A preview of another remix I did for Tru Thoughts this year. Back to the bass for this one. A no-nonsense, heads-down club track.

This will be available on the forthcoming Shapes 10:01 bargain-priced double CD (and maybe on vinyl too, like the last Shapes compilation, I'm not 100% sure).

Azaxx - Autumn Dreamy (Hint Remix) SNIPPET

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bio taken from forge dj agency! Born & bred in Walthamstow, London, Mr Cook’s love for music started at an early age. As soon as he thought he looked old enough he was out clubbing!

At the tender age of 14 he attended his first rave and, like many kids his age he hung aro...und with, he knew this was the start of something very exciting. Sure enough, a friend had arranged tickets for him to the legendary Dance 91 at Pickets Lock. Prodigy performed live that night and ‘Charley’ became the tune that stuck in his head. There was a real awakening that night for Ben and the very next day he decided that house music was where his heart would take him. To this day he insists that, that night changed his life.
When the hardcore rave sound morphed and became a new genre called Drum & Bass Mr Cook’s true musical taste began to unravel. Over time the D&B sound became darker and raving more dangerous, so Mr Cook would spend more time listening to the US garage and UK house sound older friends listened to. He went to Ibiza in 1994 with seven mates on a typically mad club 18-30 holiday and the Balearic house sound grabbed a hold of his soul! Back in London he took up DJing and started clubbing again at The Epping Forest Country Club which became his clubbing home up until its closure in 2002!
In the early part of 1999 Cooky (as he is known to his mates) gained a residency on Saturday night’s at a wine bar in Chingford, Essex. He started appearing on the east London based Shine FM pirate radio station. He would play soulful D&B and old skool house and garage with a couple old pals and they became the Out Cry Syndicate. The OCS express became essential listening for the local raver’s on the manor. Ben fell in love with the whole pirate radio way of life and would spend up to 10 hours sometimes in the studio. The show eventually gained respect from the other people involved at the station and got great feedback from the public. Shine FM boosted his profile and soon enough Mr Cook was asked to play at the now infamous Sunshine Daze at the Scala, Kings Cross in London. Those series of parties sold out each time and Mr Cook became an in demand name on the scene in east London. He was also asked to play at the Warehouse in Edmonton & Faces nightclub in Essex. He was asked to play at the legendary BIG parties held by Ford house, the notorious after parties which ran from 5am until 3pm. After that, The Waterfront in Canary Wharf became the only place to be on Sunday nights and ran until 2am Monday morning…
Ambition led him to move to another pirate station and after appearing for a while on Passion FM, the legendary Centreforce had reformed and was returning to broadcast underground music to the east London populace. He took up the challenge of Saturday’s and would play marathon sets through out the night and sleepless weekend’s DJing at BIG. When Centreforce decided to push for a legal license Cooky joined RINSE FM on Saturday nights appearing from 12midnight until 2am.from 2009 to 2012! Mr Cook then had a weekly show called 'THE SUNDAY FLEX' every sunday 12-2pm 'THE SUNDAY FLEX' now resides on THE UNDERGROUND SESSIONS www.ugsradio.com every sunday 2pm till 4pm podcasts posted on my www.mixcloud.com/djmrcook

Mr Cook has played at the world famous Fabric,Ministry of Sound, Hidden @ studio 33, The Scala, Seone, The Rhythm Factory, Herbal and Aquarium in Shoreditch, Last year he appeared on his first foreign DJ experience at the Beachlent event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Mr Cook has the bug and his music can only be described as QUALITY UNDERGROUND! The world better take a listen…

Dancefloor-orientated beats and grooves inspired by the tropical flavours and rhythms of Brazil.

French DJ/producer Azaxx is a signing to Tru Thoughts for 2009, although his talents originally came to the label’s attention through his killer track “Fiesta Tropical”, which was duly snapped up for Tru Thoughts’ ‘Shapes 07:02’ compilation in 2007. Building on the success of that cut, and with a whole set of sizzling new tracks up his sleeve, he is back, and his forthcoming long player is set for release in March. Aptly entitled ‘The Exotic Delight Bay’, his full Tru Thoughts debut sees Azaxx mixing up the styles from Brazilian flavours and rhythms to Bmore and breaks with a quirky yet sophisticated Gallic touch.

Azaxx, a native of Rennes, started out as a DJ playing trip hop from labels like Mo Wax and Source in the early days, but quickly moved on to drum ‘n’ bass from key players such as Roni Size, Hype and Congo Natty. Not completely satisfied with these reggae-laced beats and becoming more interested in the original samples behind the more liquid funk side of the sound, he delved deeper into drum ‘n’ bass heritage. “I think this happens when you are into music – you inevitably start looking back at what influenced that genre. This led me to buying many funk/soul originals and playing slower, funkier big beat music”, he explains.

With his newly enriched musical palate, Azaxx went on to become an active member of the big beat scene in Rennes, and it was there that he met Freddy Fresh, who became an instant fan, putting out Azaxx’s debut 7”, “Bahia” on his well-regarded Howlin’ Records in 2004. This funky breaks head-nodder gained Azaxx a following across the channel in the UK, most notably gaining air play from the late, great John Peel on BBC Radio 1. In the same year, Azaxx released his debut album on French indie Mobil-Home recordings. Since then he has DJed around Europe and as far afield as Brazil, and in a uniquely intriguing addition to his CV, he has produced records for esteemed Celtic harpist Alan Stivell, aka ‘the father of traditional Celtic music’ from his native Brittany.

While DJing and travelling around in Brazil, Azaxx was blown away by the beats he encountered there, and was inspired to start work on some new material which would become ‘The Exotic Delight Bay’ album. More dancefloor-orientated than previous Azaxx productions, ‘The Exotic Delight Bay’ is packed with the temperature-raising flavours and rhythms that he soaked up on his travels, combined with textures and influences pooled from his grandmother’s collection of old mambo and salsa records and modern jazz, funk and breaks. Using these inspirations and with a nod to the production techniques of the likes of DJ Kam, Funk Mob and Motorbass, Azaxx has created his own unique style which is proving to be a hit with DJs including Pathaan (BBC Asian Network) and Domu (BBC 1Xtra). You can catch Azaxx these days DJing an eclectic cocktail of Latin, jazz, soul, funk, rare groove, breakbeat, broken beat, and ‘60s / ‘70s groove.