East Man is a new project by Anthoney Hart, a Londoner also known for making dance music as Basic Rhythm. Having begun entrenched in London’s underground dance music scene his recordings moved into a more freeform abstract compositional structure, drawing heavily from the early electronic masters as well as his background in pirate radio. More recently he has returned to his dance music roots, finally reconciling the disparate influences that have informed his music over the years to start afresh as East Man with a new LP on Planet Mu. His unique take on Grime reduces the sound to its steely fundamentals, bringing in influences from Drum and Bass, Dancehall and Techno to gird the voices of the MCs he works with. His own name for this hardcore continuum mongrel is ‘Hi Tek’.