JONTY SKRUFFF (UK) @ GRAD VIPOLZE
East&West presents electro techno celebration:
CHATEAU UNDERGROUND BEATS
with JONTY SKRUFFF
Saturday 17th of April 2010
Grad Vipolže - Slovenia
DJs:
JONTY SKRUFFF (skrufff.com, UK)
ALEX & FILIP (mirabilisrecords.com)
MARKO JELIC (markojelic.com)
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JONTY SKRUFFF Biography:
Jonty Skrufff DJs and produces cutting-edge, bass-driven electro-tech dance music, alongside publishing acclaimed sex-drugs-politics & music e-zine Skrufff-E (available weekly by clicking here: http://tinyurl.com/y9lce7a).
Five years after making his DJ debut at mega-hip Hoxton club Golf Sale (later renamed Boombox nowadays Ponytrap) he’s gone on to travel the world, spinning in 25 countries with numerous repeat gigs. Touring the likes of China, Czech Republic and Brazil (where he’s toured six times and returns every 8 months) he’s also a regular in Ibiza, where he’s played Judgement Sunday and Pacha for the last 3 years running, gaining a prestigious residency at Pacha in Summer 2009.
Looking into 2010, he’s already confirmed for repeat festival appearances in Sweden (Secret Island Festival), Bosnia (Neofest Peace Festival) and Indonesia (JADE Dance Festival) with bookings in London (Dogstar), Croatia (Sirup) and Czech Republic (Cabaret) rapidly filling up his diary.
Starting producing in 2009, he’s made a similarly immediate and impressive impact, most recently delivering a ferocious floor-friendly remake of techno-rockers Motor’s single ‘Death Rave (which came out on T Raumschmiere’s Shitkatapult in Europe and Steve Aoki’s Dimmak Records in the US in summer).
Jonty’s version was the only Death Rave remix released by each label alongside Motor’s original and picked up enthusiastic support from the likes of the Chemical Brothers (‘nice one on the track’) and Soulwax (‘LOVE it, will play for sure’) while German magazine Electronic Beats dubbed it a ‘masterpiece’.
More recently (January 2010) French independent music awards organisation Qwartz have selected his Death Rave remix as one of seven nominees for their Best track of 2009 in their ‘Dancefloor/ Clubbing’ category, out of 4,077 tracks Qwartz’ judges first listened to.
His very first production Train Wreck also gained a high profile after being snapped up by Radio 1 DJ Judge Jules in March 2009 who created his own version of Jonty’s electro-tech original and included it on his artist album Bring The Noise.
Jules’ tranced up edit (credited to Jules and Jonty jointly) was subsequently licensed to New State Recordings’ compilation Miami Trance Anthems as the last track following on from productions by the likes of Ferry Corsten, Tiesto and Cosmic Gate.
Additional career highlights so far include headline gigs at superclubs everywhere from Berlin (Tresor), Jakarta (Stadium), China (G Plus), Japan (Ageha), Croatia (Porat), Czech Republic (Roxy) and Ukraine (Opium) as well as prestige repeat slots at Serbia’s Exit Festival and Czech Republic’s Summer Of Love and a 12 month residency at London’s Fabric (DTPM).
And with a background which includes DJing at underground/ mixed clubs in London, Brazil and in his new home town of Berlin, the eyeliner-loving Brit remains as comfortable playing to fashion conscious hipsters as he is to the 6,000 Beijing locals who saw him headline the city’s first official (western) New Years event in 2007.
His next production, a remix of Lady B’s Believe In Me (titled Jonty Skrufff’s Apostle 13 Remix’) is a similarly crunching, electro-tech dance-floor destroyer, which comes out on Lady B’s Interférences in March 2010 (like Death Rave, on vinyl).
Jonty spends the rest of his time publishing his hugely influential and acclaimed weekly sex-drugs-clubs & politics e-zine Skrufff-E . He’s also just joined the Amsterdam Dance Event as a moderator and onstage interviewer and is a consultant for the Jakarta Annual Electronic Dance Music Event (JADE) in Indonesia.
http://www.skrufff.com
http://soundcloud.com/jontyskrufff
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ALEX & FILIP Biography:
Alex and Filip are two music junkies from Nova Gorica. The two guys engaged in a profesional dj/production partnership in 2005. After about a year Alex and Filip got their first few tracks which were well supported by some of the world's finest djs: Futureshock, Hernan Cattaneo, Mashtronic, Stu Hirst, Openair, Deepgroove, Chris Lake, James Talk and many more. Their first official release: Alex & Filip - Lights out ep - Restart digital hitted the Balance record pool chart and reached the 16th place after 2 weeks. The second instalment from the duo was the melodic proggy tinged track Liquid fantasy which entered directly @ No.2 in the Release records promo chart. A pretty decent start, don't u think :) ?
Not many artists have made such a long list of remixes in the past few years! The artist list includes top names like Mark Trophy, Federico Epis, Mohawk, Openair, Warren Clarke, Anything But Monday, Jay Cox, Tim Andresen, Autophase, Tom Collingburn, Velvet Jones, Kei Mohebi, Dj Dome & Elvis Suarez, Chris Fraser for some of the world's leading independent labels: Big Love, WCD, Suesse, System, Fizzeek, Whose haus, Metrogroove, BEBR and also for the major one – Universal to name a few. The duo has been locked up in the studio during all 2009 and the result is brilliant! Tracks and remixes forthcoming on labels like Baroque, Ferigie's Rekluse and Spektre's Respekt, Dumb Recordings, BEBR, Big Love, Fizzeek beside their own Mirabilis are the proof of duo's constant quality work. Those tracks have been immediatly supported, played and charted by the likes of Roger Sanchez, Matt Darey, John Digweed, Fergie, Spektre, Filthy Rich, Demi, Nick Warren, Mark Knight among others over the last months.
Starting their Mirabilis records was the next big step for the guys. And so far it seems they are doing a faboulous work! The artists roster includes Oliver Moldan, Ran Shani, Inkfish, Tom Budden, No Brainer, Autophase, Jay Cox, Liz Cirelli and many others beside Alex & Filip of course. The label is gaining constant support from the likes of Digweed, Seaman, Cattaneo, Warren, Mark Knight, Morillo, Henry Saiz, Omid, Demi and many other top djs around the globe. For more info please visit www.mirabilisrecords.com !
Gig wise in the past years they have rocked floors all over Slovenia (Lipa, Simfonija, Kaos, Sub Sub, Fun Factory, Heaven, Ambasada Gavioli, Cream, Pulse festival, Castle party, Marcus Club, Patriot, The Club, K4, Trnfest …) and gigs in Italy (Suburbia, Kursaal…), Croatia (Colosseum, Fort Burgignon, House Angels…). Bosnia & Bulgaria. They shared the dex with some of the world's finest spinners like Umek, Valentino Kanzyani, Adam Beyer, Ida Engberg, Scarlett Etienne, Paul Woolford, The Beginerz, Steve Porter, Cristian Varella, Technasia, Joyce Mercedes to name a few. The live & studio mixes done by the duo have been broadcasted on some of the most renewed radio stations: Ministry of Sound radio, Proton, Frisky, Electronic Groove Podcast, Radio Salamon, Kiss Fm Romania, DLA, House FM, Dance Fm, Epiloges, Danceradio.gr, and were positevely acclaimed by the audience becouse of the always classy choice of the trax & the perfect way all is mixed & mashed up.
So make sure you keep an eye on Alex & Filip as the future seems to belong to those two! www.mirabilisrecords.com
www.myspace.com/mirabilisrecords
www.facebook.com/pages/Mirabilis-records/76838328177
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MARKO JELIC, spinning house and techno since 2001. Grew up in Prague’s underground and pretty soon chose his own direction – originality. At the age of 20, he was already playing in the best clubs of Prague and huge open air music festivals all over the Czech Republic. Played with Sven Väth, Luke Slater, James Ruskin, Surgeon, Dave Angel, Hardcell, Inigo Kennedy, Jamie Bissmire, Justin Robertson... to name some of them. His famous resident night Colorful House in cult club Chapeau Rouge is one of the hottest parties in the center of Prague and will celebrate the 6th anniversary soon.
Now lives and plays mostly in Italy.
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