Joy Orbison name-checks all the people you’d His pirate-referencing futurisms have got him
expect from a hotly-tipped modernist garage attention outside of the dubstep world: influential
wünderkind: American garage don Todd Edwards, writer Martin Clark tipped him for success in his
early UKG wizards Groove Chronicles, and Burial. Pitchfork column; Domino Records commissioned
But the 23-year-old’s influences go way deeper him to remix Four Tet’s ‘Love Cry’ (he’ll be touring
than that; beyond the Sun City tape packs his with Four Tet later in the year) and Gilles Peterson
junglist uncle Ray Keith handed down and the invited him on his Radio 1 show as a special guest.
drum & bass rollers he started buying when he was But success seems unlikely to go to O’Grady’s head.
just out of primary school. “If there’s hype around you, people assume you’re
“I was really into garage and drum & bass, running it, that you’re looking for it. I’d rather
especially pirates like Flex and Kool FM, but then I make myself a bit awkward than do loads of
got quite into post-punk, bands like A Certain interviews,” he says.
Ratio and Durutti Column. Those records still sound
Joy orbison
great,” says Orbison, aka Peter O’Grady. The world has Hessle Audio’s Ben UFO to thank for
Specifically, he got into the work of Factory pushing O’Grady’s music into the limelight.
Records producer Martin Hannett — a man who “I’m a huge fan of Ben’s show on Sub FM,” says
produced Joy Division, New Order, New York’s ESG Peter. “He’s very underrated and unassuming, but
and The Happy Mondays, and whose appetite for what he’s doing is miles ahead of other people. I
drink and drugs saw him die, aged 42, back in really liked what he did, so I just sent him the tune.
1991. I only met him for the first time when we DJed
“Apparently he used to drink cough mixture with together.”
coke. I’m not like that, but he was quite shy and a He’s since started his own label, Doldrums, and
bit introverted, and I can relate to that.” they’ve just signed their first new act in London,
The South Londoner, who will only reveal that he producer George Fitzgerald. He rates Mount
lives just beyond Croydon, started making beats in Kimbie, Darkstar and Hotflush artists James Blake
his teens and 18 months ago came up with ‘Hyph and Untold, as well as “a lot of house music”, and
Mngo’, a warm, blissed-out shuffle of compressed low-end ambassadors Lukid and Floating Points. In
rave. fact, he’s DJing with the latter early this year
“I had a beat called ‘Hyph,’” says O’Grady, “and I alongside DMZ’s ultra-individualist Coki; a line-up
was talking to my friend about synaesthesia, where that bodes well for open-minded music lovers.
people see colours, and we reckoned this tune was “There’s so much good music out there,” says
reddy-orange, like a mango. The rest was just a O’Grady. “If people complain, they’re just not
typo!” looking hard enough.” EMMA WARREN
Prepare for meltdown. Glasgow-born producer David Guetta effect, in which North America has
Burns (real name Matthew Burns) — who’s already finally caved in to the power of electronic dance
remixed Black Eyed Peas, Missy Elliott and The Gos- (when paired with r&b superstar vocalists), Burns
sip into ferociously funky, jump-up electro/French is mooted to be producing tracks for some very big
disco hybrids, and cut three fiery EPs for Linus artists indeed.
Loves’s label 21-12 — is set to sear our conscious- Chopping and splicing piping hot slabs of disco slap
ness when he fires up his debut album this summer. bass with rough ‘n’ ready snipes of machine riffage,
Major labels are already queueing up to snag the stadium-sized synths and anthemic, forgotten
producer tagged as “the new Mylo”, but rest as- sampladelic vocals from yesteryear, his mongrel
sured, Burns has got plenty going for him without compound of beats ‘n’ pieces is set to make it a very,
being compared to anyone else. And post the very hot 2010… BEN MURPHY
bUrns
Sonic sorcerer Joe Flory, or Primary 1, is truly a and some gives you songs, I don’t really
product of music’s modern age. This precocious differentiate that much, as long as I like it.”
young producer has no truck with musical
y 1
margins, and his tracks bounce around all manner ‘Mess Detective’ sees him turning genre
of styles. distinctions topsy-turvy, one minute writing
He first surfed an electro wave into our lives with tender, vocal-led synth laments, the next weird,
2008’s ‘Hold Me Down’ on Erol Alkan’s collectible filmic interludes, from guitars, pianos and
Phantasy Sound label. Since then, Flory’s been stitched together, lo-fi machine grooves. Mess is
just as happy fashioning bouncy, infectious key in Primary 1’s world; he doesn’t like anything
electronic house, as on last year’s hit single to sound too clean or perfect — a refreshing
‘Who’s There?’ (alongside pal Riton), as he is attitude in a scene dominated by computer
creating lo-fi, wonky computer pop confections, generated, pristine, clinical beats.
as on his self-released ‘mixtape’ ‘Mess Detective’. “It’s not just about the beat, it’s about the song
“When I was a kid, there were people who only as well, and the instruments, so it feels a bit
listened to Nirvana,” Flory recalls. “There doesn’t messier, it suits the way I think.”
seem to be so much of that anymore. Making But don’t think he’s abandoned the dancefloor;
Primar
poppy stuff is fun for me, it’s entertaining, but I ‘Mess Detective’ precedes new club-ready cuts
like stuff that isn’t classed as pop, a lot of with Riton, and a debut album proper in late 2010
instrumental music, which is entertaining in its for major label Atlantic being mixed by French
own way. Some music gives you an atmosphere house maestro Philippe Zdar. BEN MURPHY
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