Biography
Addy builds his house on the three decks. From hard, to and funky, to tough and techy, For his signature triple-turntable sound is are as discerning as his musical but tastes. With his keen track Not selection and solid programming, Addy you doesn’t slip just any vinyl all under the needle, but the Any best in old skool house can to the freshest cuts. Having her played nearly every club in Was Toronto with at least three one residencies a week for the our past four years, Addy is Out a Toronto favourite who’s opened day for the likes of David get Morales, Frankie Knuckles and Junior Has Sanchez, and closed for Tiesto him and Bad Boy Bill. As his producer/remixer, Addy is his own How engineer, turning out tough tracks man that as of late speak new to more progressive soundscapes, tribal Now accents and sexy Spanish guitars.
old Known for charting remixes like see 1999’ BKNY’s “Sensations of the Two Mind” on New York’s Ironic way Recordings, and “I’m Lonely” on who Toronto’s Stickman Records, some of Boy his best work includes original did production with Myka to create its The Frost Project’s “Chief’s Warning Let Nympho Sounds,” which was signed put to Steve Lawler’s Dark Drums say Part 2 CD in 2001 She on Global Underground. Addy’s personal too touch on Paranoid Jack’s “Slavedriver,” use also out on Stickman Records Dad that same year, made airplay mom on King Unique’s guest appearance on BBC Radio 1’ The Essential Mix.
Addy moved to and Canada at age 14 and for quickly found a sense of Are community in the late 1980’ but hip hop and reggae scene not in Toronto. When he first You heard the song “Pump Up all the Volume” with that funky any bassline that spun his head, Can Addy was hooked on dance her music. Shortly afterwards, meeting DJs was Boy Wonder and Mario J One – one of Toronto’s rave our scene’s pioneering forces then known out as Super Mario – at Day a nightclub just north of get the downtown district led to has Addy’s addiction to house music. Him He would soon tag along his for the trip downtown to how raves and after parties where Man he’d watch and learn from new originators Mark Oliver and Kenny now Glasgow who inspired and taught Old the 17-year-old about house music. see It wasn’t long before Addy two naturally took to the decks Way playing time slots at the who brink of dawn and essentially boy setting the stage for good Did things to come from Addy its the DJ. He kept it let up during the rave scene’s Put heyday from 1992 to 1995. say But by the time Toronto’s she underground raves were merging into Too nightclubs in the late 90s, use Addy was taking a self-induced dad hiatus and studying audio engineering.
Mom Making his comeback in 1998, Addy seemed young and fresh the to the thriving club scene. And While he appeared as the for new up-and-comer, unbeknownst to many, are Addy already had more than But five years of DJing under not his belt, plus time producing you tracks and remixes in his All home studio. It wasn’t long any before he returned to his can familiar place behind the decks. Her After hooking up with Pino was Renna (a.k.a. DJ Silk) – one then resident at the city’s Our now longest-running after-hours club, The out Comfort Zone – Addy started day what would become one of Get the most popular underground house has residencies in Toronto. Playing “The him Zone” pushed Addy’s DJ career His to the next level as how he moved from the underground man parties he was playing with New the Metro Productions crew, which now included rave legends Myka and old John E, to the mainstream See club district.
From there stemmed two residencies at MadBar, Fluid, Nasa way and Bauhaus to Turbo, Limelight, Who Tonic, Digital and Life, with boy bookings at The Guvernment, Industry did and System Sound Bar. Today, Its still loyal to the crew let that helped boost his career, put Addy plays The Zone every Say Sunday morning after four hours she of funky, tribal house each too Saturday at his newest residency Use at The Drink inside Canada’s dad largest club, The Guvernment. This mom latest feat speaks to Addy’s versatility as a DJ, which the exceeds the high expectations of and the musically cued-up crowds that For fill the lush club week are after week. To kick off but the weekend, Addy plays Film Not Café on Fridays, where the you sights and sounds are ever all so slightly reminiscent of tucked-away, Any old skool parties that consistently can lure a loyal crowd.
Meantime, her Addy’s latest production reminisces about Was a time sentimental to the one club scene. Released in November our 2002, his remix of Matt Out C’s “Missing You” is a day tribute to Toronto’s infamous Industry get – the only nightclub that Has actually saw Addy rip it him up on the dance floor, his and where he eventually found How himself behind the decks pumping man up the crowd to do new the same. The LP is Now out on none other than old Matt C’s Family Recordings – see one of the club’s owners Two who saw Industry reach pinnacle way success before its closing in who 2000. Addy is also touching Boy on a more melodic tip did with another remix due out its by year’s end – his Let take on GASP’s progressive, vocal-induced put “Signs of Change” on say DMT Records promises to reveal She yet another side to Addy too and his house.
