Description: Club DJ, (occasional radio), Artiste, Producer/Remixer, Promoter & MD of music labels & related business.
Born: 31.07.73
Lives: Glasnevin, North Dublin
DJing since: 1989
Current music style: Deep House-Hard Prog. Trance-Techouse-Funky Techno (no cheese!!!)
Current residencies: MONO (Thursdays & Fridays), ICE (Sundays), various nationwide (Saturdays), occasional mid-week gigs.
Previous Dublin clubs: POD, Shaft, Kitchen, System, Olympic, Temple Theatre, Garage, Purty Loft, Columbia Mills, Velvet, Tivoli, ICE, Mean Fiddler, Harp, Mc Graths, Ormond Multimedia, TBMC, Republica, Reynards, Lillies, Vatican, Purple Onion, The Block, Switch, & Planet Hollywood plus others...
Irish nationwide includes: Thompson's Garage, Network, Space, Earth, Squires, Kelly's, Boom Boom Rooms, Shine, Passion, Blazers, The Foundry, Archies, 303, Temple Of Sound, Roxy, GPO, Cuba, Warwick, Panama Jacks, Club FX, Tube, Jesters, Lust, Privilidge, Europa, Boyne Valley, Attic, Legends, Gallery, plus various RTCs and college venues regionally as part of various student tours & promotions and loads more I've forgotten!
International includes: Limehaus, Bedford; Magma, Istanbul; L'OBCéDé, Belgium.
-UK tour to commense in mid-2000 with 'phunk'dup' (Impulsive Records), Irish nationwide tour in progress.
-Also performed on the first nationwide club tour in 1996 (Wrangler/Universal) and was voted best DJ of 1996 by the sponsors.
Likes: Good company, good food & drink, good music, good craic & a good kip!
Dislikes: Ignorance, imitation, lazyness, unwillingness, fear, acceptance without question, lick-arses, pawns & greed.
Current info: Have set up Impulsive Music Ireland with partners Darren Nolan & Barry Dempsey, catering for currently 2 record labels with full global distribution (Impulsive Records & Landmass). We are also catering for local v& international artist bookings & management plus a full event management & club promotion division (Fresh Promotions), and a music publishing company (DBD Publishing Ltd). Also records and produces under various guises & monikers, both solo & in production groups including 'phunk'dup', 'behavior', 'ds1' and own name. Is signed to London's Apex DJ Agency non-exclusively. To start new Dublin weekly radio show soon featuring regular guests and 75% new original music.
Ambitions: Never to be pigeonholed, to innovate and never to become disillusioned. To bring the sound of the Irish underground to the world's attention and respect, promote the very best music and talent I possible can both in myself and those I represent and work with. To kick the clique! To travel the world's best venues playing long sets, utilising different influences and cross-genre styles of deep hard underground music, giving dance music a kick up the arse. To make one seminal piece of dance music. Plus loads more...!
Contact: Impulsive Music Ireland Ltd. Tel/Fax: +353 86 3515169 PO Box 6831, Dublin 11. impulsivemusicirl@eircom.net HTTP://surf.to/impulsive
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