Panels
Demo listening - 3pm Saturday 3rd October
They’re all ears…
Pitch your track in front of the experts.
This session will be an opportunity for up-and-coming artistes to play a segment of one of their tracks to the panel who will then offer a critique on the production and advice to the artiste on moving their career forward.
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Leon Alexander (Hope)
Leon Alexander is co-director and owner of the Hope Music Group, which is primarily a management company looking after electronic artists, DJs, film scorers and pop producers but also a publishing company and home to three record labels: 420, Marine Parade and Hope Recordings. He is also on the board of The Bristol Music Foundation and has recently launched Music Industry Education an initiative to help skill teenagers and professionals.
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Andy Almighty (CD Pool)
A mainstay of the gay clubbing scene in London, Andy Almighty has graced the decks of many of the major club nights in London. Andy is also a prolific remixer and producer. For 7 years he worked as part of the label, production and remix team Almighty Associates helping them to become one of the world’s most successful commercial remix teams. Following his stint at Almighty, Andy started another commercial remix team Club Junkies and more recently, along with friend Jon Dixon, another 7th Heaven which, in just 2 years, has gained both commercial and critical success. Andy is Label Manager for top London based European DJ promotion company CD Pool, is a contributor and compiler for Promo Only in the USA, a manager for digital download site Gaydar Radio Jukebox and is also a ‘scout’ for Ministry Of Sound in London and has signed many big tracks to the label.
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Carl Kennedy (Wasted Youth)
In October 2003 when Pete Tong, of BBC’s Radio 1, proclaimed Carl Kennedy as ‘one of the world’s best undiscovered DJs’, he clearly was able to see what vast numbers of club goers were soon to discover; that Carl was destined to become a big name in dance music. If one man was responsible for inspiring Kennedy to take the DJing path, then it would be dance music icon Roger Sanchez when he played a set at Ibiza’s Privilege (the largest club in the world) in front of 10 000 people in 1997. Carl was there to witness the mayhem and it will forever be etched in his memory. As if fulfilling some kind of pre-determined destiny, Carl was to play the famous club five years on and smash it up in the same devastating fashion that his hero, the blazing ‘S Man’ did all those years before.
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