DJ Vadim

Vadim Alexandrovich Peare (born 28 November 1970), known professionally as DJ Vadim, is a Russian-English DJ and record producer. Born in Saint Petersburg and raised in London, Peare is additionally a promoter, record collector, radio presenter, occasional painter and writer, whose music combines hip hop, soul, reggae and electronica. He previously ran Jazz Fudge.

Peare's music combines hip hop, soul, reggae, and electronica. He has been described as "one of the few artists creating genuinely new work in the hip-hop field" and an artist who "cannot be ignored".

He has made many remixes from The Cure, Erykah Badu, Alice Russell, Paul Weller, Prince, and CL Smooth.

In 2020, Vadim was interviewed by the Data.Wave webzine.

Style DJ Vadim composes both music for MCs, singers and poets and soulful instrumental hip-hop beats. In both cases, certain stylistic trends emerge; Dominating rhythmic percussion, heavy use of drum programming which are sometimes broken or stuttering, heavy bass and synthesizer use. Organic, soulful touches often using studio musicians, with undertones of roots reggae and ragga and driving, hip-hop drum orchestration. Original sounding compositions, arrangements that fuse many genres from hip-hop and electronica to soul and reggae. Heavy use of ethnic sounds, including Asian, South American and African. "Anyone recalling Sly & Robbie's mid-80s exercises in electro-dub fusion might see DJ Vadim's latest as almost an update of that aesthetic," Paul McGee wrote in Q, reviewing Don't Be Scared LP (2012).

Discography

DJ Vadim Studio albums U.S.S.R. Repertoire (Ninja Tune, 1996) U.S.S.R. Reconstruction (Ninja Tune, 1998) U.S.S.R. Life from the Other Side (Ninja Tune, 1999) U.S.S.R. Instrumental to Life (Ninja Tune, 1999) U.S.S.R. The Art of Listening (Ninja Tune, 2002) U.S.S.R. The Art of Instrumentals (Ninja Tune, 2002) The Soundcatcher (BBE, 2007) U Can't Lurn Imaginashun (BBE, 2009) Don't Be Scared (BBE, 2012) Dubcatcher (BBE, 2014) Grow Slow (BBE, 2015) Dubcatcher 2 (Soulbeats Records, 2016) Dubcatcher Vol. 3 (Flames up!) (Soulbeats Records, 2018)

Compilation albums DJ Vadim Presents: Sculpture and Broken Sound (P-Vine Records, 1997) Architects of the Great (Jazz Fudge, 1998) The Forgotten Women/Stereo Pictures (MK2, 2003) Lettuce Propelled Rockets (JFM, 2005) Live in Brooklyn (Mothergrain, 2007)

EPs Abstract Hallucinating Gases (Jazz Fudge, 1995) Headz Ain't Ready (Jazz Fudge, 1995) Bang 2K (Ninja Tune, 2002)