Artist profile · Drum & bass
The Upbeats
Deep in the music.
Closer to the artist.
The Upbeats are Wellington producers Jeremy Glenn and Dylan Jones, whose drum and bass spans Dead Limit with Noisia and the exploratory album Not Forever.
Behind the music
About The Upbeats.
The Upbeats are Jeremy Glenn and Dylan Jones, a drum and bass production duo from Wellington, New Zealand. Their work brings detailed, forceful club music together with a willingness to slow down, leave space, and build tracks around voices and atmosphere.
Their partnership with Noisia produced the 2015 Dead Limit EP on VISION. That connection also provides a route into their later catalogue: the same label released Not Forever in 2021, an album conceived as a connected listening experience rather than a collection of peak-time DJ tools.
Speaking to UKF about that record, the pair described wanting to make music they enjoyed hearing themselves. Most of its tracks sit around 170 BPM, but quarter-time and half-time rhythms change the perceived pace. The album's opening track, Horizon, began with Glenn sketching an extended intro in Istanbul airport on his way home from a tour. Intended to reset the mood after another DJ's set, it remained an intro for about two years before finding its place on the album. It is a useful glimpse of the thought behind their dancefloor impact.
Artist styles
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Neurofunk
High confidence · The duo’s established neurofunk production catalogue, non-exclusive.
Halftime
Moderate confidence · A limited halftime strand on Not Forever (2021).