BEST OF BRITISH Best Breakthrough DJs
The other
nominees:
Demi
Jamie Jones
Serge Santiago
Sinden
Streetlife DJs
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for as long as possible. This gives the
crowd more club melting breakdown
moments.
“The Pioneer DJM 800 then lets us twist it
all back together on-the-fl y, along with a
healthy dose of a cappellas and EFX at the
crucial moments.”
It’s this marriage of energetic dancefl oor
friendly tunes and technical nous that
has quickly seen them rise to the top.
With a residency at their own bi-monthly
club, PLAY at Thekla Social, in Bristol,
and a host of gigs around the UK this
summer, the pair are also playing two
dates in Ibiza alongside Jon Carter and
Justin Robertson, as well as returning to
Dubai.
Such a hectic schedule, they admit,
leaves little room for sleep. But despite
Groove is in
Best
this, Deepgroove have been building an
BREAKTHROUGH
equally strong name for themselves on
DJS
the production and remix front, most
recently with their ‘Weekend Weapons’
the heart
Deep
gro
ove
series on Underwater. Lee is keen to
praise the label for their support, calling
their release of Deepgroove’s ‘Solo’
compilation album “one of the biggest
Deepgroove lads Lee and Grayson pick up the gong
honours of our career”.
Lee reveals: “At the moment we are busy
for Best Breakthrough DJs.
in the studio working on a few vocal
tracks and dancefl oor slayers for an
I
n 1946 when Sir Jimmy Saville, a Which helps explains why the tough, met in their hometown of Bristol, admit album.
young disc jockey spinning 78s in dirty sound of Deepgroove’s tireless to being driven by a healthy “This year has also been about closing
Northern working men’s clubs, began two-man, four-CDJ, EFX laden assault has competitiveness “to outdo each other to the gap between ourselves and our
using two turntables to remove the gap deservedly won the pair the title of Best fi nd the most amazing tracks”. heroes’ production skills. It’s our quest to
between records, little could he have British Breakthrough DJs 2007. Explains Lee: “We dig deep to construct bring an organic element to the music
predicted how infl uential his idea would “To think about the last 12 months sets that have an emotional resonance.” without it losing its dancefl oor edge. And
be. For the next 50 years or so, with the actually feels like recalling a couple of But what really sets them apart from their we’re now at the stage where we can play
exception of a third deck here or a drum years,” laughs Lee Pattison, one half of peers is a shared commitment to the sets that are almost entirely our own
machine there, this remained the the Deepgroove partnership alongside multitude of possibilities offered by the tracks, remixes, edits and EFX.”
unchallenged paradigm of modern DJing, Grayson Pattison. digital age.
a fact worthy of his Knighthood alone. “We’ve been very lucky to travel the “We both love vinyl and have thousands So if Deepgroove are the people’s choice,
Cut to the present day, however, and world, including Australia, Japan, China, of records that we couldn’t bear to part who exactly are their heroes?
things are changing. Digital technology Eastern Europe, Holland, Dubai and with,” Lee says. “But to be able to play “The Chemical Brothers are at the centre
has heralded a new era of CDJs, Final Singapore. And each country has been cutting-edge music, re-edit tunes, of all of our strobe-lit aspirations,”
Scratch and Ableton Live, all of which are amazing.” road-test tracks and travel light, you concludes Lee. “But it’s Erol Alkan, more
blowing open the possibilities for playing have to use CDs. than any other DJ we’ve seen, who’s
other people’s music. And as technology United by a love of “records in the middle “We edit almost every track in Ableton to brought together the disparate
changes, clubbers now expect ground between house, electro and par it down to its most essential, fi ring dancefl oor tribes, creating a totally
increasingly sophisticated techno, which are capable of rocking the essence. We like to keep everything under unique melting pot of sounds through his
entertainment. shit out of a heaving club”, the pair, who fi ve minutes so we can have it in the mix next level DJ skills.”
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