- Rui da Silva
Infobox musical artist
Name = Rui da Silva
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Rui da Silva
Alias = Doctor J
Instrument =
Genre = House
Occupation = Producer, DJ
Years_active = 1992-now
Label = Kismet Records, Sixty Four Records
Related_acts = The Four Elements
URL = http://www.kismetrecords.com
Associated_acts =Underground Sound of Lisbon , Coco Da Silva
Current_members =
Past_members =Rui da Silva is a Portuguese producer and
DJ , whose single "Touch Me" topped the UK Chart in2001 . At the time, he was the only Portuguesemusician to have a UK hit and hence was the first to score a UK number one.Career
Rui da Silva started producing
house music in 1992, just as club culture was getting established inLisbon . Noticing the lack of dance music labels in Portugal, Rui teamed up withDJ Vibe to formKaos Records , the first label in Portugal specialized in house and electronic music.His first major hit (and Kaos' first release) was "Não", a track that sampled vocals from a
Xutos & Pontapés track, released under the alias Doctor J. With DJ Vibe, he also formed theUnderground Sound of Lisbon project, in 1993. A year later, their track "So Get Up" (which featured spoken word vocals by rapper Darin Pappas) achieved worldwide fame after getting picked by theTribal America label and support fromDanny Tenaglia . Tenaglia also remixed the track.During his years at Kaos, Silva also worked with other artists, namely
Luís Leite (under the guise of LL Project, creating the African tribal anthem "Khine #3") andAlex Santos (with whom he released the garage house track "The Sax Theme").In 1999, he left Lisbon for London, in order to move from producing to DJing, and also to start working under his own name. Silva left Kaos Records, and produced his final collaborative effort as Underground Sound of Lisbon in 2001. In the UK, he founded
Kismet Records , where he began producing a more progressive sound. He has released a number of tracks under his own name, as well as collaborative efforts withChris Coco andMoshic .Rui has achieved some fame as a
remix er, creating his own versions ofJennifer Lopez 's "Play",Lighthouse Family 's "Happy" andYoko Ono 's "Walking On Thin Ice".Discography
:"see
Underground Sound of Lisbon for the rest of Rui da Silva's discography"Albums
* 2002 "Produced & Remixed"
* 2006 "Praying Mantis"'ingles
Rui da Silva
* 2000 "Touch Me" (with Cassandra Fox)
* 2002 "Feel The Love" (withVictoria Horn )
* 2005 "So Move Closer"
* 2005 "Pacman/Punks Run Wild"
* 2005 "Dance.Come.Feel.Exe"
* 2005 "Lixuneanos"
* 2005 "So Move Closer"
* 2006 "Amidar"
* 2007 "Spreading Isolation/The Regressors"
* 2007 "The Whole Room Dematerialized"
* 2008 "Escaping My Mind"Doctor J
* 1993 "Não" (as Doctor J)
* 1994 "The Sax Theme" (as Alex S & Doctor J, withAlex Santos )
* 1995 "Human Soul" (as Doctor J Presents Mata Hari)The Four Elements
* 2000 "Earth/Water"
* 2002 "Fire"
* 2002 "The Fifth Element"
* 2003 "Matrix/Stoned"Coco da Silva
: "All are collaborations with
Chris Coco "
* 2000 "Coisa Nossa/Close My Eyes"
* 2001 "Lost"
* 2001 "Saudade"
* 2001 "@Night"
* 2002 "This Time You're Mine"
* 2003 "The Shiva Chant"Other aliases
* 1995 "Work In Progress", as LL Project (with
Luís Leite )
* 1996 "Khine #3 (The Remixes)", as LL Project (withLuís Leite )
* 1996 "Fat Beat/Bossa Nova", as Gum Club
* 1999 "Matrix", as Morpheus
* 2001 "Obeah Dance", as The Obeah Men (with Terry Farley)
* 2001 "Riding", as Teimoso (withShelly Preston )
* 2003 "Radar House", as Hyper Da Silva (withDJ Hyper )
* 2003 "Deep As The Rivers", as Moshic Da Silva (withMoshic )
* 2003 "Gibberish", as Moshic Da Silva (with Moshic)
* 2003 "Cosmic Mind", as Sound Projectors
* 2004 "Dark Love, as The DownloaderzExternal links
* [http://www.kismetrecords.com/ Kismet Records, Rui da Silva's label]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rui+Da+Silva Rui da Silva page at Discogs]
* [http://www.thedjlist.com/djs/RUI_DA_SILVA/ Rui Da Silva page on The Dj List]
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