Justin Robertson
| Justin Robertson | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Justin Robertson |
| Also known as | The Prankster, Revtone, The Deadstock 33s |
| Born |
11 June 1968 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
| Genres | Electronica, house, big beat, breakbeat, trip hop, dancehall |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Producer, DJ, Artist |
| Instruments | Turntables, guitar, keyboards, programming, Vocals |
| Years active | 1991 – present |
| Labels | Deconstruction, Nuphonic, Neverwork, Gomma, Optimo Music, Solitary Cyclist, Clouded Vision, Days of Being Wild, Tigersushi, Skint |
| Associated acts | Lionrock, Gentleman Thief, Sleuth, Thee Earls, Kidscience, The Deadstock 33s |
| Website | www.justinrobertson.co.uk |
Justin Robertson (born 11 June 1968 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey) is an English electronic musician, DJ, record producer and Artist
Born in Walton-on-Thames in 1968. Moving to Chalfont-St-Peter in Buckinghamshire. After attending Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Buckinghamshire, he studied Philosophy at Manchester University.
It was in Manchester that his musical career began. Initially working behind the counter at Eastern Bloc records. He went on to DJ at the Konspiracy club in Manchester, and began his own Sunday club Spice with fellow DJ Greg Fenton. In the early 1990s he started the Most Excellent club and played at The Haçienda. Subsequently he went on to run Sleuth with Richard Hector-Jones and was one of the residents at Bugged Out. He has released several DJ mix albums. Robertson continues to perform DJ sets at venues and festivals globally.
Robertson also began a remix career, re working acts such as Björk, Erasure, Happy Mondays, Paul Weller, Justice, and many others.
Since 2003 he has been living and working from London. He has remixed dozens of high-profile music artists, either as himself or as The Prankster, Revtone or The Deadstock 33s, fronted the groups Lionrock and Thee Earls, and has released albums and singles of original music under his own name. Robertson at one time operated the vanity record label Neverwork. Since 2015 Robertson has been signed to Skint records, with whom he released the Deadstock 33s album Everything is Turbulence. He continues to work in London from his Solitary Cyclist studio.
In 2015 Robertson created a traveling art show of oil paintings called Everything is Turbulence exhibiting in London, Leeds, Manchester, Stockholm and Ireland. The show examined notions of chaos and mystery through images of imagined creatures.
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