Alix Perez
Encyclopedia
Alix Perez is the stage name of Alix Depauw, a drum and bass
DJ and producer originally from Charleroi
, Belgium
. Currently based in North London
, his music is characterised as liquid funk
and released on labels such as Hospital Records, Liquid V, Bassbin, Creative Source, Horizons, Progress, Brigand, Shogun Audio, Fokuz and Soul:R.
, Redeyes, Sabre and Specific, and his inspirations include artists such as Calibre
, Marcus Intalex, Ill logic and Raf, Artificial Intelligence and D Bridge.
Now represented by Coda, he regularly plays out in London
and around Europe
. He describes his DJ style as, "eclectic. I play generally deep but dip into various aspects of drum & bass. I like to read the crowd and let the music breathe. I find mixing in the right musical keys essential. I basically see it as a journey."
Alix Perez's tunes are played regularly on radio shows such as BBC 1Xtra and he has been doing many mixes for radio and podcast. He receives support from respected DJs and producers such as Bailey, Fabio
and Bryan Gee. On one of his BBC shows, Fabio called the song "Forsaken" by Perez, the best drum and bass track of 2010.
Alix has been featured in popular drum and bass magazines and has recently been on the cover of ATM Magazine in a feature on the "Leaders of the Nu Skool" in the drum and bass genre. He has had coverage in Knowledge Magazine, London-based dance music magazine One Week To Live, and regularly has his releases reviewed by DJ, Mixmag, Knowledge and ATM.
In 2009 he released the album 1984 on drum and bass label Shogun Audio and has been met with positive response. Perez's album includes the track "Calm of Cast" which features young London hip-hop artist Yungun.
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
DJ and producer originally from Charleroi
Charleroi
Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. , the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and had a total population of 522,522 as of 1 January 2008, ranking it as...
, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
. Currently based in North London
North London
North London is the northern part of London, England. It is an imprecise description and the area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes. Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South...
, his music is characterised as liquid funk
Liquid funk
Liquid funk is a sub-genre of drum and bass. While it uses similar basslines and bar layouts to other styles, it contains fewer bar-oriented samples and more instrumental layers , harmonies, and ambience, producing a calmer atmosphere directed at both home listeners and nightclub...
and released on labels such as Hospital Records, Liquid V, Bassbin, Creative Source, Horizons, Progress, Brigand, Shogun Audio, Fokuz and Soul:R.
Biography
Starting to DJ at the age of 14 and producing at 17, he has collaborated with other artists such as Jenna GJenna g
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, Redeyes, Sabre and Specific, and his inspirations include artists such as Calibre
Calibre (artist)
Calibre, birth name Dominick Martin, is a Drum and Bass, and Liquid Funk, music producer and DJ hailing from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He originally started producing at a young age and has spent many years refining his sound. He is a classically trained musician playing a variety of musical...
, Marcus Intalex, Ill logic and Raf, Artificial Intelligence and D Bridge.
Now represented by Coda, he regularly plays out in London
London
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and around Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
. He describes his DJ style as, "eclectic. I play generally deep but dip into various aspects of drum & bass. I like to read the crowd and let the music breathe. I find mixing in the right musical keys essential. I basically see it as a journey."
Alix Perez's tunes are played regularly on radio shows such as BBC 1Xtra and he has been doing many mixes for radio and podcast. He receives support from respected DJs and producers such as Bailey, Fabio
Fabio (DJ)
Fitzroy Heslop better known by his stage name of Fabio, is a drum and bass DJ and producer from the UK. Fabio has been described as one of the best DJ's of all time. He runs the Creative Source record label.-Biography:...
and Bryan Gee. On one of his BBC shows, Fabio called the song "Forsaken" by Perez, the best drum and bass track of 2010.
Alix has been featured in popular drum and bass magazines and has recently been on the cover of ATM Magazine in a feature on the "Leaders of the Nu Skool" in the drum and bass genre. He has had coverage in Knowledge Magazine, London-based dance music magazine One Week To Live, and regularly has his releases reviewed by DJ, Mixmag, Knowledge and ATM.
In 2009 he released the album 1984 on drum and bass label Shogun Audio and has been met with positive response. Perez's album includes the track "Calm of Cast" which features young London hip-hop artist Yungun.
Discography
- Triple Soul - Dub Focus - Touchin Down production 003 (2005)
- Alix Perez + Physics - Sound For The Masses - Fokuz 19 (2005)
- Alix Perez + FX909 - Get It On - Strictly Digital (2005)
- Triple Soul - Jazz Lick - Liquid V Club Sessions Vol 1 (2005)
- Alix Perez- Sorrow - Shogun Audio (2006)
- Alix Perez- All Alone - Spearhead Records (2006)
- Alix Perez- Calypso - Horizons Music (2006)
- Alix Perez feat. MC Fats - Down The Line - Shogun Audio (2006)
- Alix Perez + Sabre - Recession - Progress (2006)
- Alix Perez - Dubrock - Horizons Music 007 (2006)
- Alix Perez + Specific - Love Bug - Horizons Music 007 (2006)
- Alix Perez + Specific - Drive By - Progress (2006)
- Alix Perez - Leave The Dread - Progress (2006)
- Alix Perez + Specific - Just Memories - Horizons Music 012 (2006)
- Alix Perez - Under My Skin - Horizons Music 012 (2006)
- Alix Perez - Illusions - Lucky Devil Music (2006)
- Alix Perez - Magnolias - Bassbin (2006)
- Alix Perez - Backlash - Bassbin (2006)
- Alix Perez + Specific - Side to Side - Brigand (2006)
- Alix Perez + Sabre - Solitary Native - Shogun Ltd (2007)
- Alix Perez + Redeyes - Watching You - Prestige Music (2007)
- Alix Perez + Redeyes - Clone 1001 - Bingo Beats (2007)
- Alix Perez + Youthman - Promise Land - Step Express Recordings (2007)
- Alix Perez - Morning Sun - Creative Source (2007)
- Alix Perez - 1984 (2007)
- Alix Perez - Playing Tricks - Creative Source (2007)
- Alix Perez - Allegiance EP - Soul:r (2008)
- Alix Perez + Icicle + Switch - This Is How / Lovechat - SGN:LTD (2008)
- Alix Perez + Sabre - Everglade / God Fearing - Metalheadz (2009)
- Alix Perez - I’m Free / Melanie - Shogun Audio (2009)
- Alix Perez + Survival - Storm Chaser - Audio Tactics (2009)
- Alix Perez + Noisia + Stray + Joe Seven - Invisible 002 EP - Invisible Recordings (2010)
- Alix Perez + Foreign Beggars + Noisia - Dark Days EP (2010) - Shogun Audio