![]() FACT Skyped with Dumont about his musical evolution, the differences between UK and US dance music, and his plans for 2013. ![]() The finest example of this is his latest single, ‘Need U (100%)’: a four-on-the-floor ‘Billie Jean’ groove, sinewy synth stabs, and the saccharine vocals of BBC Sound of 2013 long-lister A*M*E make for an impossibly catchy anthem. The titles are instructive: from the hypnotic ‘Street Walker’ to the acidic ‘Thunder Clap’ to the ear-worming ‘The Giver’, Dumont proved himself an adroit composer of the type of throwback, 90s-referencing house music that is so in vogue right now. In 2012, Dumont (real name Adam Dyment) released a pair of EPs on Tiga’s Turbo Recordings imprint entitled For Club Play Only. After five years as a go-to remixer for the likes of Bat for Lashes, Santigold, and Lily Allen, London’s Duke Dumont has spent the last year re-establishing himself as a producer of pristine, straight-ahead house music. ![]()
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