DJ’s – Working hard all night to bring you the best sounds.
Find out who we are listening to , who is playing where and what they are playing as we profile the DJ’s that are making it count.
View video clips, play lists and photos of both the established and emerging artist and let us know what you think.
As we add new artists, we hope to provide you with a broad scope of the ‘who’s who’ of our music community.
DODZY (Nice Guys)
Starting up in electric duo Krtweel, Dodzy had his fingers gliding the decks weekly at clubs such as GPO, Elsewhere, Alhambra, Soho(Sydney), Dirty Sundays, Ruby Tramp, Berlin,Platinum, Embassy and Neverland just name a few..
After breaking out and exploring the DJ scene solo the sets just kept coming, teaming up for a few crazy sets with good friend Stellar MC who has recently release new tracks with KraftyKuts, Stupid Fresh and Bass kleph.. Withsupporting acts such as Bag Raiders, Uffie,Yuksek, Steve Aoki, Treasure Fingers, Sam La More, Richard Dinsdale, Aston Shuffle, Cassian, Ajax, Bang Gang, Goodwill, Beni, Sneaky Sound System, Dirty South, Potbelleez, Tom Neville, James Talk , TV rock, Vandalism on some of Australia’s best stages and clubs, Performing live sets on Radio Metro, Interviews from Scene Magazine and frequent sets at Summer FieldDayze, Future and Parklife.
At present Dodzy has taken up a booming residency at the valleys newest club “Oh Hello” where he djs under a different alias “Nice Guys”which have been booked for all the summer festivals of 2012. With a growing passion forunique Disco and party sounds you’ll find it hard to keep your feet still during his hour of power…
ShareKATIE K & MISS J
Katie Karma and Miss Jaime… These talented ladies had already forged respective DJ careers of their own before meeting in the infamous Family DJ booth early in 2011. Miss Jaime – from a background of techno, minimal and deep house, and Katie; better known as Katie Karma – from a young love of all things breaks and electro. Together, the girls form Dj duo Katie K & Miss J.
With 6 years experience between them, the girls already have an impressive resume to boot. Katie had her first gig just 3 days after her 18th Birthday, celebrating her turning of age with a DJ set at the Empire hotel supporting breaks act NAPT. Since then, she has graced the decks of Family, Bowler Bar, the Met, Alloneword, GPO, Electric Playground, Barsoma, The Backroom (Byron Bay) and Ruby Tramp (Gold Coast) supporting internationals Martin Horger (Germany), Adsorb (UK), Soul of Man (UK), Freq Nasty (UK) and Hybrid (UK).
Miss Jaime has held residencies and guest spots at Electric Playgound, the Family, Barsoma, the Met, GPO, Bowler Bar, Birdees, Melbourne Hotel, the Emporium, Alloneword, Alhambra and Bimbo Deluxe (Melb). She has had the honour of supporting international acts such as Doctor P (UK), Danny Howells (UK), Kazu Kimura (Spain/Japan), Slam (UK), Eddie Halliwell (UK), Coyu (Spain), Martin Roth (UK) and Skool of Thought (UK).
Together, the girls have also supported international and local acts including Hot Pink Delorean/Terravita, Maya Vanya, Anna Lunoe, Bad Ezzy, Sangers & Ra and Citizen.com, just to name a few.
Since teaming up, the girls have been featured on blogs and radio shows such as Switch1197, Drive (Radio Metro), Dirtie Clouds Blog, G&T (gifted & talented) and were recently Radio Metro’s featured artists of the week.
Drawing from both girls’ musical backgrounds, their captivating and floor filling sets include fusions of tech house, disco, breaks, electro, dubstep and drum and bass, priding themselves on their versatility and ability to read a crowd.
For Bookings, contact grant@lifeisadj.com or timothylee@lifeisadj.com
DJ BAGS
DJ BAGS has rocked crowds across continents spaning Europe to Australia.
BAGS boasts former residencies in the UK (2007/08) but has since returned to his home town of Melbourne to resume local residencies and guest spots.
BAGS has electrified venues across Australia for the past 8 years as a solo act, however, with roots in instrumental music his most recent projects have seen him teamed up with artists such as MC Matthew, DJ Wasabi and Dan Kerby (BCE/28 Days) to create a mashed up lyrical journey from hip-house to electro (and then some!).
A young veteran of the St Kilda nightlife, he can be heard at Melbourne hot spots such as Big Mouth or Metropol and continues to entertain crowds at events such as the F1 GP, Bells Rip Curl Pro and Billabong City Squared Skate invitational.
Ready? Bang! 
For Bookings contact grant@lifeisadj.com
WHAT’S THAT SHMELL
Dj name – What’s That Shmell?
Launching into the music community is a 23 year old Gold Coast kid hell bent on one mission – to have fun! This self taught DJ has been mixing almost 3 years now and his passion for music is infectious. Inspired by artists at both the Greco-Roman and Hot Creations labels you can expect to hear anything from electronic bass to dirty disco funk. He has recently dipped his toes into the art of production with the help of a few musical toys so keep your ears pealed as this new kid on the block is about to have everyone asking, “What’s that shmell?!”
For bookings contact:
Timothylee@lifeisadj.com
Grant@lifeisadj.com
SURE CUT KIDS
SSuup!!! We’re the Surecut Kids. A Dj/ Production team from the Gold Coast Australia. We spend our nights making people dance all over the country and our days working on music production and what not.
We play an array of genres with 4 turntables and an MPC. Check out our mixtapes if you wanna hear what we do.
We’ve played all the major festivals in Oz like the Big Day Out, Parklife, Summerfieldayze, Good Vibrations etc etc, and had our mixtape featured on JJJ’s Mix-Up programme.
We’ve done official remixes for Shunda K ( Yo Majesty ), KillaQueenz, Koolism, and Psyde Projects.
We also run a blog (surecutkids.com) which we use to release our bootlegs, remixes, and mixtapes etc, as well as keep our peeps up to date on our upcoming shows.
Hopefully we’ll see you on a dance floor soon!!!
FILTERKAT
Jeremy Felis a.k.a. Filterkat is a 23 year old producer and DJ from the Gold Coast. Spending days at a time in front of his computer and music gizmos, Jeremy is no stranger to production techniques and could get around most production software blindfolded. Starting production at the ripe age of 14, Filterkat has a wealth of production knowledge tucked under his belt. Originally from a progressive house background, Filterkat has diversified and now preffers to mix and produce tech house, dutch house, jackin house, breaks and all things groovy.
Filterkat started his DJ career playing at some of the gold coasts smaller bars and clubs, and is slowly moving up to bigger and better things. During his 8 month trip over in Europe, Filterkat was booked to play in some of Europe’s most prestige and highly regarded clubs, including Louise Gallery (Belgium), Fuse (Belgium), K-nal (Belgium), Paris Social Club (France), as well as a number of smaller bars and clubs. Now back in Australia, Filterkat has been moving around and has played at a number of venues around Queensland and New South Wales, and has recently secured a residency with the Life is A DJ Team.
In 2010 Filterkat entered Radio Metro’s “Makin’ Music” Production competition and made the top 20 finalists. Now in 2011, Jeremy has founded the digital record label “Maison Records” and has already had his track “Moustache” played on the Ministry of Sound 2011 Annual Club tour by the likes of Tommy Trash. Keep an eye out for this talented up and coming Producer/DJ.
For Bookings, Contact grant@lifeisadj.com
TIMOTHYLEE
When looking through Timothy Lee’s CD collection, there’s nothing to snare at. If you you are dedicated enough to want to look through it all, you’ll have to put aside a solid day or so, just to look at the track-lists. Tim is armed to the teeth with a massive collection of club bangers, floor fillers and massive tracks to get the dancefloor pumping. Along with his impressive track collection, Timothy Lee also boasts impressive skills as a DJ, creating random manic mashups and brilliant bootlegs on the fly. Sporting tracks from various sub genres of house and electro Tim is sure to send the dancefloor wild and wanting more. Since starting out as a DJ in early 2005, Tim has played at some of the gold coasts best nightclubs including Elsewhere, Berlin Bar, Never land ,the Temple and the ruby tramp.
Timothy Lee is highly influenced by DJ’s such as AJAX, Bloody Beetroots, and Fake blood and is a large supporter of local and international DJs and Producers. Tim ran his own club night called Sweat Klub, and has recently moved onto bigger and better things, hooking up with his brother in law to create Life is a DJ. Keep an eye and an ear out for this talented up and coming DJ, and expect big things to come in the near future.
For bookings go to
Www.lifeisadj.com
Timothylee@lifeisadj.com
Grant@lifeisadj.com
CROOKERS
The Crookers are an Italian DJ/production duo (Bot and Phra) who have worked together since 2003. When the two artists met, both were trying to branch out of their genre and explore dance music. Their first collaboration worked. Phra said “It felt natural to team up, seeing that we had the same musical tastes… which isn’t that easy here in Milan”.
Bot took up the guitar at an early age, later moving onto synths, turntables and sequencers. Phra had already started DJing by age 11, when he was introduced to the Italian hip hop scene.
Their first international release was on Berlin´s Man Recordings (Funk Mundial #3), for which Crookers contributed various remixes. Later they released two EPs in 2008 (“Knobbers” and “Mad Kidz”, both exclusively containing original tracks), they are currently working on their first album, which is due for late 2009.[citation needed]
Their remix of Kid Cudi’s Day’N’Nite entered the UK singles chart at number 2 and is featured on the game Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
Crookers work with producer/remixers Sketch Iz Dead on many of their tracks.
AJAX
His nickname used to be Thommo, but during the early nineties it didn’t sound very acid house. He didn’t like it, he never liked it this boy from OZ. The name tormented him. It undermined his dance party status and his emerging sexuality he thought. At art school the media students teased him and the sculpture students used to steal his mo wax lunchbox and mix clay into his peanut butter sandwiches. He ate them anyway. Art was going to kill him…
he needed to fight back… he needed to become an art killer. After burning his whiteboard markers, his teaching jacket and other assorted art college paraphernalia, his soul surrended. Giggling, the now defunct COFA Lecturer flipped some switches, twiddled knobs and took any excess clay he found to his new spinning wheels. The
abject lump of clay soon became a fragmented mess of dried up mud, dust and spilt candy glazes. It wasn’t an idealized form, there was shit everywhere but he loved it. Thommo had become a disco Jockey…Thommo had become Ajax.
Ajax made friends fast, although the dance floor still wasn’t sure of his technique. So he and his few new friends created their own studio…The BANG GANG (Modular). Soon the shit noise that they had created spawned a new poetry and it was recorded (Ministry of Sound Mashed 1 2002, Ministry of Sound Mashed
2 Bang Gang Djs 2005, Tiga/Ajax In the Mix 2005 (both cds nominated for DMA Best mixed cd 2006), Ajax Presents Spin City 2006, Light Sound Dance Bang Gang Djs 2007 (Modular), Sweat It Out 2008 (Sweat It Out), Dance Till
Dawn, Damnation, I’m With Bang Gang, Bang Gang KLassics and Bang Gang Art Killers 1).Technics In The Mix No.1 NSW DJ 2008, Australian Dj 2007 and 2006, Allen & Heath DMA Best Australian DJ and Best Mixed CD 2006, 3d World Dj of the Year 2002, 2004, 2005, his Art Killing had hit new heights. Busy Ps Best Dj of 2007(XLR8R), Digitalism’s best dj of 2007 (BIGSHOT) and Justice’s One to Watch in 2008 (DJ MAGAZINE). Fabric (London) pay him occasionally as do Showcase (Paris) for some spot cleaning, he no longer borrows money from his mum. His ego
is spiralled out of control and bent his pop making; remixing Princess Superstar, Midnight Juggernauts, The Emergency,
Naive New Beaters, and the Valentinos.
People laughed, some cried… His naked ambition had made him a peep show. Soon the dollar coins started to pile, he climbed them and to his surprise all he could see was clay and dust and glazes inevery direction. He was speaking in tongues, a green foam frothed soon from his nostrils and he perspired….. what better he thought
than to manipulate his ooze and bring forth establish his own record label, SWEAT IT OUT which launched officially in Feburary 2008 with the signings of Gameboy Gamegirl, Edu K, Act Yo Age, Oh Snap and Redial.
With subscriptions to Modern Painters and Frieze now long expired, the battle for dominance between Ajax and Art continues. With the field wider and the arsenal larger, we expect an explosive and
intriguing era ahead.
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BAG RAIDERS
The Bag Raiders debut EP (featuring “Fun Punch”) is out now through Bang Gang 12inches and available on vinyl and the internet in all the usual places. Fun Punch is currently on high rotation on both JJJ and FBi and is included on the Ministry of Sound Annual 2008. A Bag Raiders Remixed 12 is due out at the end of January with remixes from Knightlife, Whitenoise, ZZZ and a Bag Raiders remix of “Fun Punch”. Bag Raiders are also putting the finishing touches on a release for the Fool’s Gold label in the States. One track will feature a special guest vocalist. They’ll soon begin working on a second 12 for Bang Gang that will come out some time in 2008.
Bag Raiders have remixed Midnight Juggernauts, Sneaky Sound System, The Valentinos – included on the Kitsune Maison 3 compilation and released as a 12 on the same label, KIM (from the Presets) and Muscles – both out now on Bang Gang 12 inches. They’ve also finished a Harris Robotis remix for Tommy Sunshine’s label, a Thieves Like Us mix (vs. the Bang Gang Deejays) and, most recently, Supermal, Headman and Kid Sister remixes. They also did the production on Sydney rapper the Tongue’s “Bad Education” and have some other hip hop projects in the pipeline.
Bag Raiders deejay everywhere in Sydney and often travel interstate. In February they’ll tour Australia with Good Vibrations. They’ve supported internationals such as MSTRKRFT, DJ Mehdi, Guns ‘n’ Bombs, Tiefschwarz and Boys Noize. And play regularly alongside the likes of Ajax, Muscles, Van She Tech, KIM, Cut Copy and the Bang Gang. Bag Raiders have done live sets on radio stations JJJ and FBi and they recently mixed the second disc of FBii’s “It’s The Beat” compilation. Although they’ve temporarily pulled the plug on their full-blown live show, the Bag Raiders sometimes do a kind of decks ‘n’ fx show with samplers and keyboards.
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