Alpha Omega

Alpha Omega is the stage name of drum and bass producers Christine Woodbridge and John Sprosen.

Alpha & Omega released debut album was Daniel In The Lions' Den in 1990. They have helped forge a new genre of uniquely British roots-based music, with Massive Attack, trip hop and jungle at one end of the spectrum, and rave music, On U Sound and ambient acts like The Orb at the other.

In between are the heady sounds of Alpha & Omega themselves whose music itself helps define new territory. Slipping as easily into the home hi-fi as 'chilled', meditational dub, or to be heard thundering out of the more orthodox reggae sound systems like Jah Shaka, whose enduring support has made Alpha & Omega firm favorites among the roots fraternity.

A&O's often eerie use of keyboards, melodica and studio effects lends their music a subtlety. Within these mesmerising grooves lies a wordless message that's similar to the one passed down by their Jamaican reggae mentors.

Whilst the sounds Alpha & Omega produce could accurately be described as 'restless, raw and unapologetic' a few years back, there's an additional flair and strength of purpose to what they're doing now.

The driving force behind their heavy-duty rhythms is unquenchable and they should at last begin to reap the wider recognition due to them.

Other meaning

The alpha is the first and the omega the last letter in the Greek alphabet. In Christianity the combination alpha omega stands for the beginning and the end of the life of Jesus: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." (Revelation 22:13, KJV).