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Biography of Jay West

JAY WEST
Drop Music UK / Lowdown / Blockhead / Agave / Guesthouse / Bambino / Flavor UK

Pablo has been related to music in almost every way posible. Born in Rosario, Argentina; ever since his childhood he developed a huge passion for the art of sounds, and later, already in his teenage years, he formed and leaded several rock bands as a composer, singer, guitar, key player and front man. His love for the creation of rithms and melodies grew in time, and he began learning and falling in love with funk and disco from the past era. Obessive collector of Lp´s and always opened to new sources of inspiration he discovered House Music while visiting the mediterranean coast of spain, and inmediately fell in love with this sexy branch of dance music that had all the ambition of the styles he got familiar with.

Attracted by the sounds coming from the west coast of USA, where Chicago house was starting to fuse with different rithmic currents at the end of the 90’s, he developed a unique and particular style making himself heard as a dj and quickly earning a spot in the evergrowing local and international scene. He had important residencies in his city in the biggest clubs for thousands of people to discover the unknown sounds of house (Jade, Blue Velvet, La Usina, Soul Afterhours, etc).

The memories of poolside afterhours in his hometown with hundreds of people dancing to the beats of funk til the sun comes out won´t ever leave his mind. Always considered a songwriter overall, his career inside the studio was rocketed fast. With solid productions (under his JAY WEST alias) that receive constant support and charts from a great variety of mainstream djs like Mark Farina (Who included one of Jay´s tracks on his Essential Mix Live for BBC Radio 1), Hernán Cattaneo, Inland Knights, Satoshie Tomiie, Dj Heather, Johnny Fiasco (Who licensed one of Jay´s tracks for his OM Records Winter Sessions CD), Amir Javasoul, Jason Hodges, Jay Tripwire, Tyler Stadius, Randall Jones, Jacob London, Grant Dell, and many more…it could be said that almost every house set around contains one of his works! Jay West has become a really solicited name for the main labels in the industry. Prestigious imprints like DROP MUSIC from UK, AGAVE, LOWDOWN, BLOCKHEAD or GUESTHOUSE, they already released several Jay west works really well received by the international house heads and critics.

In 2005 and 2006 he was part of the Winter Music Conference in Miami presenting his new material along with the biggest names in the scene such as Dj Heather, Johnny Fiasco, Jon Lemmon, Desyn Masiello, Justin Martin, Demarkus Lewis, Joshua Collins, Jay Tripwire, Asad Rizvi, Dan Berkson, Slater Hogan, Amir Javasoul, Dr Kucho, etc… He has already toured Northamerica several times with presentations in its most important cities and venues with great success, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, San Diego, etc, besides being a usual in the most important clubs all over southamerica. Pablo has already played in many cities and countries always carrying his particular style and his excellent dancefloor and mixing skills.

2007 will be the year of his first Europe, Australia and Southafrica tours. His sets, always fun, original and full of funk, have made thousands of people dance. He has been invited to share his music live in the most important radios and websites worldwide. He was also part of the Southamerican Music Conference (w/ Nick Warren, Dj Dan, Richie Hawtin, Green Velvet, Eddie Richards etc…) in Buenos Aires on december of 2004 as a panelist directing production workshops and seminars, and he played his dj set in some of the most important parties in southamerica (BUE Fest – Personal Fest). Artists the size of Hernan Cattaneo, or Inland Knights have called him one of the most promising house music producers and his presence in the best labels around with more than 15 releases, proved them right.

As Jay West he has produced a great amount of remixes for lots of labels (See discography), he has remixed important names like Shawn Ward, Sound Navigators, Troydon, Matt Shrewd, Can Costa, Joshua Reynolds, Samuel L, etc… He´s also been remixed by Hipp-e, Greenskeepers , Patrick Turner, Morgan Page, Swirl People, Dj Freestyle, amongst others…. He has worked side to side with talented artists, always searching for originality and variety, teamates like Matt Shrewd (they work as Pushin Boundaries), Diego Cid, Manuel Sahagún or CPM (as The Candy Dealers) have worked with him.

In 2006 he decidedto take a step forward and started his own label FLAVOR RECORDINGS, based in UK y along with his partner Matt Shrewd. Flavor´s first couple releases have made the label already one of the scene´s favourites. Artists like Da Sunlounge, Inland Knights, Toka Project, The Littlemen or Kinky Movement are part of the label´s roster. (www.flavorrecordings.com).

Always defying himself to improve and with a heavy schedule of gigs and releases, every year is a new challenge for Jay, with lots of new projects and trying to break more boundaries. You better be there to enjoy it!!