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The duo - Tom Findlay and Andy Cato - first met in London back in the nineties and their combined talent took them to the highest of heights: three UK Top 10 albums; three Grammy nominations; a BRIT nomination; and a succession of hit singles that are still being discovered by new fans to this day. 25 years on, they have gone on to become one of the most successful dance acts of all time, and maintain their position as an influential force in the music industry.    From the dancehall dub of ‘Superstylin’’ to the crossover pop appeal of ‘Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)’ and from the dancefloor-igniting ‘I See You Baby’ to the woozy sunset vibes of ‘At The River’, Groove Armada have consistently and uncompromisingly followed their own vision. Each one of those cuts stands alone as a certified classic, revered in the dance music hall of fame for their timeless appeal.  

Formed in 1988, Leftfield quickly became one of the most influential and innovative dance music acts of all time. Originally comprised of Neil Barnes and Paul Daley, Leftfield’s legendary live-performances paired with seminal albums, 1995s Leftism and 1999s Rhythm & Stealth (both Mercury Music Prize nominees), solidified their position as true pioneers. The group then went on a hiatus in 2002 before returning in 2010 for live-appearances (now led solely by Barnes).. 2015’s Alternative Light Source was the first Leftfield album in sixteen years. The record garnered acclaim from The Guardian, The Observer, Uncut, Mojo and more, and featured Jason Williamson (Sleaford Mods) and Tunde Adebimpe (TV on The Radio), amongst others. In 2017 the band reissued their classic album Leftism, remastering the original 11 tracks of the record and releasing 11 remixes. They then embarked on a special sold out  tour in support of the reissue, playing Leftism in its entirety and then in 2022 they returned with their new album, This Is What We Do.

If there’s one thing to know about Peng, she runs things her own way, writing lyrics that range from the spiritual to the overtly political, and recording her acclaimed debut album MAN MADE tuned to a frequency of 432 Hz, a semitone below the industry standard 440, may help go some way to explaining the subliminal ways she emanates both a vibe and a special energy. Permeating Greentea Peng’s tracks are questions around identity, place and belonging, so it makes perfect sense that her debut COLOR’s live performance became such a viral hit and that MAN MADE’s release in the summer of 2021 instantly struck a resonant chord with listeners across the globe. 

Her musical inspirations are as encompassing as her unique ragamuffin style and shake up a psychedelic cocktail of R&B, while influences from the soul, dub and reggae she grew up with are laced with reverb-soaked electronics. Look no further if your Saturday night needs a serious dose of positive energy. Greentea Peng’s recipe is more love, less ego and she has you covered. “The sound of a spirit operating in a totally free manner” Clash magazine.

A Londoner through and through, Artwork is a man who has been a key part of some of the capital’s pivotal music scenes in the last two decades. After a time producing techno under his Grain alias in the 90s, fore-fronting dubstep with Big Apple Records in the early noughties and forming Magnetic Man alongside Skream and Benga in 2007 - Artwork is now busy injecting his character into London parties, festivals and clubs around Europe. After a 15-year solo release hiatus, 2017 was finally the time for the long-awaited release of ‘Let Go Of This Acid’ on his newly launched Unfinished Records. 4 years ago, he took a soundsystem, lasers, a bar and four DJs into someone he met on Twitter’s living room- and the idea of Art’s House was born. Art’s House invites rare disco, uplifting house, and unexpected gems into a living room setup at clubs and festival stages, with big soundsystems and inspiring co-DJs. Recent guests have included the likes of Maurice Fulton, Studio 54’s Nicky Siano, Jackmaster, Scotland’s Sub Club residents Harri & Domenic and many, many more.  Artwork has now announced his biggest party yet, taking place in 2018 - Art’s House: A Lovely London Festival. January marks the start of Artwork’s 3 month residency at XOYO, welcoming guests like Derrick May, Omar S, Peggy Gou and many more to his house every Friday night. Growing up on a diet of musical variety and a love of records has made Artwork more than a DJ and veteran producer. An expert in all kinds of music, an insanely skilful digger and accomplished selector, his impact on London’s electronic music scene has been felt for more than 20 years. He’s produced Grammy nominated music and has been an important feature on London panels for topics like Fabric’s possible closure back in 2016. Best of all, Artwork still doesn’t take life too seriously. Shying away from relentless promo and lifeless social media posting, he lets his impeccable taste in music, top notch production and artful personality speak for itself.

German producer, DJ, label and record store owner Cinthie, dubbed my many as the Berlin Queen of House, has grown to become one of the most sought- after DJ’s, producers, remixers and curators in the contemporary electronic music scene across the past decade. Her releases for the likes of Aus, Shall Not Fade, Heist and a curated DJ Kicks compilation encapsulated the raw House sound she’s become synonymous with, although her productions often traverse through numerous other genres from downtempo, nu-disco, footwork, dubby techno and more.

Dillinja’s trademark combination of dark’n’dirty stomach-churning basslines and tighter than tight beats, has secured his reputation as one of the most influential producers/remixers in drum’n’bass history. A unique dark and grumbling sound that has resulted in Dillinja being called to remix for the likes of David Bowie, Bjork, Faith No More, Soul II Soul, Basement Jaxx, Amon tobin, Artful Dodger and Jeru The Damaja.

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 half a million 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 radio documentary produced and narrated by Flight, received a Radio Academy ARIA nomination in the ‘Best Music Special’ category. 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. Flight gained worldwide recognition when she became the first woman to host a national Drum & Bass show. The Next Chapter on BBC Radio 1Xtra was a seminal fixture that quickly became The Holy Grail for discovering new styles and experimental sounds. Flight returns to the airwaves with a new monthly radio show every third Wednesday between 9pm – 11pm on the legendary and freshly relaunched Kool FM.

Joe Goddard has been thinking about thinking. For the past few years, the producer, songwriter, and all-round polymath of UK dance and indie music has been trying to get more in touch with his own intuition. “This idea of trying to divorce your conscious mind from the music-making process – not trying to force meaning on the music or your collaborators, allowing that process to be very empathetic, and just making music purely on your natural emotional response,” he explains. It may come as no surprise to hear that this mindset naturally emerged – where else? – during the pandemic. At home, Joe reflected on his three decades of making music, two decades of marriage, and decade-plus of raising children. But it was only after opening Relax and Enjoy, his new East London studio with Hot Chip bandmate Al Doyle, that he truly understood the degree to which his outlook had shifted. “We’ve been working there producing a lot of other bands,” he says. “Looking at the group psychology of the people that come into that space, the creative process can be completely derailed by someone wanting to assert themselves and control the process. I’ve been guilty of being that person myself in the past. Sometimes you get this aggressive urge to be the person that leads the decisions. I’ve been working on my ability to turn that off.” Joe tried to set aside those thoughts while writing and producing his third solo album, Harmonics. Across 14 tracks of left-of-centre dance music – touching on UK garage, house, hip-hop, pop, and disco – Joe opens the floor for a number of collaborators. The voice of Ibibio Sound Machine’s Eno Williams rides the afro-house groove of “Progress”, while starry-eyed boom-bap track “When Love’s Out of Fashion” features UK rapper Oranje. Former Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe lends his uniquely expressive vocal to the low-slung house of “Summon”, and Joe’s Hot Chip bandmates Alexis Taylor and Al Doyle both appear on the gleaming half-step ballad “Heal Your Mind”. Other guests on Harmonics include Brooklyn dream-pop singer Barrie, emerging British singer-songwriter Findia, Bronx-raised singer Fiorious, Tom McFarland of the London dance-pop group Jungle, Guinean vocalist Falle Nioke, and UK jazz musician Alabaster DePlume. Yet for all the collaborators that Joe brings into his world, there are a handful of solo songs like “Follow Me” that capture the more reflective and inward-looking side of his music. “With all the different people on this record, I’ve been working on how to respect the contribution they make and not trying to be the one who has to lead everything,” Joe says. “That follows through into the songs where I’m singing. I tried to write words without having too much of an idea of what I’m trying to express, where I’m just writing a stream of consciousness.” Nevertheless, working without a set intention still led to some serendipitous moments. On lead single “New World (Flow)”, a rhapsodic house track with a powerhouse vocal performance by Fiorious, the lyrics coincidentally ended up being about releasing yourself to your natural instincts. “There was no discussion of that,” Joe says. “In a commercial writing session, there’ll be a lot of discussion around the title of the song and the subject matter, and a brainstorming session for the lyrics. With the artists on this record, I just wanted them to be free to write what they wanted to. There wasn’t a lot of overthinking.” Album opener “Moments Die” arose from another such coincidence. The electronic pop duet features the lush vocals of Barrie, an artist who Joe reached out to after initially discovering her voice by accident. “I was working on a remix of a song by Psymon Spine that she featured on. She comes from an indie background. I just thought: ‘That voice is really great,’” he explains. Elsewhere, the album features two songs with the emerging singer Findia: the out-and-out festival banger “Destiny” – perhaps the album’s most exhilarating moment – and its more ruminative counterpart, “When You Call”. Joe first encountered Findia when she booked studio sessions at Relax and Enjoy. “Her lyrics reference mysticism and that kind of English magickal pop in the vein of Kate Bush, which struck a chord with me,” he says. “I sent her these instrumentals. She’s incredible at giving these ideas a structure and turning them into real songs.” Over the years, Joe has to come to embrace his role as ‘producer’, in all of its different definitions. “The psychology of recording sessions is fascinating,” he says. “The role of producer is totally amorphous. There are technical aspects you need to know, like how to engineer sounds and mix, and being able to make suggestions for what instruments to use. But there’s a whole other side to it, which is just about managing the energy of different people in the room. That’s been the amazing thing about having the studio space. You have days where a group of people’s energies are just working together, and you get an incredible building of creativity and openness where ideas start to flow. You can feel the energy building in the room and coming into focus. You can feel the music coming to life.” This openness towards collaboration and the acceptance of people’s individual human nuances is where Harmonics gets its name from. The history of dance music is replete with words like ‘ecstatic’, ‘euphoric’, and ‘uplifting’ – but here, those words do not describe hands-in-the-air clichés, but the spiritual and human side that Joe explores in his music. “Part of the reason why I wanted to call this Harmonics is that I was trying to create something very inclusive and empathetic, something harmonious,” Joe says. “There’s a lot of aggressive division in the world, and I wanted this to be loving, romantic – and fun.” This is the soulful thread that runs through all of Joe Goddard’s favourite music – genres from soul and funk, to house and garage, that were born in Black America and enthusiastically adopted by the UK. Of course, Joe himself was not raised in downtown gospel churches, but in the London suburb of Fulham. That’s a side of his personality he’s never shied away from, either. “It’s possible to cover up that lo-fi Englishness using a computer,” he says. “But doing that is not being honest to yourself. If a track is gentle, or sonically leftfield, allow it to be that. Don’t let the computer take over and turn everything into some glossy, gleaming, powerful, but essentially inhuman thing.” Joe’s infatuation with dance music began as a teenager in the ’90s, as he graduated from indie onto hip-hop and dance music. DJing and producing electronic music was a natural progression for someone who attended taste-making clubs like That’s How It Is, Metalheadz, Fabric, and Basement Jaxx’s eponymous Brixton party. At the same time, he remained busy writing leftfield electronic pop music with Hot Chip, the band he co-founded with Alexis Taylor, his classmate from Putney’s Elliott School. Since then, Joe has become a mainstay of British dance and indie through his vast number of bands and collaborative projects, his live shows and festival dates, his production and songwriting credits, his remixes and solo singles, and his DJ sets. He has released eight albums with Hot Chip, two with The 2 Bears (with Raf Rundell), and one with HARD FEELINGS (with Amy Douglas). Other collaborations include the groups Extra Credit (a collaborative project with Justin Strauss and Marcus Marr) and A Pulse Train (whose other members include Caribou’s Dan Snaith, Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan, Floating Points, and more). He’s produced tracks with Franz Ferdinand and Bernard Sumner; collaborated with Jarvis Cocker and Peter Gabriel; remixed Jessie Ware, Kraftwerk, New Order, Disclosure, and the Chemical Brothers; released the untouchable 2011 hit “Gabriel” with Valentina; and co-wrote Katy Perry’s “Into Me You See”. Across his career, he’s been nominated for two Grammys and the Mercury Prize. Of course, he’s much too humble to bring any of this up himself. Harmonics is Joe Goddard’s third solo studio album, following 2009’s Harvest Festival and 2017’s Electric Lines. Rooted in instinct and empathy, and featuring a diverse range of talents, Harmonics is not just a title but a promise fulfilled – an unbridled celebration of compassion, collaboration, and creation.

Laura Misch is a London-based singer, saxophonist, producer, and composer who works wonders on the experimental and jazz-infused edges of electronica with her tenor, synthesizer, and an airy contralto voice.

Just who is LTJ Bukem? Ground breaking DJ? Inspirational musician? Record label entrepreneur? Club visionary, perhaps? The man who took the drum and bass concept from a small venue off London's Charing Cross Road to the nation's superclubs and then onto the international stage….The geezer whose records launched breakbeat into a brand new galaxy of sound…. In truth, he is all of the above: a Renaissance man for a digital age. Although he wouldn't like to admit it, LTJ Bukem is the living embodiment of the post-acid house entrepreneurial creative spirit. He is a mild mannered energy flash whose panoramic musical vision has found success in every area he has explored. From running sound systems to cutting up breaks at raves, from relocating the heart of breakbeat culture to redefining the spirit of drum and bass, the man known to his friends as Danny has sat at the forefront of breakbeat evolution, lighting the way with little more than a zest for life and a love of the music. Like many, Bukem's first introduction to music was initially through piano lessons as a child. The young pianist turned out to possess a natural talent, effortlessly picking up the basics, soon to be sight reading the music of Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky which rubbed off on him. However, thanks to his progressively minded teacher—Nigel Crouch—he was also introduced to the world of jazz fusion and developed his first true musical love - a style which has informed his work ever since. In the early eighties, (at the age of seventeen), Bukem discovered the joys of clubbing. The teenager regularly checked out the local soul venues, and legendary rare groove all dayers. As a keen record buyer, he soon became interested in the idea of mixing his own version of a club soundtrack, and in 1984 started a sound system of his own named Sunshine. During this time, he also dabbled with a jazz funk band for fun. DJing became his main focus, and by 1988, he gained a reputation for his unique sets. It was in 1989 that Bukem first realized that DJing could maybe offer a full-on career.

In a world which increasingly feels like it’s falling apart and rife with division, Oh My God! It’s The Church are the sweet medicine your soul has been craving. Fronted by insane Pastor: The Right Reverend Michael Alabama Jackson, he and his wild collective combine to create a fresh live act which has taken the UK by storm, widely tipped to be the next breakthrough alternative artist. Whether gracing the Main Stages at the greatest music festivals on Earth (and in Heaven), saving souls at one of their infamous underground club nights or thrilling revellers at the most exclusive parties on the planet, Oh My God! It’s The Church are always the act everyone is talking about post event.

Optimo (Espacio) are the duo JD Twitch and JG Wilkes. They each have over 30 years DJ-ing experience and have become both renowned and highly respected for their memorable and ecstatic deejay sets. Twitch and Wilkes exhibit a unique disregard for genres and musical restrictions in their craft, creating a nightclub experience that strikes out into territories far beyond the accepted boundaries of club music. The duo were responsible for the Glasgow nightclub Optimo (Espacio) which ran from November 1997 until April 2010. Optimo sat at the very epicentre of the Scottish Clubbing consciousness in its weekly residency in the Sub Club and is widely regarded as one of the most important and ground-breaking clubs of the past two decades (at one point earning them the prestigious title of Mixmag “Club of the Year”). Optimo first came to international recognition with the release of How to Kill The Dj (part 2) in 2004. This mix, and the critical acclaim that followed, would catapult the duo onto the international gigging circuit. The next few years would see them travel across the world taking the Optimo party aesthetic to over 50 countries across Europe, North & South America, Africa, Australia & Asia. 

Bristol producer Gallegos lives for the rave. It's where his music is meant to be heard – through colossal speakers, with a sweat-soaked crowd absorbing it through their pores. Born and bred in London, before moving to Somerset, Gallegos is a true underground gem on the rise. Music was in his veins from day one, with the trumpet and drums becoming his early companions. But it was the influential documentary SCRATCH that propelled him onto the path of turntablism, gifted with Technics 1210s at just twelve years old. Gallegos' beat juggling skills grew, building routines after drawing inspiration from A-Trak, DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, and Afrika Bambaataa. The Drum and Bass scene called, and Bristol's raves became his haunt. So it didn't take long for Bristol to become home turf and a place where his passion for music could truly thrive.. Co-founding SHAPES, a legendary night where he shared stages with many electronic legends from Jeff Mills, Leftfield and Floating

It may now be herstory but Grace has defnitely been around the musical block of life, with her USP being 'any nightclub or party you expect me to have been at, I have, and then some...! 'A veteran of the U.K.'s frst deep house sound system - DiY Soundsystem - set up in Nottingham in the late 80's , peaking during the free party heyday of the 90's at the infamous Castlemorton free festival . She began DJing as one half of the partnership Digs and Woosh, with the duo starting out playing their shared love of hip hop, funk, post punk, disco & jazz - diverging into the world of ambient with the infamous Serve Chilled show on Nottingham pirate Rave FM.

Junior Jungle was created by potty party people - DJ Nick Terrific and MC Rocky Patch, as the antidote to ‘baby raves’. Functioning on the pillars of; No pop, No Diznee, Just proper tunes and real ravin' for kids and adults together At a Junior Jungle Party you can expect only the finest cuts of Dubwise Drum and Bass, Jungle and hip hop remixes all vetted for age appropriate content, and expertly mixed live by Nick Terrific. You can also expect to dance, a lot. MC Rocky Patch will lead the charge making sure all partygoers are jumpin’ and skankin’. There will be dance offs and battles. Who will win? The Jungle cats? Or The Mashup Monkeys They have a mission to get parents dancing WITH their kids, not just watching them or goofing about slightly embarrassed, but properly losing it to the music with the tiny dancers. MC Rocky Patch ensures that small children feel safe in what can seem like an adult environment and parents feel safe throwing shapes in a way they may not have done for a number of years.

8 musicians. One goal. To increase the positive energy in the world by making people dance!

London Afrobeat Collective are a tight-knit family of musicians from around the world, living in London and united by a love of afrobeat and a desire to take original music to new places.

From Europe to Africa, Glastonbury Festival to Felabration in Lagos, they deliver party-music born of their truly global DNA. The 8-strong collective from England, Italy, France, Congo, Argentina and New Zealand combine traditional afrobeat with funk, jazz, rock, Latin and dub to create something unique.

Me and My Friends play soulful, poignant music with a beat: a unique blend of Afrobeat grooves with deliciously rich harmonies, languidly graceful cello and playfully funky clarinet, all tied together by the hauntingly elegant voice of singer and guitarist Nick Rasle.

Over the past decade Me and My Friends have carved out their very own niche of sun-drenched music for the soul. Growing from the basements of Leeds to tours across Europe, along the way they have gained support from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Cerys Matthews, FiP, Soundway Records, and Quantic. Their whirlwind live shows are dedicated to creating the warmth and connection that all humans crave, with a penchant for tearing up their own tracks with explosive dynamism and spontaneity.   

New album Before I Saw The Sea represents an audacious development in the band’s signature sound. Intimate and reflective, it is an immersive set of nighttime meditations conceived during lockdown, its laidback grooves combining bittersweet nostalgia with hypnotic rhythmic interplay. This is a record made to accompany journeys when none could be made, as we awaited the parting of the stormy clouds.

“A sublime fusion that combines pastoral dreaminess with the heat of highlife and Afrobeat sounds” - Songlines

“Such interesting influences… beautiful” - Cerys Matthews

In the game for nearly 20 years now, Ruffy has never been one to rest on his laurels. In the last year alone he’s been nominated for Track Of The Year at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards, been made one of the hosts of NTS’s flagship daily Soup To Nuts show, resumed his DJ schedule in fine style, launched an audiophile rave that’s already attained legendary status and had releases and remixes on a host of top-shelf labels. Ruf Dug’s hard-earned reputation as a world-class DJ and Producer is no overnight success story - growing up in Manchester and Ibiza it’s not unsurprising that this life found him but it wasn’t until he got caught up in the squat party scene in Sydney in the early 00’s that he answered his calling, the DIY ethos there informing everything that followed. Since then he’s always followed his own path - sometimes coinciding with the ‘industry’, sometimes bounding lightyears ahead of the pack and having plenty of fun tearing around new cultural territories while waiting for everyone else to catch up. His productions have made their way into A-list & tastemaker’s record bags for a long time now. DJs as diverse as Moxie, Moodymannn, Ben UFO, Jamz Supernova, Gilles Peterson, Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy and Bradley Zero are all fans of the Ruf Dug sound and he’s released on a variety of a-list labels - in the last 12 months alone his work has graced the likes of Rhythm Section, Shall Not Fade, International Feel and WOLF music. His formidable NTS show is a great place to jump into Ruffy’s musical universe to get a sense of exactly how eclectic he can get - 8-bit video game soundtracks bump up against hour-long minimal jazz epics, wrong-speed jungle, slamming Detroit electro, private press outsider pop, Ruffy’s own productions and who knows whatever else - and somehow he makes it hang together perfectly, all while delivering ridiculous shout-outs to an adoring audience. When it comes to playing out he’s pretty much done it all - from Pikes to the Panorama Bar, from Gottwood to Glastonbury, from Brilliant Corners to Barbarellas to Burning Man - no dance floor remains un-buzzed for long when Ruffy is at the controls - and preferably for a long stint; when your range is as wide as this then it’s actually possible to deliver a genuine ‘journey’ set, something few DJs are able to do despite all the nonsense hype that gets bandied about. What can’t be understated is the pure fun at the heart of everything Ruf Dug does. There’s a rich vein of gentle, friendly humour running through all of his output - from the daft shoutouts on NTS to his playful DJ blends and silly track names, Ruffy is unafraid to lean into the simple act of enjoying one’s self, and everything he does is an expression of that sentiment - and it’s infectious. Put simply - hit up Ruffy if you want a GOOD TIME.

WheelUP is the moniker of West London’s broken beat revivalist, producer, DJ and Balamii resident – Danny Wheeler. Releasing his debut EP “Bulawayo” on the legendary CoOperation Records; singles “Self Healing Machine”, “Vitruvian Man”, EP’s “Ndebele” and “Wanezi” on his home label Tru Thoughts, as well as a double AA side single for Future Bounce (Jamz Supernova’s imprint) – all in all Danny has cemented the WheelUP name as part of the new school of bruk – garnering approval from respected radio and club DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Toddla T, Mary Anne Hobbs, Ben UFO, Bonobo, Laurent Garnier and more. Influenced by the likes of Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, LTJ Bukem, Krust and Kaidi Tatham, as well as being personally mentored by Afronaut and Adam F, Danny grew up inside the epicentre of BRUK, being studio neighbours with some of the key players in the game including IG Culture, Bugz in the Attic and Goya Music (the leading vinyl distributor of bruk music). Originating from the drum and bass world as Danny Wheeler, Danny turned his hand to the burgeoning sound of West London’s resurgent scene, Wheeler was knighted the name ‘WheelUP’ by non-other than Afronaut, the founder of ‘Bugz in the Attic’ and a pioneer of the broken beat genre, who has cited WheelUP as “the best thing to come out of the broken beat scene right now!”

A For Alpha is hugely inspired by 90s Underground and the different twists and turns that this infamous decade took. Cutting her teeth in the Garage scene under her previous alias ‘A-Bee’, A For Alpha continues to push this raw and crunchy Garage sound, alongside chunky House and Techno tracks full of swing. Also inspired by the sounds of early Hardcore, Rave and Jungle, you can expect to hear elements of these genres worked into her sets, productions and radio shows. A For Alpha finds ways to blend and rework the older tracks with new productions that follow the same characteristics of chunky, skippy, euphoric and smooth. During her monthly show on Bristol’s SWU FM you can expect to go on a deep trip through Garage, House, Techno, Jungle and Hip Hop, alongside features from some of her favourite artists new and old. She is deeply influenced by infamous underground labels such as Nice N Ripe, Wiggle, Slapfunk, Very Important Plastic, Centrestage and Tripoli, this can be heard throughout her sets and productions.

Diamond Hands records is a multi genre record label focusing on high energy dance music. The label finds up and coming artists within the dance music scene and gives them a platform to show what they’re about. This year at stowaway the takeover will be with Fin (Diamond Hands founder), Just Blakey & Eli. Expect tracks across the whole spectrum of dance music focusing on garage, breakbeat and electro.

Sam Fergusson aka Frenic has been a professional scratch DJ for 22 years, supporting household names such as Jurassic 5, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Afrika Bambaataa, Beatnuts, and the Pharcyde. A local of Bristol, UK his skills as a party rocker are undisputed. His music production takes inspiration from Hip Hop, Trip-Hop, Lo-Fi, DnB & Dub, and has brought international success, most notably in Greece. Producing tracks for locals and legends alike; recent projects have included beats for Skinny Man, Jman, and Marc7 of Jurassic 5 fame. He has created a slew of deep concept albums that deal with philosophical subjects.

With a mixture of house and infectious disco grooves, J has become a familiar face at top festivals such as Secret Garden Party, Glastonbury, Shambala, Wilderness and Love Saves The Day – a setting in which he consistently thrives. This year sees the debut of J's live performance showcasing new, unreleased music.

SpookyCashCash began producing music aged 11. Five years and thousands of solo studio hours later, he has created a sound that combines tech house bass, Dutch size drops and UK garage swing. Over the last two summers, his DJ sets have taken in Ibiza, UK festivals and clubs, including 2 memorable summers at Arcadia, a closing slot at Wilderness, and seeing in 2024 with GA’s Andy Cato in a father and son double up at Bristol’s Motion.

Founder of Fate and Fiction Recordings, Thrilogy, also known as Lee Pattison is an original of the Bristol party scene. Having previously recorded as Deepgroove (Rekids, Cocoon, Klang Elektronik, Junior Boys Own), and co-promoted legendary events such as Play & Rave-on Avon, Lee will be donning his Thrilogy cap to bring dusty sampling, organic Deep House and Techno, born out of Bristol.

Founder of Grrrl Crush, Discobobulator spins a nostalgic selection of dance floor classics and guilty pleasures. This Scottish born and bred DJ now resides in Bristol and regularly DJs at festivals and club nights across the country - from Shetland to the West Country, from Glastonbury to underground basement raves - bringing her own brand of certified party bangers to the dance floor. She also has a residency at Bristol institution The Gallimaufry.

Mayme Lawless is life-long record collector and regular resident DJ at The Gallimaufry in Bristol with an incredibly deep knowledge of music. Only a year into her DJ career and she has wowed crowds at Boomtown, Stowaway and Lost Horizon. Spinning everything from 90s hip hop to prog jazz to Asian underground to old school garage, her impeccable taste across genres shines through every set.