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"Gemmy shines through on his mix of Suspect with his trademark blend of slow-fast 808 rhythms coupled with snaking, arabesque synthlines" - Boomkat

Gemmel Phillips, AKA Gemmy, was the second of the 'purple trinity' (Joker, Gemmy, Guido) to emerge onto the scene

"I was an MC, so basically it came to the point where I needed some instrumentation to put my lyrics on, so instead of going to other people to get music, I was making my own. It got to the stage where I was focusing a lot more on the instrumentation, and what I could do there rather than the lyrics."

The sound that he eventually started to refine saw Phillips mesh together the two great loves of his childhood—the swaggering G-funk beats of Dr. Dre, and the clean and colourful melodies of 16-bit console classics like Sonic The Hedgehog—with some additional low-end histrionics for maximum dance floor impact.

Dubplates of Gemmy's material started to circulate within Bristol's close-knit community of dubstep DJs. With its screeching lead synth and undulating bass riff, "Bk 2 The Future" emerged as both a crowd and selectors' favourite. The sub-low churn of "Bass Transmitter" convinced the DJ/producer Peverelist to sign Gemmy to his label Punch Drubk, and that particular track has found its way into the record boxes of some unlikely suspects, receiving notable radio play from both synth-wizard Gavin Russom and the BBC's Heidi.

The success of the Punch Drunk release meant that Gemmy was quickly snatched up by Planet Mu boss Mike Paradinas to join the new wave of dubstep-related artists that have become the vanguard of the label, with plans already in place to issue his debut album before the year is out.

Phillips is still working on the final tracks that will make it onto the full-length, but he's keen to inform us that there's plenty more to his aural canon. "On my album, I'm going to be doing loads of different stuff, so it's not definitively one fixed thing. It's going to be my chance to voice what I make and show people what I'm into, what my influences are... Show them what Gemmy's all about."

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