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ON THE RADAR FLUX PAVILION
“The Jay-Z and Kanye thing is pretty damn cool,” Flux Pavilion, also known as Josh Steele, calmly acknowledges. The DJ and dance music pro-
ducer star-on-a-mainstream-rise had his work sampled on Watch the Throne and separately, has secured a joint deal for his Circus Records label with Atlantic. Speaking toMusic Week, he
admits that some of his most suc- cessful tracks, the aforementioned ‘thing’ included, were created in his bedroom “whilst trying to finish uni coursework at the same time.” For those unaware of Flux
Pavilion, he describes his sound as:
“Big, energetic and emotional elec- tronic dance music through and through. It’s essentially dubstep but I’ve never really been writing it for the purpose of it being dubstep, that just seemed to happened because it’s really fun to write.” Since singles Bass Cannon and
Superbad previously infiltrated the singles chart top 60, Steele recently broke the Top 10, cour- tesy of Level Up, a track he pro- duced for UK rapper Sway. This impressive feat came about as he was at Coachella, following stints at SXSW and Ultra Music festivals where he played to tens of thou- sands of revellers.
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years trying to keep on the right side of Barbara Charone, so I knew we were doing something right
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Steve Lamacq tells the Music Week Awards crowd of his joy at discovering BC is a listener of his 6Music show.
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I’ve spent 20 Back in the UK now, he is busy
readying his new album whilst the lead single from it, Daydreamer, featuring Example, is out this week. A multi-instrumentalist with a
band background, Steele is keen to bring that element through in his forthcoming works: “[The album has] kind of been written with the meaning of being able to perform it live with a four-piece band that I’m putting together.” With a headline UK tour
announced for October and the album slated for an end 2012/early 2013 release, Steele will keep fans entertained with a slew of singles in the meantime:
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“[The singles will be] run half with the mind of dancefloor tracks like we normally would have done, and half trying to infiltrate the charts. We’ll see how that goes and it should help determine how the album comes out.” Commenting on his progression
and with an eye on the future, he is enthusiastic about branching out:
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THE LOWDOWN
Album: 21 Highest chart position: No. 1
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“As [my music has] got bigger and away from dubstep scene it kind of feels like I’m being a lot more of an artist and the music doesn’t have any label, it’s just good to listen to. That’s the coolest thing. “As long as I keep writing
music that I like and other people do then I’ll be happy; I plan on doing that forever.”
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