Andrew Goddard (born 1998), known under the stage name Goddard., is a musician from

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, England. He is best known for his remix of

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's " Go", which charted at No. 2 on the

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, and for featuring on

Venbee Erin Vemby Anna Doyle, known professionally as Venbee, is an English musician. Her four singles, "Low Down" (with Dan Fable), "Messy in Heaven" (with Goddard.), "Gutter" and "Die Young" (with Rudimental) charted on the UK Singles Chart at numbe ...

's "

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", which charted at No. 3 on the

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Life and career

1998–2018: Early life and Ag.

Andrew Goddard was born in 1998 in

. He was a fan of

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and Ram Records as a teenager. He studied for a Masters in Music & Management at Leeds University. He initially went into DJing after admiring the DJs at raves he had attended as a teenager; realising this was not sufficient to make a living, he learned

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, first by watching

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tutorials, then by teaching himself. Whilst at university, he formed Ag. with Ross Quinn, who released "Warped Minds" on 27 July 2018, "All Falls Down" on 21 August 2018, their parent six-track EP ''Servia'' on 28 September 2018, and "Silent Corner" on 30 November 2018.

2020–2022: Early solo releases

Goddard's early tracks were "very deep liquid tracks"; he told Albawaba.com in May 2021 that two years beforehand he lost someone close to him, and that concentrating on writing helped him grieve. On 12 June 2020, he released "Player" as "Goddard.", and on 28 August 2020 he released the EP ''Next Gen''. On 30 April 2021, he released "Nicotine", which featured Archie, real name Archie Collingwood-Watt, the son of

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; on 13 May 2021 a music video was released for the single. On 29 October 2021, he released "Day 9", and on 11 December 2021, he and Dread MC featured on an Allstars MIC, a fortnightly DnB Allstars series. On 9 February 2022, he released "Afterlife" with Bailey, real name Samuel Bailey, and on 23 March 2022 he released "Green Light" with Megan Linnell.

2022–present: Later releases

On 25 March 2022, he contributed a remix for

's " Go" for her album of remixes; this remix charted at No. 3 on the

. On 23 September 2022, he and Waypoint remixed the 2020 single "Never Gonna Love" by ''

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'' contestant and

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's daughter Antigoni, which charted at No. 72 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart, and released "

" with

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member

, which charted at No. 3 on the

, and spent fifteen weeks at No. 1 on the

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. On 30 September 2022, he released a remix of

member Charlotte Haining and BCee's "Before You", and on 3 November 2022 Goddard and Haining would release "Feel Like That". In December 2022, he won Best Newcomer at the Drum&BassArena Awards 2022, and he later signed to

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. On 21 April 2023, Javeon, Lens, and Pola & Bryson released "Way Up", which had been written in 2022 at a Shogun Audio Writing Camp.

Artistry

Ag. were inspired by

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, and

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, while Goddard himself was inspired by

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, and

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, and has been cited as inspiration by Vibe Chemistry.

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noted in April 2022 that he made "soulful vocal tracks that seem aimed squarely at the dancefloor, but which clock in at pop-single length; hardly anything he does exceeds three minutes", a practice he attributes to learning about listeners' reduced attention spans as a result of the Digital Revolution while at university.

References

{{reflist English drum and bass musicians English record producers People from Kettering Musicians from Northamptonshire 1998 births Living people