Afropical

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De Iruña City.
La Tierra.

With over 25 years in the world of Electronic Music in a variety of different roles starting off as a Producer then DJ, then Promoter, DJ Agency Director, Club Manager and lastly Photographer / Online Magazine Editor - it's been a wild ride!

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https://www.mixcloud.com/brockwell/

It all started with epic nights at Final Frontier, Club UK back in the early 90s listening and dancing to Dave Angel, Carl Cox, Sven Vath, CJ Bolland, Colin Dale, CJ Bolland, MR C and many more techno originators and pioneers. From there and going to Leeds University with the Orbit in Morley only a stone's throw away, Rob started to put on nights in 1996, already having started DJing and producing music on Cubase and an Akai 3000. All this culminated in a massive party in 1999 with Andrew Weatherall and Tim Utah (Utah Saints) on a Wednesday in the Leeds Corn Exchange with over 1,000 people dancing away.
After moving to back to his home town of London Rob started putting on a night in Brixton with Marc Richardson called Batch both DJing Acid House mixed with newer electronic sounds. Guest DJs included Colin Dale (Kiss FM, Abstrakt Dance), Jerome Hill (Don't, Kool FM).
In 2005 Rob and Marc organised the Fair4Life Festival in Brockwell Park helping raise awareness of cancer, they were to do a few more festivals over the next few years. Rob also joined forces with Colin Dale to help him setup and manage his DJ agency Wildlife-AM.
Fast forward a few years to 2009 Rob became manager of The Gramaphone, East London with Benji B (BBC Radio 1) already doing his monthly flagship night Deviation there. Here everyone from Floating Points, Gas Lamp Killer, Edan, LTJ Bukem, Anthea, Magaret Dygas, Mala, DJed including Scuba doing a secret HotFlush party. After one last festival this time in East London, Rob left England to move to South America, settling first in Cusco and then in Lima, Peru.  There he ran magazines in Peru's 3 major cities Lima, Cuscoand Arequipa ... this time mostly behind the decks taking photos of DJs rather than spinning tunes.
2019 saw him return to Europe, moving first to Milan and now he currently resides in Barcelona.

Producer - DJ
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Just a gal who enjoys making and mixing music for joy and for a cause ✌️

Bookings email real_djlockdown@outlook.com
For deejay and producer Lockdown, this is the second chapter. And — in the noble tradition of ‘The Godfather, Part
2' and 'The Empire Strikes Back' — it looks like the sequel is set to be even better than the original.

A few years ago, he'd got his foot on the ladder, winning a few competitions and beginning to score himself bookings.
Real grown-up life with all its inconvenient commitments came calling, however, and music was forced to take a back
seat for a while. Then, the combination of redundancy and the covid pandemic unexpectedly presented him with the
time and opportunity to revisit his passion.

(The answer's no, by the way. The pandemic isn't why he's called Lockdown. He always was, so the covid connection is
pure serendipity!)

Having started raving in his native Bournemouth as a teenager — possibly a few years shy of the legal age,
although you didn't hear that from us — his original genres of choice were happy hardcore and old skool. Having been
exposed to classic rock, soul and Motown by his parents, his older brother had introduced him to the electronic side of
things and when he first experienced the atmosphere and energy of a rave, he instantly fell in love with it.

Lockdown was born and there was no going back.

Discovering DnB in room two of a hardcore dance at the sadly now-defunct Manor club was the final piece of the
puzzle. Studying luminaries like Brockie, Nicky Blackmarket, Mampi Swift and Ray Keith gave him the inspiration he
needed to begin collecting DnB vinyl and practising as many hours as he could.

Supplementing all that deejaying practice, a music production course on his return to DnB added another string
to his bow. Now, he's ready to take things to the next level, bringing the maturity of hard-earned professional experience to bear on this next phase of his career.

And that career has been gaining momentum, as has his stylistic progression as a deejay and producer. Techstep,
jump up, liquid, neuro... If you've caught a Lockdown set you'll know he stays well clear of pigeonholes. It's about
taking his audience on a journey through the music, giving them those same wide-eyed vibes he was smitten with back 
at The Manor.
https://www.instagram.com/dj_lockdown_1/

Afropical

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