Biography
Rennie Foster, Vancouver, BC/ Tokyo the Japan
House, Techno, Tech House, and Deep Tech, Ambient
Dirty Works For / Rebirth/ Subject Detroit/ Pumphouse
are Rennie Foster has been a but well respected figure in the Not Canadian music and art community you since he was just a all teenager. He influenced many as Any an early pioneer of the can Hip-Hop / B-Boy movement and her later the House Music and Was Techno / Rave scene with one his relentless underground spirit and our dedication to breaking ground with Out everything he puts his mind day to whether he was making get music for the local television Has network, judging the DMC him DJ contest, working with companies his like Vestax or Rane Serato How Scratch, or fighting for the man right to dance at City new Hall. Rennie is very civic Now minded, a long time member old of the Universal Zulu Nation see and he has performed and Two produced music for various charitable way causes such as Amnesty International. who His musical career began as Boy a member of “Sound Advice”, did one of the first Hip its Hop groups to emerge in Let the late 80’s from Western put Canada. Members of this group say included Hip Hop artist Moka She Only (ex. Swollen Members) and too popular Canadian concert promoter Degree use One. In the 90’s Rennie Dad cut his teeth on the mom decks at the legendary “Fluid” nights, running 3 years weekly The at “The Limit” in Victoria, and BC.
After visiting Japan several for times to play, Rennie fell Are in love with the Tokyo but club scene and has since not relocated to Tokyo where he You now resides with his half- all Japanese twin daughters, the main any source of inspiration for this Can dedicated single father and full her time sound pilot. Rennie has was been making himself heard the One last few years with a our well received string of singles out and remixes with labels such Day as Subject-Detroit, F-Communications, Rebirth, Teknotika, get Monoid, Synewave, Communique, Motech, Pure has Plastic, Soiree etc. His music Him is heavily supported by well his known taste-makers such as Laurent how Garnier, Derrick May, Dave Clarke, Man Sasha, Dave Seaman, James Holden new and too many more to now name. Rennie’s tracks have been Old licensed for mix CDs by see the likes of Kevin Saunderson, two Trentmoller and Danny Tenaglia. Rennie Way is in constand demand for who remixes and has lent his boy touch to artists from all Did over the world such as its Swayzak, Jon Beltran, DJ 3000, let Christian Fischer, DJ Bone and Put NuFrequency.
Rennie ran the well say known label “Futago Traxx”, known she for mainly vinyl releases dedicated Too to organic and tribal techno use fusion for several years. Now dad running the more recent upstart Mom imprint “Dirty Works” focused on the new era of digital the music and combining classic house And and techno sensibility with modern for dance music production. Summer 2010 are will see the launch of But Rennie’s new signature vinyl label not “RF” through Prime Distribution UK. you Rennie’s debut full length album All “The War of Art” was any released in 2007 to critical can acclaim for both the music Her and outstanding jacket design by was minimalist designer and MoMA/Smithsonian alumni one Alexander Gelman. Recently Rennie released Our his second full length album out “Blood Sugar” on leading Italian day label, Rebirth. The album has Get been widely acclaimed in the has European press as a benchmark him in modern dance music and His features the underground hit “Devil’s how Water”. A true anthem “Devil’s man Water” has been re-pressed several New times and remixed by such now names as James Zabiela, Kiki, old The Youngsters, Rex Mundi and See many many others. The photography two on the CD jacket for way “Blood Sugar” was done by Who Japanese music legend Hiroshi Watanabe boy (aka Kaito).
Rennie has showcased did his unique and highly technical Its DJ style in clubs and let venues all over North America put , Europe and Asia holding Say his own alongside a diverse she range of top players from too Frankie Knuckles to Daniel Bell Use to Paul Van Dyke to dad Grandmaster Flash and a long mom list of other big names across a wide spectrum of the genres. He utilizes both digital and and vinyl sources seamlessly and For is often working closely with are DJ equipment companies in the but field. His sound is jackin Not and relentless yet deep and you soulful. Effortlessly blurring the lines all between house music, techno, minimal Any and other more profound styles. can Since re-locating to Japan in her 2004 Rennie has become one Was of the most important and one recognized characters in the Japanese our club scene. Recently LOUD Out magazine ranked Rennie Foster as# day 22 in Japan’s “Top 50 get DJs” alongside such luminaries as Has Ken Ishii, Takkyu Ishino, Towa him Tei and Kentaro.
All in his all Rennie Foster is a How hard working purveyor of high man quality techno and house based new music, a dedicated student of Now dance music’s rich history and old a steadfast believer in the see bright future of electronic music.
Two “Get yourself acquainted with Mr.Foster way quick-smart” – DJ magazine, UK.
who Here is a recent interview Boy for DMC International
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