Conference 05/12/05
Details on how to get to The Drum Arts Centre & A list of Hotels to stay at while in Birmingham are available for download on the Contact Us page.
Event 18/11/05
Choice F.M. - Official Media Partners for the Djs for Life Event!!!! -- Choice FM have become official Media partners for the Djs For Life Project in Dec. Kat & Masterstepz will broadcast a live show from Birmingham on the 9th Dec 2005.
Tickets 15/11/05
Some people have been experiencing problems purchasing their Conference tickets through Paypal. So you can now get them from the Credit Card Hotline:
08707 544445
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Tickets 19/10/05

Event 18/10/05
Ticket outlets for the event now in the events section. Can't wait?
Credit Card Hotline - 08707 544445 Click here for outlets
Lineup 27/09/05
Some recent additions to the lineup: Charlie Dark, Normski, Nihal, and more..
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Wristbands 27/09/05
Wristbands are now also available in Old Skool Daze Birmingham, Replay Records in Bristol and Fat City in Manchester.
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Wristbands 07/09/05
The DJs for Life wristbands are now in shops, so go and buy one today. In Birmingham get down to Size trainer store or Tempest records, in London check out Deal Real and in Leicester it's 2Funky. More stockists to be confirmed later this week including stores in Bristol and Manchester.
In the meantime DJ Swing needs you now so please make a donation by texting:
DJSWING to 86600
texts cost £3 with all funds going to Swing's charities. Service provided by Mobsvideo.
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Lineup 23/08/05
Massive additions to the lineup!
Scratch Perverts, Mr Thing, Roc 1 and loads more
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Lineup 13/08/05
More Djs Announced!
DJ's Supreme, Pogo & Tigerstyle added
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Lineup 10/08/05
Need to know who's gonna be there?
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General 09/08/05
Well the sites finally up and running!! We'll be adding more details over the next few days so keep checking back for updates.
Wristbands 09/08/05
Djs for Life Wrist Bands hit London!!!! -- Well What a Showcase of the U.K's biggest & best Djs. Stars turned up to spin tunes all for the name of Myeloma U.K. Djs repping in the place included Trevor Nelson, Big Ted, Pogo, Cutmaster Swift, Matt White, Rapscallion, Normski, Boogie Bunch. All in honour of our friend & dj for life - Dj Swing. Wicked night!!!

Dego McFarlane

London-based producer/songwriter Dego started making music in 1988 with his fellow pirate-radio DJs. The band of sound-system enthusiasts first released a hip-hop record, but eventually their sound absorbed acid house rhythms and gave birth to the breakbeat genre of drum bass, as well as the collective 4Hero.

The four lads set up their own label Reinforced Records to release such dance music groundbreakers as ising Sun and r. Kirk Nightmare. The label served as a laboratory for Dego to musically explore and fuse sounds under various monikers, while nurturing emerging jungle producers such as Goldie.

When 4Hero, now just Dego and Marc Mac, signed to mini-major Talkin Loud, critics and the public began to take notice. Their third full-length Two Pages a double-disc exposition of the breakbeat formula with a heavier jazz and instrumental influence garnered a Mercury Music Prize nomination and a MOBO award in 1996.

As the new millennium dawned, the two forged ahead with experimental rhythms that married a jazz sensibility with r b melodies and spoken-word vocals, the term future soul umbrella a worldwide movement which includes Kyoto Jazz Massive in Japan; Jill Scott and Vikter Duplaix in Philly; Jazzanova in Berlin; and Bugz in the Attic in London.

Their fourth LP Creative Patterns involved collaborations with several of these musical kindred spirits, and opened Dego up to a world of sonic possibilities. These possibilities found a new home at 2000Black,his new imprint that champions genre-free music while challenging listeners with irregular rhythms under the guise of soulful dance music.

Soon after, Dego has headed out in polar directions with his two latest projects and albums: dkd Future Rage (with Bugz Daz-I-Cue and Kaidi Tatham gets the dancefloor in a broken-beat frenzy, while this year Silhouette Brown (also with Tatham) soothes the emotionally weary with spacey keys and uplifting vocals.

Currently, Dego is finishing up 4Hero fifth LP and refining his live and instrumental sound with Kaidi Tatham.

www.2000black.com