New band of the day: Submerse (No 1,215)

J-pop times 2-step equals UK garage plus anguish and adds up to a beguiling mixHometowns: Runcorn, Tokyo.The lineup: Rob Orme (music, production).The background: Rob Orme, alias Submerse, is a 23-year-old DJ/producer who happens to be making some of the most heartbreakingly beautiful (dance) music anywhere on the planet. And he is all over the planet: he comes from Runcorn in Cheshire, home of Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud and not much else, but his twin loves of 2000-era UK garage and Japanes...

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