Inland Knights - Baldeelox Miami - Winter Music Conference 2012

Inland Knights AKA Andy Riley and Laurence Ritchie. Dj’s, Producers and label owners of Drop Music, Borrowed and Raise Recordings. Ritchie and Riley hail from Nottingham UK, a city with a rich musical legacy, particularly for House met in ’93 and cut their teeth Dj’ing for Smokescreen, the renegade sound system from which they drew their early inspiration. Smokescreen consisted of dj’s, lighting people, sound people, a truck, a P.A, a generator and general helpers. Old warehouses, woodland, fields, quarries and houses were utilized with the sole intention of having a good time.... for free! By the mid 90’s smokescreen could guarantee a crowd of hundreds in attendance at their parties, and their club nights became local institutions that ran for years with packed dancefloors, and still do to this day! By ’98 Laurence and Andy had made the inevitable step into production and the same year the Drop Music label was born with the release of ’Inland Knights vol 1’. As Inland