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.
Louis Osbourne has been heavily involved in the electronic music industry for 16 years. Louis’ epiphany happened during the early 90s when he visited the dance events 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 night time 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 for Cream on the Amnesia terrace, which he held for 2 years.
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 underground house and techno and his ear for cutting edge electronic music mean that he has been 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 Birmingham techno institution House of God (from 1996 to 2002) and has played at all the big dance festivals, including Creamfields, God’s Kitchen Homelands, and Oxegen.
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 fiancée 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 Carl Craig, 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 honour 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 Pro 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 Mija Recordings which launched in September to critical acclaim; he has Mija parties taking place in Frankfurt & other locations in the coming months; and now has his radio show, Louis Osbourne presents Mija Music on RTÉ Pulse, with syndications going out to other networks worldwide.
“Mija Recordings is a project that I have been developing since the start of the year. The record label has launched very well gaining widespread support from many big players on our first releases, gaining a compilation license on the debut EP. Obviously I‘m really happy about that, but there is so much more to come. The record label is the first phase of my plans with other Mija projects in development.”
After 16 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!
Hi mate, hope all is well, Just to keep you updated on 4 New Tracks I have just added, called = TAKE ME HIGHER, 3 KINDS OF ME, PULLING STRINGS, MOVING SHADOW. Hope you like them.
Samstag 14. November 2009 - 23h STARCLUB presents: SANTOS - der Macher des Ibiza-Hits 2009 !!!!
23.00 – 00.30 Uhr - Mike Litt 00.30 – 02.30 Uhr - Santos 02.30 – 04.30 Uhr – Andre' Hommen 04.30 – Open End - Platinchoc
Jeweils am 2. Samstag im Monat findet die Neue House Party im Alten Wartesaal statt! Mike Litt der bekannte Journalist und DJ bei dem Kölner Radiosender 1Live gestaltet das musikalische Musikkonzept für das Publikum.
Miniminds - Junk Dancer - Mija Recordings (MIJA003)..... With Daniele Papini & M_in Remixes OUT NOW!!!....... Available at BEATPORT...... Big support from Stephan Bodzin, James Zabiela, Joris Voorn, Smokin Jo, Mistress Barbara, Richie Hawtin, Slam, Phil Kieran, Yousef, 2000 and One, Dan Ghenacia, Gregor Tresher and many more.
North Beach - North Beach EP is out now exclusive on Beatport with support from Hernan Cattaneo, Jens Lissat, D.Ramirez, Stephan Bodzin, Louis Osbourne (thanks Louis!) to name but a few!
Flying on through to wish you an amazing Halloween with family and friends. I hope you have an awesome evening filled with lots of magical moments...Ralphy
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