ANT TC1
(UK drum'n'bass)
Dispatch recordings label boss
Saturday October 1st @ Flow Bar - Hamilton
Very limited $10 +bf earlybirds from www.dashtickets.co.nz/event/vs9578ky2
& from Flow Bar
Support from
Evade (AKL)
Dold
Hybrid
Euphoric Milk
ANT TC1 BIOGRAPHY:
Ant TC1, along with Hidden Agenda, founded Dispatch Recordings back in 2001. Antoriginally helped out with the management side of the label before finding hisfeet within the realms of production; which was a natural progression for himhaving DJ'd on pirate radio and in clubs from the age of 15 (since 1993). Hisfirst release along side frequent studio partner Stress Level appeared onDispatch after almost 3 years of hard work getting their collective sound wherethey felt it needed to be in the studio before even thinking about turning onthe DAT recorder. After their first release aired they quickly picked up awealth of dj support on their early material and went on to release for a who'swho list of established Drum & Bass record labels including the likes ofRenegade, CIA, Advanced, Critical Records Integral, Liquid V, CommercialSuicide, Good Looking Records, Bingo beats and Samurai Music. By demand remixwork started to feature heavily within their output and the duo went on to remixfor the likes of Hidden Agenda, Chris SU, Artificial Intelligence, Kabuki,Total Science, Optical & Ryme Time (Jagged Edge), Atlantic Connection,Tactile & DJ Marky.
Ant's production output has featured on a mass ofcompilations and mix cd's compiled by the likes of Shy FX, LTJ Bukem, TotalScience, AI, Spectrasoul, Klute and Brian G. Additionally his work has featuredvery heavily within the radio shows of Grooverider and Fabio on theirrespective BBC Radio 1 slots over the years as well as BBC 1Xtra where Ant oncehosted his own one-off 4 hour show as well as also twice appearing as a gueston DJ Flights weekly session. His DJ work has seen him play all over the globefrom Adelaide to Los Angeles, from Hong Kong to Budapest, Tel-Aviv to Bangkok andlast but by no means least regularly UK wide.
Fast forward to 2011 and Ant is now solelyresponsible for the running & label manager role of Dispatch Recordings;having released a mix CD compilation, the hugely successful Transit One album(which topped almost all the usual stores weekly dance music sales chartsacross all formats) as well as a fine list of consistently quality single andEP releases from the likes of Survival, Break, MC System, Commix, AI, Chris SU,Zero T, Octane & DLR, Cern, Dabs, Skeptical, Spinline, himself (and manymore). Ant will also be appearing on remix duties for the likes of Lomax(Loadstar), Sunchase, Cern & Dabs in the near future on other labels aswell as Dispatch and continues to run his own monthly night at 'Momentum' inLeeds (which is now in its 9th year) as well as dj'ing continuously across theglobe at an ever expanding rate.
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