Chimpo
Chimpo — Manchester-based producer, DJ and MC — works across bassline, drum & bass, drumstep, footwork, jungle and liquid. He is based in the United Kingdom city of Manchester and performs both live and behind the decks.
He emerged from Manchester’s local scene and has been a resident DJ for the city’s Hit & Run night. That residency is a core part of his profile in public listings and bookings. Public music databases and profiles consistently list his area as Manchester; a legal or full name is not publicly documented in the cited sources.
As a producer and DJ Chimpo moves between several adjacent substyles. His sets and productions trade on the weight and bounce of bassline and drum & bass while also taking in drumstep’s halftime energy, footwork’s syncopation, jungle’s chopped breaks and liquid’s atmospheric pads. Practically, that shows up as low-end-first programming, sharp break edits that preserve percussive momentum, and the use of smoother chord work or pads to lift sections into liquid-leaning passages.
On the production side Chimpo’s work is oriented toward tight drum edits and bass design that sit in the sub and midrange rather than in wide stereo spectacle; on the DJ side he layers tracks to maintain sub weight through transitions and uses quick-cut edits and drop timing to cross between rollers and more percussion-driven footwork moments. Those techniques are evident across the styles he lists publicly: bassline, DnB, drumstep, footwork, jungle and liquid.
Career highlights documented in public sources include club appearances at Fabric (London) and Motion (Bristol) and a festival slot at Hospitality in the Park. He has collaborated with and remixed artists across the UK bass and grime-adjacent scenes, including Trigga, Sam Binga, Dub Phizix, DRS and Chunky. Chimpo has also been featured on mixes and releases for outlets such as Ninja Tune and Drum&BassArena.
In live contexts he appears as DJ and MC, combining crate skills with vocal presence; in studio contexts he functions as producer and remixer, working on collaborations and edits with the UK bass community names listed above. Where public info is limited, these bookings and credited collaborations are the verifiable anchors for his output and role in the scene.
Publicly available sources emphasize his Manchester base, his Hit & Run residency, his club and festival appearances, and his collaborations and features; further personal details such as a full legal name are not listed in the cited profiles.
