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When Mike Truman, Chris Healings and Lee Mullin released their debut album ‘Wide Angle’, it surprised anyone who thought that dance music couldn’t be clever, challenging and musically astute.
‘Wide Angle’ had been over a year in the making and was born of Hybrid's frustration with the narrow horizons of British dance music and its structural predicability. They wanted to make it more melodic, more imaginative, bigger and deeper than it had ever been before. So they went from Swansea to London, Moscow, Paris and New York, gathering material for a set of startlingly innovative tracks.
Hybrid were received as one of the most acclaimed new bands of 1999, ‘Wide Angle’ collected an abundance of album of the month reviews and the guys ended 1999 on a high with a ‘Best Dance Act’ award at the Miami WMC, a slot on the Muzik magazine UK tour and a ‘Best Live Act’ nomination at the Muzik magazine awards; all the more outstanding considering Hybrid had only a handful of live gigs under their belt at that time.
Wide Angle was released 13th September 1999.
Wider Angle was released 12th June 2000.
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