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 15 years of gigs under his belt, his sonic influences started via the early strains of electronica and abstract techno like LFO, Aphex Twin, Black Dog, Autechre then through the early junglism of Photek and Source Direct, and later carrying 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-rushing basslines. The Stormfield sound could be described at the result of dark, fierce and strange noises getting absorbed, chopped up, mutilated and spat back out again in dancefloor form, what he loosely calls “fierce bassbin electronics”.

2010 sees him bringing together the visual and sonic elements of Combat, in the form of live audio visual performances, already road-tested at the infamous Plex party of October 2009.

[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]

Sample of audio-visual live set

[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]

• 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