Sav Remzi

Sav Remzi is responsible for a number of ventures over the past 20 years, most notably the prolific label Nuphonic Records, The Blue Note Club in Shoreditch, the London Xpress radio shows for Xfm, Tirk Records, the Lovebox Festival, and the discovery of various hit bands in New Young Pony Club and Fujiya & Miyagi. Recent projects aside from Tirk Records include productions for The Guardian at Glastonbury and various other events, and the award winning Secondfest, the first ever on-line virtual weekend festival.

Career

In 1989, Remzi began working with early musical pioneers such as Andrew Weatherall, Gilles Peterson and Norman Jay, where he recruited their talents to grace his own newly built jazz club, Red-Eye.

He went on to found the record label, Nuphonic Records in 1993. Nuphonic's first release, Faze Action's "In The Trees", became the first of many club classics released by the label. In the following years, the label went on to release a broad spectrum of soul infused dance music ranging from Afro rhythms to House music [http://www.discogs.com/label/Nuphonic] . Nuphonic ceased operations in 2002.

1994 saw Remzi take charge of the Blue Note club in London's Hoxton Square. By applying an active programming strategy and hosting residencies from the likes of DJ Harvey, Weatherall, James Lavelle, Gilles Peterson, Goldie's 'Metalheadz', Talvin Singh's 'Anokha' and Ninja Tune's 'Stealth', the club became a platform from which audiences could sample the various new musical movements that were emerging at the time.

In February 2000, Remzi secured the production of a new weekly radio show called London Xpress which was placed to launch Xfm's drive towards dance audiences.

In September 2000, Remzi acquired and built his own venue, the Bridge & Tunnel, a two-floor 400 capacity venue in London's Shoreditch. Previously a bank, the site was converted into a club/restaurant/bar which boasted the first full installation of the Funktion-One sound system together with Capellini styling. The club was sold-on in 2003.

Remzi now runs his own record label Tirk Records which was founded in 2003 [http://www.tirk.co.uk] . The label's first signing, 2007 Mercury Award nominees New Young Pony Club attracted critical acclaim with their singles 'Ice Cream' and 'The Get Go'. Tirk's second signing subsequently unearthed another hit band in Fujiya & Miyagi with their album (Transparent Things), which further established the label as a home for new British talent. The Tirk roster also includes dance acts such as Maurice Fulton, Tom Findley (Groove Armada), Idjut Boys, Greg Wilson, Chaz Jankel, Martin Rushent, Drrtyhaze, Love Supreme and many others. In 2007, Tirk Records merged with independent new-players MRC.

Remzi has co-produced and curated events for various organisations including Intel, V-Mobile, Smirnoff and The Guardian [http://about.virginmobile.com/aboutus/media/news/2004/2004-07-15/] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondfest/listings] [http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=39654] . In 2005 he secured executive production of London's Lovebox Festival [http://www.answers.com/topic/lovebox] . The now yearly weekender event held in East London’s Victoria Park attracted 33,000 music lovers in its first year, and enjoyed 42,000 attendance in its second, with GA and JK headlining [http://www.answers.com/topic/lovebox] .

Remzi acts as consultant to the industry on a project-by-project basis and is responsible for productions such as cover CDs for publications including NME and The Guardian [http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4846642] . Recent projects in association with The Guardian and Intel include the creation of the world's first ever on-line festival, Secondfest, which was aired live in June 2007 within the virtual environment of Second Life [http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondfest/listings] . Secondfest was subsequently awarded the AOP (Association of Online Publishers) prize for the 'Innovation' category [http://www.ukaop.org.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/news/article.html?uid=1633] .

Apart from Tirk Records, his ongoing projects includes artist management and music consultancy services.

References

[http://www.ukaop.org.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/news/article.html?uid=1633] [http://www.myhoxton.net/shoreditch&hoxton/bars&Music-remzi.htm] [http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/interviews/profile_tom_hingston] [http://www.discogs.com/label/Nuphonic] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondfest/listings] [http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4846642] [http://about.virginmobile.com/aboutus/media/news/2004/2004-07-15/] [http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=39654] [http://www.answers.com/topic/lovebox]

[http://www.tirk.co.uk]