Seiji
Paul Dolby, AKA Seiji, is a prominent member of West Londons broken beat scene, a loose collective of producers that falls under the tag for a couple of key factors — complex, sputtery and jittery beats — without adhering to a strict, specific sound. (Depending on the producer, broken beat tracks can be just as easily classified as drumnbass, hip-hop, neo-soul, or modernized jazz-fusion.) while in his mid-teens, that Dolby discovered house music and also became fully immersed in the records made by Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Photek and 4hero. He began producing his own tracks a few years later, and before long he hooked up with Orin Walters (Afronaught) and helped instigate Bugz in the Attic, a stellar production/remix crew that became synonymous with the term broken beat. As Seiji, Dolby has remixed Micatone, Ptaah, Joakim Lone Octet, and Mark de Clive-Lowe. In 2002, Bitasweet compiled some of those remixes for Remixes. Since the late 9...