VVWI DJs available include Mr C, Jo Mills, Mike Monday, King Roc, Andre Crom, Tom Dazing, Spektre, Jon Carter (outside London only), Shane Watcha, Josh Tweek, Richard Seeley, Adrian Martin. Most VVWI tour gigs involve Tim Sheridan playing back to back with another of the VVWI residents.
Label showcase mix by Richard Seeley.
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TIM SHERIDAN on why he started VVWI: "Smokin’ Jo and I started a night about 6 years ago in Ibiza and musically I pushed for us to be as different to everyone else as possible. I played Breaks, House, Techno... anything that was a bit bottom heavy and made you do the “bulldog chewing a wasp face”. This was way before “Electro” which as you may remember, in it’s original slightly high fashion New York/German way, was quite extreme. A bit lo-fi and definitely not for dancing. By the time “Filthy Electro” was drummed up as an lunchtime tag by a bone idle and probably drug addled journalist we were at each other like Sonny and Cher and didn’t have an Electro record between us. People who care too much about all the wrong things in life were still debating sub-genres in murky cupboards when we'd knocked it all on the head. I mean, I called our thing NASTYDIRTYSEXMUSIC simple to knock up an imaginary genre specifically to avoid being pigeonholed. Same goes for VERYVERYWRONGINDEED. Does what it says on the tin. I could have gone for "ALLMYFAVOURITETUNESTHATYOURNOTSUPPOSEDTOPLAYINIBIZA" or "WONKYWEIRDORECORDSTHATCONFUSETHEFUCKOUTOFYOUSOBERNEVERMINDONKETAMINE" but you have to be descriptive AND snappy" (Faith messageboard Jan 08). Or there's his writings and myspace.

MR C International dj, innovative producer, founder of plink plonk , Shamen frontman and co owner of the end, Mr C emerged as a pioneering force in the house music scene in 1987 and has continued to be instrumental in the proliferation of dance music on a global scale. These days he records as Mr C, Sycophant Slags with Adultnapper from Dirt Crew / Audiomatique and under the names Myster-E, Nu Jacks, Bass Bureau, The Shamen, Mantrac, Somnambulist, Animus Amor, Mr C & Tom Parris, Killer Loop & as Mr C & 16B. His night Superfreq has now had four Ibizia seasons, including a blowout for Tim Sheridan's birthday at DC10 in Aug 07, and the club plays across Europe including Italy, Holland, Belgium, Lithuania, Latvia & Russia, as well as its Sunday residency at the End. NOTE: For Mr C solo bookings, contact ATB.

JO MILLS. An Ibiza legend and long term resident at Circo Loco, Jo's music history dates back to early days of Flying Records where she worked with Xpress2's Rocky and Mark Wilkinson. Playing clubs that are notorious, legendary, hedonistic and deeply respected for their music - Ibiza, London, Singapore or Sydney - Mills has been resident at nights from Space to DC10 to veryverywrongindeed to Tim Sheridan's earlier night Nastydirtysexmusic.

JON CARTER. Alongside Norman Cook, the Chemical Brothers and Andy Weatherall, he was one of the original residents of the Heavenly Social. He's remixed Felix da Housekatt, Luke Slater, U2, Manic Street Preachers, the Prodigy (with whom he also toured as a DJ), not to mention Selectah, 808 State and the West St Mob - and even the Beach Boys. Under his Junior Cartier alias he released a string of tracks including the pivotal "Women beat their men" and as part of live act the Monkey Mafia he supported Roni Size, Massive Attack and had a Mixmag album of the month. DJing? It's the best job I ever had, he says...
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KING ROC. DJ mag put it succinctly - "2008 will be the year King Roc claims his crown," the magazine said in its wrap up of the top artists to watch in this year. It's partly his string of releases on Simple, Love Minus Zero, Playtime, but also his upcoming artist album, Chapters. Part Twin Peaks, part Pink Floyd, Chapters will mix music with visual art by Australian artist Seb Godfrey of Drunkpark. It's a new type of old-school concept album, taking in birth, death, and what drives people in the time between...
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MIKE MONDAY. His first album, Smorgasbord, was "a classic," said One Week to Live. It was "album of the month", said IDJ - which also had Smorgasbord on "albums of the year" list. And "an LP we just can't put down", said DJ mag. That was the year he had a smash on Simple with Bhalobashi and a runaway hit in Berlin with What day is it? This year he's being remixed by Kruder and Dorfmeister, taking a headline slot at Sonar for Om, and his new album drops in May ...
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ANDRE CROM. A string of releases on Leftroom, Sender, Memo and his own label Heimatmelodie have followed, but even Andre's first release was a smash. "Notaufnahme", a collaboration with Tigerskin on Liebe*Detail, was rated by Magda, Troy Pierce, Roman Flügel, Steve Bug and countless more, and his releases continue to get raves from Hawtin to Claude von Stroke to Karotte. In the first months of 2008 he will release six separate remixes (including a person favourite, Straitjacket by the Catz) and his international touring profile will expand to include Italy, Bucharest, Spain and Vancouver alongside his two residencies in Essen and Cologne and regular slots in London and Berlin.

TOM DAZING. The fans of his Belgian wonderkid include Hawtin, Wink, Zabiela, Marco Bailey, Ambivalent, Ananda, Seth Troxler, Eulberg, Skoozbot and RedHead, and he's released on labels from ToysforBoys to MB Selektions to Coincidence as well as upcoming tracks on veryverywrongindeed recordings and Heimatmelodie. The tracks are bumping minimal techno with an influence of Chicago and acidhouse, and the live set blends oldskool drum elements into a subtle environment of new slinky grooves and all-out raving madness...

SPEKTRE. A mutual love of underground techno and electronic experimentation bought this pair together in the studio, with initial inspiration stemming from early R&S, Joey Beltram and Westbam right through to modern day luminaries M.A.N.D.Y, Booka Shade and Trentemoller. The live show is a four-handed of decks, FX and abelton and the tracks - on labels from Dance Electric to Leftroom - are a crash course in dark, stripped back sound.

SHANE WATCHA. Since humble beginnings in his home town of Durban, Shane has gone on to be a regular at London top clubs, playing Glastonbury to warehouse raves in East London. The past year has seen Shane play DC10 opening party for CIRCO LOCO, at which he guests regularly, as well as the main stage at the TDK festival alongside Sasha, BookaShade, Loco Dice & Nathan Fake. He's also host of London afterhours ZOMBIES ATE MY BRAIN. All in all, not a bad result for someone who started DJing at 20 in that tiny club in South Africa. As DJ mag said, "there is something cool and cultish about Shane’s ability to switch from mild mannered human into rabid techno, minimal house fiend!”

RICHARD SEELEY. The first artist to release on veryverywrongindeed recordings - and the first label licence as well, with his track Juicy Vermin signed to the upcoming Ellen Alien Boogy Bytes comp. Described by IDJ as "not techno, not minimal - seriously freaky shit", Richard is a regular warmup at the veryverywrongindeed nights at the Key and around the UK.

ADRIAN MARTIN. He spent the most of the late 90s in warehouses and raves, but by the early 2000s he was making his own minimal. His first track made it onto a Roger Sanchez compilation and from there into a sideline career in remixing. Now with two tracks due on veryverywrongindeed and a long-standing residency at Basel's brilliant Pazzoide night, Adrian Martin is starting to be seen right across Europe...

JOSH TWEEK. When Tim Sheridan hears one of your tracks and signs it on the spot - not to mention offering you a residency - you know you're onto a good thing. Josh Tweek dropped his fine arts degree and leapt onto the Leeds club circuit, co-founding twisted clubnight Louche and sharing the booth with heavyweights like Paco Osuna, Ryan Crosson and Paul Ritch (and his trusty Roland SP404 sampler). Now his productions marry tripped-out synths with melodic textures and sharp percussive stabs, creating peaktime breakdowns with a refined, instinctive groove. And under the alias Soot he will release a set of more experimental, sparse sounds later this year.