Hailed as "Brighton's Lee Scratch Perry” (Rob Da Bank BBC Radio 1), longtime reggae-dub producer Richie Phoe has been releasing tracks since 2006 and was an early adopter with Balanced, releasing his first track in 2008.
Richie has collaborated and remixed many notable artists along the way including Max Sedgley, Jon Kennedy, Tippa Irie, Earl 16, Sola Rosa, Wah Wah 45s, Horseman, Solo Banton and others. He has received massive radio play from David Rodigan, Don Letts, Daddy G (Massive Attack), Huey Morgan, Nick Manasseh, Jon Jones, Rob Da Bank (BBC Radio 1), Steve Lamacq (BBC 6 Music) and Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 2). He is an occasional guest on the Roots Garden Radio Show and has DJ'ed at festivals such as Bestival and Port Elliot, and regularly plays on the Roots Garden Sound System.
His debut full length, Echo Outernational (2012) stands out as a testament to modern reggae by combining digital, soulful and conscious styles into his signature productions. It features the acclaimed Eye on the Prize with Tippa Irie and Bumpy's Lament, which has seen multiple 7” re-issues and is approaching 3 million plays on Spotify. The track, Two Tree Island has since been featured on the Handmaid’s Tale TV series, and other tracks were paired with MTV's Dirty Sanchez show.
The 2020 release “Baby I Love You So”', covering legendary artist Jacob Miller, received huge acclaim as Daddy G of Massive Attack signalled "If you’re going to cover one of my favourite records, it better be fucking good. 'Baby I Love You So' is a stone cold classic, and this cover is bloody good, executed in fine style"

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Dee Montero is a lifer. He’s the former Mambo Ibiza resident who at the end of 2017 received Pete Tong’s Essential Tune Of The Year on BBC Radio One for the string-fuelled, epic end-of-nighter ‘Halcyon’, originally released on Solomun’s acclaimed Diynamic imprint. And he’s been busy ever since with various eps including ‘Pangaea’ on Knee Deep In Sound, ‘Shadows’ on All Day I Dream and also the scintillating ‘In The Wild’ and ‘Headspace’ featuring Meliha on Anjunadeep.

From Asia to America and everywhere in between it’s all been about the music for Dee. Performances in Australia, India and Dubai have been interspersed with US tours and appearances at Burning Man on the Robot Heart and Carl Cox Playground stages as well as summer shows in Ibiza including Hï with Joris Voorn and Nic Fanciulli.

In 2020 Dee launched his own imprint Futurescope bringing in fellow musical alchemists Patrice Baumel, Fort Romeau and Lauer for remix duties. He unleashed his diverse 12 track artist album ‘Artifacts’ to the world in 2022 playing to those deft melodic touches, twinkling synths and positive peaks. ‘Maya’, the standout track from the LP and a homage to Future Sound Of London’s ‘Papua New Guinea’ got a special rework from mastermind Rodriguez Jr. pushing the release to even bigger, higher heights. 

As well as forthcoming eps on Nora En Pure’s Purified label later this year Dee’s next single ‘Freedom’ on Hot Since 82’s Knee Deep In Sound will continue the upward electronic pressure into summer 2023. These are exciting times for an artist with Dee’s attention to detail and there are so many sonic terrains still left to discover…

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