The dj review page.
This page is dedicated to the mainstream djs who are playing the tunes that you want to hear. Just like the "whats new page" this page will bring you up to date on the djs that are in demand. Taking in to account past festivals, Ibiza dates Miami etc. Also a featured dj from the top 10 list will be reviewed as well as a up and coming dj of my personal choice.
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Darren Emerson: Proggressive.
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The top 10 in demand Djs at the moment.
(1)Paul Oakenfold
(2)Paul Van Dyk
(3)Darren Emerson
(4)Sander Klienberg (Gatecrasher)
(5)Sasha (TWILO)
(6)Seb Fontaine (cream)
(7)John Digweed (Bedrock- TWILO)<
(8)Judge Jules (Gatecrasher)
(9)Carl Cox
(10)Scott Bond (Gatecrasher)<
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Jules @ Judgement Sundays in IBIZA
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The Dj of the month review:
Judge Jules (Gatecrasher & Judgement Sundays)
If you don't know already Jules is a very busy man. During the day Jules is head of A&R for Manifesto Records, one of the most prolific dance hit machines of recent years. He has A&Red underground tracks like Josh Wink's "Higher State Of Consciousness" and Todd Terry's "Jumpin'" and turned them into national hits and all time classics. In the meantime he has kick started the remix careers of Dex and Jonsey and Rhythm Masters, who went on to be one of the most successful remix outfits of 1996. By night he is one of the most in demand and hard working jocks on the club scene playing a minimum of 5 gigs a week, nationwide. Over the years Jules has DJ'd all over the globe taking in all the regular European cities plus New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, America and South Africa.
How did you get involved in clubbing in the eighties?
I started putting on my own warehouse parties when I was 16 with my mate Rollo. Basically we put on parties at venues that would accept flagrant breeches of underage regulations. They were filled with 13 to 17 year olds drinking shandy and snakebites. By the time I left school to go to university I was already a burgeoning DJ. It was the free time going to university allowed that enabled me to develop that and put on warehouse parties. I went to LSE to study Law, got my degree, a pretty unglamorous 2:2. That's where the name Judge came from.
Didn't Norman Jay christen you Judge Jules?
Yeah, Norman Jay actually gave me the name. I used to team up with a couple of sound systems one of which was Norman's which he wheels out every year at Notting Hill Carnival, and it has even bigger speakers every year. Even then it was big enough to power a 2500 capacity rave or warehouse party, whatever you want to call it. We also teamed up and did a couple of parties with Soul II Soul, and Jazzy B & Co. who had a similar sort of setup. Jazzy was from a neighborhood pretty near to me which meant that our relationship with Norman was better. Norman was from west London and we were from north London so we could pull 2 completely different sets of people.
Along with Pete Tong, Danny Rampling and Paul Oakenfold you seem to have been part of our club culture since it began. How do you see your self in the whole scheme of things and how do you think the public perceive you?
I'd be so bold to say that of all the Radio 1 dance DJ's I'm the most prolific club DJ of all of them. I'm a real jobbing club DJ and I work 5 gigs a week, I'm a very big crowd puller in the clubs, and I'm a very popular DJ who is known to have a good time and not be very poe-faced. You'll see me dancing with the best of them. I'm lucky to be perceived as pretty cool but still be able to have a good time.
Whenever I pick up a magazine these days there always seems to be some article having a go at the club scene, which seems crazy as the scene at the moment is really firing. It's ability to reinvent itself and throw up new genres seems to keep it almost permanently at boiling point
Who are your Heroes?
From a musical point of view, the more and more you believe in yourself and have your own style that you consider to be unique regardless of whether it actually is, the more your heroes become zeroes. Certainly in the tail end of the 80's Tony Humpheries was a big hero of mine. He was a fantastic mixer before the culture of mixing was truly embraced by UK dance culture. He also dipped his fingers into every different area of dance. Also Danny Rampling was a big hero of mine for what he set up with Shoom. It was very much a ground breaker in terms of the earlier days of acid house culture. He hasn't ceased to be a hero it's just I hardly get to hear him in clubs these days as opposed to on the radio which is by necessity a very different beast.
How does it feel to be Judge Jules at the moment?
I'm just very lucky to be doing a job that I love and getting paid to do it. Having gained a Law degree I could have gone down the conventional career path and been a lot less happy. When I came out of university I almost felt I had to apologize to my friends for the job I was taking but now I can almost be sure that I am the happiest of them all
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The Up and coming reveiw:
SCOTT BOND (GATECRASHER)
Scott, superstar DJ and longest serving resident at Gatecrasher, picked up the prestigious reader-voted 'Number One Resident DJ' and ranked number five in Mixmag's 1999 DJ Awards, championing his distinctive progressive trance sound across the UK and worldwide. Scott has mixed and produced all of the Gatecrasher albums that have been a success on a global scale.
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Scott Bond at Gatecrasher
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