Some of today's legendary djs started by getting a gift of "the deck" at a young age. As my family was povo, we only had belt drive turntables as well as "Readers Digest Solid Gold 80s Hits" that used to get a thrashing! Today, the records are so scratched that you'd think A-Trak was in the house if we played "Eye of the Tiger"!!

My older brother bought me dual CD players when I turned 21 and since then I've used them to learn how to mix and then put on parties as well as dj for other friends. That's not to say that I started at the age of 21. Before that I used to trade tapes with friends in high school. The only problem was that I used to have to hold the tape recorder to the radio speakers for long hours.

In actual fact, I dj'd my first house party in 1998! The fact that the guy who turned 21 passed out could be an indication that the party was so good for him, or my music selection was really bad. But since then I've done the whole suburban DJ thing, playing in backyards, community halls and then some swanky places like the Star City Casino, the Burdekin and the World Bar, Kings Cross. I've also put on a few parties myself, since no one really wants to book me because they see me as a risk. But if you've ever been to those parties, you'd know to expect the unexpected when it came to the dancefloor!

One day I'd like to do this every weekend or combine my love of travelling to go places and play music to people. But DJs dont get rockstar styled riders, so I'll stick to being a suburban dj for now. 

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I am DJ Steve Bruce and I work as a successful DJ in Hong Kong.

To book me, please email me at bookme@djstevebruce.com or call me on +852-9170-5575.

My DJ sets comprise of lots of different styles of music.  Some of the genres I enjoy are Disco re-edits, Nu-Balearic, Electrofunk, Classic House,  Funk, Soul, Rare-Grooves, Old-Skool Hip-Hop, 80's Boogie, Bossa-Nova, Brasilian Beats, Nu-Jazz, Chill-out, 50’s Lounge, Underground Disco, Electronica, 80's Boogie & Eclectic Downtempo.

I mostly spin at private parties & also at a couple of venues in Hong Kong including: 
* ISOLA - An italian owned restaurant & bar with a lovely outdoor terrace with views of the amazing Hong Kong harbour & a fantastic outdoor garden

I have played at loads of other venues including:
* CLOCKENFLAP Music Festival (Asia's premier music festival)
* The Pawn, Wanchai. British style gastropub in an 1800's Colonial building with a lovely balcony 
* Lily & Bloom - a swanky lounge done out in a New York speakeasy style
* GECKO Bar - an intimate French-owned jazz bar down a secret back alley. 
* SOUTH BAY BEACH CLUB, Hong Kong (Sunday afternoon chill-out session during the summer months)
* KU DE TA, COCOON & Potato Head Beach Club in Bali (from time to time)
* Lots and lots of private parties

I'm happiest spinning outdoors, whether that be at a festival, on the beach, a yacht, on a rooftop, outdoor terrace or by a pool.  

DJ Influences:
Gilles Peterson, Norman Jay, Dr Packer, Fingerman Edits, Dimitri From Paris, Danny Krivit, MAW, Greg Wilson, Andy Wilson, Digital Visions & Chris Coco to name just a few. 

DJ BIO:
I started my DJ career back in the early-80s as a mobile DJ with MOLE DISCO & The TOUCHDOWN Roadshow (BOTH are STILL running today!). We used to spin at weddings, bah mitzvahs & 16th birthday parties, trying to get away with playing, the then underground jazz-funk, boogie & rare-groove music we loved, to a mainstream crowd. You can’t keep a good man down though, and I rapidly progressed to better things.

In London I ran the notorious ‘TOP OF THE POPS’ parties in Mayfair with my good friend Jason Van-Haeften and was a regular DJ at 'LES TEAROOMS DES ARTISTES', a popular post MINISTRY OF SOUND after-party that ran for many years in Clapham, south London.

I left the UK for my second backpacking trip (which I'm STILL on) in 1995 and ended up in Hong Kong, where I've now lived for the past 18 years and counting. During this time I have been a regular at many of Hong Kong’s top venues including, SOLAS, KEE Club, ARMANI/BAR, South Bay Beach Club, AQUA Spirit, YUMLA, F.I.N.D.S., CLUB 97 & TIVO as well as playing regularly around the Asia region.

I've been behind or involved with some of the most successful regular club nights in Hong Kong over the years including my long-running ‘SOULUTION’ quality House music night which ran for eight successful years, ‘The South Bay Sessions’ at South Bay Beach Club (which ran for 5 years), my mobile ‘EKLEKTA SELEKTA’ lounge night (which was featured as a show on www.ibizasonica.com for a while), ‘Hong Kong Eclectic’ at ELEMENTS bar and ‘Deano Martino’, a weekly lounge night at the now legendary 1/5 bar (in its day, voted one of the top 5 ‘best bars in the world’ by Conde Nast Traveler magazine).

I've DJ'd at private parties for RONNIE WOOD of the ROLLING STONES, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB artists RUEBEN GONZALEZ & IBRAHIM FERRER & R&B artist CRAIG DAVID and have played alongside many international DJ’s including Norman Jay, Lisa Loud, BARGROOVES head honcho Ben Sowton, PACHA Ibiza resident Graham Sahara and FIERCE ANGELS Mark Doyle.

In Hong Kong I released my first (and only so far) commercial CD via Club 97 called ‘SOUNDS OF CLUB 97’ which spent the whole summer of its release in the HMV dance chart. 

I firmly believe that MUSIC IS THE SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR LIFE...

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I Once Smoked a Blunt so BIG that i saw my Nigga turn into an Owl 
mf Bird Man Troth has that Loud and the Sauce 
- Face From CityRats

For Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has become a great label to call home. In 2013 the German imprint celebrated 20 years of record releases at the cutting edge of electronic music, championed in June by one of the most genre re-defining albums and personal music projects for an era: Kölsch’s landmark long player, ‘1977’.

A melodic autobiography on black wax, the Kölsch project has seen 36/37-year-old Rune take stock of a diverse and successful production career and draw upon his own personal beginnings: a nostalgia for childhood, family, friends and the confusion of applying his split-cultural heritage to what it means to think of ‘home’. As Rune freely admits, “being half Irish, half German and living in Denmark – it was all one big messy period of my life.” 

Born to hippie parents in the freetown of Christiania (a commune-like autonomous borough of the Danish capital Copenhagen) his childhood was spent surrounded by creativity. His mother was an artist whose family had roots in German politics and his father a singer songwriter who travelled through Asia playing music in the early 70's. Kölsch, however, did miss out on building friendships and found solace in making up “this imaginary world that I would spend days in,” before the family moved to Germany – a period of memories, relations and characters from which ‘1977’ derives its titles.

For Rune, the tracks he began building from 2010 took in this personal reflection, his being “completely locked in to reminiscing about what shaped me as a kid and into the individual that I am now” – contemplating his unique past to form the brickwork of ‘1977’, one of the most future-facing techno albums of recent years.

Influenced by hip hop, pop and the incredible legacy of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, Rune started producing in 1995, embarking on a string of success stories. In 2003 he released the multi-million selling, saxophone-infused ‘Calabria’, that saw collaboration requests pouring in from artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Shakira and Flo Rida. He then set up Tattoorecs – releasing pioneering underground tracks with no titles, just tattoos for artwork, that garnered critical acclaim and support from minimal and techno trailblazers such as Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Tiefschwarz and Ricardo Villalobos.

This appreciation of the complete musical spectrum has gifted Rune with a devotion to groove and melodics and with it the dexterity to input real creative change to the genres he reveres, not least his beloved techno. “2010 was the year of the ketamine house wave, where the music was 118 bpm and everything was extremely boring”, reflects Rune. “I wanted some melodic techno, some energy back in this scene. People needed the energy to express themselves and go crazy for a bit.”

This notion faced opposition, even from within Rune’s close circles. But it was Kompakt founder Michael Mayer who had the insight to see what Kölsch was trying to achieve. Rune’s conviction that vibrations and melodics are the key to human response had tipped the balance, underlined by his experience as a hip hop DJ where he “needed something to catch me and drag me in. And that’s what techno should do!” Here too he drew on his love of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, recalling how “they used to make mistakes all the time. It would be a big mash of all kinds of stuff, but at least something was happening. That’s what I was missing and that’s what I’m trying to change with the Kölsch project.”

The result is ‘1977’, a personal collection of dancefloor destroyers that are continuing to send clubs and festivals across the globe into melodic supernova. Take this video of Kölsch’s set at Belgium’s I Love Techno festival, one of Rune’s 2013 highlights, where “people were doing sit downs, singing along to all the tracks”. Watch it. It puts the hairs up on the back of your neck. “The response was overwhelming,” said Rune in a recent interview with Mixmag (who named Kölsch as one of their ‘Stars Of 2013’), as “when you think about it, it was just a bunch of childhood memories with a kickdrum underneath.” 

Elsewhere he’s ripped up the airways with an acclaimed Essential Mix for Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, delivered his incendiary soundscape to Singapore’s world-renowned ZoukOut Festival, boomed his live show through the heaving basement of London’s XOYO and played the hallowed Space Terrace – in his words “a boyhood dream since I started going to Ibiza in 1999. That was what I wanted from life!” So opening Amnesia in 2014 with Joris Voorn will be a bonus then...

While these are reasons enough to keep the beaming smile beneath Kölsch’s trademark black fedora, his humility remains just as striking. While tracks like ‘Goldfisch’ have taken pivotal positions in the set lists of world class DJs from across the dance music spectrum – traversing the underground with Seth Troxler, while simultaneously providing credible new euphoric highs for the likes of Axwell – Rune remains joyously down to earth. All despite producing, with ‘1977’, an album that has crossed as many cultural and musical boundaries as his own childhood past.

From the face-twisting melodic drive of ‘Opa’ and ‘Bappedekkel’, to the chord-surfing piano groove of ‘Der Alte’ and the euphoric crescendos of ‘Lorely’, ‘Oma’ and ‘All That Matters’ (all hits in different countries), the fact remains that whether in your living room, on the dancefloors of the world’s greatest parties, or simply in your headphones on your way home, Kölsch’s ‘1977’ has re-defined techno and become an achievement that speaks for itself. 

Words: Phil Dudman – Clubs & Live Music Editor, Mixmag


Hi Im DJ Luke Le Veaux I love house music in few shapes and forms which makes me quiet versatile as a dj, I've also gone back to my ORIGINAL musical roots of 90s Hip Hop. All my downloads are 100% mixed on my 2 cdi 2000 nexus and not no ableton package. I never got over the golden era of house i.e. 92-98 so you'll see me play many sets from that era as i love doing these gigs but everything has to change so i kept evolving and i play anything house n old hip hop, But if at the same time there's loads of good funky stuff ill play that i play music that moves me. Jon of the pleased wimmin is my all time favs dj. I love listening to AVB, PVD, Ferry Corsten, Omnia, Sasha, John Digweed, W&W, Dash Berlin, Ben Gold, Toca Disco, Alesso, Marc Vedo, Kaskade, Judge Jules, Dirty South, Boy George,  Wippenberg, Moniker Kruse, Junior Vasquez, Twistan Garner, Fatboy Slim, Tristan D, Paul Webster, Bryan Kierney, John O Callaghan, Sander Van Doorn, Ben Gold, Ashley Walbridge, John Kelly, Tall Paul, Orjan Nielsson, Swanky Tunes, Hardrock Sofa,  Arnej, Danny Rampling, Jeremy Healy, Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold, Simon Patterson, Alex P and Brandon Block, Seb Fontaine, Soul Avengerz, Freemasons, My Hip Hop inspirations would be Ice cube, Eazy E, 2pac, Snoop, kid n Play, Craig Mac, Mase, Toni Tone Tony, Boyz 2 Men, TLC, Salt n Pepper, En Vogue, Immature, Nonchalant, Fugees, Kam, Tha Dogg Pound, Warren G, Ice T, Cypress Hill, Nate Dogg, The lady of rage,menajatwa, roxanne shante, 
I have Played on many student and Public/Pirate Radios and I have Headlined England s Biggest Club Tall Trees. I have DJed in Ibiza and Majorca. Also I have played at some of London's Biggest nights e.g. The Gallery and Black N White.
I have been on line ups with Eddie Halliwell, Sander Van Doorn, Judge Jules, Paul Van Dyke, D Ramirez, Marcella Woods, Jeremy Healy, Jon Pleased Wimmin, Grooverider, Ratpack,Graeme Park, K Klass, Allister Whitehead, Audio Whores, Sean Tyas, M.I.K.E and Boy George plus many many many more. For bookings you can get me on my Face Book page as DJ Luke Le Veaux hope you love my mixes xxx

DJ, Grammy-nominated producer and label owner Mark Knight is one of the most celebrated electronic artists of his generation with an impressive 200 Million + global streams to his name. His career has spanned close to two decades, with releases on a diverse range of world-leading labels such as Sony, Warner & Ministry of Sound, through to cool independents such as Cooking Vinyl, BBE, Elrow and of course Toolroom.   

Armed with a musical library that knows no boundaries and a consistent run of chart-topping hits, the success of Mark Knight’s recording career is matched only by the credibility and integrity maintained throughout his discography to date. Anthems such as ‘Man With The Red Face,’ ‘Alright’ & ‘Downpipe’ and working closely alongside bands such as Faithless, Underworld & Florence & The Machine have sealed a diverse musical heritage for the accomplished producer.   

Aside from his industry-leading production work on the underground dance scene he has also written and produced music for a range of global superstars including Calvin Harris, Black Eyed Peas, Dido, David Guetta, J Lo, Flo Rider, Icona Pop and more.  Mark Knight also continues to grow across international radio with Toolroom Radio now reaching over 15 million people in 60 countries across the world each and every week.

It was in 2011 that Dutch pair Lars Dales and Maarten Smeets quickly broke through in the electronic music scene. Since then they have become known for their widescreen approach to making and playing club-ready grooves. From deep to disco, tech to soul, they join the dots between the past and the present with their own sense of storytelling and do so in clubs around the world, as well as in their studio. House might be the root of the Dam Swindle sound, but it takes nourishment from a much wider world of music. 

Still now, their breakthrough tunes such as ‘The Wrap Around’ and ‘The Break Up’ receive countless plays on dancefloors all over the world and the duo has made timeless music such as their 2023 disco-house bomb ‘ That’s right’ and 90’s throwback banger ‘Allright – just a tribute’ that became one of the hits of the 2024 festival summer. Dam Swindle has built a trademark sound, while still evolving and maturing their craft in various musical niches. Their landmark 2018 album High Life shows a broad musicality from the duo and this is even more so on their highly anticipated 2025 long player ‘Open’.  ‘Open’ features countless collaborations with high-profile artists such as Dutch pianist Joep Beving and New York-based Ethiopian vocalist Haile Supreme, and sees the duo flex their sound from ambient electronica to synthwave, hiphouse and more. 

Since 2013, the pair has also established their record label Heist Recordings as one of the key independent labels for underground dance music, while also releasing music on other underground mainstays such as Aus Music and Classic Music Company. Heist is more than just a label, though - it is a breeding ground for talents old and new; somewhere talent is nurtured and allowed to develop. Label showcases and special projects such as the yearly Roundup EP; where all artists from the past 12 months remix each other after a random selection process, furthers the family vibe and helps Heist stand out from crowd. Artists such as Cinthie, DJ Sneak, Crackazat, Tesfa Williams, Makèz, Pépé Bradock, Matthew Herbert, Ge-Ology, Byron the Aquarius and many more have all contributed, proving that it is a place for unrestrained creatives to be free with their own sonic visions. The label looks as good as it sounds, too, thanks to visual artist Bas Koopmans's standout artwork designs. 
 
Proof of Dam Swindle's widescreen approach to production is their long and talented list of collaborators, which includes the likes of acclaimed musician Tom Misch, US talent Seven Davis Jr., instrumental collective Jungle by Night, plus Marc de Clive-Lowe, Jitwam and Lorenz Rhode. Next to their own originals, a broad spectrum of artists have asked Dam Swindle for some of their special remix magic: on labels like Strut and Soundway they have reworked the legendary Pat Thomas, aka the ‘Golden voice of Africa,' and gave his single ‘Yamona’ a contemporary electronic edge, as well as The Mauskovic Dance Band’s track ‘Space Drum Machine’ and plenty more artists like Kerri Chandler, Mayer Hawthorne and Tom Misch. As their talent for bridging genres from all over the world continues to attract global attention, high-profile projects keep rolling in from all points on the musical globe. 

Dam Swindle are famously avid collectors of both old and new records, and it shows in their DJ sets, which keep you on your toes as they move freely through the broad world of house music with skillfully blended moods of soulful techno, acid, breaks, disco and more, all to create those special moments that crowds never forget. It is for that reason that their name has become a real stamp of authority and invention in the dance music world. Whatever they do, then, this pair do with irresistible charm.

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