IVY LAB = Sabre + Stray

Bookings:
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N.America: shunt@teamwass.com / sgoodgold@teamwass.com
R.O.W: francesco@primarytalent.com

Management:
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shai@ivylab.co.uk

1985 is a platform for forward thinking electronic music basing it's roots in 170 / 85 BPM and beyond.

Demos ----> 1985demos@gmail.com

The original Mindstate.

Mindstate bookings/enquiries - mindstateuk@gmail.com

~ sound system music ~ 

2025 dates

14/03/25 - 1985 @ Fabric, London
22/03/25 - Future of Rave Panel @ Fabrica, Brighton
29/03/25 - Rhythms of Resistance @ The Cause, London

04/04/25 - The Mine @Volks w/ Carré, Ila Brugal, The Untouchables
05/04/25 - NLDC/Future Retro @ Corsica b2b Beatrice M
20/04/25 - G3t Loose - Brighton

01/05/25 - 1985 @ Volks
15/05/25 - solitude - Planet Wax, London
24/05/25 - Fortune Sessions

05/06/25 - Love Inn - Bristol
07/06/25 - The Mine - Panke, Berlin
13/07/25 - Mantle - Edinburgh
26/06/25 - Sub FM w/ Sun People 
28/06/25 - Fortune Sessions - Brighton

04/07/25 - The Mine - Brighton
12/07/25 - Realms - Komedia, Brighton 
27/07/25 - Outlook Festival - Mine Boat Party
28/07/25 - Outlook Festival - The Cove 

09/08/25 - London - Evolutions In Dub
30/08/25 - Fortune Sessions 

22/11/25 - TBA - London

UK/EU/ROW ✧ twoswordsbeats@gmail.com
NA/SA ✧ nicole@subdotmission.com
MGMT ✧  twoswords@naymlis.com

tunes: 
twoswordsbeats@gmail.com

Rob ‘Dogger’ Smith the London-based Mancunion delivering liquid drum & bass steeped in soul. 

Smith sat in front of a drum kit before he could walk and played in bands throughout his teens

His musical landscape has been shaped by where he grew up. Manchester’s foreboding skies and frequent rain clouds mean, like so many Mancunian musicians that have come before him, he connects to music with a melancholy undertone, that’s provocative and emotional

Dogger got into DJing, and later producing, on discovering and falling in love with jungle, tracks of influence collide, specifically in drum & bass legends Calibre and the late, great, Marcus Intalex. Beyond these Smith’s influences span David Lynch, Joy Division and Björk, as well as Alix Perez, whose label has now released his music with collaborative partner Mindstate —2019’s Broken Home EP with a second, The Time Is Yours, due imminently. 


The pair like their music stripped back, allowing space for the vocal line to shine, and nowhere does this ring truer than on the title track of Broken Home. Across the four tracks, singer-songwriter Liam Bailey (Bailey laid down the vocal on Chase & Status’ 2011 classic ‘Blind Faith’), brings warmth and soul to Dogger & Mindstate’s crisp and atmospheric production — with watery pads and bright chord progressions, it’s liquid at its most emotive, and its most meditative. 

2019 was a promising year for Dogger & Mindstate, not only for their production debut as a duo, but also for a handful of career-defining shows. Sardinia festival SUNANDBASS was a highlight, where Dogger was invited to play on a lineup curated by Calibre, and the duo played the Space Cadet pool party hosted by DRS

There’s no doubt that 2020 would have been an exciting one for Dogger. That is before, of course, a pandemic brought the world grinding to a halt. But smith used the time to focus on production, both with Mindstate and on their respective solo projects, the fruits of which will come out via Dogger’s new imprint, Precinct. Besides working together, they’re also working with MC DRS, and Manchester-based vocalist [ K S R ].

Drum and Bass DJ & Producer // Label Owner of Midas Touch Recordings

Guidance Music
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1985 Music
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Overview Music
Commercial Suicide  
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All Bookings:
bookings@bpmartists.com
https://bpmartists.com/
+44 20 3633 7585

Rubi Records

Booking Agents
Clive@earth-agency.com (Excl. US)
US: s@icartists.net

Astrophonica

EU / World tom@esp-agency.com 
North America s@icartists.net
MGMT: mark@sequenc.es

As a producer, DJ and label owner Charlie Fieber continues to be an important figure in the development and innovation of UK electronic music genres with a career spanning over two decades. As Fracture, Fieber’s output is prolific and never stands still. From the hyper sped up Techno sound of Turbo to the genre blending Footwork Jungle collaborations with Teklife regulars DJ Earl, DJ Spinn and DJ Taso. He is constantly experimenting and flipping the script and 2022 saw the release of the world building Ambient Electro album Omura with Sam Binga. Releases and affiliations have come from some of the UK’s legendary hardcore continuum labels such as Goldie’s Metalheadz, dBridge’s Exit records, where in 2016 Fieber was part of the mysterious Richie Brains supergroup with fellow experimenters Alix Perez, Chimpo, Fixate, Om Unit, Sam Binga and Stray, and more recently with Alix Perez’s 1985 which saw the curveball collaboration with Kenyan artist Nah Eeto. Fieber’s latest work is his most ambitious to date; '0860’ is an album, radio station and interview series that explores the history and legacy of Pirate Radio and its importance in the development of UK underground music.
As a DJ his sound has travelled with appearances on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Boiler Room, Fact Mag, Rinse FM, Keep Hush and multiple US, EU, UK and Asia tours. 
In 2009 the label, Astrophonica, was set up as an output for his own music with Neptune and has since become a home for other like minded and experimental artists such as Sully, Client_03 and Moresounds. Fieber’s impeccable A&R has led to a flawless and in demand back catalogue championed from Annie Mac to Sherelle and with multiple nominations in DJ Mag’s Best Of British awards.

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