1) For those who are not familiar with who you are, give a brief description of yourself and where you come from.
Hi! We are the Hard Dance double act ‘Sam & Deano’, formerly known as the Tidy DJs. We both come from the Northern UK city of Leeds!
2) What genre of music do you play and produce?
Hard Dance.
3) Have you experimented with other genres of music?
Our style is very ‘Mash Up’, so we incorporate all different styles of music into our sets. We re-work everything into a ‘Hard’ style, but our inspiration comes from right across the board. If it’s big, we play it!
4) At what age did you first realize you potential as a DJ?
Deano has been a DJ since he was 3, he used to play the Working Mens clubs around his hometown of Rothwell, and I got my first decks when I was 17 and haven’t looked back since!
5) For how long have you been DJing/producing?
Deano is 29, so he’s been DJ’ing for 26 years. I have been at it for just over 10 years, but on a club level for the last 6. Production wise I started getting in the studio around 5 years ago, Deano doesn’t do studios as he’s scared of computers after an unfortunate accident with Microsoft Word a few years ago. (He doesn’t understand we don’t use that program when making music, bless him!)
6) What's the hardest part of being a DJ?
Probably the travelling, lots and lots of time spent in cars and on motorways travelling literally 1000’s of miles in a weekend to play for a couple of hours! Not that we are complaining, but it is crazy when you think about it!
7) What well known DJ's have you collaborated with?
DJ wise we have lost count the new number of acts we have played back to back with, Tidy Boys, Scott Attrill, Ben Stevens, Stimulant DJs, Cally Gage, the list goes on!
Studio collaborations we have worked with BK, Technikal, Andy Farley, Paul Maddox, Ben Stevens, Jon BW, Klubfiller and Scott Fo Shaw.
You can hear some of our collaborations of the pur mix on the new new Hard Dance Anthems album, www.harddanceanthems.co.uk.
8) Who are some of your favourite local and international DJ's?
We like all sorts of DJs, all depends where we are going out and what mood we are in!
We were both really blown away by Laidback Luke at a recent gig he did in Leeds, the way he worked the crowd was awesome - the guy’s got skills!
9) Do you make your music readily available to download from the internet?
Yes, the whole music industry and business model for releasing music has changed so much recently, and it’s important for artists and acts to make their music available for download in as many places as they can. We do keep some ‘DJ Only’ bootlegs to ourselves, but every track we do gets put out and released right across the board.
10) Do you DJ/produce on a full-time basis?
I run the Tidy Trax record label as well as DJ and produce, so music is my full time occupation. It’s not known what Deano spends his time doing during the week, he’s always ‘busy’, but on what, nobody knows....we will put his occupation down as being a ‘Northern Man Of Mystery’.
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