Sick Vibez guest mix by the legendary K-KLASS
Musical Style: Without the usual patronising 3rd party plaintiffs and historical diatribe K-Klass need no introduction, they are still one of the biggest producers of house music EVER!!! They are responsible for some of the biggest house tracks ever made. K-Klass are all about entertaining and playing for the crowd. They play at various events and venues all over the world on a weekly basis, which means it is important that they adapt their music to suit each venue. The K-Klass preferred music style is underground house music, however they also play funky & vocal house when they need to be more accessible.
Accolades: Nights out at the legendary Hacienda “Nude” nights in 1988 led to the meeting of minds and the beginnings of the K-Klass phenomena that lead to regular performances at the Hacienda
From there K-Klass became residents for the worlds biggest dance brand “Cream”, playing guest slots all over the world at some of the most prestigious and biggest dance events that can be witnessed.
UK residencies have included:
Cream (world wide), Cream Classics Tours (world wide), Pacha (London), Retro (nation wide)
UK Guest Sets Have Included: Creamfields Festival (Liverpool), Garlands (Liverpool), Hacienda (Manchester), Shindig (Newcastle), Miss Moneypennys Tours (nationwide), Smirnoff Ice Experience Tour (Nationwide), Tall Trees (Yarm), Golden (Stoke), Turnmills (London), Pacha (London), Heaven (London), Zap (Brighton), Frisky (Northampton), Déjà vu (Hull), Love To Be (Leeds), Glasshouse (Leeds), The Emporium (Coalville), Colours (Glasgow) Pod (Dublin).
International Guest Sets Included:
Cream events (worldwide ) and Creams massive parties at Amnesia (Ibiza), Tangerine (Dubai), The Embassy (Jakarta Indonesia), Club Base (Brazil), Pacha (Portugal), Smirnoff Experience (Jamaica), New Century and Heineken NYE Party (Vietnam), Love Boat Party (Hamburg, featured in DJ Magazine), Amnesia, Privilege, El Divino (Ibiza) Club 13, 9A (Moscow), First Club and Kube (Denmark), Night Flight party (Varna,Bulgaria), The Lucky Strike tour (Johannesburg, Durban, Cape town, South Africa), K-D-Club (Switzerland), Love Boat (Austria), 360 (Turkey), House Obsession (Singapore), ESC (Bali)
Studio Work: K-Klass had already gained underground support for their acclaimed “Wildlife E.P” released in 1990 before they unleashed their sound onto a nationwide audience with the release of "Rhythm is a Mystery" (No.3 in U.K. Top 40) and the huge "Let Me Show You" (No.13 in U.K. Top 40) as well as a further four U.K. top 40 tunes and two K-Klass albums.
With countless remixes/ productions under their belt it comes as no surprise that K-Klass won the International Dance Awards in 1995 & were nominated for the USA Grammy Awards in the 2002 remix category.
When K-Klass are not behind the decks they spend their time in the studio and have worked alongside most of the biggest and most established artists around, some of these include: The Pet Shop Boys, Kathy Brown, Shake Down, Whitney Houston, Gerri Halliwell, Blondie, Bobby Brown, M-People, Level 42, Kylie Minogue, Rozalla, Sunscreem, Frankie Knuckles, Bizzare Inc, Kathy Sledge, New Order, Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross, Lisa Stansfield and Candi Staton plus many many more.
2010 saw the boys busy putting together their brand new record label - MUZIK-K which has continued to grow from strength to strength with releases from up and coming producers and all new K-Klass material.
Already the label has seen K-KLASS go to number 2 in the club charts with their own release of "Finally" plus a project with disco/house legend Candi Staton, “Musical Freedom” that was released on Nocturnal Grooves. If this is not enough, K-Klass have recently been featured on a multitude of CD compilation albums including the latest Cream Classics album & Fierce Angel “The Collection”.
However, even more recently K-KLASS have collaborated with Mark Wilkinson to produce a cover version of the classic Young MC track “Know How”, re-vocaled and restyled, featuring the vocal talents of Sensus doing his thing that has been released on Kidology.
Second up is a new track titled "Capture Me" with Bobbi on the vocals. This is forthcoming on Nocturnal Groove recordings (Shapeshifters label) distributed via Defected Records. Pending release are two new tracks that are both being released on Mjuzieek called “Breaking Away” & the classic “Everybody Dance”
With plenty of releases lined up for 2011 for the label and K-KLASS still in demand on the production, remix and DJing front, K-KLASS are set to make their 21st year in dance music as successful as the previous 20 years!
Ultimate DJ Moment: “With over a decade of memories to choose from, two of our high light’s that spring to mind would have to be when Graeme Park dropped “Rhythm Is A Mystery” at the world famous Hacienda nightclub back in 1991, and when we where very honored to play the final set in the main room at Cream’s last weekly night in Liverpool which was the 10th birthday. The last record we played was “Let Me Show You”, the Cream self made anthem”
K KLASS MAY 2011 PODCAST TRACK LISTING
1.Sonny Wharton & K Klass : Rush Hour Nocturnal Groove
2.Big Black Boot : Vibrate Stereo
3.Sonny Wharton feat. Mr Eyez : We Ain't Done Yet Skint
4.Kevin Andrews feat. Sam Solace : Give You My Love (Main Playerz Mix) World Sound
5.Mastiksoul : La Sucia Pimp Mix 4 Kenzo
6.Nicky Romero : Play n Stop Work
7.Filthy Rich & Bass Kleph : Be Right There Toolroom
8.Directors Cut feat. Jamie Principle : I'll Take You There (Shapeshifters Mix) Nocturnal Groove
9.Chus Soler & Alex Garcia : What I Want Good Feeling
10.K Klass : Bad Boy CDR
11.Danism & Michael Grey feat. Rae : You Will Remember (Danism's Dub 4 Life) Defected
12.Umek : Dead Space Toolroom
13.Marcel & Stefano Pain : My House Bootylicious
14.Baggi Begovic vs Barbera Tucker : Most Precious Love (Jose De Mara Mashup) CDR
15.Steve Forest vs X-Static : I'm Standing (Chris Kaeser Mix) Jolly Roger
16.Kevin Andrews & Jason Chance : Dizco World Sound
17.Antonyo & Andreas : I Said (K Klass Edit) Maaad
18.Rob Nutek : Instant CDR
