SKIDM
SKIDM is a collective formed by artists and producers ‘3scape’ and ‘The Jollie Plugg’. Meeting at music college in 2023, the south-east-London-based duo have been making music and mixing together ever since. Heavily influenced by the UK jungle and dub scenes, both bring unique sonic qualities to their collaborative work, resulting in a synthesis of UK dance music traditions with a 21st-century flair. Now living together, the two consistently create music on individual and collaborative projects alike. Looking forward, SKIDM hope to combine their love of bass music and sound-system culture into a hybrid live performance, featuring live musicians and stem mixing, and face-melting basses, paying homage to British electronic dance music, and the work that preceded it. Watch this space!
Fringed World
“I worked with Ollie on 2 songs on this album, he wrote the catchiest riff I have ever heard, and crafted beautiful works of sound design with ease. As a close collaborator with Chugg, I have heard a lot of his unreleased music; he combines a luscious blend of reggae, jungle and hip hop with impeccably crisp mixing with timeless hooks and excellent attention to compositional detail”
— Felix Nicholson-Lailey AKA fringed world
Stag Youth Theatre:
I have worked at the Stag theatre in Sevenoaks as a composer since the age of 13. Having started as a member of the youth theatre, the leader of the club recognised my interest in music and started employing me to make the music for their various productions. Since then I have created the soundtracks to dozens of plays and short films.
‘Ollie is a very versatile musician, he’s produced music for me for over six years over a range of projects ranging from animated work for TUI Resorts and Ocean Cruises, to short film and theatre scores. He’s adapted to any genre I’ve thrown at him, and is able to understand a brief and its target audience to create very professional underscores and accompaniment. Ollie thrives at a challenge and works very quickly to give me a musical framework before a project is complete, allowing precious time for the music to evolve and adapt.’
- Simon Cossons, Sevenoaks Theatre Productions, 2024
In relation to the production, “Circle Dreams around the Terrible, Terrible Past’
“Ollie Chugg is a legend of our time - to have scored, designed and cued this work so brilliantly is a really extraordinary feat. This production sounds better and more considered than a lot of professional work, with loads of textures at play, unexpected shifts, sharp clear vocal tracks and surreal unnatural sound blends. Huge congratulations and respect to Ollie!”
- Zach James, National Theatre spokesperson, 2023