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2014-07-21 - John Digweed (Bedrock Music) @ Evolution presents MAZE Open Air 2014 - Athens (Greece)

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You won't see him on the main stage at nearly any festival. His tracks don't grace the upper echelons of Beatport. He won't spray you with Dom P or thrust pastries at your noggin. And he'll probably never hop on a collabo with A$AP or Kanye. But in spite—or maybe because—of all that, John Digweed is still one of the most influential DJs in history.

Digweed began DJing at the ripe age of 15, when most of us weren't even squiggly lines in our dads' "reserviors." He got his big break in 1993, when he got a gig at the Renaissance Club in Mansfield, UK after a fellow upstart named Alexander Coe—better known today as the techno/deep house messiah, Sasha.

Digweed made his name pushing a progressive house sound that eventually exploded in the late 90s and early 2000s across Europe and North America. In New York City, house music havens like Tunnel, Limelight, Paradise Garage and Twilo were booming. Both Digweed and Sasha held a popular residency at Twilo, where Digweed was revered for putting down marathon sets that often lasted between eight and twelve hours... until Twilo and many of those aformentioned clubs were raided and shutdown by Sgt. Buzzkill AKA NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani.

The end of NYC's hedonistic nightlife days was only a momentarty hiccup in the longstanding career of John Digweed. Since then, he's established the international label Bedrock Records, has released countless albums (including an impressive "Live In" series), and even took the throne of DJ Mag's Top 100 list in 2001.

But that was thirteen years ago, and the position now belongs to Hardwell, a DJ nearly half Digweed's age who is pushing a much different sound, to a much different audience, in a much different time.

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1. Butch & Hohberg - Rebirth [Otherside Music | OS001]
2. Robert Babicz - Wonderland (Rave Angel EP) [Bedrock Records | Beddigi52]
3. Stereo MC’s - Good Feeling (Terranova Remix) [Graffiti Recordings | GRAFF014]
4. Franck Roger - Balance [Home Invasion | HI4]
5. ID - ID
6. Douglas Greed - Driven feat. Mooryc (Seth Troxler Remix) [Bpitch Control | BPC295]
7. Jemmy - Breathe In ft. Leza Boyland (Zombies in Miami Remix) [Bedrock Records | Beddigi54]
8. The Martinez Brothers & Seth Troxler - Space & Time [Tuskegee Music | TKG001]
9. Anja Schneider - Revolution [Mobilee Records | MOBILEE130]
10. the.art.of.FY feat. Asia Argento - Come (Dubfire Remix) [SCI+TEC Digital | TEC100]
11. FiberRoot - Space Localizer [Ellum Audio | ELL019]