Scott Allen

Scott Allen is an American drum and bass and jungle producer and DJ based in Los Angeles, California. His work sits primarily in the Drum and Bass, Jungle and Liquid Funk lanes. He has released music on Soul Deep Recordings, Fokuz, Good Looking, Telluric, Liquid V, Jazzsticks and Celsius, and his album Spirit World was released on Telluric Recordings.

Allen grew up in Seattle and moved to the Los Angeles area to attend Chapman University. He began DJing in the early 2000s and moved into producing around 2004. In January 2011 he founded Soul Deep Recordings; that label name appears among the labels that have issued his material.

Sonically, Allen’s productions emphasize the melodic and atmospheric side of drum and bass while retaining rhythmic clarity. Across his releases on labels such as Good Looking, Liquid V and Jazzsticks you’ll find warm, vowel-like pads and reverbed keys layered over precise break edits. His tracks lean toward liquid and liquid-funk textures: rolling mid-tempo percussion, retained swing on the amen-style and chopped breaks, and prominent, rounded sub and mid-bass lines rather than purely distorted neuro basses.

On production technique, Allen’s work frequently uses layered break processing: transient shaping and tight compression on snares, selective eqing to pull forward mid-range snap, and split low-end routing so sub sine waves sit separately from distorted mid-bass. He favors spacious reverb on melodic elements and short plate or room reverbs on percussion to keep the groove present on club systems. Harmonic choices often include jazz-inflected chords and electric-piano tones, which is consistent with the liquid-funk tag appearing alongside his name.

As a producer, Allen contributes original studio releases; as a DJ he has been active since the early 2000s, bringing his own productions and like-minded material into sets. He has issued music through his own Soul Deep Recordings and through established outlets — Fokuz, Good Looking, Telluric, Liquid V, Jazzsticks and Celsius — offering multiple label placements rather than limiting his output to a single imprint. His full-length Spirit World on Telluric Recordings stands as a concrete example of his album-format work.

Publicly documented collaborations and specific track titles beyond Spirit World and the label list above are limited in available sources. Likewise, explicit named influences are not listed in the public record tied to these facts; however, the choice of labels and the album on Telluric indicate a consistent alignment with the melodic, atmospheric side of DnB and liquid-funk production.

Allen remains based in Los Angeles, producing and DJing from that city while operating Soul Deep Recordings, the imprint he founded in January 2011.