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BIOGRAPHY
 

A name that’s been gaining increasing attention from the who’s who of the electronic music community is London based dj and producer jozif. The born and bred artist has worked his way to where he is today with typical (to anyone that knows him) ‘jozif swagger’; passionate, determined and wildly talent driven he’s been charming the pants off the international circuit with his productions and dj sets alike.

With an underlying groove to his low slung rhythms, jozif has an infectious presence in and out of the booth; encapsulating his floor and coaxing them alongside his ever changing musical explorations. Craig Richards, Ben Watt, Matt Tolfrey, Andrew Weatherall, Paul Woolford and Ashley Beadle have all fallen hook line and sinker for his quirky and impossible to pigeon hole beats. Loose and lazy drum patterns, dramatic strings and brass are tinged with slomo ambience and a rolling undercurrent of funk; depicting a soundtrack all of his own that not only resonates with our musical heart strings but evokes the dirtiest bump and grit of a twisted 6am dance floor. Regular appearances at fabric, his residencies at London’s lo*kee and Ibiza’s We Love...Space fall side by side with a packed gig schedule spanning the UK, Europe and America; this year including Miami’s WMC and an upcoming Australian tour.

2010 was a defining year for jozif with releases on Wolf + Lamb and Vitalik gaining mass support alongside an end of year RA podcast mixed entirely of his own productions and edits. Its unique edge garnered such praise from industry and public alike that it goes down as one of the most talked about RA podcasts to date. 2010 also saw the launch of Fist of Finger; jozif’s limited edition vinyl only label with fabric musical director and long time buddy Craig Richards. Featuring jozif's dance floor A-side’s and Craig's experimental reinterpretations on the flip, their debut release 'Beats In Space' was an instant sell out, their second cut ‘Brick Jane’ following suit and the imminent ‘Room 3’ looking set to do the same.

2011 has only cemented things for jozif with his ‘Sunrise’ Ep on InFiné
spanning a plethora of musical influences and paving the way for his second Infiné release, the emotive ‘Lady B’ Ep, which will be out later this year. Rounding off the first half of 2011 with projects including ‘Promises’ with R&B and soul singer Terri Walker on This Is Music and on mixing duty for this 2011’s We Love Compilation CD. Recent remixes on My Favourite Robot, Compost and Mobilee alongside upcoming remixes for Shonky on Culprit, Soul Clap & Tanner Ross on No.19 and Rui Da Silva, have secured his spot as a talented remixer. An artist who himself refuses to define or describe his sound and rightly so...the music plays testament to the fact that it is there to be heard and felt...not labelled.

In essence the future is ever brighter for jozif - to keep up to date with all news and new music check out his MySpace, Soundcloud and Facebook pages.

Read more about jozif on the blog.

 
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we love... winter mix 09

Another tip top mix from Jozif who says:

"This mix is a representation of the music I have been playing over the last
few months at places like We Love and fabric. I included some chopped up vocal samples form the closing party episode of the We Love TV show.. I kinda wanted to pay homage to the guys & girls at We Love for yet another amazing season which I was fortunate to be a part of this year:)"

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Jozif live mix

This Sunday in the Red Box sees Vitalik recordings team up with The Burlington Project to celebrate the launch of their debut EP, The Bubble Boy E.P. from J U G and Mark Henning. Attention to detail, precision sculpture of sounds and layer over layer of evolving grooves are the characters that set this production ahead of the rest. Many labels define their sound by genre to create an identity and sound that people can categorise them by, however with vitalik recordings create their identity with the standards they set rather than a particular sound. Vitalik’s artists can't be boxed into a particular genre whether by the music they produce or the sets they play. To hear a further taste of vitalik, download this exclusive Jozif live in Bristol mix then head up to the Red Box on Sunday night!

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