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Tony De Vit

Antony/Tony de Vit

(12 September 1957 – 2 July 1998)

Tony was an English DJ and music producer. He is considered one of the most influential of his generation.​

 

Tony was credited with helping to take the "hard house" and fast "hard NRG" sounds out of the London and Birmingham gay scene into mainstream clubs.His single "Burning Up" reached number 25 on the UK Singles Chart in March 1995, with "To the Limit" making number 44 in September 1995.

During that year, he won BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix of the Year Award, as voted by listeners of the show, and Music Week's re-mix of Year Award for Louise's "Naked".He remixed several UK top 40 hits during his career with artists such as Taylor Dayne and East 17.

 

Between 1994 and 1998 his popularity with the clubbing public was rivalled by only Paul Oakenfold and Carl Cox.

 

In September 2010, Mixmag UK announced the nominations of 35 DJs chosen by other big names in the world of dance music as those they considered the best DJs ever.

A subsequent 15-month survey, which polled hundreds of thousands of global votes, asked who was the "greatest DJ of all time" and when the result was announced in January 2011, Tony was ranked number 9 in the world.​

 

Tony played many clubs in his time, however he really was considered 'Best of the best' at Trade at Turnmills, London, to which he still has a huge faithful fan base.

Rich B

Rich B was a DJ based in London, England, who ran his own label, Enriched Records.

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A pioneer of the British house music scene,  he remained a prominent figure in the music industry and an in-demand producer and remixer. In his last few years he officially remixed (with studio partner DJ Phil Marriott), RuPaul & Michelle Visage, Conchita Wurst, LeAnn Rimes, Erasure, Dannii Minogue, Dave Aude & Jessica Sutta, CeCe Peniston, Nile Rodgers, Holly Johnson, Florrie and more, and topped the US and UK upfront charts three times.

 

As a solo remixer his Enriched Mixes also made waves, notably on the US circuit scene, for artists including Toy Armada & DJ GRIND, Joe Gauthreaux, Inaya Day, Abigail, Temporary Hero and the Billboard Dance Chart #1 hit “Lick Me Up” by Tony Moran, Dani Toro and Zhana Royia.

 

With his label Enriched Records, he also had club hits with Lady Bunny, Marcella Puppini, Levi Kreis, Cool Like Daddy, Chrissy Darling to name a few.

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Rich B perfected his trademark uplifting sound through his key DJ residencies in the UK, most notably on the huge main dance floor at the world famous Heaven in London from 1994 to 2001 (The Fruit Machine), the legendary Love Muscle at The Fridge, Sherbet and Crash (all also in London), as well as at Paradise Factory and Essential in Manchester, Luvely in Edinburgh, and on both Gaydio and Gaydar Radio.

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He has also played regularly for Alternative Holidays and RSVP Vacations, and toured Brazil, South Africa, and the USA.

He was also a regular DJ at the European Snow Pride, the high profile and popular annual gay ski event in the French Alps.

Rachel Auburn

Rachel Auburn (born 1958) is a British fashion designer and hard house and trance disc jockey and music producer.

She has performed her music extensively internationally, and was both the first female DJ to play in China and the first to showcase 1980s London clubland fashion in New York and Tokyo.

 

 Auburn has held DJ residencies at club events including Tidy Trax, Taboo, and Trade, and has achieved UK chart success under her own name and the Tidy Girls and Candy Girls aliases.

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Auburn was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1958. She has a degree in fashion design from Harrow College.

Auburn is known for her "unconventional" and "experimental" fashion designs. She first set up a stall in Kensington Market in 1982, and went on to be a significant presence as both a designer and a disc jockey in London's clubland.

She first met Leigh Bowery at the market, and together they went on to open a stall together called 'Spend Spend Spend' and were the first to showcase the 1980s London clubland fashion scene in New York and Tokyo organised by Susanne Bartsch.

Auburn has work in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, and was featured in the 2013 exhibition, Club to Catwalk, at the Victoria and Albert museum.

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Along with Paul Masterson, Auburn formed the Candy Girls duo. Their single "Wham Bam", with Sweet Pussy Pauline, peaked at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart in 1996.

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Auburn was in the Tidy Girls, a Tidy Trax hard house collaboration with Lisa Lashes, Anne Savage, and Lisa Pin-Up.

 The Tidy Girls eponymous release achieved success in the UK official singles chart in 1999.

In 2015 Auburn mixed the retrospective best-of compilation Reactivate 91-01 for the React record label. It received positive critical reception, with one reviewer stating that, for the label React, it was "by far their best compilation".

Blu Peter

Peter Harris (born 1961), popularly known as Blu Peter, is a British electronic dance music producer and disc jockey from South Wales, who pioneered the nu-NRG music genre in the late 1990s.

 

In the early 1990s, he served as resident DJ at major London nightclubs Heaven and Turnmills and has performed at raves and nightclubs around the world.

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After establishing his DJ career, Peter began producing original music as Blu Peter.

He released dozens of 12-inch singles, CD singles, and remixes, many through React Music Limited of London.

In 1999, he released his first full-length studio album, Widescreen & Digital.

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Peter also partnered with Kevin White to form a production duo called Elevator. Together they co-produced numerous singles and EPs from 1994 through the early 2000s. Harris has also produced and co-produced a small number of singles and remixes under the aliases Blu Peter & Sal, The Groove Council, Quench, and Mass.

As Blu Peter, he's compiled volumes 8, 9, 10, and 12 of the Reactivate techno and trance compilation album series.

Lord Kaos aka Dominic Sinclair

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