DMX Krew

Under the name DMX Krew, Edward Upton has built a very extensive discography in the field of British electronic music since the mid-1990s. Associated with the Rephlex catalogue — the label co-founded by, among others, Aphex Twin — and later with his own imprint Breakin’, DMX Krew initially established a sound that sits between electro, synth-pop, breakbeat and techno, with a marked taste for supple basslines, dry rhythms and futuristic melodies derived from electro-funk and the synthetic pop of the 1980s. Albums such as Sound of the Street (1996), Nu Romantix (1998) and We Are DMX (1999) laid the foundations of this aesthetic, before more exploratory work around the series The Collapse of the Wave Function in 2004 and 2005. Over the years DMX Krew has continued to move between vocal tracks, robotic funk, acid, ambient and more direct club formats on records like Wave Funk (2009), East Side Boogie (2012), Shape Shifting Shaman (2014), Glad to Be Sad (2019) and Spiral Dance (2024). DMX Krew thus appears as a long-lasting project, driven by a mobile electronic songwriting approach and by regular activity both on stage and in the studio.