Wezzler
What else can we say about Johan Gordér (A.K.A. Wezzler) apart from the fact that he makes amazingly crafted Drum & Bass, comes from Sweden and features ‘Advanced Turntable Skills’™ ‘pon the decks. Well, we can also tell you he likes walking his dog at least once a day and his favourite Swedish actor is Peter Stomare, we did ask if he’d ever walked his dog past Peter Stomare’s house but apparently “He lives in LA” which we can accept is a bit far to go just to walk your dog past his house (although in our opinion does show a slight lack of determination).
Back to the breakbeat and bassline issue at hand though; Wezzler started off his musical career listening to everything from Techno, Acid House and Synth-Pop alike. His first experience of making his own music was through ‘Tracker’ programs on his parents’ computer (Wikipedia defines Tracker programs thus: “Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across several monophonic channels”… hmm, sounds like fun). Wezzler quickly progressed with his studio efforts however and soon he had a sampler and a keyboard and would spend hours hanging around music stores after school learning how to use them. Along with producing, he spent four hours a day at the turntables, perfecting the art of mixing.
Wezzler became involved in the Drum & Bass scene around 1998, and rapidly became a key figure both in