RICKY MORRISON

Ricky Morrison is one of the UK’s leading DJs and most weekends you can catch him behind the decks of the most popular clubs in Europe, he is a firm regular at M.O.S,Pacha(London),The Cross,Turnmills,Fabric,The Fridge, Hard Times and Southport Dance Weekenders and regular International spots including Italy,Japan,Switzerland,Portugal and USA. His DJ career kicked off in 1984 with gigs at Dance Wicked(soul to Soul) at the Arches and between 1985 through to 1989 he was resident with Norman Jay (MBE) at londons original ‘garage’ club HIGH ON HOPE at Dingwalls.Throughout the 90s he guested at many infamous club nights such as Garage City,Release the Pressure,M.O.S,The Cross and The Satellite Club also holding down monthly residences in RED ZONE(italy) and M.A.D club (Switzerland) amongst others. In 1991 he gave up his day job as a computer engineer and co-founded Soho record store “CATCH A GROOVE RECORDS” which was fundamental in introducing the American house sound to theUK.Ricky’s innovative DJing style and music(‘american house with a british twist!’) has gained him respect from American and worldwide DJs alike playing alongside Masters at Work at Louie Vega’s birthday party 1998 at the Camden Palace London and at Liquid in Miami for the winter music dance conferences 1996,97,98 .Other d.j’s he has played alongside include…Tony Humphries,Frankie Knuckles,David Morales,Todd Terry,,Erick Morrillo,Terry Hunter,C.J Mackintosh,Danny Rampling,Tedd Patterson,C&C Music Factory,Roger Sanchez,Pippi,David Harness,Paul Trouble Anderson and much much more! Ricky started M&S PRODUCTIONS with life-long friend Fran Sidoli in the early 1990s.Their production skills first came to light on underground american house labels such as Cutting,Freeze.Kult,Nervous,Big Beat and Strictly Rhythm.In the UK Public Demand records was the first label to unleash M&S’s unique sound “Keep on” by Jaye Ella Ruth and “Special” by Robbie Craig were seminal underground classics. In 1997 apart from remixing the timeless classic"Moment of my life"(which is still being played today!!) they enjoyed further success with Michelle Week’s “Don’t Give Up” and in 1998 with their own project “State of Mind” which culminated with 2 more club hits”This is it” and Take Control”on the Sound of Ministry label. Also in 1998 they scored two massive Top 20 hits with lifelong friend Brandon Block on the Blockster project with “You Should be Dancing” (No 3) and “Grooveline” (No 18).Their re-mixing and production credits include JulietRoberts,Mpeople,BarbaraTucker,KathyBrown,BobbyD’ambr osio, Colonel Abrahams,and also Ultra Nate (“Free”) In 2001 M&S Presents the Girl Next Door “SalSoul Nugget (If U Wanna)” was released in March on FFRR records and was a-list on Radio 1, Sara Cox’s record of the week, Dance Charts No 1, Pop charts No 1, Coolcuts No 1, Buzz No 1, DJ Hype No 1, Essential New Tune – Pete Tong, Powerplay – Danny Rampling, Record of the Week – Brandon and Alex P, Screamer – Boy George, Single of the Week-Seven Magazine, Single of the Month-Mixmag, plus serious support from all the main D.J;s all over the world.the record reached no: 6 in the charts selling over 250,000 copies and is already a bonafide classic.Ricky and Fran (M&S) are currently finishing off writing and producing various acts which they will be releasing in 2007.one of them being a collaboration with dance diva Kathy Brown AND Salsoul Nugget pt2!watch this space!!! ..
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