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King Unique - Broadcast #23

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It is one of the most anticipated Global DJ Broadcast episodes every year, and for many a highlight of the summer (no pressure guys!), where I dedicate myself to crafting a special 2 hour mix containing some of the most beautiful melodies and early morning moments that have graced the beaches and shores of Ibiza and beyond - the Sunrise Set.

After 3 months of preparation in ensuring that this would be a journey to remember and appreciated, I showcased it to the world on Global DJ Broadcast, and as requested by the fans, here it is for all of you to enjoy and stream at your leisure. 

Let me know what you think of the mix in the comments. Hope this can be the soundtrack of many special moments with your friends and loved ones watching the sunrise for many years to come.

With love. x


Tracklist:
01. Ferry Corsten - Visions of Blue
02. Tastexperience - Summersault
03. Salt Tank - Eugina (Allende Remix)
04. Phulk D - Beyond (Andrew K Remix)
05. Kosmas Epsilon - Innocent Thoughts
06. DJ Tatana - Spring Breeze (Martin Roth Summerstyle Remix)
07. Carl B - Just a Thought
08. Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) (Leama & Moor Remix)
09. Rex Mundi - Opera of Northern Ocean
10. Reverse - Absolute Reality (Arty Remix / Markus Schulz Big Room Reconstruction)
11. Dido - Stoned (Deep Dish Remix)
12. Booka Shade & M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language (Tocadisco Remix / Markus Schulz Big Room Reconstruction)
13. Chicane - Lost You Somewhere
14. Above & Beyond - Sun in Your Eyes
15. Rene Ablaze featuring Jacinta - You're My Destination (Wellenrausch's Dark Matter Dub)
16. Trilcuid - Departures (Yuri Kane Remix)
17. Anton Firtich - Rain Over the Ocean
18. DJ Observer & Daniel Heatcliff featuring Madeleine Rison - Vision (Lentos Dub)
19. Markus Schulz presents Dakota - Gypsy Room
20. Tilt - Children (Tilt's Couryard Mix)
21. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Original Three n One Mix)
22. Solarstone - Seven Cities (Solarstone's Atlantis Mix)
23. Little Wonder - Eclipse (Fictivision & C-QUence Remix)
24. Elevation - Biscayne
25. Tiesto - 10 Seconds Before Sunrise
26. Rank 1 - Breathing (Markus Schulz Coldharbour Remix)
27. Masters & Nickson featuring Justine Suissa - Out There (Christian Rusch's Chillout Mix)

Markus Schulz - Global DJ Broadcast Sunrise Set 2013

King Unique Broadcast 26 - brand new episode of the greatest mix show on earth, as voted for by you my lovely people with ears. full of beautiful ugly bass music, nu-garage & future-retro house. today is tomorrow is yesterday & i remember them all. tell your friends / tag your friends / shag your friends / share with your friends cos you are me & i am you and we are our own radio show - yes!

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Afriqua ‘Melt’ Lokee Musik

Marco Colombino ‘Grave’ Chronovision Ibiza

Marianto ‘Simple World (Thodoris Triantafillou & CJ Jeff Remix)’ Rhythmetic

Cropper ‘Drift feat. Schumen’ Blah Blah Blah Records

Parachute Youth ‘Cant Get Better Than This (Bodhi Remix)’ Sweat It Out

Shadow Child ft. Tymer ‘23 (Zinc Remix)’ Food Music

Maya Jane Coles ‘Everything feat. Karin Park (Breach Remix)’ I/AM/ME

NT89 ‘to Love (You)’ CD-R

Movement ‘Feel Real (Shadow Child Remix)’ Modular Records

Hrdvsion ‘Feel You're Fading’ Rinse

NT89 ‘Subsequent (Ray Unico Trackapella)’ Food Music

Primal Scream ‘Invisible City (Daniel Avery Kill Light Remix)’ Ignition

Rudimental feat. Foxes ‘Right Here (Hot Since 82 Remix)’ Asylum

Shit Robot ‘Feels Real (Luke Solomun Remix)’ DFA

Joe Goddard ‘Bassline ‘12’ DFA

Samaris ‘Gooa Tungl (Sei A Remix)’ One Little Indian

John Cage ‘Interview from “Écoute”‘ Facets Multimedia Distribution

King Unique Broadcast 26

Here to save you from Friday - King Unique Broadcast 27, recorded exclusively for UMF Radio. A twisting turning journey from the bottom end of your speakers to the twitching corners of your mind - all wrapped up with plenty of boom baboom boom. 

Original bag head sleeve art from that man Charlie Kirk; thanks to all the producers, full track listing below.

Eliphino ‘I Don’t Care’ Hypercolour

Spada & Bonnie Rabson ‘In All Your Glory (OBu Remix)’ Hysterical

Adam Helder ‘Sticks & Stones’ Smiley Fingers

Tom Budden ‘Come 2 Me’ Alive Recordings

Wordlife ‘Small Talk’ Club Mod

Basement Jaxx ‘What A Difference Your Love Makes (Huxley Remix)’ 37 Adventures

Pincer Movement ‘The Motion’ CD-R

Kidnap Kid ‘Survive’ Black Butter

George Fitzgerald ‘I Can Tell (By The Way You Move)’ Double Six

Anushka vs. Carl Bee ‘Constantly Maze’d (King Unique Bootdub)’ CD-R

The Presets ‘Its Cool (Andrew Bayer & James Grant Remix)’ Anjunadeep

Manuel-M ‘Insecure’ Tronic

Joris Voorn ‘Ringo’ Green

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King Unique Broadcast 27

i've done something special for this mix, two hours of King Unique tracks & remixes picked out from fourteen years & ninety releases. i've had a lot of fun pulling out old boxes of vinyl, DAT tapes & CD backups, (not to mention encountering some dodgy old press shots along the way) & even found a couple of unreleased gems from ten years back - original dubs of 'Sugarhigh' & Underworld's 'Two Months Off' anybody?

i've tried to include a little of everything, from early house days on Defected to dark tribal on Junior Boys Own & the melodic techno of Bedrock - plus the remixes for pretty much every major & indie label under the sun. it would've taken four or five hours just to include everyone's favourites in a 'definitive' mix so this is simply how KU looked to me in one week of looking back in 2013. if i missed out your essential KU i'll maybe do this again one day; & of course there's still all those bootlegs lying around doing nothing...

it goes without saying that this mix is as much about my original partner in KU Matthew Roberts as it is about me. we sat in the studio together 5 days a week 8 or 9 hours a day between 1999 & 2006 making this stuff - then scurried home to see our families briefly before heading off to the airport or motorway for the weekend. 

thanks matthew - thanks families x

extra big thank you to the folks at friskyRadio for airing this mix over the last month - here it is finally for you diehard soundclouders - & as a special thank you for waiting so long it's a 320 download 

King Unique Broadcast 28

King Unique Broadcast 18, first aired 22.03.11 on Henry Saiz's 'Labyrinth' show

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Fergie “PCP (King Unique Remix)” Excentric Muzik
Thodoris Triantafillou &amp; CJ Jeff vs. Baboop “Bottle U (King Unique Bootleg)” CD-R
Shadow Dancer “Parallax” Boysnoize
Jonas “Air” Supplement Facts
Edu Imbernon “Niquel” Eklektisch
Jonas “Fiction” Supplement Facts
Stephan Bodzin vs. Marc Romboy “Ferdinand (Gregor Tresher Remix)” Systematic
Daniel Mehes “Idleness” Flow Vinyl
UNKLE “The Answer (King Unique Remix)” Surrender All
Samuel L. Session “Four To The Floor (Part 2)” Ground Factory
Jake Childs “The Fallen” Takt
Ramon Tapia “Pelican (Night Version)” GEM Records
Ian O’Donovan “A Modern Romance” EevoNext

King Unique Broadcast 18 (KU on The Labyrinth pt. 1)

Here it is - KU Broadcast 29 as heard on John Digweed's 'Transitions' - a bit housey, a bit bassy, a bit garagey, a bit techy, a bit proggy - a bit fucking good in fact.

Blossomer  - To The Sea (Pedram Remix)
Corbu – We Are Sound (Doorly Remix)
Booka Shade -  Crossing Borders (feat Fritz Kalkbrenner - Booka Dub Mix)
Facundo Mohr - Twisted (Inxec Remix)
Emma Louise - Boy (Talul Remix)
CHVRCHES - Recover (SoulCircuit Remix)
Mark Henning - Soul Catcher (Original Mix)
King Unique – Raydrop ( 7 hours feat. Natalie Arnold)
Alex Parkin – Zed (King Unique Beat Edit)
Henry Saiz  – Rave Flute (King Unique Remix)
Jamie Stevens – Tribe Of The Disco Kings (King Unique Remix)
Marc Marzenit – Mystery Ocean (Original Mix)
King Unique – Westway (Original Mix)
King Unique – Yohkoh 2014 (King Unique ‘7 Years On Remix’)

First aired on the 21st March 2014 on Transitions. Sleeve art by that Two Cute Dogs geezer as always - thanks Charlie!

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King Unique Broadcast 29 - Transitions 499 Guest Mix

hardcore meets nu-garage meets prog meets tech meets - oh fuck this it's 'big' ok? beatport - get a new genre

Kastis Torrau feat. Amber Long "Menace (King Unique Remix)" Lo Qual Preview

This is another side to the KU sound, a collaboration with my erstwhile KU partner Matthew Roberts & balearic shoegazers Packard Ghost, whose members include Rupert Lyddon of Grand National fame. It's going to be released on Bedrock's "Underground Sound of Ibiza" album next month as both the intro & the closing track of the poolside chill-out disc 1.

Quite a beautiful tune this, very happy to be getting it out into the world.

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King Unique "Brakes (feat. Packard Ghost)" Lo Qual Preview

coming very soon on bedrock, my remix of ian o'donovan versus john digweed & nick muir's "dawnbreaker". big dose of old skool bleep over warped garage organs & beats - progressive house flavours from the days before the genre even existed. get it in you.

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John Digweed & Nick Muir Vs Ian O'Donovan "Dawnbreaker (King Unique Remix)" Lo Qual Preview

King Unique Broadcast 20, first aired 06.07.11 on Voorhaft Web Noise

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“Mo-Yo (King Unique Bootleg)” featuring Kimouts “Moya” Only Records
&amp; Pylon “Yo-Yo (Remix by Calvinist)” DFA Records
Sebastien Leger “Polymod” Mistakes Music
Sebrok &amp; Tassilo “Feel It (Andreas Henneberg Remix)” Paso Music
Thompson feat Jakob Schneidewind &amp; Myele Manzanza “Stellar” Hair Records
MCBZ “Nizam (Funk D’void Remix)” Octopus Recordings
Christian Smith “Fugitive” Bedrock
Benoit &amp; Sergio “Everybody” DFA Records
Bushwacka! “West Side” Olmeto
Funk D’void “Toro” Outpost
Muzarco &amp; Nir Shoshani “Stringer Bell (Marc Marzenit 'Life Cycles' Remix)” Punch Music
John Digweed &amp; Nick Muir “Bilder (King Unique Rebild)” Bedrock
Infusion “Love &amp; Imitation (Guy J Mix)” Vapour Recordings
Henry Saiz &amp; Marc Marzenit “Radiance (King Unique Remix)” Natura Sonoris

King Unique Broadcast 20

a bit of time travel - long lost KU DJ mix from 2001, lots of dark tribal, twisted san-fran dubness, accapellas & fx. this is the sound we were playing at Yellow in Tokyo, Cream in Liverpool, Renaissance in Nottingham - get your rose tinted spectacles out & get your waaaarrrrrp on ;)

Unknown "Freaked Out Preacher"
Silicon Soul "Chic-O-Laa (H-Foundation Remix)"
Ubu "Pixels"
Eddie Amador "The Funk (King Unique Dub)"
Weekend World "Trigger Finger"
Nerva "Scorpion"
The Path "Prayin' (Accapella)"
Mix The House "In The Beginning There Was French Kiss"
Mainframe "Mainframe"
Soul Mekanik "I'll Call You"
R-Factors "G-Explorer"
Thick Dick "Welcome To The Jungle"
Kosheen "Hide U (Creamer &amp; K Mix)"
Sharpside "I Love Techno"
Chocolate Puma "I Wanna Be U (King Unique Mix)"
Unknown "Danze 2 My Beat"


King Unique Promo Mix 2001 -(KU Archive 2001)-

Selected & mixed by Tony Alones.
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King Unique Broadcast 30 - it's here, it's now, it's a musical selfie-brick. download it and throw it through the windows of your mind.

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Charlie Chaplin 'The Great Dictator' Charles Chaplin Film Holdings
Petrels 'Concrete' Denovali Records
Dominik Eulberg 'Der Tanz Der Gluehwuermchen (Kollektiv Turmstrasse ‘Dirt Glow’ Remix) Traum
Heiko Laux &amp; Teo Schulte 'Polyrhythm' Rejected
Maurice Aymard 'El Sexto' MBF Ltd
Maetrik 'Revenge Of Jack' Truesoul
Roland M Dill 'The Return of Maryam Alma' Punch Music
Electric Rescue 'Dope' Bedrock
Luke Abbott 'Brazil Slow' Border Community
Darin Epsilon &amp; Tom Sela 'Metamorph (Luis Junior Remix)' Mesmeric
Marc Romboy Vs Rodriguez Jr 'Picnic Electronique (Deetron Remix)' Systematic
Cid Inc 'Crossfire' Tenampa Recordings
Caytas &amp; Patz 'Are You Afraid (Joel Mull Dub Edit)' Truesoul
Avus 'Staring Into One Eye (Wesley Matsell Remix)' Shabu Recordings
Marco Bailey 'Lotus' Bedrock
Petrels 'Concrete' Denovali Records

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King Unique Broadcast 23
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Rudimental 'Feel The Love (Scuba Remix)' Black Butter
Vangelis 'Interview' Al Jazeera
Vaal 'Eer' Baastard
Hanne &amp; Lore 'Samba Oleg (Tube &amp; Berger Remix)' MBF
David Durango 'South Gate' Espai Music
Yariv Bernstein &amp; Nir Shoshani 'Safe &amp; Sound' Punch Music
Tapesh &amp; Maximiljan 'Clown (Alex Tepper Remix)' Suara
Luke Chable 'Something (King Unique Remix)' Mesmeric
Steve Slight 'Shaolin (SQL's Acid Sauce Remix)' GEM Records
Steve Ward 'Splash Of Green' GEM Records
MGMX 'Supernova' Espai Music
Breccia &amp; Ian O'Donovan 'Frentzen' Espai Music
Andre Sobota 'Time (King Unique Stopped Watch Remix)' microCastle
Marco Bailey &amp; Redhead 'Firestone' MB Elektronics
Olafur Arnalds &amp; Nils Frahm 'a2 (Max Cooper Remix)' Erased Tapes

King Unique Broadcast 23

Monkey Safari - The White Rabbit

Von Anpfiff bis Spielende ganz auf Balltanz eingestellt. 90 Minuten elektronische Tanzmusik für jung und alt.

TRACKLIST:
1. Will Saul, Tam Cooper - Hi Lo (Original Mix)
2. Shigeru Tanabu - Visceral Reaction (Alvaro Hylander Remix)
3. Boris Ross - Fusion (Mark Henning Remix)
4. Dreher & Smart - Brust Oder Keule (Funkwerkstatt Mix)
5. Cuartero - El Africano (Original Mix)
6. Snilloc - Hazy Shade (Original Mix)
7. David Mayer - Crime (Sebastian Voigt & Tom Gillieron Indoor Fireworks Remix)
8. Jun Akimoto, Mabaan Soul - Mississippi Steam (Original Mix)
9. Nicolas Masseyeff - Mugen (Original Mix)
10. Yoshitaca - Just Lay Back (Ittetsu & Jun Akimoto remix)
11. Hobo - ENTER Bang (Original Mix)
12. Dub Taylor - Hidden From The Mind (Original Mix)
13. Losoul - Up The Beach (Original Mix)
14. Maksim Dark - Da Musique (Original Mix)
15. Clio - Poem (Original Mix)

Wedding Party @ Schloss Boitzenburg

Devoted to autumn and it's attitude. Fall. In Love.

TRACKLIST: 
1. Aki Bergen - Get Better (feat. Lazarusman - Akis From London Mix)
2. Amirali - No Doubt
3. Anton Lanski - Catch The Fish
4. Ada - On The Mend
5. Maya Jane Coles - Senseless (Original Mix)
6. Duererstuben - Sonnenblut Am Platz Der Perlen
7. Terje Saether, Malin Pettersen - Scared (Gregorythme Remix)
8. Zev - We All (feat. Greg Paulus)
9. Safeword - Let Go
10. Scsi 9 - Intronome
11. Will Saul - Animal Magic (Original Mix)
12. Tenderheart - Enso (Epic Version)
13. Ziggy Kinder - Fingerkribbel

Artwork: KR123

I've Got A Feeling, It's Autumnmatic

just returned from gigging in australia for the total solar eclipse &, as usual, failed to record any of my sets - so here is a mix reflecting some of the music i played at the eclipse festival, darkbeat in melbourne & sounds on sunday in sydney. hope you enjoy bonnie as much as the crowd did ;)

beautiful sleeve art again from the inimitable two cute dogs © charlie kirk

Bonnie Tyler 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart'
Caribou 'Sun (Kastis Torrau & Arnas D Acapella)'
Soukie & Windish 'Flatmate Ghost'
Underworld 'Two Months Off (King Unique Acapella)'
Kolombo 'Get So Hot'
Odd Parents & Maceo Plex 'Get Enough'
Kolombo 'My Own Business'
Henry Saiz 'Our Discovery'
Solee 'Platinum (Gabriel Ananda Remix)'
Alan Fitzpatrick 'Skeksis'
Eelke Kleijn 'Rauwdouwer'
Henry Saiz 'Uncharted'
Roger Martinez 'Die Magische Tijd'
Luke Chable Presents Lokii 'Something (King Unique Remix)'
Dominik Eulberg 'Offenbach'

King Unique Broadcast 24 - Eclipse Special

take your mind back to july 2001; dark tribal prog rules britain's superclubs & britain's sound rules the world. berlin is not yet officially cool, cigarettes are smoked on dancefloors, dance music slower than 125 bpm is punishable by death & deadmau5 has not yet been born; it is a time of great joy.

the scene is a room full of samplers, synthesizers & class c narcotics - it is chong's palace studio (mark II), lair of king unique & sweating over a remix are two young men called matthew.

ring ring!... ring ring!...ring r-

KU: "hello?"

BBC: "hello it's the bbc here, can i speak to someone from king unique please"

KU: "oh, right - um hello"

BBC: "right - you know how we asked if you'd do a king unique essential mix in the autumn for us?"

KU: "err, yes"

BBC: "well, would you like to do it a bit sooner than we discussed? quite a lot sooner in fact?"

KU: "um... maybe?"

BBC: "great! the thing is (NAME REMOVED AT BBC LAWYER'S INSISTENCE) promised us a mix months ago & they've just told us it won't be ready after all. so you'd be doing us a huge favour if you stepped in"

KU: "right. just out of interest did ali & sharam say why they couldn't do it?"

BBC: "i couldn't possibly comment"

KU: "i see. well, we are insanely busy but we'd obviously like to help.... how soon were you thinking? this month or next?"

BBC: "oh definitely this month. in fact, um, more like, you know, er, this week actually"

KU: "this week!!!!????"

BBC: "...................... yes. by friday night in fact."

KU: "& you're aware that today is wednesday????!!"

BBC: "............................................ yes."

KU: "!"

so there you have it, the behind the scenes story of how we came to turn round our first essential mix in under 72 hours from a standing start, armed only with a mountain of vinyl, several samplers & a huge computer struggling to run 4 channels of pro-tools with less than half the power of a current iphone. this is King Unique Broadcast 0 if you like, the first time we hit the airwaves & not a bad way to start :)

to add to the nostalgia i've included the handy cassette case with tracklisting that Mixmag used to print each month for all the home-tapers out there - if you'd told us about Soundcloud back then we'd have burnt you as a witch.

enjoy the flashback ;)

Essential Mix 15/07/2001 - King Unique

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01. Audision - Yellow Sunset
02. Sebo & Madmotormiquel - Dont Wanna Go To War
03. Powel - I Dont Waste My Tears On You
04. Alcoholic Faith Mission - Tears (Peter A.'s I Stay Another Night Rework)
05. Acid Pauli - Symbiotic (Christopher Schwarzwaelder Remix)
06. Map.Ache - Presents DJ Mapi
07. Canson - Kuma
08. Lukas Bohlender - Club Chateau
09. Lake People - Point In Time
10. Jimpster feat. Simon Jinadu - These Times (Maunel Tur Remix)

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Stiff Little Spinners ByteFM Mix - #21

For the day after the day after tomorrow, better serve this chilled.

TRACKLIST:
1.) Wechsel Garland - Be, Baby (Lawrence Edit)
2.) Avatism, Clockwork (CW) - Archetype (Original Mix)
3.) Günther Lause - Mountain (Original Mix)
4.) Sinan Kaya - Smoke In The Streets (Original Mix)
5.) Soul Camp - Walk With Me (Silicone Soul Remix)
6.) SCSI-9 - Schaukel Duo (Original Mix)
7.) Edgar Peng - Dear Universe (Original Mix)
8.) Andreas Bergmann - Redo (Original Mix)
9.) The Drifter - Lovers (Original Mix)
10.) Frivolous - CND Cube Vans (Original Mix)
11.) Matthew Dear - Fighting Is Futile (Seth Troxler Remix)

Artwork: Tobias Schmidt & Krise

Les Temps Froids

Coming up:
15/10 - 17/10: DGTL during ADE 

15/10: DGTL presents Maya Jane Cole and friends - http://on.fb.me/1SOFv1O
Maya Jane Coles - Bonobo (DJ-Set) - Dusky - Mount Kimbie (DJ-Set) - Heidi - Cinnaman

16/10: DGTL presents Paradise - http://on.fb.me/1LZpVSk
Jamie Jones - Eats Everything - Davide Squillace - Jackmaster - Richy Ahmed - Patrick Topping - wAFF - Denney - Russ Yallop

17/10: DGTL presents Kompakt - http://on.fb.me/1MzzRSw
Maceo Plex - Kölsch (Live) - Michael Mayer - Barnt - Hunter/Game (Live) - Weval (Live) - Coma (Live) - Patrice Bäumel - Fango
 
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Dan Caster Promo Mix June 2013

this is our nearly 3 hour live set from Webster Hall in NYC on June 1st 2013

track list can be found here: http://www.1001tracklists.com/tracklist/30789_gabriel-dresden-at-webster-hall-new-york-city-united-states-2013-06-01.html

track #10 is definitely an ID





Gabriel & Dresden Live at Webster Hall, NYC 06-01-13

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King Unique is Matt Thomas, an all round studio junkie and dj with a taste for tripped-out cosmic techno and rough-edged underground house; in a career spanning nearly a decade KU’s distinctive sound has won an enviable global following. A ceaseless schedule of dj sets and festival gigs backed up by relentless studio sessions resulting in scores of records, remixes and radio broadcasts has made the KU sound an instantly recognizable part of the music-life of millions of the world’s clubbers - and a fixture in the vinyl crates, cd wallets and laptops of the world’s most influential djs. Consistently appealing across genres the tracks have been played by everyone from John Digweed to Soulwax, Richie Hawtin to Tiesto, and have turned up everywhere from Hollywood soundtracks to mobile ringtones - not to mention countless compilations and mix albums.  

Formed in 2001 by Matt Thomas & Matthew Roberts, King Unique hit the floor running, claiming the title of Undisputed Remix Champs by scoring five Essential New Tunes in five months on Pete Tong's "Essential Selection" Radio 1 show. A US Billboard Dance Chart number 1 for the remix of Dirty Vegas’ “Walk Into The Sun”, plus two more solo Essential New Tunes for Matt under his Watkins and Mainframe alter-egos saw KU firmly cement their place amongst the ranks of first-call remixers. The King Unique production touch has been in constant demand since, appearing on more than sixty remixes and yielding some of the biggest dance floor bombs known to man - Underworld's "Two Months Off", The Killers "Somebody Told Me", Planet Funk’s “The Switch”, John Dahlback's "Late Night Worries", and Tracey Thorn’s "Grand Canyon". 

2006 saw the end of the original duo’s studio partnership, as Matt Thomas took on the King Unique role as a solo artist. The four years since have seen the KU sound rise to new heights with a mixture of euphoric acidic melodies, dark brooding techno vibes and old skool beats. This new 'cosmic techno' has found it's home on John Digweed's Bedrock label with the release of "2000000 Suns" and the KU / Anthony Pappa collaboration “Vamoosh”. Backing up the new material have been remixes of John Digweed’s “Bilder”, Hernan Cattaneo’s “Teleport”, Fergie’s “PCP” and an on-going association with James Lavelle’s UNKLE project that has so far resulted in five stunning re-workings; “Heaven”, "Heavy Drug", “The Answer”, “Reign feat. Ian Brown” & “Rabbit In Your Headlights feat. Thom Yorke” - all adding up to reaffirm Matt's status as one of the most versatile and consistent producers of the last ten years.

The renowned King Unique dj set has made KU a regular addition to the line up of some of the world's most respected clubs and biggest festivals, playing everywhere from ultra-hip blacked-out sweat boxes in Tokyo to euphoric crowds of thousands on the tropical beaches of Madeira. An increasingly hectic international schedule has seen Matt racking up enough air-miles for a free trip to the moon, with gigs in Sydney, Panama, Budapest, Seoul, Helsinki, Mexico City, Dubai, Rosario, Bogota, Kazantip, Vilnius - just to name a handful. Since the very first shows Matt has pushed at the cutting edge of the technology revolution that's swept through club culture, taking laptops, new gadgets and studio gear into the booth. 2010 saw the addition of the near mythic Monome controller to the sonic armoury - part track-mangling Ableton controller and part psychedelic light show, lovingly hand built by techno-hippies in the Catskill Mountains. 

Matt + Mac + Monome = Beats + Bleeps = KU Live 

See you by the speakers ;)