Selecta & Operator - Reason Sound System... a Roots, Reggae, Dancehall & Dub sound operating out of London. QSS and Ligwa speaker boxes founded in 2015. Host of the Rootikal Resumé Show on Threads Radio, head honcho of the Reason Roadblock carnival truck and long standing resident of the Babylon Uprising stage at Glastonbury festival. Hope you enjoy the selections! Full shows on Mixcloud...

https://www.mixcloud.com/ReasonSound/

Busy Twist is one of the leading lights of the new global dance underground, effortlessly hotwiring vibrant sounds from across the continents and teasing them into thrilling new
shapes. His upfront rhythmic workouts join the dots between Afro, Latin and UK bass. A fun, fresh and sophisticated fusion that has taken him to play everywhere from Glastonbury to Nyege Nyege in Uganda, to the Barranquilla carnival on the Colombian coast, as well as releasing music on international labels like Jamz Supernova’s Future Bounce, Sony Colombia and Soundway Records.
The DJ and producer, otherwise known as Ollie Williams, has spent over a decade immersed in emerging musical scenes from around the world and his recent productions are fast-establishing him as an in-demand force in the studio: see the nocturnal afro-house of London-based artist Alewya’s breakthrough single ‘Sweating’ or his recent carnival track, ‘Romantica Champeta’, a dayglo carnival anthem with national treasures Bomba Estéreo and Kevin Flores, which was a runaway smash in Colombia this year.
Now one of the newest signings at Because London Records, Ollie continues to build the bridge between his travels and the UK capital, where he grew up, with an EP coming on the label soon.  “My music has always been about building friendships and real connections,” says Ollie. “ All the artists I collaborate with are not just people I go to work with, they're people I want to share food with and share stories of life and experience.”

PROBLEM CHILD - CONFESSIONS OF A NORMAL HUMAN BEING. LP
Release date: 28th july 2014
DIGITAL/CD
Problem Child consists of the rap-scallions and all-round party emcees Dabbla, Dubbledge, and Illaman, with beats supplied by well-respected LDZ and resident Piff Gang producer, Sumgii. The style of both the music and emceeing on ‘Confessions of A Normal Human Being" pay homage to both the hiphop scene and the UK Rave culture in particular grime/garage/DnB, where all four members of this ‘right up in your sweaty boat' London born-and-bred outfit have a solidified grounding. Keeping themselves busy at all times, all members of PC regularly contribute to the gravitas of the UK scene by being amongst those who have realised the almost unlimited potential for dope collaborations between talented, like-minded artists. 
With a selection of cuts on this album that will have you vibsin' out as if you'd been chilling with a bottle of your favourite single malt or bouncing around the rave like you were firmly mounted on an energon-powered space hopper, Problem Child have fittingly created an album true to its member's roots, an album powered by musical and lyrical influences that have not been wholly present in any other city in the world other than London, let alone another country in the world.

The almost exclusively digital sound presented by Sumgii provides a cascade of varied energies and emotions suited well to the emcees personalities and vice versa. From chillin' future (t)rap Piff Gang style riddims like the album's intro track, ‘Energy', to club-demolishing, screwface-enhancing fruity loops style beats made in the vein of the early 2000's East London grime scene such as ‘Sheep' and ‘Skank', Many of the beats suitably incorporate tempo switches that reflect the lyrical versatility of the emcees, will all three of the spitters seamlessly switching from straight hip hop bars to double time garage/grime/DnB bars, skills acquired by each of them over years spent stripe-earning on the rave and pirate station scenes.
The three emcees of Problem Child all put in high energy performances, with lazy, smoked-out and intoxicated conversational bars switching in an instant to purely aggy observational statements illuminated in bright shining Cockney Technicolor. The three emcees each have their own solo track on the album showcasing their distinct styles. Dabbla, fresh from releasing the epic Dead Players album with Jam Baxter last year and soon to release his own solo project, smashes the granny out of the ramped-up bassline of ‘Fully Fledged', with veteran grime/garage emcee Illaman blessing the slightly disturbing minimal trap style beat ‘Woddle' with his own particular brand of confident moodiness and Dubbledge on ‘Colourblind' taking you on a lyrical journey incorporating knowledge, ignorance, common sense, immaturity, racism, universal love and tight jeans, thats just the first 8 bars. 
For a crew whose bio singularly states "The Music will do the Talking", Problem Child's sometimes relaxed, sometimes super-charged and energetic music certainly says a great deal and, not in a fashionable and trend-driven manner either, but in an innovative and referential way. Enjoy




The Label Behind: 
DABBLA  - SUMGii - ILLAMAN - DUBBLEDGE - PROBLEM CHILD - LDZ - FROSTY - PIERRE GREEN - BENOFFICAL & PROZAC - BAILEYS BROWN - FINAL BOSS - DREAM MCLEAN - GEAR - COBES - JAYSUN

 Info/bookings:  info@potentfunk.com

Two music making, tea drinking, boys from the Shire…

Bookings: louis.cawthorne@teamwass.com
Manager: will@dnballstars.com

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