Artists we represent

Ara-U

ARA-U is an electro music Dj / producer based in London. His sound is characterised raw analogue pure machine funk.
Venezuelan Electro producer Ara-u’s music career started in the late 90s as a key figure that brought rave culture to his home country through community and events.
He’s now been based in the UK for over two decades, being a firm part of the rave
music community.
Ara-u at his core is all about analogue electro, over the last couple of years he has
released this passion in a series of impressive releases. His first outing with Radioactive Man on Asking For Trouble for their Plastic Attack EP.
His first solo EP Black Hole came out on his newly launched label No Static /Automatic in early 2020 and carries three original tracks of raw, analogue machine music, backed
up by a bass-weighted grinding remix from Carl Finlow.
He showed his solo power here with firm support coming in from Radioactive Man, Jerome Hill, dBridge, Ben Pest, Alienata, Post Human, Solid blake, A-future, Granary 12 and DJ Mag. Since then he has release several releases on his label including an new solo Ep called Hiber nation and a charity compilation called the Exiled. Next is a new collaboration with RadioactiveMan and a new Ep by Ben Pest.

Bass Junkie

Phil Klein. Producer based in UK and devoted to Electro

Ben Pest

Hardware-based live performer, producer and DJ based in Bristol
Ben Pest has established notoriety as an exponent of jacking live hardware-based techno, playing shows at festivals and clubs including Boomtown, Don’t, Uglyfunk, Balter, Glade, Suicide Circus, Berghain, Griessmuehle and Bangface. A Producer, DJ and performer, he has numerous vinyl releases on labels such as Varvet, Mindcut, Don’t, I Love Acid, Asking For Trouble, Horror Boogie, Bonus Round, Victim and his own labels OverworX & Panic Bridge.

Billy Nasty

The man who mixed the inaugural volume of the seminal ‘Journeys By DJs’ series, gaining him entry into the Guinness book of records for being the first DJ to produce a commercially available mix CD, we still find Mr. Nasty at the helm, box of records...
But Billy Nasty has never been just a DJ, he has enjoyed an extensive recording career and runs two record labels highly-regarded by a broad range of DJs and record buyers alike. With a career spanning 25 years, Billy continues to travel the world as one of the most in-demand DJs, lighting up dancefloors at some of the most prestigious events and infamous clubs across the globe.

From early beginnings playing rare groove and funk to his first forays into acid house during his residency at London’s The Brain Club, to regular slots at seminal London clubs such as Final Frontier, Open All Hours, The Drum Club and Strutt, to having played pretty much every Festival and club worth mentioning ever since, Billy continues to DJ the world over.

On top of his DJing, Billy Nasty has also maintained a strong production presence over the years. Earlier more progressive outings included Shi-Take (with Dave Wesson) or Vinyl Blair (with Chemical Brothers engineer Steve Dub) to his studio collaborations with Gregor Tresher and Anthony Rother on Datapunk, culminating in his current partnership with Keith Tenniswood (aka Radioactive) man as RadioNasty.

In 2013 Billy relaunched his legendary techno and electro imprints, Tortured and Electrix, to critical acclaim. The debut release on Tortured was the RadioNasty ‘Breakin Bad EP’, featuring two stunning Ben Sims remixes as well as two original tracks.

As RadioNasty the pair have unleashed several tracks over the last two years for labels such as Craig Richard’s The Nothing Special and EPM including the (relaunched) Tortured debut release 'Breakin Bad' EP and the 'Clave to the Rhythm' EP on Electrix.

Body Hammer

House energy resource.
Est 2008

Electro Elvis

DJ, VJ, Techno Tinkerer, Promoter of @wangldn

Hooverian Blur

Hooverian Blur is Jason Alexander, and his career goes back to the mid-'90s, when he made breakbeat as Warlock and ran a label called Rag & Bone.

Radioactive Man

Keith Tenniswood is a pillar of London's electronic music underground. After learning his craft as an engineer in Sabres Of Paradise's studio, he made music alongside Andrew Weatherall as Two Lone Swordsmen, one of UK electronica's most protean acts, whose output spanned techno, dub and psychobilly, among other things. The Haywire Sessions, held at clubs like fabric and Fortress Studios, brought the likes of Richie Hawtin and Mathew Jonson to perform alongside Tenniswood and Weatherall. The records on the Control Tower label he ran with Simon Brown, AKA The Dexorcist, merged twisted electro and techno with sucker-punching bass. He continues to play an essential role as a mastering, recording and cutting engineer at Curve Pusher.

Second Storey (FKA Al Tourettes)

Depending on how your mind is fixed, you may process Second Storey's unique brand of electronic music as a physical, energetic kind of rave music, or you could find yourself postulating on the dense intricacies that his sonic life-forms contain. Such is the dualistic nature of the Bristol-based producer. It’s true that Second Storey, as the life’s work of Alec Storey, was born out of the vibrant free-party scene of Norfolk, and those roots in bass-heavy techno boom and pulse throughout his tracks, but this isn’t simple soundsystem fodder. If there was one defining quality to Al’s craft, it would be funk; the kind of crazed, psychedelic, booty-shaking gospel as laid down by Parliament in the ’70s. That’s a sound that re-manifested itself throughout the decades as the electro backbone of early hiphop in the 80s, the aquatic machinations of Drexciya in the 90s, and even the omni-limbed freakouts of Autechre. Al represents the next logical distillation of these principles, running his own brand of funk parallel with the contemporary bass music landscape after the dubstep explosion, but never quite fitting into it.

Since making his release debut in 2006 under his previous Al Tourettes moniker, Storey's output has come slow and steady , with appearances ranging from Sir Real’s electro-bass stable to long-time studio compadre Appleblim’s Apple Pips imprint. Certainly the remixes he and Mr. ‘Blim have cooked up for Planetary Assault Systems and Axel Boman amongst others have helped Al reach a wider audience, but his uncompromising and unclassifiable sound has ensured any accolades arrive on his terms. It’s a brave artist who gets commissioned to reinterpret the work of Tchaikovsky for a Hollywood movie (the Oscar-winning Black Swan) and turns out the kind of disorientating delerium that wound up soundtracking Natalie Portman’s first (fictional) ecstasy experience.

While the recorded music may have been carefully dissipated over time, the live experience is the only real way to get a handle on just how much music Al makes. Even a space as short as four weeks can yield a completely new collection of tracks, loops, skits and grooves, mercilessly wielded and propelled at the crowd to inspire dance moves people never knew they had inside themselves. Far from the dry, uninspiring automation of so many “live” sets, Al’s performances shudder and shake with the vitality of human control, no more apparent than in his razor-sharp battery of his drum pads. With the surface barely scratched on what Second Storey's’ ever-active mind can conjure up, from the absurd and grotesque to the elegiac and beautiful, one can only advise you keep the name locked, your mind open and your ass ready to follow.

Scott Fraser

Aliases
NB_BLOOD, One half of Body Hammer, Aquariun, Freeman, Nothing but blood, BIOS, Hackney Vandal Patrol, AOD, NB_BLOOD, Gates Of Light

Transparent sound

Orson Bramley a.k.a.Transparent Sound is one of the UK's longest serving electro artists.
Transparent Sound was originally formed in 1994 by Orson Bramley and Martin Brown, making it one of the UK's longest running electro acts. After Martin left the duo to pursue other avenues some years ago, Transparent Sound has continued with Orson at the helm. Orson grew up during the heady days of acid house’s first wave in 1987/88. Originally a fan of early electro acts and the breakin’ scene that accompanied it, he was turned on by the illicit electronic thunk and hypnotic grooves of house and techno. Not that he completely lost touch with his roots: in the early ‘90s Orson was a member of legendary UK hip hop act/breakdance crew, Severe Carnage. These days Orson’s style takes in various flavours of electronic funk.

Alongside the project he also runs Orson Records (launched in 2004) and in 2019 he introduced the world to his Empty Orchestra side project, and the re-launch of the new Transparent Sound label. “After seeing the rise of vinyl sales again over the last few years and some of the classic early Transparent Sound releases soar in value, I felt people were ready for Electro properly now and may even be getting tired with the usual 4/4” says Orson, promising “high quality forward thinking Electro that isn’t scared to take a few risks.”

Warlock

Warlock has been DJing since 1989, constantly seeking out new music from emerging genres since starting out on London pirate radio (Pulse FM) back in the days of Acid House and Hardcore. Now hosting a weekly show on Kool FM, he is currently immersed in today's wide ranging Bass Music scene and is behind the renowned Rag & Bone imprint which has seen output from the likes of Aaron Spectre, Drop The Lime, Stagga, King Cannibal and Kanji Kinetic. His own productions too have made it onto vinyl with Hypercolour, Fat Hop, We Buy Gold, Skint, frijsfo Beats and of course Rag & Bone itself. Sets typically fuse together disparate styles and beats inflected with Bass, Techno, Breaks, Club, Juke, Electro and more whilst also drawing upon all manner of retro beats known and unknown.

LMB

Liam Bevan