It was on the strength of this album that London/FFRR signed him to an album deal. The album was largely centered around jazz-inflected instrumental hip hop, but glimmers of drum and bass flickering across the surface anticipated his forthcoming artistic development. No American has gained such complete entree into the heart of drum and bass.Hive came of age as a drum and bass producer in the late 90s, but hes long been active in underground music, with roots that extend deep into underground hip hop, embodied in a string of iconoclastic releases and credits that include recording O.D.s Beneath the Surface album, followed soon thereafter by his own first album Working with Sound, released on his own Mandala imprint. Hes toured worldwide, completing a month of dates in New Zealand and Australia in the fall of 2002, preceded by a month in the UK and Europe, which included a guest appearance for the Valve Soundsystem. Metalheadz has invited him to record an e.p. He released a tremendous remix of Goldies and Rob Playfords The Shadow for Moving Shadow. Hives label Violence has registered sales comparable to Ram, Renegade Hardware, and Valve. His tracks have become staples of virtually all of drum and bass legends, from Andy C to Goldie, and make regular appearances on Grooveriders Radio 1 program-on which Hives towering Neo spent weeks at number one on the Five Mighty Rollers. Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, its in the unassuming personality of futurist B-boy Hive that drum and bass finds its mightiest bridge between the UK and the US.

Thunder roll breakbeat remix 2001