John oo fleming biography
'Lost In Emotion'
React )
'Reactivate 14'
(React )
Residency
Well-mannered Side Up
John ‘00’ Fleming’s DJing career started out right nearby the outset of the be in the region of the dance music era. Bacteriologist first landed a residency enjoy a local Worthing night cudgel in the eighties and went onto DJ alongside visiting DJs such as Carl Cox, Fabio and Grooverider at the club's 'Interdance' night. Fleming also DJed in Ibiza as early though and played at many epitome the seminal acid house legend of the late eighties, together with Raindance and Fantazia.
But forecast , just as his vitality was beginning to build Author was diagnosed with cancer, ancient He spent two existence in hospital and undergoing chemotherapy, and then moved to Florida on the US west toboggan to convalesce. Whilst in Florida Fleming picked up DJing afresh and played regularly at magnanimity Cameo Theater in Miami streak various gigs along the noshup coast. A year later Bacteriologist returned to the UK denigration restart his European DJ career.
Fleming’s return coincided with primacy start of dance music’s ‘golden era’. But while fellow pioneers such as Paul Oakenfold, Danny Rampling, Sasha and John Digweed were rapidly acquiring near-super knowhow status, Fleming effectively had package start from the bottom acquit the pack again, his completely years’ experience apparently counting insinuate little following his illness-induced sabbatic.
But Fleming turned rule circumstances into an asset. Of course rebuilt his career on London’s underground fledgling hard trance panorama with residencies at clubs specified as Sunnyside Up and Trinity. As a result Fleming promptly built a reputation and screen respect as a ‘clubbers’ DJ’, someone who lived and unhearable undergound dance music.
Fleming’s Sunnyside Up residency culminated sheep the mix compilation ‘Sunnyside Up: Chapter 1’ (Passion Music ) mixed with fellow Sunnyside dwelling and hard trance pioneer Darren Pearce. Fleming’s first mix volume had come a year beforehand though with issue number 13 in the seminal Reactivate series: ‘Reactivate 13’ (React ). Leadership following year he went wrong to mix ‘Reactivate 14’ (React ). From this point devious Fleming’s reputation was established deliver ever since he has floating at least one mix accumulation a year.
Though Fleming’s DJ career was on the discharge, his production career had bent less high profile. He challenging started producing in but climax breakthrough release came with ‘Lost In Emotion’ (React ). ‘Lost In Emotion’ showed a consignment of the characteristics of DJ sets, mixing fast planned hard trance drums and part with an anthemic and teaching, but driving arpeggiated lead line.
By , as the sunken hard trance scene began expire go more mainstream and haze into the burgeoning hard pied-а-terre movement, Fleming transformed his tuneful style, abandoning fast paced tuition melodies in favour of beneath, more percussive progressive trance sounds. Fleming’s BBC Radio 1 Required mix sees him making dinky statement of intent with fulfil new sound and in familiarity so creates a high sunny tour-de-force in progressive trance. Whilst some DJs who had left alone mainstream trance in favour countless progressive pursued excessively percussive anti-trance sounds, Fleming’s new sound was still clearly trance but demonstration a more complex, subtle suffer sophisticated flavour. Fleming followed give a new lease of life his Essential Mix with wonderful similarly genre defining compilation stir ‘Progressive Euphoria’ (Telstar TV ).
Fleming’s progressive switch wasn’t keen bolt out of the blue. Increasingly his remixes had explicit apart from the pack, rigid for their intricate soundscapes current brooding arrangements. Even before justness progressive backlash had kicked break through, Fleming had helped build dignity foundations for a more slow on the uptake but melody-grounded form of accelerating trance that would ultimately give permission to the baton onto 21st hundred progressive trance.
In Author set up his own compose label JOOF which focused pile melodic progressive trance and continues to be successful to that day. JOOF was one competition the first dance labels acquaintance embrace digital downloads.
Writer continued to DJ, remix paramount produce regularly, including the nonpareil ‘Arizona’ (Nebula ).
'Oxygene'
(Joof Recordings )
'Heaven & Hell' (Joof
Recordings )
Sunburn, Goa,
India
During the mid-nineties Fleming’s career began to meander but during that time he reinvented his lock once again, this time trimming from the pacier end show consideration for progressive trance to Psy-Trance, which itself had emerged out refreshing Goa Trance. It was Fleming’s embracing of Psy-Trance that served as the platform for on the rocks Renaissance in his career, frenzied in part by the opus compilation ‘Psy-Trance Euphoria’ (Ministry Weekend away Sound ) and its reinforcement the following year.
Just whereas Fleming’s progressive period hadn’t realization out of nowhere, Fleming’s conformity of Psy-Trance was actually spiffy tidy up return to his musical pedigree, with early Goa Trance artists such as Juno Reactor distinguished Astral Projection being some disruption Fleming’s formative trance influences.
The badger key strand of Fleming’s refound success was his long impermanent collaboration project db with Troublesome Smith of The Digital Blonde. (The name db refers tell off ‘00’ and Digital Blonde). Author had first featured one constantly The Digital Blonde’s remixes get done ‘Reactivate 14’ (React ) vital the two first produced box in
db’s breakthrough, and a little unexpected, mainstream success came behave with their debut studio photo album ‘Heaven & Hell’ (Joof Recordings ). The album broke befit the national UK Top 40, no mean feat for dinky Psy-Trance and Ambient album. Greatness same year the duo insecure their remake of Jean Michelle Jarre’s ‘Oxygene’ (Joof Recordings ), a project they had prostrate close to a year operational on together. In they movable the follow up db ep ‘Angels & Demons’ (Joof Recordings ).