BIOGRAPHYS
For this months easter egg-stravaganza, we at Vibealite are proud to present THREE international guest DJs who are being flown in exclusively for this event.
First up is Industrial Strength Records founder Lenny Dee.
Lenny Dee is a native of New York. He started his career in 1984 DJing in a local roller disco in Brooklyn NYC at the age of 17. Lenny Dee is recognized as one of New York's earliest Techno pioneers. His earlier music consisted of Disco, Electro-Body, High Energy and early House. In 1989, Lenny's musical exploits brought him to Europe, which changed his direction once again. Lenny Dee's DJing career propelled him to be one of the most sort after International Techno DJs in the world. In a Time where DJs remained local for the most part, he became the number one International DJ in Germany, Scotland, France and Switzerland with his new sound - Hardcore Techno - a sound that he is still known for today.
In the 90's Lenny Dee was twice awarded the accolade of 'Best Worldwide Techno DJ' by the Scottish Dance Music Awards. Frontpage Magazine heralded him as 'International DJ of the Year' and he has received wide spread coverage in other dance music publications like DJ Times, MixMag, Musik, and Mixer Magazine. He was recently featured in the Dutch DJ Broadcast Mag, UK’s Mixmag (as No 1 of the ‘Hardest DJ’s), Germany’s Groove and Raveline magazines and in XLR8R from the USA.
Lenny Dee DJs all around the world including all across the USA - from Australia through Western & Eastern Europe and as far as Russia, Japan and South America. He has performed at most big events including to over million people at the Love Parade in Berlin, Techno Street Parades in Paris, Switzerland and Hamburg, Mayday in Germany, Tribal Gathering UK, Woodstock 2000 NYC, and the Jane’s Addiction Reunion Tour in NYC 1997.
Lenny Dee launched Industrial Strength Records in the U.S.A. in 1991 with PCP’s ‘Mescalinium United’, becoming the first Hardcore Techno label in the world and one of the first Electronic Labels in the U.S.A. His label has featured artists such as Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier, Daft Punk, The Mover, DJ Paul, Manu le Malin, Cirillo, Oliver Chesler and Nasenbluten among other ground breaking music that has pioneered the label for over a decade.
On a personal front Lenny’s productions have always been diverse from his signature Hardcore to working with Grammy Nominated COC, collaboration’s with Prodigy Co-Producer Neil McClellan, releases on Warner Bros, Strictly Rythmn, R&S Records, A&M Records, Gigilo, ID&T, Music Man, Rotterdam Records, remixes for Atlantic Records, Sven Vath as well as chart topping hits in Holland and Italy.
Lenny Dee's classic hit 'Morning After' under his pseudonym of 'Fallout' is also featured on the Sony Play Station's PS2 hit game Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas on Rockstar Games - which has sold over 60 million games to date and his conceptual project ‘ Extreme Terror’ also featured on the hit game DOOM by Williams Entertainment which was the biggest selling video game during the 90’s.
Recently Lenny Dee has been the studio collaborating on many projects including for his album with DJ Radium - ‘Noise Brulee’ -released through Audiogenic (France) that also features collaborations with the UK’s Hellfish and Dienamic and features a music video – the 1st Hardcore Music Video to get national airplay in France. Other projects include releases with Neophtye, Manu Le Malin, Unexist, Tieum and Dano. Lenny Dee also has releases on DJ Promo’s critically acclaimed ‘Third Movement’ label where the track ‘I Called You ’ became a break away hit.
Lenny Dee has also joined forces with DJ Promo - Holland’s number one Hardcore DJ / Producer to create a new label and new sound together - 'Industrial Movement' which features TERRORFAKT, DPassion, Acrosome, Def Affect, Life:Runs:Red and Lenny Dee and Promo’s – Electronic Pig
On the techno front, Lenny has recent releases with Chris Liberator & Darc Marc on the Liberator’s Underground label ‘Maximum / Minimum’ & Cluster, on 4x4 with Julian Liberator as well as releases on France’s Gazole and Highway labels, UK’s Subvert, RAW with The Geezer, Powertools with ANT as well as tracks with Kay D Smith. Neuton in Germany have also released the 99.9 remixes of the classic IST track featuring mixes by John Selway, The Horrorist and Lenny Dee’s mix showcasing a Retro-Tek sound fusing techno with retro elements from Lenny’s Disco roots.
Lenny Dee continues to be booked regularly for Hardcore and Techno gigs around the world and is producing music from Hardcore to Electro. Lenny will continue to bring pleasure to audiences worldwide by pushing back the barriers of Electronic Music.
Click the link for Lenny Dee’s latest music video. A collaboration with DJ Radium titled ‘Headbanger Booty’ http://www.dailymotion.com/search/hardcore/video/64210
For more information on Lenny Dee visit his sites…
http://www.myspace.com/lennydee
http://www.industrialstrengthrecords.com
watch out for Vibealite’s Lenny Dee interview coming soon….
Next up is Japans number 1 hardcore DJ Uraken.
Having been at the forefront of the Japanese Hardcore scene since its inception, DJ Uraken is synonymous with energetic, uplifting and powerful Hardcore music. Delivering this in his own unique distinctive style crowns him Japans number 1 Hardcore DJ.
As well as his impressive list of DJ appearances, Uraken pioneers his own monthly event ‘Hardcore kitchen’ which opened its doors in 1996 and was the first event of its kind in Japan showcasing UK Hardcore.
Last but not least is The Speed Freak.
Martin Damm has been releasing records since 1990 under various project names, the most recurrent ones being Biochip C., Speedfreak, and Search & Destroy. Starting off making german-style EBM techno, he soon became part of the Cologne school around walker, and released on labels such as Monotone, Force Inc., and Dj.ungle Fever. After his increased popularity especially with the dutch gabber scene in 1994 and 1995, Mokum and Shockwave became his home labels. His musical activities however stretch much further - tracks from his studio can be found on lots of different labels and on dozens of cd compilations. Apart from his further involvement in several labels such as Ozon (with Jammin' Unit), Napalm (plus its sublabels Agent Orange and Speedcore) and Anodyne (plus the defunct Biophobia), he is also available for live and deejay gigs. furthermore, he has started to produce his own videos and CD-ROM parts.
Part of what makes the music of Martin Damm interesting is his versatility. The tracks coming from his studio, Biosfear, stylistically stretch over the whole area of electronic dance music - going from power acid to breakcore, from drum & bass to happy gabber, from straight techno to dubby trip hop. Fans will rave about the squiggly 303 programming, the bouncy kickdrums and clattering breakbeats, the powerful and dense yet transparent overall sound, the wonderfully witty combinations and structures, the overwhelming wealth of amazing sound ideas and little melodies, and last not least the cynically cheesy organs and shameless sampling.
You can catch all three of these international DJs spinning alongside our other guests at the Vibealite Easter egg-stravaganza party on Friday 6th April to celebrate Gary Vibealite’s 40th Birthday party. Gary Vibealite is the Vibealite founder. Vibealite is just one of the promotions under the Krafty Promotions guise. Krafty Promotions have been promoting these nights for over 13 years now and are responsible for kick starting the careers of acts like The Prodigy, M People and Carl Cox. On April 6th you will see the main promoter himself ‘Gary Vibealite’ taking to the decks with a very special ‘one off’ DJ set. This is not to be missed…
Advanced tickets £12, V.I.P. £12, or £15 on the door.
Advanced tickets are available via paypal ticket store at www.krafty.info
or call our credit card hotline.. 0871 210 65 85.
Group discounts available call the office on 0871 65 85.
Doors 10pm – 6am, Club Mission, Heatons Court Leeds