WYS!: Audio: Huxley WetYourSelf Promo Mix

Meet Huxley, the latest gem to adorn the UK’s deep house crown as its current vivid resurgence amongst the international scene continues. Picked out by Nick Curly and Tsuba label boss Kevin Griffiths as an emerging talent, he soon followed with his first release, a collaboration with Ethyl released on Curly’s Cécille Label and sure enough it was an instant smash, backed up by ensuing releases on Tsuba. Huxley is the headliner gracing our Sunday dance-a-thon WYS! and he’ll be joined by Outart, the Italian duo currently making waves all over Europe with their label IANVS71 and their enigmatic DJ sets and of course, the WYS! residents Jacob Husley, Peter Pixzel and Cormac. DOWNLOAD: Huxley WetYourSelf Promo mix Hi Huxley, thanks for speaking with us. Firstly just tell us a little about where you’re from and how you got into electronic music? Well, originally I'm from a small town called Tring which is in Hertfordshire. It's nice enough, but a pretty dull place to be honest and doesn't really have anything going on, which is probably why most people move away from it when they get older. I got into electronic music at around the age of 12. Before that I was mainly into older music from the the 60s and 70s. I'd love to say it was all really credible and good, but the truth is, a lot of it was really bad. But around the age of 12 my best friend of the time bought round the two Dreamscape compilations, which each had three cds in, one old skool hardcore, one drum 'n bass and one happy hardcore. It was really the first time i had ever heard anything like that properly, and i loved it. It was at this time I decided that I wanted to be a dj and got my first set of Soundlab, belt drive decks (which were fucking awful). After a few years of buying mostly drum 'n bass records (things like Urban Takeover, Ram Records, V Recordings) I moved onto playing UK Garage and a little bit of house. I started to produce at around the age of 15, released my first record at the age of 17, and I guess the rest is history. You’ve enjoyed a good couple of years so far with releases on Tsuba and Cecille, tell us what else you’ve got coming out next Well I've had quite a busy few months working on remixes and EP’s for labels such as Morris Audio, Suara and Tsuba. My next few Huxley things are actually all due out pretty soon. These include EPs with Hypercolour offshoot, Losing Suki, new label Act Natural (with remixes from Mic Newman and Chris Lattner), and a new one on Tsuba with Ethyl, which is a 3 tracker; 2 remixes of our track Reflexions by Aybee and a new one from us, which is very very different!! After that I'm going to be concentrating on my new label, Saints & Sonnets and also a project with my house mate, Sam Russo, for Leftroom. I actually just got the remix back for our first release on Saints & Sonnets, from the legend, Roman Flügel. It's fucking badboy!! Your portfolio of tracks is steadily increasing, are there any plans to play live at any point? Yeah I think so. I have just bought a laptop so i can start to practice it a little bit. To be honest I never wanted to do it before, but a lot of people have told me i should look into it. Who knows though, it might never leave the 4 walls of my studio, we'll just have to wait and see. I don't want to go out there and do it if I'm not totally happy with it. There’s been a resurgence of deep house recently, how do you feel about the scene in the UK at... It's all starting to kick off again, it's great to see that we've finally found our own sound again and it's really kicking off. For a long time we seemed to rely on the music from Europeans and Americans to play, but there's now this new breed of UK producers that are showing we can stand on our own two feet again. Are there any artists that are exciting you right now? Julio Bashmore, Midland, DJ Qu's new album is on constant rotation and I love the new Brawther release on Secret Sundaze. I'm also really into Mic Newman's new material. And lastly, tell us a little known fact about you I'm not really sure what to put here, so I'll just tell you a little known fact that i know - a duck's quack doesn't echo.