![]() ![]() ![]() In a whirlwind of motivation and a deep pit of sleep deprivation, he sent over one tune after the other, parts of which then became his EP on ProgRAM in 2019. Even though this was already hinting at quite the talent, what happened next was still surprisingly huge for him: After listening to one of his tunes on Lifestyle, Jim, RAM's label manager, reached out to him online and asked him for tunes, to which Charlie of course happily obliged. After first getting into DnB in 2014 and starting to put out tunes in 2017 on Nemesis Recordings, his early beginnings already took him to places like Serial Killaz and Lifestyle Music, with a whole lot of Klinical and Nectax collaborations. So they got together with Simula and founded Neksus Sound in 2020! Of course it is also very much a home for their own wicked machinations, but since then, incredibly sick newcomers like Trinist, Vici or Result and veteran brain scramblers like Redpill, Fade Black or Phace have also all joined the family.Īlright, so we solved the first riddle, but who is that second person I hinted at? I mean, you can just read the title of the post so no need to beat around the bush too much: it's skantia! Residing all the way up north in Newcastle, Charlie Roberts is not necessarily physically close to any parts of this typically Bristolian sound revolution, but trust me, he's absolutely part of it. While they never stopped working with these big boi labels, they were also very eager to put their own stamp on the scene at large, to help the talents of tomorrow and provide a platform for all the other weird bleeps and bloops producers of the scene. ![]() Not only did they perform a perfect three album arc, with Inception in 2013, Forever in 2016 and Tunnel Vision in 2020, they also worked together with some of the jumpier acts in Neuro like Neonlight and Teddy Killerz, remixed all sorts of Neurofunk legends like The Upbeats, Mefjus, State Of Mind and Noisia, worked together with Knife Party, and released on basically all the big labels like Blackout, VISION, CRUCAST, DnB Allstars, UKF, Elevate, Monstercat, but also Overview and, of course, Sleepless Music (I'll get to that). While Scott and Michael have always been collaborating with their solo names, they decided to create a new moniker for this occasion: Annix!Įver since their inception, they have slowly but extremely surely annexed the scene with both their Jump Up / Neuro hybrid style and their more relaxed Liquid bits and bops. In basically no time at all, their twisted sonics found their way to DJ Hype, who started building a relationship with the dynamic duo and by the time 2012 rolled around, the two found themselves signed to Hype's Playaz family of labels, debuting on The Flavours Vol. ![]() With Scott introducing himself as Konichi, occasionally also sporting the Meddler mantle, and Michael channelling his inner math nerd as Decimal Bass, they were turning all sorts of underground Jump Up labels, like BOD Recordings, upside down. Ever since the Metallica fans became mates at the age of 11 (!), they have done all sorts of things together, and only a couple years later, around 2010, it was already time for their music career to begin. Let's start with the former: I was of course talking about Annix! Straight outta Cheltenham, smack in the middle between Bristol and Brum, Scott Farrell and Michael Leeder have been mashing up the dance together since before I was even old enough to be allowed to listen to DnB. What do you get when you cross the pioneers of the Jump Up crossover-fusion-revolution with one of the hottest new talents born out of said movement in recent years? A real Evergreen of a tune! Recommended if you like: Synergy, The Outsiders, Vowel ![]()
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