Hey Folks,
Well, the quality & amount of music being produced by some of the scene’s biggest D.J’s continues to thrill us, not least the work form two legendary names that have been an integral part of our clubbing history in gAylist/land London. So in a special post, not only highlighting their superb latest mixes, we also look back across their glittering D.J. careers, to give those of you unaccustomed to their talents, a brief look into the incredible pedigrees that they both have, the paths they have crossed and the reputations they have built, making them two of the biggest names in the game. Always finding it difficult to choose between them when they are playing either at the same clubs or at the same time, we have aptly entitled our post “Nicholls vs. Pitron”.
Steve Pitron began his D.J’ing career in the early nineties in his home county of Essex, playing at a weekly club in Chelmsford called “Esoterica” which gave him a real flavour & passion for the vocation, having been interested since childhood & working in record shops, where he had the opportunity to practice on decks. When he landed a position working for Universal Records, London became a real draw, with his first gig in the capital being at the notorious “Anvil”, which was soon followed by a residency at the popular Soho boozer “Comptons”, sprouting regular appearances at other bars around town, including the infamous “Substation Soho”. But playing in clubs was his big dream and when he added gigs at “Heaven” and the afterhours club “PSP”, his name was becoming more & more familiar across the scene. However, his big break came at the iconic club “Crash”, where an initial showing in the small second room was transformed into a headlining spot on the main floor and probably the club he will always be best known for. When uber afterhours club “Beyond” opened in 2002, Steve was part of the D.J’ing furniture and whenever he played there, the main room was packed to the rafters. Steve has since remained a tore de force across gAylist/land London, being in demand for all the major events in the capital & beyond, which this year included both London’s & Brighton’s Pride events, “Soho Live” & abroad, including Ibiza, Sydney and...well every continent actually!!, he having played at various ski weeks & was famously on the T.V. (in drag! and out) during the summer gay week in Sardinia. He currently holds down superb residencies at “Juicy”, “SuperMartXe”, “Lo-Profile” & (of course) his beloved “Beyond” (now at Area), but also manages to mix his D.J’ing work with his daytime job to great effect both having music central to their themes. Add to that, his recording work in the studio, producing a glittering list of remixes of artists like Kelly Rowland, Grace Jones, The Sugarbabes, Kylie Minogue & Beyonce (he even rubs shoulders with these people when working at Universal – lucky him!) and it is clear this man has incredible talent and well deserves his status of probably the scene’s best ever D.J.
Brent Nicholls hit the London scene at a similar time to Steve, but carved his career & reputation in his home town of Sydney in his early days behind the decks, playing at some of the city’s best known venues, including “The Albury”, “The Exchange”, “DCM”, “Midnight” “Shift”, “Sugar Reef” and “Black Market”, although his real success was always at the Mardi Gras parties & associated events, being a firm favourite, attracting huge crowds of up to 20,000. Internationally Brent has appeared at events in New Zealand, Canada, Ibiza, Holland, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Asia & South Africa, but has truly cemented his career in London, having been a resident from the late nineties. Having arrived in the U.K., he quickly established a residency on “Heaven’s” main floor, with further guest appearances at clubs like “Factor 25”, “Salvation”, “Factory” & “Cocco-Latte”, but was best known at the time for being the founding D.J. & resident of the very popular “PSP”. With underground club “Crash” making a real impact on the scene, it was inevitable that he would be part of the regular line-up, which also led to a residency at “Beyond”, where Brent really made the VIP room space his own, also playing b2b for the first time with Paul Heron, which would prove a magical musical relationship to come. Since then the list of clubs/bars he has played in London is virtually unparalleled & includes “Action”, “Ultra”, “Evolve”, “Universe” “Barcode”, “Essential”, “Juicy”, “Glamorous” “Hustlaball” “Rupert Street”, “Revolver”, Go-Go Brazil”, “Rome”, “Trade” and many more. His current residencies include “Matinee London” “Lo-Profile” “Industri” “Hard On!” and “Sex”, all which he squeezes in with guest appearances across London, Manchester, Brighton & across Europe, as well as keeping very busy as the webmaster for best clubbing website around, “seenqueen.com” and his with his general web designing work.
So, looking at both of their careers you can draw similarities with the clubs they have played at, “PSP”, “Crash”, “Heaven” & “Beyond”. In some ways their music styles are similar too, both shaping their genre’s to fit the club event, whether it be uplifting, funky & chunky, through to deep, progressive, underground & sexy, their ability to play such a varied choice truly make them in the demand that they are. Both are also busy recording and both have fresh new mixes out.
We have already mentioned that Steve Pitron’s favourite club to play is Beyond and this is reflected in his recent work as his latest compilations are tributes to this amazing “afterhours” club. The first mix is a selection from the tracks he played live at a set during October, where he cleverly mixes old & new to great effect, including a true Beyond classic, “In My Life”, which he used to include in his sets as far back as 2003! Then, having performed exceptionally (and believe us, we have been at some awesome sets of his) at Beyond’s Christmas special party “Ice”, he has released another collection of tracks from his set, some which got exclusive play & still can’t be heard anywhere else yet. These mixes are an absolute must addition to your collection and you can find them both at http://stevepitronsessions.podomatic.com/.
Brent Nicholls has been extremely busy recording this year, with over 15 separate compilations out (some with multiple volumes), chronicling the incredible diversity of his musical talents, from extracts from live sets at Sydney Mardi Gras & Lo-Profile, as well as mixes dedicated to clubs like Hustlaball & Industri, as well as one released especially for London Pride. But the last few weeks have seen frenetic activity, with no less than three new compilations out, first a hint towards summer to warm your winter, entitled “Vamos Jugar En El Sol”, then another club dedication, this time “Hard On!” which is separated into two volumes & finally, hot off the press is “MMIX – Anthems of 2009”, a collection of 30 of the biggest tunes he has played in various sets throughout the year. You can stream all of these mixes now by going to http://djbrentnicholls.com/music and if you are lucky enough, you could win all his 2009 mixes (and there are some real corker’s in there!) or at least, his “MMIX” one by entering the special competition out now at http://seenqueen.com/.
Well, that’s our latest “special” music post up and we couldn’t have chosen two more acclaimed D.J.’s to highlight, also knowing that you will enjoy their latest mixes, just as much as we do/have. In the cases of Steve Pitron & Brent Nicholls, we can say with conviction that definitely, "music is the answer".
Enjoy.
xDM
Well, the quality & amount of music being produced by some of the scene’s biggest D.J’s continues to thrill us, not least the work form two legendary names that have been an integral part of our clubbing history in gAylist/land London. So in a special post, not only highlighting their superb latest mixes, we also look back across their glittering D.J. careers, to give those of you unaccustomed to their talents, a brief look into the incredible pedigrees that they both have, the paths they have crossed and the reputations they have built, making them two of the biggest names in the game. Always finding it difficult to choose between them when they are playing either at the same clubs or at the same time, we have aptly entitled our post “Nicholls vs. Pitron”.
Steve Pitron began his D.J’ing career in the early nineties in his home county of Essex, playing at a weekly club in Chelmsford called “Esoterica” which gave him a real flavour & passion for the vocation, having been interested since childhood & working in record shops, where he had the opportunity to practice on decks. When he landed a position working for Universal Records, London became a real draw, with his first gig in the capital being at the notorious “Anvil”, which was soon followed by a residency at the popular Soho boozer “Comptons”, sprouting regular appearances at other bars around town, including the infamous “Substation Soho”. But playing in clubs was his big dream and when he added gigs at “Heaven” and the afterhours club “PSP”, his name was becoming more & more familiar across the scene. However, his big break came at the iconic club “Crash”, where an initial showing in the small second room was transformed into a headlining spot on the main floor and probably the club he will always be best known for. When uber afterhours club “Beyond” opened in 2002, Steve was part of the D.J’ing furniture and whenever he played there, the main room was packed to the rafters. Steve has since remained a tore de force across gAylist/land London, being in demand for all the major events in the capital & beyond, which this year included both London’s & Brighton’s Pride events, “Soho Live” & abroad, including Ibiza, Sydney and...well every continent actually!!, he having played at various ski weeks & was famously on the T.V. (in drag! and out) during the summer gay week in Sardinia. He currently holds down superb residencies at “Juicy”, “SuperMartXe”, “Lo-Profile” & (of course) his beloved “Beyond” (now at Area), but also manages to mix his D.J’ing work with his daytime job to great effect both having music central to their themes. Add to that, his recording work in the studio, producing a glittering list of remixes of artists like Kelly Rowland, Grace Jones, The Sugarbabes, Kylie Minogue & Beyonce (he even rubs shoulders with these people when working at Universal – lucky him!) and it is clear this man has incredible talent and well deserves his status of probably the scene’s best ever D.J.
Brent Nicholls hit the London scene at a similar time to Steve, but carved his career & reputation in his home town of Sydney in his early days behind the decks, playing at some of the city’s best known venues, including “The Albury”, “The Exchange”, “DCM”, “Midnight” “Shift”, “Sugar Reef” and “Black Market”, although his real success was always at the Mardi Gras parties & associated events, being a firm favourite, attracting huge crowds of up to 20,000. Internationally Brent has appeared at events in New Zealand, Canada, Ibiza, Holland, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Asia & South Africa, but has truly cemented his career in London, having been a resident from the late nineties. Having arrived in the U.K., he quickly established a residency on “Heaven’s” main floor, with further guest appearances at clubs like “Factor 25”, “Salvation”, “Factory” & “Cocco-Latte”, but was best known at the time for being the founding D.J. & resident of the very popular “PSP”. With underground club “Crash” making a real impact on the scene, it was inevitable that he would be part of the regular line-up, which also led to a residency at “Beyond”, where Brent really made the VIP room space his own, also playing b2b for the first time with Paul Heron, which would prove a magical musical relationship to come. Since then the list of clubs/bars he has played in London is virtually unparalleled & includes “Action”, “Ultra”, “Evolve”, “Universe” “Barcode”, “Essential”, “Juicy”, “Glamorous” “Hustlaball” “Rupert Street”, “Revolver”, Go-Go Brazil”, “Rome”, “Trade” and many more. His current residencies include “Matinee London” “Lo-Profile” “Industri” “Hard On!” and “Sex”, all which he squeezes in with guest appearances across London, Manchester, Brighton & across Europe, as well as keeping very busy as the webmaster for best clubbing website around, “seenqueen.com” and his with his general web designing work.
So, looking at both of their careers you can draw similarities with the clubs they have played at, “PSP”, “Crash”, “Heaven” & “Beyond”. In some ways their music styles are similar too, both shaping their genre’s to fit the club event, whether it be uplifting, funky & chunky, through to deep, progressive, underground & sexy, their ability to play such a varied choice truly make them in the demand that they are. Both are also busy recording and both have fresh new mixes out.
We have already mentioned that Steve Pitron’s favourite club to play is Beyond and this is reflected in his recent work as his latest compilations are tributes to this amazing “afterhours” club. The first mix is a selection from the tracks he played live at a set during October, where he cleverly mixes old & new to great effect, including a true Beyond classic, “In My Life”, which he used to include in his sets as far back as 2003! Then, having performed exceptionally (and believe us, we have been at some awesome sets of his) at Beyond’s Christmas special party “Ice”, he has released another collection of tracks from his set, some which got exclusive play & still can’t be heard anywhere else yet. These mixes are an absolute must addition to your collection and you can find them both at http://stevepitronsessions.podomatic.com/.
Brent Nicholls has been extremely busy recording this year, with over 15 separate compilations out (some with multiple volumes), chronicling the incredible diversity of his musical talents, from extracts from live sets at Sydney Mardi Gras & Lo-Profile, as well as mixes dedicated to clubs like Hustlaball & Industri, as well as one released especially for London Pride. But the last few weeks have seen frenetic activity, with no less than three new compilations out, first a hint towards summer to warm your winter, entitled “Vamos Jugar En El Sol”, then another club dedication, this time “Hard On!” which is separated into two volumes & finally, hot off the press is “MMIX – Anthems of 2009”, a collection of 30 of the biggest tunes he has played in various sets throughout the year. You can stream all of these mixes now by going to http://djbrentnicholls.com/music and if you are lucky enough, you could win all his 2009 mixes (and there are some real corker’s in there!) or at least, his “MMIX” one by entering the special competition out now at http://seenqueen.com/.
Well, that’s our latest “special” music post up and we couldn’t have chosen two more acclaimed D.J.’s to highlight, also knowing that you will enjoy their latest mixes, just as much as we do/have. In the cases of Steve Pitron & Brent Nicholls, we can say with conviction that definitely, "music is the answer".
Enjoy.
xDM
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