Based in Vienna, Austria, RoyGreen & Protone are a drum-and-bass production duo made up of Thomas Mondel and Mathias Rauter. Their releases began appearing on Citrus Recordings and Fokuz Recordings in 2011–2012, with the EPs Copyright, Tartagura and Sad Woman.
The EP Nomads EP followed in 2018 on Demand Records. Their music includes jazz-influenced liquid drum and bass, and their releases have also appeared on labels such as Dispatch Recordings, Spearhead Records and Innerground Records. A 2014 single, Jungle Ballad EP, brought them together with BCee and Rowpieces, and they also released the single “Jazzypants” that year. In 2018, they joined LSB, Mystic State and Submarine on Requisites #3.
In 2019, they collaborated with Ben Soundscape and Ill Truth on “Captivated (ft. Tali) / Diversion (ft. Rick Payne)”; the same collaborators joined them for “Kai / Adversity” in 2020. The 2021 releases included the EP Jazzypants EP and Quake / Warman Isotropik Remix, which features a remix. In 2022, the duo worked with Monologue on the EP Far Outta Space EP, issued by Demand Records; its title track is a collaboration with Monologue. They have also collaborated with Ill Truth on releases and remixed Bilal featuring Robert Glasper’s “Butterfly”. In 2024, they released Infiltrate / Scnorchl on Dispatch Recordings.
In 2022, they released the two-track No Barriers / Turn Fine on Dispatch Limited, their first Dispatch release as featured artists. They also collaborated with Monologue on “AOO / Fallout,” released by Dispatch Recordings. Their work with Monologue includes the two-track release Dispatch Blueprints 024, credited to RoyGreen, Protone and Monologue. The duo’s releases also include Ancient Soul EP on Spearhead Records.
In 2023, the duo released the EPs Eagle’s Point and Handcracked, as well as “Rush” with Ben Soundscape on Sofa Sound. Their release credits also include “Infiltrate” on Dispatch Recordings.