Music, Style & Culture

First On: Bobby Champs

A lesson in how to pack out an underground club until daylight breaks.

It’s difficult to put your faith in a label, to be absolutely certain that whatever they have in the pipeline will be to your taste. Indeed, when Pictures Music (the label that’s brought us electronic gold from the likes of Seams, Lapalux and Dauwd, amongst others) unveiled a new artist who makes house music, albeit with a modern take, an inch of doubt crept in. It’s easy to play to formula with this genre; it’s also extremely difficult to raise your game within such strict parameters.

But Bobby Champs has justified our faith in Pictures’ ability to pick out genuinely exciting artists. Champs’ new single, ‘All Night’ is a lesson in rejoicing in insomnia, or packing out an underground London club until daylight breaks. It’s a glorious example of how to interpret a genre whilst giving it a new spin or even, a whole new lease of life.