Artist
Pessimist
Bristol, United Kingdom 14k SoundCloud followers. Active
Jungle & rollersLiquidNeurofunk
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About
Kristian Jabs - operating under various alias' and group's: Pessimist Soft Boi Stigma 1/3 Ruffhouse 1/2 Boreal Massif For all info of upcoming gigs and for regular music related announcements, you can follow me on instagram @pessimistmusic For All Enquiries: pessimistproductions@gmail.com
Biography
RA Top 1000
- Lives in
- United Kingdom
- First known date
- 2009, Torque, Basement 45
Dates175
Past dates
- 2026-10-1010 Years Of SWU FM: Joy Orbison, DJ EZBristol, UK
- 2026-09-19UVB-76 x MOT: Tim Reaper, Pessimist, Gremlinz, Anina & i-sha, Vega & Outer Heaven - Ethics MC London, UK
- 2026-07-17EXO: Pessimist / Karim Maas / Vega / Xterea / Midex / Cthonor SomaManchester, UK
- 2026-06-12Regis invites Blueprint 30: James Ruskin, Samuel Kerridge (live), PessimistBirmingham, UK
- 2026-04-18Baile Do Futuro & Breach present: Talk To StrangersBristol, UK
- 2026-04-18Talk to Strangers w ABADIR, Distant Planet, UVB-76 Bristol, UK
Dates per year
175 past dates on Resident Advisor, by year and by country
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UK 69
DE 26
US 12
FR 11
NL 10
IT 9
Booked by8
Could book them
Affinity score out of 100: collaborators already booked, their style in the programme, same country.
Collaborated with7
7 artists with a shared track or release
Releases82
Read from Beatport and Deezer, most recent first.
- Pony Boy Club EPUVB-76 Music2026-08-24
- Pony Boy Club UVB-76 Music2026-08-24
- Pess One UVB-76 Music2026-08-24
- NRG-97 UVB-76 Music2026-08-24
- Under Surveillance UVB-76 Music2026-08-24
- DVLAIlian Tape2025-12-01
- The Crawlers Type 2Ilian Tape2025-11-27
- DVLAIlian Tape2025-11-27
Labels12
Rosters read from Deezer albums; only artists on the map count.
Trend
SoundCloud followers per day, read every night
+5 followers over 7 d+0.0 %
Sep 4: 13 572Oct 22: 13 612
Hype58 / 100
Out of 100, as percentiles among the artists on the map: what moves, not what is big.
- 7-day growth75
- Upcoming dates0
- Plays55
- Wider audience92
- Followers92
In Resident Advisor12
- Pessimist debuts Soft Boi alias on new LPNews2020
- Pessimist - BurundagaReview2019
- Mix of the day: PessimistNews2019
- Pessimist and Loop Faction ruminate on planetary destruction for new album as Boreal MassifNews2019
- Pessimist & Karim Maas - Pessimist & Karim MaasReview2019
- Marco Shuttle - The Vox Attitude Remixes Vol. 2Review2019
- Pessimist partners with Karim Maas for self-titled albumNews2019
- Mix of the day: PessimistNews2018
- Breaking Through: Pessimist Feature2017
- Pessimist - PessimistReview2017
- Pessimist - SpiralsReview2017
- Pessimist - PagansReview2017
Elsewhere
Booking
Bristol, U.K.-based Kristian Jabs produces sparse yet tension-heavy drum'n'bass as Pessimist. His work is sleek, dark, and intelligent, clearly recalling <a href="spotify:artist:3hXDMlrPegHRO0zUvBsRSI">Photek</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0fo0tocXO4ZkkVn3L0VZzB">Source Direct</a>, but forging its own path. His work isn't entirely as gloomy or nihilistic as this name suggests -- releases such as
As published on Resident Advisor
- Plays mostly in
- London, Bristol, Berlin, Amsterdam, Manchester
- Venues
- Corsica Studios, ://about blank, The White Hotel, Garage Noord, M.O.T
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