NICK WARREN Einstellungen

[thewulf]

NICK WARREN
www.excession.co.uk

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BIOGRAPHIE

You can tell when Nick Warren's on the decks. The music emanating from the man is that perfect club mix of driving percussion and soaring musicality, bursting out of the speakers, soaking everyone in melody, drenching them in sound. On the floor, where it really matters, his crowd experience all the peaks and troughs that make his music so unique.

Locking on early, you'll hear his deeper take on house which morphs, as the club mood changes, into harder territory, music for sweating and losing yourself to. And at that point when the light are low, when smoke fills the room and people are dancing on instinct, that's when the melodies start to rise over the top, washing the worries and exertions of life away, completing the club experience. That's why Nick Warren is so respected, because he knows how to truly work a club, to take a crowd high, then higher again. That's what comes with vision and, just as importantly, experience.

Nick, a music obsessive who grew up on punk, reggae and pop was, like so many DJs turned onto the power of house music in the late 80s. Living in Bristol, he'd been playing tunes for a few years before, running his own club night, Wiggle, in the city with a friend and he took immediately to this new sound coming from America. In 1990, a new house club, Vision took the city by storm and in a perfect bit of timing, he was offered the chance to play in the upstairs room, spinning weird downbeat Balearic records and mixing house with music by The Clash and Frank Sinatra. Catching the attention of a group of guys who had their own band, he was roped in to tour with them as their DJ when they went to play America. The group was Massive Attack. As their official DJ, he began working on music of his own, even joining the Massive remixing team at one stage.

At the same time, people were beginning to notice this quietly-spoken DJ from Bristol, the way that he really understood what made people dance, yet never compromised his vision of what good music should be. He started, unsurprisingly to get written about in the dance music magazines. Here was someone, they said, who could rock it with the best of them, yet who also stood out as a person with their own unique style, mixing straight up house with trancier material, throwing in breakbeats to keep the flow going, playing the most up to the minute music that somehow also reflected a rich musical heritage.

Joining up with another Bristol producer, Jody Wisternoff in 1994 to form Way Out West, they recorded the seminal 'Ajare' single together, a huge progressive house club hit. Three years later, and with the duo now signed to Deconstruction, it was re-released, this time breaking into the charts and finally, the nation's consciousness. Then came 'The Gift'. With a memorable hook line culled from an old hardcore track, blended with a mix of ambient soundscapes and breaks won it universal plaudits. The success of 'The Gift' propelled WOW onto Top Of The Pops and catapulted Nick into the league of the superstar DJ and producer.

Their next two albums, 'Blue' and "Intensify" took every single one of the pair's influences and shaped them into a groundbreaking collection of tracks that will always remain in the hearts of fans all over the world. The release of Nick's fifth GU outing, this time from the beautiful Icelandic city of Reykjavik comprises of double cd spanning lush ambience through to Warrens harder edged prog funk sound that is representative to what he plays all over the world.

Now the duo of WOW are signed to Distinctive and have an eagerly awaited third album due at the start of next year. The first single, tastefully entitled "Muthaf****a, is out imminently. Nick Warren isn't for standing still, he loves what he's doing too much for that, but you know that already.

Der Beitrag wurde von thewulf bearbeitet: 24 Feb 2004, 16:44

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die nächsten gigs in reichweite, für interessierte (so wie mich (IMG:http://www.technoboard.at/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ):

5. aug. 2005: dance valley amsterdam
27. aug. 2005: budapest (im zuge der budapest parade @ olof palme setany)
16. sept. 2005: casino berlin

auf nick warren steh ich total (IMG:http://www.technoboard.at/style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)