Slowly bringing back my catalogue....

Producer, Remixer, DJ, Performer, Music Guru. AKA The Melker Project & Gelt Group.

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Scott Melker has played alongside legends from nearly every musical genre, including Enrique Iglesias, Future, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Crosby Stills & Nash, Neyo, Sheryl Crow, T.I., Jason Derulo, Public Enemy, Kanye West, DJ AM, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Steve Aoki, A-Trak, Lupe Fiasco, Prince Royce, J Balvin, Joey Montana and more. With over 30 million streams on soundcloud alone (before being forced to remove the music for copyright issues), his genre busting production has captured the attention of the music industry as a whole, including some of the largest online platforms including Dancing Astronaut, Billboard, VH1, Pigeons And Planes, Fuse TV, Prefix Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Paper Magazine (to name a few). He has played huge venues, events and festivals around the world, including a 30 stadium tour in Japan with Toshi Kubota, Camp BIsco, The Summer Haze Tour (with Slightly Stooped and G Love), The Keep Calm & Twerk Tour (with Ying Yang Twins & FKI), Estadio Felix Capriles with Enrique Iglesias and countless college headline concerts. Scott has also performed at private events around the globe for celebrities and public figures including Billy Joel, Donna Summer, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Bette Midler and even President Barack Obama.  He was the official DJ for both Target and The Food & Wine Network.

Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

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