Threshold (Dub Clinique)drum and bass artist
Growing up listening to Rare Groove, Gospel, Roots, Ska and Hip-Hop, Threshold was never far from production. His sister being a singer/ ballet dancer, father a Reggae enthusiast, with not a lot but prime cuts of Old Skool 7″ records from Blue Beat to Al Green, to Trojan, he quickly gravitated towards the turntables after seeing his brothers decks, saving money. Bunking school was an important part for his development, taking many day trips to Dollis Hill station to see his then Idols Manix and 4hero from the seminal Reinforced label and to Elephant & Castle to Music Madness, here he really discovered Hardcore, moving on after to playing on stations such as Storm FM, Upfront, Flex FM where he started meeting many other like-minded DJ’s along the way. This had had led him to engineering and production, here is when he met pals with the same drive, Brian and Matthew. Brian was already in the throes of organising his own events Garrison with DJ Flight (1xtra/Rinse) and booked Threshold. The 1st time they DJ’d together they had the freaky situation where Threshold plays and Brian finds himself opening his bag to reveal the he was about to play the same 1st 6 tracks in the same order Lol! This as they say, is where it began; They started buying equipment, each person chipping in then started producing music be it Jungle or Down-Tempo but really Jungle was where the heart lied; being inspired from everything from Johnny Clarke to Johnny Jungle and during this period, Threshold…
