Bad Company (drum and bass group)
stage name of British drum and bass producers Maldini, dBridge, DJ Fresh, and Vegas
Bad Company, Bad Company UK or simply BC (stylized as ᑐᗴ|ᗱᑕ) is the stage name of the English drum and bass record producers Jason Maldini (Maldini), Michael Wojcicki (Vegas), Dan Stein (DJ Fresh) and Darren White (dBridge).
The abbreviation of the name, ᑐᗴ|ᗱᑕ, is the group's logo as used on singles and album covers: the letters BC are mirrored on a vertical line (written as the letter I or as the pipe symbol |), where the reversed B looks like the number three or letter E, and the reversed C looks like an open-backed D or a right parenthesis. It is not uncommon to find the band referred to by the malaprop "DEIBC." More recent releases have doubled the upright bar of the B, resulting in ᑐᗴ||ᗱᑕ.
History
They formed in 1998 as "Bad Company" from the ashes of Renegade Hardware acts Future Forces Inc (dBridge and Maldini) and Absolute Zero (DJ Fresh), although they had also worked together in various configurations: Stein, White and Maldini released The Code as Absolute Zero & Subphonics on Renegade Hardware; Stein and Wojcicki released Otto's Way as Fresh & Vegas on Metro Recordings,
The group is known in the drum and bass industry for their 12" single, "The Nine" / "The Bridge" (BCR001), which was later remastered and released again as "The Nine (Remastered)" in 2014. Bad Company went on to produce four albums and various singles which were acclaimed with similar success.
Inside the Machine (2000)
Digital Nation (2000)
Shot Down on Safari (2002)
Ice Station Zero (2018)
"Book of the Bad" (2001), a compilation album of their three Book of the Bad vinyl EPs, featuring "Miami Flashback", "Planet Dust" (originally released on Prototype Recordings), and "Mind Games".
The name Bad Company has been in disuse since about 2005, but the artists still work in the scene. Fresh had left Bad Company to pursue several solo projects under different record labels, such as Breakbeat Kaos, Ram Records, V Recordings, and Valve. D-Bridge kept producing alone as well, and started his own record label.
Maldini continued to cooperate with Vegas, recording under the name "Bad Company UK", a change which was needed because of a legal battle with the hard rock band formed in the 1970s with the same name.
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