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Nottingham-born, London-based D&B producer — soulful, gritty, and label-agnostic.
Ed:it — the production alias of Ed Warrener — emerged from Nottingham and made his first moves into the drum and bass scene around 2010. Since then, Warrener has built a reputation as one of the more consistent voices in the soulful, gritty end of the genre — a producer whose work is described as “meaningful” and whose music draws heavy support from major names and labels across the D&B spectrum.
The label associations tell a precise story about where Ed:it sits within drum and bass: Hospital Records, Critical, Commercial Suicide, Demand Records, and SGN:LTD — a spread that covers liquid funk’s melodic warmth through darker, more experimental material. This range is notable because it indicates a producer who isn’t locked into a single D&B subgenre but whose sound is coherent enough to work across these distinct scenes.
The “soulful but gritty” description is the operative phrase — Ed:it’s music operates in the space where emotional directness and technical weight coexist, where liquid funk’s desire to communicate something human doesn’t require sacrificing the physical impact of the drum programming. Now based in London, Warrener continues to develop a body of work that has earned recognition from across drum and bass’s broad audience.
- · Real name: Ed Warrener
- · From Nottingham, now based in London
- · Active in drum and bass scene since approximately 2010
- · Labels: Hospital Records, Critical, Commercial Suicide, Demand Records, SGN:LTD
- · Known for 'meaningful, soulful but gritty' drum and bass
EPs 14
Singles 13
If and Only If / Long Time
2016
Indecisive / Trinculo
2023
Sound Killer / I Would
2014
Five Nines / Choppy
2023
Flake / Heart of Fire
2015
Ideology / Defects
2013
Limmy / A Whole Thang
2023
Relicked, Part One
2023
Repercussions / Shutter
2012
Set Theory / Let Me Say
Subterranean Wastelands / Coexistence
2013
Viscera / Detonate
2012
Why Don’t You / The Forest
2014
Remixes & DJ Mixes 3
Appears On 38
Drum&BassArena 2016
Hospital: We Are 18
Shogun Century
Shogun Audio Presents: The Classics (2004-2017)
Hospital Mixtape: Etherwood
Drum&BassArena 2018
Hospital: We Are 18
Shogun Audio Presents 2019
Let It Roll: Drum & Bass, Vol. 2
Shogun Audio Presents: 2017
Shogun Audio Presents: 2016
Shuriken Series, Vol. 4
Shogun Audio Presents: 2015
Select Files #5
Together With Ukraine
New Blood 014
Critical Sound of Drum & Bass
Shogun - 100
Drum & Bass on Demand
Commercial Suicide Is Painless, Volume 2
Foundations, Vol. 1
CIA 20 Album
3 Years Demand Records
NON STOP NXC® vs. WEIRD NXC®〔side A〕
Epitome 1
Flexout Presents: Halfcut
Point of Origin, Vol. 1
Sofa King Sick V
5 Years of Addictive Behaviour
Actress / Quarry
CIA Various Artists Dub Pack
Classified V2
Deep Dark Soul, Vol. 1
DIS25, Volume 1
Laser Beam Dreams
Lifestyle Remixed, Part 3
Reflexions
Shogun - 100 (Part 4)
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