There are so many sub genres in dance music it’s hard to keep up. Submotion Orchestra are a dab hand, however, at bringing touches of all of them into their music. From trip hop to dubstep, their songs are soaring, accomplished euphoric slices of life in 2014. Their latest album Alium has been getting rave reviews and they’re playing at UEA in December. Bonus. I spoke to keys player Taz Modi about what it’s like to be in the band.


TO MASSIVE ATTACK.”


“WE’VE GOT NO ISSUES WITH BEING COMPARED


26 / December 2014/outlineonline.co.uk


How did you all get together? It came about through a project at York Minster Cathedral, which was done with Ranking records and a few of the guys from Submotion, though of course it didn’t exist then. Te idea was to do a dubstep/classical crossover gig, and afterwards it seemed like a good idea to carry on doing something that mixed dubstep with a live, jazz-based element. Tommy, Ruckspin and Fatty were involved in that, and since they knew the rest of the band from the Leeds music scene, we all came in one by one and started writing and jamming together. Has there ever been any arguments between you?


Sure, we have a few moments of tension – in a band of seven people you’re bound to get a few moments like that. But generally we all get on surprisingly well considering the amount of time we spend with each other. I think having seven in the band acts as a great way to diffuse tension and problems; if there were two or three of us it would probably be a lot more intense Finest Hour feels more ‘jazz’, jazzier, and Fragments more dancey and dubstep. What were the influences when putting Alium together? We generally don’t tend to base the albums around any particular influences, since there’s a general vibe we have in mind for Submotion when we come to


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