From?: Leeds, England, UK
What?: DJ, producer
When Began?: Producing (House) - 1988; DJing - 1990
Current Project: www.supremegroup.de
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 has to
Sets: House: energetic, danceable, 'underground' sound, going more overground when necessary; no trashy or boring tracks; mostly ignores House sub-genres - takes chances
Influences: Virgo, Phuture, Fingers, Joey Beltram, Sisters of Mercy (producing); Andy Weatherall, Deep Dish (DJing)
Preferred DJs: Derrick May and Jeff Mills; Deep Dish (underground club/long set)
Preferred Producers: None
Residencies: Moscow-Berlin (eight years); "Another place", Moscow. Can't say much 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
Where Played: London, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Havana, Bangkok, Kuta (Bali), Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Kaliningrad, 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, Norilsk…
Likes about DJing: Judging the floor, giving it what it wants - without selling out/ playing crap - and getting it right
Dislikes about DJing: The name-dropping, the non-music side (glamour, everyone trying to be cool - both clubbers and DJs), commercialization of the scene, big egos
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: 'Urbania' Tour of Russia with Chuguni Skorohod, Da Boogie Crew & DJ Helga; Captain Black Sound Storm (BAT) Russian 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
Mixography: The Noughty House Retro Series - Parts 1-18 (2000-2010): http://nick-hodgkins.dj.ru/music
Other DJing-related Trivia: The most travelled British DJ in Russia, twice runner-up in Muzik magazine's Bedroom Bedlam Comp. - whence came Yousef
Current Status: Recently signed exclusive contract with Supreme Group; continues to tour Russia and abroad, and write in the studio - new releases soon…
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