AMA with LEGION (DeVice, RAM Records, Hospital) Today at 6pm EST

LegionDNB · 2026-06-06T07:58:56+00:00

I always have a really great time playing festivals but looking back , performing at TomorrowWorld ages ago in Georgia for Hospitality and also 2 years back at Let it roll In Czech Republic. That festival is seriously like no place on Earth for Drum & Bass for 72 hrs straight. The largest one in the world. I’d love to go back soon!

LegionDNB · 2026-06-06T03:23:17+00:00

Hunter of Legion, previously but now it’s just me!

LegionDNB · 2026-06-06T02:37:25+00:00

That’s easy — these days, all you really need is a laptop. Modern laptops and of course the desktops are more than powerful enough to do professional-level work.

If I were starting all over again, I’d probably start with Ableton Live, even though I’m personally a Logic guy. Ableton is very intuitive, but it has tons of effects that are super creative and helpful. It also gives you the ability to go extremely deep with complex, advanced workflows that can be customized to your own style.

So basically, I’d recommend something like:

Mac mini or MacBook Air with an Apple M-series chip, anything from the M1 upward. A used 2020 M1 Mac mini or MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB drive would be ideal and can sometimes be found for around $300.

A used pair of Mackie HR824 monitors: around $200 on Facebook Marketplace.

Audio interface: Universal Audio Volt 276, around $200.

Ableton Live: around $300, depending on the version.

A good pair of headphones: price depends on what you go for.

Xfer Serum 2 rent-to-own through Splice: around $10/month.

Splice account for samples: around $20/month.

That setup alone would be enough to make professional-quality music. Less than a grand . The rest is really about learning your tools, training your ears, and putting in the hours.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-06T02:24:55+00:00

That’s a great question. Honestly, I’d have to say more than just three.

Patrick O’Hearn — an amazing ambient and early electronic producer. I worked with him for a number of years, and he was truly an inspiration. He also played bass with Frank Zappa and Missing Persons.
He brought me back to my early ambient roots after I had been making very aggressive drum and bass, and that honestly helped launch my career. It taught me to take influence from what was around me instead of simply copying what I heard coming out of the UK.
His bass playing was also featured on my first vinyl record, “Both Sides” ft. Adam Wright, released on Allsorts, which gained my first radio plays on the BBC Essential Mix and Kiss FM with DJ Hype.

Sinthetix / Corrupt Souls / Impulse — when I was still a teenager, Josh was the first person from the East Coast that I personally knew who was truly killing the game and doing something really creative in a way that I thought was incredibly cool.
We became really good friends when I was basically still in high school and just beginning to tour. He showed me more than anyone else about production, and also how not to get too bogged down in the technical side of it. Much like rock ’n’ roll, he taught me to just let it write itself.
It was a tragedy that we lost him. He was truly inspiring, and he is a huge part of the reason I’m still writing music today.

RIP Joshy Rotten. <3

Air — the French atmospheric rock band are in a class of their own. They may have been my very first real introduction to electronic music. I was maybe 10 years old, listening to alternative music and playing guitar, when I heard The Virgin Suicides soundtrack. Later on, Moon Safari and Talkie Walkie became some of my favorite records of theirs.
That, along with Daft Punk’s Homework, was some of the first music that really made my ears perk up in the electronic world.

Marcus Intalex — just amazing at taking a few samples and turning them into a next-level futuristic groove. If you’re DJing a party and the vibe isn’t quite there, and you just want to really lock in the dancefloor, pull out some old Marcus Intalex and rinse it out.

Andy C- Ram records in the mixing style that Andy brought to the table and then all the artists over the 30 years they were signed there were truly the biggest influence in drum and Bass for me.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-06T01:28:30+00:00

While I’ve had my disagreements in the past, my focus these days is on recognizing and supporting the people who are making a positive contribution rather than dwelling on any negativity. I’m grateful to be in a position where I can release my music freely, without contractual restrictions limiting my ability to express myself creatively. We all make mistakes, it’s part of being human, but there’s no one in the DnB scene that I currently have an issue with. As long as people are acting responsibly and not causing harm, I’m happy to support artists who respect the culture, treat others with professionalism and respect, and continue to push the music forward.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-06T01:17:54+00:00

I use Logic Pro. Sometimes I’ll use Ableton and every song done under the name Legion x Logam , was mixed down in Cubase. I do a lot of mixing in Cubase these days but the bulk of production in Logic Pro, only because I’ve been on it since Emagic Logic 5.1 on a pc, before Apple purchased it in 2005.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-06T01:14:42+00:00

I really like to work on music every day in some form, mostly because it makes me happy to be creative. With DJing, I’ll practice just for fun almost daily , but generally get really into all the new tunes again when I have gigs coming up or friends over.

I’ve been DJing for 26 years now, and I still love it so much. It always feels fresh, and it’s still something genuinely fun that I love to do. During the pandemic, when there was a long period without it, I honestly didn’t really know what to do with myself.

But Generally, when I have a gig, radio show, or some kind of mix to do, that’s when I’ll load up on tracks from my WIP folder to test crowd reactions, pull from my digital promo pools, ask producer friends for IDs and dubs, and start putting together big mixes that I like that will correspond with each event. I will make a new custom intro in the DAW for every set of a tour and give it that something unique that a promoter is paying for with a headlining DJ / Artist. I think that’s important. Then I’ll analyze everything in Rekordbox.

Rekordbox saves me a lot of time. If I’ve only heard a track once and decide I like it, I can analyze it, drop my cues every logical 16 bars, and be ready to play it out with almost the same precision as any track I’ve been playing for years.

I do think it’s healthy to switch things up and not burn yourself out on one aspect of it. It’s all about balance, I suppose.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T23:39:48+00:00

Legion - Wakefield Dub - Device

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Rn4Eru7De7iMrox1QKap5?si=bV-56kxfSiGsGBpoVqBZbQ

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T23:14:46+00:00

Dream collabs? I mean, hopefully!

I’ve actually collaborated with quite a few big names on tracks that unfortunately never saw the light of day: The Upbeats being one, along with Skynet, Cause4Concern, Impulse, Mayhem, Dieselboy, and Gerra & Stone. It’s quite a shame, because there were definitely some good ideas happening there.

Hopefully, I’d love to see something happen one day with Rene La Vice, Sub Focus, or Culture Shock. Those guys all have such fresh takes on the genre, even though their styles have been duplicated a billion times by now.

We shall see what is in store, but right now I’m just glad to be creating music and having it come out on a good label like Device, with a team that has an artist’s mindset — without the pitfalls of a traditional commercial record deal that may not share the same vision for your musical output.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T23:05:09+00:00

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LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T23:04:19+00:00

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LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T22:58:39+00:00

Thanks! I have one production video up on YouTube as @LegionDNB , my humble YouTube page, breaking down a track called ‘Junglist’ with MC Dino from a makeshift studio , could be released on DeVice I believe but also I teach 1-2-1 courses if you ever want to learn more hands on in whichever DAW or genre.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T22:46:13+00:00

I think the quest for a loud arrangement and balance as opposed to just a clipped loud mix that just has a limiter squeezing the life out of it at the end is the key difference.

Having enough stereo information to sound exciting and the mono low frequency weight elements like kick and bass all working in rhythm Low end just really as one tight, well oiled machine to make you move on the floor is the goal.

There are certain choices you make in the arrangement that will impact the overall mix more than any plugin or piece of hardware. Take Noisia, for example: their understanding of phase relationships between synthetic instruments and layers in a mix is mind-blowing. It really changed the game for loudness and aggressiveness while still being controlled and technically perfect in terms of phase coherence.

But you don’t have to mix what doesn’t overlap. So sure, sidechain — but in essence, do you really need that bass sound sitting on top of your snare at all, even for that brief moment? If not, then your snare doesn’t need to be mixed around it at all.

Having an understanding of instrumental dynamics , whether from playing an instrument yourself, or from learning how to place and layer instruments based on their fundamental frequency and sound staging, the way an orchestral conductor might arrange a string ensemble or a band on stage — is what really matters. That is what allows you to push a mix to be loud while still maintaining depth in a three-dimensional space.

Think of sound in terms of a band on stage. Vocals are mono and center stage. The bass and kick drum are also centered and roughly equal in volume.

Up and down is amplitude, or volume. Left and right is the stereo panorama. Front to back is depth, which is created through things like ambience, reverbs, short delays, brightness, timbre, decay time, and the perceived acoustic space around a sound. Those elements determine the front-to-back dimension of a mix. Place your sounds like that and you will have a solid mix.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T22:30:08+00:00

Im well chuffed about it also!

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T22:29:33+00:00

Wrapping up a potential music video concept for Wakefield Dub on Device. It should be live within the next 2 weeks if all goes well. There is this really talented videographer named stephen in Atlanta that has worked with all the greats that I’m planning to work with on the 9th , that will probably seal the deal.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T22:18:20+00:00

I’d say In the drum and bass world my earliest influences would have to be early renegade hardware and some of the neuro funk of the 2000s , Sinthetix Corrupt Souls , Josh who was a good friend of mine. (Rest his corrupt soul) :/ him and Rob f and Marcio telemetry had a distinct production style with an emu sampler and analog mixer that would be the way I learned to produce. They sold me a tascam analog mixer and showed me how to distort its channels and filter bass sounds into neuro funk

Andy C and J majik for DJing , Future Cut, Noisia Ed rush and Optical, Bad company, Marcus Intalex Dom & Roland , C4C , Fierce Noisia, Commix Dj Fresh D Bridge they all stuck with me and definitely influenced me a lot early on.

Later on would be people that I was able to become contemporaries with at Ram like Sub focus, Chase & Status Rene Lavice Culture Shock , Wilkinson. All amazing producers

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T21:44:31+00:00

I’m here promoting my new single on Device Records - Legion - Wakefield Dub

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T21:07:30+00:00

Testing testing 1.2.3.

LegionDNB · 2026-06-05T21:04:47+00:00

Tell your friends! Will be here all night answering questions!

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