Grayson Shipley has been a fixture on the Bristol club scene for the best part of a decade. From residencies at the Flybaby and Babe parties in the early 90's, Grayson progressed to a residency alongside Nick Warren at Lakota, at what develops into one of the most popular club nights in the country, Revolution. Earlier on this year, Grayson Shipley became resident at Bristol's newest club venue, Café Blue.
Lucid is his debut release, and typifies the kind of music you'd find in one of his sets; funky and chunky with shimmering staccato riffs layering up over a mean and throbbing rhythm. A touch progressive, but with a big room house groove to it. Grayson also has releases to come next year on Hope's new Polyester imprint, plus Scottish house bastions, Limbo. The man's a talent.
Remix duties on this Future Groove release come from another stalwart of the house scene, Kevin Swain, alongside production partner, Dave Snell. Swainy's early productions as D.O.P on Guerilla were absolute classics from that mid 90's period of UK house. Nowadays, Messrs Swain and Snell have a new generation of fans via their work as Menace, Xzique, Charris and most notably, Flange & Swain.
Most of their recent output have been championed by the new school of UK house - the recent Steve Lawler Nu Breed album contained no less than 4 S&S productions, whilst Menace - 'Reap What You Sow' is big in all the right boxes just now. This is no different; dark, dirty, dubby and druggy, it's an otherworldly and trippy tribal groove that just does not let up.
Future Groove is the Mute imprint catering solely for fat & chunky underground club tracks. Forthcoming releases include productions and mixes from Jamez & Dobre, Jason Jinx, Desert, Force Mass Motion, Peace Division's Justin Drake and Tim Taylor amongst many others. Releases to date have been championed by the likes of Sasha, Digweed, Seaman, Deep Dish et al, as well as radio support from the likes of Tong, Rampling, Dave Pearce etc.
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