Plump Dj's

The Plump DJs were asked by dance music culture magazine Mixmag to mix their February 2001 cover CD, which they called Elastic Breaks. Soon after, in May, they released a two-CD mix compilation called Urban Underground and in February 2003 they produced the eighth album in the Fabriclive series for the acclaimed London venue.

Their artist album Eargasm was released in July 2003 and featured synthesizer pioneer Gary Numan and Lamb chanteuse. They began a quarterly residency at Fabric, running their own Eargasm nights at the London club, and secured placings in the DJ magazine top 100 dj's list and won a multiple Breakspoll awards.

Finger Lickin' was set up in 1998 by Justin Rushmore and Jem Panufnik, and since then has firmly established itself as one of the leading independent leftfield dance labels in the world. Finger Lickin' have sold nearly 1 million records world-wide.

In 2008, they rebranded their Fabric night, calling it Headthrash after their latest album and opening up the music policy to other styles apart from breakbeat. Their DJ sets and productions began changing accordingly, and the four-deck live DJ show they developed allowed them to pull off more creative mixes in clubs and at festivals such as coachella, Glastonbury and skolbeats

ee Rous and Andy Gardner met at proto-breakbeat label Freshcanova in west London in the late 1990s. Gardner was making music with Matt Cantor from The Freestylers, and Rous was DJing at and promoting the Passenger nights in Kings Cross

Their first release together, "Plump Chunks/Electric Disco", came out on Fingerlickin' records in 1999. When they released the "A Plump Night Out" album – basically a live DJ mix featuring their own original music – they really began to achieve international notoriety.

Emerging from the nascent Nu Skool Breaks scene at the end of the last century, the Plump DJs are the quintessential production duo. Over the course of fifteen acclaimed singles and three superlative albums, Andy Gardner and Lee Rous have become heavyweights of cutting edge club music.



Their beginnings were effortlessly organic; Andy was enjoying success as a producer on Freskanova Records working under the pseudonyms of Bowser and Cut & Paste when he began DJing regularly at the infamous Passenger night, co promoted by Lee and Steve Blonde. With an anything goes freestyle beats approach to its music policy, Passenger was one of London's hottest tickets. "There was a lot of enthusiasm" remembers Lee, "We had four pages about this little bar event in The Face and two pages in NME, just because so many people were going down there, there was so much energy." Already well acquainted through mutual friends and many nights clubbing, the pair decided to transfer the abundance of energy that Passenger exuded into their own music. "I started working as a runner for Freskanova and my DJing was going really well and Andy's DJ’ing was going well but he wanted more gigs and I wanted to get into the studio, so the Plumps were born".

(Lee Rous and Andy Gardner) are a DJ and producer team in electronic dance music. Early pioneers of the breakbeat genre in electronic music, the Plump DJs have diversified in recent years to incorporate new styles such as electro, house and bass music. Their sound is still widely thought to maintain a breakbeat aesthetic, but their productions and DJ sets have become stylistically broader. Throughout the 2000s, they released a string of singles and remixes of well-known dance music names such as Fatboy slim and the Stanton Warriors