There's no obvious pipeline from Deanshanger to the top of the UK drum and bass chart. The village in Northamptonshire is about as far from the capital's sweaty basement raves and warehouse rigs as you can get without actually leaving the country. But Alex Morisco-Tarr — the producer who trades under Vibe Chemistry — has never seemed particularly bothered by doing things the expected way. Which might be exactly why it's worked.
He started posting music online in 2016. Raw, self-produced DnB tracks with a melodic sensibility that felt slightly out of step with what was circulating at the time — not in a bad way, more like someone who'd arrived with their own set of reference points and wasn't especially concerned with aligning them to the prevailing fashion. Chase & Status, Netsky, Alcemist, goddard., Disrupta — those were his teachers, and you can hear every one of them in the Vibe Chemistry sound if you know where to look. But you can also hear something that's distinctly his.
For five years he built like that: quietly, consistently, on his own terms. Tracks going up on SoundCloud without a label, without management making the calls, without anyone telling him what the market wanted to hear. It's the kind of sustained self-belief that either gets vindicated eventually or quietly disappears. In his case, DnB Allstars came calling in the summer of 2021, and suddenly the foundation that had been laid through all those years of largely unheralded output had somewhere to go.
The track had real weight to it — proper low-end, and the emotional core that's been in his production from the very beginning.
D-N-B Editorial · on 'Dancing Is Healing'
The Balling EP changed the trajectory fast. The title track — later reloaded with a formidable feature lineup including Songer, Mr Traumatik, Devilman, and OneDa — broke into the UK Top 40 in early 2022, peaking at No. 35 and spending ten non-consecutive weeks on the chart. For context: drum and bass tracks simply do not do this as a rule. The genre has always had its own thriving ecosystem, largely indifferent to mainstream chart validation, and largely ignored in return. Vibe Chemistry was threading both needles simultaneously and making it look comfortable.
What happened in April 2023 was something else altogether. "Dancing Is Healing", his collaboration with Rudimental and Charlotte Plank, entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 5. Platinum-certified by the BPI. B-listed at BBC Radio 1. A Brit nomination in the post. None of that is standard DnB territory — and yet it didn't feel like a compromise. The track had proper low-end, real movement, and the emotional sincerity that's been there in his production since the start. It just happened to also be a No. 5 record.
Balance, and the Bravest Move Yet
The Balance album, released in August 2025 on his own MakeYourEra Records label, was the most ambitious thing he'd put his name to. Fourteen tracks. Jump up DnB, dancefloor, melodic liquid — but also, notably, house. And garage. First proper forays into both formats, sitting alongside the DnB cuts without feeling like they'd been bolted on as a commercial calculation. The album works as a kind of artist statement: here is someone who grew up with everything, who's been absorbing music in all directions since before anyone was paying attention, and who sees no good reason to pretend otherwise just because the genre police might have opinions about it.
His own label was the right call. MakeYourEra gives him the structural freedom to do exactly this — to release a house record alongside a jump up banger and not have to answer to anyone about whether it fits the brand. It also means he owns the catalogue, which, for an artist of his commercial profile, is worth thinking about.
2026: What He's Building Now
This year has already moved. A Ministry of Sound appearance in February was an early statement of intent — the Space always demands something from its performers, and booking Vibe Chemistry there says something about where the venue sees him sitting in the current landscape. April brought "For Tonight", the most recent single, firmly in the melodic liquid end of his range: the sort of track where the production is doing serious technical work underneath what sounds on the surface like effortless pop craft. That particular trick is harder than it looks. Not many people in drum and bass can pull it off consistently. He's one of them.
The festival circuit is where to watch him this summer. Vibe Chemistry fits cleanly into an outdoor main stage slot without any of the awkwardness that sometimes comes when DnB artists cross over into that space — the crossover tracks speak to people who don't necessarily know the genre, but the production quality satisfies the heads who do. With Balance still in rotation and new material reportedly taking shape in the studio, the second half of 2026 shapes up as well as anything in his catalogue so far.
The village in Northamptonshire is a long way from here. That's rather the point.
