Roo AOTD #66 Shy FX

All aboard the hype train for Bonnaroo 2024! Only 63 days until we are all on the Farm again, can you believe it? It’s coming up fast and we can’t wait to be dancing with all of you at Bonnaroo! Today’s Artist of the Day is the one and only Shy FX. Learn more about the artist below. Don’t forget to check out all of our artist spotlights! Thank you for reading these posts!

Artist Biography

Shy FX, aka Andre Williams, is a jungle/drum and bass DJ from the U.K. who brought the genre to the mainstream in the 1990s. He is the grandson of Jamaican sound system DJ Count Shelly. Shy FX debuted in 1993 with his single “Jungle Love” which got him signed to SOUR where he had worked as a tape operator. Soon after he released his breakout single “Original Nuttah” in 1994. This single became an anthem for the jungle genre and broke into the U.K.’s Top 40. In 1995, he released his debut album Just an Example. The same year Shy FX founded Ebony Recordings under which he released singles that fused jungle with old-school hip-hop. In the early 2000s, Shy FX started working with T-Power on more drum and bass oriented tracks, with the first one “Shake Ur Body” becoming a U.K. Top Ten hit. The pair released the full-length album Set It Off in 2002 under the moniker Ebony Dubsters. Shy FX continued releasing music throughout the next two decades with his most recent releases being singles that came out in 2023.

Genre

EDM, DJ, Drum and Bass, Jungle, Reggae

Scheduled at Bonnaroo

Friday (Link to Daily Schedules)