The Back A Yard family have excelled theirselves with this one..
Renowned jungle DJ & producer Threshold, who has a rich musical history, vast discography and more dubplates than the Hilton Hotel! With releases on Rupture and AKO, we are over the moon to bring you Threshold who will bring his classic amen pressure sprinkled with ska, rare groove and dub!
Growing up listening to Rare Groove, Gospel, Roots, Ska and Hip-Hop, bunking school was an important part of his development, taking many day trips to see his then idols Manix, 4hero or Music Madness. Here he really discovered Hardcore, moving up to playing on stations such as Storm FM, Upfront and Flex FM.
He then started producing music, be it Jungle or DnB, inspired by everything from Johnny Clarke to Johnny Jungle – as well as working as an engineer for the legendary Eskimo Noise Soundsystem. Before long, he was chosen to be in the elite team to work in the legendary Metalheadz sessions.
During this period Threshold, together with Brian Duffas and Matthew Seed, formed Special Branch; their first three releases being on Ray Keith’s Penny Black imprint label coming with the classic Dub Transmission E.P. This led to a release on Reinforced Records under the alias Espionage with a track called Futuroid heavily supported by High Contrast and the great Fabio and Grooverider as the intro to every date of their famous Groove Connection tour.
Playing at popular nights such as Hvywght, Beautifully Crafted Jungle, Rupture, Distant Planet, jungle syndicate & Skutta (to name but a few) he was able to test tracks that he feared playing in other venues. Little did he know this set up releases on AKO Beatz, Foundation X, Skeleton Records, Fresh 86, Skutta Recordings, Western Lore and Devons Road.
In 2025 and beyond, he’s in the studio, ushing jungle with the same energy… can’t see this changing anytime soon.