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AlexSheridan Agent : Daisy Quin Biography For Alex Sheridan, growing up above his mum's children's party shop had many advantages. There were free sweets and the bouncy castles and bright colours galore. But it was one rather shabby - looking blue box in the back that particularly caught his eye. Contained within were two turntables, a speaker, disco lights and two volume knobs - one for each plate. Fascinated by the sound of two records playing at the simultaneously - and completely out of time - he had caught the bug that he would never shake. Luckily for him, this blue box appeared at just the same time that dance music was beginning to dig its grubby fingernails into the national consciousness; when raves were all over the front pages and having a good time had never felt so illicit. These were the halcyon days of dance music and all the mixtapes, older siblings and pirate stations just served to make the reality all the more inevitable - he just wasn't old enough to get in. Regardless he gobbled up as much of the culture as possible throughout the early to mid 90's, shifting tastes taking in Techno, D&B, Deep House, Big Beat, Rock & everything in-between, until he had been to enough parties and gigs to know that he only wanted to be one place, behind the 1's & 2's. Starting as most DJ's do at house parties, he soon moved on to warehouse parties in the late 90's with friends who ran sound-systems. There he learnt his trade weekend by weekend before picking up his first residency at Brixton's notorious Dekefex shindig at the Mass. This lead to a tour around Europe for Movement promoting DJ Marky's Brasilian Job mix CD but soon after - influenced in no small part by his friends Bones & Ramsay's Sunday institution Machine - his attention turned away from D& B and back to the Acid House, Electro and Techno that had shaped his earlier years. After a while and following residencies at 93 Feet East and 333 he started up Death To All Culture Snitches with his long time musical sparring partner Henry Seligman in order to play the records they wanted to play without any coda or genre to follow. Despite it's humble beginnings he has since shared the DTACS bill with Maurice Fulton, Friendly Fires, Punks Jump Up, Joakim and Riton amongst many others, not to mention other gigs alongside Franz Ferdinand, Mystery Jets & Eddy Temple - Morris, as well as playing the Tour De France 2007 opening ceremony in Trafalgar Square to over 10,000 people. As well as running DTACS Alex now has residencies at East Village and Sketch, a busy 2008 festival schedule and his own productions underway... Alex's Current Top Ten 1. Shocking Pinks - Cutout (Expanding Head Band Remix) - DFA For further information on Alex Sheridan or upcoming tour dates, go to www.myspace.com/alexsheridan.
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