From?: Leeds, England, UK
What?: DJ, producer
When Began?: Producing (House) - 1988 (first track - "Submission" - see "Original Tracks" page); DJing - 1990
Labels/Projects: www.nickhodgkins.com;
www.cooldj.ru; www.mydj.ru;
www. discocartelle.ru
Former Live Projects: Mushroom (bass guitar),
Bad Trip (drums),
Cold Heat (bass guitar),
TROFT @ Newcastle-upon-Tyne (drums);
Lucid Dream @ Newcastle (synths/drum machine)
Styles: House (energetic/tuff/dark/Electro-/Tech-/Prog.), old-school/ classics, experimentation. More accessible stuff if must.
Describe Your Sets: Energetic, danceable, 'underground' sound; no trashy or boring tracks; ignore genres - take chances :)
Influences: Virgo, Phuture, Fingers, Joey Beltram, Andy Weatherall (as DJ)
Preferred DJs: Derrick May, Jeff Mills, erm, Deep Dish (underground club/long set)
Preferred Producers: None, 'one hit wonders' normally best
Residencies: Moscow-Berlin (eight years); "Another place", Moscow. Can't tell you any more than that. The small club's not licensed, is not advertised anywhere, has no sign on the door, takes no money at the bar (all via friends), and is accessed only via a phone call to a friend inside. Bohemian feel. Great friendly crowd. No one being flash. Dark hard/techy underground tunes all night. Music lovers not bullshit lovers. The only true undergound club in Moscow. Yes!
Where Played: London, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Havana, Bangkok, Kuta (Bali), Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Vladivostok, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Volgograd, Kazan, Voronezh, Toliatti, Tyumen, Omsk, Tomsk, Smolensk, Ufa, Surgut, Ryazan, Yaroslavl, Tula, Taganrog, Penza, Tambov, Kostroma, Nizhni Tagil, Yoshklar-Ola, Noginsk, Zhukovsky, Pavlovskaya Sloboda, Bisk, Barnaul, Irkutsk, Novokuznetsk, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Sepukhov, Usinsk, Lipetsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Habarovsk, Korolyov, Podolsk...
Radio: Regular sets on Dinamit FM (Russia, 101.2FM) - Mixtura Russian; own tracks played on Radio Stansiya (Russia, 106.8FM); mixes played regularly on promodj.ru net radio.
TV: MTV, Muz-TV, Vremechko!
Tours: Six-date 'Urbania' Tour of Russia with Chuguni Skorohod, Da Boogie Crew & DJ Helga; Captain Black Sound Storm (BAT) - twelve-city tour; regular Siberian mini-tours
Production Notes: Worked with Coldcut and other Ninja Tunes artists developing Resrocket (Steinberg/Cubase VST) online music production technology; recorded & produced the Exile Newspaper's track "Send Them Crack", with vocalists Delfin, Tuta Larsen, Edward Limonov, Detsky Panadol, Alina Vitukhnovskaya, Michael Bass, Mark Ames, Kevin McElwee & Matt Taibbi, the latter three of www.exile.ru
Other DJing-related Trivia: Twice runner-up in Muzik magazine's Bedroom Bedlam Comp.! - whence came Yousef
