Name:
@bakey_____ 📈
Where He’s From: London-born, Bristol-based
When He Started: “I used to mess about on GarageBand when I was, like, 10 or 11—nothing serious, just seeing what I could make. Then, towards the end of secondary school, around 16 or 17, I started taking it a bit more seriously. I’d spend time in the music lab after lessons making beats. That’s probably when I realised it was something I properly wanted to do.”
Genre: Garage/Bass/Breaks
File Next To: Main Phase, Special Request, Y U QT
Sounds Like: “My sound takes bits from different corners of UK dance music—mainly garage, breaks, and drum & bass. It’s pretty bass-heavy and rhythm-led, which probably comes from me playing drums before I got into producing. There’s definitely that soundsystem influence too, especially in how the low-end moves. Some tunes have a slightly more soulful side in the melodics, but it’s subtle—just enough to balance things out, I’d say.”
First Music That Inspired Him: “It’s hard to pick one track that got me into making dance music. A lot of the More Than A Lot stuff from Chase & Status definitely played a part; those tunes just had something about them that made me want to mess around and see how it all worked. I remember my older brother playing me “LK” by DJ Marky, XRS & Stamina MC too, and that one really stuck with me—a proper eye-opener.”
Possessed with a voracious appetite for music almost from birth, UK producer Bakey’s youth was spent soaking up funk and soul classics from his parents’ stereo. “Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Bill Withers, Earth, Wind & Fire—all that,” he tells TRENCH. “That’s the kind of stuff that was playing at home when I was a kid. I think it definitely played a part in me wanting to make music, even if you wouldn’t really hear it in what I make now.” In the immediate sense, he might be right, but the idea of making music to be felt on a physical level is a definite throughline to the low-end speaker shakers he specialises in today...
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