ARTIST....: Seb Fontaine
TITLE.....: Live At Planet Love Summer Session-SAT-06-21
GENRE.....: Electronic
SUBGENRE..: n/a
SOURCE....: Radio
RELDATE...: Sep-14-2008
AiRDATE...: Sep-14-2008
TRACKS....: 01
LENGTH....: 57:12 min
SIZE......: 66,5 MB
QUALITY...: VBRkbps
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01. Live_At_Planet_Love_Summer_Session-SAT-06-21-2 57:12
TOTAL: 57:12 min
RELNOTES..:
Name: Seb Fontaine
Music Style: House
Website: http://www.sebfontaine.com/
Outlar-Listed Events: 79 (Rank #51)
Outlar Cross-references: Jon Carter, Erick Morillo, Norman Jay, Timo Maas, SLAM,
X-Press 2, Jeremy Healy, Cream, Dom Chung, MYNC Project, Lee Coombs, Paul
Woolford, Nic Fanciulli, The Breakfastaz, Big Hair, Paul Kershaw, Lucien Foort,
John '00' Fleming, Mark Knight, D Ramirez, Lisa Loud, Thomas Tuft, Rhadoo, Tim
Davison
Seb Fontaine Intro: Growing up in West London, SebÆs initial musical development
was stimulated by ska, but soon dropped out of sixth form college to pursue a
career as a DJ. His first æproperÆ gig was at Crazy LarryÆs on the Kings Road,
getting paid ú30 a night to spin tunes for a typical Eighties æsloanieÆ crew.
By 1989, Seb landed a residency at The Fridge, Brixton, where he played mainly
hip hop and rare groove, swiftly followed a year later by a residency at The
Wag, playing ragga, rare groove and acid. Next came a residency at Subterania,
alongside Norman Jay and Jeremy Healy. In 1993, Seb gained his first house
residency at Glitterati at The Cross.
Malibu Stacey was the next stop for Seb - a night he put together and promoted
at the Hanover Grand with friend Craig Richards.
As Malibu got more established, Seb got increasingly restless, and took to the
road in a big way, focusing more and more outside of London, becoming one of the
UKÆs hardest working æmotorway jocksÆ. At the same time, music becomes harder
and deeper.
In 1998, Seb was offerred a fortnightly residency at Cream, which soon became a
weekly gig. In 1999, Seb took Ibiza by storm, with Cream at Amnesia.
Seb Fontaine clinched the deal with Radio 1 in February 2000, initially to
deputise for dance shows exclusively on Radio 1, gaining him the nickname
æsuper-subÆ. He also joins Radio 1 in its mammoth summer of live music at the
major dance festivals, and at the stationÆs own Radio 1 Dance Parties. Seb had a
monthly New York gig in 2002 with Subliminal Sessions, while he has returned to
The Cross in London to launch his own monthly night Type. 'It holds all the
ethics that I hold important about dance music at the moment,' he enthuses.
'It's a club that holds 1000 people. And it's all split up. Low ceiling, great
sound.' Guests have included Norman Cook, Jon Carter, Erick Morillo, X-Press 2,
Timo Maas, SLAM, Circulation, the key figures in what Fontaine calls 'A new
sound coming through, like electro and house married, really dark sounding but
very exciting too.
A similar mindset governs his radio show, for which Seb understands how
fortunate he is to be with the BBC. 'You're essentially federal employees, and
basically you're given a white paper that says Play Good Music. We have no
commercials, we have no sponsors, we're not dictated to. You're not told where
you should be putting anything other than the fact you're chosen for your
ability and told to do what you do. Being with the BBC is a fantastic
opportunity to put forward where you think music should be going.' While
involved in the occasion club cut as either Cequenza (for the 'bigger sounding
tracks') or Sizzlak (for the 'funky house music'), Seb has shied away from
remixing opportunities, both to avoid becoming jaded by overexposure and because
he's a family man.
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