Calyx

Calyx is the stage name of Larry Cons. He is a London-based producer and DJ working across drum and bass, jungle and strands of liquid funk.

Cons began Calyx as a duo with drummer Chris Rush after the two met at Oxford Brookes University. The pair set up a studio in Streatham, South London, and the act made its recorded debut in 1998 with releases on Moving Shadow. Chris Rush left the project in 2000; since then Calyx has been Larry Cons' solo project.

As a producer, Calyx is associated with tight, technical production. His work features precise drum programming and edited breaks, prominent low-end design and clean mixdowns that sit drums and subs distinctly. He uses layered atmospherics and pad work to give tracks depth, while arranging percussion with surgical automation and sample editing rather than loose live takes. Those production hallmarks appear across his solo material and in his long-running partnership with Teebee, where the emphasis on clarity, punch and detailed sound design is especially obvious.

On the DJ side, Calyx performs sets that reflect his production approach: measured track selection, attention to low-end balance and an eye for transitions that preserve clarity across complex drum patterns. His sets typically feature a mix of his own productions, collaborations and label cuts that match his technical, forward-leaning aesthetic.

Calyx's recorded output runs through several of drum and bass' key labels. He debuted on Moving Shadow in 1998 and has released on Moving Shadow, Metalheadz and Ram Records. His first full-length solo album, No Turning Back, arrived in 2005. From the mid-2000s onward his most visible partnership has been with Teebee (Torbjørn Brundtland), with the duo releasing Anatomy (2007), All or Nothing (2012), 1x1 (2016) and Plates (2022). Those collaborative albums showcase the pair’s shared focus on precise drum engineering, sculpted basslines and spacious production detail. More recently, Larry Cons/Calyx has released material on Critical Music in 2022–2023.

Specific professional connections: Chris Rush (original Calyx duo partner, left 2000) and Teebee (long-term production partner and co‑artist on four joint albums). Labels tied to Calyx’s catalog include Moving Shadow, Metalheadz, Ram Records and Critical Music; the Streatham studio established with Rush is the known geographic base for the project's early production work.

Public biographical detail beyond those facts is limited; the verifiable through-lines are clear: Calyx began as a late‑90s Moving Shadow act, consolidated a solo identity after 2000, released the solo album No Turning Back in 2005, sustained a long-term collaborative output with Teebee across Anatomy (2007), All or Nothing (2012), 1x1 (2016) and Plates (2022), and issued solo material on Critical Music in 2022–2023.