Mindstate (2)

Dave ‘Mindstate’ Snaddon - UK Drum and bass producer from London/Bristol releasing music on 1985 Music and Space Cadet Records - Mindstate has been working on the more soulful/musical side of drum and bass for a few years now, delivering liquid drum & bass steeped in soul. Growing up on the coast has influenced the chilled, blissed-out and hypnotic aspect of his sound.
influenced specifically in drum & bass by legends Calibre and the late, great, Marcus Intalex. Beyond these two, artists such as Bonobo, Gang Starr and The Pharcyde, as well as Alix Perez, whose label has now released his music —2019’s Broken Home EP ( a collaborative project with Dogger and Liam Bailey ) with a second, The Time Is Yours, due imminently.

Both Mindstate & Dogger like their music stripped back, allowing space for the vocal line to shine, and nowhere does this ring truer than on the title track of Broken Home. Across the four tracks,
singer-songwriter Liam Bailey (Bailey laid down the vocal on Chase & Status’ 2011 classic ‘Blind
Faith’ , brings warmth and soul to Dogger & Mindstate’s crisp and atmospheric production —
with watery pads and bright chord progressions, it’s liquid at its most emotive, and its most meditative.