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British drummer, composer, producer, and electronic musician.

Born: 30 April 1991 in London, England, UK.

Winner of the 2014 Worshipful Company of Music young jazz musician of the year award, the MOBO Awards 2015 best jazz act, and the John Peel 'Play More Jazz Award’ from the 2016 Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards.

Boyd has worked and collaborated with the likes of Lonnie Liston Smith, Ed Motta, Little Simz, Four Tet, Floating Points, Sampha, Zara McFarlane, Gilles Peterson, and many more, as well as leading his own outfits The Exodus and Solo Exodus which infuses jazz, grime and electronica influences.

His album [m=1683889] (2020) was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2020.

Boyd also releases music under his own label Exodus Records.

ALBUMS


Greg Foat, Jihad Darwish & Moses Boyd
Opening Time
2025, LP, Album, Ltd, Blue Crystal Records (2), ,
Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz
NIJI*, Moses Boyd
Sounds Of The City
2023, File, AAC, Single, 256, Aeronautics Records
Art Themen, Greg Foat & Baldo Verdu & Moses Boyd
Four Sides To Every Story
2022, 12", Ltd, 180, The Vinyl Factory, ,
Free Improvisation
SW2 & Moses Boyd
Bridge The Gap / Dirty South
2021, 12", GD4YA, ,
Breaks/UK Garage/Future Jazz
Moses Boyd
B.T.B / 2 Far Gone
2020, 10", Not On Label
Moses Boyd
Dark Matter
2020
Moses Boyd
Absolute Zero
2017
Various
Shouts: 5 Years Of Rhythm Section INTL
2020, 36xFile, FLAC, Comp, Rhythm Section International, ,
House/Breaks/Downtempo/Broken Beat/Future Jazz/Techno
Yazmin Lacey
Morning Matters
2020
Ashley Henry
Beautiful Vinyl Hunter
2019, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Zara McFarlane With Dennis Bovell
East Of The River Nile
2019, Vinyl, ,
Dub
Zara McFarlane
All Africa
2017
Zara McFarlane
Arise
2017, ,
Soul-Jazz
The Ongoing Project
Presenting... The Ongoing Project
2015, CDr, Not On Label
Theon Cross
Fyah
2019, Vinyl, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Theon Cross
Aspirations EP
2015, 5xFile, FLAC, Not On Label (Theon Cross Self-released)
Binker And Moses
Escape The Flames
2020
Moses Boyd Exodus
Displaced Diaspora
2018
Binker And Moses
Alive In The East?
2018
Binker and Moses
Fete by the River
2017
The Peter Edwards Trio
A Matter Of Instinct
2016, CD, Edwards Music Productions
Binker And Moses
Dem Ones
2015
The Peter Edwards Trio
Safe and Sound
2014, CD, Album, Edwards Music Productions

APPEARANCES +


Moses Boyd
Stranger Than Fiction
2019, 2xFile, FLAC, Single, Exodus (8)
Nubya Garcia
Source ⧺ We Move
2021
Ty
Eyes Open (Moses Boyd Remix)
2018, File, WAV, Jazz Re:freshed
NIJI*
Oriki
2025, CD, Album, AERONXUTICS
Greg Foat & Forest Law
Midnight Wave
2025, LP, Album, Ltd, Blue Crystal Records (2), ,
New Wave/Soul-Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Contemporary Jazz
Greg Foat & Gigi Masin
The Fish Factory Sessions
2024, LP, Album, RSD, Ltd, Tra, Strut, ,
Jazz-Funk/Ambient/Downtempo/Modern Classical
Louis Vi
Earthling
2023, 2xLP, Album, Bioplastic, Del, HiyaSelf Recordings Unlimited, ,
RnB/Swing
DARGZ
Happiness
2023, LP, Album, Pin, Papercup Records
Greg Foat & Gigi Masin
Dolphin
2023
Joe Armon-Jones
No Weapon
2022, 10", Ltd, Dub, Aquarii Records
Joe Armon-Jones & Asheber
No Weapon
2022, 2xFile, FLAC, Aquarii Records
Quinn Oulton
Alexithymia
2022, 12", DeepMatter
August Rosenbaum
Songs People Together
2022, LP, Album, Escho
Village Of The Sun
First Light
2022
Binker & Moses*
Feeding The Machine
2022, Vinyl Eco Coloured, 180gr,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Fatima (12) & Joe Armon-Jones
Tinted Shades
2022, Vinyl, ,
Future Jazz/Neo Soul
Nubya Garcia
Source ⧺ We Move
2021
Jools Holland
Pianola, Piano & Friends
2021
Daniel Casimir
Boxed In
2021, ,
Jazz-Funk/Soul-Jazz/Fusion/Future Jazz
Greg Foat
Symphonie Pacifique
2020, CD, ,
Jazz-Funk
Tori Handsley
As We Stand
2020
Village Of The Sun (2) Feat. Binker And Moses
Village Of The Sun / Ted
2020
Joe Armon-Jones
Turn To Clear View
2019, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Max de Wardener
Kolmar
2019
Greg Foat
The Mage
2019
Oscar Jerome
Where Are Your Branches?
2018, 12", EP, Not On Label (Oscar Jerome Self-released),
Louis Vi
SUGAR LIKE SALT
2018
Sons Of Kemet
Your Queen Is A Reptile
2018, 2x Vinyl, ,
Afrobeat/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Avant-garde Jazz
Joe Armon-Jones
Starting Today
2018
Various
We Out Here
2018, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Khalab*
Black Noise 2084
2018
Blue Lab Beats
Xover
2018
Various
Brownswood 10
2017, 21xFile, FLAC, Comp, Brownswood Recordings
Mura Masa
Untitled (feat. Moses Boyd)
2017, File, MP3, Single, Polydor
Binker ∞ Moses*
Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
2017
Daniel Casimir
Escapee
2017
Nubya Garcia
Nubya's 5ive
2017, Vinyl,
Moses Boyd Exodus
Time And Space
2016, 4xFile, MP3, EP, 320, Not On Label (Moses Boyd Exodus Self-released)
Oscar Jerome
Oscar Jerome
2016, 12", EP, Not On Label (Oscar Jerome Self-released),
Sonzeira
Tam... Tam... Tam...! Reimagined
2016
Moses Boyd Exodus
Footsteps Of Our Fathers E.P.
2015, 4xFile, MP3, EP, 320, Not On Label (Moses Boyd Exodus Self-released)
Jasmine Power
Stories & Rhymes
2015
Holiday Sidewinder
Carousel
2014, 7", S/Sided, W/Lbl, Not On Label (Holiday Sidewinder Self-Released),
Zara McFarlane
If You Knew Her
2014
Warm Days Feat Khensy
Sunrise
2011, File, WAV, Single, Warm Days
Various
Bleep 100 Tracks 2020
2020, 100xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Bleep (2), ,
Ambient/Deep House/Techno/Ghettotech/Experimental
Various
Compilation For Dominica
2018, File, AIFF, MP3, WAV, Comp, Rhythm Section International, ,
Breaks/Disco/Deep House
Various
Rough Trade Counter Culture 2016
2017, 2xCD, Comp, Rough Trade (3)
Various
Musicity London
2017, Cass, Album, Comp, Ltd, Musicity (2), ,
Ambient/Experimental/Techno/Neofolk
Soccer96
XPLAYMIX 50
2016, File, MP3, Mixed, 192, Xplaylist
Various
I'm Free
2003, CD, Righteous Corner