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Rave Breaks vs Old Skool Set
Dj Twista with MC Knight @ Hardcore til I die 25. Rollerworld Derby. Dec 07
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Rave Breaks vs Old Skool Set
DJ Twista b2b DJ Faydz 2hrs 35mins @ Raindance & Tasty. London October 2007
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Rave Breaks vs Old Skool Set
DJ Twista b2b DJ Faydz @ Hardcore Til I Die 23. Custard Factory. Birmingham. August 2007
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Rave Breaks Set
DJ Twista b2b DJ Faydz @ Raverbaby 6. HTID in the Sun. Spain June 2007
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'91 Old Skool vs Rave Breaks Set
DJ Twista & MC Robbie Dee @ Fantazia Showtime. Braehead Arena. Glasgow Jan 2007
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'92 - '94 Old Skool Set
DJ Twista @ Fantazia Into the Wonderland. Braehead Arena. Glasgow Sept 2006
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Full Spectrum of Breaks Studio Mix
DJ Twista playing the full spectrum of breaks ; Rave Breaks / Funky / Tear Out / Bootleg - May 2007
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Old Skool Jungle Set
DJ Twista b2b Snypa. @ Rave Utopia Jacks. London March 2007
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Old Skool vs vs Rave Breaks
DJ Twista b2b Squirrel @ Genetix. Jacks. London Jan 2007
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Londons Origin 95.1fm
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• Every Sunday 2-4pm (Old Skool / Rave Breaks)
Essex / Kents Charge 90.8fm
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• Every Friday 8pm - 10pm (Upfront Drum & Bass)
Guests slots on Dancemusic247.com
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Intro
DJ Twista (Dean Willson) has been involved in the underground dance music scene for the best part of a decade, working as a graphic designer and DJ amongst some of the biggest promotions & artists spanning a wide variety of rave music.
Background
Around the late 80's Dean was heavily into rap music like Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions and Ice Cube which was a result of watching far too much MTV, but his first encounter with rave music was from a mates older sister listening to the "Deep Heat" albums throughout '89-'90, at the time he was too young to know about the actual rave scene itself.
It wasn't until about the end of the summer '91 that a driver who worked for his Dad heard him playing a Deep Heat album, and lent him a Carl Cox tape and basically explained about raves, from then on Dean was hooked.
His first rave was when he was 16yrs old - Ravelation NYE '95-'96 at Wembley Arena and pretty much straight after that he became a weekly Labrynth regular as well as attending raves like Helter Skelter, Slammin Vinyl, Dreamscape, United Dance and Hardcore Heaven to name a few.
Graphic Design
Dean had always loved the airbrush artwork on the early flyers.. Dreamscapes, Helter Skelters, Slammin Vinyls etc, pretty much anything done by artists Pez or Junior Tomlin.
After graduating art college in mid 1997 and almost instantly obtained a position with a design company based in South London where he was trained in various essential design and printing skills. Very quickly Dean built a strong reputation for being able to design high quality flyers for dance music events as he was so in tuned to each style of music he designed for.
Over the past decade Dean has created artwork for some of the UK's major promotions, festivals and record labels... Accelerated Culture, Awol, Back 2 Basics, Best of British, Breakin Science, Desire, DJ Ez, Digital Circus, Fantazia, Funkin You, Fusion, Garage Nation, Global Gathering, Hardcore Til I Die, Helter Skelter, Kiss 100, Liberty, Metal Headz, Moondance, One Love, One Nation, Pure Old Skool, Pure Silk, Raindance, Raverbaby, Renegade Hardware, Sidewinder, Sun City, Sundissential, Tasty, Trouble On Vinyl, Uproar, Vibealite plus many more.
DJing
DJ Twista's DJ styles are very versatile ranging from the roots of house music through to all sounds that involve a breakbeat and bass, playing all the elements from the original underground dance music scene; from his 1st love old skool hardcore '90 - '96 and rave breaks / nu skool breaks to classic piano house, jungle and upfront drum & bass Twista has always had a good sense of playing the right tunes at the right time, keeping the crowd on their toes and making his sets as exciting as possible
From 1997 DJ Twista worked his way through the ever popular London pirate radio scene, playing on various stations...from South London..s legendary Upfront 99.3fm & North London's Passion 91.8fm (both under the house & garage alias Mr Willson), then onto original old skool station Eruption 101.3fm and currently holding a massive 8 prime time Old Skool / D&B shows per month on London's leading Origin 95.1Fm & Essex's number 1 station; Charge 90.8FM. Not forgetting appearing on guest shows on Billy Daniel Bunter's Love Muzik show on Ministry of Sound radio.
Highlights of his career have been to play the midnight set in the main arena of seone at Moondance NYE 05 - 06 to a sold out crowd alongside the legendary MC MC. This new years eve (07-08) Twista has been asked back to again play the 1st hour of the new year at Moondance alongside DJ Squirrel and MC MC.DJ Twista has played all over the UK and Europe to crowds as large as 4600 people, for some of the scenes longest standing events such as Awol, Desire, Fantazia, Fusion, Helter Skelter, Moondance, One Nation, Raindance, and has played at some of the UK's largest and most famous venues:
Alexandra Palace - London (Awol / Universal Sounds)
Academy Ice Arena - Cardiff (Sun City)
Air - Birmingham (HTID)
Astoria - London (Sun City)
Bagleys - London (Best of British)
Big top circus tent - Newbury (Digital Circus festival)
Brunel Rooms - Swindon (Raverbaby)
Braehead arena - Scotland (Fantazia)
Brixton Academy - London (One Nation)
Bristol Academy - Bristol (Random Concept)
Camden Palace - London (Moondance)
Castle Club - Ayia Napa (Sun City)
Castle Film Studio's - London (Upfront FM)
Club Ice - Westbury (Fusion)
Colosseum - Spain (HTID)
Colosseum - London (Liberty)
Coronet - London (Innovation)
Custard Factory & Rojac Warehouse - Birmingham (HTID)
Mass - London (Tasty)
Ministry Of Sound - London (Epidemik)
Q Club - Birmingham (Uproar & Helter Skelter)
Rollerworld & Time Complex - Derby (HTID)
Rex - London (Best of British)
Sanctuary - Milton Keynes (Sidewinder)
Sanctuary - Birmingham (Uproar)
Seone - London (Moondance)
Seduction Weekender - Great Yarmouth (Raindance)
and at officially the largest hardcore event of 2005
Uproar Colossus @ Nottingham Ice Arena plus many more
Residencies
Hardcore Til I Die / Old Skool Til I Die - old skool hardcore & rave breaks
Tasty / Love Muzik - old skool house / hardcore & club classics
Uproar- old skool hardcore & rave breaks
Rave Utopia- old skool jungle & Drum & Bass
Previous 5 year Residency with Pure Old Skool (2001 - 2006)
and also has regular sets at events up and down the country such as;
Beyond Reality
Fantazia
Fusion
Innovation
Moondance
Random Concept
Raverbaby
plus many more.
Production
DJ Twista has been producing for just over 3 years, supporting Nu Rave / Rave Breaks (140 - 145bpm breakbeat music incorporating vocals, pianos & modern producing techniques). He has had success with a number of tracks which have had heavy support from DJ's like Slipmatt, SY, Billy Daniel Bunter, Ratpack, Ellis Dee, Jay Cunning & DJ's within the pirate / internet radio circuit.
At the end of 2006 DJ Twista remixed 2 classic old skool anthems for the Worlds 1st major album to support Rave Breaks - Helter Skelter meets Raindance : Hardcore 2007 which has sold over 80,000 copies.
During the Summer of 2007 he had signed 2 original Rave breaks productions feat the vocal talents of Niki Mak to the next edition of the Helter Skelter album series - Nu Generation which is out now.
Towards the end of 2007 he also remixed another classic old skool anthem Top Buzz - Living in Darkness alongside Sparky for the 5th installment of the ministry of sound Helter Skelter Albums - Helter Skelter vs Raindance Rave Nation.
Early 2008 watch out for the drum & bass production side of DJ Twista with tracks forthcomign on Good 4 Nothin Records and others. For more info and clips for tracks check www.myspace.com/djtwistadnb
Discography
Top Buzz - Living in Darkness (DJ Twista & Sparky Remix)
Helter Skelter vs Raindance : Rave Nation Album
So Free feat Nikki Mack
Helter Skelter : Nu Generation Album
Electric feat Nikki Mack
Helter Skelter : Nu Generation Album
Sy-Kick - Nasty (DJ Twista Remix)
Helter Skelter meets Raindance : Hardcore 2007 Album
Manix - Feel Real Good (DJ Twista Remix)
Helter Skelter meets Raindance : Hardcore 2007 Album
Story Teller - Sharkfin Records 004
Rave Breakz
Sold Out
One More - Forthcoming on Sharkfin Records 006
Sensation - Forthcoming on Junki Munki Records 004
Music's Hypnotising - Forthcoming on Good 4 Nothin Records
www.dnb4essex.co.uk
As well as a full design schedule and busy DJ diary, DJ Twista also is one of 3 founding members of the popular Drum & Bass music site www.dnb4essex.co.uk. In its 3rd year of running the site boasts over 1000 members worldwide, its now launching a new face to the site- www.dnbstations.co.uk - a new site that covers a comprehensive list of dnbstations from around the world all listenable direct form the site