Bookings: india.lawson@teamwass.com
MGMT: oran.barton@attentionmgmt.com

Berlin-based, London born DJ & CONTR4ST Label owner, fka.m4a has become a stalwart of underground music with a heady blend of Italo, HI- NRG and House. With several Boiler Room appearances under his belt - clocking up over half a million streams combined - plus shows everywhere from Berghain / Panormar Bar, Timewarp, Tomorrowland to Awakenings, features in Mixmag and Electronic Beats, plus Peggy Gou in his corner as a mentor, his stock is firmly on the rise. 

Born in London, music was always front and centre in his family home, his mother playing music to him through headphones while he was still in the womb. Citing acts whose USP was female empowerment as the first music he found for himself, the likes of Spice Girls and Lil Kim were early musical influences, eventually leading him to start DJing on the queer scene in London. 

“I was working on the Soho & East London circuit” he says. “I was mainly doing guestlist and hosting but eventually they asked me to DJ and I spent a few years cutting my teeth on that scene.” 

Learning how to work a crowd as a pop DJ, seeing Honey Dijon DJ on his first trip to Berlin in 2016 led him down the rabbit hole of electronic music and led to a shift in his focus. 

“I completely fell in love with the storytelling element of her set,” he says. “I spent the next year immersed in dance music culture and started playing the electronic room at gay nights.” 

Moving to Berlin in 2019, the pandemic quickly put a stop to his burgeoning DJ career before a switch to recording streams from his apartment during covid saw his profile blow up, leading to signing with an agency and bagging his first Panorama Bar set when lockdown lifted. 

With Peggy Gou taking him under her wing and asking him to regularly open for her (“She’s helped me out so much and we have a really strong relationship,” he says. “She calls me her daughter and I call her my mother,” he laughs.), fka.m4a’s schedule got hectic with sets everywhere from Warehouse Project to Sonar and a focus on producing their own music. 

“It’s important for me to make music that works in the club,” he says. ‘But most importantly, it’s about making something that comes straight from the heart. I think I’ve achieved that on my first EP and I can’t wait for people to connect with it.” 

With an event series in the pipeline and a summer stacked with festival shows from Hï Ibiza to Terminal V, fka.m4a has firmly cemented himself as one of the leading artists in the underground space.

Bookings: james@ltmcrew.com.au

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Tan leather that’s soft on the touch. The smell of rich mahogany as you run your fingers across the steering wheel, and the way the sunlight reflects off the hood in the most, subtle way. This might be how you’d describe the first time you sat in a 1974 Holden Kingswood, but not Boot Action. The first time they were in a Kingswood was in the back seat, being conceived.

Luke Taylor & Jake Waters have always shared a deep affinity for counter culture and played out their musical internship in the subset of the underground scene, a place called Club Kitchen. The after hours rave represented everything they loved in music; House grooves, jazz throwbacks, 808’s and heartbreaks, and with a backdrop of sweat drenched pots & pans.

Months after, they won a set of headphones in a meat raffle, at that point the boys knew; it was time set about giving Boot Action to the world. 

Throwing a few bootlegs into the blogosphere, and gigging anywhere that would take him, BA hit it’s stride with the release of debut EP ‘Bosun’. The grimy trumpet laden house jam pricked the ears of tastemakers RUFUS, and was eventually signed to Sweat It Out in early 2014. It enjoyed regular plays on triple J, and also mad support from Yolanda Be Cool, Tommy Trash, Tommie Sunshine, Motez, Dom Dolla, Sinden, Beni, KLP, The Aston Shuffle, and Zombie Disco Squad to name a few.

Their follow up single 'Gorgan' debuted at #26 in the Aria Charts with support from AC Slater, Playmode, Golden Features, Danny T, Hey Sam, Go Freek, Mike Metro, Wongo & more. Tocadisco included it in his ‘Tocacabana’ radio show
And Golden Features dropped it in his closing set at Beyond The Valley festival 2014.

Boot Action is well and truly here. The only thing that will stop this gentlemen from turning up at your local watering hole and blowing the roof off is if the Kingswood breaks down, or customs takes his USB’s again … It’s said they were allegedly bomb checked in Sydney and confiscation was a matter of public safety.

Bookings:
sam.jenkins@mushroomgroup.com

MGMT:
david.zietsman@unifiedmusic-group.com

Promo:
six10franz@gmail.com

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