The Upbeats
The Upbeats are a drum and bass production duo consisting of Jeremy Glenn and Dylan Jones from Wellington, New Zealand. They have also produced various other genres of music including dubstep (as Crushington) and breaks.
Biography
Known collectively as The Upbeats, Jeremy Glenn and Dylan Jones (a.k.a Terror Snake and Downie Wolf) have been writing drum and bass together for eleven years.
Full-time DJs and producers since early 2004, the duo perform on a regular basis across the globe (North America, Asia, Europe, Australia and beyond), run their own recording imprint Non Vogue and have released records on Virus Recordings, Bad Taste Recordings and Soul Recordings. They have released three full-length albums: The Upbeats, Nobody’s Out There, and Big Skeleton.
2010 finds them in full international touring mode and scheduled to release remixes for New Zealand electronica live acts Shapeshifter and Minuit. Other plans on their 2010 itinerary include new original singles for worldwide release on Virus Recordings and Lifted Music and an EP of Big Skeleton remixes by the likes of Hive, Gridlok, Break on their Non Vogue imprint.
Performances
In 2009 they toured along side Dieselboy, Evol Intent, Ewun, Demo, Infiltrata, Mayhem, SPKTRM, MC Messinian, MC Dino and MC Steez as part of the Monsters of Jungle Tour which headlined festivals all over the world.
Discography
12" Vinyl Records
- BCP003 Slit / Fill Me In
- HBT006 Late Night Frite / The Gospel
- HOST008 Monsta Mash / View From Inside
- TRON008 Vodka Bender / Seduction
- BCP006 Werewolf / My Dues
- HBT010 Whitetail / Oiled Up
- P51UK09 Ghobi Ghost / Stick Together
- HUMA8021 Le Mammoth / Piss Fiend
- VRS016 Lost Once / Lick-A-Demon
- RL008 Universe / Rapture
- SOULR030 Archive / Four
- CYAN023 Camouflage Re-Lick / Antisocial
- VIO021 Nothing's Sacred / Dresden
- P51UK11 Poison / Take Away Soul
- NV001 Smash / Planet Earth
- NV002 Creep Out / The Bends
- GTEK009 Masked Warrior / Tear Down
- SUB067 Panic / Troglodyte
- RISE015 Tin God / Deviants
- NZ008 True Stories (Upbeats Remix) / The Weka
- LFTD007 Binge Drinker / Screw Up (Upbeats Remix)
- P51UKLP02 Chatter / Flamethrower (Bulletproof & Teknik Remix)
- NV003 Ghost Radio / 1968
- BT004S2 Tor / Requiem
- SUICIDE053 Shatter / Ionized
Albums
- LP018 The Upbeats (album)
- BT002CD Nobody's Out There
- NVCD2 Big Skeleton