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Brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence are the producers behind Disclosure and they are really gonna blow up big this year. Part of the UK Bass movement they produce and play music that's more on the house side of the spectrum. Check out this mix they did at the start of the year for Mary Anne Hobbs - Disclosure Mix - Xfm 14/01/2012 by Mary Anne Hobbs on Mixcloud This year has saw them open up for SBTRKT on their tour and an output of releases that seem to get continuingly better. Which shows how long they have come since releasing a free 5 track EP on Facebook last year. This year has also seen them collaborate with SBTRKT collaborator Jessie Ware as well as playing at the now world famous Boiler Room. The young Londoners will be playing at a whole host of festivals including last weeks Lovebox and Ibiza Rocks, check out their F acebook page for all of their upcoming gigs. If you don't know now you know.

On Sunday night a couple of us from the store headed out to the Arches to catch  SBTRKT' s sold out show on their live UK tour.  SBTRKT is a UK based producer/DJ who's self titled album was a real favourite last year.  When performing live as SBTRKT he is joined by singer/producer/collaborator/ band mate Sampha . The elusive producer who went for a good while without anyone finding out who he was due to his SBTRKT moniker and the fact that he always wears special made tribal masks to cover his face.  The reason for this being that he feels he would rather use anonyimity to let the music do the talking rather than himself as a person. The live show consists of them playing a whole host of different instruments from acoustic drums, drum pads, sequencers, keyboards and live singing.    I caught the show in Manchesterlast year just as his debut album was released so it was nice to see how their live show had progressed.  It ...