Born and raised in the industrial North of England, Ryan Blyth’s passion for dance music was ignited whilst still at school. Inspired by the likes of Armand Van Helden, Erick Morillo, Carl Cox and Tiga, he worked his way up to becoming a regular fixture as a DJ on the local club circuit, eventually launching his own successful series of afterhours parties that rocked into the early hours for 8 memorable years. At the same time he was building a loyal and enthusiastic following on Soundcloud, thanks to his regular mix series. To date, Ryan’s racked up over 3 million plays on the platform.
It wasn’t long before Ryan was noticed and head hunted for high-profile gigs at venues such as Fire and Ministry of Sound in London, with a Sankeys Ibiza residency in both 2014 and 2015 cementing his status as one to watch. He continued to work on his productions, sending demos out to everyone he knew as well as working with fellow Yorkshireman and songwriter After 6. DJ Cameo was the first to pick up on their first collaboration ‘Trust Me’, playing it on his BBC Radio 1 show; it was at this point that Danny Howard first heard the track whilst driving to gig. He rushed to his laptop to look it up and found that Ryan had already emailed him the demo, and ‘Trust Me’ became one of the first new signings to the esteemed dance selector’s new label Nothing Else Matters.
Ryan followed the Spring 2016 release of ‘Trust Me’ with two club tracks with legendary UK dance indie Toolroom via their Love & Other offshoot. First to hit the airwaves was the minimal and bass heavy ‘Who’ and then a collaboration with singer songwriter Rachel K Collier on the hypnotic ‘Once Twice’. Always a fan of 90s classic house, Ryan then partnered with the Armand Van Helden and Bob Sinclar vocalist Duane Harden for his next release ‘Back To You’ which was snapped up by Don Diablo for his Hexagon label which he runs with Dutch dance titans Spinnin.
With forthcoming collaborations in the can with Scruffizer & Rae and vocalists Kelli-Leigh and Luther Soul plus the support of some of the most respected names in dance music, it looks like 2016 is going to be a big year for Ryan Blyth.
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