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Artist
Om Unit
12+ albums
dubstepDrum and basselectronicbassjungle
about
Om Unit is the alias of UK producer and DJ Jim Coles. Whilst Om Unit is a relatively new name to the electronic ether, Jim Coles the actual man has been an overly principled producer for many a year. Originally breaking his Discogs.com duck under the name 2Tall he was engrossed at the bleeding edge of UK hip-hop, scratch culture and turntablism through the mid-2000s. His DJ CV proudly sports the phrase ‘DMC Finalist’. Despite his dedication to such extreme manual craft, Coles found much more immediate fame under Om Unit four years ago initially releasing on Terrorhythm, Stretched and All City Records. However, shortly after launching this fresh alias, Jim Coles casually launched another nom-de-guerre — Phillip D Kick — a badly disguised anonymous façade from which he released an instinctive home brew of jungle and footwork — a stramash of 160 BPM rhythms that toyed with the hype-y nature of Chicago footwork yet stamped his own UK junglist approach upon it. The buzz took hold and before long Coles was being celebrated as an innovator and also a grave robber who was desecrating classic tracks from Adam F, Remarc and LTJ Bukem. Things quickly got out of hand. After eight months and as much acclaim as purist disgust, he collapsed the alias and left his downloads available for as long as the internet gods would tolerate such data being free.his vigour is reflected in his boisterous discography. Nine EPs in two years was brisk business anyway, but a release schedule bottleneck ca
