Droidsong is an electronic label specialising in drum & bass, breakbeat and bass music. Label owner Kid Droid has been DJing since 1993, started producing around 1995 and has been running Droidsong since 2010. We spoke to him recently to get the lowdown...

How would you sum up Droidsong in one sentence?
Underground electronic music, American style.

What other labels, new or old, have inspired you?
Lately I'm digging IM:Ltd, as well as Cause4Concern, Spearhead, and, of course, Metalheadz. If we're talking old school stuff, it was definitely Moving Shadow, No-U-Turn and Suburban Base.

Tell us more about your key artists...
Borja is this cat who lives out in the middle of nowhere and he just oozes electronic music. He has this really melodic sound that comes off as really natural but also highly synthetic - it's like organic techno.

Cold Fusion & Jamie D are a pair of gearheads whose style is dark and bass-heavy. If they're not playing gigs, they're in the studio working on tunes.

Quadratic are a Chicago duo whose signature sound spans d&b, classic dubstep, Chicago footwork and techno. The Chicago Reader compared them to both Flying Lotus and J Dilla.

When signing a track, what do you look for?
Mostly style and production value, but it also has to feel coherent and fit with the Droidsong sound.

Do you accept demos and, if so, where should producers send them?
Yeah, we're always looking for new stuff, best thing to do is send them to our SoundCloud Dropbox.

Tell us more about your next releases...
Borja's Guardian Of The Mountains EP is a five-track EP of half-step drum & bass, heavy on the synths with lots of light, funky breaks. The RA-100 EP by Cold Fusion & Jamie D consists of dark, atmospheric tunes that harken back to the second wave Renegade Hardware style drum & bass of the late 90s/early 2000s.

Got any other releases in the pipeline we should look out for?
We've got tons of stuff queued up for this year. First off we've got an EP coming out from Quadratic that will have some drum & bass and some bass music. Then Dysphonix is finishing up an EP that's kind of like hard new school breakbeat techno. It's got lots of industrial flavour, and it sounds like if Richie Hawtin got really into techstep. There's also a mixed compilation called Music For Robots mixed by Jim K. And I've got an EP of my own breakbeats and bass music that's due later this year with some killer remixes.

Where do you see the label in the future?
We're just starting to get into doing video stuff and I think that totally changes everything. The music is really just the first step. I see us creating longer videos - 10 or 15 minutes - and the music and video are totally interrelated.

Do you promote any events or have any residencies?
Yeah, Cold Fusion & Jamie D have a weekly night at the Upstairs Lounge in St. Louis. Chris Widman of Quadratic does a weekly radio show on WLUW Chicago called Abstract Science and is a resident DJ at Smartbar.

 

 

 

 

Related Links:

• Droidsong Label Profile
• Diffrent Sounds
• Free Kuedo Mix
• DJ Rashad - Shoot Me: Video
• Introducing: Yanix

Like it? Share it!
Sign up for more with the Kmag weekly newsletter.