DAN ORCHARD,
DELETE RESIDENT,
BOURNEMOUTH,
UK,

Black cube resident 2003-2005
Dusk till Dawn resident 2006-2009
Delete resident 2006-2015

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Since starting out in the outdoor party scene in the South West of England, Dan Orchard has dedicated himself to electronic music with a hands-on approach that started long before you could get involved from the comfort of your armchair. His instinct for digging out records, 3 deck mixing, putting on parties, and latterly hardware-focused production, have all been shaped by a real world interaction that harks back to the early days of acid house and techno, while his tastes have continued to evolve both with up to the minute developments and further back into the obscure sounds of the past.

He started out at free parties in his native Dorset before the turn of the millennium, discovering the sounds of Jeff Mills and other such techno staples before moving on to the tougher sounds of Neil Landstrumm and Cristian Vogel. The seminal Late Night Sessions Mix by Frankie Bones shaped his taste for earlier strains of house music before getting the chance to play free parties in Dorset and Cornwall, eventually joining the Delete party in Bournemouth as a resident and organizer. Over the years this has led to countless sets alongside artists such as John Heckle, Bodycode, Move D, Lerosa, XDB, October and many more besides.

As part of the Delete crew Orchard has DJ’d across the UK, including in Brighton, Bristol and London, plying a trade in jacking acid house, twisted Dutch electro, classic techno and Italo amongst all other kinds of upfront late night styles. He’s also held down a residency for the Deus Ex Machina party in Bournemouth, and played multiple times at the prestigious Freerotation festival in Wales delivering sets of experimental and ambient material.

While his styles and interests may be varied, what binds together Orchard’s sets are the quality of his selections and the flair with which they’re mixed – it’s common for the headliner to be left hovering in the DJ booth watching him at work and trying to ID a jam or two.

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It’s an exploration of the weird sounds inhabiting the fringes of house, techno, dubstep and the wider lineage of electronic music.

Here at Delete we’ve always been far too busy being strange to worry about what anyone else thinks. We started out nine years ago with no greater intention than dancing around to the freaked out house and techno we all loved but couldn’t hear anywhere else. Lucky for us, along the way other people were feeling it too, and that crowd has spiralled through every basement, field, warehouse, flat, beach, pub and even wedding to the sizable crew it is today.

It all comes down to the love of music, and any Delete party is one orgiastic expression of our dishonourable intentions towards the sounds that blast out of that fucking great rig.

Starting as a monthly session in a basement club and now a bigger bi monthly party at an old refrubished bank in Bournemouth, the night has spread it's wings and now regularly collaborates with like-minded party people as far and wide as Cambridge, London, Bristol & Brighton. 

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Music has been my lifeblood since an early age. I was nurtured on my parents’ record collection: Motown, the Beatles, the Stones and Blondie. I remember I used to make my own ‘mixtapes’ when I was 7 years old by recording segments of songs off Radio 1, trying to know the right place to start and stop the record button. After early teens plugged into indie and new wave bands, it was when in 1991, at the age of 16, some friends took me to my first rave - Eclipse in Cambridge - that started a whole new obsession with a totally different kind of music.#

A lot has been said about that time, but rave and acid house was an extraordinary blending and mingling of Britain’s youth at that time.There were massive highs (and lows) and some crazy memories – convoys of vehicles scouring the countryside for a field, warehouse or barn to dance allnight long to a type of music which defied genre or description and which was really like nothing that had ever come before. It's funny to think that the weird brand of music played at underground clubs and raves in the late eighties / early nineties is now a huge, global behemoth, played in every corner of the globe. 
I started DJing with belt drive turntables when I was 17 with 5 records in my bedroom, one mate was the MC and another mate was ‘the crowd’! I’ve been hooked on buying records ever since. I started out playing hardcore breakbeat but soon moved to deep techno and house inspired by favourite DJs back in 1991/1992 – Eddie Richards, Mr C, Matthew Bushwacka! B and the like. At the age of 19 I went to university in Nottingham and got involved with the free party scene being championed by sound systems, such as DIY, Smokescreen, Quadrant, Babble, etc. I loved a lot of the parties they did – friendly, free and with great music. 

In the late 1990s I was living in London and got into the tech house sound that exploded in London and then beyond in subsequent years. Underground parties like Wiggle  and Clubs like The End  and Fabric with DJs / producers like Layo and Bushwacka, Mr C, Nathan Coles, Terry Francis, Eddie Richards, etc  were creating, mixing and broadcasting an underground sound that was both funky but tough at the sane time and went on to have a huge influence on today's house music. 

Those were the days when people were making tunes in a small studio and then getting the tunes pressed and sold in London record shops like Swag, Tag, Fat Cat, etc. It was a wonderful buzz being in thse places because everyone congregated here - it was part of the scene. I remember Roger Sanchez and me both nodding on to a tune - Primitive Urges 3 - and then me getting the last copy as I'd been first to say I wanted it. Of course he was cool with it.


I ran my own night sporadically for 2 years at a converted pub called the Plug in Stockwell, South London, before it was closed down. They were great days – always with a crazy, up for it crowd. DJs such as Inland Knights, Paul Arnold (Chew the Fat!), Asad Rizvi (Asadinho) and Matt Powell (Bleep District) all rocked it down there.

My clubbing days are long gone but I'm still DJing as much as ever. I still ove the deeper, darker, more unusual side to house music and creating mixes which is a 1 hour journey or song that should be an uninterrupted physical but also heady experience for the listener. The sounds I go for are often smaller, subtle sounds. I like to keep it interesting, but always dancefloor friendly. You listen and decide for yourself. 

I use Technics 1210s and Allen & Heath Xone 23 Mixer.

Those people who’ve helped and inspired me over the last 30 years: Nathan Coles (RIP), Evil Eddie Richards, Terry Francis, Matthew B, Colin Dale, Mr C, Fabio and Grooverider, Paul Wong, DJ Ace, Paul Arnold, Smokescreen Sound System, DIY, Bleep District, Matt Bleep, Matt Rivem, Quadrant Sound System, Panface Records, Tag Records.
Some of the places I’ve played:
Pre-election illegal rave:@the gasworks, Johannesburg / Power FM, Nottingham / Smokescreen Sound System, Glastonbury Festival / Wiggle, Woolwich, London /Cut a Rug @The Plug, Stockwell, London / Groovetech radio, London / Quadrant Free Party, Nottingham / Quadrant @ The Skyy Club, Nottingham / Chew the Fat @ The Bug Bar, London / Chew the fat@ the Camden Palais, London / Club Lisboa, Seville / Fluffed!, Bristol / kickradio.co.uk / Combo, Florence.
To those who share the love, keep listening..

This has been a road Nando has patiently traveled the past few year's .It all started in 2002 at Dj Jordans record shop in Fresno Ca USA Ditrec Records after a friends referral... Spending many hours there Plus a small fortune Nando quickly discovered he loved the big sounds of progressive house Dj Jordan helped him find ..He then decided to buy almost every track off the Yoshitoshi &amp; Shinichi record label loving the impressive larger the life sets of Deep Dish . In preparation Nando found himself practicing all day &amp; night looking for the creativeness, imagination&amp;originality a Dj needs to stand out.... With his confidence growing behind the decks Nando started to throw little house party's testing out his sets watching if other were dancing to what got him moving.Then any DJ's worse nightmare came true someone stole his turntables .With the absence of his decks the obsession was set aside for nearly 6 1/2 years growing and festering inside him, It wasn't until Nando watching his favorite DJ Danny Howells &amp; local Dj's Dj Bradley, Kristian Moua, P-rez to name a few .With his obsession burning hot scorching some would say Nando decided to invested in a pair of CDj's and a small fortune on tunes this time from Junodownload.com &amp; Beatport.com.. Locking himself away perfecting his skills Nando was able to find the creativity he was always looking for while developing a sound that is unique &amp; rare to the Fresno area. Recently he has created a new mini set MAGICA for his myspace radio or enjoy his 1st FULL LENGTH set "Because So". "Perfect for that late afternoon or that early AM music journey" .. .Nando has never been one to follow the in trend's...Expect the same from his unique blends of house music, listen for Piano's , Guitars &amp; Horns just a taste to wet your buds .. Many will say Nando has an eclectic sound inter-gating all genres of house including min/tech , deep , funky/club, progressive ,nu disco , funk , &amp; break beats... Nando is truly a unique artist that speaks to his listeners through a diverse musical language... . When you listen don't just rush through. Sit back relax and enjoy the Deepsexyfuturistictechyfunkyhouse sounds of Slumlord..


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SHAKE resident for 10 years in Bournemouth!!
Electronic,house techno dj.

Originally from Canvey Island in Essex, Dave Stalker swapped seaside towns in 1994 to be where the air was fresher and the beaches sandier. Prior to this point, his life from around 1988 (and indeed to this day) has been spent gawping at the UK underground dance music scene. 

From collecting glasses at legendary Essex establishment The Goldmine, the 16 year old went on to blag a few sets behind the same decks regularly graced by then relative unknowns Fabio, Grooverider and Kenny Ken. A residency followed, lasting until the club's untimely demise in 1990. After a dalliance in Ibiza the following year, our skinny, ponytailed raver returned to the UK to open the first of two Essex record shops, Armageddon Records, during the days of HMV thinking Grunge was the be-all and end-all. 

The Majors got wise, the margins got tight, and eventually Stalker bottled out. Promoting a bunch of all night raves happened around this time at London's Roller Express and The Sanctuary in Milton Keynes, at the same time a manic year was spent in West London working at the infamous Guru Josh's 'Bunker' studio complex (Dr. Devious and the Wisemen project). By the end of '93 he'd had enough. The XR3i with Go-Faster Stripes was out for a Massey Ferguson tractor instead. Dorset, mush.

The remainder of the 90's saw a number of residencies and lots of free parties in the forests that stretched to the new millennium before embarking on a self-imposed 10 year exile to do 'dad stuff'. A production role at Glastonbury Festival begun at this point which continues today, currently with the festival's official radio station (Worthy FM). Hands down the best part of the year. Amazing team.

The lure of speaker stacks and late night parties never went away though. In 2008, he and long-time friend and DJ partner Paul Moore decided between them that they were bored and should get back on it again.

A slew of Bournemouth club nights were put on by the pair (Special Branch), where they ducked and dived around the thriving local underground house community for the next 10 years before the pandemic  took a big dump on everything.

Moving away from town and back into the countryside it was remembered once more that music actually sounds quite fantastic in the open air and maybe they should put on a few parties for a close bunch of a couple of hundred people? This has been going a few years now at a secret location as the LPP party consortium. A bit hush-hush, but very, very good.

Committed raver. Music collector. Knees are still OK.

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