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Ruff & Tort

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DJ RuffRafael (Rafael) Van Gerrisheim, AKA DJ Ruff from OVERBOOKING STUDIOS – home of remix-meisters Ruff & Tort (Catch22 Records USA) - began DJing in 1993 at the age of 16. Today, at 29, he produces, hosts global radio-shows and apart from his long-standing residency at Hollywood superclub, Avalon, he is demand from the planet’s leading dancefloors with residencies and invitation spots spanning the globe.Ruff plays with the cream of world DJ’s such as Tenaglia, Cox, Sanchez, Lawler, Tiesto, Disciple, Morillo, Robbie Rivera, Julius Papp and Roy Davis JR, just to name a few. Just recently, at Spain’s annual Spanish Music Awards, one of the country’s biggest annual music industry events, he took away the “Best International House DJ” award, putting him among the ranks of previous winners, Erick Morillo and Danny Tenaglia.Amsterdam native Ruff moved to Barcelona and began his career. As time progressed he found himself spinning at some of the biggest and best clubs that Barcelona had to offer. Soon after, he landed several residencies at clubs throughout Europe and quickly expanded to the US market not to mention touching other parts of the globe such as Japan and Argentina. In the UK, he was a regular at Trade (House room) @ Turnmills and found himself traveling to Munich, Germany for residencies at Liquid and The Twilight Zone. In addition, he began landing various gigs on the island of Ibiza at famous venues including Amnesia, Space, and Bora Bora.In the US, you can catch him most Saturday nights at Avalon Los Angeles and various other nightclubs throughout California.A few of the most recent venues:Brasil: Zenith, Manga Rosa, C & C Zero Festival Japan: Code, Maniac Love, Neo etc… USA: Spundae, Afterhourpower, Ministry of Sound etc... Holland: Escape, Powerzone, It etc... Canada: Global Gathering, Montreal Germany: Liquid, Love Parade, various festivals Spain: Pacha, Matinee, Space Ibiza, Bora Bora, Amnesia, La Terrazza etc... UK: Turnmills, Trade and various venues. Argentina: El Divino and Fantasywww.djruff.com www.overbookingstudio.com David Tort began his career in 1988, during the big explosion of Acid House sound that greatly influenced him from the very beginning and took him to experiencing the latest sounds (Acid, Newbeat, Pop, EBM, Techno..). He was the techno pioneer in what it was at those times the House capital of Spain: Sitges (a beautiful touristy village on the cost, not far from Barcelona). From 1999 he got deeply into House Music, which led him to the sound that characterizes him now, an actual tech-house fusion of several styles as Electro, Deep, Progress, Tribal. We can define it as "Balearic". Since 2002 he started a summer residence at LAtlantida in Sitges, a mythical club on the shore of Mediterranean sea, part of Amnesia Ibiza Group. David played in the most important clubs in Spain, as well as at After Hour Power (Hollywood, CA, Usa); Peter Pan (Riccione, Italy); Amnesia, Pacha & Space (Ibiza). He entered in a recording studio for the very first time in 1990; in the following years he experienced on Electronic Body Music and Acid House with different musicians. From then on, he was asked to make remixes for different Spanish artists on Vale Music. In 2001 David met Toni Bali & Carlo Caesar. They decided to lead their careers together, they set up their sound studio "Elestudiodigital" where they created a very personal House style. In fact in the same year, Serial Killer Vinyl released on its label MORBIDO RECORDS their new project under the name of DRUMMERS OF LOVE. Their track "Drums of Love" was an authentic international hit. It has been released in more than 15 countries and it has been included in the most important compilations. This track is now considered a classic of House Music. After that, he collaborates with many other record companies as Weekend Records, Sutil Records or House Works, etc. David had a special feeling with one of the monster of current electronic music, Francesco Farfa. They wrote together "Acidazzo", which became the first single from Francesco first album "Human Bridge", released in 2005 on SKV. The co-op gave very good results, "Acidazzo", was listed by Pete Tong on his Essential Selection. (April 8, 2005) and it was played all summer by djs as Laurent Garnier, Deep Dish, John Digweed, Satoshi Tomiie, James Zabiela, Danny Rampling and many others. "Dont touch my man/International departures", released on Sutil Records, was played by big djs from the global scene as Danny Tenaglia, Victor Calderone, Clive Henry, Steve Lawler, it was an authentic international club hit. David has his own recording studio called "Overbooking Studio" since October 2004, which works very very well, where many other artists apply to do their release or mixing and mastering tracks. Under the name of Lemonade Market, a beautiful album called "Supermarket Woman" was released by SKV. This project could be placed between Lounge and Electronic Pop style. "The Holy Chill" is out now on itunes. David had a weekly co-op at "Ibiza Dance Radio Show" by David Moreno on Flaix FM Ibiza, he has his own radio show called "Mondo Electro", broadcasted every Saturday Night thru CB FM (Barcelona). In it he gives space to all the news from the underground scene. Now his new radio show called "venimos de marte" (we come from mars) is broadcasted every friday night by www.locafm.com at 10pm (GMT+1). Actually, David lives across Barcelona, Los Angeles and Ibiza, and own his sound studio with his partner Dj Ruff doing club productions and tracks for television some of this tracks are included in MTV USA tv shows. The last tracks appears in the Ministry of Sound, Azuli, Om, and many more worldwide compilations.www.djdavidtort.com www.overbookingstudio.com..2b.jpg

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Member Since: 7/13/2005
Band Website: overbookingstudio.com
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Record Label: Catch 22, Sutil Records
Type of Label: Major