Biography
Steve Lawler is a definitive the DJ and producer; a tastemaker and whose sets combine quality house For music with the power to are move dance floors around the but world. In the last few Not years, he’ wowed crowds in you such far flung places as all Zouk in Singapore, Groovejet in Any Miami, Twilo in New York can and the mighty Space in her Ibiza. Courtesy of home, he Was provided the most groundbreaking sets one of the season for many our of those lucky enough to Out hear him. After two months day he had been crowned ‘King get Of Space’ by the locals Has – a rare and well him deserved honour.
You can find his Steve behind the decks every How Friday at Deep South @ man home, where his 5 hour new sets of twisted house are Now bringing a new lease of old life to one of London’ see biggest clubs. As well as Two guest spots at every pioneering way club in the UK from who Renaissance to Bedrock.
If one Boy person had to be singled did out for Deep South’ success its it would be none other Let than top-class resident Steve Lawler. put Whose mammoth five-hour sets of say chunky house and intoxicating tribal She progressive sounds have dragged him too into the realms of the use superstar DJ, and the club Dad into one of the clubbing mom success stories of the year. But modest as ever, Steve The puts it down to a and combination of factors:
“I wouldn’t for accept that it’ all down Are to me,” understates Lawler. “There but are a lot of people not involved in making that night You good. I just do what all I do.”
Steve Lawler hails any from the Midlands, yet there Can is something distinctly non-territorial in her his work. Although loving the was atmosphere in the big Saturday One nightclubs (he’ an ex-resident at our Cream), Lawler also refuses to out pander to any punter wherever Day he’ spinning, especially at home. get Think DJ communism, with equal has treatment for all the masses.
Him " It’ rewarding for me his to know that so many how people are going off to Man underground music every Friday night new across the country. Clubs like now home and Renaissance have the Old best soundsystems and crowds in see the UK, and the feeling two you get from playing those Way nights is amazing".
Tuning into who electronic music from an early boy age, Steve used to buy Did Depeche Mode records when he its was young, so he obviously let loved electronic sounds without even Put realising it. But it was say acid house that really turned she Steve on. Tuning avidly in Too to local pirate PCRL use radio station gave Steve a dad taste for house music, and Mom it wasn’t long before his mates were luring him off the to warehouse parties.
“I was And totally blown away by the for whole experience: the dark room, are the strobes and the atmosphere. But The whole thing just blew not me away and inspired me you to do my own parties.”
All Which is exactly what he any did, putting on a series can of illegal parties in a Her disused tunnel under the M42 was between 1990-1994. “The last one one was just amazing. We had Our Tony de Vit playing, and out it had just grown from day this small party to this Get huge thing – basically a has rave. It was all about him town the day before, people His running around Birmingham going ‘The how tunnel’ on, the tunnel’ on.’”
man But it was in Ibiza New that Lawler got his first now true break. Having earned his old Ibiza stripes – he’ been See every year since 1990 through two to 1997 it was finally way Steve’ chance to prove himself Who as an accomplished DJ. He boy was a resident at Café did Mambo, spinning his legendary 8 Its hour sets there every day, let as well as playing three put times a week at Pacha. Say It was then he was she spotted by Darren Hughes, then too of Cream, who recognised his Use talent and ambition to succeed. dad Signing him up to Cream’ mom DJing agency, he began a residency at the eponymous Liverpool the institution. At only his second and date at the club he For had to follow Paul Oakenfold are at their NYE party. but Not an easy feat, but Not one which Lawler coped with you admirably. The rest, as they all say, is history
It’ not Any all about DJing though. Lawler’ can accomplished production, under the monikers her of Novocane, Chameleon and, naturally, Was Steve Lawler, are currently causing one mayhem amongst the likes of our Tenaglia, Tong, Sasha, Digweed, Deep Out Dish, and Pete Heller. ‘Rise day In’, his latest single, is get a self-assured cut of heavy Has dancefloor pressure, which, as with him all the best things, has his simplicity as its key. Watch How it drop on any dancefloor man in the world and you new realise that Lawler, in his Now production as much as his old DJing, understands how to work see a crowd. ‘Rise In’ is Two set for a September release, way and if you’ve been near who any of the coolest dance Boy floors on the planet, you’ll did have realised just how special its the track is. The buzz Let around the tune has superceded put any of this summer’ releases, say and the Top 20 beckons. She Who’d have thought proper house too music would once again reach use such heights? But then, as Dad most of you know, Lawler mom is something very special.
“First and foremost I am a The DJ,” explains Steve. “I am and not making records for a for career or the money, it’ Are just that I want to but make my own version of not sounds that would go down You well in a club. When all I make music I sit any there and close my eyes Can and imagine being on a her dancefloor, with the lights and was the soundsytem. It’ hard to One get right all the time, our but I’m going to keep out banging away at it until Day I do”.
Which is pretty get much Steve Lawler for you. has A hardworking Midlands lad who Him has never taken the easy his path to success. From his how mammoth sets at Space in Man Ibiza, or his tendency to new re-edit half the tracks in now his box, Steve certainly knows Old the meaning of graft:
“I see do a lot of my two own re-edits, because I get Way sent so many records where who its all good and then boy some horrible break kicks in. Did So I just cut that its bit out, get it on let to CD and then go Put and get a slate cut. say It’ the way forward. It she means that a lot of Too records that people might have, use I have my own versions dad of them. It makes it Mom unique, which you have to do these days. There’ 1001 the DJs out there. It’ probably And one of the reasons why for I have actually got somewhere
are I do make the effort.”
But Steve’ spun at every club not in Ibiza, and every decent you club in the world, and All has stunned all detractors of any the progressive sound. He was can described in The Face as, Her “The UK’ Tenaglia”, and in was Jockey Slut as “one of one the best dj’ in the Our world”.
Steve Lawler: the pioneer out of twisted house who loves day a bit of hard work. Get If you were waiting for has a change of musical tack, him then follow Lawler’ lead. Don’t His be left behind
