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DEEPCHILD: AN ABRIDGED BIOGRAPHY...
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With recent club-play from Jesse Rose, Matthias Tanzmann, Dirt Crew, Dan Curtin, Jimpster and M.A.N.D.Y, the deepchild sound continues to turn heads internationally as well as at home...
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Deepchild
is Australian DJ/producer Rick Bull – a stalwart of the Sydney deep-house/minimal-tech
community and long-time radio presence on the airwaves of Fbi 94.5FM radio, where
he hosts the award-winning ‘Monday Sunsets’ each week from 6-8pm, recently voted
'best national radio-show' in the 2006 Australian Dance Music Awards.
With
top billing European shows along-side the likes of M.A.N.D.Y, Jesse Rose (at the infamous Panoramabar in Berlin!), Richie Hawtin (to a crowd of over 20.000 at Serbia's massive EXIT Festival), remix work for techno superstars, Booka Shade, there's much that can
be said for this genre-mashing producer. If the increasingly demanding international
schedule of weren't enough (try playing Germany and then Kuala Lumpur in the space
of 4 days!), a string of highly successful 12"s and remixes last year have well
and truly solidified deepchild's reputation as a serious 'contender' in the saturated
international dance-music community.
From rare collaborations/remixing
work with Force-Inc's legendary producer, Luomo, Booka Shade, to Audiomontage
(aka Freerange Record's own Jimpster), Russia's D-Pulse, Square-One (UK), Colourblind
(FR) and detroit-funkateers Bumper (MDEX Records, US), a steady stream of dance-floor
'dub-wise techno' releases have ensured deepchild tunes have graced many a dj
crate the world over. Tweaked-out micro-house, funked-out electro quirk and sublime
'fathomless and heavenly' (Sydney Morning Herald) deep-house joints all flesh
out the truly diverse range of deepchild productions. Dub, soul, West-Coast hip-hop
and r'n'b, minimal techno and freaked-out post-disco are all thrown into the eclectic
mix that is uniquely ‘deepchild’. The 'unifying force'? A muscular, warm and human
approach to forward-thinking 'machine-music' that is sensual and jackin! Little
wonder, then, that well-respected UK music journal, The Wire, went as far as to
proclaim that this sound was "as sexy and addictive as new-dub electronica
gets".
When Stereo-Heaven (the biggest dj store in Essen, Germany)
found that their biggest selling tech-house record was infact written in a small
share-house studio in Sydney's Inner-West (deepchild's "No Disgrace", on Future
Classic), they took the time to make special mention of what is indicative of
deepchild's head-turning appeal:
And so it continues on home turf...
Residencies at several Sydney clubs as well as cameos at national festivals (WOMAD, Sydney Festival, Adelaide Festival, local tech-house 'institutions' Mad Racket, HonkyTonks, Deep as F*ck, Loose Kaboose and so many more) serve to keep sleep 'hours' minimal, and the dancefloors sweaty!