Music
2013 Headlining & Live Acts
Derrick May
Of the Belleville Three, the cadre of early Detroit producers who tested the limits of spirit within electronic dance music and changed the integrity of the form forever, Derrick May’s reputation as an originator remained intact despite more than a decade of recording inactivity.
While Juan Atkins is rightly looked at as the godfather of techno, with a recording career beginning in the electro scene of the early ’80s and encompassing some of the most inspired tracks in the history of dance music; and Kevin Saunderson is the Detroit producer with the biggest mainstream success through his work with vocalist Paris Grey as Inner City, May’s position as an auteur eroded slightly during the 1990s due to a largely inexplicable lack of activity. As far as influence counts as part of the equation, however, May recorded the techno tracks which top dance producers point to as the most original and influential. The classic Derrick May sound is a clever balance between streamlined percussion-heavy cascades of sound with string samples and a warmth gained from time spent in Chicago, enraptured by the grooves of essential DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles. May’s Transmat Records label was the home of his best material, cuts like “Nude Photo,” “Strings of Life,” “Kaos” and “It Is What It Is,” most produced from 1987 to 1989 as Rhythim Is Rhythim. And though his release schedule all but halted during the 1990s, he continued DJing around the world and honed Transmat into one of the most respected techno labels in the world. http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/derrickmay/biography
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DJ Harvey
DJ Harvey (not to be confused with PJ) is no stranger to rhythm. He started off an a drummer in punk bands with names like ‘Ersatz’ and ‘Your Dinner’ – John Peel even played his stuff on the radio when Harvey was just thirteen.
By the mid-eighties, Harvey had bought a pair of decks and began cutting up breaks as part of the Tonka Sound System, a collective of alternative DJs, musicians and sound people, throwing warehouse parties and jams such as at the Zap in Brighton, England.http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/djharvey/biography |
DJ Pierre- live acid house DJ Pierre is one of the hardest working men in the music business. After more than a decade of producing innovative and cutting edge underground house music, the master creator is at the height of his burgeoning career, and shows no signs of slowing down.
DJ Pierre is the quintessential dance producer. With his finger on the pulse of today’s underground house scene, he is shaping the present and laying the ground work for the future. Pierre is currently laying down tracks for his forthcoming full-length opus and in the midst of starting his own underground dance label.My music is the center of my world says the beat master “Once I get the vibe going, I can’t stop. It’s an intense feeling, fusing the rhythm and beats in an underground groove that makes the dance floor shake and people move. It’s a very spiritual evolution for me — one that I take very serious. http://www.facebook.com/DJPIERREACIDHOUSE
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Charles Webster
Born Matlock UK mid 60’s, education; comprehensive followed by photography at art school.Started making music at 15 in Sheffield electronic bands. Moved to Nottingham 1984. Started working in studios, writing tracks for emerging hip-hop outfit The Rock City Crew, then with early techno/house bods T Cut F.
Worked in studios with Derrick May, Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. Started DJ’ing in clubs like Nottingham’s Garage, Barracuda, Eden and Venus.Became in-house engineer at Square Dance Studios. Began working as “Sine”, released three singles; all were well received. Sine became the starting point for the now-trademark deep/soulful/house sound that culminated in the booty-busting club classic “Belgium” under the name of “Megatonk”. http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/cwebster/biography
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Monty Luke
2010 – Mothership Phase One Mix – Mothership
2009 – Monty Luke – Panik Attack – Mothership 2008 – Catz n Dogz(feat. Monty Luke)- Confusion/Face It – Mothership 2007 – ML Tronik – Traktor Beam 2007 – Monty Luke & Tasho – Paranoid – Mothership 2002 – Loopwreckas – What U Feel – 3PA/Imperial Dub http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/montyluke
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>40 Thieves
40 Thieves is a San Francisco based dance music collective with Corey Black, Layne Fox, Jay WIlliams (aka Jaswho?) at the helm. Friends, vocalists and fellow musicians contribute ideas along the way, and driving it all is the insatiable and mutual desire to create lasting, emotive, and sometimes hilarious music.
Styles can range from psychedelic disco and blues to proto-house and acid, with influence stemming from years collecting records by artists like Larry Levan, Francois Kevorkian, Patrck Adams, Patrick Cowley, Arthur Russell, Sly & Robbie, Ron Hardy, Larry Heard, Kraftwerk, James Brown, Funkadelic, Chaz Jankel, Indeep and Liquid Liquid have all impacted the 40 Thieves sound.Formed in 2005, 40 Thieves work slowly, and have only released a small handful worth of originals, and a handful of well selected remixes and edits to date. They have appeared on the labels Rong, Permanent Vacation, Chinatown, Tirk, Supersoul, and Strut, with new material for 2011 and beyond finding its way to the limited masses via Claremont 56′s sexy sister, Leng. Their remake of the obscure 70′s disco classic by Hot Chocolate, Don’t Turn It Off (feat. Qzen) Brennan Green version was named #2 of 2009 year by DJHistory.com and landed at the top of Beatport’s best of the decade in 2010.The Thieves came together much like other music groups probably do… Corey is the funny charismatic one with a masters in literature, and founded the seminal SF house label, imperial DUB recordings in the mid 90′s. He got to tour the globe with the very first wave of rave jocks and eventually found his way into the studio with friend Ben Cook to form The Triangle Orchestra. In addition to a handful of well regarded ep’s and remixes for the great labels of the moment, they finished a few songs that would become the first release for Ben and DJ Spun’s soon-to-be label, Rong Music.http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/40thieves/biography
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MUDDaka Paul Murphy
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TONE OF ARC- live San Francisco producer Derrick Boyd, aka Dead Seal, now Tone OF Arc, a duo/band production with partner/vocalist Zoe Presnick have been making music for most of their lives. Two of those special individuals possessed with a wide range of musical expression, bringing a glimpse of real musicality to the underground tech house and indie house scene
They sing, play guitar, bass, and keys, and all this live too. Tone Of Arc’s powerful stage presence drawn from old school cats like Iggy Pop, The Clash, and Bowie helps to partially define the originality of his music. Boyd has been a recording junkie since his teens. Boyd has created a volume of more than a two hundred songs and tracks which he jokingly refers to as his “Dead Seal Scrolls”. In the midst of all their activity, a debut full length album on the ever expanding inspirational house record label No.19 owned by Nitin and Jonny White of Art Department is due at the end of summer in 2012 with 3 Ep’s to be released before so marking a long and anticipated wait of 2 years dedication to execute a perfect album release. Come short they have not and their live set completes the experience %110.
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C.L.A.W.S.- live |
SAFEWORD- live |
