Subgiant is a UK electro trio founded in London, consisting of Olly Maw, Dan Hayes, and Tushar Joshi, formed in 2004. Subgiant have made appearances at festivals such as

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as well as various clubs worldwide.

History

Olly Maw and Dan Hayes met as bassist and DJ (respectively) in 2000, and formed what, in its early days, was a dub act. In 2004 Tushar Joshi joined on electro drums after a chance encounter at

festival 2003. The band then concentrated on the live performance of

electro music Electro (or electro- funk)Rap meets ...

-orientated music. Dale Titus joined the band as its vocalist- specialising in rap. Lizzy Munro was the last to join the band as their saxophone player but had to leave in 2018 due to moving away. The band soon found themselves breaking on to the UK festival scene, with appearances at

. This was soon followed by the band's first album, 'Advances in Twig Technology', on Blissfields Records.

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booked the band for three consecutive years at the

on the

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, and this was followed by appearances at

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, and the

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. The band continue to play at many festivals in the summer months, and at clubs up and down the country throughout the year.

Musicology

The band play many genres of dance music through their gigs and mainly concentrate on Electro,

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DubStep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken be ...

Drum and Bass Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...

Techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

and

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. As of 2019, Subgiant continue to tour their live act.

Discography

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