Deejay and Producer (house , deep , disco-house , nu-disco , re-edit's , bootleg's , tech-house , Underground house).
His interest in music began in the mid-80's. Through an uncle, and his older brother. His uncle, lover of bands like Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cult, The Cure and others. His brother, on the other hand, discovers the world of Acid-house, with an eye on projects such as House Master Boyz, Inner City, C+C Music Factory, West Bam among others. David Gomes, curious about the stories his brother told, about previous nights at clubs he frequented with friends... Over Night, Contra Mão, Toco... every weekend, there was something new to be sung, after a night on the dance floor. dance. His love for DJing came after his first on.a.dancefloor (1990), at Club Over Night. Dj Badinha, on the turntables, and then he knew what he wanted. Time passed, he attended new clubs, new musical styles appeared, but House was his soul. A lover of synths, melodies, pianos, keyboards, he identified with Deep-House, an aspect that he carries in his sets, and where I went from disco to techno. Welcome everyone to the deep universe of the real DEEP HOUSE. 👽❤️😎

A party where we ask the DJs to dig a little deeper...

contact: info@berg-audio.com (label nights & other requests - no demos)

Music has been a universal language that I feel the most at home with. It enables me to find commonality and connection with others, with an availability of rich vocabulary transcending the limitations of words alone.

I began writing and producing in the late 90's under the names of Pyramids and Autonomy. These first tracks were released on Evasive Records.

In 2000 I went on to establish my own label alongside Daniel Poli and initially with Davor Basic, who went on to host his infamous parties where many of the Suspect Package artists gathered and performed.

I had met Daniel Poli at Swag records while recording "One Time" and was the first installment on Suspect Package. 

Suspect Package was all about the unexpected, a label run by artists for artists.  A platform for up and coming undergound talent to break out and showcase their material. 

The ethos of Suspect Package was built on an attitude to remain as a steadfast  resistance against the conformity of settling on dumbed down formula.

It was a commitment that continually demanded and questioned all boundaries, that packaged musical concepts within boxed up; notional barriers. 

Suspect Package had 9 releases from 2001 - 2005 the artists:
Autonomy, Chris Pascoe,  C-Soul,  Daniel Poli, Earth Deuley, Filth, Iteration – X,  Marky Star and Red & Blue.

14 years on, Daniel Poli, detonated Suspect Package's 10th  "Long time coming" and showcased artists works by Dav, Marky Star, Sounds of the Suburbs and The Buddy System. A reminder what it is all about. 

My musical collaborations have included Rob Pearson, Lee Humphreys and Daniel Poli.

In 2003 I enrolled at Dartington College of Arts with turntables as my main instrument. The institution in its relatively short history had acquired an international reputation as an innovative centre for contemporary practice. It was one of only few in Britain devoted exclusively to specialist practical and theoretical studies spanning right across the arts.  

My studies did expose me to practical and theoretical questions regarding the role of the arts in the wider world. This experience catapulted me out of the studio production setting and out the confined limitations of my own thinking.  

It impacted the relationship I had with instruments, music and more specifically sound.  In doing so it created endless possibilities. 

The highlights:

6 minutes peice composed for a DJ mixer, guitar amp, voice, heart beat and a French 
speaking radio broadcast.

Loop capture arrangements: 

For female voice accompanied by children's music boxes.

For Electric guitar and Ebow.

A collaboration of flutes and rain stick with cello, guitar  accompanied by the River Dart and South Devon Railway's GWR 1366 class steam train.

A live remix of 8 minimal Techno and Electro Break tracks. Performed as  one track by 2 DJ's, 4 decks, 1 CDJ and two basic mixers ie no effects, loop recording or sampling functions. The duration of the remix was equivalent to the length of a new single track. 

(This project included concepts of notation relative to the DJ and turntables. Both traditional western notation scoring and graphic scores.)

2 Sonic Art peices and sound design from environmental captured audio. The Spirit of Fire - Backdraught is one of those peices.

Theoretical studies that have captured my imagination are the works of, experimental and minimalist composer's, Steve Riech, Terry Riley and John Cage. Looking at repetition, phasing, chance processes and tape loops. Composers Ligeti and Penderecki detailed layers that achieved textured avant-garde sound scapes and the interlocking patterns ubiquitous to Gamelan.

These enriched musical exposures are set into my musical foundations as I continue to create.




 



Grabbing psychedelic electronic dance music by the heart since 1991. Timeless.

Home to classics by God Within, Hawke, Little Wing and Rabbit In The Moon and recent remixes by Sabo, Oona Dahl, Nick Warren & Nicolas Rada, Joe Miller & Jamie Stevens, Lee Reynolds and label boss Gavin Hardkiss.

Established in 1991 in San Francisco by Gavin, Scott & Robbie Hardkiss with a string of vinyl releases that are now available digitally at www.hardkiss.org.

1BTN is an underground, specialist music station based in Brighton & Hove. There is no music policy, just a platform for collectors, connoisseurs and lovers alike to dig and experiment with their favourite music.

We started life as an online service and we are now broadcasting on DAB+ & 101.4FM in East Sussex and online around the world at 1btn.fm. 
24/7 baby!

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Carl Grant and Tony Gallagher met on the fringes of the underground party scene in South East London. L.A. Synthesis AKA Linear System/Wave Effect was formed in South London in 1991.

Originally from Liverpool and Birmingham, respectively. Discovering a shared and relatively eclectic pool of influences ranging from Model 500 and Black Dog to Kraftwerk and systems composer Steve Reich - the pair began experimenting with their own tracks, though it wasn't until promotional copies of Agraphobia began to emerge towards the end of 1994 that the duo started to attract attention.

Agraphobia was a near-perfect debut, sewing a memorably trippy hook line (an exquisitely beautiful synth riff that was inspired by Reich's explorations in both minimalism and repetition) through a complex backdrop of clanking percussive and Detroit romanticism. Released on Plink Plonk with a Kenny Larkin remix, the single became a fixture in London's clubs, crossing over into both Detroit and ambient techno sets. 

Written and produced in 1995 and perhaps one of the most overlooked UK techno albums of the '90s. Matrix Surfer is a beautiful combination of second-generation Detroit romanticism and inventive grooves. Hard to find but definitely worth tracking down. 

Carl continues writing and producing music, and at present hosts, a monthly/radio show, Serendipity Transmits on Bloop London Radio.He his the co founder of Serendipity Transmits 24/7, his own internet radio station, who he runs alongside his brother Kenny Swann aka The Barefoot DJ, who hosts the regular podcast alongside the station. 

Playing an eclectic blend of afro, soul, boogie, movie soundtracks, to experimental, US deep house/techno, with anything else thats good in between. Expect some nice surprises on their shows.

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https://www.mixcloud.com/kennychocolatedisco/

DJ Mike ‘Surreal’   loads more mixes @ www.mixcloud.com/mikesurreal

Mike started dj'ing back in the early 1990's, his sound being influenced by DJ’s such as Eddie Richards, Mr C, Terry Francis & Nathan Coles at parties like Heart & Soul and Wiggle. By 1995 he was playing at numerous parties and clubs in and around London including Wiggle, Kerfuffle, Swag,Original Sin, Positive Sound System, Technology, Pressure Point, The End, AKA, The Zap, The Concorde and many others. Playing his mixture of funky, deep, groovy house and tech-house. Lots of big basslines, crisp clean sounds, snappy percussion with emotive strings and melodies.

In June 1996 Mike started ‘Surreal Recordings’ with Paul Culver (Swag Records) which provided an outlet for music made by himself and friends. Surreal was slow in developing but after a few years was firmly established as one of London’s key ‘Tech-House’ labels, and over the years played a small part in shaping the sound as it is known today. Clocking up 30 releases from artists including Terry Francis, Housey Doingz, Asad Rizvi, Nathan Coles, Matthew Bushwacka, Mr G, The Mingers, Timmy S, Soul Doubt, Derek Marin, Dave Mothersole, Transparent Sound, Spincycle, Richard Grey, Affie Yusuf & the guys from Strange Weather Studio's (Laurant Webb, Dave Coker & Justin Bailey) who in their various guises were the production team behind a huge number of releases at this time. 

In 1998 Mike began his second long term residency at the Optical nights he hosted every two weeks in Brighton which went on for three years before coming to a close. During that time he played alongside some of the worlds finest underground DJ’s including: Terry Francis, Eddie Richards, Nathan Coles, Mr C, Dave Angel, Dave Mothersole, Kenny Hawkes, Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig, Chris Duckenfield, Colin Dale, Tyler Stadius, Asad Rizvi & Richard Grey to name a few. Shortly after the Optical nights began Mike began taking his sound further afield and over the follow years played many times in the Czech Republic, Belgium, Macedonia, Kosovo, and further afield still in Isreal and Brasil where in 2001 he was voted the best International DJ by Rraurl (the country’s biggest Electronic Music web site). 

Mike worked at Eukatech Records from July 2000 to July 2003 and along with Marco Lenzi & Nils Hess supplied London’s underground with the vinyl it craved. He also formed an integral part of the Eukatech DJ’s playing at parties in clubs like The End, AKA, Ultimate Base and Renaissance.

After his initial success in Brazil in 2001 Mike returned many times and began working with the Hypno Agency in July 2003 playing for a number of the country’s biggest and most respected names in electronic music including: D-Edge (Campo Grande, Sao Paulo), Lov.e (Sao Paulo), Propaganda (Porto Alegre), Fulltronic (Porto Alegre), Joy Lounge (Belo Horizonte), Josefine (Belo Horizonte) , Na Sala (Belo Horizonte), Bloom (Passo Fundo), In Love (Curitiba), Garage (Campo Grande), Forum (Campinas), Diretorio (Criciuma), to name a few. He has also travelled further afield in Latin America playing in Uruguay and at Pacha in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mike is now living in Belo Horizonte in Brasil and having left the Hypno agency is currently persuing a solo career.

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