IDJUT BOYS
Dan Tyler and Conrad McDonnell, aka Idjut Boys, are an English duo whose dub-heavy house tracks incorporate their playful sense of humor.
Tyler and McDonnell met in the late '80s in Cambridge while McDonnell was working as a lifeguard and Tyler was studying at university. In the early 90s they both moved to London and started making music, Djing, and organising their own club nights at The Cross in Kings Cross. In addition to lending their own talents, Tyler and McDonnell hosted New York DJs Hector Romero and Ted Patterson amongst many others. The Idjuts' fusion of dub, house, and techno soon caught on and by the mid-90s they were DJing all over the world.
McDonnell and Tyler established U-Star Records in 1993, releasing their debut 12" Idjut Boy. They continued releasing numerous 12"s, often in collaboration with Laj or Quakerman. Their 1995 release "Not Reggae" (with Laj) was admired by such production legends as François Kevorkian.
U-Star records was followed by other labels including Noid, Droid and Cottage, releasing their own music, as well as others. Many of these releases are now regarded as cult classics.
The Idjut Boys have remixed the likes of Lighthouse Family, Sound 5, Dido, Dimitri From Paris, DJ Harvey, Prins Thomas, Todd Terje and Bryan Ferry.
The duo released Noid Long Player (an album of disco edits) in 1998, followed by Life: The Shoeing You Deserve (with Quakerman) in 1999. In February of 2000 the Idjuts released the mix CD Saturday Nite Live on Nuphonic Records. A mix CD of the duo's own material (including collaborations with Laj and Quakerman) titled The U-Star Daze also appeared around that time. An Idjut Boys studio
album, Cellar Door, was released on Smalltown Supersound in 2012. Also in 2012 the Idjut Boys were asked to compile, edit and mix a triple CD to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of well-respected London record label Claremont 56.
For the past ten years, The Idjuts have toured Japan every year and have played at the best clubs in Tokyo, Osaka and many other cities. Most notably playing NYE at Space Lab Yellow when it was widely held to be one of the top clubs in the world.
Idjut Boys continue to travel the world Djing, 2015 has also seen the relaunch of U-Star Records, the release of a new album Versions on Smalltown Supersound, and several new remixes for the legendary Bryan Ferry
Dj SPUN
DJ Spun is a New York City based DJ, Producer, Curator, and Impresario. He is also part of ground breaking act The Loose Control Band with Jonah Sharp and half of the BlakSpun production team with Mark "Blakkat" Bell.
DJ SPUN (NYC) Anyone with the vaguest interest in sparse, jangling beats, synth flourishes, handclaps and cowbells, should be familiar with DJ Spun and the label he founded, Rong Music. Few have contributed as much to the ongoing vitality of electronic music in NYC in the new millenium, or been such a welcome guest at the world’s cult house, disco and techno parties. His Promo Only imprint is credited with bringing the worldwide disco edit craze to the U.S. of A. Rong Music and their dual imprint collaboration with fellow NY dancefloor eclecticists DFA put out some of the most compelling, and carefully curated, releases of the Noughts. The parties he throws are the stuff of legend. For seven years the curator of MoMA/P.S.1’s prestigious Warm Up Music series, his All Night Rong parties with DJ Harvey and others boast a devoted following from London to Tokyo. For 20+ years his legendary DJ sets, releases and remixes on his own labels and others have seen him aligning with influential pioneers of danceable electronic music including Maceo Plex, Francois K, DJ Harvey, Daniel Wang, Stephen Hall of Arthur Russell and Loose Joints fame, Douglas J.McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb, James Chance and the Contortions, the Idjut Boys, and many more. Watch out for his latest collaborative projects “BlakSpun” with Mark Bell (aka Blakkat) and live/electronic group “Loose Control Band” with Jonah Sharp (Spacetime Contimuum, Reagenz)... So Rong: so right.
TRAVIS "TK" DISKO
Quality comes first and foremost - along with ensuring everyone sweating under the mirror ball is having a damn good time.
Anyone who spent the best years through the 90s into the early oughties in San Francisco, and the last decade in the LA underground knows the name TK is synonymous with inimitable dance floor-rocking expertise of the highest caliber. Whether solo in his former extended guise as TK Disko, in collaborative formations as Split Secs along with his label Machine Limited co-founder SONNS, or readying the world for retrofuturist rave rockers as Warehouse Preservation Society with DJ Tavish, 1/3 of Second Language with Pacific Horizons, or as founding member of notorious DJ and production collective 40 Thieves, quality comes first and foremost - along with ensuring everyone sweating under the mirror ball is having a damn good time. TK cut his teeth as a mainstay of legendary SF venues and happenings such as The Trocadero Transfer, DV8, Bulletproof, Sunset and King Street Garage. He’s one of the few local SF DJs invited to guest at the legendary Wicked nights and was picked by DJ Harvey as the resident warm-up for his running Rx night. Drawing on a deep knowledge of music history as a selector in the classic sense, TK effortlessly traverses many styles, eras, and continents, mixing in new and old, making both sound fresh and relevant, with sonic excitement guaranteed. In addition to playing alongside some the greatest names in the field from Jeff Mills, Tony Humphries and Pal Joey to Idjut Boys, Optimo and beyond, TK clocks late hours in the studio concocting fresh forward-thinking sounds for the future, as only a bona fide veteran with a deeply-rooted past like he can.
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