Slugabed

Under the Slugabed moniker, British electronic musician Gregory Feldwick generates intricate, bass-laden glitch-hop that merges blown-out low-end frequencies with jagged, irregular rhythms and vivid, glitchy melodic lines evoking vintage 8-bit game soundtracks. Far from idle, his dense and meticulously constructed output has attracted listeners across the dubstep and left-field hip-hop communities, resulting in appearances on Planet Mu, Ninja Tune, and Anticon.

Raised in Bath, England, Feldwick relocated to Brighton during 2008. His first recordings surfaced in 2009 via 12-inch singles on MYOR, Ramp Recordings, and Stuffrecords. Planet Mu issued his rework of Starkey’s “Stars,” which prompted the label to put out the Ultra Heat Treated EP in the first months of 2010. Around the same period he became a central figure in Donky Pitch, the Brighton club night launched in 2009 that began issuing records the following year; its inaugural release was the split Donky Stomp EP shared with Ghost Mutt.

Slugabed supplied a remix of Roots Manuva’s “Witness” for Ninja Tune’s twentieth-anniversary compilation Ninja Tune XX, prompting Manuva to feature the version in his live sets. This connection led to a deal with Ninja Tune, which issued the Moonbeam Rider and Sun Too Bright Turn It Off EPs in 2011. Two further EPs, Rockin U and Sex, appeared in 2012, the same year his debut album Time Team arrived. Feldwick co-established the Activia Benz imprint that year; the label released his This Is a Warning EP in 2013, while Ninja Tune put out the closing single “Do U C Me Tho” late in the same year.

Activia Benz followed with the 2014 EP Coolest and the single “Living W/o U.” By then Feldwick’s sound had shifted away from its earlier fractured, overloaded character toward richer, more introspective textures. After abandoning two subsequent album projects, he returned in 2017 when Anticon released his second full-length, the dreamy, pop-oriented Inherit the Earth.