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Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, progressive house and techno started by Nick Muir and John Digweed. Its name comes from a long running and successful club night held in Hastings and also at Heaven nightclub, London - both also called Bedrock. Bedrock Records has released many singles from artists such as Astro & Glyde, Brancaccio & Aisher, Steve Lawler, Shmuel Flash, Steve Porter, Sahar Z, Guy J, Henry Saiz, Stelios Vassiloudis, Electric Rescue, The Japanese Popstars and Jerry Bonham. Bedrock is also the name that Digweed and Muir use as their production moniker.
Thomas John Digweed is a British DJ and record producer. DJ Magazine voted him World No 1 DJ in 2001. As well as achieving success as a solo act, he has collaborated with Sasha as Sasha & John Digweed, and with Nick Muir as Bedrock.
Sasha & John Digweed are a British DJ duo comprising Sasha and John Digweed. Digweed had been DJing for ten years before getting a gig at Renaissance where he met Sasha, who had been working the past few years in various acid house music clubs and raves. Together, they honed their DJ skills, focusing on track selection and technical mixing abilities. In 1994, they released the triple CD mix album Renaissance: The Mix Collection on Renaissance Records. It contained many popular dance hits of the time from artists such as Leftfield, Fluke, and 2 Bad Mice as well as original productions and remixes from themselves. Two years later, the duo became "true superstars" (AllMusic) with the release of their double CD Northern Exposure on mega-label Ministry of Sound. This release was brought to the United States the next year in a single CD package on Ultra Records. 1997 saw the release of the Northern Exposure 2 double CD mix album, again on Ministry of Sound. Sasha and Digweed toured internationally, helping define the sound of progressive house & trance music in the late 1990s. In 1998, both John Digweed and Sasha released separate mix albums on Boxed as part of the Global Underground series with Digweed's GU 006: Sydney and Sasha's GU 009: San Francisco release.
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Bedrock is a type of rock underlying the Earth's surface
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This is a comprehensive discography of Welsh DJ and record producer Sasha. His discography comprises three studio albums, three compilation albums, two live albums, thirteen mix albums, four extended plays and twenty two singles. He has also released five mix albums and one video album with John Digweed as Sasha & John Digweed.
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"For What You Dream Of" is a song by English electronic music duo Bedrock featuring singer Carol Leeming, credited by her stage name KYO. It was originally released in 1993 through Stress Records, but was re-released in 1996 after being featured in the film Trainspotting and its soundtrack album, Trainspotting: Music from the Motion Picture. Following its 1996 release, the song was a commercial success, staying at number one on the UK Dance Chart for two weeks, and additionally appearing on the country's national singles chart for three weeks, peaking at number 25.
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- ↑ "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ↑ "Bedrock - Chart history". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ↑ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 21 September 2018.
