DJ Paul Oakenfold Interview | Music Producer Focus
Paul Oakenfold has been touted as one of the world’s leading DJ/remixers by various outlets including CNN, Rolling Stone, BPM, Remix and more. The 2x Grammy nominee for ‘Best Electronic/Dance Album’ with ‘A Lively Mind’ (2007, Maverick Records) and ‘Creamfields’ (2004, Thrive Records) continues to strive forward with his club nights, global residencies and record company [...]
Greg Haver Interview | Record Producer | BME Masterclass
LoopTV interviews Welsh drummer turned world acclaimed producer Greg Haver at the British Music Experience exhibition centre in London’s O2 arena. Greg used his self developed studio in wales to build a reputation within the Welsh music community for his diverse productions with artists such as Super Furry Animals, Catatonia, Lost Prophets and Bullet For [...]
John Leckie Interview | BME Masterclass | Part 2
LoopTV interviews British record producer John Leckie at the British Music Experience exhibition centre in London’s O2 arena. The music industry would be at a loss without John Leckie – since he began his career in 1970 at Abbey Rd Studios as an in-house ‘tape-op’, he has gone on to produce pioneering acts ranging through [...]
John Leckie Interview | BME Masterclass | Part 1
LoopTV interviews British record producer John Leckie at the British Music Experience exhibition centre in London’s O2 arena. The music industry would be at a loss without John Leckie – since he began his career in 1970 at Abbey Rd Studios as an in-house ‘tape-op’, he has gone on to produce pioneering acts ranging through [...]
DJ Seb Fontaine Interview | Artist Spotlight | At The Ministry
LoopTV interviews DJ Seb Fontaine at ‘The Gallery’ in London’s Ministry Of Sound to bring us unto date on his career and learn about his new projects. Having started his DJ career at ‘Crazy Larry’s’ on the Kings Road London, and then quickly gaining a residency at the ‘Fridge’ in Brixton in 1989. He then [...]
DJ Tall Paul Interview | Behind Closed Doors
LoopTV interviews DJ Tall Paul at ‘The Gallery’ in London’s Ministry Of Sound. Here Paul gives us a personal account of how he and his brother Danny Newman set up ‘The Gallery’, and opens up about how some of the changes within the modern music industry have affected him and his career since his infamous [...]
Cavo Paradiso World Tour | 10 Year Celebrations
LoopTV recently caught up with some of the talent behind the legendary Cavo Paradiso club for a one-off special event to celebrate 10 years of blessed out clubbing and music! Cavo Paradiso was recently voted the 12th best club on the planet by DJ Mag and over the last 10 years has played host to [...]
DJ Chris Cowie Interview | Artist Spotlight | Part 3
Chris Cowie is one of the most licensed and prolific music producers and DJs in the world dance scene, with an uncountable number of tracks on hundreds of compilations across genres from Tech-House to groundbreaking Trance and Techno. In may 2008 Cowie re-launched Hook and Bellboy Records and now for the first time the Hook-Bellboy [...]
DJ Chris Cowie Interview | Artist Spotlight | Part 2
Chris Cowie is one of the most licensed and prolific music producers in the world dance scene, with an uncountable number of tracks on hundreds of compilations across genres from Tech-House to groundbreaking Trance and Techno. In may 2008 Cowie re-launched Hook and Bellboy Records and now for the first time the Hook-Bellboy tracks are [...]
DJs Tall Paul | Seb Fontaine | Paul Oakenfold Interviews
April 30th saw one of the UK’s leading and longest serving weekly club nights ‘The Gallery’ turn fifteen – a landmark achievement by any standard but even more so considering the club continues to pack them in week in, week out at its new home Ministry Of Sound. In celebration of officially becoming the unruly [...]
DJ Michael Woods Interview | Artist Spotlight | At Digital
Ability, originality and accomplishment is a rare combination. In Michael Woods short career he has managed to touch on every cornerstone, leaving proof of his musical competence at producing big room, progressive and tech-house tracks. This has not gone unnoticed, with DJs like Pete Tong jumping at the chance to document Michael’s rise, featuring him [...]
DJ Chris Cowie Interview | Artist Spotlight | Part 1
In the early 90′s underground producer and DJ Chris Cowie launched the highly acclaimed and influential record labels Hook Records and Bellboy Records and went on to gather mainstream success working under numerous aliases. Chris Cowie is one of the most licensed and prolific DJ producers in the world dance scene, with an uncountable number [...]
Giant Pussy Records Interview | With DJ Tim Healey | A Year In The Ghetto…
Fate works in mysterious ways. Planets align, stars collide, and DJs bump into each other in Kazakhstan, thus forming a label which combines their love of ghetto bass with oversized pussy cats. This is how the universe works, if you’re DJs Deekline and Tim Healey! Starting out in the late 90s garage scene, Nick Deekline’s [...]
Ray Keith Interview | Drum N Bass Man | Artist Spotlight
Ray Keith – DJ, Producer, Remixer, Record Label Head Honcho, Radio & TV Presenter and one of the orginal Drum & Bass pioneers, has been on the circuit for at over 15 years. After finding his niche within the Drum and Bass scene in the early 90s having initially remixed tracks for Moby, Shades Of [...]
The Dark Arts | Air Mastering | Part 2
LoopTV present part 2 of 2 of ‘The Dark Arts’ Mastering series, our new extended interview and discussion with legendary mastering engineer Ray Staff. Recently filmed at AIR Mastering at the infamous AIR Studios in London – we explore the some of the questions surrounding the dark art of mastering. AIR Mastering located within the [...]
The Dark Arts | Air Mastering | Part 1
LoopTV are proud to present part 1 of ‘The Dark Arts’ a brand new 2 part extended interview and discussion with legendary mastering engineer Ray Staff. Recently filmed at AIR Mastering at the infamous AIR Studios in London – we explore the some of the questions surrounding the dark art of mastering. AIR Mastering located [...]
Beardyman Interview | Live On Tour | Artist Spotlight
Darren Forman aka ‘Beardyman’ the man of a thousand voices, and a thousand beats…recently took some time out off stage to get stuck in a lift with the LoopTV crew! The London based UK Beatbox champion and Youtube phenomenon tells us a little about his performance rig and his kit list he employs to create [...]
Loopmasters Products Profile | The Sample Boutique | Label Focus
Few Labels have come so far, or reached so high in their own industry niche as Loopmasters – which is now one of the worlds premier Sample production and distribution labels. Brighton based Loopmasters first came to light in 1999 under the ‘Beatnik Samples’ banner, and released 4 Sample CDs known as the ‘Modular Series’ [...]
Artist Spotlight | DJ Jon Carter | & DJ Alex Blanco
We recently caught up with Alex Blanco & Jon Carter aka ‘Roosevelt High’ at their studio local – to talk about the duo’s new Sample pack ‘Block Party Essentials’ and to look back on their prodigious production careers so far, and find out what got the party started! In over 15 years of professional DJing [...]
Artist Spotlight | Paul Oakenfold | Jan 2010
Paul Oakenfold has been touted as one of the world’s leading DJ/remixers by various outlets including CNN, Rolling Stone, BPM, Remix and more. The 2x Grammy nominee for ‘Best Electronic/Dance Album’ with ‘A Lively Mind’ (2007, Maverick Records) and ‘Creamfields’ (2004, Thrive Records) hasn’t stopped there… With film credits along the way including music for [...]
Artist Spotlight | Marine Parade Records | Xmas Party 2009
LoopTV present the highlights from this years Marine Parade Records Xmas Party extravaganza!! The annual party was recently held at Brighton’s Coalition on Dec 20th and included performances from Adam Freeland, Radio 1′s Alex Metric, Evil Nine, DJ Nico (Balkan Beats), plus Frequency DJ’s, Tom Frisco and Yusuf Sebaiti. Marine Parade is an institution for [...]
LoopTV | Uncut & Unseen | Dec 2009
Things don’t always go to plan… We look back fondly over the last 10 months of filming since we started LoopTV – to bring you a selection of bits you weren’t meant to see! LoopTV Uncut and Unseen! Enjoy! LoopTV – The Producers Channel
Artist Spotlight | The Freemasons | Dec 2009
LoopTV recently caught up with with master producers ‘The Freemasons’ – specifically James Wiltshire in his studio den at Skint records HQ in Brighton. James talks about the duo’s meteoric rise in both the dance and pop cultures over the last 4 years, and to find out how they came to be and what’s their [...]
Label Focus | Graham Fox | Dec 2009
This month we caught up with master drummer Graham Fox while recording in Brighton for his new Brushes Sample collection due to be released on the Drum Drops label early 2010. Having been brought up listening to the likes of Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Tito Puente and later Jimi Hendrix (amongst others), Graham has worked [...]
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