From his beginnings as a bedroom DJ to headlining the Glade stage at Glastonbury in 2010, Nick Douwma, better known as Sub Focus, has become one of the most interesting, innovative and important voices working in British electronic music today.
Sub Focus has created compositions for Chase & Status (Flashing Lights) and Example (Kickstarts), remixed The Prodigy, Deadmau5 and Dizzee Rascal, while his own tracks (including Airplane, X-Ray, Rock It, Could This Be Real) have won Sub Focus fans in the form of Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Grooverider and Mistajam. As a DJ, he has played at every major club night and festival around the world. Since his beginnings as a Jungle DJ, to becoming one of Bass music’s key composers, Sub Focus has cemented his status as a forward-thinking creator with an incredible cannon of compositions.
It’s the start of a new chapter for Sub Focus after the release of three club focused hits including ‘Nobody Knows’, ‘Love Divine’ – a BBC Radio 1 Hottest Record – and ‘Lingua’ featuring Stylo G which holds the accolade of being the first ever record to top the Radio 1 Specialist Chart for two consecutive weeks. More recently, Sub Focus remixed Major Lazer’s hit ‘Run Up’ featuring Nicki Minaj and PARTYNEXTDOOR.
At the forefront of the new generation of cutting edge drum & bass producers and taking the underground world by storm, 1991 partners up with Sub Focus here to add waves of rumbling breakdowns and a hefty bassline to the otherwise pop-infused melody – creating a dynamic edit perfect for peak time sets.
Grab Sub Focus – Don’t You Feel It (Sub Focus & 1991 Remix) here.
Emerging onto the scene last year with his powerful anthem ‘Witchdoctor’, 1991 has been credited for bringing drum & bass to a wider audience. Having gained rapid success with several EPs and handpicked to craft remixes for Skream, Chase & Status and My Nu Leng – the enigmatic artist is heralded by BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac.
To celebrate their collaboration, Sub Focus and 1991 went back-to-back live on Facebook last week – watch here.
The original of ‘Don’t You Feel It’ has reached nearly 3 million global Spotify streams in 3 weeks and has been supported by several BBC Radio 1 taste-makers including Mistajam, Target, Danny Howard and Friction to name a few.
