A master of all trades, a jack of none, when it comes to hard dance Phil
York is running things right now. Producer of recent innovative anthems like ‘Don’t Panic' and 'Antivirus’, a globe-trotting DJ, label owner of hard trance standard setter Tranzlation and promoter of Scotland's number one hard dance night Nuklear
Puppy, everything Phil is touching right now is firing on all cylinders and
his DJ diary is perfect proof.
Northern trailblazers Good Greef, the scene dominating Tidy Weekenders,
London's leader Frantic, Storm and the Escape in the park festival are all stamped in his '08 diary with debut tours of Argentina, Brazil & Norway adding to returns of his familiar stomping grounds Canada, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Over the past year, Germany's massive Q-Base festival, Coloursfest, Escape, Slinky, Bionic, Parlez- Vous and Freeformation are others that have benefited from Phil's unique party starting touch.
It was seven years ago when an ascendant Phil and his partner Jason Cortez
gave Edinburgh the hard dance night it was crying out for in Nuklear Puppy.
Today, the much loved 'Puppy' is the most reliably packed monthly hard dance
night on British soil with the likes of Judge Jules, Lisa Lashes, Eddie
Halliwell, Marco V, Alex Kidd, Kutski, Andy Whitby and the Tidy Boys regularly appearing at the event that handed them their Edinburgh debuts.
It wasn't long before Phil rose to become a global headliner in his own
right thanks to innovative boundary pushing productions that have appeared
on labels like Tidy, Voltswagon and Masif. It was scene leaders
Nukleuz that spotted his talent with ‘88MPH’ and 'Bad Idea' before hard trance classics like 'Glide' and the soaring 'Angels In Heaven' put his own label
Tranzlation on the map as the leader of innovative hard trance, Scot Project, , Lisa Lashes, Dave Pearce, Tidy Boys and even the late great John Peel, just a fraction of the DJs caning its early releases.
Nowadays if you think quality hard trance, you think Tranzlation – full
stop. As labels drop like flies, Tranzlation continues to rise with Phil's
astute a&r picking up anthems like Technikal's head-twisting 'Summasault'
and Dark By Design & McBunn's fiercely euphoric 'Chasing Angels' and E.P.'s
like the Nation and Tech-Trance EP's adding both a thumping European groove
and rattling tech energy to Tranzlation's trademark arm-raising euphoria.
Tranzlation, of course, remains just one very key cog in the machine behind
York's label empire. Gathering plays from DJs as diverse as Judge Jules and
Eddie Halliwell to DJ Dan and Detroit legend DJ3000, Phil's Bootek label has
put the party back into pumping techno whilst Distinkt resurrects the golden
euphoria of classic hard trance. Then there's Phil's Section 8 guise, which
he uses for his tougher European sounds. Put simply, if there's a stomping
sound that's makes people move then Phil's got it licked. And then some.
Lock the doors and windows. . . . THE GINGERS ARE HERE!!!!! :) So Thursday nights in seattle. . . . we do pretty well huh ? Madness last night bruv. SO much fun with u and Kutz. Can't wait till Saturday. First Rave i'll of been to in at least a year(minus freaknight). Hope your enjoyin the day off yo.
Clix Bag of tricks and Mafiatic Bring you My Friend Jasons house With Phil york and Dj Kutski Fri 11.03.09
Mindbender Mando Rockz Plastic Disease Rize vs Starr Poss Inertia Matt Dunn Cytheria vs Cap Robotech Matthew Harris Live Hook Suspensions by life suspended!!!!
Discount for those who come in costume Free trick or treat gift bag for the first 100 people in line Some will have candy, cash, glow toys, and other goodies!!!
Im jammin out to the masif hard dance anthems 2 on mah ipod at the gym as I type this... Set you Free and Bad Habit are perhaps my favorite choons in YEARS
