders become blurred when riddims and vocals from dancehall and reggae is grinded and mixed with electro, house and techno. 

Producing tracks at a pace that would make their Jamaican friends proud, Jamtech Foundation kept spitting out track after track after track, mainly via the popular mp3 blog Discobelle.net and by the fall of 2008 they dropped their first mixtape. Roughly a year after their first mp3s surfaced on the internet Jamtech Foundation will drop their debut album ”V-Rocket” on their own label Mad Viking Music & Publishing. The album title - ”V-Rocket” - is a tribute to the sound system with the same name, one of the original Jamaican sound systems that started using two turntables back in the 50s to keep the dance floor moving. A fitting name for an album by two gentlemen that have dedicated the last decade to making sure that the dancing won’t stop.

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The diary is open on Jamtech Foundation. They have a digital release of their new album pending, the likes of Sinden and Mad Decent are all over it (more news soon on the precise date). They also have an EP on the Swedish Discobelle Records which is sure to fly out. We are interested in as much exposure as possible over the coming months. Let us know your ideas...

DOWNLOAD JAMTECH FOUNDATION'S RECENT DISCOBELLE MIX HERE!

Rico Tubbs – Boom Tune
Renaissance Man – Spraycan
Renaissance Man – Canto Della Bootcut Rmx
Combat Sound – In The House ft. Kartel, Assassin, Elephant Man
Jamtech Foundation Vs Yellow Man – Tell It To Dem
Major Lazer – Pon De Floor ft. Kartel
Jamtech Foundation Vs Tenor Saw – Golden Hen
Jamtech Foundation Vs Jr Byles – Fade Away
Jamtech Foundation Vs The Prodigy – Out Of Space
Jamtech Foundation Vs Barrington Levy – Under Mi Sensi
Jamtech Foundation – Park The 9 ft. Voltage
Damian Marley & Stephen Marley – The Mission
Dennis Brown – The Promised Land