Ed Rush is the recording name of Ben Settle; a prominent jungle/techstep/neurofunk DJ, who often produces tracks in collaboration with Optical. Oldskool jungle is the name given to a style of Electronic music that incorporates influences from genres including Breakbeat hardcore, techno, Techstep is a subgenre of Drum and bass that was popular in the late 1990s Neurofunk is a subgenre of Drum and bass pioneered by producers Ed Rush, Optical and Matrix, between 1997 and A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Optical is the pseudonym of Matt Quinn a renowned Drum and bass producer and DJ from England. Hailing from west London, he came to prominence with the release of the track Bludclot Artattack in 1993 (a collaboration with producer Nico Sykes)^[1]. As techstep emerged as a new subgenre of jungle/drum & bass he was at the fore, releasing well-received tracks such as Guncheck (1995), Killamanjaro and Skylab EP (both 1996), but recording chiefly for Sykes' No U-Turn Records imprint. No U-Turn Recordings is a UK -based Record label owned and run by Nico ( Nicholas Kristian Sykes) His work of this time is included in the Techsteppin (1996) and Torque (1997) compilation albums. In 1998, he joined forces with Optical to create their own drum and bass record label called Virus Recordings. Virus Recordings is an influential UK -based Drum and bass Record label, specialising in the Techstep and Neurofunk sub-genres Their album from the same year Wormhole is considered a genre classic^[2].

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External links

• Virus records
• Ed Rush at MySpace
• Ed Rush at Discogs
• Ed Rush at rolldabeats
• Ed Rush & Optical at Discogs