Brawther talks to the real heroes of Underground Dance Music and finds out what makes them tick.

Im a Manchester based DJ/Producer with 15 yrs experience working in the industry, but have been clubbing since 1995 which was when I acquired my love for House music.  
 
I started off by going on monthly jaunts to Cream in Liverpool, Golden in Stoke and Sankeys in m/cr, and the monthly visits became weekly.  My early influences were Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, sasha & Digweed.

I started DJ'ing in 2004 and started off playing at bars in Ashton under lyne but I soon aquired a residency at Venus Manchester.

I've been resident at Manchesters most successful house night 'Venus' for 11 years now. In addition, ive played sets in Ibiza and Sydney(Australia) aswell as numerous bars & clubs in and around Manchester, Liverpool & Yorkshire. 

Ive played alongside DJ's: Roger Sanchez, Prok & Fitch, Juan Kidd/Jason Herd, Michael Woods, Kim Fai, Dannic, D.O.D, Felix Leiter, Norman Doray, Oliver Lang, Joshua Roberts, Danny Howard, Gina Star, Arno Cost, Tim Mason, Garrett & Ojelay, eSquire, Frater & Stent, Soul Avengerz, The Freemasons, Raul Rincon, Brandon Block, David Dunne, Andy Daniels, Stonebridge & Grant Nelson!

My next aim is to produce more tracks,  so watch this space!

Contact 07760 477131 for DJ Bookings

Graham Dixon since 1985 has been DJing at house parties and bars where he lived throughout the north of England then by 1988 he was a highly skilled & respected scratcher known for playing everything from hip hop, soul, breaks, early house and so on. Having already established a vinyl collection through his US, Europe & UK contacts, he became a most sought after DJ has his reputation grew which could've quite easily have taken the very reserved Graham to global status especially boasting a best vinyl, most advanced collection, which was by far way ahead of many at the time.

His regular London trips for packaged haul's of advance record orders, paid off, way before the stroke of 1990 had reached us, he was already playing regular club spots at The Leeds Warehouse, Tradeshall, Bradford's Bibbies aka The Capricorn Club & Leeds Twilight Zone a notorious converted Blues.

Then there was Blackburn's Monroes where low & behold all the illegal rave activity shaped itself in the north. Blackburn was an organised central focus to mediate northern areas catering to crews from Manchester, Blackburn & Leeds after club closing time, such as The Hacienda, Leeds Warehouse & Blackburn's Red Parrot plus other firms eventually joined the bond including Huddersfield, Liverpool, Blackpool & Bradford etc all via the renowned convoy system where 100's of cars skilfully avoided the police to prevent them breaking up the monstrous parties ahead.

Part of this organisation was assisted by pirate radio of which Graham was inundated with show's, keeping the organised party clock's ticking away for what storming 24/48 hour outdoor parties lay ahead. Basically cleverly moulding together, numbers in droves of 10 to 30 thousand happy smiles dancing their interactions away at the huge Summer Of Love parties such as Joy, Live The Dream, Sundance, Blast Off, Sunrise, Karma Sutre etc, all once it became UK widespread. 

After all this the house parties/raves were now regulated & no longer illegal, he was offered his own night at Ricky's in Leeds taking over from Sasha every Wednesday leading to more work at another red hot fixture back then, The Gallery with more work in & around Europe.  

Recent years in Leeds have seen him play to constantly sold out shows which he organised, UBER being one while Graham also set his sights on spinning at events pulling the success he always achieved, it actually seemed whatever Graham turned his hand to turned to gold, playing for brands like Kissdafunk, Plastic, The Zoo, Canya and Coastline without forgetting the legendary boat party. Plus for a solid 8 years week in week at Stinky's in Leeds he ran the Back2Mine Sunday daytime terrace shows, consistently playing to sold out audiences.

DJ influences who've guided his diversity flow throughout the years stretch from Cash Money, Jazzy Jeff, Grandmaster Flash, Nightmares On Wax from Leeds, the outstanding UK talents of Sasha & Mike Pickering plus Derrick Carter and Carl Cox have all driven the Graham Dixon talent wagon.

Check out his productions of remixes, mash ups & tracks at uberdifgitalrecordings.

Now he's fully re acquainted his passion for a solid underground classic acid house sound again, Shine offered him The Loft host slots at Leeds Warehouse for the FAC51 Hacienda shows which were taking off in the main room. Since then he's now been asked to fully join the residency outfit with his debut show set to commence 11pm, The Loft at The Warehouse, 13th June 2015 when Shine host the Made In Leeds Festival Afterparty, with Steve Lawler headlining the main room.

Co-Founder of zinc RECORDS.

Remix requests or other enquiries: tomneatis@live.com

Dj, presenter, founder and creator of Let There Be House! A podcast which is now global with 80,000 downloads per month. Delivered every Monday, Glen has developed the brand into hosting exclusive LTBH events and parties around the UK and Europe. For details and info about booking a party email me on glen@ltbh.co.uk

In the past I represented Hed Kandi as a tour dj for over 5 years playing their major parties all over the world from Ibiza, Brazil, South Africa, China and Bali to name a few.

My background in radio which has spanned over 10 years, is an instrumental part of setting the tone for my 'Let There Be House' podcasts which are enjoyed and downloaded all over the world via Soundcloud, Mixcloud &amp; iTunes!

Production wise i've had releases out so far on Motive Records, 84Bit, Hot Sunday and In It Together Records.
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