Nomine

dubstep

There's astonishing depth contained within Nomine's music. His releases to date have displayed a vast breadth of ideas and an intrinsic ear for space and sound design. His sound is an immediately distinctive sound: echo-drenched melodies thatdrift like a distant brass chorus, sub-bass as soft and powerful as an ocean current, and turbulent, continually shifting percussion. These traits are put to the service of deep and driving dubstep tracks, rooted in UK soundsystem culture and rave history, which explode outwards to swallow dancefloors whole. However, he stresses, dubstep's structures provide only one possible framework to contain a much wider range of musical interests. Anything pure is good and exciting for me, he says. I have always kept a reasonable distance from the politics and rules of genres. I dip in and out to see what is going on, and then do my own thing. This is important for me, as I don’t want to get blinded or confused with what I want to do as a composer. My inspiration could quite easily come from an avant-garde/music concretè composition by Pierre Schaeffer, as could it from old Horsepower, dub, drum & bass, house or techno records, and everything in between. Comparatively little is known about the shadowy producer's origins, but he has a long history within electronic music - he reveals that he used to play music on Rinse FM back in the late 90s, and is a student and lecturer of advanced music technology. I am fascinated with taking sounds and tran...