Bio
INSTINCT is James Burnham's outlet for raw, garage-influenced club music, running alongside his work as Burnski and James Solace. Based in Leeds, he combines production and DJing with a substantial role in running independent labels, including Constant Sound, Pilot and the INSTINCT imprint. An album on the latter gives the alias space to develop beyond individual club singles.
The separation between names comes after the music rather than before it. Burnham has described following sounds that interest him in the studio and only later deciding how the resulting tracks fit together as releases. INSTINCT emerges from that flexible way of working, with its own rhythmic character inside a wider musical practice. Label ownership gives him room to make those decisions on his own terms and to release music by others alongside it.
