Flux Pavilion

Flux Pavilion

Flux Pavilion is the stage name of Joshua Steele, a dubstep producer and DJ from Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, with an early base in Towcester. He is associated with club, dance, dub, dubstep, EDM and electronic music. Born in 1989, he begins to build an audience in 2009 with a sound shaped by heavy rhythms, basslines, and the use of his own singing and instrumental work in his tracks.

Career and style

His influences include The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx and Rusko. He develops a style rooted in energetic dance music and becomes known for hard-hitting production and prominent bass. His early releases establish him in the dubstep scene, and he is later regarded as one of the artists associated with the genre’s more contemporary sound.

Key releases and tracks

In 2012, he releases the EP Lines In Wax. Its track I Can't Stop becomes his best-known song and appears across popular culture, including in a Chiddy Bang freestyle on the Peanut Butter and Swelly mixtape. It is also sampled on Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Who Gon Stop Me from Watch the Throne, and used in the Kony 2012 campaign, the video game SSX, the trailer for Rush, and the film The Great Gatsby.

Other notable tracks include Bass Cannon and Big Boss, alongside his remix of DJ Fresh’s Louder, which becomes widely played at UK festivals.

Circus Records and collaborations

Along with his childhood friend Shaun Brockhurst, who records as Doctor P, he works with DJ Swan-e and Earl Falconer of UB40 to form Circus Records. The label is associated with artists including Zomboy, Funtcase and Cookie Monsta, and Flux Pavilion remains linked to it.

Albums

His debut studio album, Tesla, appears in 2015. He later releases his second studio album, .wav, in 2021.