Dominic Angas quit school, abandoning his intention to enter university and train as an architect, apparently shocking his family and friends considerably. Instead, he decided to enrol in studio engineering courses and got a job in a bar to make ends meet. It was a very brave act indeed, and only someone who blindly believes in music and his own talent could do such a thing. While working in the bar, Dominic Angas saved enough money to buy a Roland 760 and began writing his own tracks.
Musically, Dom & Roland followed the standard path—from hip-hop to house, through breakbeat and into jungle. However, there was never any doubt that he would find his own style. After finishing each tune, he took it to the No U-Turn studio for final refinement. There, Nico (the boss of No U-Turn) recognised his potential, and his first three releases were recorded on No U-Turn’s sister label Saigon.
Having finally come to believe in his own abilities, Dom convinced others to believe in him too—for example, his bank manager, whom he persuaded to give him a loan to improve his home studio. This enabled him to write more tracks, now for Moving Shadow.
From there, his career developed extremely rapidly. More and more singles strengthened his reputation as a promising young musician. He began working with stars such as Rob Playford and Goldie, making remixes for labels such as Prototype, Emotif and No U-Turn and musicians such as Fierce, Trace and Optical. In autumn 1998, his first album Industry was released. Some of its tracks had already been played by many DJs six months earlier, so the album immediately became a hit. The variety of textures and styles fused with his unique style of heavy, dark sounds. Someone said that the era of heavy, dark, experimental sounds aimed at the dancefloor—hard step—had arrived.
And today, Dominic works for Moving Shadow, and if he is not in the studio, that means he is rushing around Europe and beyond, tearing it up and rocking dancefloors around the world.
At present, his discography looks as follows:
Albums:
- Industry (1998)
- Back for the Future (2002)
Singles:
- Definition [EP] (1995)
- You’re Something Else (1996)
- The Storm [EP] (1996)
As well as a huge number of various projects with other DJs…
I think this explosive bloke will not stop at what he has achieved and will turn our view of music upside down more than once yet with his explosive tracks!!!
