Todd Edwards Artist Bio

Todd Edward Imperatrice, more known as Todd Edwards is a house and UK Garage producer born in New Jersey in 1972. His style of music is characterized by a collage of micro-samples over swung UK garage beats and percussion, with groovy, disco-inspired bass lines. He started his career off around 1992, first releasing some tracks under the alias The Todd Edwards Project. He was influenced by several people, especially Mark Kinchen, or MK, whose remixes had vocal reconstructions and chops, like his remix of The Nightcrawlers’ “Push The Feeling On”.

He is considered one of the godfathers of UK garage and directly inspired many other UK garage musicians. He is also a committed Christian and considers God as one of his main sources of inspiration. Furthermore, he also hides religious lyrics or phrases in some of his songs or remixes. He has been an example and inspiration for a lot of artists, from MJ Cole and Burial, to Daft Punk and Akufen.

Todd’s discography spans hundreds of songs and remixes, including remixes for Wildchild, St Germain, Nicole J McCloud, Mad Moses, Robin S., Dimitri From Paris, and Benjamin Diamond.

HIs releases were played to various enthusiast groups. Some of his albums and mixes include Prima Edizione, the Full On series, New Trends Sounds series, and Odyssey.

In 2013, he and Daft Punk would collaborate and release a song, Fragments of Time, on Daft Punk’s album Random Access Memories. This would earn him a Grammy along with Daft Punk, because of the album winning Album Of The Year in 2014.

In May of 2021, record label Defected Records announced that they would be releasing much of Todd’s tracks on streaming services, including some tracks from Prima Edizione, and other EPs and singles, through one of their sub-labels, 4 To The Floor Records. These include club hits like Shut The Door, Saved My Life and Wishing I Were Home.

Even in 2022, Todd continues to produce and remix. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.