As summer comes to its inevitable close, Smirnoff Experience’s Area 21 stage popped up again recently, this time at the Future Music Festival in Brisbane and Sydney. Throughout summer Area 21 featured at Summadayze, Summafieldayze and Kiss My Grass, fast gaining a reputation for headline DJs playing unexpected sets away from the mainstage… and away from their known style.
Simon Shackleton’s Elite Force project began way back in 1996, debuting on his own newly founded Fused and Bruised label with a series of peerless 12s and remixes. After a successful five years,he put Fused and Bruised on the backburner to concentrate on production work, and following several years with Whole9Yards and Moonshine he became a mainstay recording artist for Adrift Recordings (formally known as Kingsize Records) before moving on to set up his own Used & Abused imprint. Often credited for being a lynchpin in the developing the tech-funk genre (an amalgamation of breaks, house, techno and electro) he has released a series of highly successful singles in the past few years, finding broad support from DJs and musicians across the board, including the likes of James Zabiela, the Plump DJs, Laurent Garnier and Damian Lazarus. In addition to these solo singles, Meat Katie has been a regular collaborator with Elite Force, a relationship that had begun in 2003 with the massive-selling ‘Toba’. As a remixer, Elite Force has always been in considerable demand, with re-workings for the likes of Grandmaster Flash, Crystal Method, Jungle Brothers, Stereo MCs, UNKLE, Infusion, Rennie Pilgrem, Shiloh and Dylan Rhymes all contributing to his reputation as one of the most creative and effective remixers around.
ccombe says...
this is totally different to the type of music he was playing at laundry when I saw him... I like this much more then his Laundry set... would of followed on a lot smoother from Steve Bug's set which totally set the mood
