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Brought together not by blood, but by a mutual love of the lean, rhythmic electronic music emerging from the UK’s African diaspora, LR Groove and Razzler Man – collectively known as Tribal Brothers – are each top producers in their own right, but share a singular vision when they join forces in the studio. The London-based artists’ history as a duo can be traced back as far as 2011, when they debuted under the alias with a two-track EP at the height of UK funky’s rise, but their sound has since gone on to encompass a gamut of influences across the club music spectrum, carrying hints of nascent, adjacent genres like Amapiano.
Following a period of knuckling down to focus on their solo careers, the two DJs reconnected in 2018 over a Wetherspoons lunch for the history books, marking the start of a new chapter in their musical alliance as they co-founded an independent outlet for their productions: Renk Groove Recordings. Their next release would come via a different label, however; as the country ushered in a funky revival, they repurposed their signature style on an eponymous second EP, a four-track affair which landed later that year via TSVI and Wallwork’s critically acclaimed Nervous Horizon.
After launching a SWU.FM residency and releasing a string of projects via their new imprint, the pair caught the eye of Livity Sound boss Peverelist, signing the Link Up EP, a collaboration with Bristol’s DJ Polo, to his label in 2021. Putting thousands of new fans onto their music, it earned the duo a Livity follow-up, the Formation EP, the following year, which foregrounded the South African sounds currently taking the world by storm. In the interim, they tapped NTS’s Scratcha DVA – with whom they also record music as the trio Tribalczn – and Polo once more for the four-way team-up Sweet Shop, a characteristically spirited effort that stitched together the best bits of their respective styles. Having picked up praise from the likes of Apple Music, Resident Advisor, fabric and Keep Hush along the way, Tribal Brothers look set to continue this meteoric rise with their upcoming material.
