Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ Die
He was co-founder of one of the first notable drum and bass record labels, Full Cycle Recordings (from his Allmusic profile http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gpftxqehldae~T1: "The founder of one of drum'n'bass' leading promoters, that of Full Cycle Records, is dance guru DJ Die"); as part of Reprazent he won a Mercury Music Prize in 1997; as part of Breakbeat Era there's plenty of coverage in newspapers (http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22breakbeat+era%22&btnG=Search&um=1&ned=uk&hl=en&scoring=a archive search; examples: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/1999/jun/10/artsfeatures4 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/426583021.html?dids=426583021:426583021&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+17,+2000&author=&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Breakbeat+Era+singer+more+than+just+a+public+face+;+Drum+'n'+bass+band's+Leonie+Laws+has+a+sweet+voice+and+good+promotional+skills&pqatl=google http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/22/arts/pop-review-the-next-big-thing-that-just-wasn-t.html (NY Times: "two master drum-and-bass producers, Roni Size and DJ Die", the Albequerque Journal: "British DJs Roni Size and DJ Die have made plenty of waves on their own", Toronto Star: "Notwithstanding the higher profiles of her Breakbeat Era collaborators Roni Size and DJ Die..."). Meets  as a musician part of two independently notable ensembles, one of which as mentioned also won a major award and had the album hit #8 in the UK charts http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/08/mercury-prize-winners-speech-debelle-music
— User:Holly25, 23:16, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
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