OUT NOW - DJ TWISTA "SENSATION"
B/W BREAKS 4 YA NAN " SET MY MIND FREE" JUNKI MUNKI RECS 004

The fourth installment on Junki Munki Records is possibly our biggest to date. ‘Sensation’ by DJ Twista has already had airplay from Jay Cunning on Kiss 100 FM and been a major anthem at clubs and raves worldwide, with backing from some of the biggest DJs in the scene including Slipmatt, Billy Daniel Bunter, Ellis Dee, DJ Suko (Spain), Junki Munki, Reckless & Faydz + many more. Twista is already a well established artist having had numerous tracks on the recent gold selling Helter Skelter CD compilation series and this release is set to elevate his popularity even further. ‘Sensation’ blends classic rave vibes perfectly with modern breakbeats resulting in an irresistable, fantastically produced track, loved by DJs and dancefloors alike. The flip side features the debut release from new boy Breaks 4 Ya Nan. ‘Set My Mind Free’ is another uplifting breakbeat stonker, with one of the biggest basslines we’ve heard in a long time. Again, drop at any point for complete dancefloor devistation! We think you’ll agree that both tracks are absolute corkers…








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Intro


DJ Twista (Dean Willson) has been involved in the underground dance music scene for just over a decade, working as a graphic designer, DJ and producer amongst some of the biggest promotions & artists spanning a wide variety of rave music.





Background


Growing up in North West London through the 80’s Dean was heavily into rap music like Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions and Ice Cube which was a result of watching far too much MTV. His first encounter with rave music was from a mates older sister listening to the "Deep Heat" albums throughout ’89-’90, at the time he was too young to know about the actual rave scene itself.
It wasn’t until about the end of the summer ’91 that a driver who worked for his Dad heard him playing a Deep Heat album, lent him a Carl Cox tape and basically explained about raves, from then on Dean was hooked.
His first rave was when he was 16yrs old - Ravelation NYE ’95-’96 at Wembley Arena and pretty much straight after that he became a weekly Labrynth regular as well as attending legendary raves like Helter Skelter, Slammin Vinyl, Dreamscape, United Dance and Hardcore Heaven to name a few.





Graphic Design


Over the past 11 years Dean has established himself as one of the UK's leading graphic designers within the dance music industry. Originally inspired by the early airbrush works of Pez and Junior Tomlin Dean has built a strong reputation for being able to design high quality artwork for dance music events as he was so in tuned to each style of music he designed for.

Dean has worked for some of the UK’s major promotions, festivals and record labels and is responsible for the look of many leading brands in todays rave scene.
His work has been used not only in the UK but in Germany, Spain, Cyprus, Greece and the USA.

His client list has included: Accelerated Culture, Awol, Back 2 Basics, Best of British, Breakin Science, Coloursfest, Desire, DJ Ez, Digital Circus, Fantazia, Fantasylands, Funkin You, Fusion, Garage Nation, Global Energy, Global Gathering, Hardcore Til I Die, Helter Skelter, Kiss 100, Liberty, Metal Headz, Moondance, One Love, One Nation, Pure Old Skool, Pure Silk, Raindance, Raverbaby, Renegade Hardware, Sidewinder, Sun City, Sundissential, Tasty, Trouble On Vinyl, Uproar, Vibealite plus many more.





DJing


After learning to mix throughout the mid 90's, DJ Twista worked his way through the ever popular London pirate radio scene, playing on various stations...from South Londons legendary Upfront 99.3fm & North London’s Passion 91.8fm (both under the house & garage alias Mr Willson), then onto original old skool station Eruption 101.3fm and currently holding a massive 12 prime time Breaks / D&B shows per month on London’s leading Origin 95.1Fm & Essex’s number 1 station; Charge 90.8FM.

His styles are very versatile ranging from the from his 1st love; Rave Breaks & Old Skool Hardcore ’90 - ’96 to Upfront Drum & Bass and Classic Jungle and has also been known to play classic house and club classics sets.

DJ Twista has always had a good sense of playing the right tunes at the right time, keeping the crowd on their toes and making his sets as exciting as possible which has gained him no less than 7 UK residencies with events : Hardcore Til I die, Moondance, Uproar, Tasty, Fusion, Destiny & Rave Utopia.

DJing has taking him all over the UK and Europe playing to crowds as large as 4600 people for some of the scenes longest standing events such as Awol, Desire, Fantazia, Fusion, Helter Skelter, Moondance, One Nation and Raindance to name a few.

Highlights of his career have been to play the midnight set in the main arena of Seone (London) at Moondance NYE 05 - 06 to a sold out crowd alongside the legendary MC MC. Last new years eve (07-08) Twista was asked back to play the 1st hour of the new year at Moondance alongside DJ Squirrel and MC MC.






Residencies


Hardcore Til I Die / Old Skool Til I Die - old skool hardcore & rave breaks


Moondance - old skool hardcore & rave breaks


Tasty / Love Muzik - old skool house / hardcore & club classics


Uproar - old skool hardcore & rave breaks


Fusion - old skool hardcore & rave breaks


Destiny - Drum & Bass


Rave Utopia- old skool jungle & Drum & Bass


Previous 5 year Residency with Pure Old Skool (2001 - 2006)


and also has regular sets at events up and down the country such as;
Beyond Reality
Fantazia
Innovation
Random Concept
Raverbaby
Slip Back In Time
plus many more.





Production


DJ Twista has been producing for around 4 years, supporting Rave Breaks (140 - 145bpm breakbeat music incorporating vocals, pianos & modern producing techniques).
He has established his sound as fast paced, bouncy rave music which has had heavy support from DJ’s like Kiss 100's Jay Cunning, BBC Radio Ones Kutski, Slipmatt, SY, Billy Daniel Bunter, Ratpack, Ellis Dee & many DJ’s within the pirate / internet radio circuit.
Since 2006 Dj Twista has remixed some of the old skool scenes biggest anthems as well as producing his own fresh material and had many of his tracks released on various albums including the Helter Skelter album series (Ministry of Sound), No.1 Old Skool & Rave Breaks Album (Deca Dance) and the Moondance Rave Anthems Album (CYFI media) which have jointly sold well over half a million copies worldwide.
At present Twista is hard at work in the studio so watch out for loads of new material throughout 2008, also watch out for drum & bass productions early 2009.


Watch out for Future Rave Anthems - Rave Breaks Album mixed by DJ Twista Out end of OCTOBER 2008.








Discography(AS OF SEPT 08)




2008


Future Rave Anthems Mix Compilation - CYFI Media


Robo-Chop - CYFI Media


Heat of the Moment feat Taya - CYFI Media


So Free feat Nikki Mak 2008 remix - CYFI Media


Twice As Nice - CYFI Media


Sensation - 12" Junki Munki Records 004


Billy Daniel Bunter & CLSM feat. Leah Symons - My Desire (DJ Twista Remix)
The No 1 Old Skool And Rave Breaks Album


Top Buzz - Living in Darkness (DJ Twista & Sparky Remix)
Helter Skelter vs Raindance : Rave Nation Album
12" Uppacuts vol 3



2007


So Free feat Nikki Mak
Helter Skelter : Nu Generation Album
& The No 1 Old Skool And Rave Breaks Album


Electric feat Nikki Mak
Helter Skelter : Nu Generation Album
The No 1 Old Skool And Rave Breaks Album
Moondance Rave Anthems Album


Sy-Kick - Nasty (DJ Twista Remix)
Helter Skelter meets Raindance : Hardcore 2007 Album


Manix - Feel Real Good (DJ Twista Remix)
Helter Skelter meets Raindance : Hardcore 2007 Album


One More - 12" Sharkfin Records 006


Story Teller - 12" Sharkfin Records 004


Sold Out



2006


Rave Breaks






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Can You Feel It Media is a brand new company set up by Daniel Light (Billy Daniel Bunter) & Matthew Nelson (Slipmatt). Both partners have over 40 years of unparalleled success between them within the dance music industry.


Can You Feel It Media is boldly heading in to an exciting new era of the next generation wave of music companies. Embracing the ever changing rules, that have left so many independents and majors by the wayside.


The company is excited about the future of music, and our close working relationship with major forces such as Ministry Of Sound and I Tunes guarantees maximum exposure for so many of our artists, releases and concepts.


As Head of A&R for Breaks & Drum & Bass as well as of course Head of Design, Dean (Dj Twista) has secured a number of album projects with D&B labels such as Low Down deep, Renegade Hardware and Grid recordings. Not to mention his own Rave breaks compilation "Future Rave Anthems" due Winter 2008.

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