Drumsound & Bassline Smith

The Drumsound & Bassline Smith pedigree runs deep.

As a team, they've occupied a top tier position in the drum 'n' bass scene since the nineties but the roots were already well established by then. Before the Drumsound combined with the Bassline, the first chapters of their story were already written.

You see, Simon Bassline Smith had been doing this for years before the team-up with Drumsound. Coming up in the early eighties heyday of rare groove funk and soul, he's been intimately associated with the UK underground music scene as it evolved from soundsystem-led blues parties, to raves, festivals, and mainstream acceptance. And real heads know about the recently-relaunched Absolute2 label, with its string of releases in the pre-jungle rave days from names like Doc Scott, Ray Keith, and even Orbital. The Bassline Smith biography stretches through the entire history of hardcore, jungle, and then drum 'n' bass.

“Drumsound” used to be a collective of six producers, with the torch now being carried by Andy Wright. A classically-trained musician with and indie rock background, his musical influences were already wide and varied before he even started making moves in DnB. With that melding of styles – reminiscent of the earliest days of rave – perhaps it's no wonder that, after only a year's worth of productions, the Drumsound crew were able to catch the attention of already-legendary Simon Bassline Smith in 1998.

Since creating Technique Recordings in 1999, the combined powers of Drumsound & Bassline Smith have made an indelible mark on drum 'n' bass, and dance music in general. Scouring the globe for talent, they've helped turn artists like Tantrum Desire, Document One, L Plus, and Youngman into household names among DnB cognoscenti as well as bringing the world music from luminaries like Roni Size, Crissy Criss, Matrix & Futurebound, The Prototypes, Bladerunner and more.

And their own output has been equally impressive. Regularly playlisted on national radio stations, their 2012 Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 is still a fan-favourite, chalking up hundreds of thousands of plays. Championed by tastemakers like Annie Nightingale, Mistajam, Zane Lowe, and Annie Mac, their huge'Wall of Sound' album garnered them two UK Top 40 hits with Utah Saints collab 'What Can You Do for Me?' and 'Through the Night'.

The second Drumsound & Bassline Smith album, 'Wardance', saw them return to their underground roots and take us on a journey through their musical evolution. And more recent output like their monumental 'Shades of Rhythm EP' have gone one step further, demonstrating just how many styles, flavours and influences these veteran producers can bring to the table.

Of course, this success translates into huge demand for Drumsound & Bassline Smith deejay sets. With a crazy worldwide schedule, including Technique Takeovers for brands like Let it Roll and Fabriclive, sets at world-renowned events including Glastonbury, EDC and Rampage, international bookings across North America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, those passport stamps just keep on coming. And that's before we even get to their legendary Derby-based event promotion brand Interface.