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Zero T
In the world of drum & bass, a scene all too often segregated by superficially constructed genre confines, Zero T stands as a figurehead for a new breed of producers tearing down these boundaries and building from the ground up, creating a more open musical plane. By setting his own parameters, Zero T not only explores the full spectrum of sounds within D&B, but expands beyond it with his forward-thinking, intricately textured and overtly musical sound. It comes as little wonder that Zero T's absorbed such a plethora of wide-spanning influences that diffuse through his own music, amalgamating to create something unique and, in a word, peerless. Music is something that has surrounded the talented artist from his earliest days: from growing up alongside his father's ever-expanding blue note jazz collection, to being tutored by his older brother's multi-instrumental musicianship, to his exposure to jungle through older friends, to an entirely fortuitous meeting with fellow Irish D&B artist Calibre.
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Drop The Lime
Luca Venezia, aka Drop The Lime, is a difficult character to pin down. He runs one of the most influential labels in the emerging heavy bass party music circuit in the US (Brooklyn-based Trouble & Bass), and is as comfortable DJing the occasional all-rockabilly set at an underground bar as he is serving bass-heavy club throttlers to hundreds of hungry, obsessive fans, lost in a sea of T&B t-shirts and pumping fists. Similar to their creator, Drop The Lime's productions have an innate ability to disorient all traditional restrictions. Artfully fusing sounds and styles, his music manages to destroy the delicate politics of genres completely.
I Beat My Robot / Marmite (Original Sin Remix)
Caspa
What a 12-months its been for Caspa. It was almost a year to the day when we first announced his debut album through fabric, the LP that took him from the underground hero he was to the household name he is today. Although we say that, but Caspa never left the underground, in fact he's managed to successfully stay true to his original fanbase by never changing his approach, style or sound, it's just everyone else in the world is a lot more interested than they used to be.
In the UK in 2010, you can safely say that anyone with an interest in popular music between the ages of 16-25 will know what dubstep is - it's everywhere. Sometimes things just fall into place and for Caspa, what started out as him going to UK Garage and Drum'n'Bass nights, dancing to new sounds and being inspired by the DJs has now evolved into him travelling the World as a global star.