Tom Cane

Tom Cane (born Thomas Havelock) is a British singer-songwriter and producer from Oxford, England. Within drum & bass and jungle-adjacent work he is best known for vocal and songwriting contributions to liquid-funk and drum & bass tracks, while his output and collaborations span dubstep, deep house, grime and related electronic styles.

Havelock adopted the stage name Tom Cane in 2011 and built his profile in electronic music as a writer and featured vocalist. His entry into the scene has been primarily through co-writing and guest-vocal roles for established producers and acts rather than a conventional solo producer discography. Those collaborations brought his songwriting into dancefloor and radio contexts while also opening placements with crossover pop and electronic artists.

As a musical contributor Tom Cane’s work centers on melodic toplines and lyric writing tailored to electronic arrangements. His vocal parts are arranged to sit over rolling break patterns and sub-and-mid basslines typical of liquid and drum & bass productions; on club-facing tracks his phrasing is matched to syncopated beats, and on more downtempo or house-leaning productions he supplies concise melodic hooks. Across remits from DnB to deep house and dubstep he operates as both a topline writer and a featured singer, linking song structure (verse/chorus) to the rhythmic architecture producers provide.

Specific, credited examples: Cane was the featured vocalist on Wilkinson’s single “Half Light,” which reached number 25 on the UK Singles Chart. He has co-written songs for Sub Focus and for pop artist Cheryl Cole — he is credited as a co-writer on the title track of Cheryl Cole’s album A Million Lights. He has also worked directly with drum & bass and electronic acts including Matrix & Futurebound, Drumsound & Bassline Smith, Eric Prydz and Klangkarussell. In 2014 he joined the band PREP as lead singer.

In practice his role in those collaborations is concrete: supplying topline melodies and lyrics for producers, performing lead vocal parts on singles, and appearing as a named featured vocalist on releases that crossed into the UK singles chart. These specific credits place him in songwriting and vocal roles across liquid-funk and drum & bass releases as well as on recordings that sit in adjacent electronic genres.

Connections and collaborators provide the clearest picture of his influences and working circles. He has written for or worked with Sub Focus, Wilkinson, Matrix & Futurebound and Drumsound & Bassline Smith on the drum & bass side, and with producers such as Eric Prydz and Klangkarussell in broader electronic music. His band role with PREP (joined 2014) is a named, verifiable ensemble credit alongside his solo songwriting and feature work.

Public biographical detail about production techniques or a solo producer discography is limited in available sources; the verifiable record centers on his songwriting and featured-vocal credits (notably “Half Light” and the co-writing credit on Cheryl Cole’s A Million Lights) and his 2014 entry into PREP as lead singer. These credits define his concrete contributions to drum & bass and adjacent electronic music scenes.