IVY LAB
At the start of 2012, Sabre, Stray and Halogenix teamed up to drop one of the most blissful pieces of drum & bass that year, Oblique. The group came together as friends who shared an interest in each other’s work as well as the same specific production ethos and sonic goals. Since initial collaborations ‘Askari’ and ‘St.Clair,’ it has been their most recent success with ‘Oblique’ that significantly attracted support from some of the highest celebrated DJs in the scene today. Naturally things have progressed since, cementing their new found coalition as Ivy Lab. Early 2014 saw their first cemented release as Ivy Lab with missing Persons – a super solid fusion of liquid, rolling beats and hip hop crossover which put it simply worked a treat! Followed again this year with another sterling EP Twenty Questions - their most ambitious and most accomplished EP yet, spanning across the most pearlescent of D&B through to rough, rugged glitch and raw half time grooves.
MISANTHROP
With more as 10 years of constant work on his own musical and artistic visions in the studio (both audio and video) Germany’s Misanthrop is no stranger to the international
Drum & Bass scene at all. He was caught up by the dark sounds and menacing beats of ‘drum and bass’ in the early nineties, when he decided to produce his own tracks under the moniker ‘Misanthrop’; a name that in his point of view gave him the freedom to use music as a medium toexpress personal experiences of human interactions. His musical arrangements symbolicly oppose to the lack of candour – his aim is to break through the borders of conventions to set new unusal grounds With his hard hitting and distinctive sound his back catalogue ranges from successful releases on Renegade Hardware, over to Shadow Law, Cyanide, and up to Subtitles Music. He literally went from strength to strength and found his biggest success in the release of the mighty “Viperfish” on Subtitles Music, which among other things got highlighted by Andy-C countless times. Next to all of this his music gained steady support by international top acts like Andy C, Pendulum, Ed Rush & Optical, Teebee & Calyx, Phace,Mayhem, Noisia, Spor etc. As DJ, the Hamburg based musician has toured most of the world’s DnB locations, clubs and festivals. His sets are known for flawless mixing, deep cutting edge funk and enough energy to split an atom.
+ IVY LAB [ Critical Music, 20/20- UK)
+ MISANTHROP [ Neosignal]
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