House Music All Night Long

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen, hope your all keeping safe and well. It's time for the final push for our event, entitled, "House Music All Night Long" which features some local and international talent. Headlining is my very good bredden, Booker T, King's of Soul. Grammy Nominated DJ/Producer. Winner of the underground tune of the year for 1999, All Saint's - Never Ever. Next up is the pocket rocket, Miss Nita Funk. She brings so much energy to her sets, it's unbelievable. And then, you have the birthday boy himself, Mr Adrian Burns. What can I say about this young man. He's a very shy guy, but he knows how to drop a tune and party. Unfortunately, Dean Morgan has apologised for not making this event as he has a prior engagement. But he will be with us on the next one. So I'm going to search for a local replacement for him. Which leads me to the next promotion, which happens on August 23rd. 

Grammy Nominated Booker T is one of the UK’s most prolific and respected House music producer and DJ in the industry, who has enjoyed widespread success on the commercial and underground scenes. Since his first forays into House music back in the Late 80s, Booker T has delivered a steady stream of quality releases and top artists remixes as well as firing up the decks at some of the world’s best clubs. As one of the UK’s finest producers, Booker has given the dancefloor some incredible vocal anthems including LZ Love “See The Light” on Slip N’Slide and Kathy Wood’s “Give Me Joy”, and his remixes of Usher, Sounds Of Blackness, the All Saints’ worldwide smash “Never Ever”, which won him ‘Remix Of The Year’ at the Underground Dance Awards (1999, and Jody Watley’s “Off The Hook” are still being played today. Versatile, passionate and always looking to innovate, Booker T, writes his own rules in production and keeps if fresh on the decks with his latest Exclusive productions, edits and remixes. So how did it all start for Booker T? He first started DJ-ing in the 80’s playing Reggae, Rare Groove, Hip Hop and R & B sounds. Booker joined well-known pirate radio station, Faze One, playing alongside a line up that included GrooveRider, Fabio, and Colin Dale, each spinning all styles of music, including early House classics. House music exploded across the UK and inspired, Booker headed to the USA to check out some of the original sources. Touching down in NYC and New Jersey, Booker was introduced to the sounds of Masters At Work, Todd Terry, and Tony Humphries, the leading DJ on Kiss FM and at Club Zanzibar. Excited by the vitality and atmosphere of New York’s night life witnessing the Underground Network with Louie Vega (Masters At Work) & Barbara Tucker at the Sound Factory Bar and Shelter helmed by Timmy Regisford, Booker returned to London with a new musical focus to produce house music. Untrained he.... 'Guilty Didn't I', His first tune “Didn’t I” under the name Underground Mass was snapped up by the UK’s Azuli label and US Atlantic’s Big Beat label, after being championed by Tony Humphries on NYC’s Kiss FM station. At the forefront of vocal house music, Booker was signed to the Azuli Records label, releasing a further 3 tracks as Underground Mass, including 'Music Takes Control', 'Give Me The Love' and 'Hard Times'. After such an acclaimed first production, Booker was in demand to DJ, and he played his debut House set at Bobby & Steve’s ground-breaking Garage City night. On the back of the success of these releases, Booker began producing tracks the Italian labels, Heartbeat via Media Records and Suntune. He then met and teamed up with the stellar Producer & Keyboardist, BB Stone, and started remixing for labels such as Jive, Virgin, EMI and Universal. Working prolifically, Booker was the first British producer to release a track on the seminal US label, Strictly Rhythm, with 'Tearing Me Apart' under the name Inner Soul's followed by Club Zone's 'Dangerous EP'. His production career was exploding and now finding himself in great demand, Booker started producing tracks for Junior Boys Own, Phuture Trax, Interstate Records, Xtra Large and A & M Records, under the title, Rhythm Source, and signed by Simon Dunmore. He went on to work with ground-breaking American DJ/Producers, Roger Sanchez, Eddy Perez from Smack Productions, DJ Disciple, Lenny Fontana, DJ Romain and DJ Camacho (RiP). At this time Booker joined Big Life Management, working on various Remix projects including for Truce and “Ordinary People” for Robert Owens. As his tracks kept hitting the spot, Booker T found himself in great demand to DJ, and headlined all the UK’s major house clubs including Back 2 Basics, Soul Heaven, Ministry of Sound, To the Manor Born, The End club, Hard Times, Club America (Wales) and many more. Spring-boarding from that Booker also enjoyed considerable International success, making his debut at the Garage City parties at Miami’s WMC, where he was interviewed by June Sarpong and Eric Morillo for MTV. He has played extensively around the world including headline sets throughout Europe including Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Greece and a residency at Es Paradis and Club Summum in Ibiza, playing alongside Paul ‘Trouble’ Anderson, Jazz ‘n’ Groove, and Bobby & Steve Zoo. This in turn has seen him spin further afield in the far east of Singapore and Malaysia, and throughout the US including Seattle, Houston, Texas, Washington DC, New York City, LA (Viper Rooms), Miami and San Francisco. Whilst on tour in California, Booker met Jay J, David Harness, Pete Avquella, and Julius Papp at both the Molton Street and Naked Music Studios He played at parties with Kerri Chandler and the Basement Boys; ?? details Booker now has an incredible Remix CV, and credits include Soul to Soul, Jocelyn Brown, Robert Owens, Robin S, Usher, Sounds Of Blackness, Brand New Heavies, Quincy Jones, Moloko, Byron Stingly, Jody Watley, Michael Watford, D-Influence, Mood II Swing, Craig David, Marvin Gaye, Kirk Franklin, Mica Paris, CeCe Peniston, Lemar, Dwele, Elephant Man, Faith Evans, Nate James, Roy Ayers and triple platinum artists, All Saints. He won ‘Remix Of The Year’ at the Underground Garage Awards, and was Runner-Up to Fat Boy Slim at the DJ Mag Music Awards. when ? Booker T was involved in the UK Garage scene, playing with the likes of Karl Tuff Enuff Brown, Matt Jam Lamont, EZ and Grant Nelson,. Booker T’s notority for his talent as both a Producer and DJ means there is a continuous demand for his House and production sets. Booker T has got tracks out on Xtra Large Records; with tracks from Su Su Bobian, Kings of Surface and The Dazz Band ‘You are my Star Ship’ under the name of Kings Of Soul. playing sets at many international venues i Booker has also played at events all over Englandpacha Garage City, For the Love of House,,, Faces, Yacht Club, The Astoria, Rouge, Sin), and DJ’d at loads of Garage City parties during the Winter Music Conference in Miami

Nita Funk

Her passion for music and his culture in this field are innate. His most notable inspirations derive from Funk, Disco and Soul. These influences are manifested in her sets that ooze a refined and elegant House, Funky-House, Nu-disco, Garage and Soulful House which combine to form an enveloping electronic, deep and jackin groove. Nita Funk has participated in renowned events and festivals such as SOUL FUSION ALGARVE (Portugal), SOUL FUSION Fully loaded (Birmingham), ADE (Amsterdam), SOUL FIESTA WEEKENDER (Alicante), BEE LIVE WORLD (Madrid), MEED FESTIVAL (Elche), BEME (Barcelona), VOCAL BOOTH WEEKENDER (Alicante), AMBIGUOUS (Alicante), SUMMER SESSIONS (UK). 

Since her beginnings in 2008, Nita Funk has played with her unmistakable style in emblematic venues in the Alicante and Murcia scene (Z-klub, Desafinado, Isla Marina, Marmarela, Urban Food (Metro Dance Club), Velice, La Muralla, La Oveja Negra, Moss Club, ZM, among the most prominent), in Vejer de la Frontera (El Jardín); in Madrid (Lario's Café, Areia Chillout, Sky Night); in Barcelona (One Ocean, Salicornia, Rooftop Hotel MIM, Safe by House, Hotel Renaissance); in Ibiza (Cotton Beach Club, Malanga Café, Minus 80 Bar); in Orense (Tamarindo Patio Bar) and abroad in clubs such as Vanity Club (Casablanca-Morocco), Canal Club (Leeds - UK), Jungle Club, The Web, Contrast, Next and Blend XL (Amsterdam), LAB11 (Birmingham-UK), The Micro Pug (Leamington Spa-UK). 

In terms of promotion, Nita Funk has performed at events such as Studio Chic and Vinyl Choice and is part of various DJ collectives such as Women of House (Chicago - USA), Soulful House Collective (Germany), Soulful House Dj's (UK), Soulful House Barcelona and Emotion Lanzarote in Spain. Her sets can be heard on British (House FM, Love Soul London Radio, SG1, Profound Radio, Pressure Radio, Love Soul Radio London), Spanish (Clubbers Radio, Radio Distancia Ibiza), Italian (RSF, House Nation Music), French (Pilq Radio, Elise Radio), American (Rufus Radio) and South African (The brown's Live Show) radio stations as resident dj and guest dj. 

Throughout her career Nita Funk has developed her sets accompanied by various musicians such as percussionists Izhar and Pakito Baeza, violinist Herbert Pérez, saxophonist Ramón Riera, vocalists Soulfeenix and Janyssha Lyon and has recently collaborated in musical productions with dj/producers (Federfunk - Italy), Kako Martínez (Barcelona) with a compilation, Essential Vibes, which brings together the best tracks from the On Work label and also with the great English dj/producer Pat Bedeau.