Chase and Status

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From underground drum and bass act to one of the biggest draws in dance music and beyond, the rise of UK bass duo Chase & Status has been both phenomenal and unstoppable. Consistently showing their desire to diversify while maintaining the potent energy that is at their core, their successful crossover into the big league – complete with festival headline slots – has been an organic and uncontrived process. From top 10 smashes to ragged club anthems to producing for huge names such as Jay-Z, they have never been anything but totally on point.

They were the ones who turned Snoop Dogg and the hip-hop scene onto dubstep, and the ones who spearheaded the charge of UK-bred urban bass music both onto dance floors and into the charts. Combining big hooks, anthemic vocals and razor-sharp beats, they continue to toe that thin and hard-to-tread line between mainstream success and underground credibility.

More information on Chase & Status

Speciality

Recording Artists / Songwriters / DJs / Producers / Label Managers

Sponsors

Relentless Energy Drink

Recent awards won

Q Award 2010 - Best Music Video

Starting out

We've both loved music from early ages and began playing guitar and DJing from when we were very young. This lead to a love of all music which moved to dance music, and it was the mutual love of this and from going out to legendary raves and club nights week in, week out that spurred us to take the plunge into giving up everything to pursue a career in a studio making beats.

The road to success

We like to think that we have yet to achieve the success we're striving for as there are so many more goals and ambitions we have to attain. We are at where we are in our careers by basically giving up absolutely all aspects of our lives for years to devote to making strange noises in a studio.

Career highlight to date

So many - there was getting our first tune released, signing to Ram Records, making our debut album More Than Alot, then signing to Mercury. We’ve loved building up the live show, getting to Number 9 in the UK Singles Chart for End Credits with Plan B, producing for Rihanna & Jay-Z, starting our label MTA Records, finishing our second studio album No More Idols - it's very difficult to pinpoint one event and hopefully there will be many more to come!

Quote that inspires me

“Life isn’t about endings - it’s a series of moments.” Tim from The Office

Motto I live by

We don’t actually live by any specific motto but we like not to rest on our laurels and like to think there’s always so much more to do, so never get complacent with any form of success and accolade.

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