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It?s that time of the week again. 
Thanks to Gregor for delievering yet another excellent mix from Luke Fair. I hope it will help a bit promoting his Bedrock album Original Series OS 3.0 because the set is pretty mint and leaves you begging for more. This week on the list as well is a recently broadcasted mix on Radio2 from the Rulers of the Deep show Talinn Express. Last but not least we are hosting a huge 430 MB Richie Hawtin set which Jenks recommended. Hawtin fans will get it for sure and maybe it?s a good opportunity for Prog and House music lovers to look across the borders to find out if you like something different as well.
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Luke Fair
all info taken from: http://www.lukefair.com/
Biography
At the forefront of Canada's growing dance scene is Luke Fair. He has performed at some of the most prestigious venues and events in the world, offering club goers a taste of his funky - techy eclectic house sound each and every weekend. His sets include everything from groovy house and techno to funky progressive and electro. Constantly re-editing tracks to customize his sets, Luke's ongoing desire to make every set stand out from the others is very evident.
Luke has pushed his sound the world over, headlining at world renowned clubs like Pacha (Buenos Aires), Bedrock (London), Red Light (Paris), Space (Miami), 'Zouk' club (Singapore) and The Womb (Tokyo). He headlined the 8000 person 'Moonpark' party in Argentina this past June and Luke's recent Eastern European tour with John Digweed ended at Godskitchen's massive Global Gathering festival.
Luke's skills have won the praise of some of the industry's biggest players. He was chosen by Danny Howells and Deep Dish as their 'future hero' in DJ Mag's Top 100 issue and, most recently, Luke was selected by none other than DJ Sasha to open up for him in every US city on the Involver CD release tour.
Over the past few years, Luke has garnered attention for his extremely diverse and genre-crossing studio efforts. From dubbed-out house to melodic progressive, his tracks have been played by djs from all across the dance music spectrum. Everyone from Sasha to David Morales to The Plump DJs have all included Luke's production in their sets. As well, Pete Tong has featured numerous Luke Fair productions on his world famous BBC Radio 1 'Essential Selection' show.
Despite his heavy touring schedule, Luke continues to work
tirelessly in the studio. His recently completed remixes of Agent
001's 'Faakson' and Momu's 'The Dive' will be hitting the stores at the end of the summer and a diverse 4-track EP on Bedrock will be released soon after.
Style:
Eclectic style that includes twisted vocal house, trippy hypnotic grooves and funky progressive.
Links:
Bedrock Records: www.bedrock.org.uk
Yoshitoshi: www.yoshitoshi.com
Bookings: http://www.thecollectiveagency.com/
Discography:
ORIGINAL
Luke Fair - Kritical/Let U Know - Bedrock Black
Luke Wan - The Wish - Yoshitoshi
REMIX
Satoshi Tomiie - The Virus - SAW
Kings Of Tomorrow - I Want You (For Myself) - Yoshitoshi
Lorient - Salvation - Inversus
Max Graham - Tell You - Hope
Josh Ryan - Buildings In Between - System
James Harcourt - Diaspora - Release
Jas - Soul Doing Dishes - Yoshitoshi
Expressed Soul - I'm Waiting - Fade
Rare Influence - Take Me With You - Inversus
FORTHCOMING
Momu - The Dive - Nu Republic
Agent 001 - Faakson - Opek
Piece Process - Synthsations - Shine
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Rulers of the Deep
all info taken from: http://www.estmusic.com/index.php?013221337512/
Biography
Rulers of the Deep aka Vibe Residents met in 1998, when DJ Meri and P.Julm started their residency at one of the most talked about party in Estonia ? Vibe. The duo became known under the moniker Vibe Residents. Vibe provided DJ Meri and P.Julm opportunity to play alongside artists like Josh Wink, King Britt, Roger Sanchez and more. Their production skills were noticed after remixing Kings Of Tomorrow hit ?Finally?. Since then, Simon Dunmore of Defected Records, Roger Sanchez of Stealth and Josh Wink of Ovum are keeping close eyes on the duo.
The first original production as Rulers of The Deep was signed to Ovum. The track named ?Track One? was inspired by DJ Dozia?s guest spot at Vibe. ROTD remix road continued with versions of SNS Project ?Get Up? and SerJaye ?Mahal Kita?. ?Mahal Kita? remix rose to number one spot at the almost industry standard DJ Mag Hype Chart.
Next original DJ Meri and P.Julm production was a collaboration with vocalist DragonFly. ?Temptation?, produced under the name of Vibe Residents and released as the first release of Roger Sanchez new label Stealth in 2002.
The same year, Ovum released another original production ?Dirty Groove?, which was also remixed by David Alvarado. The first issue of the single was sold out copies around the US and forced Ovum to repress.
Rulers of the Deep is known for their remixing skills. Under their belt, ROTD has remixes of chart topping Shakedown ?At Night?, IL Padrinos feat. Jocelyn Brown ?That?s How Good Your Love Is?, Mood2Swing ?Can?t Get Away From You?, Arnold Jarvis ?Be Right There?, Craig Jensen ?Club Lonely? (Hed Kandi) and C&M Productions feat. Marcel ?The Vision? (Neat Music).
The duos latest original releases include the ?DJ?s Calling EP? on Stealth Records, ?Tallinn Express EP? on Distance and ?Elu On Mu Ilu? on Ovum.
In the making is Rulers of the Deep full length album which includes collaborations with Crystal Waters, DragonFly, Marcel, Bryan Chambers, Capitol A and several other artists.
Besides production and dj?ing across the world, DJ Meri and P.Julm have always hosted radioshows on many popular station across Estonia. Today the duo hosts the Friday night mix-show ?Tallinn Express?, aired weekly on the national station Raadio 2 (101.6 ? 103.6 MHz).
Using the same brand, ?Tallinn Express?, DJ Meri and P.Julm also run a monthly club night at Club Tallinn, where they host the main stage the whole night playing various variations of house music including deep, vocal, soulful and also dark and tribal.
Discography
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
Ovum Records:
Rulers Of The Deep - Track One / 2001
Rulers Of The Deep - Dirty Grooves / 2002
Rulers Of The Deep - Elu On Mu Ilu / 2003
Stealth Records:
Vibe Residents feat. Dragonfly - Temptation / 2002
Vibe Residents ?The DJ?s Calling EP - DJ?s Calling feat. Dragonfly / 2003
- Rulers Anthem / 2003
- Make It Funky / 2003
Distance Music:
Rulers Of The Deep ?Tallinn Express EP? - Rise feat. Inna / 2003
- Advantage / 2003
REMIX PRODUCTION
MOOD 2 SWING | CAN?T GET AWAY FROM YOU (ROTD rmx?s) | DEFECTED / 2003
C&M PRODUCTIONS feat MARCEL | THE VISION (ROTD rmx?s) | NEAT MUSIC / 2003
CRAIG JENSEN | CLUB LONELY (ROTD rmx) | HED KANDI / 2003
ARNOLD JARVIS | BE RIGHT THERE (ROTD rmx) | AZUCAR / 2003
SERJAYE | MAHAL KITA (ROTD rmx) | NEAT MUSIC/ HED KANDI / 2003
S.N.S. PROJECT | GET UP ( ROTD rmx?s) | OVUM / 2002
STEPHUNK | KOSHMIR (ROTD rmx) | BEESWAX / 2002
SHAKEDOWN | AT NIGHT (ROTD rmx) | DEFECTED / 2002
IL PADRINOS feat JOCELYN BROWN | THAT?S HOW GOOD YOUR LOVE IS (ROTD rmx?s)
| Defected Records / 2002
STARECASE | SEE (ROTD rmx) | HOPE RECORDINGS (Timo Maas) / 2002
KOT - FINALLY (ROTD rmx?s) | DEFECTED / 2001
PIERRE RAVAN & SAFAR | DIVINE ENERGY (ROTD rmx) | SHINICHI / 2003
NEBULA | I?M THE ONE YOU NEED (ROTD & PIERRE RAVAN) | ? / 2003
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Richie Hawtin
all info taken from: http://www.tigersushi.com/site/frame...amp;ArtBio=yes
Biography
Under his various monikers, Ritchie Hawtin has released some of the most innovative and sharp pieces of electronic music of the nineties be it the hard stomping releases of FUSE or the minimal and yet so expressive experimentalism of Plastikman. Hawtin's taste in electronic music was reportedly triggered by his father's - an engineer at General Electric - extensive listenning to cult seventies pre-tech outfits such as Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream. Also essential to Hawtin's musical experience was the fact that he resided in Windsor, a Canadian border-town, a stones-throw away from Detroit the electronic meca supreme.
Zoning in and out of the Motor City soon became an habit for Hawtin. He just crossed the border to hunt for some vinyl at Detroit's many speciality shops and soon realised that all the wonderful techno he was listenning to actually came from the Motor City. Again the legacy of techno greats such as Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson or Juan Atkins was an essenatial catalyst, and young Dj Richie Rich began spinning at parties inspired by luminaries such as Jeff Mills who hosted a radio show at the time.
In the early nineties, he cofounded Plus 8 records along with John Aquaviva . The pair combined Aquaviva's studio expertise with Hawtin's ideas and released acid-house classics, quite similar to early Underground Resistance material. The UTK studio - Under The Kitchen (of Hawtin's parents house) - productions soon draw the attention of the Motor City's electronic crowd and a tight competition ensued to determine which crew would rule supreme over the lairs of TB-303 and TR-808 land : Plus 8 or Underground Resistance ? To these days, the Spastik single or the Sheet One LP are still regarded as all time tech classics.
Though his hard, edged-up sound and his acid production work earned him total respect from the electronic community and landed him many spots as a DJ, Hawtin refused to cash in on formulas and was always prone to innovation and novelty. In 1995, Hawtin was caught in a hectic Dj schedule and yearning for more time to be able to take the long view and actually release something different. Though it infuriated him at the time, the United States immigration services gave him the perfect opportunity when banning him from re-entry after busting Hawtin with all his equipement at the border, the man simply didn't have a work permit. The forced break gave him time to reflect on the state of his art while at the same time his competitive drive was fueled by Germany's own miniamlist school of techno : the beautifully evanescent works of Maurizio and his posse ( Chain Reaction and Basic Channel ).
The answer came out in the form of the Concept series of EPs that explored the bare and abstract side of the TB-303 and TR-808 synthetizers. This was later confirmed with the release of the stellar Consumed LP that literaly blew everyone away. Of course, it's become common place to parrallel the current wave of electronic music, and especially Techno, with the apparition of abstract artforms in the end of the19th and beginning of the 20th centuries especially in painting and sculpture. But Consumed did just that, it took the original acid house sounds and arranged them in the most abstract possible way while still retaining an eerie connection to reality. When playing the record to your friends you could hear them go : 'this is the sound of air-conditionning', 'this is the sound of a vacuum cleaner' or 'this is an heartbeat' while in fact it was pure TB-303 programming, clearly reminescent of classic techno and yet utterly different, the sound of abstraction was anchored in our everyday world and for that matter in our trainspotting history and yet it was something else, a pure reconstruction, an abstraction.
Now, famous for his various arty installations, among which the much glossed Simon-inspired installation - Simon is this electronic game where people had to memorize a sequence of sounds associated with a sequence of colors and reproduce it on touchpads- and the Avignon (France) millenium celebration, Hawtin seems to try to preserve an ideal mix between his producing, DJ-ing and arty activities.
Thanks to Gregor for delievering yet another excellent mix from Luke Fair. I hope it will help a bit promoting his Bedrock album Original Series OS 3.0 because the set is pretty mint and leaves you begging for more. This week on the list as well is a recently broadcasted mix on Radio2 from the Rulers of the Deep show Talinn Express. Last but not least we are hosting a huge 430 MB Richie Hawtin set which Jenks recommended. Hawtin fans will get it for sure and maybe it?s a good opportunity for Prog and House music lovers to look across the borders to find out if you like something different as well.
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Luke Fair
all info taken from: http://www.lukefair.com/
Biography
At the forefront of Canada's growing dance scene is Luke Fair. He has performed at some of the most prestigious venues and events in the world, offering club goers a taste of his funky - techy eclectic house sound each and every weekend. His sets include everything from groovy house and techno to funky progressive and electro. Constantly re-editing tracks to customize his sets, Luke's ongoing desire to make every set stand out from the others is very evident.
Luke has pushed his sound the world over, headlining at world renowned clubs like Pacha (Buenos Aires), Bedrock (London), Red Light (Paris), Space (Miami), 'Zouk' club (Singapore) and The Womb (Tokyo). He headlined the 8000 person 'Moonpark' party in Argentina this past June and Luke's recent Eastern European tour with John Digweed ended at Godskitchen's massive Global Gathering festival.
Luke's skills have won the praise of some of the industry's biggest players. He was chosen by Danny Howells and Deep Dish as their 'future hero' in DJ Mag's Top 100 issue and, most recently, Luke was selected by none other than DJ Sasha to open up for him in every US city on the Involver CD release tour.
Over the past few years, Luke has garnered attention for his extremely diverse and genre-crossing studio efforts. From dubbed-out house to melodic progressive, his tracks have been played by djs from all across the dance music spectrum. Everyone from Sasha to David Morales to The Plump DJs have all included Luke's production in their sets. As well, Pete Tong has featured numerous Luke Fair productions on his world famous BBC Radio 1 'Essential Selection' show.
Despite his heavy touring schedule, Luke continues to work
tirelessly in the studio. His recently completed remixes of Agent
001's 'Faakson' and Momu's 'The Dive' will be hitting the stores at the end of the summer and a diverse 4-track EP on Bedrock will be released soon after.
Style:
Eclectic style that includes twisted vocal house, trippy hypnotic grooves and funky progressive.
Links:
Bedrock Records: www.bedrock.org.uk
Yoshitoshi: www.yoshitoshi.com
Bookings: http://www.thecollectiveagency.com/
Discography:
ORIGINAL
Luke Fair - Kritical/Let U Know - Bedrock Black
Luke Wan - The Wish - Yoshitoshi
REMIX
Satoshi Tomiie - The Virus - SAW
Kings Of Tomorrow - I Want You (For Myself) - Yoshitoshi
Lorient - Salvation - Inversus
Max Graham - Tell You - Hope
Josh Ryan - Buildings In Between - System
James Harcourt - Diaspora - Release
Jas - Soul Doing Dishes - Yoshitoshi
Expressed Soul - I'm Waiting - Fade
Rare Influence - Take Me With You - Inversus
FORTHCOMING
Momu - The Dive - Nu Republic
Agent 001 - Faakson - Opek
Piece Process - Synthsations - Shine
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Rulers of the Deep
all info taken from: http://www.estmusic.com/index.php?013221337512/
Biography
Rulers of the Deep aka Vibe Residents met in 1998, when DJ Meri and P.Julm started their residency at one of the most talked about party in Estonia ? Vibe. The duo became known under the moniker Vibe Residents. Vibe provided DJ Meri and P.Julm opportunity to play alongside artists like Josh Wink, King Britt, Roger Sanchez and more. Their production skills were noticed after remixing Kings Of Tomorrow hit ?Finally?. Since then, Simon Dunmore of Defected Records, Roger Sanchez of Stealth and Josh Wink of Ovum are keeping close eyes on the duo.
The first original production as Rulers of The Deep was signed to Ovum. The track named ?Track One? was inspired by DJ Dozia?s guest spot at Vibe. ROTD remix road continued with versions of SNS Project ?Get Up? and SerJaye ?Mahal Kita?. ?Mahal Kita? remix rose to number one spot at the almost industry standard DJ Mag Hype Chart.
Next original DJ Meri and P.Julm production was a collaboration with vocalist DragonFly. ?Temptation?, produced under the name of Vibe Residents and released as the first release of Roger Sanchez new label Stealth in 2002.
The same year, Ovum released another original production ?Dirty Groove?, which was also remixed by David Alvarado. The first issue of the single was sold out copies around the US and forced Ovum to repress.
Rulers of the Deep is known for their remixing skills. Under their belt, ROTD has remixes of chart topping Shakedown ?At Night?, IL Padrinos feat. Jocelyn Brown ?That?s How Good Your Love Is?, Mood2Swing ?Can?t Get Away From You?, Arnold Jarvis ?Be Right There?, Craig Jensen ?Club Lonely? (Hed Kandi) and C&M Productions feat. Marcel ?The Vision? (Neat Music).
The duos latest original releases include the ?DJ?s Calling EP? on Stealth Records, ?Tallinn Express EP? on Distance and ?Elu On Mu Ilu? on Ovum.
In the making is Rulers of the Deep full length album which includes collaborations with Crystal Waters, DragonFly, Marcel, Bryan Chambers, Capitol A and several other artists.
Besides production and dj?ing across the world, DJ Meri and P.Julm have always hosted radioshows on many popular station across Estonia. Today the duo hosts the Friday night mix-show ?Tallinn Express?, aired weekly on the national station Raadio 2 (101.6 ? 103.6 MHz).
Using the same brand, ?Tallinn Express?, DJ Meri and P.Julm also run a monthly club night at Club Tallinn, where they host the main stage the whole night playing various variations of house music including deep, vocal, soulful and also dark and tribal.
Discography
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
Ovum Records:
Rulers Of The Deep - Track One / 2001
Rulers Of The Deep - Dirty Grooves / 2002
Rulers Of The Deep - Elu On Mu Ilu / 2003
Stealth Records:
Vibe Residents feat. Dragonfly - Temptation / 2002
Vibe Residents ?The DJ?s Calling EP - DJ?s Calling feat. Dragonfly / 2003
- Rulers Anthem / 2003
- Make It Funky / 2003
Distance Music:
Rulers Of The Deep ?Tallinn Express EP? - Rise feat. Inna / 2003
- Advantage / 2003
REMIX PRODUCTION
MOOD 2 SWING | CAN?T GET AWAY FROM YOU (ROTD rmx?s) | DEFECTED / 2003
C&M PRODUCTIONS feat MARCEL | THE VISION (ROTD rmx?s) | NEAT MUSIC / 2003
CRAIG JENSEN | CLUB LONELY (ROTD rmx) | HED KANDI / 2003
ARNOLD JARVIS | BE RIGHT THERE (ROTD rmx) | AZUCAR / 2003
SERJAYE | MAHAL KITA (ROTD rmx) | NEAT MUSIC/ HED KANDI / 2003
S.N.S. PROJECT | GET UP ( ROTD rmx?s) | OVUM / 2002
STEPHUNK | KOSHMIR (ROTD rmx) | BEESWAX / 2002
SHAKEDOWN | AT NIGHT (ROTD rmx) | DEFECTED / 2002
IL PADRINOS feat JOCELYN BROWN | THAT?S HOW GOOD YOUR LOVE IS (ROTD rmx?s)
| Defected Records / 2002
STARECASE | SEE (ROTD rmx) | HOPE RECORDINGS (Timo Maas) / 2002
KOT - FINALLY (ROTD rmx?s) | DEFECTED / 2001
PIERRE RAVAN & SAFAR | DIVINE ENERGY (ROTD rmx) | SHINICHI / 2003
NEBULA | I?M THE ONE YOU NEED (ROTD & PIERRE RAVAN) | ? / 2003
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Richie Hawtin
all info taken from: http://www.tigersushi.com/site/frame...amp;ArtBio=yes
Biography
Under his various monikers, Ritchie Hawtin has released some of the most innovative and sharp pieces of electronic music of the nineties be it the hard stomping releases of FUSE or the minimal and yet so expressive experimentalism of Plastikman. Hawtin's taste in electronic music was reportedly triggered by his father's - an engineer at General Electric - extensive listenning to cult seventies pre-tech outfits such as Kraftwerk or Tangerine Dream. Also essential to Hawtin's musical experience was the fact that he resided in Windsor, a Canadian border-town, a stones-throw away from Detroit the electronic meca supreme.
Zoning in and out of the Motor City soon became an habit for Hawtin. He just crossed the border to hunt for some vinyl at Detroit's many speciality shops and soon realised that all the wonderful techno he was listenning to actually came from the Motor City. Again the legacy of techno greats such as Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson or Juan Atkins was an essenatial catalyst, and young Dj Richie Rich began spinning at parties inspired by luminaries such as Jeff Mills who hosted a radio show at the time.
In the early nineties, he cofounded Plus 8 records along with John Aquaviva . The pair combined Aquaviva's studio expertise with Hawtin's ideas and released acid-house classics, quite similar to early Underground Resistance material. The UTK studio - Under The Kitchen (of Hawtin's parents house) - productions soon draw the attention of the Motor City's electronic crowd and a tight competition ensued to determine which crew would rule supreme over the lairs of TB-303 and TR-808 land : Plus 8 or Underground Resistance ? To these days, the Spastik single or the Sheet One LP are still regarded as all time tech classics.
Though his hard, edged-up sound and his acid production work earned him total respect from the electronic community and landed him many spots as a DJ, Hawtin refused to cash in on formulas and was always prone to innovation and novelty. In 1995, Hawtin was caught in a hectic Dj schedule and yearning for more time to be able to take the long view and actually release something different. Though it infuriated him at the time, the United States immigration services gave him the perfect opportunity when banning him from re-entry after busting Hawtin with all his equipement at the border, the man simply didn't have a work permit. The forced break gave him time to reflect on the state of his art while at the same time his competitive drive was fueled by Germany's own miniamlist school of techno : the beautifully evanescent works of Maurizio and his posse ( Chain Reaction and Basic Channel ).
The answer came out in the form of the Concept series of EPs that explored the bare and abstract side of the TB-303 and TR-808 synthetizers. This was later confirmed with the release of the stellar Consumed LP that literaly blew everyone away. Of course, it's become common place to parrallel the current wave of electronic music, and especially Techno, with the apparition of abstract artforms in the end of the19th and beginning of the 20th centuries especially in painting and sculpture. But Consumed did just that, it took the original acid house sounds and arranged them in the most abstract possible way while still retaining an eerie connection to reality. When playing the record to your friends you could hear them go : 'this is the sound of air-conditionning', 'this is the sound of a vacuum cleaner' or 'this is an heartbeat' while in fact it was pure TB-303 programming, clearly reminescent of classic techno and yet utterly different, the sound of abstraction was anchored in our everyday world and for that matter in our trainspotting history and yet it was something else, a pure reconstruction, an abstraction.
Now, famous for his various arty installations, among which the much glossed Simon-inspired installation - Simon is this electronic game where people had to memorize a sequence of sounds associated with a sequence of colors and reproduce it on touchpads- and the Avignon (France) millenium celebration, Hawtin seems to try to preserve an ideal mix between his producing, DJ-ing and arty activities.
