Unglued

Unglued (Joshua Brown) is a UK producer and DJ working across bassline, drum and bass, jungle, liquid funk and UK garage. He is originally from Brighton and is signed to Hospital Records. His debut album, Interplanetary Radio, was released in 2021. He first drew widespread attention with a widely circulated 2018 bootleg remix of High Contrast’s "If We Ever".

Public details of Unglued’s early path are limited, but the 2018 bootleg and the 2021 album mark clear milestones. The bootleg remix circulated online and in DJ sets, opening doors for releases and festival bookings. He has released singles such as "Born In '94" (featuring MC Conrad) and a sequence of Timestretch EPs, and those releases sit alongside the Interplanetary Radio album in his catalog.

As a producer Unglued blends elements drawn from jungle, jazz, funk and hardcore. Concretely, his productions commonly combine tight break edits with melodic, jazz-tinged chord work and funk-inflected rhythmic elements. He often programs chopped and time-stretched breaks to retain breakbeat momentum while fitting liquid and bassline harmonies, and his bass design typically layers a sine-like sub under a grittier, distorted midrange to give both sub weight and presence on club systems. Arrangement-wise he uses sparse, atmospheric pads and short sampled vocal fragments to create space around the drums, while drops lean on reintroduced break fills and filtered bass hits to rebuild energy.

As a DJ Unglued mixes across tempo borders within bass-heavy sets, bringing garage and bassline textures into drum and bass and jungle slots. His mixing approach emphasizes low-end preservation: careful EQing between tracks, alignment of bass keys for harmonic transitions, and purposeful use of fades and quick cuts to switch between rollers and harder, amen-driven passages. That approach lets him move from liquid-leaning material into rawer jungle or hardcore-flavoured peaks without losing sub clarity.

Specific releases and collaborations anchor Unglued’s contribution to the scene. Interplanetary Radio (2021) is his full-length statement on Hospital Records. The single "Born In '94" credits MC Conrad on vocals, and the Timestretch EP series presents a run of shorter releases that explore tempo and textural shifts. The 2018 bootleg remix of High Contrast’s "If We Ever" is a notable early public moment that helped his tracks circulate among DJs and playlists. He has taken those releases to stages at major festivals, including Glastonbury, Boomtown and Rampage, and he has toured internationally, including shows in New Zealand.

Unglued’s documented influences are explicit in his music: jungle’s breakwork and rhythmic urgency, jazz’s chord colours and phrasing, funk’s rhythmic push and syncopation, and hardcore’s drive and timbral aggression. His engagement with material by High Contrast—most visibly through the 2018 bootleg—also signals a practical connection to established drum and bass figures, while the MC Conrad collaboration ties him to veteran vocal styles within the scene.

Where public biography is sparse, the concrete records remain: Joshua Brown performs as Unglued, he is signed to Hospital Records, his debut album Interplanetary Radio arrived in 2021, he released "Born In '94" featuring MC Conrad and the Timestretch EP series, he produced a widely circulated 2018 bootleg of High Contrast’s "If We Ever", and he has played Glastonbury, Boomtown, Rampage and international dates including New Zealand.