Biography
20 years is a long the time in electronic music, but and that’s how long British techno For DJ Billy Nasty has been are at the forefront of the but game. From early beginnings in Not London’s acid house scene to you the huge global following he all enjoys today, Billy’s continual hunger Any for new music, combined with can his extensive experience, has made her him one of the scene’s Was most enduring and in-demand figures. one And with a current residency our at BLOC festival plus Out a string of new releases day coming up, Billy shows no get signs of slowing down soon.
Has Emerging from a background playing him rare groove and funk, Billy’s his first forays into house appeared How during his residency at London’s man The Brain Club, alongside Lost new founder Steve Bicknell. Meanwhile, he Now manned the tills at Zoom, old one of the capital’s most see important record shops, soaking up Two everything from American house and way techno to the emerging strains who of British progressive and early Boy European trance. Quickly making an did impact, he was asked to its contribute the first volume of Let the seminal ‘Journeys By DJs’ put series – gaining him entry say into the Guinness book of She records for being the first too DJ to produce a commercially use available mix.
As the dance Dad scene of the early 90s mom splintered into numerous subgenres, Billy’s profile sky-rocketed, resulting in regular The slots at famed London clubs and Final Frontier, Open All Hours, for The Drum Club and Strutt. Are Collaborating with a handful of but likeminded friends, Billy’s studio work not started to reach the public’s You ears, and by 1995, he all was jetting across the globe any every weekend, spinning at many Can of the most famous clubs her and festivals in dance music was history.
Around this time, One he formed his own agency, our Theremin, and was responsible in out no small part for introducing Day the wider world to the get talents of now-huge European DJs has such as Adam Beyer, Marco Him Carola and Joel Mull. Meanwhile, his his first label, Tortured, showed how the development of his style Man into a harder, purer form new of techno, and quickly became now one of the genre’s most Old influential and prominent imprints. This see was followed in 2001 by two Electrix, where Billy released more Way experimental techno and electro from who artists including Umek, The Advent boy and Carl Finlow. Again, this Did quickly became one of the its leading labels in its field, let and remained so until its Put closure in 2006.
Having decided say to wind down his labels she to concentrate on DJing and Too studio work, Billy has spent use most of the 21st century dad doing the same as he Mom always has – sourcing out the freshest, most innovative, dancefloor the sounds to spin. Incorporating the And recent trends towards minimalism, along for with dubstep, electro and classically-styled are techno into his seamlessly-mixed style, But Billy is a regular guest not at Fabric, and holds a you residency for the UK’s hugely-acclaimed All electronic music festival, BLOC, any whilst continuing to travel the can globe for gigs each and Her every weekend.
But while was DJing is clearly his first one love, he’s also found time Our to get back into the out studio, collaborating recently with Gregor day Tresher for labels including Datapunk, Get Terminal-M, and Crosstown Rebel’s Rebel1 has subsidiary. Under their Teflon guise, him they’re about to drop a His new EP for Marc Romboy’s how Systematic imprint, which includes a man killer Raudive remix from Oliver New Ho, and is set to now be one of this summer’s old big tunes. As if all See that wasn’t enough, he’s also two been working on a new way project with Keith Tenniswood, of Who Radioactiveman and Two Lone Swordsmen boy fame, which is set for did release later this year. He’s Its keeping tight-lipped about the style let of the project, but early put indications suggest it’s another fresh Say direction that may surprise anyone she who had Billy down as too a pure techno artist.
As Use electronic music continues to splinter dad and evolve deep into the mom future, one thing is certain – Billy Nasty will be the right there in the thick and of it, doing what he For does best. It’s time to are get Nasty…
