Surusinghe announces ‘Cutting Thread’ EP on dh2, featuring Warrior Queen, with club single ‘FRIED’ out now via Dirty Hit’s electronic sub-label
Surusinghe has announced her new EP Cutting Thread, arriving this summer via dh2, the Dirty Hit club sub-label founded and operated by The 1975’s George Daniel. Alongside the announcement, she has shared the EP’s lead single “FRIED,” out now, a slab of raw, rugged electronics that signals exactly what kind of record this is going to be. The EP also features a collaboration with Jamaican MC Warrior Queen, one of the most distinctive voices in UK soundsystem culture, a pairing that makes immediate sense given Surusinghe’s long history of pulling from London’s most pressurised musical spaces. Surusinghe came up inside London’s club network, absorbing system sounds across years of weekends spent in the rooms where the city’s most forward-thinking music was being played and tested. That education is the foundation of everything she makes. Fusing low-end pressure with house, techno, and the harder-to-name sounds that fall in between, she has built a reputation as one of the UK’s most reliable and instinctive club producers, with a back catalogue spread across tastemaker labels including AD93, Steel City Dance Discs, and Tra Tra Trax. Her first dh2 release, the four-track EP “i can’t remember the name of this, but that’s ok,” which landed in June 2025, was described by DJ Mag as “tightly-wound club gear” and arrived amid festival appearances at Glastonbury, Dekmantel, and GALA. Cutting Thread is her second project for the label.
Warrior Queen and the Soundsystem Connection
The inclusion of Warrior Queen on Cutting Thread is the EP’s most significant detail. A Jamaican MC who has been a fixture in UK soundsystem and dubstep culture for over two decades, Warrior Queen’s voice carries a weight and authority that few vocalists in the dance world can match. Her presence on a Surusinghe record is not a feature booking. It is a statement of lineage, a direct line between the soundsystem traditions that shaped London club culture and the electronic production that carries those traditions forward in 2026. Surusinghe spoke about the EP’s connection to her London roots. “We were out every weekend and around music because that’s where our people were, that’s what we had to do,” she said. It is a quotation that does not need unpacking. The music came first. The career came after.
‘FRIED’ and the dh2 Roster
Lead single “FRIED” is, as Clash put it, “a serious club weapon.” A burst of digital energy, the track operates at the intersection of dub pressure and contemporary electronics, its construction raw and deliberately abrasive. It belongs on large systems, in dark rooms, at volume. dh2 itself has developed into one of the more interesting imprints in the UK electronic space since its launch, with a roster that now includes Kelly Lee Owens, BODHI, Cameo Blush, Kassie Krut, and Olof Dreijer of The Knife alongside Surusinghe. George Daniel’s vision for the label has consistently prioritised club function and sonic seriousness over commercial accessibility, and Cutting Thread fits that brief exactly. A release date for the full EP has not yet been confirmed beyond a summer window.
