Bio

Giorgos Gatzigristos was born in Nijmegen - The Netherlands, and has lived there all his life. After a disappointing Saturday night in the center of Nijmegen, he got lost with some friends and ended up at the famous club Doornroosje, where one of the first Highland Beats label nights had already taken off. After that event, Giorgos interest in electronic dance music grew. He bought his first production equipment, and later on dived into DJ-ing as well. On June the 2nd, 2004 Giorgos first record got released on the Dutch label of Darko Esser and Ger Laning (DJ LL): Wolfskuil Records. It was a split release with his mate, Piet van Dongen, and was the first step in producing music for the public. After releasing three records on Kompakt’s K2, he got in touch with the Manual Music family and felt right at home. This resulted in the grand performance of the Manual Orchestra in De Melkweg in Amsterdam. Around that time, Giorgos got his Masters degree in Management Science at the Radboud University Nijmegen. But music was his love, so he went for that.
Now, Giorgos is releasing e.g. on Bedrock, Channels Music, Manual Music, Wolfskuil Records, Snejl and Outside The Box. He is always building on past experiences - trying to create a hybrid sound that is universal. Giorgos can be booked for Live and DJ performances.

November 2009 Chart

Furrr & Hazendonk - Rrrhythm - Melomane
Giorgos Gatzigristos - Binary Star System - Bedrock
Pole Folder - Hate Myself (Sasha Intrumental Mix) - La Tour
Adam Beyer & Par Grindvink - Seq 3 Zoetrope - Drumcode
Guido Schneider Meets Jens Bond - Eijeijei - High Grade
Piet van Dongen - Firewoods with Strings  0.9c - Manual Music
Levon Vincent - Late Night Jam - stgut Ton
Applescal - Avoiding Mental Lazyness (Russian Linesman rmx) - ManualMusic
Giorgos Gatzigristos - Latent Presence - Outside The Box
Information Ghetto - How To Build A Brain (Xpansul Remix) – StolenMoments

Giorgos Gatzigristos – November 09 Guest Mix

Guido Schneider meets Jens Bond - Eijeijei – Highgrade
Solomun - Midnight Snack - Diynamic Music
Kevin Gorman - Insomnia (Joseph Capriati’s Dark Night Remix) - Mikrowave
Applescal - Applescal - Avoiding Mental Lazyness (Russian Linesman Remix) - Manual Music
The Mountain People - Mountain009.2 - Mountain People
Martinez - America Electronica - Frenetica
Seth Troxler - Panic, Stop, Repeat! - Spectral Sound
Francesco Pico - All By Pitching The Crowd (DJ Remy Remix) - Outside The Box
Fever Ray - Seven (Marcel Dettmann’s Voice In My Head Mix) - Rabid Records
Mendo - Everybody I Got Him (2009 Mix) - Clarisse Records
Michel Cleis - Dark Glasses - Supplement Facts
Giorgos Gatzigristos - Mutila - Outside The Box
Simuck - Saturn - Sneijl
Zwicker - Dragon Fly feat. Billy Oden (Soultourist Remix) - Compost Black Label
Northern Lite - Cocaine (Timo Maas Remix) - Armut 24
Jonas Kopp - Deliric - Curle
Giorgos Gatzigristos - Sporting Dark Stuff - Outside The Box

Mix Link - http://www.mediafire.com/file/gcrnl1ymmim

Bio

King Unique is Matt Thomas, an all round studio junkie and DJ with a taste for tripped-out cosmic techno and rough-edged underground house. In a career spanning nearly a decade KU’s distinctive sound has won an enviable global following. A ceaseless schedule of DJ sets and festival gigs backed up by relentless studio sessions resulting in scores of records, remixes and radio broadcasts has made the KU sound an instantly recognizable part of the music-life of millions of the world’s clubbers - and a fixture in the vinyl crates, cd wallets and laptops of the world’s most influential DJs. Consistently appealing across genre boundaries the tracks have been played by everyone from Sasha to Soulwax, Dubfire to Tiesto, and have turned up everywhere from Hollywood soundtracks to mobile ring tones - not to mention countless compilations and mix albums.

Formed in 2001 by Matt Thomas & Matthew Roberts, King Unique hit the floor running, claiming the title of Undisputed Remix Champs by scoring five Essential New Tunes in five months on Pete Tong’s “Essential Selection” Radio 1 show. A US Billboard Dance Chart number 1 for the remix of Dirty Vegas’ “Walk Into The Sun”, plus two more solo Essential New Tunes for Matt under his Watkins and Mainframe alter-egos saw KU firmly cement their place amongst the ranks of first-call remixers. The King Unique production touch has been in constant demand since, appearing on more than fifty remixes and yielding some of the biggest dance floor bombs known to man - Underworld’s “Two Months Off”, The Killers “Somebody Told Me”, Planet Funk’s “The Switch”, The Teamsters “Feels Like Love”, and Chable and Bonicci’s “Ride”.

2006 saw the end of the original duo’s studio partnership, as Matt Thomas took on the King Unique role as a solo artist. The two years since have seen Matt taking the KU sound to new heights with a mixture of euphoric acidic melodies, dark brooding techno vibes and old skool beats. Remixes of Tracey Thorn’s “Grand Canyon”, Fergie’s “Anon” and an ’08 remix of KU’s own “Sugarhigh” have reaffirmed his status as one of the most versatile and consistent producers of the last ten years.

Most recently Matt has produced a stunning reworking of “Heaven” for James Lavelle’s UNKLE project, as well as remixes for James Talk, Paolo Mojo and Infusion.

The renowned King Unique DJ set has made KU a regular addition to the line up of some of the world’s most respected clubs and biggest festivals, playing everywhere from ultra-hip blacked-out sweat boxes in Tokyo to euphoric crowds of thousands on the tropical beaches of Madeira. Regular gigs for super-brands such as Renaissance and Ministry Of Sound coupled with an increasingly hectic international schedule has seen Matt racking up enough air-miles for a free trip to the moon, with gigs in Sydney, Osaka, Barcelona, Shanghai, Lima, Bucharest, Auckland, Bogota, Singapore, Chelyabinsk, Malta, Vilnius - just to name a handful from recent months.

Since the very first shows Matt has pushed at the cutting edge of the technology revolution that’s swept through club culture, taking laptops, new gadgets and studio gear into the booth. 2009 sees the addition of the near mythic Monome controller to the sonic armoury - part track-mangling Ableton controller and part psychedelic light show, lovingly hand built by techno-hippies in the Catskill Mountains.

Matt + Mac + Monome = Beats + Bleeps = KU Live ‘09

See you by the speakers…

Recent remixes to check

Infusion “So Soon”
Dappled Cities “The Price”
UNKLE “Heavy Drug”

Recent video to watch

Here’s a rather good little video from KU’s recent gig in Buenos Aires… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyExMlL5WE

King Unique December Chart

Einmusik - Altered Beyond Recognition” Einmusika Recordings
The way Einmusik gets from jaunty drunken tech-ska wobblings to Klaus Schulze kraut-synth epicness in just this one tune is staggering. Masterful stuff.

King Unique - “Feniksas” Bedrock
Brand new KU single, big retro-techno meets epic prog monster - coming to a Bedrock near you soon.

Niko Fantin - “The Bad Shepard (Facundo Mohrr Remix)” Frisky Records
Colossal tech-prog in the Henry Saiz/Guy J style. Get on this, a great set opener.

Justin Margovan – “From The Beginning (Ekkohaus Remix)” Phobic Records
Wailing, wobbling, looping diva vox over a brutal tech stabber. Don’t leave Ekkohaus alone with your pets.

The xx vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot – “Silicone Shelter (KU Bootleg)” On my hardrive
Huge emo tune of 2009 in a head on collision with the most criminally neglected techno bomb of 2009. Absolutely crass, absolutely mindlessly simple – and it absolutely destroys clubs

Guy J – “Ballroom” Bedrock
Menacing and steady as a burning steamroller pointed at your house.

Mike Monday - “Grace (Justin Martin Remix)” Dirtybird
Fantastic organic genre-crosser of a tune. Precise sub bass, chamber orchestra string vamps, looped vox fragments and a collision of beat styles, all tied together to make a mournful San-Fran classic.

Federico Milani - “Eleven (Loco & Jam Remix)”
Played an unfinished mix of this at Exit, Kaunas and kicked the night into orbit. Curious to see what the finished version will do…

Fergie - “Motion” Excentric Muzik
A little glimpse at Ferg’s forthcoming album. Motion backs off from Ferg’s peak-time sound and locks into the deeper grooves that made his remix of ‘Softy’ such a winner.

Nicolas Masseyeff – “Modul8” Herzblut
Mr Masseyeff brings it again for Herzblut – bass heavy beats and classic house riffery fed into the effects and worked to alarming heights of intensity.

Apologies for not posting for a major amount of time!

Anyway, this time will be different. It won’t be interviews each week, instead I will be posting all sorts of information about Tech and Techno like DJ Charts, Videos, Pictures, Mixes, Information on DJs, Information on Nights and all sorts of other interesting information that you would love to know. Oh and ofcourse the DJ interviews will feature throughout.

So first of all, for the return of TechandTechno I have some cool info on a very well known DJ/Producer that goes by the name of King Unique!

Enjoy!