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NICK WARREN |
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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. Nick was now travelling the world as a DJ, playing in Singapore, Australia and eastern Europe, taking his sound to places that he could have once only dreamed about going to. Liverpool superclub, Cream offered him a residency in recognition of his talent and in 1999 he recorded a mix for the highly respected Global Underground mix CD series. At present he has just finished recording a new Way Out West album with Jody for Deconstruction and there'll be another Global Undergound mix coming out soon as well. Nick Warren isn't for standing still, he loves what he's doing too much for that, but you know that already.
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