Ant & D.D.R.
Ant & D.D.R.
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About Ant & D.D.R.
ANT is one of the primary DJ's and producers for the Stay Up Forever Collective, London, and owner of Powertools Records, one of the many, successful, hard-hitting labels put out through the S.U.F. camp. He has been DJ'ing nationally and internationally since 1994 and leaving his mark on vinyl since 1997. London's infamous free party scene played host to ANT's first DJ experiences and over the persuing decade, he continued making a name for himself DJ'ing throughout the U.K. as well as in countries such as Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Poland, Bulgaria, Sardinia, Ireland, Holland, France, U.S.A., Canada, Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Israel and Japan. From the knowledge gained as the in-house engineer for Kinetec Studios for over 4 years, he advanced his producing career and honed his sound furthur by starting Powertools Records, as well as creating The Power Plant, the studio in which he writes his music today. ANT's studio and productions have played host to a variety of like-minded people right through from techno and hardcore's Lenny Dee to hard-dance's Andy Farley, not forgetting to mention all the regular London techno team-mates, namely the Liberators, D.A.V.E. The Drummer and Geezer. Ant has also worked on projects outside of the techno spectrum, creating music for video and TV for the likes of MTV Europe and Sony, as well as recording under pseudonims such as the dance chart-topping, "Stratosphere". DDR - a brief biography A veteran of the London underground dance scene since 1990, DDR has unleashed his own brand of techno-trance on many labels and at many parties, raves, clubs & festivals around the globe. A central player on the U.K. free party scene, DDR could be found running the sound system at parties and festivals by Full-On and Bedlam in the early nineties. Following on from this it was not long before he was bringing his studio out to these events to play music to the masses directly from the machines. A pioneer of what was to become the London Acid Techno sound, DDR was the first guest producer to appear on Stay Up Forever after a meeting of minds with the then newly created Liberator DJ trio, he has had a hand in many of their most memorable releases and is one of their most prolific artists to date. Through working with the Liberator DJ's, DDR met with DJ Choci of Choci's Chewns and was soon at the helm of the Chocolate Factory studio where many acid-trance stormers and proto-hardhouse/nrg classics were born. Moving on from Choci's studio to start his own labels with Mark Kinetec of Kinetec Records and Infectious distribution, DDR designed and built a fully equiped, state of the art studio and mastering facility that was the birth place of Hazchem, COSHH and many of the Infectious in-house imprints. DDR has continued to produce records for a slew of labels such as Smitten, Cluster, Routemaster, Input, Yolk, Skankadelic, Superconductor, Wah-Wah, etc and has honed his skills as a live performer travelling to many places around the planet with his flight case full of equipment.
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