“The maddest thing that’s happened to me was when I first went to Colombia and I was greeted by the national 7 o’clock news cameras as I came out of customs and had two armed guards accompanying me to the hotel. It just wasn’t what I expected from my DJ career when I first started out at the school disco!” Indeed it is not. Despite having highfalutin notions of becoming a disc jockey from an early age, David Seaman’s achievements have surpassed his ambitions somewhere along the Acid House Superhighway that is his life today.
Dave Seaman is now entering his 20th year in the music industry having first joined DMC as a fresh-faced teenager from Leeds in October 1987. In the intervening years there’s not much he hasn’t done, from DJing at Stella McCartney’s birthday party to presenting programmes for the BBC and being profiled by Channel4 to featuring in a Levis’ ad campaign in Japan. He’s also released over 20 mix albums including the first legally licensed compilation ever (for Mixmag in 1991), 7 for Renaissance, 3 for Global Underground and 3 for his own Therapy Sessions brand. Plus, he was also the man who, as editor for 3 years from 1987 to 1991, turned Mixmag into the clubbers’ bible.
He is remixing royalty, as one half of Brothers in Rhythm (alongside Steve Anderson), having taken the faders for U2, Michael Jackson and David Bowie, and also produced the Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue: “Confide In Me is the thing I’m most proud of,” states Dave. “To be working with Kylie, and to actually write, produce and remix it and see it go on to become an international hit was the most fulfilling thing I’ve ever worked on.” Brothers in Rhythm were also responsible for one of the first great British house records –Such A Good Feeling – a brash slice of piano heaven that lit up dancefloors and wound up in the Top 20.
Dave Seaman November Mix tracklist:
John Digweed ‘Gridlock (Intro)’
Fairmont ‘Fade and Saturate c/w Guy J ‘Eat Out’
Skylark ‘Escalator c/w Quasar ‘World Beach (Jamie Stevens dub)’
Tigerstripes ‘Mad At Me’
Phoenix ‘Rise Up’ (D Dub)
Josh Gabriel ‘Summit (remix)’
Steve Lawler ‘Courses for Horses (GT edit)’
MOS ‘Emotional Distortion’
Guy J ‘Popcorn (Spooky mix)’
Nick Muir ‘G Platz (Original/DJ Tool)’
Satoshi Tomiie ‘Solar Wind’
