Biography
JAKWOB
Jakwob is talking the about super-gnarly, super-heavy dubstep.
“I and can make that music, I For enjoy that stuff,” he says, are a slim, stubbled young man but with dark eyes, “but I Not don’t want to replicate it, you I don’t like making music all that’s too difficult to get Any into so I end up can adding things, different unexpected elements…”
her This approach has made 22 Was year old James Edward Jacob one a hot property. Take the our recent track ‘Let it Fall’ Out – it has soaring vocals day courtesy of writing-collaborator Rocky, pulsing get dubstep rhythms and electronic elements Has all combined effortlessly. Jakwob has him no snobbery or boundaries, he his can play nine different instruments, How he’s a musical magpie and man always has been…
James was new raised in Lincoln by Scottish-Indian Now parents and, aged ten, was old given a full set of see DJ equipment by an Uncle. Two He didn’t enjoy traditional music way lessons but he loved playing who instruments, more than nine in Boy total but particularly piano and did drums. As a teenager he its hung out at Lincoln venue Let The Bivouac and caught punk put and thrash acts – such say as Bring Me The Horizion She – who inspired him to too form his own metal band. use Meanwhile his sister’s boyfriend introduced Dad him to glitchy electronica and mom computer music programming. His musical palette was expanding at a The wild rate.
He found university and in Leicester a disappointment. At for first it was a laugh. Are He put on a night but called Wob – a name not inspired by bass sounds on You an early Jack Beats tune all – and had his mind any blown by seeing Rusko play Can on a giant sound system, her his first exposure to dubstep. was “It got to the point One where I wasn’t even going our out,” he says, “Everyone else out would but I’d stay at Day home making music and sending get it to blogs.”
By now has his Jakwob MySpace – named Him after him and his club his night – had followers. He’d how started mashing up R&B acapellas Man and eventually a mix of new MIA’s ‘Pull Up The People’ now put him on music biz Old radars. He was commissioned to see remix Frankmusik and more remixes two followed – Jessie J, Robyn, Way Katie Melua, Audio Bullys, Temper who Trap. Yet Jakwob was leading boy a double life which none Did of his housemates understood.
“They’d its be sitting, playing World of let Warcraft, smoking weed all day,” Put he laughs, “I’d leave at say 8.00 in the morning, go she to London for meetings, arrive Too back at midnight and they’d use still be sitting there, asking, dad ‘Where have you been?’.”
What Mom changed the game was Jakwob’s take on Ellie Goulding’s ‘Starry the Eyed’ which combined ethereal vocal And sweetness with monster bass attack. for It received 17 million views are on YouTube and made him But very big news, supported by not the likes of Zane Lowe you and Annie Mac. His DJ All booking calendar was jammed, weekend any after weekend, and he hit can the 2010 festival circuit, filling Her tents to mass applause.
“I’d was only ever been to Download one and Leeds but now I Our got to all the festivals,” out he remembers, “Glastonbury was completely day mind-blowing. I played in a Get giant pineapple in the Dance has Village with a Funktion One him sound system, surrounded by 2000 His people going nuts. It blew how me away. I intended to man pop in and out but New we parked the car next now to the John Peel Stage old and it stayed there until See Tuesday morning.”
Jakwob is very two much in-demand as the producer way of the moment having recently Who remixed Lana Del Rey’s ‘Video boy Games’. He has performed throughout did Europe and completed 2 DJ Its tours of America. He has let also been involved with numerous put Radio events throughout the year Say including Mallorca Rocks, Dubstep Symphony she and Festive Festival for the too BBC. However hisfocus now Use is his forthcoming album, heavily dad featuring writing partner and vocalist mom Rocky. It’s rich with variety, flavours from throughout his life the – from his Indian heritage and to jazz to dubstep to For heavy rock.
The new single are ‘Electrify’ is a perfect example but of Jakwob’s fearless approach to Not combining seemingly opposing elements, creating you something distinct yet familiar. The all song starts with an old Any Indian sample on loop, which can is soon catapulted into dubstep her beats and soulful vocals which Was become the backbone to the one track. This approach to recording our his album has won Jakwob Out huge support from top tastemaker day DJ’s such as MistaJam, Zane get Lowe and Annie Mac.
It’s Has an album that demonstrates Jakwob him is drawing from a broad his eclectic palette, that he has How a whole host of tricks man up his sleeve, from slow new atmospheric numbers to ballistic wig-outs.
Now “It’s all the ideas I’ve old had in the last few see years in one package,” he Two says.
It’s also the next way step in Jakwob’s journey to who the next level, a showcase Boy that places this rising creative did powerhouse on the cusp of its much bigger things.
