Most importantly forward thinking new music....... Richie Hawtin, Carl Craig, Slam, B-Pitch Control, Mathew Jonson, DJ Hell, Great Stuff Records, Kiki, Ame, James Holden, Border Community, Crosstown Rebels, Mike Monday, Thomas Schummacher, Nathan Fake, Modeselektor, Digitalism, Erol Alkan, Christopher Just, Soulwax, Tiga, Aril Brikha, Derrick May, UR, Surgeon, DJ Pierre, Josh Wink, Green Velvet, Alex Smoke, Peace Division, John Tedjada, Radio Slave, Serge Santiago, Ricardo Villalobos, Lowtec, Stacey Pullen, Eon, Tony Rohr, Dietrich Schoenman, Kompakt, Michael Mayer, Superpitcher, Steve Bug, Pokerflat, DJ Rasoul. But also: Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, Herbie Hancock, Lou Reed / Velvet Underground, The Stranglers, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Joe Walsh.
With a history of music in his family, it was only a matter of time before Louis Osborne became a performer. Louis’ epiphany happened during the early 90s when he visited the raves that took place every weekend in his native Birmingham. It didn’t take long to persuade the then 16 year old that his future lay with techno music.
Inspired by his tentative acid house outings, Louis started to buy mix tapes and commenced his record collecting and DJ habit two years later when he turned 18. He honed his deck skills for a few years and then landed a job at Birmingham’s best known record store, Hard To Find, as a buyer and sales manager.
“I did it for three years and it helped me get loads of experience in the industry and my hands of records too,” Louis recalls.
Through his job, he got to know other Birmingham DJs like Steve Lawler and Pete Gooding and when Lawler left his Café Mambo residency in Ibiza in 1998, Pete rang Louis to offer him the slot.
“It was a big decision to move there: I was working for Mambo six hours a day, seven days a week for a little more than £100,” Louis says, “so I had to supplement my wages by selling mixtapes.”
The Mambo residency didn’t make Louis rich, but his daytime mixture of down tempo French-oriented sophistication and nighttime jacking Chicago house, as well as his sharp deck skills, meant that he got noticed by other clubs on the island. He was offered a residency on Cream’s terrace and a year later, became a Bugged Out! Ibiza resident.
Since then, Louis has played some of the world’s best clubs: from China to the Czech Republic and Dublin to Dubai, his ability to move smoothly between undeground house and techno and his ear for cutting edge electronic music mean that he is a regular fixture at world-renowned clubs like U60311 (Frankfurt), Spundae (LA), Polar TV (Berlin), Tribehouse (Dusseldorf), Centro Fly (New York), D-Edge (Sao Paulo), Home (Sydney), Bugged Out (Liverpool) and Pacha and Amnesia (both Ibiza).
Louis has also held a residency at Birmingahm techno institution House of God (from 1996 to 2002) and has played at all the big dance festivals, including Creamfields, God’s Kitchen and Homelands.
DJs are a notoriously fickle bunch, but Louis says that he hasn’t deviated too much from the dark, Wild Pitch sound that got him hooked on house in the first place in the early 90s.
“When I was doing the Mambo residency, I was into Sneak, Derrick Carter and Green Velvet. I went through the whole Peace Division/tribal techno sound in the early 2000s and it coincided with me living in LA for a year, between 2001 and 2002,” he explains.
Whilst being busier than ever Stateside, Louis met his Irish fiance whilst living in LA, and subsequently moved to Ireland in 2003. His move back to Europe coincided with the release of his first mix CD Tilted: Motion Audio in the US, followed by a second compilation, ‘Beats Reality’ on German label Delta, which highlighted his ongoing passion for jacking house and clubby techno, and gained him high praise on review pages.
It’s no surprise that around this time, he started to gig heavily in Europe, particularly in Germany. Still as hungry as ever for new music, Louis is excited by the new wave of European electronic music.
“I got bored with loopy, repetitive techno and nowadays, I play a lot of stuff from labels like Great Stuff, Bpitch, Oslo, Sci+Tec, Viva and Cecille as well as producers like Format:B, Johnny D, Christian Burkhardt & Radio Slave,” he explains.
In 2008 Louis was made resident at Frankfurt's legendary club U60311, where he will be playing monthly at the Afterburner parties.
“It's a great honor to be associated with U60311, they are a well respected club, they have big plans for the next couple of years with tours & an Ibiza residency, but most importantly, they have a great crowd & throw great parties,” he explains. Louis has also embraced the digital revolution and is now using the Traktor Scratch system.
Louis has been spending more time than ever in the studio and has had projects signed to German labels Kingdome Kome Black & Mylo records. His first release for the label, entitled “Maia,” is out now and includes a Ramon Zenker Remix (Hardfloor). The track gained support from the likes of Steve Lawler, Carl Cox, King Unique, Deepgroove and D.Ramirez & many more.
After having spent the previous 3 years gaining a Law degree along side his music career (“I felt like I needed to broaden my horizons”), Louis is back with a bang focusing on his music projects 100%. He has just formed Weekend Offenders Music, is launching a record label this summer called Weekend Offenders; he has Weekend Offenders parties taking place in Berlin, Frankfurt, Ibiza & other locations in the coming months; and now has his weekly radio show, Louis Osbourne presents Weekend Offenders on RTÉ Pulse.
“I’m looking forward to developing the concept and the brand. The concept embraces why I do what I do, which is living life to the full at the weekend. Life is about learning, creativity, spiritual growth, social influence, symbolic expression, dancing and Weekend Offending. We are the 48 hour party people....... we live for the weekend, we live for the dancefloor.”
After 15 years of DJing, Louis’ passion for cutting edge house and techno remains as strong as the time he attended his first rave. The next time Louis shares this love affair with electronic music and weekend offending at a club in your town, make sure you don’t miss out!
Good Morning Louis hope you had a nice journey! Hope everything is fine! Will send you the flight details today... See you again on friday...and thanks again for the fine set on saturday... Peter
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27.06.2009 Dr. Knusper..s B-DAY with DJ EMERSON aus Berlin, Dinamoe aus Kiel & The Flatlander aus Marburg!!! 3 einzigartige Acts, die zum ersten mal in den 2 Floors des Panoptikum..s ihr bestes geben! 11 weitere DJ..s und 2 Live-Acts der Spitzenklasse sorgen für die nötige Portion Elektronische Tanzmusik! + MEGA-SPECIAL... Unique Deco... Das heißt, so habt ihr das Panoptikum noch nie gesehen!!!
LineUp: Dr. Knusper..s B-DAY with DJ EMERSON ( Berlin/Kiddaz.fm/Micro.fon), Dinamoe ( Kiel/9Volt/Frankie Rec./Archipel ), The Flatlander ( Marburg/Klatschfrequenz/daht.de ) Dr.Knusper ( Club E-lectribe/(T)..ANTZ..(T) ) boy without name ( M!daZmusic-Kassel ) Alex Haas ( Club E-lectribe ) Marc Dupont ( Hermano Brothers/LolitaBar/Spielplatz ) C..est Clerc ( Die neue Brut/A.R.M ) Mr.Janes ( ds_sounds/Live&Shrill/A.R.M ) Chris de Beejee ( The Spirit of Minimal-House/Electronic Madness ) Lars.real ( Panoptikum )
… und die Station4 – Residents Björn Zobel, Der Gärtner & Nerc
happy birthday!! a day late though. Dude all the best and hope it was a awesome day! Got a phat ass techno design for you coming out next week.. I think you will really like this one!!
keep checking this page Louis as there will be some unsigned Diamonds coming into the player very frequently, specially selected by myself so each tune will be well worth a listen!
Zum zweiten Familientreffen am 16. Mai 2009 wird die Mission von Eurer Crew Comander Tom (L.A, USA), Major Andy Lee (playmusic-productions) und Leutnant Nick Minor (Heimspiel) geleitet.
Nach dem Erfolg des ersten Familientreffens (Codename: Dune) im U60311 präsentieren wir euch in der zweiten Episode einen weitere hochklassige Party. Diesmal bedienen wir uns den Elementen der Kultreihe „Star Wars“ und bauen unseren Stützpunkt für diese Mission in der ..Vinylbar.. auf.
Wir sind bereit für „DIE RÜCKKEHR DER BEAT-RITTER!“
Den Zusprüchen zu folge hat es den Besuchern des ersten Treffens besonders gefallen, das anders als sonst, die DJ’s alle „greifbar“ waren. Ihr konntet vor und nach ihrem Auftritt mit ihnen über alles Mögliche plaudern. Es freut uns natürlich das ermöglicht zu haben. Wir hatten alle eine außergewöhnlich gelungene Party und Gäste sowie DJ’s und Veranstalter haben die Kommunikation sehr genossen.
Um diesen Dialog zu fördern ziehen wir mit dem zweiten Treffen in eine kuschelige Location auf der Hanauer Landstraße. Im Inneren kann nach Herzenslust gefeiert werden, währen ihr im Garten die neuen Freundschaften inmitten
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