Local City Villians
IS Run.Catch.Kiss and Victor Loveless, a DJ/Producer team who make light from darkness. Exploding out of the NYC underground dance scene, 2011 is the year when Villains take over.
Victor Loveless, AKA Shane X Conry, comes by way of the West Coast and has been a staple of the NYC club scene for the past 12 years. Working from studios all over NYC, Mr. Loveless has mixed everything from Hip-Hop, Jazz and Rock to Disco-House, Indie Electronica and Tech. His musical portfolio includes remixing and producing songs for Madonna, Kraze and Heloise and the Savoir Faire, to name a few...
Local City Villains DJ extraordinaire, Run.Catch.Kiss, AKA Keith Stanigar, has been spinning down tempo and house records since 2001. Calling Austin, TX home, Run first played lounges like Red Fez and upstairs at Johnny Fins. He also includes SXSW and KVRX college radio among his musical venues.
Vic and Run met through their mutual friend Ansidis-- a fellow underground DJ/Producer- and hit it off immediately. The newly formed team began collaborating on an EP in late 2010 and expects to have the hot single “Humanimal” ready for release in early 2011. With an always fresh live set that combines performance and techno inspired DJ skills, Local City Villains is unique, deep and superbly entertaining.
Come down and go deep with Run.Catch.Kiss and Victor Loveless as Local City Villains. But don’t be afraid...they’ll only take you as far as you’re willing to go.
Victor Loveless, AKA Shane X Conry, comes by way of the West Coast and has been a staple of the NYC club scene for the past 12 years. Working from studios all over NYC, Mr. Loveless has mixed everything from Hip-Hop, Jazz and Rock to Disco-House, Indie Electronica and Tech. His musical portfolio includes remixing and producing songs for Madonna, Kraze and Heloise and the Savoir Faire, to name a few...
Local City Villains DJ extraordinaire, Run.Catch.Kiss, AKA Keith Stanigar, has been spinning down tempo and house records since 2001. Calling Austin, TX home, Run first played lounges like Red Fez and upstairs at Johnny Fins. He also includes SXSW and KVRX college radio among his musical venues.
Vic and Run met through their mutual friend Ansidis-- a fellow underground DJ/Producer- and hit it off immediately. The newly formed team began collaborating on an EP in late 2010 and expects to have the hot single “Humanimal” ready for release in early 2011. With an always fresh live set that combines performance and techno inspired DJ skills, Local City Villains is unique, deep and superbly entertaining.
Come down and go deep with Run.Catch.Kiss and Victor Loveless as Local City Villains. But don’t be afraid...they’ll only take you as far as you’re willing to go.
Rob Ross
Bio coming soon...
Ansidis
Bio coming soon...
Hollefeld
Turntables and vinyl first influenced Hollefeld in 1993 and while he started his public career as a promoter, he continued to be a bedroom dj. After making the switch and mastering cds, he has since moved on to utilizing Tractor to share his 4 minute remixes of minimal techno and tech house. Continuing to further his and your education, he'll be banging mostly Chicago house influenced tracks for this appearance to get your booty bouncing.
Rus Deep
Over the past 13 years, Rus has enjoyed his journey as a musician. This self taught DJ from New York has honed his skills at moving crowds and has developed a unique sound which blends such diverse genres as Nu Soul, Nu Jazz, Funk and Afro Beat to Deep House, Progressive House and Tech House. His talent and drive have allowed him to play along side such notable DJ's as, David Waxman, DJ Pierre, Supa DJ Dimitri from Dee Lite, Timo Maas, Peace Division, Mark Lewis and Hector Romero at some of the most legendary venues in NYC such as Centro-Fly, Vinyl, Sullivan Room, Shelter and Discotheque.
In January 2003, he was featured in the SPOTLIGHT article of MIXER magazine.
July of 2003 saw the North American release of "Sounds Under New York", a mix compilation CD he did for the UK label Journeys By DJ. Journeys By DJ was the first label to release a DJ mixed CD in 1993 and have put out compilations by Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules, Farley & Heller, Billy Nasty, John Selway and Coldcut.
In July of 2006, Rus did a two week tour of Ukraine with dates in Kiev, Odessa, Kherson and Cherkos.
In the studio, Rus has collaborated with DJ/producer Alek Biotic under the name Upstanding Citizens; to create a unique tribal techno sound and have released tracks on the UK label Journeys by DJ. Rus also has worked with DJ/producer JOE BOND under the name The Groove Perverts, releasing tracks and remixes for NYC labels Sifted Recordings and Quaterlife Records.
Rus is continuing his musical soul search. He hopes through his music, to continue gratifying the dance community.
In January 2003, he was featured in the SPOTLIGHT article of MIXER magazine.
July of 2003 saw the North American release of "Sounds Under New York", a mix compilation CD he did for the UK label Journeys By DJ. Journeys By DJ was the first label to release a DJ mixed CD in 1993 and have put out compilations by Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Danny Rampling, Judge Jules, Farley & Heller, Billy Nasty, John Selway and Coldcut.
In July of 2006, Rus did a two week tour of Ukraine with dates in Kiev, Odessa, Kherson and Cherkos.
In the studio, Rus has collaborated with DJ/producer Alek Biotic under the name Upstanding Citizens; to create a unique tribal techno sound and have released tracks on the UK label Journeys by DJ. Rus also has worked with DJ/producer JOE BOND under the name The Groove Perverts, releasing tracks and remixes for NYC labels Sifted Recordings and Quaterlife Records.
Rus is continuing his musical soul search. He hopes through his music, to continue gratifying the dance community.
Jim Ramer
Having been infatuated by electronic music from a very young age, it was just amatter of time until Jim Ramer would try and make his mark on the dance musicscene. Drawing influence from 80s and early 90s electronic acts like Depeche Mode,New Order, Front 242, Skinny Puppy and Ministry, Jim began experimenting withproducing his own tracks in 1991. With what began as a hobby soon became anobsession when Jim discovered a little haunt in his native Gainesville, Florida, thelegendary Simon's.House, progressive house, trance, techno...call it whatever you want, Jim washooked. For years it was just clubbing, buying records he couldn't afford and lovingthe music. It wasn't until he met Justin Nichols(Mojolators) while attending collegethat he was convinced to take a more serious approach toward producing tracks.Justin and Jim collaborated and began producing tracks that started getting notice ontheir label Unison.As is typical in a college town, graduation came along and Jim and Justin partedways. Jim then started working on solo tracks under the alias of Xero andreleased "Marooned" on Unison. "Marooned" got quite a bit of attention from thelikes of Paul Van Dyk, Chris Fortier, Taylor, Steven McCreary (charted #1), Pezz andJimmy VanMallegham. Upon hearing the track, VanM rang Jim up and recruited himto work in his studio. The two tracks they worked on (one which was a collaborationwith Sam Mollison and Jesse Skeens[Medway]) never were released but got heavyrotation from Sasha and John Digweed.Other projects include include two releases with Kyle Hogan under the nameFilterfuks on Dave Seaman's Audio Therapy Records and Vortex Records. Their firstrelease, "Mojo", was featured on Liam Kennedy's "Atomic Trance" Mix CD. Also, Jimdid several side projects with with Mike Hiratzka as Fu Man Sanchez and releasedtheir first single "Strapped On" on Ultra Records in 2001. In addition, Jim and Mikealso worked under the monikers Kung Fu Rodriguez and Hiratzka & Ramer andreceivied critical acclaim. Their second single, "Streak" (Spundae), was hammeredby John Digweed, who dropped it on Radio 1's Essential Mix Live From Homelandsand on his KISS FM show live from Bedrock at Heaven.Jim's reputation as a top-notch DJ and producer keeps growing and growing. Alongwith his current recording collaborations, his recent solo works are again starting toget heavy rotation from many prominent Djs.
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