Sub Focus live at South West Four 2011 -- Sunday 28th August, Clapham Common

From hearing one of his tracks for the first time inside a club in 2003 to headlining Glastonbury in 2010, Sub Focus’ rise through the ranks of underground jungle to become a major player in electronic music has been nothing short of spectacular. Initially known for air-punching, dancefloor dismantling drum bass, Sub Focus has now become synonymous with music that draws from all corners of the electronic landscape, and has come to epitomise the ’anything goes’ mantra of today’s flourishing dance scene. London born and bred, his rise into the furthest reaches of the dance music stratosphere began when he first encountered jungle, at high school in the mid-Nineties. Shortly after, The Prodigy also became a massive influence and the young Sub Focus began to lose interest in his studies and started spending more and more time in his bedroom creating music. The walls and boundaries that once separated the different areas of dance music for so long have seemingly disappeared in the Noughties and Su