Thomas John Digweed is a British DJ and record producer. DJ Magazine voted him the 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.
Alexander Paul Coe,known professionally as Sasha,is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist,as well as his collaborations with British DJ John Digweed as Sasha &John Digweed. He was voted as World No. 1 DJ in 2000 in a poll conducted by DJ Magazine. He is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner,four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee.
Progressive house is a subgenre of house music. The progressive house style emerged in the early 1990s. It initially developed in the United Kingdom as a natural progression of North American and European house music of the late 1980s.
Homelands was a music festival run by Mean Fiddler Music Group which consisted mainly of dance music,both live acts and DJs. The festival was held in locations in England,Scotland and Ireland in the period 1999 to 2005. The organisers of Homelands were also behind the Home Nightclubs chain including Home Nightclub in London and Sydney.
Leftism is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Leftfield,released in 1995 on Columbia Records. It contained a mixture of new tracks along with reworked versions of previous Leftfield singles. The album contains guest spots from musicians not associated with dance music at the time such as John Lydon from Public Image Ltd. and Toni Halliday from Curve. The album was described as progressive house,although some journalists found that label too limiting,suggesting the album incorporated many genres. After completing the album,the duo initially were not pleased with it.
Global Underground is a British record label and compilation series founded in 1996 by Andy Horsfield and James Todd. The label symbolised the international explosion of dance music during the 1990s,2000s,and 2010s and first manifesto for high-end DJs such as Tony De Vit,Sasha,Paul Oakenfold,John Digweed,Danny Tenaglia,Nick Warren,Dave Seaman,Darren Emerson,James Lavelle,Carl Cox,and Solomun.
Sunscreem are a techno/house music band from Essex,England that scored a number of hits on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. Sunscreem also has the rare reputation as a techno-based band that successfully performs concerts. Over a ten-year period,12 of its singles made an entry to the UK Singles Chart.
Global Underground 006:John Digweed,Sydney is a DJ mix album in the Global Underground series,compiled and mixed by John Digweed. The mix is a retrospective look at a set in Sydney,Australia.
James Alexander Goodale Holden is a British electronic music artist and DJ. After beginning his career as a DJ and producer,Holden has moved extensively into live performance and founded his own record label Border Community.
Danny Howells is an English producer and DJ. His music is often described as progressive house,though he prefers to associate more with tech house and is sometimes described simply as "deepsexyfuturistictechfunkouse". At performances,he is well known to interact personally with the audience. Howells has mixed several albums for Global Underground in addition to his Nocturnal Frequencies series. Howells is also a member of the duo Science Department with Dick Trevor,which has produced the singles "Breathe" and "Persuasion"/"Repercussion" as well as remixes for artists such as BT. From 2008 he has run his own record label,Dig Deeper - named after his long running club night.
Renaissance is a British electronic dance music club brand and record label. Renaissance was started by Geoff Oakes at Venue 44 in Mansfield,England in March 1992. Renaissance was Geoff Oakes' antidote to the sci-fi imagery and dressed down clubbers of the 'rave' scene. Early resident DJs at Renaissance were Ian Ossia,Sasha,John Digweed and Nigel Dawson;other DJs with long-time attachments include Dave Seaman,Nick Warren,David Morales,Anthony Pappa and Hernán Cattáneo.
The Goa Mix is a two-hour DJ mix by British musician and DJ Paul Oakenfold. It was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 1 as an Essential Mix on 18 December 1994 after the producer of the show,Eddie Gordon,chose Oakenfold to produce an eclectic DJ mix for the show which featured a burgeoning variation of electronic styles,having begun the previous year. Oakenfold had,at this point,developed his own unique Goa trance sound,influenced by his time at hippy gatherings on beaches in Goa,and employed it heavily into the mix,which also made pioneering use of film score samples. Oakenfold used the mix as an experiment in which he tried to fuse electronic music,especially trance music,with film score music,and then to overlay the result with vocal parts,samples and additional production. The mix was split into two parts,later referred to as the Silver Mix and the Gold Mix respectively. Reflecting the Goa influence,the album title did not evolve beyond its simplistic working name.
Northern Exposure is the second mix album by British DJ duo Sasha &John Digweed. Released on 27 September 1996,it is the first in their Northern Exposure series,followed by Northern Exposure 2 in 1997 and Northern Exposure:Expeditions in 1999. There is both a British edition released by Ministry of Sound and an American edition released by Ultra Records in 1997. The British package contains both CDs,whereas the American only has the first disc. In 2013,the album was certified silver in the UK.
Tribal Gathering is the original British electronic dance music festival that between 1993 and 2004 catered for different types of dance music cultures such as techno,house and drum &bass. After 18 years,Tribal Gathering returns in 2023 for a two-day event to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
"I'm the One You Need" is a 1992 song by American singer Jody Watley,released as the second single from her third album,Affairs of the Heart.
"Song of Life" is the fourth single released by English electronic group Leftfield and the first on a CD single release. The song was released on 12" and CD on 30 November 1992. The sleeve of the single had the footnote "dedicated to the memory of Steve Walters whose support,friendship and encouragement will never be forgotten". It reached #59 in the UK charts. The song was also used as the backing track for Channel 4's Dispatches programme. The Remix 12" featured two remixes by British electronic music then-trio Underworld:"The Lemon Interrupt Mix",as well as the "Steppin' Razor Mix",which both feature on Sasha &John Digweed's mix album Renaissance:The Mix Collection. The track appears in the movie Lara Croft:Tomb Raider and its soundtrack.
Morgan King is an English songwriter,singer,Grammis award winning record producer and photographer.
Oakenfold Anthems is a compilation DJ mix album by British electronic producer and disc jockey Paul Oakenfold,released in 2008 on WMTV. His eighteenth mix album,the album is a triple album containing popular electronic singles,mostly focused on the progressive house and progressive trance genres,that Oakenfold considers favourites,and the material on the album mostly draws from Oakenfold's label Perfecto Records. Indeed,the album cover contains the caption "The Classic Perfecto Mix".
