Dave Owens' DJ career took off by the turn of the millennium and over the last few years he has graced the decks at clubbing institutions such as Insomniacz, Housework, Insekt, Byte, Ultim-8, Incisions, Hard Up North, Out of Order, Toast, Housewives Choice, Forbidden and he also held a residency at PureFilth in Manchester.

Dave's productions are very much at the hard end of the dance spectrum with releases on some of the scene's toughest Hard House & NRG labels. He works closely with Nik Denton, keeping Toolbox Music in top shape, as well as manage the Toolbox Recordings sub-label, Hammerheads and Turtle Dog Digital

Effective Podcast 

Effective Podcast by Dave Owens

A nostalgic late 90's/early noughties raver,  love underground 90’s Hard Trance, Techno, Trance, Deep House, Dark Wave and slammin' Hard House.

Still reminisce fondly about Provocation (run by Frantic/Convergence) -  Office Bar, London, 6am Sunday start! Nothing better than Spencer Freeland and Phil Reynolds B2B, surrounded by the most crazy and broad minded crowd in the world!

djstefangrainger@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/stefangrainger


At a very early age Stefan developed a passion for dance music but, it wasn't until he was 17 years old, and had discovered an event called Tangled in Manchester, that his passion led him down the road to the DJ booth.  After watching DJ's week in, week out, in awe of what they did and how they did it, he took the plunge and invested in a pair of inexpensive belt drive decks on which he learned the fundamentals of beat matching and mixing.  As the love for trance, house and the harder side of house grew, so did the need to upgrade his setup.  After purchasing a shiny new pair of Technics 1210 mk2's Stefan secured a spot at the School of Sound Recording in Manchester where he learned new skills, and gained valuable insight into promotional management.  After this, he then completed a Radio Production course with Mancat College to further his knowledge of the music business and was a semi-finalist in the National Superstar DJ Competition in 2004.

Soon to follow were gigs at some of the big events of that time, notably, TOAST, SIN:ERGY, PUREFILTH, AFFINITY and FUSED. Also, under the management of Logical DJ Agency, he played regular 5 hour funky house sets at Bar Ca in Manchester.

After an 8 year absence from the scene due to personal reasons, the love for dance music was still there... 2020 saw Stefan return to DJ'ing, but this time using the digital format. Posting regular trance and hard house sets to his SoundCloud, his audience began to grow at a quick rate and he has since featured on Wanted Underground Sounds birthday livestream as well as on JamJam Radio alongside the likes of Lab4 and HTE, where he reached an audience of thousands.  In 2021 he played his first gig for the new hard dance brand Meltdarn in Barnsley, with whom he then went on to secure a residency with. Stefan entered the System Damage DJ competition and came a very commendable 2nd place which secured him a gig at their event in Leicester. Most recently in 2022, Stefan has been playing at gigs up and down the country and went on to secure another residency with a new hard dance brand, Exile Events, playing his first gig for them in Weston-super-Mare along side the likes of Tom Berry, Jason Nawty, General Bounce and many others. Stefan will making his London debut for the Noise Addicts Afterparty in August 2023 and his first collab track 'Alright' with Bass Jumper has recently been signed to Hi-Five Digital due for release in late Summer.

Stefan Grainger, a DJ to keep your eyes on, is a multi genre artist of obvious talent whose sets of house, trance and hard house are bursting with the best of classic, upfront, and often unreleased tracks. 

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Effective Recordings & Clubnight Effective.
Any info needed contact  : gavinkinsella56@yahoo.com


Spending many hours in the studio Wizard decided to set up his label Effective Recordings in 2011 for most of his own releases and also tracks from Karim, Dave Owens,Pierce Rooney,Ross Homson, Kirsty Lee James, Claire Browne, Jay Pepper + more!!  

The label was nominated for Best New Label of 2011 in The Hard House Awards 2012 

The label features Groovy , Uplifting and Tough hardhouse tracks! 

Track submissions send your demos to: gavinkinsella56@yahoo.com