Rich Murray (Album DJ)
With props from numerous electronic music publications as ‘one to watch’ Richard Murray’s efforts as a DJ and producer aren’t going unnoticed.
DJing since the early 90s with residencies in his hometown of Carlisle and in Manchester (where he went to university) things were ticking over nicely. A chance meeting with a label boss propelled Richard’s situation over night, some call it fate, others would call it the worlds best placed free-ad; Richard explains
“Everything changed when I sold a TV to a stranger in my apartment block - we hit it off immediately as he was a northerner too and ended up drinking at mine until 5am the next morning.” The stranger was Matt Stuart at Ministry of Sound (ex Underwater Records.)
"After seeing me spin in his apartment over the Christmas period he offered me the chance to be involved with a new project MoS were doing, they were launching their compilation title Housexy” with this Richard soon Ianded the role of touring UK resident for them which turned into worldwide touring resident and before long he was asked to compile and mix the Housexy compilations
Not one to be pigeon holed Richard’s net spreads much wider than the Housexy vibe. Whilst perfectly at easy supplying those funked-up beats he also has a passion for the tougher-tech sound, which is mirrored in his productions. Dark and driving with big breaks, mixed in with an emphasis on the fun and the funk. Currently busy with Mos tours all over the globe Richard is enjoying the freedom it gives to play and perfect a wide variety of sounds from minimal to straight up house.
He sites being offered the opportunity to spin at Rulin MoS way back in 2001 as a relative unknown as one of his early highlights. As well stellar gigs including the headlining slot at the Aarhus festival in Denmark where he played the main stage to 2,000 people. Another note worthy moment was the message from the one and only Pedro Winter saying Richard’s remix of Zoo Brazil’s ‘Tecknik” track was “off the scale” – Pedro went on to include the re-edit in his Ibiza 2008 top 10
His tracks and remixes have already been aligned with the tougher kids, with Richard’s efforts being snapped up to feature on various compilations including Toolroom Knights, MoS Underground Series (various editions including Miami 08 and Ibiza 08), Global Underground in 2009, and various comps on Gung Ho! amongst others. Look out for his latest release (on Gung Ho!) called “Kings of a Little Kingdom. http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/viewareview.aspx?reviewID=810
The rest of this year sees Richard playing in all over the globe, having already conquered Japan, Poland and even Kuwait the coming months sees Richard as a permanent fixture on the world wide touring roster for MoS, hitting esteemed parties including Discoteque in Barcelona, Pacha in Moscow, and Subliminal Sessions in London. As the magazines correctly predicted this is definitely one to watch…
Shane Kehoe
2008 was an excellent year for Shane Kehoe as he was kept busy tearing the roof off the best clubs in the world and ripped up dance floors from all four corners of the planet, Hong Kong to Ibiza, Moscow to Brazil… and 2009 shows no signs of slowing down.
Irish born Shane Kehoe now based out of London is one of Housexy and Ministry of Sound’s resident “players”. Mastering his trade at a young age, Shane Kehoe has won numerous competitions and awards for his DJing, runner-up in Muzik magazines industry renowned “BEDROOM BEDLAM” competition and winner of the “Raw Talent DJ” award in IDJ magazine.
Shane Kehoe is working constantly to establish himself as one of the best up and coming house DJ’s around, already lifting his profile to DJ alongside the world finest DJ’s including Eric Morillo, Pete Tong, Mark Knight, Moby, Deep Dish and Sander Kleinenberg.
Start to finish Shane Kehoe is the all round package from amazing technical ability behind the decks to unbelievable energy levels pumped out from the DJ booth.
Shane Kehoe is one major DJ talent who not only epitomizes the sound of Housexy but lives it too… “Let’s get it on Housexy style!”
Jake Duval
Brighton based Jake Duval has been a resident DJ for Housexy for the past 3 years, playing alongside some of the finest DJ talent that dance music has to offer.With residencies scanning the globe Jake has head lined for Housexy making a name for himself wherever plays. With a DJ career that has spanned over 14 years, you will find yourself taken on musical journey that will cover all genres of house music. To describe Jake's music would be "Chunky & Funky" your feet won’t touch the ground hearing one of his sets. Jake has a weekly residency at Brighton's top club "Revenge" and supporting on weekly rotation at the sophisticated "Merkaba" at Myhotel, Brightons coolest new venue. Future productions are yet to be released with Jake Duval. Watch this space for more info.
Tom Murgatroyd
Since starting his DJ career playing in small underground clubs in the UK, Tom has established regular slots across some of the world’s best venues delivering peak time sets to crowds at full capacity venues. He has shared the booth with many house music greats including Eric Morillo, David Guetta, Pete Tong, Mark Farina, MYNC Project, Mark Knight and Marc Hughes.
Last year saw Tom take up his Ibiza residency at Eden as well has having a busy global schedule for Housexy smashing venues including Ministry of Sound (London), 360 (Dubai), The Lodge (Dubai), Attica (Shanghai), Cha Cha Club (Colombia), Embassy (Philippines), Club 7 (Bahrain) to name but a few. Check him out across his hold regular slots for Ministry of Sound Radio (London), Kiss FM, Alpha Radio (Bulgaria) and Superestacion (Colombia).
Patrick Hagenaar
Dutch origin, Patrick has been playing clubs all around the world for over 9 years, whilst still being in his 20's!
At present he is one of the main resident's for Ministry of Sound's Housexy and has caused damage on dancefloors in every corner of the globe throughout Europe, Asia, China, Africa and the Americas, not forgetting his bi-monthly residencies at Ministry of Sound and Pacha in London.
Besides this, Patrick is also a very talented producer with already numerous club hits under his belt through solo projects and other collaborations.
So far his biggest released have been:
Hagenaar & Albrecht – What Would We Do (Nocturnal)
Patrick Hagenaar – Criminal (Lowered)
Hagenaar & Haggstrom – Wak Ass (Nocturnal)
Patrick Hagenaar feat Jon Junior – We Feel The Same (Diffused Music)
Hagenaar & Albrecht feat Adeva – In & Out (Spinnin’)
Huggy & Dean Newton – Indian Summer Hagenaar & Albrecht Mix (Big Love)
Out of Office – Insatiable (Frenetic)
These releases have been getting support from DJ’s such as: Erick Morillo, David Guetta, Laidback Luke, Axwell, Roger Sanchez, Mischa Daniels, Marco V to name a few.
With both his djing and production career kicking off, 2009 is looking to really become the year of ‘the Dutchman’!
xy and has played in countries such as Colombia,
China, Dubai, Russia, Holland, Spain, Poland, France & Egypt. In addition, he is also resident for Funky 4 Love at Pacha,
London and his mixes can be heard on radio stations all around the world!
Recently, Patrick became the world's first DJ to mix live with two mobile phones at Ministry of Sound, London. Besides Djing,
Patrick is also a talented producer with chart topping records such as 'What Would We Do', 'Criminal' & ‘Wack Ass MF’;
signed to major dance labels all around the world and getting support from the likes of Erick Morillo, Axwell, Laidback Luke,
The Shapeshifters, Mischa Daniels, Stonebridge, Scumfrog, Soul Avengerz to name a few...
Paul Deighton
Paul Deighton is one of The Ministry of Sound & Housexy’s Resident Dj’s and has toured the world representing the world famous brand. Paul has Dj’d in Japan, India, China, S. Korea, The Philippines, Colombia, Russia, Morocco, Egypt, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Canada, Spain, Holland, France, Ibiza and throughout the UK, including the world famous Ministry of Sound in London. Paul’s own music and collaborations have been released by a string of labels throughout the world. His Debut release Omega 33 still rides high in the “Dj Download” all time top 100-tech house records. His most recent production, Don't Go feat Lindsey is Signed To CR2... Its the latest collaboration with Myself and Richard Murray..The vocals are by Lindsay Armaou formally of Girl Band B*Witched who together had 8 top 20 singles including 4 number 1's back in the 1990's...Paul Also runs his own label Mighty Moog Records.