Coventry, England's
Holy Goof produces and spins an exuberant, adrenaline-spiked mix of bassline house, garage, grime, and other styles of bass-heavy British dance music. As a youth, he was raised on hip-hop, and eventually became enraptured by the hard yet funky side of the U.K. dance scene. During his teenage years, he balanced music production and DJ'ing with his championship-winning amateur boxing hobby, even selling his music equipment and turntables at one point. Eventually he quit boxing, however, and resumed his music career, making appropriately punchy tracks with fast, galloping beats and heavy bass drops. Several EPs appeared on labels such as Certified Bangers and Party Like Us Records in 2015, and
Holy Goof's tunes gained support from top bassline/garage DJs such as
Flava D and
Royal T. In 2016, he played in London for the first time, and several high-profile gigs following, including appearances at Boiler Room and Brixton Academy. "Push It," a collaboration with U.K. bass legend
DJ Zinc, appeared on Bingo Bass in 2017, and
Holy Goof began releasing tracks on his own HGMusic. Having previously appeared on Fabriclive mixes by
My Nu Leng and
Flava D,
Holy Goof mixed Fabriclive 97, which was released in March of 2018. ~ Paul Simpson