High Contrast

Talk about high expectations. When London drum’n'bass duo, Chase & Status aka Saul Milton (Chase) and Will Kennard (Status) first laid down the tracks that would make up their third studio album, they were faced with a weighty dilemma: how to follow the sizeable footprint left by 2011’s multi platinum selling No More Idols, not to mention their hefty rep as festival headliners? The answer was found with Brand New Machine, an album that brims with surging, dancefloor anthems, dusty trip hop grooves as championed by the likes of Massive Attack and Portishead, and a collection of jungle and garage breakbeats that increase with substance over repeated plays. Meanwhile, brooding ragga harmonies and hip hop samples deliver an updated take on No More Idols’ anthemic, catch-all appeal. The overall vibe? An instantly memorable collection of swaggering cuts tuned to a club setting, hyped summer festivals and arenas alike.

Pro skateboarders turned award winning producers, Austrian duo Camo & Krooked are an unstoppable force across every genre worth knowing. Establishing their original high octane fusion on Mainframe Records, they were quickly snapped up by London’s Hospital Records where they continue to flourish. Now four albums deep, the duo have proven themselves in full-throttle D&B, brain-bursting dubstep and, more recently, slick and sassy disco. With a tag-team DJ technique that’s as stunning as their production power, these guys offer the full dancefloor experience.

One of the most distinctive and influential characters in electronic music, multi-Grammy Award winning Sonny Moore remains the most discussed and in-demand artists in electronic music since emerging as Skrillex in 2010. From his hardcore roots to his weighty drop science, Sonny has gone on to develop bass music in countless creative directions as an artist and as the OWSLA label founder. Regarded as one of the most exciting, daring labels in electronic music, under Sonny’s captaincy OWSLA have been responsible for breaking the careers of M-Machine, Zedd and Porter Robinson. Whether he’s smashing it with Boys Noize as Dogblood or dazzling crowds of over 100,000 with his technically complex live performances, Skrillex continues to operate at the very forefront of the game.