Conrad Subs

Conrad Subs is the stage name of Adam Krolik. He is an Ipswich, Suffolk (UK)–based producer and DJ working primarily in drum & bass and jungle. He has released music on Ten Ton, Deep In The Jungle, Original Key, Sub Heavy Audio, Nuusic, Inna Rhythm, Symmetry Recordings and Metalheadz. Artist and label pages list previous aliases ADK, Nifty and Sulako, and public credits note he has been producing drum & bass and jungle for around 20 years. He received a We Love Jungle Awards nomination for Best Breakthrough Producer in 2019.

Public biographical detail on his early life is limited; what is clear from label pages and release credits is a long-running presence in the underground DnB/jungle circuit under multiple names (Conrad Subs, ADK, Nifty, Sulako). Those aliases appear across different releases and label pages, signalling a steady studio output and a practice of working across substyles rather than a single fixed alias. The 2019 We Love Jungle nomination marked a visible moment of recognition from the jungle community.

Musically, Conrad Subs blends a wide palette into his drum & bass and jungle work. His productions commonly layer chopped and re-sequenced breaks with heavy low-end design: subs and mid-bass sit under processed breakbeats while distortion and saturation are used to push harmonic content. He frequently employs chopped amen-style editing and tight transient shaping on snares to keep breaks punchy, and uses low-pass sweeps, delay sends and dub-style echo to create space around percussion. Melodically, some tracks lean toward liquid-tinged pads or dub textures, while others favour ragga-leaning vocal chops and darker, metallic EBM/industrial timbres—reflecting the broad stylistic list he draws from (bassline, breakbeat, dub, EBM, footwork, grime, jungle and liquid funk, among others).

Production techniques that appear across his releases include break chopping and resampling, layered bass design (combining sub sine layers with distorted mids), and heavy use of saturation and sidechain dynamics to carve room for low frequencies. He also integrates non-DnB rhythmic ideas—syncopated footwork hi-hats, grime-style stubby vocal edits or hard-house energy in percussion edits—so his tracks shift feel while staying within typical DnB/jungle tempos and structure. The result is tracks that can sit as rollers or stepper-style jungle cuts, or pivot into more liquid or ragga-inflected moments depending on arrangement choices.

On career specifics: Conrad Subs has formal releases on notable underground and established labels (Ten Ton, Deep In The Jungle, Original Key, Sub Heavy Audio, Nuusic, Inna Rhythm, Symmetry Recordings and Metalheadz). Those label credits appear across digital and physical release pages and link him directly into the scene’s release network. The aliases ADK, Nifty and Sulako are documented on artist and label pages and show how he has presented different facets of his production work over roughly two decades.

Publicly listed influences and direct collaborations are not extensively documented in available sources; however, the stylistic range on his credited releases—spanning jungle rollers, liquid passages, dub-influenced echo work and grime/bassline inflections—indicates a working vocabulary drawn from UK urban bass forms and related club styles. He is based in Ipswich, Suffolk, and appears on label rosters and release credits rather than extensive press interviews, so most verifiable detail about his practice is shown through those releases and the 2019 We Love Jungle nomination.

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