Sanity Clause (Original Mix) - Fassade Records

Kontrol Room is a DJ/production duo, comprising of Chris Page and Dave Johnys. After playing back-to-back Traktor sets at London’s Kai-Zen parties, they found themselves wanting to enhance the scope of their performances beyond alternately mixing tunes for the whole set. They took inspiration from Chris Liebing & Speedy J’s Collabs outfit to devise an advanced live setup for subsequent performances.  They now command 2 mixers, 2 laptops, various midi controllers and a synth during their sets. The sheer scale of their setup has had London talking and eventually dubbing the pair “Kontrol Room”.  The name stuck, and the pair continue to collaborate.

Chris’ ever-increasing dexterity as a producer, along with his avid love of technology, have led him to the fully digital DJing methods he now champions, which are a far cry from his beginnings as a DJ back in 2003. On the controversy that frequently surrounds the subject of digital DJings, Chris says: “I think too much emphasis is placed upon the skill of beat-matching. I personally feel, that that skill counts for about 10% of being an good DJ. You might be able to string together 10 tracks, solidly, but they completely fail to ignite a dance floor. What use is that? With technology thats able to free up so much time, your able to concentrate on picking the right tune, set direction, creative flair, and crowd connection”. His dark, rhythmic techno often draws upon the sounds he hears in everyday life, making heavy use of field recordings. Chris has releases on Affin, BCR, Gynoid, and Shapeless.

On shaping his production style, Dave attributes his influences from his earlier interests in hard house, house & tech house.  His debut release, Remedy EP, came in July 2011 on Resopal Schallware, followed later that year by a release on Progrezo Records. “Playing the way we do as Kontrol Room gives us the opportunity to experiment a lot with tracks, loops and samples. We’ve essentially got 10 decks each to play with which gives us enormous potential to do something different”.

Kontrol Room joint productions were the inevitable next step after Chris and Dave formed their DJ partnership. Their combined production approach takes considerable influence from the way they conduct their live sets, as well from the music they include from other artists. So far, Kontrol Room have released on Backwater Community Recordings and there’s great promise of more to come, as they continue to experiment with their latest production ideas, even during their performances.

KR

Diy free-party crew 88’-99’ need  I have to say any more…I’ve matured musically over past 8 yrs which was the last time I listened to any house music in any kind of block listening. It went to head and I burned myself out I guess  to much of a good thing cracked me. 
           So coming out of retirement I now feel re born thx to oxfords simple nights at bullingdon cowley rd oxford. And a gig request at esp jo’burg( due to my spine bak breakages that git cancelled which was the reason I came out of retirement like) so I went to see dj Chloé Robinson @ Simultaneously les production night, Bullingdon arms OX4, and this drive me to drag my cd satchels out and my vinyl cases get sum dexs highjack a 4channel mixer off my dad,(rock&r I’ll dj) and got myself re going everything sat on boxes they came in anything just to get the vinyl’s spinning yeah!!! This was April 23 and my accident was may 23’. 
       so im re learning with better mixing styles and effect-usage, digital sampling ￼￼but at the heart of it all is my luv for DiY the ethos the music the parties being there when it waa all happening getting to know the family well and feelings the losses very deaply when two members left our mortal-coil, god bless Pete and Simon thankyou for all your music and encouragement.
     So I’m experimenting better recording and production softwares that have developed since I last used them… so let’s see what happens ( big thankyou to all the diy family and S4g/DiY disks). 
Dave_DiY S-2-G recording, OX4.