This month our special guest is Sebastian Bayne.Coming from the ‘journey’ school of DJing, Sebastian is a believer in the idea that behind every great performance is a transferal of energy between the crowd and the DJ. He likes to play a number of styles in one set – not pronounced like Laurent Garnier or big tune like Pete Tong – in a subtle way melding the hypnotic side of techno, minimal, tech house and electro.
This style was formed when Sebastian was resident at two of Beijing’s most infamous clubs playing five hour sets, warming up or finishing for all manner of guest DJs and always playing to a international crowd with different tastes.
Best recognised for his part in pioneering electronic dance music in Beijing and mainland China, Sebastian spent four years working in Beijing from 2000-4. He held a coveted residency at Club VOGUE (or 88 as the Chinese referred to it) where he played with many fantastic DJs including: Laurent Garnier; Derrick May and Adam Freeland. After VOGUE closed, his boss Henry Li opened another venue called The CLUB, where Sebastian was again resident. The CLUB became ‘the’ late night haunt in Beijing where other DJs, producers and punters would come and listen to the five hour sets Sebastian played each Friday.
While in China Sebastian also co-organise and was billed at the two most publicised Great Wall parties featuring Global Underground and Paul Oakenfold. He enjoyed playing regularly at the PLUS techno parties with the likes of Technasia, Ken Iishi, Shin Nishimura and Mickey Zhang. Sebastian also hosted his own Elektrobeat parties with his then DJ partner, Usami; together they brought with the likes of We Love …, Zouk and Slinky to Beijing.
Sebastian made his mark in Australia where he started his professional DJ career debuting at the infamous Happy Valley festival in 2000. He was also known for his regular guest appearances at one of Sydney’s most respected club nights, Tech-ni-kal @ The Chinese Laundry. Sebastian worked as an editor of dance music magazine 3D World and was a freelance contributor to many other publications.
As a Dj he has supported acts as varied as Christian Smith, Dr Kucho!, Paul Godfey, Morcheeba, Technasia, Ken Iishi, Shin Nishimura, Detroit greats Juan Atkins, Carl Craig and Claude Young, Josh Wink, Nick Warren and Paul Oakenfold.
As a producer he has released 12” on Labels such as Cliq, Kisu, and Hypnotic room.
Sebastian will be Supported on the night by Den Williams, Defined By Rhythm, Rif Raf and Chris Combe.
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