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On the track, Silva Bumpa has said:
"It started with me going going through a phase of being really into janet jackson, I just thought that "with u" was one of the best vocals ive ever heard and wanted to make an edit of the track. I made it really quickly and just sent it to a few people, i had no idea it would end up being one of my most requested tracks, so happy it’s finally out!"
If you’re tapped into the heart of the UK music underground, Silva Bumpa will be on your radar. Amid a current resurgence of UKG, bassline and speed garage, a crop of producers and friends are pushing a new scene forward, with the Manchester-based artist a key player. Silva Bumpa’s sounds combine UK bass grit with the singalong bounce of club classics, bottling the effervescent spirit of mid-noughties bassline with solid songwriting. Following releases on influential underground labels, Silva Bumpa is gracing iconic imprint Locked On for his most ambitious EP yet – What About The DJ?.
Harry Eagle grew up in Sheffield, a city ingrained with the pumping sounds of organ house and bassline. He learned the piano as an early teen, and Aphex Twin, Arca and Mura Masa would be his entry point into electronic music. At 16, he was going to raves in the Peak District. Friends started showing him “old school bassline, free party jacking house, speed garage, more like the Birmingham Ecko Records stuff”. It flipped a switch in his brain: “It gave me the kind of same intensity of the instrumental electronic stuff, but you could write a song over it – have weird square wave stuff but it still be a banging tune, a really cool R&B-influenced melody.”
Now, among a growing scene, Silva Bumpa is supported by peers including Interplanetary Criminal, Main Phase and Soul Mass Transit System, as well as bonafide bassline OGs such as Tom Shorterz, Big Ang and Joe Hunt, who are happy to share stages and b2bs with the relative newcomers. That community is “everything,” he says. “One of the best things about underground dance music is having your crew and working together to build up a scene.” That underground success has been steadily spilling over into the mainstream, thanks to Radio 1 plays and Spotify support.
