CLUB LUXURY

We always strive to bring some of the best house music producers under the Club Luxury Records umbrella from all parts of the globe... Here you can find out a bit more about some of the producers who are working with the label...

StoneBridge is an artist that needs little introduction. If you’ve danced in a club, the chances are you’ve danced to a StoneBridge production. His unique brand of sexy house music has ruled dancefloors for 20 years, regularly crashing into the charts across the world. As a DJ his ability to move a dancefloor has seen him travel the globe, rocking parties everywhere from Sydney to San Francisco to Seoul to Sao Paolo.

In October 2004, StoneBridge released a long awaited debut artist album ‘Can’t Get Enough’. The album received overwhelming international acclaim, selling huge amounts and spawning the massive hit singles ‘Put ‘Em High’ and ‘Take Me Away’. Both tracks hit the UK Top 10 and to date have been released in 24 countries. With fans around the world desperate for more, in 2007 StoneBridge released his follow up artist album ‘Music Takes Me’ to similar ecstatic reaction. The singles from the album ‘SOS’, ‘You Don’t Know’ and ‘Close To Heaven’ have continued the StoneBridge success story, blasting out of radios everywhere and charting highly across the world.

Born in Stockholm, StoneBridge began DJ’ing in the early eighties, spinning funk and disco at his own night, ‘Fellini’. After hearing the innovative sound of house music coming from Chicago in the mid 80’s, StoneBridge immediately knew where his future lay and made an official switch to house, starting to remix tracks with a crew of other local DJs under the name SweMix. Their reputation grew and soon StoneBridge began remixing international acts like De La Soul, Titiyo and Rebel MC. However, it was with his remix of Robin S ‘Show Me Love’ in 1993, that StoneBridge established himself as a world class remixer and producer. The record went on to become one of the biggest selling house records of all time and before long some of the world’s biggest names in music were looking for the magical StoneBridge touch to remix their records. The list of artists StoneBridge has remixed reads like a who’s who of music; artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Missy Elliott, Robbie Williams, Simple Minds, Will Smith, Texas, Patti Labelle and Debbie Harry. Most recently it was StoneBridge who was asked to remix ‘Gimme More’ the comeback single from Britney Spears connecting Britney to the dancefloors once again as only he knows how and more recently Usher 'Love In This Club', Natasha Bedingfield 'Pocketful of Sunshine' and Ne-Yo 'Closer'.

As head of his own highly successful label Stoney Boy Music, StoneBridge continues to release club anthems with his special brand of peak time house. Alongside his own album and singles, new singles Fudge ‘Fruitcake’ and the collaboration StoneBridge & Wawa ‘Let It Go’ are also set for release on this respected dance label.

StoneBridge's most recent mix album ‘The Flavour, The Vibe’ was released worldwide in summer 2006 following the ‘Dance Valley Sunrise’ double album in 2005. The album was well received, ending up as the soundtrack to house parties everywhere, leading to the second installment of ‘The Flavour The Vibe’ scheduled for August 2008 release as well as a ‘Best of Stoney Boy’ mix by StoneBridge that is out in July.

Aside from guest appearances on various radio mix shows in Europe, StoneBridge is also hosting a two-hour mix show for Sirius Satellite in the US (www.sirius.com) on the first Saturday of every month on Area 38, ten to midnight ET.

So, with a career that has already spanned two decades, StoneBridge shows no signs of slowing down, or losing the passion for house music that has given us so many great tunes. The StoneBridge story still has a long way to go... 

Lewis Dene’s Solitaire alias has already enjoyed a trio of chart topping and dancefloors filling hits with versions of ‘You Got The Love’, ‘Thinking Of You’, and - ‘I Like Love (I Love Love)’. The latter a huge international hit, that spent 15-weeks in top 40 of the Australian sales chart, ending the year as the third biggest club record of 2003 in both DJ magazine and the Music Week club charts (it spent more weeks on the latter chart than any other). Now joining forces with Albert Castillo (a Houston-based producer who’s enjoyed crossover success in America as both Mynt and Al Be Rich), the two are currently reworking r&b hits into dancefloor club fillers withy much acclaim for the likes of Justin Timberlake, Diddy, Danity Kane, Musiq Soulchild and Ciara, that look set to dominate in the coming months. Add recent remixes for Jocelyn Brown, Pianoman, and the #1 club topping Audio Fraud with their version of ‘Ride Like The Wind’ into the equation and Solitaire are on a roll. Not least as his upcoming collaboration, ‘When You Love Someone’, with Davidson Ospina and songstress Kate Smith under the guise of NY-Lon, is already being tipped for crossover acceptance. Celebrating 10 years of club hits, Lewis Dene first reached the coveted #1 slot on the Billboard Dance chart in 1997 with ‘That Sound’ under his Pump Friction guise. He again topped the American Dance Charts as principle remixer on Duncan Sheik’s ‘On A High’ under his progressive guise of Westway, and gave the Beginerz a Hype Chart #1 with his remix of ‘Doin’ Me Wrong’. A respected DJ for many years, Lewis has played across three continents a mixture of chunky disco-injected house and funky tribal soundscapes – spinning at Erick Morillo’s Subliminal night at Centro-Fly in New York, MTV’s Dance Zone party in Sweden, Nervous Record’s 10th anniversary party at the Ministry of Sound and Australia’s acclaimed One Love night in Melbourne. His second Australian tour in 2005 closed spinning at the prestigious 2 Tribes dance music festival in alongside the likes of the Prodigy, Armand Van Helden and Grandmaster Flash, and was backed with the release of the mix compilation - Tinted Beats, Breaks & Melodies Mixed by Solitaire & Static Revenger. With a background in radio - Lewis produced Danny Rampling’s Love Groove Dance Party on Radio 1 for five years – additionally working on the station’s dance output with the likes of Pete Tong (news reporter), Judge Jules (producer) and the Essential Mix Live (producer). He initially started as a presenter on the now infamous pirate station LWR in the ‘80s; most recently presenting shows for Ministry of Sound and Trust the DJ, and a monthly guest on The Touch, Deli G’s Vibe 101 radio show. Lewis’ background also includes music journalism – currently he writes for DJ mag, Update, and Blues & Soul magazine, and the BBC and Beatportal websites. He has also compiled and written liner-notes on over a 170 albums encompassing everything from electro, hip-hop and rap through to disco, Philly, Salsoul and house. Currently he also acts as an A&R consultant for several international labels. 

What punctuates Greg’s skills as a DJ is his capacity to not only incorporate diverse genres and styles, but to transcend them by infusing his music with pure emotion. Greg’s talent is matched only by his passion.
 
Greg currently resides at Dubai's number one multi award-winning nightclub “ZINC” where he organises the world famous “Ministry of Sound” & “Housexy” events and the hugely successful “Kinky Malinki” “PEACH” & “Conception” tours. While in the Middle East Greg has been awarded with two DJ awards.

With Greg’s musical career going from strength to strength it wasn’t long before the FM broadcast industry started to show an interest. Since 2001, Greg has co-produced and presented prime time radio shows on London Underground, BBC Radio 1, Kiss 100, and Passion 918. Greg currently produces and presents 2 weekly “Club Anthem” shows on National Radio1 UAE (104.1 & 100.5FM www.gulfnews.com)

The Stafford Brothers are sure sell-out headliners in every state around Australia They headline festivals in Australia, Their own productions and remixes peak at the top end of the club and dance charts and are hot request favourites throughout the Southern Hemisphere!

Proud Gold Coasters, Matt & Chris Stafford have been steadily rising to the top of Australia’s elite DJ forces since 1999, the year the brothers decided to shelve their solo DJing and pair up fulltime. Both standout DJs, Chris is an old hat at producing and a natural lyricist on the mic, while Matt is known for his lead guitar solos over sets and possesses business acumen to boot. All this adds up to the blood brothers combining as a powerful force in both the production and DJ realms and whether they’ll admit it or not, as one of the main drivers of the Australian dance music scene. The nationwide fame of the Stafford Brothers’ seems to know
no limit. The brothers soared from a number 27 ranking in the Technics inthemix Australian Top 50 in 2005, to number six in 2006, to 2007 being ranked as the number one DJs in Queensland & number three in the country. With both boys possessing a natural drive to always reach the top of whatever they set their minds to, it shouldn’t be long until the boys are claiming pole position. In 2007 The Staffords were signed to international dance identity Ministry of Sound, - Electro House Sessions. Their mix CD has since gone Gold & was sitting
pretty at #1in the country for three weeks running.

Multiple tours to Ibiza & main room club sets in venues across Miami, Las Vegas, London, Manchester, Dubai and Spain’s Malaga and Marbella have meant the Stafford sound has already successfully infiltrated overseas markets. When playing abroad, the boys are conscious to play plenty of Aussie productions, their own tracks, remixes and mash-ups as well as the latest floor- rocking tracks from around the world.

In December 2006 Darwin, more or less, forced Backwall to start producing electro house music with him. So it began more like a “fun thing” to do before going to work at the clubs where they play records. But after lots of positive feedback for their produced songs they decided to start sending them around to various record labels. A short time after, their first song “Doesn´t Matter” was signed by Monad Music and since then the boys have been busy with remixing for many European artists and DJ'ing around Europe & the Middle East.

David Sjodin began his career at an early age. When he was 17 years old he joined two friends and started producing in their own studio. In that very building, also people like “Hux-Flux”, “Nightfly”, “Probspot” and Pinocchio were working. It didn´t take long before the three of them started a record label called TAP records where David produced his first single called “Through my mind”. Meanwhile his work as a DJ began to take more and more of his time so he produced less. But in the year of 2006 he decided to start producing again. He has played records every weekend the last 6 years at clubs around Stockholm, but even at bigger events such as “ClubRed”, “Another Wild Night” (Cyprus) & Live for NRJ Extravadance.

Andreas Backwall started his DJ career by practicing at home at the age of 14, then playing at private parties etc. At the age of 18 he began to play at nightclubs which he has done 4 nights a week until now. Now (7 years later) he has played as resident DJ on, more or less, all of the biggest nightclubs in Stockholm including Café Opera, Solidaritet, Grodan & more.

It all started back in the day (1987ish to be precise) with my 2 Technics 1200's and a mixer.

Influenced by Hip hop, Funk/Jazz, Soul and Disco I entering the DMC Mixing Championships in 1990 and that's where my admiration for the technical game began. Gradually my focus moved towards the more Jazz funk tinged sound of House music, kick starting my way into the production arena.

From 1993 to present I have DJ'ed in some of the most established, World renowned Nightclubs throughout the UK and beyond. Residencies include:

* The Mudd Club @ Bagley's Warehouse
* Freedom @ Bagley's
* The Full Monty
* The Matrix - Reading
* The Zap Club - Brighton
* Orange Club - Cape Town
* 52nd State @ The Fez - Reading

.... to name a few, and have supported many top brand DJ's including Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Eric Morillo, Joey Negro (aka Dave Lee), Boy George, Norman Jay, StoneBridge.... the list goes on :-)

Lucky enough to have my first release on Grant Nelson's label Swing City Records in 1998 (A Major E.P.), I was not long after signed to Audio Deluxe Records famous for its release of "Feel The Real' by David Bendeth. In 2000 I hooked up with Brighton based Nitelife Records, and had releases and remix collaborations with some fantastic vocalists such as Abigail Bailey, Isabel Fructuoso, Shola Phillips and Angie Brown to name a few. As well as numerous white label projects plus remixes and releases on Player Records, J:Funk Recordings, Sony – Japan, and several other compilation albums, I have more recently been involved in writing backing music for TV.

JoJo is one of Sweden's upcoming DJ's, producer's and remixers and has so far worked on collaborations with Jolyon Petch, Sergio Rincon, DJ Coxy & more.

He is a classically trained Pianoist, and uses his production skills to create some dancefloor anthems.

 Keep an ear out for JoJo's mix of Jolyon Petch's upcoming single 'WRONG' getting released through Luxury Records...

Anthony Gold contributes with a monster tribal house remix for Jolyon Petch's debut single on Luxury Records - 'WRONG'.

Anthony is a master Piano player and musician and is a true legend in New Zealand's music industry. He has worked with many of NZ's top musicians and artists..