Herve releases compilation albums

You’d be forgiven if it’s been hard to keep up with Joshua “Hervé” Harvey over the last few years. Performing under a number of pseudonyms — The Count, Speaker Junk, Young Lovers, to name just a few — Hervé has scored more hits under more names than practically anyone else coming out of the U.K. underground. With the release of Best Of and Cheap Thrills Volume 1 via DIM MAK, keeping up with Hervé will get a little easer. Compiling the U.K. producer’s most iconic tracks, Best Of serves as a primer of Hervé’s work since he started releasing bass club monsters as Speaker Junk back in 2006. Released in conjunction with Best Of, Cheap Thrills Volume 1 collects the best-of-the-best of Hervé’s label Cheap Thrills.

Living up to its name, Best Of is an impeccable collection of Hervé’s most iconic tracks. There’s the dark, tech-y beats of “Hardcore Girls,” which Hervé recorded with Sinden as The Count & Sinden. “Scratch Up the Music” features Hervé’s foray into hard house, and Hervé’s collaboration with Marina Gasolina, “Baseball Bat” sounds like something Sleigh Bells would’ve recorded if they’d been raised on Massive Attack.

Cheap Thrills Volume 1 compiles the best tracks that have come off Hervé’s budding U.K. label, Cheap Thrills. With hits like Fake Blood’s “Mars” and Hervé and Kissy Sell Out’s “Rikkalicious,” it’s easy to see why Cheap Thrills has been described as the U.K.’s answer to Ed Banger. His Majesty André and The Bloody Beetroots grab disco by the balls and unleash a massive club track entitled “Puppets.” Max Morrell brings a more traditional house sound into the mix with “Seeliko,” while Midwest duo Glamour’s “Rubbin & Bumpin” serves as the unlikely meeting point between electro and dubstep.

Joshua ‘Hervé’ Harvey first hit the dance scene in 2007 with a string of 12” releases on Switch’s cutting edge Dubsided label. Following his Dubsided hits, Joshua set up Cheap Thrills Records as an outlet for his own releases and the best of the best from the U.K. underground. It was around this time that Hervé started breaking into the mainstream, remixing everyone from Bloc Party, Lily Allen and the Chemical Brothers to Sam Sparro, Marc Ronson, Calvin Harris and The Prodigy.