Smokin Jo is still the only female DJ to have won DJ magazines DJ Of The Year award and she is the Author of You Don't Need A Dick to DJ.
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Jo has had a truly successful career and over her 35 years behind the decks she has played in pretty much every corner of the globe and in every major nightclub you could care to mention: Space (Ibiza and Miami),Fabric (London) Womb and Aghea (Tokyo), Panorama Bar (Berlin), Warung (Brazil), Cavo Paradiso (Mykonos), Pacha, Crobar and Vinyl (New York) and Cocoon (Frankfurt,) are just some of the venues she has played in recent years.

Most recently Jo has played for Glitterbox at Hi Ibiza, Glastonbury Festival for Block9, NYC Downlow and Greenpeace, Shindig Festival, Clockwork Orange in UK and Ibiza,Defected Croatia Festival, Pacha Ibiza, House of Trash, Feel It and Fabric. Previously Jo was headlining the Space Ibiza opening party and appeared in a documentary for Ministry of Sound The Annual Classic Tour as well as hosting and playing on one of their live tour dates before the orchestra hit the stage. Summer 2016 Jo was headlining the Ibiza Space opening party and playing at the Final ever closing party. Jo was resident DJ for 3 years at the uber cool Sexy Fish in Mayfair playing to the likes of Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford and the Beckham’s and also played at the prestigious Vogue Magazine 100 year event at Tramp in London.

At London Fashion week for the past five years Jo has produced the music and played live at Julien Macdonald’s stunning shows. Previously Jo and Skin from legendary rock band Skunk Anansie launched their own amazing new concept called “The Electric Tiger Cave”, where they played back2back while Skin sang over the tracks, last summer they took over Ibiza Rocks House at Pikes in Ibiza for a crazy run of parties. In the past Jo was booked by actor/DJ Idris Elba to play alongside him at his own club night. In the summer 2013 Jo hosted her own night at the infamous Pikes Hotel in Ibiza, booking DJ’s to play with her such as Mark Ronson and Dave Morales. Jo also produced the music and played at the aftershow for collaboration between designers Julien McDonald and Melissa Odabash for their swimwear show on the roof of the gorgeous ME Hotel in London. 


Jo's international credibility has led her to work alongside numerous iconic figures in the world of music, film and fashion. One of her career highlights was being flown into Prague by Daniel Craig to play at the wrap party for his first James Bond film,' Casino Royal'. She has opened for Grace Jones at one of her concerts, played at The Pet Shop Boys end of tour party, Skunk Anansie's album launch party, Jamiroqaui's South African tour parties, and at fashion shows and events for the likes of Alexander McQueen, Julian Macdonald, Melissa Odabash and Michiko Koshino. Jo was also asked to play for Naomi Campbell at her villa party in honour of the great Quincy Jones.



Where did it all begin?
Jo's story began in 1990 when after years of attending many of the early raves and illegal parties she noticed a distinct lack of female DJs. As a massive fan of this exciting new music that was sweeping the nation, Jo decided to buy some decks and started mixing. From those early days it was always the deeper side of things Jo preferred, soulful sounding tracks that take you on a journey, no matter what style she plays from Techno to House it has to have meaning and a bass line to kill. Taking her stage name from the boxer Smoking Joe Fraser, Jo felt it provided ambiguity over an obviously feminine name as at the time it was seen as a novelty to be a female DJ (how times change!) It’s thanks to women like Jo that these shifts in attitudes have taken place.

While working in the Jean Paul Gaultier shop in London's Soho, Jo made her first mix tapes and gave them to friends and customers to gauge their response. The reactions were better than expected and her first gigs quickly followed at fashion after-show parties. In 1991 Jo was given a chance to play at London’s legendary after-hours party Trade at Turnmills. Seizing the opportunity she smashed the club, blending her mixture of deep house and techno and as a result was given a residency that lasted three years. Trade was her stepping-stone into the big league. At that time Trade was the only after hours in London: all the promoters, DJ’s and industry people came down to party religiously each week so in no time at all Jo was being booked to play at club events like Puscha, Boys Own, Tribal Gathering, Back to Basics, Cream and Full Circle. These gigs were the basis for her winning DJ Magazine’s highly coveted DJ of the Year Award.

After winning the award Jo headed off to Ibiza to play at Space for the first time in 1993, when the island was still relatively untouched. During that period she played at Amnesia, Pacha, Ku (Privilege) as well as many infamous secret beach and villa parties. This was when Jo's career took off on a global scale, seeing her regularly traveling all over the world every weekend, as well as maintaining a hectic schedule of the UK's top clubs: her demand was such that she often played up to 5 gigs in one night.
Back in Ibiza, after 22 years DJ-ing Jo still holds her residency at Space for We Love. Thanks to her knowledge of the Ibiza scene, in 2002 and 2003 she was assigned to present a ‘Postcards from Ibiza’ report on Pete Tong's Essential Selection on Radio 1, giving weekly reports of all the latest club news and goings on there. In addition Jo was also asked to do an Essential Mix for Radio 1 as part of their 'Ibiza Heroes' series, which was broadcast on 20th September 2003.

Jo went on to mix the Terrace CD for the Space Album that was released on Azuli Records in 2003. This followed on from the other successful compilations she had under her belt such as ‘Defected Sessions 14’, ‘DEF Com 2’ and ‘SJ01’ released through Trust the DJ. At this time Jo was signed to Defected where she produced some successful releases for the label, including Yanu and Psycho Bitch, however Jo's demanding schedule meant that her productions at that time were few and far between. She also mixed a cover-mount CD for Muzik magazine in the summer of 2001 and more recently in 2006 she mixed the cover-mount CD for Mixmag, which was hugely popular and was re-released last year.

In the past Jo had been signed-up by Storm Model Agency in their Celebrity Section and was the face of a major billboard campaign for the Sega video game Mortal Combat. 2002 saw Jo become the centre point of Pioneer’s advertising campaign for their HDJ 1000 professional headphones. And on top of all this in 2002 Jo entered into the world of television and made her debut as a presenter for MTV: Dance in Ibiza as well as presenting for Radio One at Mardi Gras and Ibiza in 2002.


In 2004/5 Jo was rocking the planet as one half of the dance floor phenomenon that was NastyDirtySexMusic. The parties were ultra-underground, word-of-mouth affairs with the ethos heavily geared towards cutting edge music and not making profit. The success of the NDSM parties saw it become We Love... Sundays at Space’s newest resident that year, introducing the electro-house sound to an unsuspecting Ibiza crowd (not bad considering it started life as an illegal rave!) By late summer 2004 NDSM were weekly residents in The Red Box at Space; fast-forward to summer 2005 and NDSM were fully-fledged terrace regulars, a massive achievement in an incredibly small space of time. A full tour of Asia and Australia in the winter of 2004 also cemented NDSM's status, as did a double CD mix compilation, released through Ministry of Sound in June 2005. MOS also played host to NastyDirtySexMusic nights on a bi-monthly basis, which were among the busiest nights at the club for some time. After a whirlwind couple of years the guys decided to call time on the project on New Years Eve 2005.

Following on from NDSM, Jo promoted her own club night “Nude” with Terry Hart from Go!Zilla/Redlight. Nude held parties at warehouses in London’s East End and for two years hosted the terrace and discoteque at Space in Ibiza. The ethos of Nude was "anything goes", with outlandish freakish performers and cutting edge DJ's. These parties were the ultimate in debauchery and underground sounds, their top Guest DJ was  Moby. 

One thing’s for sure that with bags of energy and a wealth of experience to draw-on it seems Jo still has plenty up her sleeve for the months and years ahead!

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One of Belgium's most popular exports behind waffles and chocolate, he is regarded as a pioneer of the harder more aggressive dubstep sound that has swept North America by storm.

During a DJing career spanning more than two decades Mark Bambach has built a reputation and fan bases on five continents for his energetic funky house music with a distinctive disco flavour

Mark’s six year Saturday night residency at world famous nightclub Heaven put him on the map so far as the London club scene was concerned. Since then Mark has played alongside countless big name DJs including Danny Tenaglia, Sonique, Danny Rampling, Joey Negro, Smokin Jo, The Sharp Boys, Alan Thompson, Joe T Vannelli and Wayne G.

Mark has travelled the world spreading the gospel of house music at numerous clubs including Ministry of Sound (London), Café de Paris (London), The End, Brixton Academy, Home (London and Sydney), Emporium, Century Members Club (London and Cannes), Segrata (Milan), Le Queen (Paris), El Divino (Ibiza), Space (Ibiza), Privilege (Ibiza), Amnesia (Milan), Folies Pigale (Paris) and Coco Latté happenings around the globe.

Mark compiled and mixed Dirty House Volumes 1 and 2 for Sony Music Worldwide in 1995/6. 
1998 saw the beginning of Mark’s long-running remixing partnership Beatroute with DJ Slamma, which resulted in a number of much applauded house tracks, not least a series of collaborations with celebrated US dancefloor diva Kathy Brown. Their track Into My life was particularly well received in Australia, and was a regular playlist favourite on Nova FM. 

In September 2004 Mark was the headline DJ at the launch party for the stunning new W hotel in Seoul, South Korea where he played an extended set to 2,500 people.

On NYE 2004/5 Mark Played alongside DJ Gomi (NYC), East Coast Boogiemen (San Francisco) and Swirl People (Belgium) at a W Happening in association with MTV Asia held at the W hotel in Seoul.

The next two new years eve celebrations saw Mark bring in 2006 and 2007 at large scale parties themed around his music, staged at Kuala Lumpur’s prestigious 5* Westin hotel in Malaysia. 

Mark was the resident DJ every May from 2006 - 2009 for London's exclusive members club Century in Cannes, on Le Croisette, for the annual Cannes Film Festival, where he delighted an array of A list celebrities with his addictive upbeat music, including Beyoncé Knowles, Jonny Depp and Brigitte Bardot.

In summer 2009 Mark joined forces with renowned dance remixer Simon Langford to form NU Addiction. To date they have officially remixed over twenty singles together for some of the biggest names in pop including Toni Braxton, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dog, Macy Gray, McFly and Cheryl Cole to name just a few.              

2011 has been yet another busy year for Mark, what with DJing at the launch of new West End nightclub Foundation in London alongside The Freemasons, and making his Middle Eastern debut as resident DJ of Crystal nightclub for two months, followed by one month as resident DJ of Wahm lounge bar, both at W Doha Hotel & Residences, Qatar, where he now has another legion of followers..


For DJ bookings and special events enquiries please contact
mark@djbambach.com


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NU ADDICTION BIOGRAPHY

NU Addiction were born in October 2009 under the “Matt Waterhouse Represents” stable (MWR). Nu Addiction is Simon Langford, established sound engineer & Producer, and Australian born London DJ Mark Bambach. 

Simon Langford is primarily known for his collaboration “The Soul Seekerz”. With over 250 remixes under their belt for high calibre artists such as Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Dannii Minogue, Chicane, Ne –Yo, Debbie Harry, LeAnn Rimes, Robyn, Backstreet Boys, Westlife, Spice Girls, & Basement Jaxx, to name but a few. 
In addition, Simon’s collaborations have gained him two UK Top 20 singles. The first was the 2002 chart entry by Dreamcatcher, entitled “I Don’t Wanna Lose My Way” which peaked at number 14 in the national chart. Plus the 2005 number 11 national chart hit by Dannii Minogue & the Soul Seekerz with “Perfection”.
Simon has been a long-time Logic user, and will be sitting the Apple Certification exams for Logic 9 later this year.  Aside from production Simon has contributed 3 articles for “Sound on Sound” magazine and is currently in talks with Focal Press in the USA about writing a “remixing guide” book. 
Mark Bambach is Australian born international London DJ. Mark’s 8-year Saturday night residency at world-famous nightclub Heaven in London put him on the map so far as the London club scene was concerned. Mark has played alongside countless world-class DJs including: Danny Tenaglia The Sharp Boys, Alan Thompson, Smokin’ Jo, Joe T Vannelli, Sonique & Joey Negro. Mark has travelled the world spreading the gospel of house music at numerous clubs including, Coco Latte (Johannesburg and Cape Town), Trade  at numerous clubs including, Coco Latte (Johannesburg and Cape Town), Trade (London and Ibiza), Ministry of Sound (London), Café de Paris, The End, Brixton Academy, Home (London and Sydney), Segrata (Milan), Le Queen (Paris), El Divino (Ibiza), Space (Ibiza), Privilege (Ibiza) Amnesia (Milan), Folies Pigale (Paris) and The Midnight Shift (Sydney). 
Mark was the headline DJ at the launch party for the new W hotel in Seoul, South Korea where he played a 5-hour set to 2,500 people.

NYE 2004 Mark played alongside DJs Gomi (NYC) East Coast Boogiemen (San Francisco) and Swirl People (Belgium) at a massive party in association with MTV Asia held at the W hotel in Seoul, South Korea. Mark was also the resident DJ in May 2006, 2007 & 2008, for London's Exclusive member's Club CENTURY in Cannes France. For the annual event Cannes Film Festival, where Mark DJ'd to an array of A-list Celebrities.

Mark compiled and mixed "DIRTY HOUSE" Volumes 1 and 2 for Sony Music Worldwide in 1995-96.
In 1998 remixing partnership "BEATROUTE" & 2 PHAT LADIES”with DJ Slamma was born, which has resulted in a number of much-applauded house tracks, not least a series of collaborations with celebrated US dance floor diva KATHY BROWN. Beatroute also have Signings to ZTT, Logic & 3 releases on underground UK house label Sublime.

To Date NU ADDICTION have remixed Mariah Carey "I Wanna Know What Love Is", Toni Braxton "Yesterday", Girls Can't Catch "Echo", Oliver Cheatham "Get Down Saturday Night", 
JLS "One Shot", Lee Ryan "Secret Love" Macy Gray "Lately", Charice "Pyramid", Soul Seekerz feat Aimee "Dancing On The Ceiling", Digital Dog "Firing line"
Contact Matt Waterhouse - matt.mwr@music-house.






Teen Smokers started out By chance a few years ago, Josh's mate was caught trying to steal some Vinyl from a record store by Joe. The Two then played in various bands together before deciding one night after a few too many to write some new material and take on the world. After playing many open mic nights under different names and going down a storm/getting boo'd off, they came together to write one song, saying if they loved it, they'd form a full band, if not it obviously wasn't meant to be, that song,"Mine Again" blew the two away, and a band was to be formed. Demos were sent to select people and a stir is slowly being caused.




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