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Jay West is one of the most important underground house names ever to
come out of Southamerica. This established dj and producer has been
touring the globe and playing the most important clubs and festivals
for the last few years with no sign of stopping.
With releases on the most notorious labels, like Inland Knight's Drop
Music, Lowdown, Agave, Blockhead and many many more, he has gained
support from an incredible variety of mainstream djs, from Hernan
Cattaneo, Satoshi Tomiie, Dimitri from Paris or Mark Farina, to Dj
Heather, Lawnchair Generals, Hipp-e or The Inland Knights...They have
all used Jay's flavor to rock their dancefloors. It could be said that
almost every house set around contains one of his works!
His dj sets, always fun, original and full of funk, have made thousands
of people dance in some of the most important venues in the globe. He
was part of Creamfields Buenos Aires (One of the biggest festivals in
the world, gathering 60.000 people), Southamerican Music Conference
(where he worked as a panelist directing production workshops and
seminars), Personal Fest or Marlboro Mxtronica.
Through the last couple years he got to share stages with acts as big
as Deep Dish, Massive Attack, Dave Seaman, Pet Shop Boys, Dj Dan, Green
Velvet, Pete Tong or Mark Farina.
In his constant touring schedule he has played clubs as big as Pacha
Buenos Aires, Crystal in Istanbul, Opium Garden in Miami, Gravity in
Lithuania, Lotus Sound Bar in Hawaii or Sutra in Johannesburg.
New York, London, Los Angeles, Boston, Istanbul, Budapest, Sydney,
Melbourne, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, San Diego, Buenos Aires,
Denver, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Mexico, Bogota, Lima, Rio de Janeiro,
Varna, Oslo are some cities in his neverending list of past
presentations, always bringing his particular flavor to the party.
Born in Rosario, Argentina; ever since his childhood he developed a
huge passion for the art of sounds, and later, in his teenage years, he
formed and leaded several rock bands as a composer, singer, guitar, key
player and front man. His love for the creation of rhythm and melodies
grew in time, and he began learning and falling in love with funk and
disco from the past era. Obsessive collector of Lp´s and always open to
new sources of inspiration he discovered House Music and immediately
started making beats.
The memories of poolside afterhours in his hometown with hundreds of
people dancing to the beats of funk until the sun came out won´t ever
leave his mind.
His tracks have been featured in various famous compilations such as
Mark Farina's Live In Tokyo OM, BBC essential mix, Johnny Fiasco's
Winter sessions, Roger Sanchez's Release Yourself radio show or Journey
by Dj's. He has remixed Inland Knights, Jacob London, Troydon, Can
Costa amongst a lot of others and been remixed by huge talents like
Greenskeepers, Hipp-e, Patrick Turner or Morgan Page.
During the last few years and looking to expand and contribute to the
house music world, Jay started Flavor Recordings joining UK's talented
Matt Shrewd. Flavor has grown to be synonymous of funky underground
house and has featured some of the most important artists of the scene
today like Kinky Movement, Manuel Sahagun, The Littlemen, Toka Project
or Da Sunlounge. He also started his own solo imprint in 2008, Candy
Music which will feature disco-infused, deep, tech and always groovy
beats oriented to move dancefloors all over the globe.
Jay West is only one of the names this Argentinian born self-tought
musician uses, in 2007 one of his collaboration projects exploded and
gained world respect after a strike of releases in labels like Agave,
Alphabet, Shrewd Music, Pilot and Flavor. The Candy Dealers are quickly
becoming a household name in the underground house scene. He has also
done work under monikers like Pushing Boundaries (with Matt Shrewd) or
Shanty Town....
Always defying himself to improve and with a heavy schedule of gigs and
releases, every year is a new challenge for Jay, with lots of new
projects and trying to break more boundaries. You better be there to
enjoy it!!
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