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Cottonmouth  is Olly Edgecombe and resides near Bristol, UK.  Olly is well educated and uses excellent grammar, says please and thank you, and fathers would be happy if he dated their daughters (LOL). Cottonmouth, on the other hand, is a raving lunatic whose dubstep tracks have dark, screaming basslines, sinister drum programming, and disturbing melodies add all of this together and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde routine is complete. At the end of the day Olly has truly become a person in my book. We’ve exchanged messages plenty of times and he’s always on point. I’ve been stalling this post for awhile now and glad to finally have put this one together to share with everyone.

Olly has been making music since he was 14. He started the whole game when he got into drum n bass, which consumed him. Now his taste in music has been cultivated and openned up to new things such as dubstep, electronica, electro, IDM, and much more.

Olly took a six year hiatus ever since a near death skate accident. He’s back now and making quite the name for himself. His soundcloud has absolutely exploded and he’s on the way to the top of the dubstep game in the UK.

If the stapedius (ear) is the smallest muscle in the body, Cottonmouth’s tunes will ensure that even the largest muscle in the body, the gluteus maximus (ass) will be unable to hold still and start shaking of it’s own accord.

His debut release, Wake Up, is out today on Permanent Damage Records.
Preview the release below and check out an extra goodie below.

1.“Moving On” opens by paying homage to that pioneer of dubstep, Johann
Sebastian Bach, with its contrapuntal fugue intro. If that sounds like another
language, not to worry: the bass drops hard, and we’re off to the three-legged
dubstep races.

2.“Chinese Breakaway” cranks up the intensity and turns the dubstep wobble
inside out with constant variations over a heavy beat that would make John
Bonham tap his toes and Rick Allen clap his hands.

3.“Stompbox” uses vocal samples and a simple hook to build to several
climaxes, and is a surefire dancefloor mover.

4.Closing with the aptly named “Faceslap,” Cottonmouth leaves us wanting
more. The unsettling melody and changing rhythms keep us on our toes until
the final wobbly bass note echoes into nothingness.

Check out his next big release. This tune is vibing and rumor has it will be featured on BBC Radio.

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