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Switch

UK - Dubsided

Switch is a UK-based DJ, songwriter, sound engineer and record producer.

A leading figure of the fidget house genre, Switch runs his own music label “Dubsided”. He further produces with fellow DJ/producer Sinden, and they both run the label Counterfeet, established in 2006.

Switch released the track “A Bit Patchy”, which is based on the recording of “Apache|” by The Incredible Bongo Band. He has collaborated on songs with M.I.A. on her albums Arular and Kala. For the latter, he travelled to work with Arulpragasam in A. R. Rahman’s Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios and other locations in Kodambakkam,Chennai, Trinidad and Tobago and London in 2006/2007. Since then he has gone on to work with other artists such as Santogold on her eponymous debut album Santogold, MPHO and Tricky. He has also become in demand for his extensive remix work, and has remixed bands such as Basement Jaxx, Lily Allen, X-Press 2 and Bugz in the Attic.

Switch has also created an album with Diplo, under the name Major Lazer, released June 16 2009.

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