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19.01. - His massiveness - Postgarage - Graz
His massiveness feat. Darren Jay @ Postgarage
Darren Jay |Wideopenmusic|A.W.O.L|London UK
Tobez |SUN:SET Crew|Munich
Tobestar |Southern Sessions|Munich
Snare |striktly.beats|Graz
Deefader |MBF|SUN:SET Crew|Munich
hosted by MC Rudebwoy|SUN:SET Crew|Nürnberg/London UK
visuals by max.Belastung |Styria
BIOGRAPHY - DARREN JAY
In 1990 Darren started working for Tone Def Records, a hardcore label which had hits with Sound corp, Cape Fear and the Bob Marley tune 'Nice and Slow'. He started his own label "Prime Time Wax" which released 10 singles including Toni Braxton's which went to sell 20,000 copies. Darren then met Rene, who owned Blackmarket Records and started to A&R for MCA Music putting out Total Science 1 2 3.
Also Moonshine Music mixing albums such as 140+bpm, 123+jungle warfare with Mickey Finn. Around this time Darren started to produce the No Diggety remix, the Barry Boom anthem and Stand and Deliver alongside Mickey and Gavin.
In 1997 Darren started the Mecca label on Drum&Bass. He had vocal acrobatics - himself, Ellis Dee, Stomp and Weaver, Rat Dogg and Dj Skinny. Style wars with L. Double and Dj Crucial. Darren also handled reggae with Red Rat, Bucaneer and Goofy and Phoebe One who went on to have 2 top twenty records, and won a MOBO award. Donner Dee and Marley Wills also on a garage tip.
Larry Heard aka Mister Fingers has also released two critically acclaimed albums on Mecca. In 2000 Darren started a new label "Wide Open Music", artists included in this label are Audio Species, Dj Surreal and Parameter to Stomp and weaver, Scitex, G Squad, Vanguard and Dj crucial. So far they have released eight singles, and with every one the reaction has got better and better. these singles are Wide Open 001 - Live Fun - Weaver, WO 002 - Trapped Nerve - Audio Species, WO 003 - Freaks 2001 - Stomp and Weaver, WO 004 - Orgasm - Audio Species, WO 005 - Fallen - Audio Species, WO 006 - Switchblade - Audio Species, WO 007 - Back to that Groove, - Stomp, WO 008 - Shadow Demon -Audio Species, WO 009 - Untitled - G Squad. Tracks to be released in 2002 will include tunes by Dj Crucial, more G Squad, Vanguard, Darren Jay himself, Special K and L. Double plus the Wide Open Music album featuring all the artists.
On the production side, Darren has been spending a lot of time in the studio. Look out for Aqua and Flee Bag on Bomb records, this is being bashed by Andy C, Mickey Finn, randall, Swift and Dj Hype, and also soon to be released is 'Breakage' on Wide Open Music. Also planned by Darren and Special K in 2002 is a third release on Urban Takeover and Vocal Acrobatics remix.
Currently, Darren has been working on 4 new tracks with special k. "Helms deep" is out on promo on wide open , as is "scoop," and the next release is "in and out" on wide open. This featured on the dmc micky finn album last year (2003) Also "afterburn" and "rockford" are getting some interest from other labels such as true players and formation. Darren hopes to get this out asap as he's been working on an album 4 mc riddla with Bob Sonic, which is up to 10 tracks. It features many styles such as hip hop, ragga, and dnb. They are also looking at some collaborations with the ragga twins, mc blade, and the likes of TC Islam. Some hip hop tunes that were produced by darren jay and special k have also been picked up by MC SKibbadee who is signed 2 relentless via Virgin. He would like to feature them on his album . Darren is also looking at putting out a jungle old school vibe track again, with riddla and Bob Sonic. He also plans to get back in studio with micky finn and aphrodite and remixing "stand and deliver" by barry boom
Bout TOBESTAR
In the 8oies Tobes started deejaying at the age of 14 and got infected with the "jungle-fever" in late 1990 listening to a pirate radio station during a school trip to London. "Hooligan 69" by the Ragga Twins (played by Dj Hype on air) was the track that changed his life destinctively arousing his love for the early Hardcore sound after years of listening to HipHop, Miami Bass And Electro. He was the first in Munich trying to promote this new sound to a bigger audience in and around Munich at various Raves (e.g: "Ultraworld, Ravesignal, Union Move, Sunflower, Rave on Snow, Rave on Cruise, Thaibreak, Future, ...). In 1993 he joined forces with State of Riot Promotions. This joint venture gave birth to the first Munich-breakbeat-all nighters at the Backstage Club (1993) and, in 1995, the "Presha Club". In 1996 State of Riot connected with the guys running the Delirium Record store in Munich to build up a new and even stronger platform for breakbeat music: Southern Sessions Promotions/Southern Sessions Recordings. From late 1997-99 he did the radio show "reload" on evosonic radio (big up bassface sascha!) Since that time, Tobestar has been busy deejaying all over Germany, producing tunes and remixes for various people(Glow, Kosmo music, BMG) also working as an A&R for Southern Sessions Recordings alongside his longtime fellow and label owner DJ Ryan. In 1997 he presented the new face of German DnB compiling and mixing of the "Code+49:Remarkable Drum and Bass" compilation. He also produced the score for the "Stars&Stripes"-TV&Cinema campaign for Schwan Stabilo (also showed during the MTV World Music Video Awards) After years of promoting the biggest Drum and Bass events in the south of Germanyand various residencies (such as Millenium, Am dam Des, Mandarin Lounge, Ultraschall), the new clubnight "BiG UP!" was set up at the Muffathalle Munich in 1998 (in cooperatopn with the GOMMA guys M.Modica/J.Imberry. It went till 2003. A new home was found at the FUNKY KITCHEN, followed later by THE GARDEN club. Now focusing on deejaying and producing. Tobestar is ready for the next decade to come as one of Munich's finest - the Tobe- the- Star !
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