Jake Carter AKA Sub Zero is one of hottest producers and DJ’s in the Drum and Bass World right now. Formerly of G Dub alongside Playaz label mate Original Sin, he’s been putting out dance floor bangers for many years. Since going solo in 2009 and releasing face melting monsters such as ‘Motion’, ‘Spin Doc’ along with remixes such as ‘Jungle’ for the likes of Sigma, DnB fans will have noted a slight change in style from his productions over recent months. With the release of his Bi-Polar EP out on Playaz this week, we caught up with Jake to tell us a little more about it:
The Bi-Polar EP has just dropped on Playaz, what can we expect from the new release?
You can expect a diverse selection of music that hopefully will appeal to a wider audience of people, its naughty but nice, like me! It has deeper musical tracks full of emotion and moodiness and you get some straight up in your face dance floor tracks.
We’ve begun to see a change to the traditional ‘Sub Zero sound’ in recent releases, was this a conscious decision to evolve?
No not really a conscious decision just something that happened. I suppose it’s just part of my progression as a producer. I’ve always been very into the deeper stuff and just find it really enjoyable to write those kind of tracks and the response from people has been great, so I suppose that has just given me the encouragement to write like that.
You’ve recently started up the Sub Zero TV channel on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/SubZeroTV2012). What made you decide to come up with it and what can we expect to see on it in the near future?
I have been DJ’ing and touring all over the world and just thought it would great to film and document the places and experiences. It’s also great to show people what happens on tour…well most of what happens! My good friend Rick has been great at editing the footage for me as well and he drives me to all my shows in the UK, so we take the camera everywhere we go and just have a laugh with it, although some of it is rather embarrassing!
You’ve recently been away to play gigs in the US and South Africa, but what’s been your favourite gig in the last 12 months?
That’s a tough question as there’s been so many great moments DJ’ing. I think South Africa has to be one of them, just to be playing on the other side of the world and see the response it’s incredible…also Playaz at Fabric is always one of the best DnB nights on the planet!
Who are your favourite producers/artists right now?
Nosia are without doubt some of the sickest producers on the planet right now and I’m completely in awe of their production and insane tunes. There is so much incredible music about though so it’s hard to be specific thought I think people like the Prototypes, Tantrum Desire, Wilkinson and Rockwell are very sick indeed!
What else can we expect from Sub Zero in 2012?
I have remixes coming out on Hospital Records, Circus and Viper also more releases on Playaz and maybe even an album later in the year.
Finally, did you have any New Year Resolutions, and if so have you broken them all yet?
To go to the gym and I have kept that up!
Drum and Basics would like to thank Jake for his time answering our questions, the Bi Polar EP is out now on Playaz and is available at all good music emporiums.
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