Having deejayed at Ministry/Bagleys and Limelights for several years, Romay eventually ventured into the studio to bring together his own dance, jazz and traditional Indian influences. His production work for Asian Dub Foundation has also helped to hone his numerous releases, which have slowly made their way onto national radio playlists.

Romay’s experience has evidently held him in good stead to release this full-length, as Playing with Sound is a more than adept collection of dubstep/drum’n’bass, flourishing with eastern sonics. The production is utterly immaculate; one of those albums you can raise the volume almost indefinitely without a smitten of distortion, and Romay revels in battering the listener with ferocious beats, offset by a lavish fusion of effects and vocals.

What makes Playing with Sound stand out from being merely another dubstep/d’n’b release (there are plenty of them) however, are his occasional leftfield deviances. The spiky dubstep wobble bass track Sajna Tere Bin is lit up by Nona Kalra’s classic Indian vocal strains, while Saahvan and the electrifying Nothing With You are similarly inviting, particularly the former when blended with eastern string instrumentation.

Elsewhere, we find addictive vocoded pop strains on Nothing Without You and more straightforward songwriting on Ek Oh Jayahn, with the beats and bass taking backseat to a hypnotic male vocal lead. By comparison, the closing Realisation (feat. Rita Morar) - with its more westernised dance sound - demonstrates that Romay can indeed play it both ways.

It’s this combination of styles that allows Playing with Sound to prosper and move way beyond the often predictable boundaries of the dubstep/drum’n’bass genre.