NederlandsDJ Vince Watson
Biography Vince Watson
1995 Vince decided to send his rough first demos away, and to his delight none other than Dave Angel had offered him a contract with his label Rotation. Overjoyed, he realized it was the start of something he had always desired. The 1st Innovations EP was a great starting point and was to put Vinces name on the techno map.
After releasing tracks on other various labels, Watson started Dj'ing in The Arena, Glasgow and it was not long before the Rotation Monthly was set up with himself and Dave Angel as residents and some exclusive monthly guests. Shortly after it became a weekly event with top guests such as Jeff Mills, Miss Djax, Kenny Larkin and Luke Slater. Mr Mills loved it so much he came back another twice in the space of 9 months!
Enter 1997, and with an emphasis on recording, Vince decided to branch out his music styles. Omid 16b Nourizadeh of Alola records introduced him self and another partnership was born. His debut LP Biologique was launched to the world in 1999 and was one of the catalysts for the cross TechnoHouse sound of the time. The track Mystical Rhythm was a massive selling track and even today still has classic status attached to it from all corners of the electronic community.
2003 also saw the release of Vinces 2nd Lp Moments in Time on The legendary New York House Label Ibadan. This was a joint release with UK label Alola Records. This allowed him to release many different styles of electronic music and gave the freedom to spread his music out to a larger worldwide audience. Widely received, the album sold many thousands and broke Vince into the Japanese market for the first time.
2004 was also a hugely successful year for his career as an Fcom artist. The 1st release called Pure Innersense has been a massive selling release and has gained many licenses already. The 2nd release was launched in August 2005. A 3rd release will be completed in 2006.
As an attempt to breath new life into Electronica, Vince has also embarked on a series of releases inspired by the sounds of Black Dog and Germanys Basic Channel. Sublimina on Glasgow label Headspace was Vinces 3rd Full length album and was his most accomplished to date gaining huge respect across all divides of the electronic movement, the prelude to which, Lost Episodes Ep has already been spun heavily by Dave Clarke and Derrick May. An Ep for Ben Sims Native imprint called Fragments also experimented with this universally revered sound, while a remix for The Black Dog itself has been gaining huge support since its release in Jan 2006.
Echoes from the Future : View to the Past will be released in February 2006 and is Vinces 4th artist album, but his debut album on his own Bio imprint. A collage of lush rhythm and textures created using the whole back catalogue from the label was mixed and created using Ableton Live Software. 3 Album samplers will precede the project on Vinyl only with 6 new tracks being introduced. The album will feature many of the tracks that Vince has been touring with Live for the last 18 months. Bio will also be releasing music from Joel Mull, Sebastian Kramer and Taho as well as some fresh artists and more top spec remixes....
2004 saw the launch of Bios sister label Subconscious Elements. A more sensual approach to electronic music will be the attention to detail, which is so badly missed in modern day club music. The label has released strong material with music from Carsten Fietz, Noah Pred, Audibelle and Paul Mac, which have been a great success. The Paul Mac release was a real Detroit fusion styled EP for the label, which has been hammered, by François K and Laurent Garnier.
2006 will see the label change name to Bio Elements. A whole host of superb releases has already been lined up from John Dahlback, Joshua Collins, Jerome, Djinxx, Holger Flinsch, Taho and a special AA side release by Estroe and Vince Watson together.
Vince recorded a double EP release for the legendary Detroit techno label Transmat, and was due for release now in 2004. but sadly this was never released and will now be released via legendary amsterdam label, Delsin records in 2006 preceeded by a sampler 12" and a remix..
A Jazz Inspired Album for Laurent Garniers Fcom label will also be produced in 2006 and a major remix for Turner on Ladomat/Mute records, a single for detroits planet e label is also confirmed for 2006.