Joss Ryan
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- "A Grime kid who expanded his horizons"You know a producer has got something when the first note of the first track you hear makes you sit up and take notice. So it is with 19-year-old East Londoner Joss Ryan: the instant the jabbing orchestral motif at the beginning of “Melancholy Dreams” – the title track of his debut EP – kicks in, it hits your emotional centres hard and lodges in your memory. As statements of intent go, it's a pretty tasty one, and tells you that this is a talent who can stand out and make an impact way beyond the ins and outs of the micro-genres and endlessly reconfiguring trends of underground music. To put it simply: Joss is a grime kid who expanded his horizons. When he went to college he might have brought in an accessible funk influence to his productions from a fascination with N*E*R*D and Jamiroquai, and soaked up the intricated jazzy electronica of Flying Lotus and Submotion Orchestra, but his roots are in the east end and its culture. Like any youngster with open ears, he absorbed the sounds around him, and growing up in Leyton and Walthamstow that was naturally the sound of grime – especially those producers who appealed to his highly musical ear and outside influences to the scene: Terror Danjah, Joker, Davinche, Plastician and Skepta / Boy Better Know. It's that grime influence that you can hear in those string riffs, and in the zig-zagging funk of his drum programming. Even though Joss's tunes are complete pieces in themselves, emotive and sophisticated enough to sit alongside the smoothest new bass music, they always retain that sense of impact that comes from studying beats that were designed to make their identity felt from behind showboating MCs. And that's why, among a flood of indistinguishable “post” this and “future” that tracks which stick sub bass notes under polite house and garage rhythms, his tracks like “Drop It” with its tumbling bleep arpeggio, and the spooky subliminal sounds of “Trust To You”, shine like beacons in the fog. So Joss may be a newcomer to the scene (he never even considered music to be more than a hobby until one of his friends sneakily submitted a track to label boss Scratcha DVA to play on the radio) but he has strong foundations to his sound that mean that there's no chance of him being a mere flash in the pan sensation. That combination of grime immediacy and deep immersion in a broader palette of influences that takes in not just jazz, funk and electronica but garage rock, jungle, dub, film scores and mainstream dance means that he has plenty to draw from for his future productions. His popular mix of his own material for Mary Anne Hobbs's radio show last December already shows that the three tracks on this EP are by no means a fluke, and there's a whole lot more to come besides... Written by Joe Muggs.̸Melancholy Dreams EP - Digital & 12" Vinyl Release on DVA Music
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