Drop the Lime

Drop the Lime, (born Luca Venezia in New York City) is an electronic producer and DJ and founder of dance label Trouble & Bass. Drop the Lime's new material and DJ sets also feature live vocals on original compositions.

With roots in breakcore music, in 2008 he changed his focus to more mainstream dance music, remixing tracks for Armand Van Helden, Little Boots, Robyn, Moby, Rex the Dog, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip and Buraka Som Sistema as well as indie acts such as Surfer Blood, Creep and O. Children.

Over the years, Venezia has created his own distinct twist on the Trouble & Bass sound and now combines his love of Rockabilly with his own take on bass-driven music.

Drop the Lime's own music typifies this: ferocious, bass-heavy dancefloor monsters that punch you straight in the solar plexus, bam, and deposit you in the middle of a sweaty warehouse rave where there's no option but to get down all night long. His music crackles with energy, ideas coming at the track from all directions - a belting diva here, a gnarly synth there - and an intense physicality. You can feel it in your bones. "I'm really drawn to bass," he asserts. "That goes back to my first rave experience, just being blown away by the way the frequency can make the body shake physically - with the sub-bass that you can't hit on an instrument, only a synthesiser.

Vivian Host describes Venezia's sound as comprising "chopped-up breaks making hairpin turns, breakdowns coming out of nowhere, a foundation of wobbling goblin bass often cut in with tropical, clacking snares", with "enigmatic lyrics in his singularly scratchy, bluesy notes."