There are few Djz and producers in the modern techno world who can truly claim to have pioneered a style and sound, and call it their own. Such statements are often declared, but rarely justified. In the case of Ben Long and Jamie Bissmire, the names behind the revered Space DJz this claim would be unarguable.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Currently living in Madrid, Spain. He grew up listening to legendary bands like Depeche Mode, New Order, Pink Floyd, Europe among others. At the age of 13 he attended to bass classes which directed him through different styles like heavy, pop, rock, hip hop, alternative, punk etc. After some time he was able to control guitar, organ and many other instruments, he's still experimenting with friends and new people he met. In the mid 90's he's heavily influenced by House style, he starts going to Clubland, (Pacha Buenos Aires) where Hernan Cattaneo used to play, who is still Juan Hougham's national influence.Juan had the opportunity to be behind the scenes, in Cattaneo's sets and many others like Nick Warren, Jimmy Van M Darren Emerson, Danny Tenaglia, John Digweed, Sasha, Satoshi Tomie, Sven Vath , Jon Carter who was in the vanguard of Buenos Aires' music by that time. Under this influence he starts working in the mix of different instruments, electric drums and software developing compositions as a soloist in his home studio. Later on he joined a band using this compositions as a base of their live performances, mixing electric drums, guitars and synthesizers it sounded like a mixture between Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, advanced experimental. Juan is more interested in the electro part of the project and he decides to move on and produce house music mixing them with well known tracks including all his influences and experiences as a musician. Up to now, Juan Hougham has sold over 40 productions which were played at many clubs and private parties as performances for diferents records labels. Right after that, he performed his first live presentation at the club El Infierno playing only his tracks which were very well accepted by the public, motivating him to continue with his DJ/Producer career, therefore he aquires vinyl music and combines his productions with new sounds. His styles are House, Progressive House ,Tech House , performing in underground clubs like El Dorado playing with known DJs like Felipe Fernandez and Ricky Ryan among others. Juan also performed in private parties with importan DJs like Andy Dabula, Miss Akane, Juan Pryor. He decides to go on tour to Europe (Spain) arriving at Ibiza where he is invited by Diego Cid to play in the Grial's terrace with DJ Caro and Cid. After gaining experience and some influence of the island, he moves to Barcelona searching for new sounds, right there is when his new alias was born, John Gham. He moves to Madrid's heart as part of a Vinyl Club Vinyl season being their resident with DJ Shammu, also performing for private parties and afters too. After a tour through Malaga, he performs in the following clubs: Mokelie, Rubi, Colonial Cafe, B4 and private parties. He sets up a studio in Madrid to continue with his production. In another tour to Ibiza he is invited to play with Rubyks Cube(space ibiza) in the Silicon Fiesta's pre party at Privilege. He will perform at private parties and afters also. This time, his musical influence drove him to a new style: minimal house, minimal techno , Tech House (John Gham) but with lots of groove. On the other hand and as a result of assisting to parties performed by Cocoon, DC10 and Monza, the argentine DJ/Producer gets the influence for his new parallel project. His last performances took place at Folies Pigalle (Paris), Cafe 1001 (London), Virtual (Madrid) Living (Franfurt), he was resident DJ at Jet-Lab Partys in Deep (no doubt one of the best night clubs in Madrid), he was DJ resident at one of the most mythical and underground club of Madrid "Taboo" -last shows _ U60311 (Hessen /Frankfurt ) Living xxl (Hessen /Frankfurt) With the alias Juan Hougham his style is House,Progressive House, With his other alias, "John Gham" his style is "Tech House", Minimal ,Techno Nowadays Juan Hougham signed with Flat Belly Recordings, the label of the famous DJ Ricky Stone. the Single "Sun Of Angel" inc (Montero Remix) that was top 100 Beatport (Progressive House ) The other alias John Gham signed with "Peon Music" from Frankfurt his first reference in Vinyl "Whiplash Ep " 12" and for "Kung Fu Dub"Label from the Famous Dj Jeff Bennett, The Ep "Introducing by John Gham. In the next Days will be out the release Lula "Overdose" , that Juan Hougham signed for Kult Records / New York.
Tracklist:
01. Bloody Mary - Black Pearl (sascha Funke Remix) [Contexterrior Recordings] 02. Dj Ray And Carlos Sanchez - Koh Samui [Super Fancy] 03. Ebony Andre Crom And Luca Doobie - Title [Off Recordings] 04. Markus Homm Mihai Popoviciu Jay Bliss - Bis Co [DIYNAMIC] 05. Danilo Vigorito - Greed [Intelligence] 06. ARA - Gypsy House [Para Disco] 07. Nima Gorji - Hopp Hopp [Murmur] 08. Ransack - Mossa (Andomat 3000 Remix) [Mo"s Ferry] 09. Lee Van Dowski - Go Bowling [Material] 10. Pitch Control - Far Far Away [Plugin Records] 11. Somnus Corp & Kosmas - Metalbronco (No Brainer Remix) [Epsilon Dyami]
Dub influenza, deep sounds up to industrial atmosphears are the words to qualify Moonlight Sonata's dj set session. Mainly focused on emotions but without ignoring dancefloor impact, his selection is for body and soul. As much influenced by dubtechno scene such as Basic Channel for the most famous or post rock fantasy. Coming from Strasbourg in France, he wants to share his passion for music composed with heart and spirit. Electronic culture is not only functionnal music but a really piece of art.
Tracklist:
01.DubLoner - Impact Dub (feat Isaac H.Selassie) - DE'FCHILD 02.PRODUCTIONS 03.Peter Van Hoesen - Strikethrough - MORSE 04.Exos vs Ohm - Frodi - TISSJU 05.Submeditation - City vibes - CHOKE 06.Painless - wrapped in clear plastics - KILLER ID 06.Grinser - The Knowledge - TOYS FOR BOYS 07.Niak - Another Shot - DOCK 08.Azzara - Come Closer - RIZE RADICAL 09.Maxime Dangles - Don't Worry - K2 10Axel x - Oneonetwo -LEESSISMORE 11.Brendon Moeller - Tiger - LEENA MUSIC 12.Elliott Dodge - Artificial Light - ID 13.Leon segka - Mosanto (DeadBeat Remix) - NTROPRECORDINGS 14.Andreas Tillander - She Don't Cry - REPEATLE
This week's artist is the Croatian Dj and producer Miss Sunshine. She begun her journey on the radio show "Clubhopping" the first "on air" radio show in her area at that time and landed a prime residency at the Oxygen club and later Vega Club in Croatia. Sunshine has worked with some of the industry most renowned artist's like Tom Hades and Whebba and played on festivals such as EXIT, Valkana Beach and Sunrise Festival along with many others. In 2009 she joined "Queens of Minimal Techno" with Viktoria Rebeka hosting techno events across Europe. Over the years Sunshine has built up a varied list of DJs/Producers that she has played with. To name a few, she has spun next to; Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Billy Nasty, Oxia, Umek, Aril Brikha, Ken Ishii, Christian Smith etc. In search of new sounds and scenes, Sunshine continues her journey on and off the decks, always ready to perform in her unique style and technique.
Tracklist :
01. Miss Sunshine - Dark Room (promo) 02. Volster - Erase Myself (promo) 03. Mara Tone - Areyou (substudio) 04. Framework- Flat 64 (promo) 05. Tim Xavier, Tony Rohr - Awesome Button (sleeze) 06. Miss Sunshine - Roll Over (promo) 07. Jan Hendez - Reckoner (promo) 08. Haruyuki Yokoyama - Panic (promo) 09. Mitaka & The Little - Nervous Breakdown (der hut) 10. Miro Pajic - Noon Moon (Lazerslut) 11. Miss Sunshine - Strictly Forbidden (promo) 12. Morgan Tomas - Empty Club (proshtetic pressing) 13. Miss Sunshine - Cavernous (promo) 14. Noreuil - Solid Armor (promo) 15. Stuart Bridges - Chicken Checkers (kult) 16. Damjan Eltech - Soeben (promo) 17. Heron - Deer Hunter (first stage) 18. Volster - Demo (promo)
This weeks artist is the Scotlands leading techno producers Gary Beck. His tracks can be heard on labels such as Soma, Edit Select, Minus, Figure and many more. Gary can count on sopport from many of the biggest names in the Techno industry including Josh Wink, Dubfire, Chrish Liebing, Len Faki, Slam and Richie Hawtin. He is always in high demand for remixes, and recently remixed for artist's such as Speedy J, Christan Smith, Audio Soul Project and Mark Broom. Gary is also working on new material for his own imprint "Bek-Audio". The first release on Bek - audio, "Over to you" was immediately picked up by Hawtin & Dubfire to name but a few, and stormed into the Beatport tehcno chart top 10. His deep but fresh quirky style is in demand from Glasgow, to Tokoy and all over Europe!
Tracklist:
1. Gary Beck – Intro 2. Gary Beck – Consumed (Mark Broom Remix) – Edit Select 3. Nir Shoshani – Polinator (Gary Beck Remix) – Punch Music 4. Qoso – Brrr (Gary Beck Remix) – Foolhouse 5. Mark Broom – She Don’t Like The Collar – Edit Select 6. Gary Beck – The Road – Soma 7. Gary Beck – Elisse – Bek audio 8. Gary Beck – Over To You – Bek audio 9. Christian Smith & Reset Robot – Elixer – Excentric Musik 10. Gary Beck – Struma – Drumcode 11. Floom – Jura – Synewave 12. Floom feat Alex Bau – White – CDR 13. Unknown Promo 14. Gary Beck – Consumed 15. Mauro Picotto – 2010 (Gary Beck Edit) – CDr 16. Hermanez – Blister 17. Mark Broom – Get Serious (Gary Beck vs Edit Select Remix) 18. Gary Beck – Zenith – Bek audio 19. Mark Broom – Asbo – CDr TBC – CDR – (Gary Beck Tool)
This week’s artist is LA’s finest DJ and producer, Darin Epsilon. Darin has worked with some of the industry’s most renowned artists, such as Matthew Dekay, Dresden & Johnston, D:Fuse, Noel Sanger, Burufunk and Kenneth Thomas. Darin has released his work on some of the top record labels in the world, e.g. Perfecto and Baroque Records and has performed his talents all around the globe in addition to notorious nightclubs and events in the US.
Tracklist:
01. Yariv Etzion - Glow (Original Mix) 02. Stu Hirst - Less Is More (Original Mix) 03. Fine Taste & Kid Broke - Lifebloom (Original Mix) 04. Darin Epsilon & Ad Brown - Cold Water (Dezza Remix) 05. Glenn Morrison - Triangle & Strings (Original Mix) 06. Jalebee Cartel - Fly Over (Alex Costa Remix) 07. Way Out West - Bodymotion (D Ramirez Instrumental Remix) 08. Glenn Morrison feat. Cathy Burton - Symptoms Of A Stranger (Henry Saiz Remix) 09. Pryda - RYMD 2010 (Original Mix)
This week was amazing.Ben Simscame really fresh with a banging hit called
Hypnosis.Wicket tune.Circular Star released Egyptian eye, a tune I cant wait to mix.
LMR - Jungle came out this week, Brilliant tune.
I have been listening to Adam Beyer since I remember and he is such a Legend.His song Dactyl
Made it to one of my top songs this week, outstanding work.
Spektre released one of my favorite tunes this week called Memory effect, great song !
Mauro Picotto released Arrivel and both the original and theGennaro Le Fosse remix are great.
Tweeter released a wicket song called Taurus and I like the Nanai mix best.
James Caroll & John Gerald managed to put together a dark acid tune with a melodic wibe called Acid Incident, very smooth.
Manuel De La Mare released a brilliant song called sunset, I cant wait to mix it in also.
Applescal´s song Johnapunkt is really beautiful and melodic.Love it.
Steve Menta from Bonzai Basic reach my attention with his hit robots and cocain.
Kid Mistik comes in new for me with his banging remix of Camroc´s song Raddle box.
Peat Noise released a funky tune called Asleep.I would like to see a better remix of it but great song anyway.Christian Smith is an will always be a favorite off mine.His songbreak it down is a shore floor filler.Electric Rescue made a very sweet song called Douce violenceFAVORITE !
Followed by Alex Spite brilliant tune I instal in soul.LOVE
Danni Bonnici released wizzle and my favorite verson of it is the Sargents & Morale remix.
Eyptin Wholi´s album came out this week.My favorite tune from it is Dust in the morning.
And to top it off this week from the techno section,Alex Di Stefano´s song Multivers has a banging beat.
Tech House…
Sean Danke is a Genius from Iceland.His remix this week of broken hobo with the dolphins is outstanding.
I usually don’t listen to Joris but this week I liked his remix of Ripperton´s random Violance.
Then there is Dole and Kom with a new brilliant single called On the run.
Progressive…
Mobilize released a beautiful song calledEnd of time.Very Nice.Oliver Smith made a new single called Sunday, really smooth and the break in it is soooo nice. Favorite !
Lets continue in in such pearls and talk about the Python remix of Dinamica´s song Dead water drops.Beautiful strings.
Pryda released brilliant tunes this week.Inspiration, Emos and Viro are all very good.
Funk agenda & Mark Knight did the brilliant song Antidode.
Ludovic Desmons & Yann Solo released a tight one called Design.
Soulfinder is always so smooth.I like best the Johan Vermeulen remix of his song Wasteland.Very easy going and chilled.
Dead water drops with Dynamica is deffinettly one of my favorite tunes of the week and I like the Pyton dub remix most.
Chill out…
Lusine with jet another hit called Haze, love it.
Klink released a beautiful song called E79, Brilliant.
Breaks…
Anthony Teasdale has been releasing music since around ´96 and his song Organ Tune was deffinetly one of my favorites this week.
XXXY came really fresh this week with the song know you, a bit of a house feeling in it.
My sweetest song this week is OH SO good,M&D Substance - FloatFAVORITE!!
Lucca Vidi Stays on the darker side and goes more in the techno direction with his brilliant tune Arroyo break (breaks mix).Monojoke is always bringing something nice to the table and this week he released the remix of Soulfinder´s single Mother.Beautiful song.
Retroind released me most favorite remix this week called Belive in me and
Made by Yadek.Well that’s it for now until next week.
Born and bred in Iceland, our special guest Sean Danke is now residing in the Netherlands. A true underground hero with a long history of producing house/techno records stretching back to 1995 including recent releases on Gung Ho!, Arabica, Affin, Illegal Moves and too many others to mention, that already secured him a place in the history books. As owner of a record shop and the brainchild behind countless parties, he played next to everyone from Sasha, Digweed, Kleinenberg, Warren and Josh Wink through to Dubfire, Hawtin, Burridge, Marco Carola, Felix Da Housecat and Layo & Bushwacka to name a few. Sean is now considered the man largely responsible for the clubscene in Reykjavik
01.Maracia & Alessio Mereu - Lado 02.Strict Border - 1950 03.Romano Alfieri & Luca Bear - Love U 04.Remerc - Vilassar (Ramon Tapia remix) 05.Mendo - Madrugada 06.Nima Gorji - Watchin Out 07.Reset Robot - We Do It (Noir remix) 08.Slam - Heart Of The Soul (Slams Rtm House mix) 09.Steve Mac - The Noise Bastard (Santos Bastard Jack ) 10.Stel - Last Night On Earth (John Dalagelis dub) 11.Saints & Sinners - Pushin Too Hard (Nic Fanciulli remix)
Sometimes when I ask people what kind of music do you like they respond with I listen to everything.Its really hard and a lot of work to even try that.You can find good tunes and bad in every single gengre there is.I try to be open minded about all of them but ofcorse some are more favorite then others.My favorite tune at the moment is Lusine – two dots (Nic Fanciully remix).Nic just released this remix and its both sweet and tight at the same time, really smooth vocal.Christian Smith released a remix of an old classic,Carl Craig – At Les (Christian Smith Tronic Treatment remix) and its a floorfiller indeed,it will make those oldschool people cry on the floor.Those who have no idea about who Carl Craig is well, he is a pioneer in house music.Marsbeing,a producer from Ukranien released an album called Save my world and its titled in beatport as a must have.The whole album is a mixture of sweet no cheesy progressive, chill out and breaks.My favorite tune from it is Tigress.Paul Kalkbrenner and Laidback Luke released the remixes of Moby – Wait for me.Both very good though I like the Kalkbrenner remix better, he just has a surtain sound that totally is just his.Kaiserdisco are a duo fromGermany and they released a brilliant minimal tech house songKaiserdisco – Que Ritmo (Strict Border remix).People that dont listen to techno think that this music is only the hardest stuff out there, well I proove them wrong by pointing out Melodic Techno.My favorite tune from that section is Douglas Greed – Oh my.Since I started talking about Techno I have to tell you about my favorites there.Len Faki made anew remixOrlando Villegas & MattNordstrom – Spanglish (Len Faki Remix), brilliant tune but my favorite is without doubt Oliver Garcia– The Music (Phunk Investigation remix).Crasy tune.Echowelt released a wicket tune as well called Groove me baby. For those really hard techno heads then Dustin Zahn just released a new remixM.Gervais – From the beguinning(Dustin Zahn remix).Saints & Sinners are a duo that have been making music together since around 1999.They made a very popular remix then of the classic Sweet harmony with Liqued Love.Today they just made my most favorite techno song this week.I cant wait to mix it, Saints & sinners-echo of the night (mix2).Earlyer I talked about how difficult it is to try to listen to everyting, well it helps a lot if you know wich labels you like.One of mine are Döppelganger records and from them this week I found a beutiful perl released in the deep house section,Andizzzi – You Wanna Feel.Many good things are happening in breaks now,Ricardo Jefferson – Aphrodite , Brilliant guitar strings in it.Kit – Horseshoe crap is exculy an indy rock band but this song has a different style.Alex Hentze is doing good things and my favorite of his new albut is Peanut butter and Carrots, very nice and easy a bit progressive breaks.The sweetest song from breaks section is Cinnamon Chasers-Neon Love.Usually I dong like Vocals but under deep house I found really nice one,Daniel Paul –Coming back for more (Wartin Borgman remix).Like I said I am not really a fan of vocals and specially if its a mans vocal but if it works it does.Well thats it for this week, feel free to send me your songs or links, Im always looking for something new.
Tracklist: 1. Mollono.Bass – Dub Die Wup (Rundfunk 3000 Remix) - Ackerdub 2. Rainer Weichhold - Tango For Noemi (Sascha Braemer Remix) - Great Stuff 3. Butch - Now You Know - Bouq 4. Consistent - Aint no Bump - Exploited 5. Chase Buch & Nick Olivetti feat. Nonchalant - Bayside (Original) - Kling Klong 6. James Talk - Everybody - Great Stuff 7. Gregor Tresher - Escape to Amsterdam (DJ Madskillz & 2000 And One Remix) - Break New Soil 8. Chase Buch & Nick Olivetti - Complex Rhythm (Romano Alfieri Remix) - Kling Klong 9. Hermanez - Do You - Kling Klong 10. Super Flu – Didschn - Monaberry 11. Arado & Den Ishu - I Know - Desolat 12. Ramon Tapia ft. Secret Cinema - I Want You - Great Stuff
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