Stamina MC

Linden Reeves, professionally known as Stamina MC, is a London-based drum and bass and jungle vocalist and MC who also works as a producer and DJ. He first emerged on pirate radio in 1996 on Pressure FM and later featured on Rinse FM. His best-known vocal credits on drum and bass recordings are DJ Marky & XRS Land’s “LK” (2002) and D. Kay & Epsilon’s “Barcelona” (2003); those singles reached UK chart positions No.17 and No.14 respectively.

Stamina MC’s entry into the drum and bass scene began on London airwaves. From MCing on Pressure FM in 1996 he moved between stations and clubs, and in 2000 a set at Movement — a weekly London drum & bass night — put him in contact with DJ Marky, DJ Patife and XRS Land. Those connections led directly to studio collaborations and to the wider recognition that followed.

As a vocalist and MC, Stamina MC is best known for supplying sung hooks and front-line vocal parts on dancefloor-facing d&b tracks. His recorded contributions on “LK” and “Barcelona” are credited simply as vocals; those tracks pair his voice with rolling break patterns and melodic basslines, placing his singing and MC phrasing at the centre of the arrangement rather than buried as a backing texture. He also appears live as part of band-style lineups: he was included in the original London Elektricity LIVE lineup, which presented drum and bass material in a live-performance setting rather than as DJ-only sets.

Career highlights include touring with DJ Marky and performing with a range of artists connected to the UK and Brazilian-influenced d&b circuits. His studio credits on the early-2000s singles above are verifiable chart successes and helped raise his profile beyond the club scene. In addition to vocal and MC work, he records and produces under the alias Armour, a name he uses for production output separate from his Stamina MC vocal persona.

Stamina MC’s practical role in the scene has been multi-faceted: MC and vocalist on radio and at clubs, featured singer on charting singles, member of a live d&b touring lineup (London Elektricity LIVE), and a recording/production alias (Armour). He is also documented as having toured with DJ Marky and worked closely with XRS Land, D. Kay & Epsilon, and DJ Patife following his break in 2000.

Publicly available biographical details beyond these credits are limited; what is well documented are his early radio start (Pressure FM, later Rinse FM), the Movement gig in 2000 that connected him to key collaborators, his vocal features on “LK” (2002) and “Barcelona” (2003) with their UK chart positions, his place in the original London Elektricity LIVE lineup, his touring with DJ Marky, and his production alias Armour.