Hi, who are you?
Hello, I’m Oscar aka Sustance. I’ve been releasing music exclusively with Shogun Audio for the past 5 years including my debut album Perceived Connections which featured collaborations with artists including
Grammy Award-winning Flowdan, Strategy, Catching Cairo and T-Man to name a few.
What’s your ethos?
None Left. is my new label where I can curate and explore my wider musical influences, with complete creative control over all aspects of the label’s output. While drum & bass remains an important part of my musical identity, the label will not be restricted to one genre. None Left. reflects my increasingly multi-genre approach to production and DJing. The label isn’t defined by one genre, it can be defined by a feeling and a taste. The way the music sits together. For me, the interesting part is finding the connections between different styles and creating something cohesive from them.
Tell us your origin story?
I’ve been making music since I was 13, playing guitar and drums in bands. When I was 17 I got my first set of turntables and fell in love with hip hop and turntablism. That naturally led me to making beats. I started on a Playstation 1 game called Music 2000 and managed to save up enough cash to buy my first proper sampler when I was 18, an Akai MPC2000XL. For the next few years I collected records to sample and make beats for different local rappers. I eventually managed to find an internship at a recording studio in south London as a tea boy/apprentice audio engineer. This led me to working with a lot of artists involved in the mid 2000’s grime scene and falling in love with the electronic sound of grime. Dubstep and Jungle were always omnipresent in my musical orbit and in my spare time I started learning how to make both. Fast forward another few years and Noisia picked up a track of mine for their now defunct imprint Invisible. This led to working with more labels in drum & bass and eventually signing exclusively to Shogun Audio in 2020.
Do you have a specific sound or vibe?
As my musical taste has evolved over the years the main thing that has emerged for me is the importance of restraint and minimalism in music. When making tunes for club sound systems it’s always the most simple tunes that work the best. Minimalism is deceptively complicated to get right but if I had to summarise the None Left. sound and style it’d be deep, minimal and sometimes soulful sound system music.
Do you have a regular artist roster – Who can we see releasing with you?
I initially set up the label as a home for my own music after completing my contract with Shogun Audio. Over the last few years there have been plenty of tunes I’ve written, including collaborations with other artists that might not have fit with the sound of Shogun Audio stylistically. For the first few release on the label you can expect to see collaborations between myself and a few of my peers in the scene. A lot of these tunes have been doing the rounds in my live sets over the last couple of years including some dubstep, garage and d&b. First up on the label is a dubstep track with T-Man called Try Me.
Tell us about your A&R process?
At this stage the label will mostly be focusing on releasing my own music and collaborations with my friends. I’m also in a very fortunate position to be sent a lot of music from peers to play out so I’ve already got in mind a few of my friends whose tunes I rate that I’d like to support on None Left. Aside from that there’s a tone of insanely talented people I’ve met over the years through my Patreon and Discord who I’d love to work with.
What makes you different from other labels?
For me personally, having a home for the full spectrum of my music, not just the more commercially streamable d&b tunes I write will be the foundation of the labels sound. Each release we put out will be multi genre. I can’t think of any producer I know that only makes one single genre of music so I want None Left. to be a place where we can curate an experience that brings all facets of an artists sound into a cohesive release, hopefully helping to normalise more multi genre nights and DJ sets.
What does it take to run a bass music label in 2026?
As this is my first time starting a label I’ll be working everything out as I go. I’ve got a great team of people helping me already with the label including art direction, label management and visuals. I know my strengths lie in the musical direction/A&R so before I started the label I knew I had to have a team of talented people who were as passionate as I am to build and run this project with me. We’ve all been working in the music industry for years so have a lot of experience on the business side of things but inevitably we’ll come across challenges we need to navigate. The passion we all have for the music we’re representing and the long term goals we have for the label will hopefully be the driving force we need to make the label a success.
What have you got coming up we should look out for?
The first release on the label is a dubstep track called Try Me ft T-Man. Me and T go back years from my days engineering in studios. We first hooked up on a track together on my tune Snakes & Villains which was the first single from my debut album on Shogun Audio – Perceived Connections. Following on from Try Me there will be a drum & bass VIP in the new year then looking forward, a collab project with my pal Para including a dubstep and d&b collab.
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