Adam first started DJing properly when he put on a one off night called Homegrown in his home town of Northwich back in July 2000. The night was run alongside two of his friends (both DJs) Tom Golden & Nathan Landry. Shortly after the night they were contacted by Levi's and Mixmag to play alongside Tom Stephan on the 'Levis Student House Party Tour', which took in Leeds, Newcastle and Sankeys Soap in Manchester.
In 2002 Adam and the other two lads set up www.homegrown-music.com as a base to promote themselves as DJs. The site has grown immensely over three years and is know internationally for its 'Homegrown Hotmix' concept in which two guest DJs per month supply mixes for people to stream and download, previous guests have included Jazzanova, Miss Kitten, Mylo, Tom Stephan, Justin Martin, Natural Rhythm, Mazi, Tony Thomas and many more underground DJs. Alongside the two guest mixes the residents (Adam, Tom, Nathan & new addition Woody) each take it in turns for two of them to do a mix every other month. In the 3 years in has been running the site has received over 7 million hits. The website also features an extensive back catalogue of mixes to stream, archived radio shows, photo galleries, video, monthly record reviews, forthcoming dates and a busy message board. A new feature on the site that started in 2005 was the Homegrown Radio Show (presented by Adam & Tom), which airs weekly on Sundays and Thursdays on www.pulseradio.net.
Djing wise Adam has played at many of the UK’s best clubs including Sankeys Soap, Turnmills, The Bomb, and The Music Box, and has supported some of the best underground DJs in the world today such as Tom Stephan, Audio Bullys, Paul Woolford, James Zabeila, DJ Heather, Jacob London, Nic Fanciulli & Greg Vickers. Over the last couple of years Adam and the other lads have worked hard at getting the Homegrown name known and this has shown in the amount of gigs and places they have travelled to and played at, with the parties getting better and better each time. The past year or so Adam has also ventured out to Europe on various occasions for some very memorable parties and festivals, the highlights of which were playing at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia (on top of a fort!), the Zagreb Film Festival both in 2004 and 2005 (spinning to over 1500 people), playing at the awesome Cova Den Xoroi in Menorca (set in a cliff top cave) and doing a small tour of Belgium in August 2005. Add to this Adam picking up IDJ magazines Top Tape award and Muzik Magazines highly acclaimed ‘Bedroom Bedlam' award, this kid has achieved a lot in his seven years of djing.
Studio wise Adam has been working hard for the past 4 years producing forward thinking house music. His first EP was released in the summer of 2005 on UK label Lost My Dog records and received excellent reviews from DJ & I-DJ magazine as well as making it into the boxes of DJs such as DJ Heather, Joey Youngman, Jay Tripwire, Tyler Stadius and Jimpster to name a few. A second EP (Honey I’ve Lost My Panties EP, written alongside Tom Golden) quickly followed on Southside Shuffle recordings and this is what I-DJ had to say about it:
“I've lapped up everything these guys have released in their short career. These four trippy little buggers are evidence there is more yet to come. From the jazzy, bendy "VR Nightz" to the twisted tech-ery of "Light Em Up", it's like a Midlands house version of MFF. Excellent stuff” – Jez Torrance I-DJ Mag.
2006 looks set to be another good year for Adam, with "Encore" due to drop on the highly respected Greenhouse recordings, a brand new four track demo recently completed as well as keeping the gigs across the UK and Europe rolling in.
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The 'Old People Drive Too Slow EP' is the second release on the Moodclub Music imprint. The result is an interesting and varied fourtracker with tracks by Kinky Movement, Jazzy Eyewear, Demarkus Lewis and Belgian cats Soul Circus. Something for everyone, as they often say!
Some feedback to the Old People Drive Too Slow EP:
''Standout tracks for me are Kinky Movement 'You Make Me Feel' and Soul Circus 'You've Been On My Mind'''
(Andy Riley - Inland Knights, Toka Project)
''Thanks for the EP, really nice selection. My favourite is the Jazzy Eyewear track, but I also love the Kinky track, I'll play both of these for sure! Good luck to Soul Circus too, track sounding good.''
(Giom - Aroma)
''Very nice and varied second EP. I like all the tracks, the ones that I will play out the most are Jazzy Eyewear - 'Puffin' Away' and Kinky Movement - 'You Make Me Feel'''
(Tommy Largo - 1st spot in his Stompy chart)
''Very nice EP!! Really diggin' all four tracks!''
(Rick Preston)
''Cheers guys, feelin Demarkus' track.''
(Eddie Leader - Slum Science, Hudd Traxx)
''Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.''
Long time no speak hun, how u been... well im still down in somerset but im coming home soon as im going back to newquay in may then onto africa in august n then who knows :) so wat have you been up to... thanks for the happy birthday by the way.. inever did thank u xx
bin workin a lot, doin me training to be assistant manager at the chesterway averagin about 50 hours a week. still on poopy pay, but apparently it'll go up when i finish my training, so here's hoping! when u next out anyway?? aint see ya for a while
hey hun just to let u no im moving to newquay on the 10th aug n having a leaving do tomorrow (fri) and sat night (a whole weekender!!) to say bye, hope u will be there xx (will be jw's)
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