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+ LUKE McD (Smashbang, MELBOURNE)
http://www.myspace.com/listentolukemcd
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Luke McD began his career as a muso in his early days of secondary school playing trumpet in up to 6 bands each week before he was even alouwed to have a rider. Later in life as the party took over, his focus turned to dance music and Djing become a pasion. Luke's early gigs placed him as promoter, booker, publicist and Dj, giving him a total understanding of music, people, context and contacts. Luke has been musical director, booker and resident of many of Melbourne’s best venues and events for years. A focus on the right sound for the right time in the right venue has always been his forte whether he is behind the decks or behind the desk.
Dj Luke McD has played house, techno, disco and electro supporting the likes of Thomas Schumacher, Alex Smoke, Chris Fortier, Marc Romboy, Petter, Laurent Guarnier, Jesse Rose, Phil Kieren, Radio Slave, Aeroplane, Tim Sweeney, Joakim, Marc Romboy, Kosheen, Extrawelt, Tipper, Black Strobe, 2 many Dj’s, Perry Farrel, Will White, Miss Kitten and the Hacker, Nitin Sahwney, Speedy J, Hunterman, Carl Craig, Ladytron, Jamie Lidel, Arc, Ransom, Phil K and Eric Pridz. Luke has also played sets and hosted various radio shows including Melbourne’s Kiss FM breakfast show Friday mornings.
A tour through parts of Europe in 2006, 2007 and again in 2008 took Luke too many venues including the ABC club in Glasgow, The Keys in London, Pogo Club in Dublin, Nemo party's in Belgium, Marbella Beach and Solar Factory gigs in Barcelona with the Fake Out crew during Sonar, Lola warehouse parties in Barcelona and City Hall in Barcelona, Space Beach in Berlin, Vinyl bar in Frankfurt. The 2008 tour was massive with dates in Brussels, London and France and even a cameo spot on a float at Love Parade with an invite to return in 2009 to open the parade on Pulse Radio's float.
Luke has teamed up with Melbourne producer Ehsan Gelsi to launch Smash Bang digital record label, taking the sound of his piers to the world. Smash Bang is distributing through Beatport, and has already begun releasing Melbourne’s producers, www.smashbangrecords.com
Production was the next step for Luke McD and first release "Not Yet" is availible on beatport with his label Smash Bang Records. Luke has also released remixes on Freakshow disco created with his partner in music Ehsan Gelsi under the monica of Smash Bang!
Luke McD is currently playing and producing techno, minimal, disco, medial, house and all things in between. With respect to the audience and a common McD twist through every set, expect to hear something different when you tune in to this man. To hear more check out www.smashbangrecords.com
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+ MATT WEIR (Wham!, SYDNEY)
http://www.facebook.com/matt.d.weir?ref=ts
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From a young age Matt had a diverse, almost eclectic taste in music, from reggae to rock, hip-hop to house, which turned into an eventual love of electronic music in all its forms. This love was cultivated in the late 90’s and turn of the century when Breaks and House, with rhythmic bass lines and epic vocals would keep the dance floors of The Underground, Globe and Yu filled, what seemed like every night of the week with parties like Funk Trust, Kink and Sounds on Sunday growing Matt’s desire to no longer sit on the sidelines.
So in 2005/2006 with good mate Dave, Matt decided it would be a good time to start mixing himself. They bought themselves a set of Technics 1200’s, a shitty 2-channel mixer, started amassing a collection of vinyl and thumping out whatever they could to wake the neighbours.
By the end of 2006 the pair were running their own parties and playing at clubs such as Mylk, (now Nevermind) Le Panic and locally in Coogee. Under the moniker Cartel they played a style of underground electro that was rare and refreshing which led to a Residency at Yu and regular appearances at Sydney’s finest venues, Moulin Rouge, Kink and Sounds On Sunday, supporting international DJ’s to the likes of Richard Dinsdale, The Freestylers, Funkagenda, Spencer Parker and Will Saul.
Matt then went out on his own and moved into a different deeper, tech house sound, honing his DJing skills whilst being influenced by producers such as Vincenzo, Simon Baker, Lauhaus, Shur-I-Kan, Shonky and Phonique.
Inspiration also came from local DJ’s such as Telefunken, Ben Morris, Murat Kilic, Shamus, Baz and Pete Nouveau for the way they consistently and enthusiastically approach music.
Eventually Matt would love to concentrate solely on writing and producing music, but until then, he can be found showcasing his unique sound at Sydney’s best underground nights including, Spice and at his residency at one of Sydney’s leading weekly parties WHAM! at The World Bar.
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+ SCHWA (Beef, PRAGUE)
http://www.myspace.com/djschwabeef
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Michal Ruzicka, aka DJ Schwa, became engaged in music thanks to his father, who is also a musician himself as well as an owner of a recording studio in Prague. At the age of 14, dance music caught his attention mainly through Radio 1. Around this time he tried to mix his first tracks (techno in particular) from cassettes and shortly afterwards he moved to the turntables and computer. In 2000 he found trance and started performing publicly. Two years later Schwa joined the group Tribal Vision and became an essential part of this promotional group. In 2002, Michal started his weekly resident nights in Prague at Cross Club and since 2003 he has been working as a sound engineer at ORM studio in Prague. In 2004 Michal, along with DJ Slater, started working on the first Czech progressive label and by the end of the year “Tribal Vision Records” was born. Tribal Vision has since then been slowly establishing itself as one of the leading labels on the progressive scene. At the end of 2005, the idea of an electro/experimental sub-label of Tribal Vision Records became reality and thus established the foundation for “BEEF Records”.
Michal is also part of a new Sydney based electronic project called, “Shades of Gray”, with Nick West. Oliver Klein and Jurgen Dreissen signed 4 Shades of Gray tracks for their imprint PlusMinus records and in early 2009 Shades of Gray track Moog In The House reached number 6 on BEATPORT TECH HOUSE CHART and number 3 on DECKS.DE VINYL sales chart.
Schwa’s sets are not strictly one style oriented; he combines electronic sounds that progressively flow from deeper-tribal-prog with electro and breaks elements to minimal and techhouse rhythms. Schwa has performed at huge international festivals such as “Open Air Field” (Czech Republic), “Parihaka” (New Zealand), “No Mans Land Festival” (Hungary), "Good Vibrations" (Australia), “Rainbow Serpent” and “Earthcore Carnival” (Australia) and he is frequently touring across Europe, Japan and Australia.
Schwa supported Djs/projects such as: Gui Boratto, Jimpster, Minilogue, Extrawelt, D-Nox, Propellerheads, Alex Smoke, Antix, Orbital, Chemical brothers, Steve Angello, Deepchild, Kasey Taylor, Future Sounds of London, System 7, Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Heidi, Tim Green and more.
BEEF records on myspace: www.myspace.cz/beefrec
Dj Schwa online: www.djschwa.net
BEEF records online: www.beefrecords.net
Tribal Vision records online: www.tribalvision.cz
Shades of Gray on myspace: www.myspace.com/shadesofgraysounds
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+ KRANKHEIT-B (Grant Streater & Peter Jones, SYDNEY)
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