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Dutch producer Jamez has had a hand in more good records than most of us have had hot dinners. Apart from the by-no-means trifling matter of co-producing my favourite ever house record 51 Days Paper Moon hes also been at the birth of the Trancesetters, the splendidly-named Tata Box Inhibitors, P.I.M.P., Loophole, Amfibian, Mindfunk and an ever-expanding list of inventively-spelt production credits. Youd wonder, looking at the fellows discography, whether he ever got any kip (weve been assured by his family that he does).
Jamez, for those that havent been paying attention, was part of a Dutch triumvirate the other two being Dobre and DJ Zki that helped transform European house music in the early 90s. Working closely with Dutch outfit Touché Records, they produced a series of consistently great singles of wildly differing styles ranging from the jazzy (Jamshed), deep (51 Days) and the acclaimed harder style of Tata Box Inhibitors and Trancesetters. While most UK DJs looked to the US for new records, oddly, lots of American DJs Danny Tenaglia being a particular fan championed this new European style (Underworlds Darren Emerson was also an early supporter of Touchés releases).
Like many a young European, Jamez was turned on to dance music via the burgeoning rap scene of the eighties, before hooking up with Dobre who, as luck would have it, had a small home-studio. Experiments in dance ensued. A meeting with DJ Zki at a radio station completed the Three Musketeers line-up. Early releases came out through fellow countryman Robin Jaydee Albers First Impressions label, but it was through Touché Records started with Dobre that Jamez and his cohorts gained international recognition.
Both 51 Days mournful Paper Moon and Trancesetters heavy-hitting The Search were massive New York club hits. Plenty of others were staples in DJs boxes around the world, probably because Jamez has mastered the art of syncopated and punchy beats, mellifluous keyboards and catchy hooks. Soulful dance music, in other words. As a remixer, Jamez is no slouch, either, having turned in superb mixes of Paperclip Peoples The Climax, X-Press 2s strident The Sound and a stunning rerub of Der Dritte Raums Alienoid, transforming it into a hypnotically textural house cut.
Discography:
Black Lemon - Change (digital album) (Progrez, 2005)
Dark Territory - Libera Me (CD album) (Dark Wings, 2005)
Trancesetters - Beatfreak (12") (Touché, 2005)
Float - Da Flavor (digital EP)) (Musashi, 2005)
Tetraflux - Okinawan (12") (Touché, 2004)
Kimodo Dragons - Unreachable Love (12") (Bonzai Urban, 2004)
Float - We are one (12") (Musashi, 2004)
Jamez presents X-Mod Man - Burglary (12") (Traxstars, 2004)
Alex & Vince - Brazil (12") (Musashi, 2004)
Jamez - People Will Believe (12") (Future Groove, 2003)
Jamez - Energy Of Life (12") (Furure Groove, 2003)
Jamez - Dreamchasing (LP/CD album) (Future Groove, 2003)
Loophole - Situations (12") (Touché, 2003)
Parallel - The Under Control E.P. (12") (Immigrant, 2003)
P.I.M.P. - Ekkovibe (12") (Touché, 2003)
Tatoine - Summerwind (12") (Touché, 2003)
Trancesetters - The Saga (12") (Touché, 2002)
P.I.M.P. - Why? (12") (Touché, 2002)
MRE - Boombastic (12") (Le Petit Prince, 2002)
Trancesetters - Synergy (12") (Touché, 2002)
MRE - The Deep Edge prt 2 (12") (Marc et Claude's, 2002)
Loophole - Supathang (12") (Touché, 2001)
Tetraflux - Forever (12") (Touché, 2001)
Zupazonik - Horrorkisses (12") (Eukatech, 2000)
The Electric 10 - Horizontal (12") (Le Petit Prince, 2000)
Tatoine - Music (12") (Touché, 2000)
Tata Box Inhibitors - Freet (12") (Touché, 2000)
MRE - Rushdown (12") (Marc et Claude's, 2000)
Jamez & Derric - Virtualize (12") (Turtle Trax, 2000)
Fortress vs Lemonsoul - Sun (12") (Superstition, 2000)
Fortress - Core (12") (Superstition UK, 2000)
Fortress - An Angel Saved My Life (Superstition, 2000)
Float - Nothing Seems Real (12") (Superstition, 2000)
51 Days - Feel So High (Touché, 2000)
Jamez - Perfert (12") (Rough Cut, 1999)
Jamez & Derric - Bounce (12") (Rough Cut, 1999)
Loophole - Driven By Dreams (12") (Touché, 1999)
MRE- The Deep Edge (12") (Le Petit Prince, 1999)
Tech Funk - Kill The Groove (12") (Fonky Fibe, 1999)
The Electric 10 - Minimal Exploitation (12") (Le Petit Prince, 1999)
Trancesetters - Roaches (12") (Touché, 1999)
Underground Baseheads - This is a Track (12") (Groove Alert, 1998)
The Phunk Room - The Rhythm (12") (Fonky Fibe, 1998)
The Electric 10 - Mown (12") (White Label, 1998)
The Electric 10 - Signs Of Time (12") (Rough Cut, 1998)
O'Hare - Searchin' (12") (Aspro, 1998)
The Electric 10 - Anything (12") (Rough Cut, 1998)
MRE - Bodyrock (12") (Le Petit Prince, 1998)
Junction Box - Carrot (12") (Focus, 1998)
Jamez vs X-Mod Man - Housemusic (12") (Subspace, 1998)
Jamez & Drifter - Abusers (12") (Quaint, 1998)
Jamez - Energy (12") (Rough Cut, 1998)
Dobre & Jamez - Kikbek (12") (Rough Cut, 1998)
Daydreamer - All I Need (12") (WOS, 1998)
Chi - On My Mind (12") (Red Label, 1998)
Bonemachine - The Fix (12") (Aspro, 1998)
Accent - Dispare (12") (Rough Cut, 1997)
Batagurbaska - Silence (12") (Red Label, 1997)
Accent - L.U.V. (12") (Rough Cut, 1997)
Bonemachine vs Boom - Hardwave (12") (Rough Cut, 1997)
Jeremy Jarz - Smooth Candy (12") (Spiritual, 1997)
Loophole - New Primitivsm (12") (Touché, 1997)
Mindfunk - Experience (12") (Rough Cut, 1997)
P.I.M.P. - Assymilate (12") (Alien, 1997)
Mindfunk - Mindfunk (12") (Rough Cut, 1997)
The Electric 10 - Freakin' (12") (Rough Cut, 1997)
The Electric 10 - Down Under (12") (Rough Cut, 1997)
X-Mod Man - Help (12") (Subspace, 1997)
Underground Baseheads - Let Us Move (12") (Groove Alert, 1996)
X-Mod Man - Hoodlem (12") (Rough Cut, 1996)
The Electric 10 - Planet Earth (12") (Rough Cut, 1996)
Tata Box Inhibitors - Insane (12") (Touché, 1996)
P.I.M.P. - First Encounter (12") (Touché, 1996)
Omicron - Check it! (12") (Red Label, 1996)
Moon Madness - Quito (12") (Tova, 1996)
Loophole - Fakeland (12") (Touché, 1996)
Kappa - Listen (12") (Red Label, 1996)
Jeremy Jarz - Do It To Me (12") (Spiritual, 1996)
Jeremy Jarz - Shudder (12") (Spiritual, 1996)
Jamez - Darklands (12") (Rough Cut, 1996)
Bonemachine - Pianic (12") (Aspro, 1996)
Bonemachine - Minimall EP (12") (Aspro, 1996)
Accent - Stepaside (12") (Rough Cut, 1996)
Amfibian - Pa Relax (12") (Touché, 1995)
Boom-Box - Get It Girl (12") (Jam, 1995)
Delta - Poppin' (12") (Red Label, 1995)
Beta (Jamez) - Music (12") (Red Label, 1995)
Loophole - Deephole (12") (Touché, 1995)
Street Asylum - Without Love (12") (Jam, 1995)
Sublevel People - Land Of Pleasure (12") (Jam, 1995)
Tata Box Inhibitors - Protein (12") (Touché, 1995)
Tetraflux - The Untold Story (12") (Touché, 1995)
Trancesetters - The Search (12") (Touché, 1995)
Trancesetters - Drive (12") (Touché, 1994)
Tata Box Inhibitors - Plasmids (12") (Touché, 1994)
P.I.M.P. - The Light (12") (Touché, 1994)
Trancesetters - Secrets Of Meditation (12") (First Impression, 1994)
Trancesetters - Fantasising or Hallucinating EP (12") (First Impression, 1994)
Tic Toc - Git On Up (12") (Jam, 1994)
Mudcake - It's Time To Groove (12") (Jam, 1994)
Mackino - El Dia Festivo (12") (First Impression, 1994)
Jamshed - Women And Whiskey (12") (Touché, 1994)
Trancesetters - An Ambient Ecstacy (12") (First Impression, 1993)
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