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Redlight
Why we feature this artist Redlight: a bass-music producer finds a pop-sized opening Lost in Your Love brought Redlight into the UK top five in 2012. The record has a directness that works immediately, but the low end and the rhythmic detail carry the experien…
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- United Kingdom
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- Electronic, dance
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- 1999–present
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Redlight: a bass-music producer finds a pop-sized opening
Lost in Your Love brought Redlight into the UK top five in 2012. The record has a directness that works immediately, but the low end and the rhythmic detail carry the experience. It is pop made by someone whose musical instincts were formed around what a record can do in a room.
Hugh Pescod’s club education
Hugh Pescod grew up in Bristol and made drum-and-bass records as DJ Clipz before developing the Redlight project. In interviews, he has described working around Roni Size and travelling with dubplates: music made for an audience whose reaction could be heard and felt straight away.
That history helps connect the different styles in his work. House, jungle, techno and hip-hop become resources for a producer rather than separate sets of rules. A vocal idea might bring a track into focus, but the rhythm still has to justify itself.
Lost in Your Love and the wider catalogue
Get Out My Head reached the UK Top 20 early in 2012. Lost in Your Love followed through Polydor that summer and reached number five. The two singles gave a much larger audience a way into Redlight’s production without requiring a long introduction to the scenes around it.
The later catalogue includes the albums X Colour and Active. The album format offers more room for contrasts than one successful single can provide: different vocal approaches, different balances between low-end pressure and melody, different ways of letting a beat carry a section.
Lost in Your Love remains an accessible first encounter. Following it back towards the club productions, or forward into the albums, makes the breadth of the producer’s vocabulary more apparent. The common thread is attention to how the music moves.
Essential releases
Get Out My Head
A UK Top 20 single connecting Redlight’s club instincts with a wider audience.
Lost in Your Love
The Polydor single reached number five in the UK chart.
Active
An album-length setting for the producer’s varied rhythmic interests.