Sigma aren’t only one of the very few drum and bass duos to have two No.1 hit singles, they’re also (with Alt-J) one of the only groups in modern pop music whose name can be expressed as a symbol — Σ.
This is curiously fitting, in a scientific sense, for a pair of studio boffins who first got together at university in Leeds. Joe Lenzie was a hip hop DJ working at Cameron Edwards’ club night Event Horizon and, having found they had a lot in common, the two moved to London, cramming into a tiny studio in Harpenden and making beats.
They started releasing records on their own imprint Life Recordings, and collaborated with DJ Fresh on 2010’s Lassitude, a hit on the UK dance chart. Subsequent releases on Breakbeat Kaos and Hospital Recordings consolidated their status among fans of drum and bass, as did remixes for Ellie Goulding, Sway and Groove Armada. But it was their recent run of singles with 3Beat—Summer Calling, Rudeboy, and the chart-topping Nobody to Love and Changing (co-written with Ella Eyre, co-starring Paloma Faith) that changed everything.
Sigma aren’t only one of the very few drum and bass duos to have two No.1 hit singles, they’re also (with Alt-J) one of the only groups in modern pop music whose name can be expressed as a symbol — Σ.
This is curiously fitting, in a scientific sense, for a pair of studio boffins who first got together at university in Leeds. Joe Lenzie was a hip hop DJ working at Cameron Edwards’ club night Event Horizon and, having found they had a lot in common, the two moved to London, cramming into a tiny studio in Harpenden and making beats.
They started releasing records on their own imprint Life Recordings, and collaborated with DJ Fresh on 2010’s Lassitude, a hit on the UK dance chart. Subsequent releases on Breakbeat Kaos and Hospital Recordings consolidated their status among fans of drum and bass, as did remixes for Ellie Goulding, Sway and Groove Armada. But it was their recent run of singles with 3Beat—Summer Calling, Rudeboy, and the chart-topping Nobody to Love and Changing (co-written with Ella Eyre, co-starring Paloma Faith) that changed everything.
