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Jean Jacques Smoothie is otherwise known as the DJ, producer and label impresario Steve Robson. He is a global breaks and house DJ. Jean-Jacques Smoothie has been DJing in and around the UK and Europe for years, including tours in Germany, a residency in Madrid and spots at Big Chill festivals. He's also a long-time mainstay of the Phantom Beats collective from Cardiff. Originally from Gloucester, Steve moved to Cardiff in the mid-90s to do a degree in broadcasting. It was there that he first got the bug for DJing. "My girlfriend left me and I bought a set of...

THUMBTACK SMOOTHIE (a.k.a. Carl Coletti) made the strange transformation from studio session/live drummer (with bands like The Walkers,The Neighborhoods, Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra, the Jason Newsted-led Godswallop and Pancake Circus) to experimental electronic musician. Naturally transferring his percussive knowledge to drum programming and sound manipulation Thumbtack Smoothie creates his densely layered tracks by loading his herd of samplers with intricate sonic entities of his design and then plays the sampler pads real time improvising and responding to the overdubbed layers of sound . While tapping the sampler pads his waving hands disturb infrared light D-Beam controllers that change the...