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PRESS QUOTES
“One of the hottest UK DJ/Production acts around” - DJ Mag

'From cult underground London DJs to globe-trotting electro/techno/minimal hotshots' DJ Mag

'Drawing on a melting pot of sounds from techno, house and electro, the catz hybrid set leaves the dancefloor thoroughly shaken and stirred, delivering a sermon in twisted funk' - One Week To Live

'Former choirboys and East-end heroes the Catz crank it a notch: BRILLIANT'
The Guardian (May 2006)

“The weekend's never over with the Catz at the helm” - Time Out

“The Catz... hailed as 'ones to watch' by numerous publications and have the ability to rock parties right: no doubt about it” - One Week To Live

'Candiru has been the biggest track in my box since dan catz gave it to me 4 months ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!' - Nic Fancuilli

BIO (JUL/AUG 07)
Last week was a busy one for the Catz. Nic Faniculli called up to say the new Catz track, Candiru, has been "the biggest thing in my box since Dan Cat gave it to me four months ago!!!!!!" The Catz launched their new label, Catzmuzik, by headlining a jampacked showcase for 800 in London (the Cheshire St Sessions, an event the Guardian had previously raved was "BRILLANT!!!"). Plus the Catz put out their first remix on German label BluFin, plus finished a new collaboration with Oliver Giacomotto, the biggest producer on beatport at the moment - and they even changed their name.

Cheshire Catz are dead. Long live the Catz.

Now "one of the UK's hottest DJ/production acts around" (DJ mag), Dan Gerrett and Jon Blond first DJed together at the first of the Cheshire Street sessions, a party that started with 300 people and grew uncontrollably, until that one New Years Eve when 1500 people squeezed themselves into four adjoining flats and a terrace, and the Catz thought maybe it was time to move that gig to a bigger venue...

Then came six "At Night" parties - taking that house-party vibe into London warehouses, and scoring the Catz gigs at nearly every major London club off the back of their rapt local following and blistering sets. In 2004 they became Mixmag "Future Heroes". NYE '05 they headlined one room of Nastydirtysexmusic, the biggest night at Ministry of Sound for that year, delivering a four-decks-n-fx set so insane that Nastydirty founder Tim Sheridan asked the Catz to join the roster for his next night, the famously crazed Veryveryverywrongindeed afterparties ("These guys," said Ministry, "are shit hot" - or as Turnmills put it, "outstanding"!). Then came beatport.com's London night GEEK, and in 08 they'll have a new residency at John Acquaviva's Electronic, a night where the founder of Beatport and Plus8 Records tours his favourite producers across Europe and Latin America.

In March this year, meanwhile, DJ mag followed the catz to their new regular slot at Le Prive in Avignon, France, for a two-page spread on their set. That's a club etched in house music history as one of the first places where Daft Punk played, and it now sees regular visits from Carl Cox, Josh Wink ... and the Catz, who return in Sep for the third in a set of foreign repeat bookings. The DJ mag report said the Catz have "gone from cult underground London DJs to globe-trotting electro/techno/minimal hotshots" as they rocked the packed 2000-capacity club across four hours, as they have across their busy diary of gigs UK-wide, Canada, Denmark and - coming up - New York.

So at first promoters wanted the Catz for their DJ skills - the fun of having two record nerds behind the decks going wild with an array of sound effects and tricks. But what breaks them in clubs now is their production. In 06/07 the Catz went global by nailing their own Catz sound, with raves from Sasha to Claude von Stroke to James Zabiela, Radioslave to Audiofly, Ralph Lawson to Sebastien Leger, Tom Stephan to Funk D'Void. It's a wonky new stripped-back UK template for house that DJ magazine described as "taking acid, electro, techno and trancey influences and build it all together with a view to creating mass hysteria". Starting with labels like Whoop! Records and Berwick Street Records - with the "The Drop", "Dunewalker", "Squeal" and Radio One Essential "Discotech" - and FAKT Recordings with "Wide Awake", the dubiously named "Ringshifter" (since licensed to 7 compilations), and "Battlecat", the Catz have also had remixes on Germany's BluFin, the US's Black Van, and even remixed perennial faves Coldcut for the UK's Ninja Tunes.

Now they've got tracks out this month on Playtime, Devore and a new release on Berwick Street, plus their own label Catzmuzik on the way with the first release, Word Problems, out in August and their first album, Sunday friends, due in early 08. With the press lined up to cover the label launch and the newest UK producer duo launching into the stratosphere, this is peak time for the Catz ...

DISCOGRAPHY
Powercutz / Doctor acid (Whoop)
Electronic EP (Whoop)
Discotech EP - w Timo Garcia (Berwick St)
Just get over it / The Drop - w Timo Garcia (Berwick St)
Wide Awake / Locked On - w Black Russian (FAKT)
Hooked on Hope / Ringshifter - w Black Russian (FAKT)
Dunewalker / Squeal - w Timo Garcia (Berwick St)
Bastard Lovechild / Battle Cat - w Jnr J (FAKT)

UPCOMING
Candiru / Music Box - w Graeme Lloyd / Mark Sun (Playtime)
Bad Ass African Drums - w Jnr J (Devore)
Word Problems - w Ibi Beginnerz (Catzmuzik)