Artists we represent

ARA-U

Electro producer Ara-U began his musical journey in the late ‘90s, playing a
pivotal role in developing the underground scene in South America. His early
sets fused vinyl and synths,using a hybrid setup of Roland machine drums,
turntables, and FX to explore acid and breaks. Now based in the UK for over two decades, Ara-U’s sound remains rooted in raw analogue electro,
showcasing his unrelenting passion for the sound.
As the founder of No Static Automatic (NS/A), Ara-U celebrates the label's 5th anniversary this year. Founded in 2020 the label has established itself as a
respected home for underground electro from across the world. Releases have come from figures from the genre with Ed DMX, Radioactive Man, Kronos Device, Second Storey, Manao and many more. This year there’s more of this ilk to come from Ara-U himself with a collaboration with Ben Pest slated for early 2025, his electro-punk band Return of the Luddites’ debut album this spring as
well as his own solo LP at the end of the year.
Ara-U’s own production has not only been released on NS/A but various EPs
and tracks have dropped across Avoidant, Censor Music, Co-Accused Records
as well as his 2019 collaboration with Radioactive Man ‘Plastic Attack EP’ on Asking For Trouble. His productions and NS/A releases alike have received support from some of the most respected DJs with support from the likes of Helena Hauff, DJ Bone, Laurent Garnier, Dave Clarke, Mad Miran, Jerome Hill, Alienata, and Solid Blake and has been featured in Resident Advisor, Mixmag Spain and DJ Mag.
As well as putting the finishing touches to his first album, Ara-U has developed a hardware live set that channels his take on analogue sounds - traversing machine funk, driving basslines and dark pads. His live performances are as dynamic and raw as his productions, keeping his music authentic and raw to the core.

Ben Pest

Ben Pest, a Bristol-based producer and live performer, is known for his distinctive brand of electro, techno, breaks and electronica. As well as his countless solo releases, Ben has released collaborative projects with Radioactive Man, Kursa and Imogen; with appearances on vinyl labels such as Cultivated Electronics, Mechatronica, Love Love Records, Co-Accused, Earwiggle, Science Cult, I Love Acid, Orson Records and Posh End Music, to name a few. He regularly tours his liveset and djs, performing at clubs and festivals around Europe and beyond, including Razmatazz, Glastonbury, Oxi, Corsica Studios, Phonox, Boomtown, Berghain and also a monthly radio show on SWU / Rinse FM. 2025 sees more upcoming vinyl releases including on Mechatronica and Imogen’s WIGS label.

Billy Nasty

The man who mixed the inaugural volume of the seminal ‘Journeys By DJs’ series, gaining him entry into the Guinness book of records for being the first DJ to produce a commercially available mix CD, we still find Mr. Nasty at the helm, box of records...
But Billy Nasty has never been just a DJ, he has enjoyed an extensive recording career and runs two record labels highly-regarded by a broad range of DJs and record buyers alike. With a career spanning 25 years, Billy continues to travel the world as one of the most in-demand DJs, lighting up dancefloors at some of the most prestigious events and infamous clubs across the globe.

From early beginnings playing rare groove and funk to his first forays into acid house during his residency at London’s The Brain Club, to regular slots at seminal London clubs such as Final Frontier, Open All Hours, The Drum Club and Strutt, to having played pretty much every Festival and club worth mentioning ever since, Billy continues to DJ the world over.

On top of his DJing, Billy Nasty has also maintained a strong production presence over the years. Earlier more progressive outings included Shi-Take (with Dave Wesson) or Vinyl Blair (with Chemical Brothers engineer Steve Dub) to his studio collaborations with Gregor Tresher and Anthony Rother on Datapunk, culminating in his current partnership with Keith Tenniswood (aka Radioactive) man as RadioNasty.

In 2013 Billy relaunched his legendary techno and electro imprints, Tortured and Electrix, to critical acclaim. The debut release on Tortured was the RadioNasty ‘Breakin Bad EP’, featuring two stunning Ben Sims remixes as well as two original tracks.

As RadioNasty the pair have unleashed several tracks over the last two years for labels such as Craig Richard’s The Nothing Special and EPM including the (relaunched) Tortured debut release 'Breakin Bad' EP and the 'Clave to the Rhythm' EP on Electrix.

Radioactive Man

Keith Tenniswood is a pillar of London's electronic music underground. After learning his craft as an engineer in Sabres Of Paradise's studio, he made music alongside Andrew Weatherall as Two Lone Swordsmen, one of UK electronica's most protean acts, whose output spanned techno, dub and psychobilly, among other things. The Haywire Sessions, held at clubs like fabric and Fortress Studios, brought the likes of Richie Hawtin and Mathew Jonson to perform alongside Tenniswood and Weatherall. The records on the Control Tower label he ran with Simon Brown, AKA The Dexorcist, merged twisted electro and techno with sucker-punching bass. He continues to play an essential role as a mastering, recording and cutting engineer at Curve Pusher.

LMB

LMB has been djing for 20 years plus. Having worked in some of the best record stores in the country in Massive records, Chemical and Redeye he has slowly developed a unique sound and style of Djing. With strong ties to Rubadub in Glasgow and resident at Houghton festival run by Craig Richards, LMB is known for his very verasbale style of djing. Having dj'd around Europe and running a successful night called Triptic in Bristol, LMB has now moved into label management with his record label called Thumbprint Records. With a passion for vinyl and cutting dubplates LMB will always surprise when you hear him dj.

Second Storey (FKA Al Tourettes)

Depending on how your mind is fixed, you may process Second Storey's unique brand of electronic music as a physical, energetic kind of rave music, or you could find yourself postulating on the dense intricacies that his sonic life-forms contain. Such is the dualistic nature of the Berlin based producer. Second Storey, the life’s work of Alec Storey, was born out of the vibrant free-party scene of Norfolk (also the launch pad for the infamous Bloc Weekender), and those roots in bass-heavy techno reverberate throughout his tracks, but this isn’t simple soundsystem fodder. If there was one defining quality to Al’s craft, it would be funk; the kind of crazed, psychedelic, booty-shaking gospel as laid down by Parliament in the ‘70s. The same sound that re-manifested itself throughout the decades as the electro backbone of early hiphop in the ‘80s, the aquatic machinations of Drexciya in the ‘90s, and even on to the omni-limbed freakouts of Autechre et al. Al represents the next logical distillation of these principles, speaking his own dialect of hip-wiggling astral transcendence parallel with the contemporary bass music landscape in the dubstep aftermath, but never quite adhering to it.
His earliest outings on wax came via Sir Real’s [k]rack-troni[k] label before moving on to releases on Apple Pips, Sneaker Social Club, Aus Music and Schmorgasbord under the name Al Tourettes. Throughout these years Al started studio-sparring with Laurie Osborne, better known as Appleblim, the pair of them commissioned to remix artists such as Planetary Assault Systems, Axel Boman, Underworld and Raudive as well as developing their own material. Eventually, this creative collaboration manifested in the ALSO project, a swirling, psychedelic surge of futuristic electro-techno funk that debuted as a live concern at Space in Ibiza before following on to many key gigs in various parts of Europe. As a result of the studio work Al and Laurie prepared for these live performances, there was a mountain of material ready for release which wound up as the full-length ALSO album on the legendary Belgian rave label R&S.
Meanwhile, Alec’s solo work was also undergoing major developments, not least in receiving a commission for the soundtrack to Oscar-winning psycho-drama Black Swan.
In launching the Second Storey alias, Al signed to Houndstooth and unleashed his debut album Double Divide, the definitive twin-pronged statement of his utterly cerebral body music. Preceded by EP’s for London’s Nervous Horizon and seminal Austrian Electro label Trust, his sophomore LP Lucid Locations was released on Houndstooth and further solidified his place in the electronic underground. The album was followed by a remix album Lucid Interpretations with luminaries such as Nastia, Radioactive Man, The Exaltics, Machine Woman and 214 contributing reworks. Further releases followed on Clone’s Frustrated Funk, Varvet, Natural Selection, Golden Pudel’s ‘Pudel Produkt, Berlin’s Electro outpost Mechatronica and most recently London imprint No Static Automatic. Meanwhile Alec’s drumming roots, so evident in his all of his live appearances, were called to action when Will Saul launched his Close project. This has led to further drumming duties for artists as diverse as Ali Love and Hercules & Love Affair, but his instinct to communicate through the cosmic power of electronics reaches beyond his own music. As a DJ Al has always drawn on his bedrock tastes of electro and techno, filtered through that funk fundamental and spanning all the freakiest flavours of party music from UK Bass through to I.D.M and whatever other modern mutations speak to his finely honed tastes.
The musical make-up of Second Storey, his collaborations with Appleblim, and the numerous projects fore and aft, continue to feed into a thrillingly singular body of work. Much like the energy that crackles around the man-machine when in a fit of drum pad bashing on stage, the alien transmissions that beam out of him are an irrepressible beast, boasting the kilojoules to land in all sorts of unpredictable places.

Transparent Sound

Transparent Sound was formed in the English seaside town of Bognor Regis by Orson Bramley and guitarist Martin Brown who bonded over a love of hip hop, electro, 70's electronica, Visage, and Cabaret Voltaire.
Whilst 100% serious about making music to move the dance floor, Transparent Sound never took themselves seriously, breaking with the electro tradition of being po-faced even down to the self-deprecating admission in press releases that they “don’t know how any of [their] equipment works”.
This willingness to “fiddle and tinker until a good noise comes out” has gained Transparent Sound a cult following from fans including Helena Hauff, Ricardo Villalobos, Weatherall, Laurent Garnier, Mad Mike, and Robert Smith of The Cure (who asked TS to remix their single Wrong Number). The TS track No Call From New York, was named track of 2017 on both the Pete Tong Essential Mix, and the Btraits BBC Radio 1 shows.
A retrospective of their work, Accidents 1994-2023, was released this year on Tresor, collecting dancefloor hits like Punk Mother Fucker, the afore-mentioned No Call From New York, as well as new versions of old material and a few unreleased gems.
Martin recently hung up his disco shoes after recovering from a life-threatening illness. Orson continues Transparent Sound’s mission both in the studio through on-going productions, live hardware stage show, and DJ sets taking the trademark heavy bass and saw-wave buzz direct to the dancefloor.

Warlock

Warlock has been DJing since 1989, constantly seeking out new music from emerging genres since starting out on London pirate radio (Pulse FM) back in the days of Acid House and Hardcore. Now hosting a weekly show on Kool FM, he is currently immersed in today's wide ranging Bass Music scene and is behind the renowned Rag & Bone imprint which has seen output from the likes of Aaron Spectre, Drop The Lime, Stagga, King Cannibal and Kanji Kinetic. His own productions too have made it onto vinyl with Hypercolour, Fat Hop, We Buy Gold, Skint, frijsfo Beats and of course Rag & Bone itself. Sets typically fuse together disparate styles and beats inflected with Bass, Techno, Breaks, Club, Juke, Electro and more whilst also drawing upon all manner of retro beats known and unknown.