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Curtis Zack : Soulful Session April 2008
Welcome to the world of Curtis Zack. A world where music controls the waves, soul reaches up to the stars, and beats breathe life into every living organism.
The story begins in 1973 and after a childhood listening to old mixtapes of the finest disco, funk and northern soul, Curtis discovers the new found groove house of music in 1986. Immediately drawn to the sounds on his local pirate radio he starts to buy early imports on legendary labels such as Trax, DJ International and UK imprints Champion & FFRR. Much hunting and hundreds of records later, Curtis is asked to become a resident at a brand new club opening in 1990. It was here that he mastered the art of the residency, warming up and playing alongside leading DJs at the time such as Dave Dorrell, Jon Da Silva, Nancy Noise, and a much housier Judge Jules!
After a couple of years Curtis took on his next residency at a club that would change the face of northern clubbing forever. The award winning Vague morphed the UK clubbing landscape with tales of debauchery and wild nights, and mixed with the finest music money could buy; it meant that within a short time Vague was written into clubbing folklore. His residency continued through the club’s next incarnation, Speed Queen, until 2000 when he left to become resident at another one of Leeds’ leading clubs the Glasshouse, a club where he still plies his trade today.
After literally thousand of hours DJing spanning over 17 years, having played guest spots the world over including leading UK clubs such as Pacha, Federation, Southport Weekender, Miss Moneypennies, Blend, Manchester Mardi Gras and across the globe from Barcelona to Bahrain, Moscow to Dubai, Curtis has lost none of his drive or desire for good music, and still holds a residency at Revolution in Manchester, where he plays a weekly set of over 6 hours forging US soulful workouts alongside solid vocal cuts and a smattering of disco thrown in for good measure.
But the passion doesn’t end with DJing. As a freelance journalist Curtis has written for and continues to write for legendary black music publication Blues & Soul, amazingly now in its 40th year. He also writes for the leading US magazine aimed at his peers and fellow DJs, DJ Times, and also for the website of arguably the worlds premier house label, Defected.
De La Soul penned the immortal lyric ‘everybody wants to be a DJ’, but whether it’s as a DJ, journalist or even producer, Curtis is first and foremost simply a devotee to the music, a fact not everybody can lay claim to.
In a time when many of today's DJs have changed their styles to simply attract work, he has remained true, playing the same upfront blend of uplifting house and US garage. An ability to know what makes a crowd move, combined with a true love of house music guarantees that any club booking Curtis will not only benefit from his vast experience and his near perfection mixing, but your crowd will also experience the feel good factor that only a Curtis Zack set can bring.
