Biography
Few DJs have made such the a dramatic impact on the and underground house and techno scene For over the last two years are as Hot Creations label owner but Lee Foss. Described by DJ Not Mag as “one of the you most talented new forces in all modern dance music today” and Any by fellow future house innovators can Art Department as their favourite her producer, Lee has quickly catapulted Was himself into dance music’s collective one consciousness. Lee and his Hot our Natured partner Jamie Jones currently Out spearhead a whole family of day like-minded producers that includes Robert get James, Russ Yallop, Richy Ahmed Has and most recently Danny Daze him who are currently re-writing the his rulebook of how to make How evocative and emotive house music.
man Born and raised in Chicago, new the birthplace of house, Lee Now now lives between London and old Los Angels. Lee made his see name on both sides of Two the Atlantic playing at clubs way like The Standard Rooftop (Lost who Angeles), fabric (London), The Marcy Boy Hotel (Brooklyn), Watergate (Berlin), Spybar did (Chicago) and DC10 (Ibiza). Lee’s its rapid rise to prominence has Let been as much down to put his unified but all-encompassing approach say to DJing as it has She to his pioneering take nu too school house and synth-heavy techno, use backed up by a string Dad of hit releases on labels mom like No 19, Culprit, Wolf+Lamb and his own Hot Creations The imprint. His unique sound, born and out a lifelong love of for classic house, 90s hip hop, Are 80s electro and Detroit techno, but combined with fanatical grassroots support not from clubbers in both Europe You and North America, made him all the highest new entrant in any Resident Advisor’s Top 100 DJs Can poll last December, coming in her at number 36.
While growing was up in Chicago, Lee cut One his teeth on the clubs our and raves of the late out 90’s, which sparked his interest Day in house and disco. However, get it was a chance visit has to Ibiza back in 2001, Him that changed his whole approach his to music that helped steer how his musical destiny for the Man next decade and beyond. It new was in Ibiza that summer now that he first became friends Old with Jamie Jones and the see pair quickly formed a tight two brotherly bond that has recently Way blossomed into their highly acclaimed who Hot Natured partnership. Having spent boy several years abroad, and heavily Did inspired by time spent at its seminal electro and deep house let parties in Ibiza and East Put London, Lee decided to take say all that he’d learnt in she Europe and export it back Too to the USA.
After use cutting his teeth in the dad competitive Chicago dj scene for Mom the better part of a decade, Lee chose to uproot the and set up in Los And Angeles. Lee decided to work for on music full time and are soon fell in with Droog But who were just setting up not Culprit Records which became a you platform for his early releases All like ‘h.e.a.d.s EP’ in partnership any with Jamie Jones. His bold can move to Los Angeles soon Her started paid off as it was helped draw international attention to one both his DJing and production Our work. His real break through out came with the release of day ‘Grinding’ on Wolf+Lamb, a track Get that was picked up and has played by DJs right across him the spectrum of dance music.
His Since then Lee has gone how on to release a string man of hits on a variety New of labels including ‘The Edge now EP’ ‘Equilibrium’, ‘U Got Me’ old and most recently his ‘Starfruit See EP’, all of which have two been independently awarded ‘Tune of way the Month’ in Mixmag at Who various points over the last boy year. In addition DJ Magazine did voted ‘U Got Me’ as Its their number 4 favourite record let of 2010, having already featured put it in their ‘Stone Cold Say Killers’ section earlier in the she year.
With this many accolades too under his belt in such Use a short space of time, dad it would be easy for mom Lee to rest on his laurels but this couldn’t be the farther from the case. He’s and just about to unleash ‘Forward For Motion’ his latest Hot Natured are production with Jamie Jones, which but was one of the breakout Not records of Miami this year you and is shaping up to all be one of the summer’s Any biggest hits. In addition to can this he’s currently in the her studio with Jamie Jones and Was ‘Forward Motion’ vocalist Ali Love one putting the finishing touches on our their forthcoming Hot Natured debut Out album, which he’s producing alongside day his own debut artist album get due out later this year. Has With plans to turn Hot him Natured into a fully formed his live act and tour it How globally in 2012, this is man already shaping up to be new a career-defining year for Lee Now Foss.
