12.03 (Sun)
Real name / Joss Ryan Doherty
You know a producer has got something when the first note of the first track you hear makes you sit up and take notice. So it is with 19-year-old East Londoner Joss Ryan: the instant the jabbing orchestral motif at the beginning of “Melancholy Dreams” – the title track of his debut EP – kicks in, it hits your emotional centres hard and lodges in your memory. As statements of intent go, it's a pretty tasty one, and tells you that this is a talent who can stand out and make an impact way beyond the ins and outs of the micro-genres and endlessly reconfiguring trends of underground music.
To put it simply: Joss is a grime kid who expanded his horizons. When he went to college he might have brought in an accessible funk influence to his productions from a fascination with N*E*R*D and Jamiroquai, and soaked up the intricated jazzy electronica of Flying Lotus and Submotion Orchestra, but his roots are in the east end and its culture. Like any youngster with open ears, he absorbed the sounds around him, and growing up in Leyton and Walthamstow that was naturally the sound of grime – especially those producers who appealed to his highly musical ear and outsid... More Biography
You know a producer has got something when the first note of the first track you hear makes you sit up and take notice. So it is with 19-year-old East Londoner Joss Ryan: the instant the jabbing orchestral motif at the beginning of “Melancholy Dreams” – the title track of his debut EP – kicks in, it hits your emotional centres hard and lodges in your memory. As statements of intent go, it's a pretty tasty one, and tells you that this is a talent who can stand out and make an impact way beyond the ins and outs of the micro-genres and endlessly reconfiguring trends of underground music.
To put it simply: Joss is a grime kid who expanded his horizons. When he went to college he might have brought in an accessible funk influence to his productions from a fascination with N*E*R*D and Jamiroquai, and soaked up the intricated jazzy electronica of Flying Lotus and Submotion Orchestra, but his roots are in the east end and its culture. Like any youngster with open ears, he absorbed the sounds around him, and growing up in Leyton and Walthamstow that was naturally the sound of grime – especially those producers who appealed to his highly musical ear and outsid... More Biography