Artist profile · Drum & bass
Mindstate
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Closer to the artist.
Mindstate is producer David Snaddon, whose soulful drum and bass includes work with Dogger and Anile, the Space Notes EP, and the original Zims.
The music
Mindstate Discography
Want You Back
Gardna, DRS, Mindstate & Émilie RachelPage 2 of 3
Mindstate Track Collaborations
Featured and guest appearances on selected tracks · Page 4 of 5
Behind the music
About Mindstate.
Mindstate is London producer David Snaddon, whose approach to drum and bass draws on a life spent around music and skateboarding. A former professional skater, he met Dogger through skate competitions, with the pair swapping the tracks they were making. Sharing a flat in London gave that friendship a more focused musical direction, and they began releasing together around 2018.
He has described his natural leaning as soulful, liquid and vocal-led. Work with Dogger on 1985 Music includes Broken Home with Liam Bailey, while his partnership with Anile developed through regular Thursday studio sessions in Peckham. Those sessions became the six-track Space Notes EP for Footnotes, combining patiently layered melodies with tougher, more stripped-back tracks. Every Part Of Me brought Verbz and XIVA into that circle.
There is another side to his production in Zims, a heavier roller picked up by Doc Scott for 31 Recordings. Mindstate has also moved beyond drum and bass: Change Ain’t Easy, made with PAV4N and Vitamin G for DarkMode, explores 140 BPM rhythms rooted in hip-hop and grime.
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