Vector Burn aka Oliver Scott, is a

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producer from the US. With numerous releases on drum and bass labels of note in the US and Europe, his music has been part of the burgeoning North American drum and bass scene since the turn of the millennium. Influenced by a wide range of artists and composers from within and without the realm of electronic music. He has released on

Metalheadz Metalheadz is a major drum and bass record label based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1994 by Kemistry & Storm and Goldie. History Origins Goldie's early experiences of the rave scene, especially the club ''Rage'' had a profound eff ...

, Barcode Recordings,

Human Imprint Human Imprint Recordings is an American drum and bass record label founded by Damian Higgins (professional name DJ Dieselboy) in New York City in 2002. Human began as a subsidiary of System Recordings and is mostly known for high energy releases ...

and Force Recordings, among other labels. A bootleg version of a remix of Future Sound Of London's "Papua New Guinea" was released on whitelabel in UK in 2004. Along with fellow Phoenix producer

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, he formed a politically charged drum and bass group called The Riot in 2005, with releases on Bad Habit Recordings, Barcode recordings, and Force Recordings. After some years of absence from the drum and bass scene he released his previously unreleased material as a free album (containing 46 tracks) on the netlabel Internet Recordings in 2014. Vector Burn's

trip-hop Trip hop is a musical genre that has been described as a psychedelic music, psychedelic fusion of hip hop music, hip hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound. The style emerged as a more experimental music, experimental var ...

project called "Lightning Tree" ebbed toward "Experimental depressive

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using aspects of classic

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, trap, and

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to create dusky interior soundscapes. Carrying strong '90s influences forward with sort-of new production techniques." Lightning Tree released "Mask Of Stars" LP o
Herd Killing Recordings
in 2014 available on iTunes, Amazon and eMusic. In 2017, Lightning Tree released an LP named "Bad Gateway" in advocacy of the organization American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

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