"When I talk about energy, commitment, vibes and excitement - you haven't seen anything until you've seen Gentleman's Dub Club"- David Rodigan MBE

Based in London but founded in Leeds in 2006, 8-piece band Gentleman's Dub Club have made an indelible mark on the live music scene. Their electronic music-infused dub and reggae and their high-energy shows garnering appearances at all major UK festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival, Boomtown and V Fest. Touring has taken the band international, and people from countries such as India,
Morocco, the USA, and Iceland have been delighted by the band's infectious commitment to plugging in and leaving their guts on stage.

Their five albums (Down to Earth, FourtyFour, The Big Smoke, Dubtopia and Lost In Space) have received widespread acclaim from DJs and music fans around the world, and have spent the vast majority of their time in the top echelons of the iTunes reggae charts. Their track 'High Grade' from the Open Your Eyes EP is now a universally recognized reggae anthem.

David Rodigan, who has been a longtime supporter of the Gentlemen's output, hosted a Gentleman's Dub
Club Maida Vale feature on BBC Radio 1 Xtra in 201 5, and handed the reins of his world-famous Sunday night BBC Radio 1 Xtra show over to the Gents for a takeover special in 2019. They have collaborated with international stars such as Joe Dukie (Fat Freddy's Drop), Hollie Cook, P Digsss (Shapeshifter, NZ), Charlie 2na (Jurassic Five) or Kiko Bun, and have just announced their 2023 tour co-headlining with The Skints - their biggest tour to date.

A blend of virtuosic players, skilled producers and inspired composers join forces to create a unique, infectious sound drawing on jazz, hip-hop, afrobeat, dancehall, soul, reggae and dance music – expect ultra-tight musicianship and a powerful, big band sound.

2024 sees Nubiyan Twist embark on a fresh musical odyssey with the announcement of their vibrant fourth album ‘Find Your Flame’. Over 12 tracks, the band seamlessly weave together global grooves, soul and jazz; expertly intertwined with electronic elements, horn-led melodies and spontaneous improvisation.

The heady, sun-drenched release is peppered with impressive collaborations, including the iconic Nile Rodgers who brings his trademark disco mastery to new single ‘Lights Out’.

Alongside Nile Rodgers, Nubiyan Twist have enlisted artists from across the globe including Seun Kuti and Mamani Keita as well as homegrown UK talent corto.alto, Ria Moran, K.O.G. & NEONE the Wonderer. The album also marks a significant evolution for the group, welcoming Sheffield-based vocalist Aziza Jaye to the forefront.

Bandleader and producer Tom Excell says, “As with the creation of all our albums, it’s a snapshot of our collective influences and journeys throughout the time it was made. A catharsis for our struggles, yet a vessel for our joy. Navigating through COVID, the magic of becoming a new parent, undergoing a vital leg amputation, recovering from car accidents, losing loved ones and forming new friendships have all shaped this music. But most importantly, the collaborative process helped reignite a liberating fire of resistance in each of us.”

‘Find Your Flame’ is set for release on 3rd May via Strut Records.

Big voice, big bass and big hair is what Singer/MC Eva Lazarus is all about!

Her musical flavours span across genres from Reggae to Hip Hop, DnB to Jungle and beyond!

Eva Lazarus tirelessly smashed through festival season, including Glastonbury, main stage Outlook, multiple packed shows at BoomTown culminating with an electric Show alongside Gentleman’s Dub Club in the Lions Den.

2017 saw the collaborative release with Mungos Hifi ‘Amsterdam EP’ which was play listed on BBC 6Music and features in David rodigans scorchers of 2017 list.

A string of releases in 2017 included singles with Nextmen, Gardna X Kreed, Gentleman’s Dub Club, Xoa and a track that was included in Giles Peterson’s list of 2017’s best records Zed Bias ft Eva Lazarus ‘Restless’.

Eva & her crew (‘The Afronaughts’ and DJ Chris Munky) are primed, packing a stage show jammed full Props and Confetti Canons and are ready to nice up the dance whether its a rave, a club, a festival, boat, pyramid or the moon!

“Bringing you a blend of genres through a legendary voice Eva’s solo show is of shimmering headliner quality and we are deeply blessed to have her come and grace the stage with the edge she wields. ” – Bask Productions

“Eva Lazarus was one of our favourite acts of the entire festival: sharp, sassy, sexy, slick and hugely entertaining.” – Urban75.org

‘Konichi-Wah-Gwarn Vol 1’ (listen here) –https://soundcloud.com/evalazarus/konichi-wah-gwarn-vol-1

Winner of 2017 – best female vocalist/mc – We Love Jungle awards!

London four-piece, The Skints, have clawed their way up from the depths of the underground punk/ska scene to a unique fixture on the global reggae stage. Drawing influences as wide as soul, pop, grime and hardcore, their original brand of “tropical punk” has seen them evolve in to one of the hardest working and most respected bands in UK music.

Formed while at school in 2007, The Skints hail from the Waltham Forest and Redbridge boroughs of North East London, and they cut their teeth in London’s underground punk scene before venturing out of the M25 to play their first self-booked DIY venture and embark on a heaving touring regime across the nation’s “toilet venue” circuit.

Debut album ‘Live, Breathe, Build, Believe’, released at the end of 2009, received late night/specialist rotation across radio including BBC Radio 1's Punk Show, whilst 2012’s ‘Part & Parcel’, was the second full-length album by the band and further built their fan base and opened doors to heavy touring, festivals and markets outside of the UK and across Europe. The follow-up album, the critically-acclaimed ‘FM’, released in 2015, reached number 5 on the Billboard Reggae Albums chart and number 7 on the Independent Albums Chart in the UK and saw The Skints tour relentlessly across the USA, Canada and Japan.

Since the band’s inception, The Skints have toured extensively across the globe, playing hundreds of shows and festivals including Summerjam (Germany), Dour Festival (Belgium), California Roots (US) and ReggaeSunSka (France). In the UK, The Skints sold-out their most recent 10-date UK tour including Shepherd’s Bush Empire and have performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Bestival, Glastonbury and Boomtown Festival, performing to 15,000 fans. In addition, the band have supported bands that include NOFX, Less Than Jake, Mariachi El Bronx, Gym Class Heroes, Protoje, You Me At Six and Sublime with Rome & Easy Star Easy Star All Stars.

If you know jungle, then you’ll be all too familiar with Aries and the roads he’s travelled. With a career spanning more than 30 years, Aries has cemented his place as a much-loved pillar of the scene during his rise. From being a globally renowned DJ who has performed in over 35 countries, to sitting proudly at the helm of one drum and bass’ most exciting new wave D&B labels in Born On Road, it’s fair to say Aries has earned his reputation as an artist at the forefront of the scene.

It’s a journey that started in the ‘90s with a desire to fly the flag for the growing culture he loves, and it’s one that has since seen the midlands-born artist become a multi-award winning name. Aries has spread the dub-wise strain of jungle to audiences as far as the USA and Australia through DJing on countless sound systems and crafting well known productions such as ‘Herbsmoke’ and ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’.

While jungle will always be the heartbeat behind Aries’ history in the scene, championing fresh sounds is the driver of this artist’s ambition. It’s the reason why you’ll regularly see Aries laying down electric D&B sets on the biggest stages of the international festival circuit alongside his Born on Road family. Through his label ventures, Aries has been connecting with a new generation of ravers – educating an appreciation for the culture and roots he cut his teeth in, while creating a legacy for future generations to be a part of.

After years spent navigating the roads of the scene, you’d be forgiven for thinking Aries might be slowing down, but we’re only going to see him work up through the gears from here on out. Whether its his desire to take Born On Road from being a locally celebrated label in Bristol to an acclaimed imprint worldwide, or his motivation to push his own music output to new levels, there’s no doubting the road ahead will see Aries evolve as an artist while continuing to build on the legacy he has already created.

The Drumsound & Bassline Smith pedigree runs deep.

As a team, they've occupied a top tier position in the drum 'n' bass scene since thenineties but the roots were already well established by then. Before the Drumsoundcombined with the Bassline, the first chapters of their story were already written.You see, Simon Bassline Smith had been doing this for years before the team-up withDrumsound. Coming up in the early eighties heyday of rare groove funk and soul, he'sbeen intimately associated with the UK underground music scene as it evolved fromsoundsystem-led blues parties, to raves, festivals, and mainstream acceptance. And realheads know about the recently-relaunched Absolute2 label, with its string of releases in thepre-jungle rave days from names like Doc Scott, Ray Keith, and even Orbital. The BasslineSmith biography stretches through the entire history of hardcore, jungle, and then drum 'n'bass.

“Drumsound” used to be a collective of six producers, with the torch now being carried byAndy Wright. A classically-trained musician with and indie rock background, his musicalinfluences were already wide and varied before he even started making moves in DnB.With that melding of styles – reminiscent of the earliest days of rave – perhaps it's nowonder that, after only a year's worth of productions, the Drumsound crew were able tocatch the attention of already-legendary Simon Bassline Smith in 1998.

Since creating Technique Recordings in 1999, the combined powers of Drumsound &Bassline Smith have made an indelible mark on drum 'n' bass, and dance music ingeneral. Scouring the globe for talent, they've helped turn artists like Tantrum Desire,Document One, L Plus, and Youngman into household names among DnB cognoscenti aswell as bringing the world music from luminaries like Roni Size, Crissy Criss, Matrix &Futurebound, The Prototypes, Bladerunner and more.

Fabio and Grooverider, the Godfathers of Drum & Bass and legends of modern music who are idolised worldwide. Industry heavyweights, fans and artists regardless of genre will readily respect and praise the ongoing influence of the two. 

Since aligning professionally over 30 years ago, Fabio & Grooverider have been at the forefront of a genre which just seems to get stronger and more ‘global’ year on year, with household names such as Chase & Status, Wilkinson & Sub Focus smashing the top 40 to pieces. These are just a few names that received their initial exposure from the pair on their 14 Year Award winning show on BBC Radio 1. 

The scene in general owes much to Fabio & Grooverider’s dedication, focus and longevity. They were part of the very few UK DJs to first play House music, and to then fuse and formulate something entirely new which would eventually evolve into Jungle/Drum and Bass. It is no understatement to say that the respective streams and offshoots of D&B that Fabio & Grooverider both represent from those early times now stretch so wide - liquid, jump up, technical, minimal and half-time styles to name a few – that it’s effectively the fabric of D&B itself.

Fabio & Grooverider were voted in the top 25  Greatest DJs of all time in a recent Mixmag poll, and December 2015 saw the pair win the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to music award at DJ Mag’s Best of British awards. 

From their first venture into pirate radio on Phase 1 a simple template was established: fuel the energy of the streets, the illegal, massively-attended raves of the late 80s – legendary raves such as Fantasia, Biology and Sunrise – instantly back to the airwaves. The early days of ‘Jungle Techno’ gradually  became the world’s first weekly Jungle night at Rage in London, where the boundaries were pushed into the red every week, so much so that the scene became notoriously hard, even intimidating. 

One of the major divisions in drum 'n' bass emceeing has always been host versus lyricist. Some mic controllers play curator and let the music do the talking. Others come locked and loaded to shell a rave down with a pad full of bars. It's only an exceptional few that can perform both roles to an equally high level.

Felon is one of those stand-out artists.

Since winning “Best Breakthrough MC” at the 2014 Drum & Bass Awards, Felon has become a regular fixture on the scene's biggest and most exclusive stages, regularly working with the upper echelon of selectors. As well as his many, many sets rolling out with legends Fabio & Grooverider, he's hosted for Andy C, Goldie, and pretty much any other DnB god you could name.

Discovering the craft in the late nineties – when original-generation crowd-hyping hardcore emcees were sharing stages with the new double-time rhymers like Skibadee and, later, Eksman – Felon always saw both elements of the craft as equally essential. The balance of hosting and bars, the ability to command a crowd as well as spit lyrics, was central to the style that he developed and why he's been able to bridge the gap between sounds and sub-genres so effortlessly.

Having performed for audiences all over the world, including multiple tours of Australia, several Glastonbury appearances, bookings in South Africa, the USA, Thailand and many more, Felon has proven himself as one of the scene's top tier mic men many times over the last decade. On jump-up, liquid, tech, dancefloor, or whatever other style you like, he's demonstrated the expertise and experience to hype any party.

DJ Flight is one of the foundations of Drum & Bass. She is an award-winning DJ,
broadcaster, radio producer, and co-founder of EQ50 – a collective of women working
towards fairer representation in dance music.

2022 marked a string of successes for Flight as she celebrated 25 years of playing
exquisite sets to music fans across the globe. The ’25 Years of Flight’ European tour
culminated with a blistering b2b set with DJ Storm at Boiler Room Festival
Amsterdam, a monumental two-hour soundscape that has amassed over 600,000
views on YouTube so far. Flight closed off the year with a DJ Mag award for
‘Outstanding Contribution’ to dance music while Mixmag named her one of the ‘DJs
Who Defined The Year’.

This year, ‘Turn It Up: A Short History of Drum & Bass’, a BBC Sounds documentary
produced and narrated by Flight, was nominated in the ‘Best Music Special’ category
at Radio Academy’s ARIAS. This radio production followed ‘Windrush Stories’, an
award-winning podcast series that garnered widespread acclaim for its beautiful
exploration of the Caribbean experience in Britain.

Flight has a rare mystical talent that transcends time and space. For over a quarter
of a century, her star has been in ascendance. Flight’s influence on the scene has
been immense and in March the New York Times wrote of her inspiration to a whole
new generation of artists, including Nia Archives.

Flight regularly plays at Rupture and residencies have included Metalheadz and
Swerve. She has produced music with Breakage, and released on labels such as
Reinforced, Bassbin, Critical, The North Quarter, and Carbon. In 2005, Flight started
her own label – play:musik – which launched the career of several up and coming
producers.