Marisa Jade Gray, known professionally as pyxis, is a London-based producer and DJ working in drum and bass with a strong lean toward liquid funk. She began releasing music under the pyxis name in 2019 and has releases and appearances on Goldfat, Sunny Moves, Just Noyze, Spearhead and her own imprint, Beats In Mind.

Before launching pyxis as an artist she spent more than 20 years behind the scenes in the D&B business. During that period she co-ran S2K Music, a publishing and royalty company, handling the administration and rights side of releases for other producers and labels. That background in publishing and royalties informs how she runs Beats In Mind and manages her recorded output.

pyxis founded the Beats In Mind imprint with an explicit charitable aim: to raise funds and awareness for mental health. The label has issued her own material alongside projects intended to channel proceeds toward those causes. She also operates as a guest-mix contributor and radio participant rather than a frequent club performer.

On record, pyxis’s productions emphasise liquid-leaning elements: warm pad layers, chord-driven melodies and clear, rolling break patterns. Her tracks favour a tight low end — controlled sub-bass rather than hyper-distorted growl — and snares and percussion with crisp transient definition. Atmosphere plays a consistent role: reverbed vocal snippets, delays and soft textural beds create open space above the bass and drums. The result is dancefloor-capable DnB that sits closer to melodic liquid funk than neuro or darkstep.

Her history of working in publishing and her role as producer shape how she contributes to the scene: releases on independent labels, running an imprint with a fundraising brief, and supplying guest mixes and radio slots. Publicly available biographical detail about early formative influences and specific collaborators is limited; what is documented is her move from industry operator to releasing artist in 2019 and her continued focus on studio work and recorded output.

pyxis has been open about experiencing severe social anxiety, which she cites as the reason she rarely performs club shows; she remains active through releases, guest mixes and radio appearances while using Beats In Mind to combine music with mental-health fundraising and awareness.

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