The boss behind Combat Recordings, Stormfield DJs, produces and performs audio-visual live sets at various parties, and also runs the regular Riddim’n‘Bruise radio show on Sub FM.

A DJ with 16 years of experience under his belt, Stormfield’s sonic influences are rooted in the early 90’s strains of electronica and abstract techno like LFO, Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre. Taking on board the early junglism of Photek and Source Direct, he later carried these influences proudly through other forms of music like electro, dubstep and hard breakage.

Later exposure to the works of Scorn and a 4-year stint living near Brixton’s colossal dub soundsystems left him with a pathological need for chest-crushing basslines, and thus Combat Recordings was formed in 2004.

2010 saw him evolve Combat A.V., fusing the label’s visual and sonic elements in the form of improvised live audio visual performances across Europe like the Norberg Fest (Sweden), REC Fest (Spain), Freeze Fest / Anti Surveillance Benefit (Czech), Tacheles (Berlin), FutureEverything Fest UK (with Jesu/Dead Fader), Glade (with Broken Note), Bangface Weekender UK (with Scorn), Athens Video Art Fest and Luben Fest (Greece).

His Smashment mix became the first dancehall jungle AV mix to be featured on the Electronic Explorations podcast.

Ever busy, he also teaches A.V. and ran a workshop on audio visual technology at the Norberg Festival in Sweden, 2011.
[latest mixes]

• live at Plex/Combat party Oct 2009, dubstep techno electro.
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• Riddim’nBruise radio show on Sub FM, bashment jungle dancehall set
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[audiovisual work]

[releases]

• Haiku E.P., Combat 2006
featured on Mary Anne Hobbs’ Experimental show, BBC Radio 1

• Badman Near Dark – King Cannibal (Stormfield mix), Combat 2008

• Inner Silence, Jarring Effects 2008

• Moon Palace – Izaak Stern (Stormfield mix), Qilin Recs 2010

• El solpo del Diablo – Gunjack (Stormfield acid mix), Consume Recs unreleased

• Gravel Bed – Scorn (Stormfield mix), Combat unreleased

[notable gigs]

• Freeze Fest, Czech Republic, 2010
• Big Brother Awards anti surveillance benefit, Prague, 2010
• Unconquered Town Fest, Croatia, 2010
• REC Fest for live cinema and digital arts, Tarragonna, 2010
• Future Everything Fest, Manchester, 2010
• Centrifuge, Berlin, 2010
• Bass Infection, Prague & Brno, 2009
• Sound Headquarters, Prague, 2009
• Plex, UK, 2009
• Dubsolis, Latvia 2008
• Mutant Dub, Singapore, 2008
• Electrode, Manchester, 2008
• Yardcore, London/Czech, various
• Sequence, Manchester, 2007
• Bloc Festival, UK, 2007
• No Fixed Abode, UK, various
• Interakt, London, various 2005 & 2006
• Elektroactivity, Belgium 2005
• Pick your Perversions, Miami, 2003