[Manchester] 13/04/07 - Locked 4th Birthday - DJ Godfather
Locked 4th Birthday
Flying in from Detroit to help us celebrate Locked's 4th birthday we are proud to present the legendary DJ Godfather. Godfather's unparalleled DJ skills have been rocking dancefloors round the world for over ten years now and we're anticipating something very special as he returns to Locked after tearing things up at the club back in May 2005.
Friday 13th April 2007
Special Guest ////
DJ Godfather (Databass, Twilight 76, Detroit)
Residents ////
Jay Knight / Adam Rayner / Sam Horam
Joshua Brooks, Charles St, Off Oxford Rd, Manchester, M1 6NG
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DJ Godfather (Databass, Twilight 76, Detroit)
DJ Godfather is a model for success on your own terms. Having been involved with music since his high school years, he's developed into one of Detroit's leading performance DJ's, able to hold a crowd on the floor with his infectious music at the same time blowing their minds with his unparalleled DJ skills. Not content to make jaws drop just by spinning records, he's been producing records for over 8 years.
Back in 1996 there was a frontier spirit in Detroit. The Techno thing had been done to death, or the artists were so focused on Europe that Detroit was left behind. What was left was all the music that was dirty and funky, all the children of when Electronic Music breeds with Hip Hop: Electro, Jungle, Ghetto House, Miami Bass. Out of this eclectic mix DJ Godfather and DJ Assault almost single handedly turned this sound into a new open minded style, practically inventing Ghetto-Tech with their respective labels and DJ styles. With his label, Twilight 76, (co owned with DJ Dickand Throw's Brian Gillespie) DJ Godfather took this music that was ubiquitous on Detroit mix shows and forged it into production style that defines the Ghetto-Tech sound, making him one of the first artists in Detroit to make records specifically for this crowd. There is no doubt Twilight 76 and Databass are leaders of this sound as his classic single 'Player Haters in this House' and his acclaimed Detroit battle style mix CD series 'The Bomb' attests.
Ghetto Tech never really caught on outside of its home. It's as Detroit as the Tigers. And its producers do not feel that they need to domesticate it, as their home-based sales are heavy. Godfather is known to sell upwards of 15,000 copies of a record - in Detroit and Miami alone.
Around 1997, Europe started to notice what was going on in the Motor City's Ghetto Tech scene. Distributors started buying record these records.
Then came the non stop DJ gigs. Always a local sensation, his hit records took him around the world from the tropics of Puerto Rico to Sonar 99 with Ectomorph, from the grittiest of Detroit warehouses to the most glamorous clubs of London and Vienna.
Constantly pushing his music forward, DJ Godfather has taken his love of production to the extreme by producing his Hip Hop group 'Players Only' in his own state of the art 40 track studio. Furthering his music progression is his work with avant-garde Electro group Ectomorph both in the studio and as their tour DJ, proving that this man is always on the move to new territories and new sounds.
