John Digweed
| John Digweed | |
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Digweed in 2014
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| Background information | |
| Born |
1 January 1967 Hastings, England |
| Genres | House, progressive house, tech house, techno, progressive trance |
| Occupation(s) | Disc jockey record producer Record Label Owner |
| Years active | 1989 – present |
| Labels |
Bedrock Records Global Underground Renaissance |
| Associated acts | Sasha & John Digweed, Bedrock |
| Website | JohnDigweed |
John Digweed (born 1 January 1967 in Hastings, England) is an English DJ, record producer and actor.DJ Magazine voted him World No 1 DJ in 2001.
Digweed began DJing at the age of 15, and made a name for himself in his home town of Hastings, where he put on successful club nights, the most famous of which were his successful raves on Hastings Pier, where the likes of Carl Cox and The Prodigy performed. His breakthrough came in 1993, when he sent a mixtape demo to Geoff Oakes, founder of the Renaissance nightclub in Mansfield, who played it to fellow DJ Alexander Coe (aka Sasha). The two DJs struck up a long-term friendship and working relationship, despite Sasha twice failing to turn up for gigs that Digweed had booked him for in Hastings.
In partnership with Sasha, Digweed is known for promoting progressive house and notable for producing the first commercial compilation for a nightclub, when they released their 1994 compilation of mixes from Renaissance entitled Renaissance: The Mix Collection. Until then, mixtapes from clubs had only been circulated by DJs on an amateur basis. The Renaissance CD was tHe first time that a compilation CD had been planned strategically for marketing, from artwork to promotion. The two DJs famously followed this up with their Northern Exposure compilations and those on Global Underground.
Digweed then started the record label Bedrock Records to further promote the music that he was playing at the time. He and his friend Nick Muir went on to produce under the Bedrock alias, getting their big break when their first track "For What You Dream Of" was used in the film Trainspotting. The Bedrock duo also produced the soundtrack for the MTV adult cartoon drama Spider-Man in 2003. In his sets, Digweed is noted for adopting tracks with new and different styles.
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