Jam Baxter

Based between London and various periods of travel outside the United Kingdom, Jam Baxter has established himself in British rap with dense, often surreal writing, at the crossroads of UK hip-hop, alternative boom bap and spoken word. First noticed within the Brighton-based Contact Play collective with the album Champion Fraff in 2009, Baxter then began a solo path on High Focus with Rinse Out Friday / Spack Out Monday in 2010, followed by The Gruesome Features in 2012 and ... So We Ate Them Whole in 2014. His work is distinguished by fragmented narratives, dark imagery, absurd humor and highly mobile phrasing, often set to slow, misty or drier productions. Over the years, Baxter has also developed several parallel projects, notably Dead Players with Dabbla and Ghosttown, as well as Laminated Cakes with Ed Scissor in 2017. The albums Mansion 38 in 2017 and Touching Scenes in 2018 extend this vein, with lyrics fed by his stays in Asia, Central America and South America. After the Off Piste EP in 2019, Jam Baxter joined Blah Records, where the joint project Happy Hour at the Super Fun Time Party Dome Megamix 4000 with Lee Scott appeared in the same year, followed by Obscure Liqueurs in 2021, Fetch the Poison in 2022 and De las Sombras, a duo with Granuja, in 2023.