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Roni Size & Reprazent: Academy, Manchester

John McCready, MOJO, December 1997

I'D STOOD in the same spot a month or so ago watching David Bowie — an old man using drum'n'bass as a kind of fashionable walking stick. Tonight the music exists for its own sake. There is admittedly less to look at — despite the presence of the aptly named Dynamite MC and vocalist Onalee — but a hell of a lot more to listen to.

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