Tall Paul, began his DJ';ing career in the late 80’s, playing for private parties at his family’s venue, Turnmills. At the same time Paul started working with pirate radio stations Touchdown FM and the capital';s legendary pirate Sunrise FM. Paul also used his experience to get a one hour slot at Turnmills'; Saturday all-nighter Trade and in 1990 his obvious talent gained him his first residency and as gay clubs have always been at the forefront of innovation in dance music, Paul quickly became recognised for playing what one might alternatively call hard edged-house. Not long after his residency at Trade, Paul was offered a residency at the Zap Club in Brighton and there met up with Shelley Boswell, which lead to regular slots at the Gardening Clubs’ “Club For Life”.

In 1992 Paul put out his first vinyl offering - the white label ';Love Rush';, a Trade anthem. He then hooked up with Hooj Choons'; Red Jerry and came up with the dance classic "Rock Da House," (later to be re-released in 1997 on VC Recordings, reaching No. 11 in the national charts.) The 2006 remix of this dance classic Fredde Le Grande has gone to the No. 1 spot in th UK Club Dance Chart. Paul then went on to produce numerous top 20 hits including the club anthems Escrima "Deeper" and "Train of Thought", and his highest entry to date, Camisra "Let Me Show You", entered new at No. 5.

All this lead to a series of remix projects for artists such as New Order, Stone Roses, Erasure, Human League, K Klass, Wild Child, Hyperlogic, Energy 52,  Duran Duran, Nalin & Kane, Blondie, Bizarre Inc more recently , Keane and The Killlers... the list goes on. Paul’s production talents are recognised in the “DJ Magazine Top Producers Poll,” where Paul features highly year after year.

Paul has continued his own production success with tracks “Common Ground”, “Be There”, “Freebase” “Precious Heart” and “Everbody’s A Rockstar”, both of which feature on Paul’s debut artist album “Back & Forth” released  in November 2002 and which continues to confirm his reputation as being one of the key players in the UK dance scene.
Paul has also featured on a number of compilations including Virgin’s "The Gallery Modern Masters", “Club Nation 1998" and "Cream Anthems", and Fantazia';s "House Collection".  In 1999 Paul signed an album deal with the Ministry of Sound, with successful mixed compilations including  "Dance Nation 6", "The Ibiza Annual 2", “Millennium Annual”, “Dance Nation 7” , “Headliners”, “The Annual” and “The Clubber’s Guide to 2001” & “2003” being released.  In the U.S. the very popular mixed live series. More recently Gallery live sessions, Globetrotting Peru and live in Bulgaria and most recently The Beat Technique across America, have increased Paul’s popularity around the Globe.

Paul won the much coveted “Muzik” DJ of the year and consistently appears in the DJ Magazine 100 polll year after year since the poll’s beginning in 1997. His hectic US tour schedules have paid off. BPM magazine readers have Paul voted 8th in the 2006  “America’s most Favourite DJ poll”.

His popularity has seen him DJ world-wide travelling to the U.S., Canada, Japan, South America, Asia, India, Dubai, South Africa and all over Europe.  Paul also continues to raise his profile in America where he tours the main cities on a regular basis. This year in particular Paul has participated in numerous tours to Asia in conjunction with the Godskitchen residency in Shanghai, China, a hugely successful tour of Australia and New Zealand and a number of trips to the USA and Canada.

When not jetting around the worlds he has been busy in the studio and has just launched his new digital label "Phree-D Records" ,The label’s first track,Peep Show, will appear exclusively on Paul’s new Album ';Beat Technique'; being released in the US  this year. His latest remix Keane “Is it any Wonder” reached the top of the buzz chart both here and State side. His latest single “The Otherside” after first being played at Pete Tong’s essential selection is currently being played on the dancefloors all over the globe.
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The Viceroy is a rapidly rising star in clubland; one half of the hugely successful Vaccine promotion, The Viceroy was picked by London’s number 1 club night The Gallery as part of their 2006 Nu Breed along with Sander van Doorn, John Askew and Gavyn Mytchel and has already enjoyed huge success both as a DJ and a producer.

Tipped by many, his productions of late are to be found in the cd wallets of the worlds biggest djs including Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Above and Beyond, Christopher Lawrence, Eddie Halliwell, Marco V, Sander van Doorn, Markus Schulz and many more, leading to plaudits from across the board including Judge Jules who tips him as ‘One of the most exciting trance dj’s to have emerged out of London in ages’

Still only 21 years old, The Viceroy has just been unveiled as the latest Gallery main room resident alongside main room stalwarts such as Tall Paul, Sister Bliss, Sander van Doorn, John Askew and Gavyn Mytchel.

Also resident at Turnmills for Vaccine, The Viceroy helped steer the night from its Thursday night slot to hosting a room at The Gallery and is seen playing monthly and booking the best new talent and UK debuts from the likes of Yahel, Fabio Stein, Richard Durand, Kyau and Albert through to Matthew Dekay and Oliver Prime among many more.

With a host of successful main room appearances including being asked to close Marco V's album launch party at The Gallery and appearing as part of their 2006 New Breed. September 2007 saw The Viceroy take up a permanent slot behind the hallowed main room ones and twos for The Gallery with his launch party a closing set after none other than Armin van Buuren.

The Viceroy has also enjoyed previous appearances at the likes of Love Leeds festival, Eden in Ibiza, Brixton Academy, Mission in Leeds, Honey Club in Brighton and even a tour of Russia and Ukraine whilst winter 2007 sees a regular Vaccine radio show, hosted by The Viceroy, launch on the ever popular VONYC platform.

In May 2007 The Viceroy was personally invited by Judge Jules to fetch his cds from across London to play after him at Heaven whilst a late running dj made there way to Jules's very own Judgement Sunday launch party. Not on the bill but merely on a night out and with a bevy of other djs to choose from in the building, Jules's choice highlights exactly why the buzz continues to build round this young dj.

Not just a successful DJ; a steady stream of quality productions and remixes have followed the djing including The Viceroy vs Karl G 'Perception' receiving massive support from, amongst others, Paul van Dyk and being given a remix by Kuffdam and Plant for the debut release on Vaccine Records.

The Viceroy - 'End Game' was the first solo release to follow and was snapped up by John Askew for his Flux Delux imprint. Hammered by Tiesto for 3 weeks on national radio and featuring at every of his concert events for over two months it also picked up support and radio plays from the likes of Armin van Buuren, Above and Beyond, Sander van Doorn, Markus Schulz, Christopher Lawrence, Eddie Halliwell and John OO Fleming to name but a few.

This was followed by The Viceroy’s Vaccination remix of Frontline – Surface to Air which saw similar levels of support including Tiesto and Armin van Buuren and picked up further critical acclaim from the likes of DJ Mag and Mixmag.

Additional releases include a collaboration with Ehren Stowers entitled ‘Way of Life’ released on Monster Pure. Championed by Armin van Buuren and appearing on his forthcoming ASOT 2007 compilation it also featured on John Askew’s Live as Vol 4 as well as picking up support from Ferry Corsten and Andy Moor among many others.

Discover Dark plays host to the next solo outing of The Viceroy with his dark, broody trance monster that is 'Affirmative Action' forthcoming on John Askew's personal imprint Discover Dark with a remix from man of the moment Fabio Stein. Already included on John's Live As Vol 3 from Lebanon this is another track destined to do some damage

The Viceroy has also teamed up with rising star Frase for a full on tech monster in the shape of 'Search Warrant' which has been a staple track in the wallet of Marco V and is set for a release on Elektrotek also in late 2007. Other projects include a collaboration with Cream resident Gareth Wyn with the aptly titled 'La Galeria' which Paul van Dyk has been regularly spinning in the last few months and now signed to his personal Vandit imprint and a re- rub of Ricky Fobis’s massive anthem No Regular.

Hotly tipped by the likes of The Gallery and showing no reason for them to doubt their decision The Viceroy looks set to continue his assault on the scene throughout 2008 and is seriously a name to watch.

If one were to mount an organized campaign within the dance music community for doing away with genre tags such as trance, progressive or house, Markus Schulz would be its poster boy.  Fusing elements of many different genres into his music, the ‘Markus Schulz’ sound is at once easy to identify yet hard to describe.  As sounds go, it also happens to be remarkably appealing to a wide range of dance music fans.

A headliner and a headline maker, you only have to scan the gig review pages and forums to know he’s doing something right. Whether it’s his presence, musical choice, judgement, or all 3 combined – it works and he’s forever building on it.

Markus is currently knocking at the door of the DJmag Top 10. Having risen to a position of #13 in just 3 years, the money is on as to whether that door to the infamous 10 will open for him this year. There is something in the air that leads us to believe it will.

Markus is currently touring the world with his acclaimed radio show – Global DJ Broadcast which is transmitted to over 30 countries each and every week! As well as this, it can be found on a multitude of media platforms and is ‘hot topic’ on forums on a weekly basis. Right throughout 2008 you can hear Markus touring the show and delivering a live mix that’s been specially crafted for the show. In terms of guests – it’s a case of who hasn’t been on the show than who has!

Schulz the producer – A relentless perfectionist whose attention to detail verges on a form of OCD!  If you’re down the front when a Markus Schulz record comes on – you’re going to hear it, feel it and feel it from behind.  In fact you’re going feel it all over. As well as holding the reigns to and releasing on his massive Coldharbour Recordings, you can often find Markus appearing as a guest on other cutting edge labels outside of the Schulz stable.  He’s mixed some outstanding compilations including Ibiza06 and Amsterdam08, and has 2 artist albums under his belt.

With artist album #3 already in the making, plus a diary that never seems to allow him a day off, the story of Markus Schulz has is only just beginning. We ask you to stay tuned as what’s in store is worth while the wait!

John Askew is without doubt one of the hottest tech/trance producer/djs in the world. His record labels Discover and Discover Dark have given birth to some of the most exciting trance and techno records of the last 6 years – including John’s latest single “Chime” which  Paul van Dyk played 5 weeks in a row on his legendary Soundgarden Radio show.

After the huge successes of his singles “Vellum”, “The Door” and “New Dimension” and “Fuck Private Ryan”, John has gone on to deliver release after release of consistently high quality club music.

Paul van Dyk said of John

“John Askew is a great producer – one of the most talented and inspiring musicians of the last years! I know him for a long time and he always throws out exiting new stuff. Spinning his sounds in my sets are always big joy, for the crowd as well as for myself.”

As a remixer John has worked for numerous high profile labels such as Euphonic, Afterglow Records, Duty Free, Ministry of Sound, Monster Records, Flux Delux, Moodmusic, Fenology and Paul van Dyk’s legendary Vandit Records on which John’s remix duties have been employed numerous times.

His debut artist album “Lower the Tone” (released in 2006) received massive acclaim in the press and within 4 weeks of its release was completely sold out – a testament to John’s die hard fan base.

John’s Discover and Discover Dark labels have now established themselves as one of the World’s most cutting edge and influential outputs for high quality trance and techno. The labels have led to the birth of many of the hottest trance / techno talents – including John O’Callaghan, Inertia, Alex Morph, Greg Downey, Sean Tyas, Neal Scarborough, Bryan Kearney, Thomas Datt, Tom Colontonio, Gate 42, Mekk, Aled Mann and of course John Askew himself.

You only have to look in the record boxes of djs Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Eddie Halliwell etc to see how popular the Discover sound is.

In 2006 John launched the “Live As….” album series, which features recordings of live club performances from the in demand Discover djs.You only have to listen to John’s live albums from Passion, The Gallery, Turnmills, Beirut or Los Angeles to see why he is so in demand for live club appearances. 

From exclusive residencies at 2 of the World’s most influential clubs (The Gallery and Ministry of Sound in London ) to a constant stream of high profile guest slots at the coolest clubs around the world, John is also now enjoying the rewards of well over a decade of consistently hard work.

In 2005 the world’s number one dj, Paul van Dyk, requested John to be the only guest at his legendary Birthday party in Berlin .In 2006 Armin van Buuren requested John as the headline guest dj to play along side him at his massive A State of Trance 250 party in The Netherlands. In the same year Tiesto specifically requested John to be the main guest along side him at one of his few UK dates – at Slinky, Bournemouth .

At the end of 2004 Judge Jules picked up on the hype and signed John up to his reputable Serious Management Company. This year Pete Tong approached John to do an Essential mix for BBC Radio One. A rare honor and one that confirmed John’s status as a highly respected dj within the premier league of the international scene.
 
From guest appearances on countless high profile radio shows around the world including several guest slots and an Essential mix on BBC Radio One, to hosting the flagship trance & techno show on Ministry of Sound radio and then later London ’s prestigious Kiss 100 station John has always had a strong passion for Radio.

In 2006 Paul van Dyk requested John to take up a weekly residency on his exciting broadcasting platform – Vonyc. John made 50 broadcasts for the station before taking a break in order to prepare for the arrival of his first child. Today John still continues his association with Vonyc by creating an exclusive series of epic 5 hour sets.

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August 2007 saw the release of John’s massive single “Chime”. Around the same time several banging  Askew remixes emerged including his killer mixes of ‘”A dream of Peace” by Amadeus and Aly & Fila and “Oasis” by Digital Nature”. John’s next track “The Advent of Us” will be out toward the end of the year on Discover Dark.

John has also hooked up with his old friend John O’Callaghan to form CARTEL. Their debut single “Moments” has been thoroughly thrashed by both Armin van Buuren and Eddie Halliwell. A follow up is already in the making. 

2006 also saw John launch his new electronic band DRUM CULT with his old friend Zak Frost. The band incorporates a variety of new and exciting electronic influences. Their debut single “Radio” was released in September on Dirt Crew Recordings. The massive DRUM CULT remix of “It’s up to You” by Sasse came out on Moodmusic.

John also holds a residency for Ministry of Sound’s worldwide tours which has seen him flying the flag for the world famous brand all over the globe.

The last 18 months has seen John play prime time sets at some of the world’s coolest festivals including his banging set on the main stage of the 2007 Nature One Festival n Germany – which was also broadcast live across the whole country on Sunshine Live Radio.

In the past 3 years John has played on all the far corners of the globe including: North America, Canada, Australia, Russia, Brazil, Venezuela, Egypt, Germany, The Netherlands, Romania, Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, China, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, Cyprus, Malta, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Greece, Ukraine, Georgia,  and of course all over the UK.

In September of 2007 John joined the PFA agency, home to Eddie Halliwell and John O’Callaghan.

At the same time John also was signed to legendary management company AM Only in New York who now look after all of John’s bookings in North America and Canada.