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Red Bull Music Academy presents DJ Harvey & Friends:
Red Bull Music Academy have announced DJ Harvey will take a disco-fuelled road trip across three UK cities this autumn. The tour will see Harvey, his friends, as well as a bunch of special guests perform shows at Fabric, the Albert Hall in Manchester and Simple Things Festival in Bristol.
One of the most sought after DJs on the planet Harvey made his UK comeback in 2012, after an exile of more than ten years. He was brought back by Red Bull Music Academy to play two all-nighters at the Oval Space in London and as part of the Warehouse Project Series in Manchester – blowing away the crowds at sold-out shows.
DJ Harvey is no stranger to rhythm. He started off an a drummer in punk bands with names like ‘Ersatz’ and ‘Your Dinner’ – John Peel even played his stuff on the radio when Harvey was just thirteen. By the mid-eighties, Harvey had bought a pair of decks and began cutting up breaks as part of the Tonka Sound System, a collective of alternative DJs, musicians and sound people, throwing warehouse parties and jams such as at the Zap in Brighton, England.
Harvey’s sound can be described as a mix of classics with fresh house, an approach which led him to star at nights such as ‘New Hard Left’ and ‘Moist’ at Ministry Of Sound in the nineties. He has made his name through DJing, scratching and especially re-editing, often together with Gerry Rooney on the now legendary Black Cock label. “I was aware of the whole edit thing that came out of the US and Paradise Garage scene and there were tracks I would play two copies of or record them to the reel to mess around with as I was Djing and re-editing for me was just an extension of that,” says Harvey. “When you have a residency you are playing records week after week breaking new stuff and it’s a way to keep things fresh and exciting and put your personality on the music.”
Harvey has issued a number of pioneering leftfield disco mixes now considered to be classics, including DJ ‘Late Night Sessions’ on MOS [1998] and ‘Sarcastic Study Masters’ [Sarcastic], both of which now fetch big dollars on eBay, adding to Harvey’s cult-like status amongst disco and reedit connoisseurs.
This latest road trip tour is set to excite fans that couldn’t make his Bestival set this summer, where he topped off a Red Bull Music Academy bill that includes Dan Avery, Pachanga Boys and Hugo Capablanca among others.
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