Artist description 2 blokes with a shit load of kit, boundless ability and big imaginations...

Music Style Deep, Chilled Trip Hop/ Instrumental Hip Hop - Breakbeat

Musical Influences Ninja tune, Coldcut, KLF, Kruder & Dorfmeister, DJ Shadow,

Similar Artists DJ Shaddow, Coldcut, Kruder & Dorfmeister, KLF, Wagon Christ, Woob, Mr.Scruff, Chemical Brothers, Ninja Tune, DJ Shadow, Groove Armada

Artist History 6 years - Glasgow, Hong Kong, Glasgow.

Group Members Chief / Sam-Ra

Instruments Roland SH-101 / Novation BassStation / Akai S2000 / Atari 1040 STE / Yamaha CS1x / Roland D-20 / Boss DR-660 / Zoom Studio 1204 FX / Aphex Aural Exciter / Alesis Nanocompressor / Fostex 2016 Mixer / Technics 1210s / Berimbao/Didgeridoo and a welath of other ethinc instruments / 3 phatt guitars / Bongos / Eumig mark-6

Albums Dogs In the Neon, Vinyl Chaos(restricted), Artificial Silence (not available)

Press Reviews To geographers Irian Jaya is the notoriously unbroken and diverse Indonesian province, which before 1963 was known as Western New Guinea. But in Glasgow (where it matters) 'Irian Jaya' are Chris Renwick and Douglas Summers. Renwick and Summers are web-designers, accomplished film and television extras, and like all sensible chaps they've both got degrees and 'letters' after their names. Certainly quite an honours list can be collated on each of them; but it's for their musical talent that they are most revered. The duo are blest DJs, and are favourites at Chemikal Underground Records, for whom they have fashioned quite a few remixes. Certainly, Irian Jaya have been doing a lot of good work for a lot of people. Now they've done something for themselves. "Dogs in the Neon" is Irian Jaya's refreshingly genre-defying debut album. It's folk like Irian Jaya that keep Glasgow's dance music from stagnating into a rut of dubious-gender house and the ever-ominous encroachments of r'n'b. From "Dogs in the Neon" it is clear that what matters to Irian Jaya is that people listen to their music and think, dance and have some fun. There's passion and a high degree of exertion in this album that deserves to be banged on about. This was definitely a difficult album to review because it was so hard to pin down; and that was my mistake. I realised that to hear Irian Jaya's album correctly is to appreciate its absence of roots or boundaries. It sits as an enchantingly free and dynamic piece of work. Hip-hop, trip-hop, techno, break-beat, the lists could go on and on, Irian Jaya seem capable of turning their hands to any style they please. At best this album constructs heady cinematic soundscapes that whisk the listener off to the far corners of the world (join Evel Knievel as he traverses Texas in "No Way Out", get stuck on a secret military island hounded by blood-thirsty elephants), at 'worst', not that the term is at all applicable, the Irian Jaya remix of Arab Strap's "Deeper" will chill you right out, a slight tear brimming in your eye. The easiest way to review an album is to categorise the music, talk about who it reminds you of. I could say that Irian Jaya dramatise music like David Holmes, that they select a sample like DJ Shadow, or that their production is well off-the-wall resonant of Coldcut, but to do this is to miss "Dogs in the Neon". Embrace the 'undergroundness' of Irian Jaya while you can, because you'll want to be the one that introduced them to all your friends. 9/10

Location Glasgow, Scotland - United Kingdom

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