21 February 2000

Set for release on 28 February, ‘Fingerprints’ is taken from DJ TeeBee’s debut album ‘DJ TeeBee presents Black Science Labs’, which is out on 27 March 2000.
A taster for the album and a forthcoming Muzik ‘single of the month’, the AA sided single also features the track ‘Unknown, and currently huge in the clubs, both tracks are getting massive airplay from Fabio and Grooverider on their 1FM show.

Since first surfacing on Hopa’s Alevel imprint four years ago TeeBee has made quite an impression on the Drum&Bass movement.
Through based in Bergen on the West coast of Norway, Black Science Production, three identical studios owned by Torgeir Byrnes, Kjetil Dale Sagstad & Sturle Lisaeth (recording as TeeBee, K (aka Polar) & Norcturne respectively) have enjoyed considerable success with such luminaries as Rugged Vinyl, R&S and Audio Couture.

As TeeBee explains he chose to release his debut album on Paul Arnold’s respected Certificate 18 label because, ‘while Rob Playford has been really supportive of my tear out material, Paul is not afraid of experimenting so what I’m doing as Black Science Labs is the sound of me expressing myself not as a DJ but as a band - a whole concept.’

Through his music is severe, the tracks refuse to stoop to standard two step cliché’s - the driving force crystal clear production - ‘When myself and K started making music we wanted to push ourselves that little bit further. Though people want those hard beats and bass lines, we try to do it with a twist, every little hi-hat and snare is in there for a reason rather than just for the punch of it.’

Rather than feeling handicapped by his distance from the UK Drum&Bass circuit, TeeBee sees it as an advantage. ‘What I’ve found when DJ’ing in Norway is that people are much more critical, perhaps because they haven’t grown up with Drum&Bass, and want to hear finished concept as opposed to a regular dancefloor tearer.’

TeeBee continues : ‘If I’m not DJ’ing I’m behind my sampler in the studio, and have been really focusing on the production as I need it to be tight and crisp and I feel that the more you do something the better you get at it.’