Samir Alikhanizadeh aka Happa is the affluent house, techno and future bass producer hailing from Leeds, UK. With recent support from Wigflex, Church and 2nd Drop he's already garnering heavy support from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs and even landed a guest mix on her XFM radio show. Happa is giving away these three wickedly banging tunes to all his supporters for FREE DL because he's a really solid dude. Make sure to follow Happa's Twitter, Facebook and Soundcloud to keep updated on all of his latest shows, releases, mixes, etc. Enjoy!
HAPPA - Drowned Out
HAPPA - Let It Go
HAPPA - Secrets (Mastered by Michael Harms at MegaSonic in San Francisco, CA.)
HAPPA's guest mix for Mary Anne Hobbs' XFM radio show
We are proud to present Jose Carlos Rosa aka D3ADL1NE for our 25th release. This 21 year old producer is currently residing in Liverpool where he makes beautiful house and garage music in his spare time. D3ADL1NE's Music places emphasis on broken garage beats combined with spacey atmospheres and heavy bass line’s. He takes influence from many artist pushing the heavily evolving garage sound such as Submerse, Synkro, Burial, Phaeleh, 123 Mrk and many more! Its his influences that enables D3adl1ne to capture the soul of UK garage combining it with dub step rhythms and house like melodies complimented by dreamy vocals placed and generic like beats.
We asked D3ADL1NE a 6-Pack of questions to get to know him a little better and this is what he has to say.
1. Q. Where were you born?
A. Wales, UK
2. Q. When did you first get into electronic dance music?
A. I have always been a fan of Electronic music since the age of about 12 years old, i was a massive fan of UKG since the early days of Heartless crew, So Solid, DJ Luck & Mc Neat that is what got me into it then over the years my musical tastes has ventured off into many directions.
3. Q. What other types of music influence your production style?
A. I have always been into a little bit of everything, i feel there is to many sub genres these days although to narrow it down i would say my music has elements of Deep House, Garage and dubstep influence.
4. Q. What is your favorite kind of beer?
A. Lager is Stella but i am a big fan of bitter so Tetleys.
5. Q. If you were stranded on an island what musical intrument would you want to have with you.
A. Guitar!
6. Q. Any shout outs?
A. Some good guys and amazing talents Josh Butler, Totte, Module Module, Mr Beeb and Hadean.
*Mastered by Michael Harms at MegaSonic in San Francisco, CA.
