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Murdock : Your track ‘All Blue’ is the most downloaded tune on Drum&Bass Arena, the biggest outlet for drum&bass music on line!

SIGMA: Yeah, I don’t know how many it sold exactly, but it’s still up there. In the meantime, there have been artists like Chase&Status, who have had albums with massive tunes on there. It’s a really good thing for us. We’re really happy with that. In terms of vinyl sales, it didn’t sell like thousands and thousands of copies, but in the digital format it’s been doing great. There are lots of people that bought it, so big up everyone.

Murdock :  It’s three years old now, and when I play out, there are still people who come up to me and ask for that particular tune. Usually they only do that with the newest, latest hit.

SIGMA: When we wrote the tune, we never knew at the time that it was going to be  the sort of tune that people would be playing for years and years. I feel that when you play it in the club at the right time, it really catches a good vibe.

Murdock : You’ve got a couple of tunes on quite a few big labels. There’s that track on Hospital now.

SIGMA: That’s ‘Paint It Black’, the first sampler of the the new ‘Sick Music’ compilation by Hospital Records. It should be in stores right about now… It’s been getting a lot of support on the radio and everything. We’re really happy with the way that’s sounding. We have the next release on our own label lined-up and that’s called ‘Front To Back’. We’ve been talking to Adam F and Fresh about releasing some stuff on Breakbeat Kaos and we’ve actually just finished two tracks with Fresh, that we’re roadtesting now. We’re trying to get a lot more vocals done ofr our tracks at the moment. That’s just a long process of trying to find the right vocalists to work with and thus getting the track to sound even better. We’ve got a lot of new material that’s doing really well when we play it, so yeah, … Fingers crossed.

The two members of Sigma are involved in side projects as well. Cam has his Kamuki alias, while Wooz has his Beat Assassins project. Kamuki stands for deep, electro-tinted minimal house, and is a collaboration between Cam and Diesel-U-Music winner Luke Ashworth. Together they have graced stages from Cape Town to Russia and from Fabric to Ministry of Sound. They gained massive support from the likes of Layo & Bushwacka, Pendulum and Radioslave.
Beat Assassins is a nu-skool breaks outfit, consisting of Wooz, one half of Sigma, and Jimmy Mofo, the owner of Mofo Records, who put out most of the Assassins releases.

Murdock : It always struck me that there aren’t too many Sigma releases out there. Each track you guys do is really succesful and they always get a put out on a serious label, but there is usually a lot of time in between releases.

SIGMA: Our first tracks were released by Mampi Swift, on his Charge label, and at that time we had a lot of new material, but we decided to sit on it for a while, to try to make our sound even better. We want to be able to look back at what we do and be genuinely proud of it. We felt we needed to perfect some things before letting it go out there. The Sigma brand should stand for really high quality music.

You recently launched a new brand, Life Recordings…

SIGMA: Yeah, that’s our own label. It’s not a big thing, just an outlet for some of our own music. The first two tracks, ‘Something Special’ and ‘El Presidente VIP’ have done really well, making it to number 2 in the drum&bass chart and now we are looking forward to releasing the next one, which is called ‘Front To Back’ and has been getting a lot of play on dubplate. No doubt, we’ll be showcasing a lot of new, forthcoming material at Silo and Trix at the end of June.

Sigma plays at Rampage (Trix Club Antwerpen) on June 26th, together with Crystal Clear (uk), Switch (nl), Netsky and Murdock.
They play at Radar (Silo Leuven) on June 27th, with Crystal Clear (uk), Murdock, Bobmo (fr), Ed&Kim and Rave Our Souls.

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