Bristol-based producer and DJ Adam Gorsky is the face behind GotSome, and has been releasing bass-heavy tunes and remixes since 2013. Time for 15 questions…

The track Bassline put Bristolian producer GotSome on the map in 2013/4, after being championed by Annie Mac and others. Following that, the Just A Feeling EP led to collaborations with Wiley and AC Slater and remixes for Sub Focus and Craig David among many others.

More recently, Adam has been dabbling in other genres including house, but it seems the bass has always been with him…

1 How did you get into production?

Adam Gorsky: “The key thing for me was being young and being from Bristol when drum & bass was big - being around that and hip-hop. Bristol had the cream of the crop in the underground scene, and I just wanted to be involved. I just wanted to save up for some turntables and learn how to DJ on vinyl. Back then I used to hang out with a bunch of other DJs, guys from Full Cycle and Kosheen; we were all pals - they were all like big brothers to me. They took me to a lot of parties that I shouldn’t have been at. Then I started producing and enrolled in a music school and realised I was much better at music production and started a garage alias with my pals called Forget Me Not. We did an EP that got picked up by DJ EZ, then things dispersed. So, Alex [Holmes] and I started GotSome. That’s when Bassline came about and things blew up.”

2 And you DJ as well as production?

AG: “As a DJ it’s wanting to be inspired by the music I play whether it’s new or old. It has to tell a story or make you feel a certain way. With recording, I come from a hip-hop background so sampling is everything - I spend most of my time listening and searching for samples. When I hear a new song on the radio and recognise a sample, I’ll spend the day trying to find out where it’s been sampled from, what artist it is and what era it’s come from. I also go as deep as to find out what the artist was into or sampling at the time when they made the song!