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Redlight (musician)

British DJ and producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7306054
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Hugh James Pescod (born 19 February 1980), better known as Redlight and CLIPZ, is a British DJ and music producer from Bristol.

Biography

Redlight was brought up around '90s warehouse rave culture in Bristol.

He has collaborated with artists such as Mobb Deep and Raekwon. Remixed acts include Mary J. Blige and Tink.

With his label Lobster Boy, he focuses on music genre such as house, techno, hip hop, vocal-lead dance music, jungle, DnB and bass music. The producer releases a mix tape, Templates Volume 1. The mix tape series is about club music and is the culmination of his new production remixes.

Early career

Hugh Pescod began his career in the early 2000s under the alias DJ Clips, with a string of releases on various drum and bass labels including Full Cycle and Digital Soundboy. In 2009, he diversified his style and adopted the alias Red light, setting up the label Lobster Boy for his productions and debuting with his single "Rock The House" / "Twist Up" and the Lobster Boy EP.

The year 2010 saw the release of two dance floor recordings: the first, "Stupid" on Shy FX's Digital Soundboy, featuring the vocals of Roses Gabor, and the second single, "What You Talking About!?" on Chase & Status's MTA Records, which featured Ms. Dynamite.

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