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:: Late Night Audio ::
DC's
Biography:
Danny began his love affair with disco and funk from an
early age, Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins and Rick James rank as some
of his early influences.
With parents that had a vast record collection and worked with artists
from the Who to Manu Debango, he was exposed to all kinds of music
from a very early age.
First
came a sampler keyboard in the form of a Casio SK1, in 1982, and
Roland TR606 from here his love with electronic music production
began.
Danny began collecting hip hop and funk music in tape format from
an early age.
Deep house and US garage soon followed capturing his imagination.
He became an avid collector, fanatically tape recording and swapping
new music with his mates to get the latest House Music traxx from
the U.S.
On moving to London Danny went Uni where he landed a residency for
club night Exposure with peers like Tayo and Rob Da Bank, he would
warm up for Andrew Wethweral, Leftfield's Paul Dailey, Alex Knight
month on month. Later followed a residency and MOS and guest spots
throughout the UK such as Chew the Fat, Bar Rhumba, Velvet Underground
& Basement Jaxx Rooty Party's.
From this platform Danny began to co-promote Kink - an underground
warehouse party in a warehouse in E1. The Remedy at night club Herbal
on Kingsland rd followed and ran for 3 years with guests such as
Marshall Jefferson, Kid Batchelor, Inland Knights, Bugz in the Attic,
Phil Asher and Patrick Forge.
Danny them moved onto international guest spots in NY and Pacha
Ibiza with Jo Mills (2001-3). Danny Clark runs Late Night Audio
at 54 Commercial st on the second Friday of the month with recording
partner Toby Tobias. Music policy – Deep House and Cosmic
Disco.
Toby Tobias biography:
first sampler was a roland s-50 , bought in 1990 from leytonstone
, started making techno/house hybrids , inspired by sounds of Colin
Dale and Faver , as well as prouction partner being heavy b- boy
, so hip hop was a large part in the mix.
First track played in public was on Colin Favers'' demo dat pressure
'' section , and after that it all went a bit quiet as raving took
precedence , and living in the home counties didn't open as many
doors as hoped .. DJing became more dominant at this stage , and
parties at art college , and collaborations with free party organisations
led to a set at Glastonbury in 93, as well as playin onto of Aonach
Mor in fort william ... only when moved to london in 95 did productions
take shape again , the move from hardware to software in 2000 proved
very fruitful , things started rolling and demos started flyin out
the door .... after a few false starts , and near misses , the first
contract came from mr steve kotey of bearfunk , although this took
a year to come into fruition , during this time more material was
sent out , and releases co-produced as Alexis Forge on Low Pressings
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Around 2003 the first release , on Bearfunk turned out in a remix
for Akwaaba format , as a bside to an unknown norwegian called Todd
Terje . from here , a steady flow of production has emerged from
the white house studios , on Odori records , Hi-phen , Urban Myth
and most recently , for Rekids with an album lined up for the near
future.
Tobys first release on Rekids- A close shave did remarkably well
,and still is proving a success from London to NewYork and stopping
all over Europe . It has also helped to fix his name on the remix
map , as a slew of remixes for Bent , Brontosaurus records, Greg
Wilson , Future Force and others are forthcoming in the next months
, not forgetting his next single on Rekids Daves Sex Bits , with
a remix from some peacefull town folk ?????? Also look out for the
Mythical Beast project which is a live collaboration with Foolish
Felix , and is looking for release in the next couple of months
too .
DJing was the thing that started T off in this world , doing his
own parties at art college back in the early 90s , its taken him
on a long journey through all things deep , from house to disco
, not forgetting the party bangers . His own night , with Partner
Danny Clark is Latenightaudio in Shoreditch.its ethos is late night
sounds encompassing disco , house ,boogie and deeper late night
experimentations !! Its been running monthly for nearly a year now
and has proven very succesfull ,it has pulled down a wide range
of big names from Radio Slave to Chicken Lips Stevie Kotey . 2006
and 2007 is looking very interesting with slots in Spain , Portugal
, Belgium the US beckoning , not forgetting many guest spots around
London Town .
Guests
joining Danny and Toby have included:
Glimpse (Live)
Tobias Becker (Kompakt)
Pete Herbert and Phil Mison (Reverso 68)
Neil Thornton - Johnny Hiller (Lazermagnetic) Geddes (mulletover)
Cyril K (Dialect Records)
Tom Demac Live (Audio Electronique)
The A Human (Live),
Baby G (L.S.B - Barcelona)
Dan Berkson and James What (Pokerflat-Live)
Fabrizio Mammarella
Brontosaurus
Frank Tope
Mark E
Rob J
Diesel (X-press 2)
Jimpster
Radioslave
Serge Santiago (Arcobaleno)
Bill Brewster
Dan Foat
Audio Fly (Mood Music)
Trickski (Sonarkollektiv - Berlin)
David Phillips (Space - Ibiza)
Kurrage & Shiver (Size doesn't matter)
Inside Out/Product of Society DJ's - Sheffield
Gavin Herlihy (Mood Music/Mixmag)
Hector (Phonica)
Luke Solomon (Rekids/Cajual/Classic Records)
Johnny Rock (Freaks, MFF)
Gavin Fraser (Tirk Records)
and so many more......
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