Switch (DJ)

Switch (DJ)

Switch (a.k.a. Dave Taylor, A. Brucker, Solid Groove) is a UK-based DJ, sound engineer and record producer.

A leading figure of the fidget house genre, Switch runs his own music label "Dubsided." He further produces with fellow DJ/Producer Sinden, and they both run the label Counterfeet, established in 2006.

As producer, Switch is best known for the track "A Bit Patchy", which is based on the recording of Apache by The Incredible Bongo Band. He has produced songs with M.I.A., travelling to work in A. R. Rahman's studio and other locations in Chennai, India, Trinidad and Tobago and London to collaborate on her second studio album "Kala" with her. Since then he has gone on to produce for other artists such as Santogold and Tricky. He has also become in demand for his extensive remix work, and has remixed bands such as Basement Jaxx, Lily Allen, X-Press 2 and Bugz in the Attic.

He remixed Nine Inch Nails' Capital G. [ [http://hypem.com/track/307290 The Capital G Switch Remix] ]

He is currently producing an album with Diplo, as Major Lazer, set for release in 2008.

Discography

ingles

* 2003 "Get Ya Dub On"
* 2004 "Get on Downz"
* 2005 "Just Bounce 2 This"
* 2006 "A Bit Patchy"

Mix albums

* 2006 "House Bash-Up Mix" (given away free with "Mixmag")

Remixes

* 2003 Audio Bullys - "Way Too Long"
* 2003 The Chemical Brothers - "Get Yourself High"
* 2003 Futureshock - "Late at Night"
* 2004 Basement Jaxx - "Right Here's the Spot"
* 2004 The Chemical Brothers - "Galvanize"
* 2004 Faithless - "Miss U Less, See U More"
* 2004 Half Pint - "Red Light Green Light"
* 2004 Jentina - "French Kisses"
* 2004 Shaznay Lewis - "You"
* 2004 Mondo Grosso - "Fire & Ice"
* 2005 Basement Jaxx - "Fly Life Xtra"
* 2005 BodyRockers - "Round & Round"
* 2005 Dubble D - "Switch"
* 2005 Evil Nine - "Pearl Shot"
* 2005 Infusion - "The Careless Kind"
* 2005 Les Rythmes Digitales - "Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)"
* 2005 X-Press 2 - "Give It"
* 2006 Lily Allen - "LDN"
* 2006 Coldcut - "True Skool"
* 2006 Def Inc - "Waking the Dread"
* 2006 Fatboy Slim - "Champion Sound"
* 2006 The Futureheads - "Worry About It Later"
* 2006 Jaydee - "Plastic Dreams"
* 2006 Kelis - "Bossy"
* 2006 MYNC Project feat. Abigail Bailey - "Something on Your Mind"
* 2006 Sharon Phillips - "Want 2 / Need 2"
* 2006 Playgroup - "Front 2 Back"
* 2006 Spank Rock - "Bump"
* 2007 Basement Jaxx - "Hey U"
* 2007 The Black Ghosts - "Face"
* 2007 Klaxons - "Golden Skans"
* 2007 P. Diddy - "Tell Me"
* 2007 Freeform Five - "No More Conversations"
* 2007 Just Jack - "Glory Days"
* 2007 DJ Mehdi - "I Am Somebody"
* 2007 Mika - "Love Today"
* 2007 Nine Inch Nails - "Capital G"
* 2007 Simian Mobile Disco - "I Believe"
* 2007 Speaker Junk - "Foxxy"
* 2007 Ben Westbeech - "Dance with Me"
* 2007 Robbie Williams - "Never Touch That Switch"
* 2007 Jacknife Lee - "Making Me Money"
* 2007 Radioclit - "Divine Gosa"
* 2007 Armand Van Helden - "Je T'Aime"
* 2007 Santogold - "You'll Find a Way"
* 2008 Blaqstarr feat. Rye Rye - "Shake It To The Ground"
* 2008 Late of the Pier - "Space And The Woods"
* 2008 Laughing Boy and the Wrath of Khan - "PM Chalkman"

References

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/switchandsolidgroove Official MySpace]
* [http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=675 DJ/Producer Switch on Outlar.com]
* [http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-02-08/music_vibes.php Switch Interview with Now Magazine, Toronto, 2007]


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