“Jersey Club has become the most deliriously entertaining dance-floor movement of the moment. The sound is evolving and the scene's top producers are now speed-dial faves of pop's elite.” 
SPIN

“There’s something going down in Newark, New Jersey. Jersey Club is finally making it big outside state lines… It’s something approaching a movement and the rest of the world is finally catching on.”
THE FADER

At some point in the last century, Newark earned the nickname Brick City, a name symbolic of the fortitude and scrappiness of New Jersey’s largest city. Appropriate then for the Brick Bandits – a tight-knit, Newark-based DJ / producer collective that’s churning out the wildest music in a genre named Jersey Club. A style that originally grew out of Baltimore club, Jersey Club is a little faster, played at around 135-140 bpm. Full of bouncy, heavy kick drum triplets and beat switch-ups, it repurposes a lot of vocal cuts, generally stripped from current and classic rap and R&B hits, which all comes together to make high energy, addictive, yet widely accessible dance music.

As the rest of the world has finally begun to latch on to Jersey club and barrel forward at the speed of light, long- time Brick Bandits crew member and Jersey Club pioneer R3ll has long been running things in his native Newark. As the go-to Jersey Club DJ and promoter, he’s helped build #THREAD, a monthly warehouse event at The Life Lab in Newark, into one of the hottest parties on the East Coast, recently covered by Spin and The Fader. An infamous remix of Missy Elliot’s Work It with fellow Brick Bandit members launched R3ll into the spotlight as a producer and he started adding his own spin to current chart favourites across his soundcloud channel. A host of love from pretty much every tastemaker blog and 10k followers later saw renowned early talent spotters LuckyMe come knocking asking R3ll to host a mix on their Rinse FM show and he and Cashmere Cat began collaborating on R3ll’s recent remix of Rice Rain.

Where Baltimore failed to crossover, Jersey Club will undoubtedly succeed – the music is more accessible. It’s faster and the remixes of chart hits and classic vocal samples engage all people on the dancefloor. A recent sell- out West Coast headline tour for R3ll further proves the rest of the world has begun to latch on to Jersey Club and specifically to R3ll’s unique take. His recent show in DTLA showed a diverse, both on the dancefloor and queuing round the block to get in.

With everyone hammering at the door to get a R3ll Jersey sound on their track, there will be official R3ll remixes coming out shortly, firstly on Lido’s “Money” (Pelican Fly), currently premiering on FACT.

Keen to develop his sound and further help Jersey Club to crossover, R3ll is also collaborating with other producers from outwith the Jersey scene and we can expect some original material before the summer is out.

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