Who is digital soundboy

Baxta - Do Without You Pangaea - Hex Tickles - Grinding Youngstar - Formula 2 Bok Bok - Silo Pass Nightdrugs Feat. Moona - Higher Skanky Remix Skream - Wobble That Gut Breakage - Telepathy The Others Feat. Rod Azlan - Total Recall North Base - Fright Night Dismantle - Warp Breakage - Higher Roska - BC Skream - Filth Dismantle - Displaced Redlight - Source 16 Dismantle - More Funk Baxta - Baby Girl Dark Sky - Neon Traits: Mine would probably be my first one which was Dillinja - Live or Die laughs.

Jakwob: Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live! That's what my family used to play around the house. If I could put all of those together that would be the one. And maybe a couple of the later Beatles albums when they got really weird and started doing drugs and shit. Shy FX: If there was a track you wish you'd made, which one would it be? Traits: I do know what that is! That is weird as fuck! Breakage: They play them at like baseball games though! It's just super happy tunes.

You can't be mad listening to those tunes. No matter how mad you are, if you listen to Baby Elephant Walk , it will automatically change your mood. So therefore, I'd love a sea of all this deep music and then just something ridiculously flamboyantly happy. That would be hilarious.

Shy FX: Okaaaaaayy…. Something like that. Breakage: You've got the hair for it! It's another thing to ask, could you have made that tune? Like fuck, that's my bass line! That is MY bass line, that's something you would say Shy! You've totally done that before. Shy FX: No, you can always tell when someone's been influenced by what you've done. Let's just say that. Dismantle: How does it feel when you hear a track that's clearly influenced by you?

Shy: It actually depends on the time because if I've just made a tune and someone's ripped it and hasn't even given it a chance to breathe and do it's thing then I get really, really pissed and I make a few phone calls. But when a year goes by and someone's influenced by what you're doing then that's all good.

It all depends how close they get as well. I mean I literally had someone copy the drums, bass line, melody, everything. It was a remix, a bad one. Traits: Something you have to know about Shy is he is the bass line king. The bass line master! Shy FX: I have my moments.

Dismantle: So Jakwob, Somebody New ' s a bit different isn't it? Jakwob: Yeah, that's kind of the idea really. It's quite a change in direction. Shy FX: It's a wicked tune. Jakwob: Thank you! The new single's cool. I'm still trying to keep a classical side to it with keys but I've given it a dancier side too, that's what Shy's been helping with.

It's all about making them work together - working on the relationship between the bass line and the kick drum for a week! It has turned out to be a really interesting record that definitely sits somewhere between where I've come from and where I'm going.

Traits: I think with every release on Digital Soundboy, someone else on the label has got a hand in it too. I mean Shy is always on hand for everything that comes out on DSB, and Breakage is definitely a drum man. Breakage: How did everyone get into DJing? So yeah I bought some vinyl! My first one was actually a Digital Soundboy one, Everyday by Shy FX and T Power, and then I just started mixing and finally realised what you had to do to actually mix two tunes.

I didn't know what I was doing to be honest. I'm still learning. I was doing the whole reggae sound system thing, carrying speaker boxes and what not and I upgraded from that to DJing or selecting, we didn't have the mixer at that time, and production followed then the DJing followed that.

Dismantle: When did you change over from vinyl to CD? Shy FX: I can't remember the time but I remember why! I had a bag of dubplates that went missing! I didn't really want to let go of the whole dubplate culture and vinyl culture so I cut the dubplates all over again, spent a ridiculous amount of money and then British Airways lost my records AGAIN!

So that was when I decided to make the switch. So the future of the label and releases, what's going on bossman? Shy FX: Jakwob's single has just dropped, which I'm really excited about. We've got Breakage's album coming soon. Breakage: Even less exciting And also a joint DSB comp! Breakage: Why Reggae?! Shy FX: Reggae has always been at the roots of what I do and especially when it comes to bass lines and the general vibe so I thought instead of sampling or being influenced by reggae its time to actually make a reggae album similar to the stuff that I grew up on.

Jakwob: What does label need to stand the test of time? Traits: This man! I look at labels that I really loved back in the day and there were labels that were just concerned about putting out good quality music no mater what. I don't believe in labels that have sister labels to test out a tune. If it's a good tune, it's a good tune.

If its not, its not. But you also have to just be aware of what's going on. Like when Dubstep was really popping, just because I was a fan of the music it doesn't mean I should make the music and the bass house thing is popping right now but it makes no sense me getting involved just because I like some of the tunes that are around at the moment. I like to make music when not many people are really on that wave….