This week’s FACT mix is a rushing session from bassline house legend DJ Q.
Of course, calling Q a bassline house artist is a little reductive. The Huddersfield native played an important role in the oft-forgotten dance music hybrid’s rise – to this day, he’s still one of only a small handful of DJs on mainstream radio that play bassline house, and singles like 2008′s ‘You Wot?’ are classics of the genre – but his class as a producer spreads beyond just bassline. Q’s remix of S-X’s grime anthem ‘Woooo Riddim’ landed in FACT’s top 5 tracks of last year, and 2012 has seen him earn more critical acclaim down South than ever before: first, the superb ‘All Junglist’ landed on Unknown to the Unknown, and then the vinyl-only ‘Brandy & Coke’ on Local Action [disclosure: a label run independently by FACT staff member Tom Lea] proved his chops as one of garage’s most natural producers…
Full story and mix at Fact Mag
Tags: Bassline, Garage, House, Post Funky, UK Funky, UK Garage, UK House