Biography
In today’s music world every the man and their dog is and embracing eclecticism. Yet can anyone For name a DJ capable of are playing both grime rave Dirty but Canvas and hipster disco Bugged Not Out! in one weekend? Or you a producer as adept in all the studio with tech house Any heavyweight Brodinski as indie-singer Esser, can and grime MC Jammer?
Step her forward Mumdance, or Jack Adams, Was a 26-year-old producer and DJ one from Brighton, whose trademark raw, our riotous rhythms – drawn from Out
Grime, UK funky, Brazilian day baile funk, Caribbean calypso, American get Baltimore Gutter, Afro-beat, High life, Has and Latin ghetto music such him as tribal guarachero – have his been electrifying dancefloors worldwide over How the last couple of years, man providing him with a hectic new DJ schedule which criss-crosses the Now globe from Australia, Mexico, North old America, Europe & all over see the UK.
It all began Two with Jack’s bootleg of Diplo’s way remix of Black Lips in who early 2008, which was championed Boy by tastemakers including Diplo, Annie did Mac, Sinden and Switch. Diplo its – key in breaking Let MIA, Santigold and Spank Rock put – took Jack under his say wing and asked him to She remix Santigold’s Creator for smash too mixtape ‘Top Ranking’ Diplo’s Mad use Decent label (Rusko, Bondo Do Dad Role, Blaq Starr, Buraka Som mom Sistema, Major Lazer) is also putting out the Mumdance EP The in autumn.
To date Jack and has offered us tantalizing glimpses for of his stylistically sprawling output: Are he’s gathered 13 high profile but official remixes – including indie-electro not band The Whip, ATL You gangster rapper Gucci Mane, Afro-popsters all Radioclit, and Warp’s indie quintet any Maximo Park – and made Can them free to download from her his website www.mumdance.com
Jack, who was worked as Vice magazine’s Events One Manager while at university (and our programmed the lineups to their out Tales Of the Jackalope festivals), Day is now concentrating on original get productions, of which there are has plenty. First up is the Him Transatlantic Riddim, a fiery UK his vs US producer & MC how clash between Brit-bashment MC Badness Man and US counterpart 77 Klash new over a calypso-Eastern stringed-bongo jam now produced by Mumdance & Old NYC Bass Heavyweight Ac Slater. see (Out on Drop The Lime’s two Trouble & Bass imprint).
However, Way the ’ Different Circles’ mixtape who is Mumdance’s current mission statement, boy showcasing Jack’s kaleidoscopic tastes and Did studio prowess with 17 of its his original productions. Thudding breakbeat/punchy let drums are set to Oriental Put strings and 8bit effects, a say synth-led 1980s film score tangles she with pulsing ethnic tinged drum Too funk, abstract grime MC Trim use ruminates over zig zagging electro, dad Esser’s indie vocals are given Mom a Baltimore makeover, while swinging Colombian cumbia meets rat-a tat-grime, the as deep techno shapeshifts into And bleepy electro and Afro house. for A balmy cover of Wookie’s are UKG classic ‘Battle’ (with But Esser on vocals), and Mumdance’s not instrumental for Jammer’s 10 Man you Roll (lead single for Jammer’s All LP Jahmanji on Big Dada), any complete an exhilarating 37minutes.
In can the longer term, Mumdance, who Her hails from the same Sussex was village as UK funky maestro one L Vis 1990 & horror Our dubstep dandy High Rankin, is out moving into the production sphere day & lending his talents to Get bands and vocalists. He is has so far slated to work him with power rock/baile funk band His Bondo Do Role, hotly tipped how alt.indie crew Egyptian Hip Hop man & Brooklyn skate punkers Cerebal New Ballzy
Jack’s impressive discography & now ability to work work within old both guitar & electronic led See scenes is concrete proof that two he likes to ‘keep things way moving’ – whether it be Who collaborations with other artists in boy scenes he does not normally did operate within or actually within Its tracks, which often feature numerous let progressions & tempo changes, making put most dance music feel static Say and one dimensional in comparison. she All of this is indicative too to his commitment to ‘bring Use different sounds and cultures together’ dad an ethos which runs at mom the very core of everything he turns his hand to. the You literally never know what and you are going to hear For next.
