JD. REID
Labels: Baby Gravy
JD. REID is a London-based artist and DJ, raised in North West London and shaped by the breadth of the city’s sounds and club culture. His musical foundations sit somewhere between his parents’ soul, reggae, disco and electro vinyl, his cousins’ garage and drum & bass records, his own hip-hop CDs, and his first experiences of London’s underground club scene at nights such as FWD>>.
REID’s music and DJ sets are built around the connections between different strains of club music, tracing shared rhythms and ideas between sounds rather than treating genre as a boundary. His sets move freely across club music, drawing together bass, UK funky, breaks, garage, dubstep and sounds from across the global club continuum, alongside his own productions and edits. That same breadth runs through his own releases, with recent collaborations including Bok Bok and Halogenix.
His long-running EDITS series extends that idea, reworking existing music for the dancefloor and finding support from DJs across the club spectrum, from Ben UFO to Joe Kay. He also runs GRAVY*, the party and platform he founded to bring artists from different corners of contemporary club music into the same room. Its lineups have included Black Rave Culture, Jyoty, Vanyfox, Jossy Mitsu, Oneman, Lamsi, Manara, OSSX and Martelo.
A Rinse FM resident for over a decade, REID has also recorded mixes and appeared on platforms including BBC Radio 1, while his DJing has taken him to clubs, parties and festivals in the UK and internationally. Appearances include Boiler Room, fabric, Drumsheds, The Warehouse Project and We Out Here.