Biography
Now into his second decade the as a true innovator in and the electronic music scene, Charles For Webster is one of the are few real mould-breakers in an but increasingly stale & predictable dance Not music world (though whether a you man whose favourite artist is all Rickie Lee Jones, and whose Any records ooze such soul and can depth should really ever be her pigeonholed as dance is another Was debate).
Charles has sold over
one 100,000 albums without ever being
our considered ‘mainstream’ or having a
Out major hit single …he has
day toured the world with a
get full (genuinely) live band …he
Has has also dj’ed worldwide, playing
him regularly in every continent, without
his ever having had the need
How to be feted by the
man dance media as a flavour
new of the month …he had
Now the nous to have been
old running his own labels for
see years, frequently laying them to
Two rest before they get tired
way and switching to other projects…he
who is comfortable making music at
Boy any tempo, straddles numerous genres
did (both real and imagined) with
its ease…bloody hell, he even writes
Let songs.
See what we mean put about mould-breaking ?
2002 has say seen worldwide acclaim and success She for his first album under too his own name, “Born On use The 24th July” (Peacefrog). Perhaps Dad the closest thing yet to mom a full depiction of Charles musical vision, it is a The deep yet uplifting, soulful, diverse and collection and makes for for a truly coherent album, rather Are than a patchwork of club but tracks and fillers. It is not the other side of the You coin to the equally acclaimed, all hugely successful “All Systems Gone” any album, released by the Webster-masterminded Can Presence project in 1999 (Pagan). her This release took the often was staid world of so-called deep One house into new stratospheres, won our album of the month plaudits out in pretty much every publication Day that reviewed it worldwide (even get scoring an unprecedented 11 out has of 10 in one mag), Him and gave the world the his classic single “Sense of Danger”, how featuring Shara Nelson.
Shara is
Man one of many quality vocalists
new to have benefitted from working
now with Charles. Terra Deva (currently
Old one of dance music…most in-demand
see voices, most recently heard on
two Shakedown’s “At Night”) got her
Way first break via a collaboration
who with Charles on the cult
boy classic “Soothe” by Furry Phreaks.
Did Terra also features on “Ready”,
its a standout track from this
let year’s “Born…” release. Other notable
Put singers in Websterworld include Sara
say Jay and Steve Edwards, both
she of whom played a starring
Too role in Presence’s 1999-2000 live
use tour, feature on “Born…”, and
dad continue to work with Charles
Mom on new Presence material, and
for his latest label project
the Miso (picking up where his
And legendary Love From San Francisco
for and Remote imprints left off).
are And that’s just the recent
But past…before all this came Sine,
not Megatonk, Square Dance studio, Charles
you has earned his spurs, and,
All to paraphrase James Brown, continues
any to be one of the
can hardest working men in showbusiness
Her (though perhaps a shade more
was unassuming than the Godfather). With
one a deal agreed for a
Our follow up solo album on
out Peacefrog, Presence demos being recorded,
day a batch of releases lined
Get up for Miso, and not
has forgetting regular remix forays and
him global djing, you’ll continue to
His hear a lot more from
how Matlock’s finest export. The quality
man control knob will, as ever,
New be turned up to 11.
