Lynx
Steve Nobes, known professionally as Lynx, is a British drum and bass producer and DJ. He works in liquid and funk-tinged drum and bass. Lynx is originally from Portsmouth, England, and is active across the UK scene; he is also based in London. He has been releasing music since the mid-2000s.
Early in his career Lynx built a reputation for sharp, dancefloor-aware productions. He emerged in the mid-2000s and began placing tracks on established labels rather than small self-presses. Across that period he has released music on Soul:r, Digital Soundboy, Bingo Beats and Creative Source. Hospital Records released his album I Am Lynx, which collects his production approach in long-form.
As a producer Lynx’s sound centres on energetic, funk-influenced drum programming and liquid melodic work. Technically, his productions favour tight, edited breaks and crisp transient work on snare and kick to keep percussion punchy in club systems. Bass design tends toward warm, rounded subs with midrange movement — short, filtered bass stabs or rolling low-enders that sit under more melodic elements. He layers pads, Rhodes-style electric piano chords and vocal snippets to give tracks a soulful, liquid sheen while keeping arrangements concise and DJ-friendly.
On the DJ side Lynx carries that production clarity into his sets: selections that bridge rollers and liquid tracks, phrase-matched transitions and emphasis on harmonic keying so melodic elements translate between mixes. His DJ role amplifies his producer identity by testing edits and remixes in a club context and by programming tracks with clear intro/outro structure suited to mixing.
Specific career markers: releases on Soul:r, Digital Soundboy, Bingo Beats and Creative Source are part of his catalogue, and Hospital Records issued his album I Am Lynx. He has collaborated with Kemo, Marcus Intalex and Calibre — partnerships that align him with the more musical, groove-focused wing of drum and bass. Those collaborators appear across single tracks and production links credited to Lynx’s name on releases and label listings.
Signature elements to listen for are the funk-derived rhythmic shuffle in his drum edits, clean mixdowns that preserve transient detail, and recurring use of warm chord stabs and vocal chops to add lyrical or soulful hooks. If you start with I Am Lynx and tracks on the labels listed above you’ll hear the combination of liquid melody and funk-based rhythm that defines his output.
