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Irish grime producer Bloom follows last year’s spectacular ‘Quartz’ with a new EP, <i>Maze Temple</i>

Irish grime producer Bloom follows last year’s spectacular ‘Quartz’ with a new EP, Maze Temple

10th May 2013 •

Irish grime producer Bloom will follow last year's 'Quartz' - FACT's #10 track of 2012, don't you know - with a new EP, Maze Temple, for Visionist's Lost Codes label. The three Bloom originals [...]

County Antrim riddim: FACT meets rising grime producer Bloom

Interviewed by Joseph Morpurgo • 7th January 2013 •

Belfast: not exactly the white-hot epicentre of grime. Northern Ireland's first city has its cherished musical exports - electronic music veteran David Holmes and rising house duo Bicep spring [...]

Hear Starkey and Slackk’s remixes of Bloom’s staggering ‘Quartz’

3rd July 2012 •

Last week, FACT lost its collective shit over Bloom's staggering 'Quartz'. Now, the remixes bundled with the single - by grime space cadet Starkey and the reliably rowdy Slackk, who takes thing [...]

Bloom’s ‘Quartz’: grime track of 2012 so far?

29th June 2012 •

OK, so we're big fans of Logos' 'Kowloon', Slackk's 'Blue Sleet' and pretty much all of Wiley's step freestyles. But this might top the lot. Bloom hails from Belfast, and his new record is com [...]