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Joey Negro AKA Dave Lee, is one of the most respected, prolific and original artists in the industry, who has enjoyed widespread success straddling both the commercial and underground scenes. Joey Negro is Dave Lee’s best known pseudonym and it is through this, and a plethora of additional monikers, that has seen him become one of the world’s most successful artists.

As an artist Dave Lee has always been a pioneer. He was one of the first artists to incorporate disco samples in house music when he began his production career and is now widely regarded as one of the most commercially successful and in-demand artists on the global scene. Under his array of production aliases – that include Jakatta, Akabu, Sessomatto, Doug Willis, Raven Maize, The Sunburst Band, Z Factor and AC Soul Symphony as well as Joey Negro and Dave Lee – he has been involved with over 200 releases including several acclaimed albums and 12 UK pop crossovers.

Dave is nothing but a true professional. In 1992 he was crowned ‘Best UK Remixer’ by both DMC/Mixmag and DJ Magazine and has also been recognised as one of the most influential figures in dance music by I-DJ Magazine. Since 1991 he has run the highly successful Z Records which continues to go from strength to strength and has featured tracks and remixes from the likes of Ame, Basement Jaxx, MAW and Jimpster, with many highly anticipated projects in the pipeline.

As a DJ, Joey Negro is hot property; his eclectic sound delivered in mind-blowing performances has graced many of the world’s hottest nightspots on a regular basis. He is an MN2S resident DJ regularly rocking the spot at The End (London) and El Divino (Ibiza). Recently he travelled across the world playing gigs in China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Dubai, Denmark, France and Holland as well as touring extensively throughout the UK. Mixing up many genres, personal re-edits and mixes classics with the freshest new cuts – in short, a Joey Negro DJ set is one in million.

Hobo: Sometimes you have to lose yourself in order to find a better way. It’s not a conscious decision, it can’t be forced – it’s just the way of the wanderer…the hobo. Joel Boychuk knows this more than most, having travelled halfway around the world in search of musical inspiration only to return home and find it waiting on his doorstep…   

Growing up in Sarnia about an hour’s drive from Detroit, Joel first connected with electronic music through Kraftwerk who in turn stimulated his interest in the rich techno landscape just a stone’s throw away. Jeff Mills and Juan Atkins were particularly influential but it was Plastikman’s Sheet One that really sealed the deal, inspiring him to start building his own loops and samples. He was soon hooking up for laptop jam sessions with Adam Young after high school and the pair gradually evolved into Tractile.   

 Regular trips to Untitled at Detroit’s Shelter club followed and it was there that he tentatively handed Clark Warner the first Tractile demo. Richie Hawtin soon got wind of their potential and suddenly the prospect of a Minus release was on the table. For an 18-year-old kid this was mind-blowing and a deal was eventually struck at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival in 2005. Tractile’s Silent Movie EP on Minus was a memorable affair of action packed tunes that hurtled forward, effortlessly shifting from rough angular beats to flowing, floor-friendly grooves at the flick of a switch. After relocating to Berlin, spending a whirlwind 13 months touring Europe, soaking up the city’s electric atmosphere and collecting invaluable experience, Joel felt the constant traveling around, from show to show seemed to be disrupting the collaborative process. Soon after, Joel decided to follow his instincts andreturn home to pursue his own musical vision and develop his own identity.    
  
That identity or alter ego is Hobo and it came about in a Yurt (a Mongolian tent) somewhere deep in The Pinery – a National Park close to his home in Sarnia, Canada where he spent a week last winter writing his new EP From A to B. It was a bold move, embarking on a solo career and faced with the challenge of writing alone for the first time. He ventured into the wilderness not knowing what he would find. With his laptop perched on a plastic picnic table and living purely off maple syrup and water, he shook off the shackles of modern life and wandered alone through the woods, losing himself in both a spiritual and physical sense in order to harness the moment when subjective thought is overwhelmed by objectivity, and then somehow translate it into music. It’s a deeply personal, exploratory approach to the creative process built on the belief that the more you put yourself into the music, the greater the chance the listener will get something meaningful out. The result is a collection of individual, almost stand-alone tracks defined by perception and experience. Joel freely admits that there’s more emotion in this new body of work, a more vivid sense of life brought about by his close proximity to nature while recording. It’s a process he intends to recreate in the future at equally inspiring locations around the world as and when the hobo in his heart yearns for more adventure.

Key Of Life welcome two of the world's leading House Producers & DJ's, Joey Negro and new techno star, Hobo, to their Saturday April 2nd event fusing some of the best underground sounds for 12 hours 10pm-10am.
KoL has been running events in London for the past 4 years, after launching at Hidden in Vauxhall,London. From a small following of 200 people, KOL has grown to a 1200-strong following  and is one of London’s most talked-about and freshest nights out. 

Music policy: Quality underground music spread over 3 rooms including Minimal, Tech House, Electro and Techno…
      Previous Key Of Life guests include Sandy Rivera, Martijn Ten Velden, Smokin Jo, Burnski, Prok & Fitch, Clive Henry, Robots Need Oil, Thomas Gold, Martini Bros, Argy, Emerson Todd, Felix Baumgartner. Resident DJs are Arkoss, and Irtelli & Gus, up n’coming DJ/Producers with a string of releases under their belt, having topped the Beatport Hot 10 chart.
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Plus Egyptian Themed Entertainment Feat:  Belly Dancers, Snake Charmers, Magicians, Fortunetellers, Shisha Smoking Chill out area in a Egyptian Themed Garden & More.

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