Djing On The Net

Contributions Made : Live Mixes

DJ Biography.
“Ive had enough of one dimensional DJ’s playing the same sounds all night, after all you have different ingredients to make a great meal don’t you, I wouldn’t have a three-course meal of chips in the same way I wouldn’t play two hours of back 2 back looped up banging techno! I like to play different sounds while finding the thread from one track to the next, Its important for me to get the dynamic right between the records. Derrick May once called them ‘mood mats’ and to me that’s exactly what they are. Who wants one mood, flavour, style, sound, all night?”

For Doncasters Carl Taylor it all started at the age of 13, inspired by listening to early Hardcore mix tapes “I told my mam I wanted a couple of decks and she said ‘what do you need two for? Your dad’s only got one’, the worse thing was it was my own money!” Thank god his dad (a northern soul DJ himself) understood the cause & took him in the car to get his first pair of decks. Like most DJ’s you don’t start with a pair of Technics though “looking back they where terrible, one was a hi-fi deck & the other was some shocking belt drive thing, which seemed to have a life of its own!” A familiar story for most DJ’s I would think, but at the time he was in his element, “I used to spend days locked in the bedroom trying to mix the same 15 records over and over in a different order, nobody showed me how to mix or DJ, but I didn’t give up. I was fascinated by the whole thing but I used to drive my parents mad with those hardcore records.”

This fascination soon led onto the need to make his own creations. After leaving school at 16, while working at his first job, Carl saw an advert for a Music Technology course at Doncaster college, “I didn’t have a clue, & didn’t play a note of music but I just wanted to know how you made a record”. While most people where in the student bar Carl got stuck in straight away, “I got to play with Cubase, a midi module and an Akai sampler, I would spend hours messing around sat with headphones on, just learning really.” In the college holidays he got a Job in a crisp packing factory in Scunthorpe, “I managed to hold out for six weeks! At least it made me realise what I didn’t want to do for the rest of my life, plus it enabled me to buy my first synth, a Roland Alpha Juno.” Six months later a drum machine / sequencer was added to the set up & basic tracks began to take form. Again hours where spent experimenting & generally making a noise in the Taylor house hold, however he still didn’t know much about the actual recording process which was needed to make a finished record, “I knew my music didn’t sound like what was on the vinyl I was buying, but I just didn’t know why.” It wasn’t till he got his job in a local call centre that he could really start to build his studio up, “I spent two and a half years in that hell hole, but it was a means to an end as they say, I got all my studio gear, bought a load of records and paid for a car, not to mention funding my new found clubbing habit.”

Although Carl had been to some clubs and events before, it wasn’t until Bugged Out! moved to cream that Carl, along with his brother and friends found their clubbing home “I think we only missed 2 events in over 2 years, the music, the sound system, the lights, everything was amazing, we were proper addicts! First in and last to leave.”
Carl got his first break when he won an F Communications competition to remix Laurent Garniers ‘Greed’ a few years ago. It was Garniers seal of approval, and the fact that Mary Anne Hobbs was playing his tracks on her Radio One Breezeblock show, that actually prompted him to start sending out demos to record companies. Bugged Out! responded, leading to 2002’s ‘Exile’ / ‘Space Disco’ 12-inch. “It was great to get some music out with them seeing as I spent most of my clubbing time in there.”
Since then he’s had another record out under the name Auterform on the Room Tone label and a follow up release on Bugged Out called ‘Static’ / ‘Compulsion’ which has again received a great response from DJ’s and press alike. 2004 will see more releases for Carl under both Auterform & his own name “Its going to be an interesting year for music that’s for sure, digital downloads are taking off and some independents are getting it together on that front as well” one things for sure, what ever the format or means of distribution this is just the start for Carl Taylor.

Discography.
Carl Taylor – Exile/Space Disco [Bugged Out]
Carl Taylor – Compulsion/Static [Bugged Out]
Carl Taylor – Who Is In Control [Dust]
Auterform – Diversion EP [Roomstone]
Auterform – Probe Droid [Auterform]

Remixes
Laurent Garnier – Greed (Carl Taylor Remix) [F-comm]

Mark Santangelo

Contributions Made : Live DJ Sets

Originally from Belfast but currently residing in Manchester, he mastered his technique in his early teens. With seamless mixing and the originality of his programming ,solid and durable with un-yealding precision, he quickly developed his own unique style in keeping with the Progressive House Music Scene.

The latest Dj to hit the dance industry, playing Deep and dirty Progressive house. Both experience playing within both a club and bar environment.

Playing at venues such as

Network Club, Belfast
Warehouse, Plymouth
Blue note, Todmordon
Fat Sams, Dundee
Holy city zoo, Oldham
Font Bar, Manchester
Refuel, Manchester
The Glass House, London

At the age of 17 he promoted his own night, Twisted, which was a success but he was naive and was convinced that a change in venue would encourage his night to grow; unfortunately he admits this was a mistake. But this did not deter him.

In addition to his endless dj-ing, he is expanding out onto radio, being offered his own weekly show with Tune exposure. Which is proving to be a great success with other producers and djs offering him material and confirming slots within his show.

He chooses his records carefully and his favourite record labels out of all the choices must be CP Recording, Choo choo records, low rider records, Vapour records and to add to this his favourite producers are Chable, Greg Benz, Subsky and Chris Micali.

His is main influences have come from DJ’s such as Sasha, John Digweed, and recently Sander K all in line with his preferred style of music Progressive House.

Listening to his sets you get the enlightening feeling that he has been doing this for years. And become entranced in his originality.

This year is showing to be the year he will break out into the dance scene, the world is at his feet and he intends to take every step of it………………………

Contributions Made : Live Mixes

DJ Biography.

Phil Langham DOB 10.02.70.

Bin following dance music since 1986 with all the Chicago House, then went onto the Detroit Techno scene then a pretty wide variety of styles up until the late 90s were i then settled into the trance scene, just as it was kicking off in late 98 and av bin there since. Bin bedroom mixing since bout 88, and apart from the odd job i never hardly DJayed anywhere but have recently decided to try and take it up and have recently started playing semi regular at FIXATION@THE VENUE, Long Eaton, mainly playing Uplifting, Euphoric Trance. On the production side, i have worked my way up through the Rolands303/505 but have took a rest from it for now to learn other aspects of production.’Why havent i gone into DJing before’ is all i get from folks nowadays, so a reckon its time to take the advice!