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Austin Leeds / George Morel @ MYST
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| jouxyz |
Austin Leeds le 16 fev
George Morel le 23 fév.
In a relatively short space of time, Austin Leeds has made a significant impact on the global dance community. Based at his home in Miami, Florida Austin devotes countless hours to his many and varied Dj/Production projects. His impressive track record has already attracted the attention of many major DJs and producers throughout the world. With releases with labels such as Bedrock, Zone UK, NEWS, Zero Tolerance, Choo-Choo and Bliss, plus inclusion on numerous compilations his reputation is growing rapidly. Austin has had studio collaborations with well known artists and DJ's including Jimmy Van M, Cass & Slide, Mara, Deep Funk Project, Innate, Nu-breed, Kobbe, and Origin. Regular inclusion of Leeds's tracks on major DJ releases by the likes of Danny Tenaglia, Sander Kleinenberg, Deep Dish and Sasha & Digweed provide further testimony to his stylish productions. Austin has recently done a remix of Depeche Mode - Halo with Breakbeat Superstar Christian J which is getting lots of radio play on Radio 1 in UK. He just finished up a remix for Dj 19 in Japan and is planning an Asia tour around the release of this record.
As a DJ Austin's technical ability and flawless programming rank him among the best, his sets being renowned for their seamless integration of deep, driving baselines and swirling atmospherics, luring the crowd into a hypnotic frenzy. Austin has played some of the biggest and best clubs and parties in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, South and Central America, UK, and the USA and he keeps adding destinations to his list. Following a hectic schedule around the Miami Winter Music Conference, Austin is staying at home in Florida before returning to London in mid July, for a month of work in and around Europe. Recently Austin was the guest DJ on John Digweed's Kiss FM Show, which played an exclusive 1 hour mix of a recent set.
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| jouxyz |
New York native, Miami - base DJ/Producer George Morel has earned worldwide recognition spreading his unique blend of House music in legendary nightclubs to dance audiences around the world.
During the summer 2003 and 2004, Morel was invited to have a headline residency in Ibiza at Privilege becoming an overnight success and the third best night for the club following the infamous Manumission and the very local Balearic People. Coming back to Ibiza in 2005 at a brand new club called Penelope in honor to Morel and his record label Groove On. Morel has also appear in Ibiza as a guest DJ at Pacha, Amnesia, El Divino and Space for Manumission's Carry On.
Morel had his first experience with turntables at the age of thirteen playing at neighborhood parties in his native New York. Later on, he became a regular at some of New York's most notorious nightspots such as Red Zone, Palladium, Traxs and Save The Robots. These experiences led to his first production in 1989, with the late David Cole of C+C Music Factory, " Our Love Is Over" (featuring Dee Halloway) soon after in 1990, he produced and wrote 'Wiggle It" by 2 In A Room, which became an overnight global success, leading him to his first gold record. That same year, Morel began full-time collaboration with C+C Music Factory working on arrangements and edits for Mariah Carey, C+C Music Factory and Lisa Lisa. These partnerships led to four gold records, 3M tape award and one platinum record within two years.
In 1992, Morel became the Vice President of A&R at Strictly Rhythm Records. At which time, he also took on the position of ‘In-House’ Producer and Write for the label. During his seven years at Strictly Rhythm , he worked with producers and artist such as Mood 2 Swing, Felix Da House Cat, Erick Morrillo, Sandy Rivera (K.O.T.) , DJ Pierre, Roy Davis Jr., Barbara Tucker, CeCe Rogers, Roland Clark and Ultra Nate, as well as many other producers, recording artist to name and of-course his infamous releases Morel’s Groove Volumes creating his own style and sound ahead of time...
Morel’s hard work and dedication was celebrated with some additional several Billboard Music Awards, another gold record and the worldwide recognition success of the dance label Strictly Rhythm Records.
Later in 1998, Morel took a step further by combining his musical experience and savvy business knowledge to form his company Groove On Productions and label Groove On Records. In addition to his productions Morel is also one of the voters for the Grammy remixed category.
Morel also participated in several DJ tours and Parades worldwide including Carmel Air Rave which featured a chartered plane from Germany To Greece, making Morel the only DJ that has ever played on a plane; Reebok DJ Tour, Puskin Vodka DJ Tour, Ministry of Sound in Germany Tour, MTV DJ Tour, Coca Cola DJ-Culture Tour, Ritmo De Bacardi, eight consecutive years at the infamous Love Parade in Berlin, Rock In Rio (Brazil), Street Parade (Switzerland) and City Parade (Belgium).
In addition, Morel continues to produce his highly successful CD mix compilations such as Casa Grande 2004 Mix CD, WMC 2004 & 2005, Groove, On's Mix CD, George Morel in the Mix volume 1 thru 4 for More Music Germany, The Mix Le Queen In Paris for Polydor Records, Mega Mix for Strictly Rhythm, Zenith Ibiza for EMI and George Morel The Miami House Mix for UCMG Germany.
Morel’s consistent strive and deep passion for music continues to be demonstrated through his work on productions, deejaying and his company Groove On Productions |
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| jesteraver |
| sweet.... to bad leeds is a THURSDAY. |
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