Colin Lindo a.k.a Alpha Omega a.k.a Nubian Mindz is a well known name in the Drum&Bass scene for over ten years now. Starting his career as a producer in the early 90s, Colin had his breakthrough with two solo 12” one after the other in 1996 on the legendary Reinforced imprint.

“It feels like ‘Alpha Omega’ officially began when I signed to Reinforced Records and recorded those first two singles. That’s where I found a home for all my experiments and ideas and had a chance to develop as an artist as well as rub shoulders with some serious talent. Meeting guys like 4hero, Randall, L Double, Chris Energy, G-force & Seiji, Sonar Circle & Arcon2 was incredible. We’d always be playing new shit to one another down in Dollis Hill & bounced ideas between us non-stop.”

In 1999, after numerous releases on “the R”, his first album “Journey to the 9th level” was released together with two other albums by G-Force & Seiji and Sonar Circle. Around the same time, Colin started to produce other styles under his Nubian Mindz alias.

“Nubian Mindz started as an outlet for everything I did that was non Drum&Bass. Reinforced always encouraged us to try different styles, genres and sounds and I was always into various styles of music so I wanted to try to produce a real hybrid of all my influences. That’s what the Nubian Mindz stuff is for me, a hybrid of all my influences growing up in London in the 70s and 80s then raving in the 90s as a teenager”

With his first Nubian Mindz album in 2000 on Italian imprint Archive and various other tracks and remixes of other artists like 4hero, P’taah or Domu, Colin consolidated his musical career outside Drum&Bass as well.
During the following years - and after Reinforced shut down after a glorious era of avant-garde Drum&Bass - the name Alpha Omega appears on various other labels like Advanced, Skunkrock, Trouble on Vinyl, Offshore, Outbreak, Invader and Sonica. And especially during the last two or three years Alpha Omega releases usually appear among the first catalogue numbers of young leftfield labels that see themselves in a tradition to Reinforced.

“For me it’s good to see labels around again that support stuff that’s not 180bpm Glam Rock masquerading under the ‘Drum&Bass’ banner. The more mainstream elements of Drum&Bass have gone in a direction that doesn’t particularly interest me. I don’t have a Rock background or even a cheesy Euro Pop background so I can’t do what some of these guys do and if I did I’d feel like a fraud and just wouldn’t be comfortable with it.”

In the last couple of years, various tracks by the man saw a release in MP3 format on labels like Forestry Service, Exegene or Subtle Audio Digital. Doesn’t a Drum&Bass legend tend to hold on to hard wax?

“Net labels and MP3 online labels don’t have the overheads a vinyl based label has and don’t have to deal with distributors telling them ‘it needs to sound more like such and such to sell’. This avenue now means good music that doesn’t need to follow the ‘Superstar DJ’ guidelines to how a tune should be done and can be allowed to exist and get out there for people to hear on it’s own merits. I guess the only rule you then have to follow is it has to be good! (…) However, despite all these technological developments I’ve noticed a lot of resistance from Drum&Bass fans which has been an eye opener. Every other form of music has moved on and embraced every new media tool possible so as to make the clubbing experience something that’s still new, exciting and constantly changing. (…) Vinyl is nice and was a great DJ tool in it’s time but if it was to die tomorrow then so be it. I’m versatile enough as a DJ/Live Act that it really doesn’t bother me. People really have to get over this nostalgic bullshit and move on.”

Nuff said, bring on the tracks for Plainaudio!

[2007-04-07]	ALPHA OMEGA - BAD KARMA	/// GO TO RELEASE

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01.		Current location
		Babylon,just off the m50.
02.		First record you ever bought
		Looking for the Perfect Beat-afrika Bambataa and the Soul Sonic Force
03.		Last record you bought
		Clipse-Hell Hath No Fury LP
04.		Favourite musicians
		Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis and the guy who busks at the bottom of my garden every morning. He really plays the spoons like no other!
05.		Favourite tracks
		Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine Public Enemy - Fight The Power Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express Underground Resistance - Hi-Tek Jazz Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder Satoshi Tomiie - Tears 4 Hero - Universal Love Rufige Kru - Kemistry V.I.P Faze-O-Ridin High Bob Marley-Natural Mystic
06.		Favourite movies and/or books
		Films: Star Wars (all 6 films) The Warriors La Haine Infernal Affairs Ringu Ninja Scrolls Fist of the North Star Books: Iceberg Slim - Trick Baby John Steinbeck - Of Mice And Men James Baldwin - Native Son
07.		Favourite labels
		Reinforced Nervous Defected Early Warp Def Jux Early Def Jam Sleeping Bag Tommy Boy Greensleeves Minus 8
08.		The perfect pizza
		chicken,olives,pineapple,mushroom,jalepeno peppers,and another layer of pineapple on top of that. oh & thin crust...that extra thick crust with cheese inside will turn you into a whale.
09.		The shoes you wore today
		fluffy pink slippers
10.		First thoughts when waking up
		Why's the bed wet?
11.		Your most overused phrase on an instant messenger
		that's shit.
12.		Best curse-word
		cuntface
13.		Musical styles the World doesn't need
		dubstep - just put all your old jungle records on at 33rpm they'll sound better.
14.		What inspires you to make music?
		thoughts of world domination via the medium of aural manipulation
15.		Favourite music production tool
		I find other ppl's records very inspiring...some you can sample, others are so bad it gives you hope as you realise you couldn't make anything worse even if you tried. Some can be too good and make you just want to give up...but I chuck those in the bin so they don't count. also logic and nord 3 are gems
16.		Your secret audio weapon
		akai s6000 and cd3000 xl
17.		Other software you used today
		cubase sx3 (great for audio but still nowhere near as quick as logic) flux plug ins kontakt 2
18.		Musical instruments you play
		keyboards (badly) drums (even more badlier) just like my use of the english language
19.		Person you least want to meet
		Me in a bad mood,or even worse: Me horny
20.		Music you listened to today
		None...but I'll be putting on Bob Sinclair's 'Afrikanism vol.3' a little later when I start cooking dinner.
21.		Worst musical event
		Live 8, most if not all the artists were there only to boost their careers and nothing else. What the fuck does Mariah Carey know about Africa and famine???
22.		Best musical event
		DEMF-One day I WILL perform there,even if it's sitting outside playing the spoons for lunch money.
23.		Worst personal event
		Having to move out of London because the cost of living skyrocketed. In a strange way I've never been the same since leaving my hometown.
24.		Best personal event
		Getting a huge publishing deal a couple years back also getting signed to Reinforced records...oh & touring Japan last year was great!
25.		Worst trackname ever
		Bad Karma - what's this Karma bullshit all about? oh & 'Candy Shop' by fiddy cent, what's he want in a candy shop? Is he trying to pick up little kids or something?
26.		Best trackname ever
		Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
27.		Favourite member of Wu-Tang Clan
		RZA - without him there's nothing
28.		Best conspiracy theory
		That Aliens were behind World War 2 since the US president wouldn't allow them to abduct as much humans as they wanted to carry out experiments on. So they decided to go back in time and give Hitler the technology he needed to take on the world. When those aliens met him (the Ashtar Fleet Command) they all had blue eyes and blonde hair and were very tall. Hence his desire to build the perfect race,which he assumed to be those aliens and despite him being the exact opposite to them. Anyway he failed and now plainaudio have plans to make a superrace of computer hacking monkeys that will hack into the computers in the whitehouse and put naked pictures of Cycom on as their screen saver. Shocking stuff really.
29.		Favourite softdrink
		Dr.Pepper