
Alley Cat - Studio Mix - Apr 2007
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Genre: Jungle / Drum and Bass
Date of Set: Apr 2007
Filesize: 120.95 MB
Total Downloads: 1
Biography of Alley Cat
Alley Cat landed in the UK nearly a decade ago to help out at the Skunkrock Productions headquarters in London. At the time she helped to build up the label’s name as a producer, touring DJ, and label A & R / promoter. Now in her 11th year of Djing..she has gone from Skunkrock label rep to a known DJ in her own right. Having frequented gigs in Europe for 9 years, and holding a residency at Berlin’s Icon Club for over 8 ½ years, she’s still finding new places to present her sound every season. Internationally she has graced the decks in no less than 20 European countries as well as all over North America, in South Africa and even Israel. Some of the most exotic destinations include, Honolulu, Reykjavik, Johannesburg, Bucharest, Lisbon and Tel Aviv. The most frequented is Germany with over 100 DJ bookings to date. 2008 is looking to be a busy year, with the Feline project (club nights in London & abroad), a return to production, her job as bookings admin at ESP Agency, and DJ gigs already planned in Dublin, Moscow, Budapest, Berlin, London and more.
After establishing herself as a club DJ, Alley Cat also became known as a webradio host of the monthly 'Skunkrock Show' on www.groovetech.com, one of the world’s most popluar but now defunked webradio stations. She then moved to www.lifefm.co.uk , where she did a monthly Sunday evening show for 2 years. After a serious knee injury at the end of 2006, Alley Cat decided to stop her show and now chooses to do mixes for herown website www.djalleycat.com every few months. Check the audio section for the latest mixes!
As A&R for Skunkrock, Alley Cat was responsible for signing quality tunes and comissioning remixes from the likes of Total Science, Invaderz, Calibre, A Sides, Beta 2, Zero Tolerance, Alpha Omega, Klute, Digital & Spirit, Konflict and manymore. She also mixed two mix-cd comipilations titled ‘No Formalities’ and‘Crowd Control’ as well as a Skunkrock cover cd for Hungary’s biggest Music mag ‘Freee!. ’ 2006 saw the 10 YEARS of ESP Anniversary Tour and Alley Cat compiled a mix CD for the cover of Knowledge Magazine, featuring the ESP roster and the MC talents of MC DRS. The CD was well received . To listen visit www.djalleycat.com.
As a producer she hasworked with friends such as Daniel Savine, The Countamen, Native Minds andUFO!. These cooperations resulted in quite a few releases for Skunkrock as well as the track‘Dream’ on legendary Reinforced. Others have been remixed by the likes of ASides and Konflict. She is now producing her own tunes as well as collaboratingwith long time friend Sage under the guise of ‘Scouts’. 2008 see collaborationswith fresh forward-thinking talent including Kiat and Soul:intent.
Her latest project isthe collective Feline. This groupfeatures DJ Storm., Flight, Alley Cat, Miss Pink and vocalists/MCs Chickaboo, Deeizm and Ayah + special guests. They have a successful club night at London’s Herbal club in Shoreditch, as well as Feline feature-nights abroad which in 2007 covered Cardiff, Milan, Budapest, Tallin, and Graz. 2008 already sees more offers coming in. For the latest details check www.myspace.com/felinednb.
Her DJing style is very versatile. She likes tunes with lots of breaks and combines soulful and funky tracks with harder material. Marcus Intalex, Klute, Calibre, Spirit, Commix, and Lynx are among her favourite producers and her selection never fails to make her upfront dj sets rock the crowds worldwide.
The drum’n’bass bible ‘ATM mag’ once wrote about Alley Cat … “her levels of passion, depth ofintelligence, extreme enthusiasm and adept articulation abound. I asked a few cute, cuddly questions, yet was presented with the 'king of the jungle' spirit just crying to break free” .
Alley Cat is excited about what the future will bring. As long as it involves beats and bass shecan’t go wrong !
http://www.myspace.com/djalleycat
http://www.esp-international.co.uk/