Rocker Hi-Fi

Recycling the dub aesthetic of the 1970s and applying it to '90s trip-hop and electronica, Rockers Hi-Fi formed in 1991 when DJ Dick (aka Richard Whittingham), a reformed punk, rare groove, and acid house mixer, met up with rock & roller Glyn Bush. At first known as Original Rockers (a salute to an Augustus Pablo LP), the duo borrowed a friend's mixer and began cutting it up on their debut single, "Breathless," recorded for the pair's Cake label. After renaming the imprint Different Drummer and themselves Rockers Hi-Fi -- in deference to Pablo's request -- DJ Dick and Bush add...