Out of anyone to emerge in the UK funky scene, Scratcha DVA has been one of the key antagonists of the sound. His style veers wildly between moods, from sweet introspection to dutty swagger, quite often in the same bar. Between a show on Rinse FM and an increasingly steady release schedule on Hyperdub, in some ways DVA has transcended the trappings of his grime background to reach a kind of creative liberation where almost anything goes in his music. There’s a common kind of groove across the whole of Pretty Ugly, which is the closest delineation to DVA’s UKF contemporaries, but beyond that the tracks go anywhere and everywhere.
DVA – Pretty Ugly review
by Juno Plus on 26.03.2012 at 10:15amDeep Teknologi gets the remix treatment
by Tony Poland on 21.04.2011 at 16:16pm
Look out next month for a hefty release from Deep Teknologi which sees the likes of Scratcha DVA, Bok Bok and Altered Natives remix the key players from the label overseen by T Williams (pictured above).