He stands at the forefront of electronic music's soulful realm. Whether tackling his original productions or remixes, he achieves an organic-soulful sound by combining the best of both the electronic music world and live instrumentation.
Lisa has been singing live and recording in New York City for over 15 years. She has collaborated with producers such as Miguel Migs, Dave Warrin, Jay Denes, King Britt, and Scott Hardkiss. Since 1994 she's had over 30 songs released with labels such as Naked Music, Om Records, Salted Music, RCA, Grand Central UK, Ministry of Sound, Virgin UK, Astralwerks, NRK and WAVE.
Coming from a hip-hop background, Karizma is one of the originators of the Baltimore club sound that stunned the music press in 2006 and culminated in the meteoric rise of the rambunctious, hi-energy, Rick Ruben produced combo, Spank Rock. Remixing everyone from Everything But The Girl, Amira, Lenny Kravitz, to Bob Sinclair and many more.
International DJ and producer Marques Wyatt is an influential messenger of the deepest, most soulful kind of house music. Beneath his relaxed, spiritual and unknowingly suave persona, therein lies a man partially responsible for giving birth to the West Coast house scene by bringing the fresh sounds of New York.
A house music producer and DJ whose dance music roots lie in Disco of the 70's and New Wave of the 80's. That open-minded attitude has also groomed Julius into fine tuning his musical palette by giving him a dominant sound which exudes a deep and soulful perspective, which he translates onto the dancefloor. That being said, he blends various styles together (including Latin, Afro, Disco, Jazz) with such fluidity that it is difficult at times to put a defining stamp on his sound.
From the humble home of Perth Australia comes the super funk hero, break, hip hop producer! Packed with more cuts and heart stopping melodies than anyone before him. This time the one-man production team has evolved into a four-piece escapade! Have FDEL LIVE take you on a diverse journey of instrumental beats, bass lines, loops, chops, in that funky old skool way only FDEL knows how.
Tayo is a familiar face on the breaks scene where he can safely lay claim to helping shape the nu skool sound in the late 90's alongside fellow breaksters Adam Freeland and Rennie Pilgrem, who together promoted the genre forming Friction parties at Bar Rhumba & The End. His musical diversity is best heard on his brand new mix CD, Fabric Live 32 which explores breaks, dubstep, baile funk, and electro in 70 minutes, which will continue to define Tayo as a forward thinking DJ and producer determined to rock more clubs throughout 2007.
After 4 years of selling albums, writing, recording, and touring all major festivals (including many sell out shows) with his first outfit, 1200 Techniques, N'fa, spent 06 and 07 bringing his new solo vision to the nation. Its been proven time, and time again that N'fa's live show performances continue to captivate crowds, and turn docile audiences into a frenzy of interactive receptors of N'fa's message, and positive energy.
Rob Savage (Groove Diggerz) is the main man behind the electro tech Groove Diggerz phenomenon which is sweeping the world since their debut on the scene a mere 2 years ago. Groove Diggerz is the act everyone in dance music circles are watching right now. They won the prestigious Breakthrough Producer award 2007, came 3rd in the Breakthrough DJ 2007 category and their record label “Breakin Even” finished second for Breakthrough Label 2007 at this year's Breakspoll. They are enjoying a meteoric rise to fame bringing their brand of electro fueled funk.
Sharif, a DJ and radio announcer is Renowned for bringing the funk to national airwaves for years on Triple J, Sharif recently delivered his new label Suite Musique dropping a fitting compilation of the grooviest acid jazz, funk and beats, Beach Suite 2007 featuring artists such as Bookashade, Mr. Scruff, Resin Dogs, Maxwell & Qauntic.
Brisbane's latest live spectacle, a 5-Piece collective of Brisbane's finest purveyors of Jazzed-out funk starring members of Afro Dizzi Act, Resin Dogs, The Feelgoods, The Informants & Groove Collective.
Aside from his long-standing credo as a top notch DJ, Mark Walton has contributed to the success of hip-hop outfits The Resin Dogs and Good Buddha, with other achievements including a compilation record The history of Electro and a cracking debut album Wet Pants.
Walton’s latest offering, “Fretless”, is the result of his collaboration with sixteen artists with contributions by some of Australia’s finest talent including Funk’n Irie, Agent9, Ranji from Good Buddha and Simon Durrington from The Bird to name but a few.
DJ Freestyle is Australia's Premier Deep & Jackin' House DJ/Producers. With 40 international releases and remixes to date, on some of the most prestigious house music labels in the world, DJ Freestyle has firmly established his name on the international house music map with releases on such labels as Guesthouse Music, BriqueRouge, Icon, OM, PhutureSole and Grab Recordings, among others.Before focusing most of his energy on house music production, Freestyle, a gifted technical dj, placed 1st in the Scratching division and 2nd in the Beat Juggling category of "The Technics Ultimate DJ Showdown. Mark Farina named DJ Freestyle in US dance music magazine "BPM" as one of his favourite 3 producers along with his releases seeing solid support worldwide from house music heavyweights such as:- Kaskade, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, DJ Heather, DJ Sneak, Jay J and Swirl People.
Jason “Rousey” Rouse would very well be heeded as the first generation of Brisbane’s Dance DJs, flanking the original holy godhead with DJ Freestyle, Gracie, Angus, Mark Briais and Matt Kitshon; significantly motivating the delivery of House Music into the Brisbane community and inspiring the onslaught of today’s DJs. A pilgrimage to Philadelphia would cement within Jason’s mind that he was on his predestined path, forging a connection with Sundae Philadelphia, shortly after experiencing the realm where Disco was born, Jason’s love for all things Funk resulting in mania. Jason has performed at every noteworthy Dance venue & festival in Brisbane & continues to evolve his live explorations with instrumental outfit, 2012. As a purveyor of Funk and a deeply seated affinity with solid bass lines, Jason takes the House matrix and warps it with his signature method of sensory overload. Whether Funk, Deep, Disco or Old Skool, “Rousey” will cauterize the 4/4 beats onto your soul.
North coast music enthusiast Noodles has been behind the decks for 8 years, although he has been collecting records for almost twice as long. His career started in radio production & presenting, which spawned an obsession with knobs & faders and introduced him to the sounds of jazz, dub, funk & fusion. Recently relocated to Sydney he has taken up residencies at Bump, the Chinese Laudry, Loft Bar & sounds events, as well touring with the Invada posse & the Resin Dogs. And then there's his support list: DJ Craze, Mark Rae, DJ Krush, DJ Cash Money, Grandmaster Roc Raida, Dj Shadow, Freddy Fresh, Herbaliser, Mr Scruff, Keb Darge, Stenski, Krafty Kuts, Black Eyed Peas, Stanton Warriors, Freq Nasty, Sarah Love, SOTO, Spikey T, Ian Pooley, Radioactive, Soul Jazz Sound System, Tayo, Adam Freeland ,Ugly Duckling, Dj Food, Scratch Perverts, Aphrodite, Nextmen, Tipper, Rodney P & Skitz, Bonobo, Mo Horizons, Cut La Roc, Dj Godfather, Harry Love, Mr Thing, Ali B & Rennie Pilgrem.
Tivoli Theatre
52 Costin Street
FORTITUDE VALLEY Q 4006
Phone: +61 (7) 3852 1711
Fax: +61 (7) 3257 1583
Map directions
(Just Opp RNA showgrounds, off Gregory Terrace)
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