Jakeone - Stingrays EP

Jakeone, half of Process's first album act Toob, first discovered a love of electronic dance music as a young teenager stumbling around the early 90s free rave scene.

Captivated by the energy of Detroit's deep bleeps meeting raucous London breaks and balls-out hardcore techno, he soon started playing the odd record at dirty basement parties and piecing beats together on a cranky old Emu Emax sampler.
The first proper break came landing a job at London's Orinoco Studios working with likes of The Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas and more importantly the seminal, Warp-signed "fuck-off jazz" band Red Snapper. Jakeone's flair for improvising with machines found a musical ally in Snapper drummer Rich Thair, who asked him to come on board and provide a harder, more electronic edge to the band's already formidable set-up.

At the same time he was cutting his teeth as a solo performer - DJing and playing live techno and electro at London's now infamous Wang parties alongside a lot of electronic music's heavy-hitters including Radioactive Man, Plaid, Mark Broom and Andrew Weatherall. He remains a regular and crowd favourite at their nights, and many key techno acts like Dave Clarke, Laurent Garnier, Billy Nasty and Will Saul are fans of Jake's now defunct label Flameboy - an output for "off-kilter, bastardized club music" by himself as well as like-minded individuals such as Shirker, Radioactive Man, Si Begg and Vicious Pink Goo.

Meanwhile, Jakeone and Rich formed Toob, whose last album, Push Me, Pull You was arguably one of 2008's most criminally over-looked releases. Except by the critics, with Bleep.com calling it the "best leftfield pop album of 2008" and DJ Mag called it "one of the best electronic dance albums of the year". Even rocker bible Q named it as 2008's "most ambitious dance album". Now also part of what Process calls its "house band" of weirdy remixers, Jake has a set of new remixes and tracks coming in 2009/2010 - alongside this, his first solo EP on the label.