1. Thomas John Digweed was born on 1 January 1967 and is a British DJ and record producer.
17 Facts About John Digweed
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John Digweed's breakthrough came in 1993, when he sent a mixtape demo to Geoff Oakes, founder of the Renaissance nightclub in Mansfield, who played it to fellow DJ Alexander Coe.
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In partnership with Sasha, John Digweed is known for promoting progressive house and notable for producing the first commercial compilation for a nightclub, when they released their 1994 compilation of mixes from Renaissance entitled Renaissance: The Mix Collection.
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John Digweed then started the record label Bedrock Records to further promote the music that he was playing at the time.
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Between 2000 and 2005, John Digweed promoted his "Bedrock" sound with monthly club nights for club members and newcomers to the electronic music scene.
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John Digweed played on Thursday nights at Heaven in London, and on Friday nights in a smaller club night at The Beach in Brighton.
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John Digweed celebrated ten years of his Bedrock club night on 10 October 2008 at Matter in London, with a near on ten-hour set.
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John Digweed has enjoyed popularity throughout North America as well as Europe.
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John Digweed played in 2001 for 11 hours at the legendary club Cavo Paradiso, located at the island of Mykonos in Greece.
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Sasha and John Digweed played at Twilo on the last Friday of every month, playing sets that lasted between eight and twelve hours.
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John Digweed continued to play the time-slot by himself until 6 May 2001, when Twilo was raided by the NYPD and subsequently forced to close down.
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John Digweed has a cameo of himself playing music in Greg Harrison's 2000 movie Groove, which tells the story of an all-night rave in San Francisco.
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Also in 2002, John Digweed curated and compiled the soundtrack to the film Stark Raving Mad.
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From September 2000 to January 2011, John Digweed hosted a weekly two-hour radio show on Kiss 100 in the UK, in which he played the first hour of music and a guest DJ played the second hour.
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In 2011, John Digweed's music was featured in the film movie adaptation of Irvine Welsh's best-selling novel Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy.
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John Digweed featured among the top ten artists from 1998 to 2008 and was voted DJ Mag's number 1 DJ in 2001.
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In 2013, John Digweed was ranked the number 17 best DJ in the world in Resident Advisor's top 100 DJ charts; he was number 43 in June 2016.