Music Producer and DJ from Bristol. House & Garage - get ya groove on.

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UTAH SAINTS (Ministry Of Sound) (ffrr)(London Records)

Utah Saints have been making music, dj’ing and playing gigs around the globe since the birth of House music.

The world renowned duo have released 9 Top 40 UK hits, 4 of which hit the Top 10, and sold over 2 million records worldwide (equivalent to 800m+ streams).
Precariously walking the tightrope between genres and also between the underground and the mainstream, Utah Saints roots are in electronic dance music, having met in a club in Leeds at the beginning of the rave movement in the UK and establishing themselves as pioneers of sampling in dance music.
Alongside this success, they set up and promoted award winning and legendary club nights The Gallery and SugarBeatClub and have recorded and presented shows for BBC Radio 1, Kiss and Ministry of Sound. 
Utah Saints are still very much at the top of their game and are out dj’ing regularly each month as well as curating festival stages and putting on an eclectic range of nights. They have played alongside everyone from DJ Zinc to Justice, Zane Lowe to A-Trak, Friendly Fires to Boys Noize and U2 to Public Enemy. They have djed at over 3000 events, from underground clubs to festival mainstages.

When the pioneering DJs aren’t playing at clubs and festivals in various parts of the world, they can be found in the studio working hard on their own material and production as well as remixing other artists as varied as Bring Me The Horizon and Girls Aloud.  As well as running a successful record label, the duo have now added film scores, soundtracks, video game music and production music to their ever-expanding portfolio and are planning to release new music as Utah Saints.
Recent accolades include being listed in Rolling Stone in 2022 as one of the 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time with Something Good. 

The remix, Something Good 08, having been the10th most streamed track of 2008 has recently been awarded Gold status in the UK.

"Utah Saints - Legends in the game " - Zane Lowe - Apple Music 
“Two of the most clued up DJs I have ever met” iDJ magazine
“The first true Stadium House band” – The KLF
"These guys invented rave" - Annie Mac BBC Radio 1
“Dance legends” - NME

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Nico has been a DJ for over twenty two years now he first started djing at 14 at underground parties and on the infamous weekend rush fm and from when he got his first residency at bagleys in 1994 for double dipped playing hardcore and drum and bass and playing in the house room he didnt look back the buzz of djing stayed with him, He then became a UK garage DJ in 1995 playing prime time slots for Weekend Rush , KIK fm, De ja vu and Flava fm playing for most of the biggest promoters in the UK such as being a resident at clubs like cafe de paris, klub storm, koo klub, Ministry of sound,The Colosseum,The Scala, Area, club space, EC1 Club, Astoria, Egg Club,Studio 33,Rex club,the island,The venue,Camden palace, club u.n, polo club,The Temple,The Gardening club,The Complex, Bagleys and The Roller Express and playing for promoters such as Trinity, liberty, one nation, garage nation, sun city, pure silk, 4 play, rags to riches, inspiration, telepathy, hysteria, united dance,Dreamscape,Decade of dance,Back 2 89,Dance 93,Plush, La Cosa Nostra, and spoilt 4 choice to name a few, He also played for many one off events around the UK. In london, watford, worthing, brighton, cirencester, folkstone, bristol, swindon, leciester, clacton, norwich and southend bringing him to the largest clubs in the land.Holding a monthly residency in Berne Switzerland and Crash Bar in Kavos in greece Nico played regularly in ireland, ibiza, spain,ayia napa and had a 4 month residency at the Crash and The London bar in greece in 2000.Nico then Moved onto funky house music in 2000/2001 when the garage scene had split and got a prime time slot on passionfmlive.com playing funky house and club classics and after broadcasting on there for over 12 years with various prime time slots.He then moved on to Projectfmlive.co.uk on a friday night for around a year and now finds himself hosting the select cutz s saturday night show from 8 to 10pm  on the uks leading house music provider www.selectukradio.com playing all different genres of underground house mainly deep tech chunky bassline and uplifting vocals but always trying to give people a london cutting edge vibe . Nico has recently played for nights at studio 33 ,Hidden, club supreme, The Colloseum, Scala, Koko, Egg, Shepherds bush empire, Opera house, Fluid, Raduno, Area,Pacha,Ministry of sound, Milton Keynes Complex, Warehouse Ldn the Open and many many more also playing in Greece,ireland and amsterdam. He currently plays for club nights incuding Promised Land, Funkin You, key of life,Hed Kandi,High Definition festival,We r Festival, Play house,Ava Word,House Phenomenon,Philosophy, gallery @ ministry and lets love he also has a brand new residency at his own night Diversion a new underground house night in london currently at Warehouse LDN and also has a monthly residency at the same club. After winning the made in shoreditch Dj competition in june 2012 Nico had been given residency at Mcqueens in shoreditch on a thursday night for made in shoreditch. Nico has a great love for music and has also produced house music he has completed a city and guilds in sound engineering a OCN in music production,a logic production course and a diploma in music production some of his material can be found on beatport.com,i tunes,spotifyy and junodownloads.co.uk and most major music download sites his production style varies from vocal house and garage to breakbeat to the new deep tech baseline styles. He is currently working on new material to be released soon on his own labels Icon records and dance 2 this records recently collaborating with cory from the 90s group Damage and they are to be released through baseware distribution to beatport.com and all your favorite music download sites in the near future. So look out for them and Nico around town ! peace,love and respect.......

Home of DJ Jedi, Cantina Cuts and Jedi Recordings. DJ since 1996, producer and label owner since 2001. Here you can listen to my tracks and mixes. To book me for your event, please drop me a message.

It’s been 25 years since my brother Richard disappeared without a trace yet I still hold out hope that someone out there may have information that can help us to understand the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. 

Who was the receptionist on duty on the 1st February 1995? 

How can we be sure that it was 7am that he checked out of the hotel when it was not documented by the police? 

What time did Vivian leave the hotel and why did Richard drive to his Cardiff flat to leave behind his passport and toll booth ticket? 

These, along with many, many questions remain unanswered. I make a plea to you that If you have any information that can help us then please contact us via this page, either with a comment or a private message. Thank you for remembering Richard. X

Rachel Edwards - March 2020 


My love of Manic Street Preachers began in the mid 90s after Design For Life had been released. I didn’t know much about them before then. I was 13 years old and starting to get heavily into music. I’d assumed they’d always been a 3 piece band. I’d assumed they were early on in their career but an older friend passed me 3 CD albums to listen to. These were Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul and The Holy Bible.

I’d enjoyed Everything Must Go but these other albums were different. I loved them instantly. There was also another guitarist in the pictures. A fourth member. This was my first exposure to Richey Edwards. In those days I’d devour any and all information on the bands I was listening to. I’d read the inner sleeves from cover to cover, lyrics included. I still do whenever I buy a new album. Those lyrics were astonishing. I was hooked. I still am.

Richey hadn’t been missing long by 1996. I, like most music fans at that time, was both intrigued and concerned at his vanishing. People couldn’t just disappear, could they? I read all the music papers but nobody knew anything. 25 years on they still don’t.

In the quarter of a century that’s since passed, much has changed and happened. I’m a musician myself. For the last 5 years I’ve played in one of my favourite bands, Ocean Colour Scene. More recently I’ve been playing with Gerry Cinnamon which has been a joy. Part of being a working musician is downtime. There’s a lot of it. I’ve always harboured dreams of making documentaries about subjects and people that I’m passionate about. My first foray into that world came in 2016 when I made my Holocaust documentary, The Railway People. This really whet my appetite to do more.

I approached Rachel in 2017 and asked her if I could make a radio documentary about her brother. We spoke a few times and I submitted my pitch which just wasn’t right at the time. It was declined but very amicably and we remained in sporadic touch until last year when we finally met at an OCS gig in Wales. I’d reworked the idea and Rachel had her own thoughts of what it should be and together we made tentative plans to record it sometime in 2020, 25 years on since she last saw her brother.

On January 9th in Glasgow, we sat down and recorded an extensive interview which tells the story like never before.

I'm grateful to Rachel for trusting me with her story.

Ray Meade - March 2020

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