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Kemal & Rob Data
Origin	United Kingdom
Genre(s)	Drum and bass Techstep Neurofunk Technoid
Years active	1999-present
Label(s)	Renegade Hardware Audio Blueprint Underfire DSCI4 Moving Shadow Cryptic Audio Negative
Members
Kemal Okan Rob Rodgers

Kemal & Rob Data are a Scottish Drum & Bass DJ/production duo. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other 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 Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Renegade Hardware is one of the major Record labels in the Drum and bass music industry DSCI4 is a UK -based Techstep and Neurofunk orientated Record label, owned and run by Duncan Hutchinson aka DJ Trace. Moving Shadow is a UK -based jungle/drum and bass Record label that was started in 1990 by Rob Playford. Between 1999 and 2002 they released a great volume of Techstep material, much of which holds anthem status in the Drum & Bass music scene. Techstep is a subgenre of Drum and bass that was popular in the late 1990s The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music (in Music theory and religious contexts or more generally a song (or composition of They recorded together as Konflict from 1999 to 2000. Kemal & Rob Data are a Scottish Drum & Bass DJ/production duo

Hailing from Glasgow, the two producers - real names Kemal Okan and Robert Rodgers - have a strong Techno influence in their music. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Techno is a form of Electronic dance music (EDM that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s With releases on labels such as Renegade Hardware (where they were signed under the name Konflict and ripped off), Outbreak, Moving Shadow, Underfire, Audio Blueprint and their own short-lived Negative Recordings, their reputation as producers has preceded them far and wide. Renegade Hardware is one of the major Record labels in the Drum and bass music industry Moving Shadow is a UK -based jungle/drum and bass Record label that was started in 1990 by Rob Playford. Their tracks are considered by to be among the greatest examples of the drum and bass sub-genres known as Techstep and Neurofunk. 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

In the wake of (and perhaps precipitated by) the huge success and rumours of financial displeasure surrounding their 2000 release "Messiah" (Renegade Hardware), Kemal and Rob Data left the label and the Konflict name behind, opting to go under their existing identities as Kemal & Rob Data. It is worth noting that though Kemal amassed a great deal of solo work as well as producing with Rob Data, he also has production credits alongside such artists as Dom & Roland, Technical Itch, Paul Reset, Black Sun Empire and Dresden Codex. Dom and Roland is Drum and bass producer Dominic Angas. The addition of "Roland" in the artist name refers to his Roland sampler Mark Caro, better known as Technical Itch, is a British electronic music artist disc jockey and founder of Technical Itch Recordings and Penetration Records Black Sun Empire is the Stage name of a team of Dutch Disc jockeys and Jungle (mostly Darkstep and Neurofunk) Maya codices (singular Codex) are folding Books stemming from the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic Rob Data, for reasons unknown, has only ever produced with Kemal. In 2002 Rob quit DJing and production.

After the 2001 closing of Negative Recordings, Kemal launched Cryptic Audio; a label which has seen four releases in the space of three years, as well as spawning a short-lived live stage show.

In 2004, Kemal returned to his studies, only emerging for the occasional DJ set and to collaborate with Black Sun Empire on "Stranded" v1. Black Sun Empire is the Stage name of a team of Dutch Disc jockeys and Jungle (mostly Darkstep and Neurofunk) 0 & v2. 0 (oBSEssions Recordings).

Progressively, Kemal moved away from the mainstream electronic scene and began to find inspiration in the diversity of the World music genre. Joining Nomad'iqa June 2004, Kemal wasted no time in adding extra oomph to live daff (frame drum), heading up the band's progressive Electronic Arabesque sound. Arabesque or Arabesk ( Turkish: Arabesk is a genre termed so by Turkish musicologists for a type of sound to come out of Turkey in the 1950s and 1960s

In 2005, Dutch trio Noisia and UK producer Spor remixed Konflict's biggest hit, "Messiah," for Renegade Hardware. NOISIA is a Dutch Electronic music trio consisting of members Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger from Groningen Jon Gooch is a Drum & Bass producer and DJ from Hertfordshire ( England) known by the alias Spor.

In 2006, Rob Data briefly returned to the Glasgow DJ circuit as an occasional guest at the now defunct Scottish Drum & Bass Sessions, an event loosely affiliated with ScottishDrumandBass.com -- though it is rumoured his style now encompasses a far broader spectrum than Drum & Bass.

Kemal has been indirectly (and possibly mis-) quoted as refusing to return to Drum & Bass while the scene remains in its current state, which may or may not be tied to an incident involving Clayton (founder and CEO of the Renegade Hardware label) over control of their hit tune "Messiah," during which Clayton, of his own admission in an interview on Dogs On Acid, purportedly forced compliance to his ownership of the song by way of "street methods". Renegade Hardware is one of the major Record labels in the Drum and bass music industry

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