... industries inside out. The hardest working
hero of hard dance has throughout his 14-year career
had a hand in every aspect of both.
He has produced and engineered the tunes, remixed
the music, pressed up the vinyl, sold the records
in his shop, distributed them worldwide and set
up the first online superstore for banging beats.
He has played and mixed the records in clubs across
the world, on mix CDs and occasionally on the radio.
At one point he even wrote about the records for
a leading clubbing magazine.
When awesome Oz walks into your club, he looks
like the coolest DJ you have ever met – and
always has the best hair – then he blows you
away with his down-to-earth manner and the incisive
knowledge his immense experience brings with it.
One half of the hippest hard house duo in history,
OD404, Oz the DJ blends innovation and education
with full-on entertainment, always willing to try
something new but never forgetting his primary function
is to rock the shop. Cutting and pasting at times
like a frantic techno spinner, Oz blends all strands
of kick-ass genres into smoothly flowing sets with
ease.
And if the occasion requires he dons the cape of
Superfunk Oz and delivers tough and groovy fusions
of electro-disco-tech delights which put the Fun
back into funk.
Oz has held residencies for a string of UK clubs
including Energized, Sea-Lab, QED, Passion, Torture
Gardens, Resonance, Storm, Escape From Samsara,
Feersum, Logic, Cheeky Little Monkey, Residance,
Insomniacz, Insekt and Twist.
The globe-trotting groove master has also been
the lynchpin of prominent clubs such London Productions
in Cape Town, Popsickle in San Francisco, Q-Dance
in Holland and Maniac Love in Tokyo.
And he makes regular guest appearances in Australia,
USA, Japan, Canada, Africa, Finland, Ireland, Sweden
and Switzerland. In 2006 he satisfied a lifetime’s
ambition and played for Trade on its world tour.
Oz the producer is Dom Sweeten’s partner
in OD404, the hugely-respected team responsible
for more than 100 revolutionary underground records
on labels such as Tripoli Trax, Tidy Trax, Nukleuz,
Vicious Circle and their own inspirational Kaktai.
If you don’t play OD404 then you don’t
play hard dance.
Superfast Oz has also had a hand in a string of
top tunes from Hyperloop, Satellite Kidz, Big Tool
4 U and D&G, and he occasionally finds the time
to produce under his own name.
The Brighton bomb has mixed albums for Tidy Trax,
Kaktai, DP and Alphamagic and shows no sign of tiring
of the industries he knows and loves so well. In
fact, Oz the DJ’s success and appeal continues
to grow at a Superfast rate.
