In an severely male dominated scene, there are not too many fairer-sex producers lighting up drum & bass right now. Whether this is indicative of a lack of interest in learning production skills from girls in general, or an obvious symptom of the gender specific roles we are ‘supposed’ to assume in life, remains to be seen.
One female bucking the trend in D&B at the moment is London based Kirsty Clarke, also known as ‘Kyrist’. Having pricked up the ears of current genre defining labels such Dispatch, Proximity & Dutty Audio, to name just a few, Kyrist has gained herself a strong core following amongst the deeper heads.Kyrist exhibits a diverse range of production skills within the deeper-darker side of our beloved genre. This can be observed by comparing some of her releases. The hard hitting moody roller ‘Lab Rat’, which was the first piece of work I personally came across by Kyrist, is in relative contrast to some of her earlier work, ‘Delusions’ on Broken Audio, which airs more on the steppy halftime side.
With multiple releases across the aforementioned labels over the last few years and an impressive gig list across the UK & Europe, the ‘one to watch’ tag is most certainly applicable in this case.
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