Solomon Rose (born c. 1987), known professionally as Silkie, is an English dubstep and UK garage producer and DJ from London. He has released several extended plays and albums with Deep Medi Musik and formed the music labels Antisocial Records in 2004 and Bedroom Rat Records in 2023.
Biography
The son of British Jamaicans, Silkie was born c. 1987 in Hammersmith, a district of West London, England.[1][2] He got into music in 1999 after discovering the UK garage artists Oxide & Neutrino and the So Solid Crew through pirate radio stations.[2] He began experimenting with producing grime music with FL Studio by 2001, releasing his first single Dark Square the following year as a collaboration with schoolmate Harry Craze under the alias of Grimey Beetz.[2] The track would receive play at the London night club FWD, where Silkie would discover dubstep music.[2] In 2004, he founded Antisocial Records and began playing his music on the community radio station Rinse FM.[3] He produced "No Help or Handouts" for the grime collective Unorthodox in 2004, which featured his brother Silva and rapper NoLay.[1]
Silkie began to produce mostly dubstep music with Deep Medi Musik by 2008. He released his first album, City Limits Volume 1, in 2009.[4] This was followed up by City Limits Volume 2 in 2011.[5] Alongside several other singles and extended plays, he released his third album Fractals in 2015 and his fourth album Panorama in 2021.[6] In 2023, Silkie began providing bass music production courses under the Antisocial Audio brand.[2] In December of the same year, Silkie formed the UK garage-focused label Bedroom Rat Records.[7] He releases music for the label under his real name, Solomon Rose.[8]