Sebastian Bayne
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Biografía
- Sebastian Bayne is a DJ, producer and label owner based in Sydney Australia. His music is fast gaining the support of this peers as it is developing into his unique take on techno. Charted by established DJs like Laurent Garnier, Claude Young, Deepchil..Sebastian Bayne is a DJ, producer and label owner based in Sydney Australia. His music is fast gaining the support of this peers as it is developing into his unique take on techno. Charted by established DJs like Laurent Garnier, Claude Young, Deepchild, Dave Tarrida and Justin Berkovi, his music is also favoured by rising stars in the global techno scene namely 88uw, Alkan, D-Sens and Krenzlin. IF? Records is Sebastian's most recent project, having taken it over from long time techno cohort Andrez Bergen aka Little Nobody, in 2010. IF? Records was established in Melbourne in 1995, has over 130 releases, and a roster that reads like a who's who of the underground in the last 15 years; James Ruskin, Aux 88, Ade Fenton, Si Begg, Dave Angel, Justin Berkovi, K. Alexi Shelby, Steve Stoll, BCR Boys, Justin Robertson, Thomas Heckmann, Jammin’ Unit and Pnau, just to name a few. Previously, Sebastian was best known for the part he played in pioneering techno in Beijing learning his craft as a resident DJ in the city's most infamous clubs, throwing parties on the Great Wall and touring China. Also well established in his home town of Sydney, Sebastian has played all the best techno parties in last 10 years including Technikal, Beware the Cat, Subservice, Deep as Funk, Lost Baggage and Disconnected. Sebastian's passion for techno began whilst at university in the UK, where he promoted parties and collected vinyl. He has also published hundreds of articles about techno from DJ profiles to gig and music reviews. Sebastian worked for Point Blank Music College in the UK and Machine Musik in Australia teaching DJing and music production. His production career began in 2007 with his debut release, on vinyl, reaching number 7 in the German Club Charts. No one was more surprised than him. ________ Best recognised for his part in pioneering electronic dance music in Beijing and mainland China, Sebastian spent four years working in Beijing from 2000-4. He held a coveted residency at Club VOGUE (or 88 as the Chinese referred to it) where he played with many fantastic DJs including: Laurent Garnier; Derrick May and Adam Freeland. After VOGUE closed, his boss Henry Li opened another venue called The CLUB, where Sebastian was again resident. The CLUB became 'the' late night haunt in Beijing where other DJs, producers and punters would come and listen to the five hour sets Sebastian played each Friday. DJs as varied as Christian Smith, Dr Kucho! and Paul Godfey from Morcheeba played there too. While in China Sebastian also co-organise and was billed at the two most publicised Great Wall parties featuring Global Underground and Paul Oakenfold. He enjoyed playing regularly at the PLUS techno parties with the likes of Technasia, Ken Iishi, Shin Nishimura and Mickey Zhang. Sebastian also hosted his own Elektrobeat parties with his then DJ partner, Usami; together they brought with the likes of We Love ..., Zouk and Slinky to Beijing. As a guest DJ Sebastian also performed in no less than a dozen cities in mainland China, and in Hong Kong. Before living in China, Sebastian made his mark in Australia where he started his professional DJ career debuting at the infamous Happy Valley festival in 2000. He was also known for his regular guest appearances at one of Sydney's most respected club nights, Tech-ni-kal @ The Chinese Laundry. Sebastian worked as an editor of dance music magazine 3D World and was a freelance contributor to many other publications. His talents also extended to event production where he was part of the team who hosted the Flash techno parties in Sydney featuring Detroit greats Juan Atkins, Carl Craig and Claude Young. Sebastian also spent time living in London where he focused his energy into making his own music. Wanting to hone his production skills having been self-taught, he took some short courses at Point Blank Music College. This resulted in two of his tracks being signed to their music publishing company for use in media. He was also employed by the community youth projects division of Point Blank as a tutor of event production, computer music production and DJing. Sebastian's lasting passion for dance music was sparked in the UK where, as a student of philosophy and politics at the University of Southampton, he started buying up old R&S Records 12'' singles at the university market day. During these years living between Southampton and London, he also found inspiration frequenting clubs like Club UK, where in particular, a five hour set by Laurent Garnier made him understand the scope of electronic music. While studying he also worked with Squeeze 18 and other groups promoting and organising parties from 1994-6. Squeeze hosted high profile events such as the first Ministry of Sound club tour and LTJ Bukem's original Logical Progression tour, as well as supporting then underground DJs like Josh Wink, Nick Warren and Colin Dale at smaller club nights.̸Productions: 2007 August - Dub City EP - KISU001 2008 December - Driving Sideways - Z-13.1 - 13 Years Of IF? - IF? Records 2011 July - Split 12inch Minus Vinyl #12 - Contorted Self - IF? Records Remixes: 2008 July - Cocaine Speaking / Little Nobody - IF? Records 2008 August - Get Loose / Biz - Cliq 2008 December - Obsession EP - Sparselight / Da Lukas - Beef Records 2010 February - Compulsion Mockba Mixes - Little Nobody/Sebastian Bayne - IF? Records 2010 December - Falling Down / Ade Fenton - IF? Records 2010 December - The Flux / BCR Boys - IF? Records 2011 March - The Condimental Op / Little Nobody - IF? Records 2011 August - Odyssey / Dead Agenda - IF? Records 2011 October - C-Sin / Enclave - Gynoid Audio
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