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ZILLA
ZILLA / "ZILLA"' is a South London based electronic music producer and musician who initially began working on a series small run, unofficial mix cds. In May 2002 he released his first piece of music co-produced with friend Dr Rubberfunk on and has been producing music for a variety of labels since this date.

Image:Image-ZILLAatPoke.jpg| Live @ The Poke '05

Art school dropout ‘ZILLA’ (government name Dylan Richards) began working on his own brand of super-evolved mixes towards the latter end of the nineties as a reaction to the glut of uninspiring mix compilations that had began to flood the industry. The first salvo against conformity was 'ZILLA' and Buddy Peace - A Friendly Game of Chess, a self-funded, hand-sprayed, highly under-the-counter mix project with Lex Records DJ and friend Buddy Peace. The highly stylised conceptual expression of work that combined a rich fusion of textures together with strong themes and motifs began to ignite more than their own imaginations, selling out in just 48 hours and earning high praise on a global scale.

‘A Friendly Game Of Chess’ was swiftly followed by solo mixtape strike One Foot In The Fire, One Fist In The Air which earned numerous comparisions to Coldcut's70 Minutes Of Madness. Comprised of almost 100 tracks from Autchre to Britney Spears, interviews and spoken word interludes, the CD sold out in a day, attracted attention from all corners and ended up in many a Best of 2004 list. Among those with their ears to the ground were Trash supremo Erol Alkan, notorious London promoters Wheels Instead of Hooves and the heads of both Ninja Tune and Warp Records.

After two appearances on the legendary Solid Steel radio show], the honour of being the first unsigned act to play at Strictly Kev & DK's Solid Steel] club night, four sets with Buddy Peace at Dedbeat 04 in the course of one weekend and a number of European dates, Warp Records stepped in and invited Buddy Peace & ‘ZILLA’ to compile a retrospective of the label. Released late September 2004 as part of the ‘WARP VISION The Videos’ DVD, the mix entitled Watch And Repeat Play was a startlingly original tour de force. Over seventy minutes the two DJs re-worked and re-wired the label's back catalogue, twisting the already twisted into sonic maelstrom.

The Warp Vision Audio Visual / Resfest Tour followed, with appearances alongside artists such as  Plaid, Chris Cunningham, Seiji, Mike Paradinas and Funkstörung and invitations to play at the Glade Festival, Trash, The Warp Summer Ball and The Poke Xmas Rave. It was these shows and the experience of playing live that inspired ZILLA's latest mix ‘Grinted Teeth & Brawlsville’, a year in the making, it was a more uptempo and aggressive yet challenging body of work that managed to find the link between the party-starting crunk of Lil' Jon and the dancefloor destroying sonics of Aphex Twin.

Once again the great and the good were suitably impressed with praise coming from the likes of Kid606, Knifehandchop and, again, Erol Alkan,. The success of Grinted Teeth – and ZILLA's growing reputation – led to Domino Records inviting him to remix the final single from Test Icicles, Test Icicles – Biggest Mistake, a remix which has been rapturously received by everyone from Laurent Garnier to Lo Recordings' Jon Tye.

Punishing remixes of Black Grass (Catskills), The Chap (Lo) and New Flesh ( Big Dada) have followed as ‘ZILLA’ has perfected his twisted industrial take on dancehall, dubstep and drum n bass and in late 2006 he was asked to produce an EP for Kid606's Shockout label. The results were so good that the one EP quickly became two 12"s, both of which are due for release in summer 2007.

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