Shackleton

Since debuting in 2004 with "Stalker" on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Mordant+Music%22">Mordant Music</a>, Lancashire, England native Sam Shackleton continually developed a fragile-sounding yet densely detailed style of sample-based electronic music that was neither straight techno nor dubstep, though those were the two styles most frequently assigned to him. From 2005 through 2008, he and fellow producer <a href="spotify:artist:7ugvHO0W3IoAWzOgKrHxqr">Appleblim</a> ran the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Skull+Disco%22">Skull Disco</a> label, an outlet for ten vinyl releases, including his own "Blood on My Hands"; a two-part, 20-minute remix from <a href="spotify:artist:0s2YIpNnjdf0FY4tNrF8Y4">Ricardo Villalobos</a> placed him on the radar of casual followers of underground dance music. Two years after its release, Shackleton issued his lengthiest title to date, Three EPs (2009), a triple-vinyl pack also issued on CD via Perlon. In late 2010, just after launching another imprint (<a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Woe+to+the+Septic+Heart%21%22">Woe to the Septic Heart!</a>), he mixed the 55th volume of the Fabric series, made with an array of his all-new productions.

In 2011, he signed to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Honest+Jon%27s%22">Honest Jon's</a> and released 12"s Deadman and Fireworks. He then collaborated with dubstep innovator <a href="spotify:artist:09S8AYFuaa9PQKSNsXxweW">Pinch</a> for a self-titled album on the same label. This was followed in 2012 by a series of three Drawbar Organ EPs on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Woe+to+the+Septic+Heart%21%22">Woe to the Septic Heart!</a>, as well as the full-length Music for the Quiet Hour, which also included the tracks from the EPs. Freezing Opening Thawing and the EP trilogy Deliverance Series arrived in 2014. In 2015, he released a 12" of his remixes of Japanese noise rock group <a href="spotify:artist:2CIYOUcrZaUOkhWxrInbdN">Nisennenmondai</a>. He returned to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Honest+Jon%27s%22">Honest Jon's</a> in 2016 with Devotional Songs, a collaboration with Italian actor/vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:02knBtnIlyc8YlQ43lcKUe">Ernesto Tomasini</a>. This was followed in early 2017 by Sferic Ghost Transmits, a collaboration with <a href="spotify:artist:02OCBz5OtbKOkm8xAQiWTA">Vengeance Tenfold</a>. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi