Label Focus: Hessle Audio
The shape-shifting label that has helped redefine UK club music
Joe 'Claptrap' (HES014)
"Joe’s another friend of ours who we’d known for a while before releasing any of his music. His records have all been popular but this one struck a chord with people across so many different scenes – we’ve heard DJs play this track across almost every tempo range between 120 and 150bpm, and it always seems to make sense whatever the context, whether in the middle of a Luciano set or played by the Butterz crew with a load of MCs over the top of it."
Elgato 'Blue' (HES015)
"We’d known Elgato and been friends for years primarily through going to FWD>> and DMZ, and through our show on the station Sub FM, before he decided to show us any of the music he’d been writing. He’s got a knack for writing incredibly delicate yet powerful and emotional music and as soon as we heard it we knew we wanted to release it."