Renegade Soundwave

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Renegade Soundwave (shortened to RSW) was a London based electronic music group formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1995. During their nine year career they released four long playing albums and twelve singles. They were equally well known for their skill as producers and re-mixers of songs by others as they are for their own music. The two core members are Danny Briottet and Gary Asquith. Carl Bonnie left the group after the second In -Dub album. Differences over musical direction was cited as the reason.

Their early singles mixed together the sound of the, then, embryonic dance culture, east-end hip-hop and a dash of electro-industrial noise. Later singles such as Biting my Nails and The Phantom were early dance floor classics, however their only top forty hit was Probably a Robbery 1990 which reached number 38 in the UK singles chart.

The Renegade Soundwave sound was ground breaking, distinctive and unique. Sounding like no other electronic music at the time, it was prototypical dub influenced big beat, and drum and bass, genres that wouldn't be defined until well after their records were first released. Groups like the Chemical Brothers cite RSW as one of the biggest influences in their sound.

2005 has seen Remixed versions of Renegade tunes such as ozone breakdown, which is it said to be remixed by the band themselves.