Andre Williams, better known as Shy FX, is a British DJ and producer from London. He specialises in

drum and bass Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music) ...

and

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Biography

Shy FX's debut record was "Jungle Love", released in 1992 on the Permission to Dance label. Soon after, he signed to Sound of the Underground Records (often abbreviated as S.O.U.R.) and in 1994 released the breakthrough ragga jungle track " Original Nuttah" (featuring vocals from MC UK Apachi) which helped to cement his position as a mainstay producer of the jungle/drum & bass scene. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with T Power, both as Ebony Dubsters and Shy FX and T Power; their 2001 breakthrough track " Shake Ur Body" with vocalist Di (real name Dianne Joseph) was a number 7 hit in the UK Singles Chart. Released on EMI subsidiary

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, it gained widespread support from both club and commercial radio DJs and helped to further popularise drum & bass as a mainstream music genre. The success of "Shake Ur Body" was followed by the duo's album ''Set It Off'', released in 2002 on

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's label

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. Several EPs and single releases followed; by 2005, Shy FX had made the decision to consolidate his releases onto his own label and founded Digital Soundboy Recordings. In collaboration with T Power, they subsequently released the album ''Diary of a Digital Sound Boy'' on 17 October 2005, featuring the songs "Feelings", "On the Run" and "Plastic Soul". Shy FX and T Power also released "Don't Wanna Know" featuring Di and MC Skibadee. The song was notably used on the UK television programme ''Soccer AM'' as part of the 'Skills Skool' feature. Shy FX produced "Da Feelin" for

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's 2007 album, ''

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''. He also produced "Can't Tek No More" on Dizzee Rascal's 2009 album, ''

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''. His remix of Naughty Boy, Wiley and

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's song " Never Be Your Woman" was released as the single rather than the original mix. Shy's remix charted at number eight on the UK Singles Chart. He

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ed "She Said", a number 3 UK chart single by Plan B. His remix was released on both the "She Said" single and on the deluxe edition of Plan B's ''

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''. More recently, he produced "Raver" featuring Kano, Donae'o and Roses Gabor, plus the UK artist Yasmin's first single, "On My Own". He announced that his album, ''Larger Than Life'', was originally scheduled for a 2011 release but has since been renamed ''Cornerstone'' but did not have a fixed release date. Williams also produced Yasmin's third single " Light Up (The World)", which features

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. It peaked at No. 50 in the UK Singles Chart. DJ Fresh's single " Gold Dust" was re-released, with the Shy FX Re-Edit as a single, on 2 December 2012. The extended play includes multiple new remixes. In 2013, he released a single called " Soon Come" featuring Liam Bailey, famous for his collaboration with

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on their track "

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". The song reached number 55 in the UK Singles Chart.SHY FX , Artist , Official Charts
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. In August 2014, Shy FX remixed the title track from London Grammar's debut album, ''

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''. For 2014's

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Culture Clash, Shy FX joined forces with

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and MC Rage to form the soundsystem 'Rebel Sound'. They went on to win the clash, defeating fellow crews Stone Love,

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and A$AP Mob.

Digital Soundboy label

Williams and T Power (Marc Royal) started the Digital Soundboy label in 2005, initially releasing their own material but quickly expanding to include the artists Visionary, Benny Page and Breakage. The label subsequently grew its genre coverage to the point where its discography includes electro, drum and bass, jungle,

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 ...

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and

UK funky UK funky (sometimes known as UKF or funky) is a genre of electronic dance music which originated in England that is heavily influenced by soca, soulful house, tribal house, funky house, UK garage, broken beat and grime. Typically, UK funky ...

releases from dozens of artists. All releases are observable as being in Digital Soundboy's "house style", as is the case with most drum and bass and dubstep labels. Noted dubstep producers

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, Benga and

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have all released tracks on DSB, as have drum and bass and dubstep crossover artists Breakage,

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, DJ Fresh and Redlight (a.k.a. DJ Clipz). The label ended in December 2015.

Selected discography

References

External links

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