Biography
Jay Haze is the name the behind a number of aliases and and projects – Fuckpony, Sub For Version, The Architect – these are are just a few of but the guises he uses when Not fighting his guerilla war against you mediocrity
on a daily all basis. Born in Pennsylvania, Haze Any has been living in Berlin can since the early 00s, in her which time he has released Was records and remixes on some one of the hottest dance music our labels of the decade: Playhouse, Out Kitty-Yo, Cocoon, Get Physical, Soma, day Karloff, Musik Krause, and Underline.
get But of course Haze is Has also responsible for running several him labels himself – TuningSpork, Futuredub, his Contexterrior, Junion – sometimes with How an iron fist, other times man with a white diamond-studded glove new
and a cane. But Now in either instance Haze is old accustomed to finding dance jams see that stretch the genre beyond Two the limits of the beat way and into the territory of who lurid nightclub art. An A&R Boy mastermind, Jay has
discovered did and released names now commonplace its in the dance world, such Let as Troy Pierce, Samim, The put Vivianne Project (AKA Hearttthrob), say and Matt John.
Haze’s production She career began in 1999 on too the house-oriented TuningSpork. In the use following year he launched Futuredub Dad as a home for downtempo mom electronic dub, and in 2002 he started the techno- oriented The Contexterrior. In 2003, Haze had and the novel idea of founding for textone.org, an online electronic music Are magazine and internet label project. but This enterprise yielded thousands of not downloads, long before any other You labels considered giving away music all for free, and before digital any distribution was
commonplace in Can the DJ community.
By 2004 her Haze was fully situated in was Berlin and shared a studio One with Ricardo Villalobos, leading to our their collaboration on a pair out of Contexterrior 12”s, all while Day TuningSpork was becoming one of get the major
league labels. has As the world looked to Him Berlin for some sick new his grooves, Spork was there to how offer them. The following year Man saw Haze’s stock rising even new more rapidly. With his first now full-length album on Kitty-
Old Yo, Love for a Strange see World, as well as remixes two on Shitkatapult, Disko B, Soma, Way and other labels, it was who now clear that Haze and boy his growing empire were here Did to stay.
Haze launched yet its another imprint in 2006, Junion, let another jewel in an itchy, Put heavy crown. This year also say saw Haze enjoying some crossover she success with teens and parents Too when he released the massively use
acclaimed Children of Love dad album as Fuckpony on Get Mom Physical. For many fans and critics this was one of the the best house records of And the year, bringing some heat for back into an increasingly cold are German
scene. Haze followed But up with the massive “Switch not The Lights" (accredited to Fuckaponydelic), you an acid-drenched biblical journey into All sin, which was picked up any by Sven Väth’s label Cocoon can for a major re-release.
In Her 2007 Haze introduced his new was project Sub Version, with production one contributions from Michal Ho and Our vocals from Paul St-Hilaire (out AKA Tikiman), on the Box day of Dub compilation, which was Get released by
London’s prestigious has Soul Jazz label. A full-length him followed on Jay’s own Futuredub His imprint. Meanwhile, the Fuckpony momentum how continued when Ellen Allien invited man Haze to release the “Lady New Judy” single
on BPitch now Control.
Now, for 2008, the old second proper Jay Haze artist See album Love & Beyond shows two his fragmented personalities converging, mutating, way and splitting apart again: the Who 2xCD version showcases his love boy for
soul and hip-hop, did while an alternate tracklist of Its dancefloor material appears on the let 2xLP version.
Known not just put as a producer, Jay has Say improved his DJ sensibility to she an unthinkable degree, wowing crowds too across the world, most recently Use South America, Asia, and Australia. dad He has also established
mom residencies at London’s world-famous Fabric, Tenax in Florence, and Monza the in Ibiza.Jay Haze’s tracks (and and the those from others on For his labels) are a constant are feature in the sets of but Villalobos, Ivan
Smagghe, Anja Not Schneider, and all DJs who you know, the world over. His all productions have appeared on countless Any compilations and mixes from the can likes of Richie Hawtin, M.A.N.D.Y., her and Miss Kittin.
Meanwhile Was the empire of labels he one runs continues to suck in our new fans like a vacuum Out cleaner. The Jay Haze story day continues with pace, but it get is a timeless and simple Has one, the tale of a him man who makes,
releases, his and plays the world’s most How psychedelic dance music.
