ARTIST....: John Digweed
TITLE.....: Transitions (Guestmix Ralph Lawson)-SAT-04-19
GENRE.....: House
SOURCE....: Radio
RELDATE...: Apr-19-2007
AiRDATE...: 000-00-0000
TRACKS....: 02
LENGTH....: 107:01 min
SIZE......: 140,6 MB
QUALITY...: VBRkbps
NR. NAME. TiME:
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01. John Digweed-Transitions-SAT-04-19-2007 53:45
02. Ralph Lawson-Transitions-SAT-04-19-2007 53:16
TOTAL: 107:0t
RELNOTES..:
Ralph Lawson Biography
Other names: Moniker(s) / 20/20 Soundsystem
Moving to Leeds in the late eighties, Ralph Lawson must have had second thoughts
about the place with it's gothic buildings and beer n brawling attitude
alongside it's dormant club culture. The fact that his favourite bands came from
the city may just have tipped the balance, and a generation of clubbers can be
thankful of that fact.
Ralph holds the honour of playing the first ever record at Back to Basics, and
there is a very good chance that he will play the last if that fateful day ever
rears up it's ugly head. Resident dj for 9 glorious years now, the success and
vibe of Leeds' best ever club may be just one factor that has prevented Ralph
from being mentioned in the same breath as some of the big-money djs of today.
That he has not got a single commercial bone in his body is another. Preferring
to play one set per night in a club in order to give that club his all, Ralph
was never going to get the same national exposure as those other djs. But Ralph
is no other dj. Don't ask us, ask Bill Brewster who recently described Lawson as
Britain's best kept secret.
As more top US and European djs came to Leeds and witnessed Ralph's
smooth-as-a-baby's-bum style, so the requests flooded in from abroad for his
deck services. Ralph has played at just about every good club under the sun, and
he would probably agree that the highlight of his career was playing to 20,000
people on Bondi Beach on Millenium Eve. He is also surely one of the few foreign
djs to have made it in Moscow, a special night that was commemorated by the
release of a cd recorded live on the night by Barcelonan label, Minifunk. Not
bad for one who has been unnecessarily tarnished with the rather restrictive
title of "deep house dj" for some years now.
Never one for resting on his laurels, Ralph has always kept a healthy interest
in making music and, as an ex-drummer, was always destined to progress onto
studio work. With Carl Finlow, and occasionally Huggy, Ralph has been
responsible for a number of highly rated productions.. Most notably, Ralph
collaborated with Chez Damier and Stacey Pullen early in his career, which must
have had a profound effect on the way he approached production. With Carl, Ralph
has recorded as Wolf n Flow and Urban Farmers.
2020 Vision, Ralph's record label, has been going for five years now. To quote
Carl Finlow,
" 2020 has grown up and is no longer a baby. It has just started school, and has
made some great new friends. Each day it learns more and more and always tries
to do it's homework. If it continues as it is doing, it will mature into one of
the schools very brightest pupils."
With an ever increasing roster of artists from as far afield as Montreal and
Helsinki, Avignon to Manchester, what started out for Ralph as a hobby is fast
becoming an international enterprise of some repute.
Not satisfied with making his own music and releasing the music new artists,
Ralph has earned himself a significant niche as a remixer. As always with Carl,
Ralph has famously remixed artists that include Felix Tha Housekatt, David
Bowie, Blaze, Jori Hulkkonen, Shawn Christopher and many more.
Now a regular guest at places like Fabric, Bugged Out and Home, and with his
productions and remixes appearing regularly in the playlists of today's top djs,
the sky is the limit for this most talented of people. But maybe even that is
not beyond Ralph's capabilities.
GREETiNGS.:
To all the people who respect us and like what we produce,
no names needed here, you know who you are :)
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