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Producer, DJ (in the club sense) and part-time DJ (in the disco jockey sense) with Rinse FM, Redlight, aka Hugh Pescod, is probably best known for his 2012 Top 5 hit, Lost In Your Love. Since then he's been busy doing the things DJs do, such as playing festivals, doing headline shows in and around London and supporting other people (in Redlight's case, Rudimental during their UK tour last month). He's also been working on his forthcoming EP, 36, the excellent title track to which was released last month. While that song features previous collaborator but relative unknown Lotti, another new song, Get Money, features Wu Tang Clan legend Raekwon and shows a different side to Redlight's production work with its harder, echo-laden drum claps. But it's on Thunder – premiered here – that he really gets to show off, creating a sultry maze of finger click beats, multi-textured vocal breaks and the general air of something slightly grimy happening in a dark club at 3am. It also helps that vocalist Syron delivers her best Ciara impression; airily sounding somewhere between seductive and catatonic.
36 is out on 10 March via Lobster Boy/Polydor.
