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Nick Hook started DJing in the early days of the house music revolution. He recorded his first house track in 1990, and started promoting his first club night, Loosen Up, in 1991.
Loosen Up became one of London's most influential house clubs during the early 1990's, and Nick's DJ career took off accordingly.
He soon found himself playing regular guest spots at London's top clubs, including the Ministry of Sound, Club UK, and the Drum Club, as well as guesting at top clubs around the UK (such as Slam in Glasgow, Space in Belfast) and in Europe.
In 1995 Loosen Up joined forces with Whoop! and Nick became one of the resident DJs and co-promoters at the resulting club night, Whoop It Up. The club ran every Friday night for five and a half years, and became London's most significant progressive house night, with guests such as Sasha, John Digweed, Seb Fontaine, Dave Seamen, Nick Warren and Timo Maas all playing alongside the residents. After the demise of Whoop It Up Nick relaunched his club night, Loosen Up, which continues to host venues around London. Check out the Loosen Up website - www.loosenup.me.uk - for details of recent and forthcoming parties.
In 2006 Nick also launched a new club night in Brighton, where he now lives, called Loose. Check out - www.loose-brighton.co.uk for more details.
Nick's DJ style is to play the best uplifting, upfront house music, spanning funky, chunky, dirty, electro and progressive house styles depending on the venue and the crowd.
As well as DJing at his residencies in London and Brighton, Nick continues to play guest spots around the UK and also DJs regularly abroad, in such countries as Russia, Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Ireland and Ibiza.
Nick's recording career took off when he collaborated with Morgan King on many projects in the early 90s, the most successful of which was Soundsource whose track 'Take Me Up' was signed to FFRR and became one of the biggest club tracks of 1992. Together they went on to launch Om Records, which became one of the most influential early progressive house labels.
In the intervening years Nick has produced over 80 tracks (including remixes) for various labels such as Whoop!, Distinctive, React, Multiply, Limbo, Phonetic, In Music, Wallop, Stress and DMC as well as for his own label, Off The Hook, under artist names such as First Life, Pleasure Box, Subterfuge, and Hook as well as, of course, Nick Hook. His many remix credits include artists such as The Grid, Gusto, Alex Neri and Saint Etienne.
Recently Nick has been more busy than ever in the recording studio, and 2007 sees a load of Nick's new productions set for release such as, First Life (Nick Hook & Martin Sharp) - 'The Preacher Man' on Friends of The Family Records, First Life - 'Survival' on Inevitable Records, The Casey Jones Effect (Nick and Robin Green) - 'Electrify Me' on Baroque, and Hook & Black (Nick and Matt Black) - 'Lucky Punk' on Segment.
First Life have also remixed Luis Paris vs Adamski's 'One Of The People' out now on Phonetic Recordings, and Janet Gabriel's 'The Power' coming out on Inevitable.
2007 also sees the launch of Jeepers!, a brand new house music label, brought to you by Nick Hook and fellow Brighton DJ Lee Morrison.
The first release on Jeepers!, in October 2007, was a new Nick Hook solo single entitled 'The Funky Muzik', which gained DJ support from such luminaries as Laurent Garnier, Tim Andresen and the Flash Brothers, and topped the MOS electro chart and reached number 2 in the DJ Download chart.
Nick has also remixed Martin Sharp's 'I Got The Feeling', and Anton Neumark's 'Get No Sleep', both set for release on Jeepers! in 2007.
For a full discography and a more in-depth biography go to www.nickhook.com |
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Plastic Frequency featuring Katy Allen - 'Trick Me' is currently being promoted on Jeepers!
It's the work of top bod producer Paolo Jackson (above), and comes with a brill First Life remix. |
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