Skepsis
Birth nameScott Elliott Jenkins
Occupation(s)Musician

Scott Elliott Jenkins is a musician from South London. His 2023 single, "Rave Out", with Turno and Charlotte Plank, charted at No. 37 on the UK Singles Chart.

Life and career

Scott Elliott Jenkins[1] is from South London,[2] and attended Langley Park School for Boys[3] and a Canterbury university. He became interested in electronic music after hearing the Prodigy and Pendulum; in an July 2017 interview with The Partae, he also cited My Nu Leng, Netsky, and Chris Lorenzo as influences.[4] When he was fourteen or fifteen, his school won a grant from the government of the United Kingdom to embellish its music department, which ordered itself a number of iMacs with Logic Pro on them, which prompted Jenkins to develop an interest;[5] he made dubstep, drum and bass, rap and trap beats before settling on 4x4 garage, with his first such works being bootleg recordings of grime artists such as Wiley and Skepta, a choice inspired by hearing Mr. V's "Hypnotic"[6] featuring D Double E[7] on BBC Radio 1Xtra.[6] He also began DJing around the same time,[6] using a set of Pioneer CDJ-350s,[8] after a tutor came into his school and offered lessons during lunchtimes.[5]

In April 2016, he and Bushbaby set up Lengoland,[9] a Facebook group for music, parties, and track identification,[10] and in January 2017, he released his first single, "Goes Like".[6] In 2018, his collaborative album with DJ Q and Jamie Duggan, Pure Bassline 2, charted at No. 2 on the UK Dance Albums Chart,[11] and in October 2021, he released the fifteen-track album Faith in Chaos,[12] which charted at No. 79 on the UK Album Downloads Chart;[13] shortly afterwards, he moved to Liverpool.[14] He then diversified into drum and bass, and in December 2022, he released "Know What It Means", which featured Raphaella, and which was released alongside a music video directed by Ranvia Kaur Johal and Eleanor Grace Hann.[15] The following month, Jenkins attended a writer's camp with Ultra Records, during which he, Turno, and Charlotte Plank recorded "Rave Out", which discussed men's mental health;[16] the track came out in June 2023, and charted at No. 94 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart, and charted at No. 37 on the UK Singles Chart.[17]

References

  1. ↑ "JENKINS SCOTT ELLIOTT". ASCAP. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Bassline Soiree With Notion and Skepsis". Exeter Phoenix. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Scott Jenkins". LinkedIn. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "SKEPSIS – The Partae". 2023-12-29. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  5. 1 2 Truss, Si (2023-05-02). "The Breakdown: How Skepsis made DnB roller Know What It Means". MusicRadar. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Jenkins, Dave (2017-01-30). "Who The Hell Is Skepsis?". UKF. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  7. ↑ "BBC - 1Xtra Takeover". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  8. ↑ "Skepsis On Boomtown: "The Festival Is Second To None - You Really Have To Experience It To Understand" | VIVA UK Lifestyle Magazine". UK Lifestyle Magazine | VIVA Manchester. 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  9. ↑ "BASS Collective X Lengoland: Birmingham (Tonight)". licklist.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  10. ↑ "Bassline's bigger and louder than ever before". Red Bull. 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  11. ↑ "PURE BASSLINE 2 - DJ Q/DUGGAN/SKEPSIS". Official Charts. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  12. ↑ "Skepsis announces his new album, 'Faith In Chaos'". Mixmag. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  13. ↑ "SKEPSIS". Official Charts. 2023-07-27. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  14. ↑ Hewitt, Martin Guttridge (2021-11-30). "Skepsis Talks Debut Albums, Relocating to the North West, and CRUCAST". Manchester’s Finest. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  15. ↑ Bain, Katie; Bein, Kat; Rodriguez, Krystal (2022-12-16). "First Spin: The Week's Best New Dance Tracks From Zeds Dead & GRiZ, DJ_Dave, Subtronics & More". Billboard. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  16. ↑ "In Conversation With Turno". Ukf.com. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  17. ↑ "TURNO/SKEPSIS/PLANK". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
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