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Leif

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Leif hails from the beautiful secluded mountains of North Wales, and draws upon these surroundings to inspire his music. In the past few years, Leif has forged a reputation within the underground scene for his trademark sound - a blend of minimal house that encompasses elements of deep dubby techno, bleepy minimalism, delicate chord soundscapes and enough chicago-house style shuffle to to keep the dancefloor moving!

After Leif's early releases circa 2003 on UK based label Mindtours and Jay Haze's netlabel Textone, Leif set to work starting his own label Trimsound in partnership with Tom Ellis. Trimsound's successful vinyl and netlabel has since been host to a number of acclaimed releases including artists such as Pheek, Ralph Sliwinski, So Inagawa, Titta, Apoll, Joe Ellis and more.

During this time, Leif has also accumulated an admirable number of releases and remixes on worldwide labels such as Morris Audio, Moon Harbour, Frankie recs, Thinner, Telegraph, Logistic, True to Form recordings, Fear of Flying records, Textone, Archipel and Floppy Funk; with more releases always in the pipeline. His works have been remixed by the likes of Tom Ellis, Martinez, Two Armadillos, Polder, Jens Bond, Pheek and T-Polar... DJ support has been there from the start from the likes of Daniel Bell, Akufen, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Laurent Garnier and many more.

Leif is known for his dancefloor-freindly DJ sets, which span a wide variety of sounds from deep dubby microhouse through to jackin chicago house and minimal techno, and also plays live with Tom Ellis as "Trimsound Live"

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Member Since: 08/09/2006
Band Website: www.trimsound.co.uk
Influences: To name a few: Tom Ellis, Joe Ellis, Duckett, Steevio, Tom Demac, Grimes, Akufen, Daniel Bell, Aril Brikah, Matthew Herbert, Hawtin, Villalobos, Lump, DNCN, Pheek, Jackmate/Soulphiction, Dimbiman, Brian Aneurysm, Jason Hadges, Cabanne, Sutekh, Swayzak, Jeff Samuel, Jacob London, Dash Dude, Rhythm & Sound, A Tribe Called Quest, Bob Marley, I-Roy, King Tubby, Prince Jammy, St Germain, Dr Whodat, Kruder & Dorfmeister, PG Six, Q-Tip, Ry Cooder, JJ Cale, Shakta, Quantic, Jose Gonzalez, Nick Drake, Neil Young, DJ Shadow, Mo-Wax, Moodyman, Massive Attack, Portishead, Orb, Hird, Jazzanova, Michael Jackson, Ivor Cutler, Floyd, Hendrix, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Leftfield, Orbital, Ozric Tentacles, Shunryu Suzuki, my friends, my parents, the mountains...
Sounds Like: this
Record Label: Trimsound / Moon Harbour / Fear of Flying etc...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New promo DJ mix online now!

Check out my new promo DJ mix online - http://www.archive.org/details/Leif-promoMixJan09Hope you enjoy!:)
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:39:00 GMT

Booking enquiries - contact www.spineakle.com

Trimsound have now joined forces with the German booking agents Spineakle.www.spineakle.comThe Spineakle team will now be handling bookings for Tom Ellis, Leif, Joe Ellis and Trimsound Live.----------...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:43:00 GMT

Fundamental Movement EP out on Thinner

Leif - Fundamental Mvement EPCheck it out at www.thinner.cc  taking on where leif has left with his thinner debut release in october 2008, the "fundamental movement" ep is the continuation of his...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:38:00 GMT

New Ep on Thinner Netlabel

Check it out at www.thinner.ccthe 102nd release of thinner features leif, an artist hailing from north wales. in between working in a corporate day job, partying hard, drinking a lot of coffee, and ch...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:17:00 GMT