About Me
Spin-Monkeys are made up of 2 brothers, Pete Phoenix and Illy. They began dj-ing in the mid 90’s, and started off by playing all aspects of house and garage music. Their love for music soon shone through as they moved from the bedroom into regular house parties. They rapidly built up a reputation with their dj-ing ability and found themselves providing more and more demo tapes. As time went on their musical tastes moved to a more underground feel, and progressed towards the electotech sound the are they are known for today.
Before long they found themselves playing at small clubs, bars and pre-parties for other promoters, as well as running their own small nights in Norwich and Bury St Edmunds. This gradually led on to club warm ups and guest slots for various nights around east anglia..
In April 2006 Pete saw a thread on a clubbing website advertising the Pams House-PHunky DJ competition which they entered, and went on to win, beating over 60 other DJ’s from around the county. This lead onto a residency for PHunky, as well as sets at The Hunny Club in Brighton, and Es Paradis in Ibiza and playing alongside Dj's such as Axwell, Yousef, Gordon Edge and Jonathan Ulysses to name a few.
At the start of 2007 they started a night called Overdose @ Ponana in Norwich playing all things underground. It's gone from strength to strength with the Spin-Monkeys supporting such acts as Meat Katie, Touche, Deepgroove, Sonny Wharton, Kris Darang and Timo Garcia. As well as Overdose, SpinMonkeys played @ various other nights including Elev8, Love Story, Hope & Electro, The Groove Est, Unique Music and Phunky, to name a few.
It's been a busy 2007 for The Spin-Monkeys but they've still found time to get in the studio and produce some of their own tracks including a remix of "Ever Fallen In Love" by Kid Lopez, which was released in December and their “Reformer EP“ set for release in april (Both on Red Recordings).
With more tracks to come in 2008 including a remix for Sonny Wharton, DJ bookings across the UK and Ibiza things aren't looking like slowing down!!
SpinMonkeys style would be described as uplifting and energetic with a basic policy of, if it makes you smile and move your ass, it gets played. Today they are best known for playing dirty driving underground house music with a twist, cutting up tunes, dropping accappelas and using effects to there full potential, all on 4 CDJ's
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