PBR STREETGANG


 

Bonar Bradberry and Tom Thorpe are lifers. The pair have each been completely submerged in the world of club music their entire adult life: they've watched scenes and sounds come and go and seen how the underground itself keeps on keeping on regardless of the vagaries of outside interest and the names people choose to give to it. They've been releasing as PBR Streetgang for over a decade, and DJing together for rather longer than that.

From the start their tracks and sets have been about everpresent funk, psychedelic stimulation, body-shaking bass and emotional richness, without ever toeing any genre line. PBR remain as absolutely committed to the dancefloor as they ever have, but they also want their music to unfold in other ways. That's PBR Streetgang all over. No big manifestos, no grand plan, just reacting to the opportunities that come before them – yet in doing so they have consistently managed to find new ways to express profound and beautiful things. Everything they do is a new beginning, with new ideas a constant – and there is clearly much, much more to come.

 
 
Stephanie Reinert