Vince Watson

Vince Watson

Artist Biography

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The Beginning
The disruptive age of 7 is where Vince Watson began his journey towards electronic music. After excelling at music in secondary school, Vince gradually opened up into hip hop and early house music before electronic and industrial elements finally caught his attention. His school needed a new DJ to play at the local weekend disco and this is where the story really started taking shape. With a selection of records unlike any other young DJ around, it wasn’t long before Vince realised he wanted a musical career. Just as the House scene broke large in 87 / 88’, the experimentation began with other styles and the stage was set for what was to be his introduction to Detroit Techno and Electronica, just in time for the summer of love, albeit too young at the time.
Vince graduated with an HNC in Music Technology in 1993 and the mission to release his own record was set in motion. It was two difficult years that past until he was able to buy the extra equipment he needed.
Finally, in 1995 Vince decided to send his rough first demos away, and to his delight none other than Dave Angel had offered him a contract with his label Rotation. Overjoyed, he realized it was the start of something he had always desired. The 1st Innovations EP was a great starting point and was to put Vince’s name on the techno map.

The Tech-House Years
Enter 1997, and with an emphasis on recording, Vince decided to branch out his music styles. Omid ‘16b’ Nourizadeh of Alola records introduced him self and another partnership was born. His debut LP ‘ Biologique ‘ was launched to the world in 1999 and was one of the catalyst’s for the cross TechnoHouse sound of the time. The track ‘Mystical Rhythm’ was a massive selling track and even today still has classic status attached to it from all corners of the electronic community.
2003 also saw the release of Vince’s 2nd Lp Moments in Time on The legendary New York House Label Ibadan. This was a joint release with UK label Alola Records. This allowed him to release many different styles of electronic music and gave the freedom to spread his music out to a larger worldwide audience. Widely received, the album sold many thousands and broke Vince into the Japanese market for the first time.

A View to the Past
As an attempt to breath new life into Electronica, Vince embarked on a series of releases inspired by the sounds of Black Dog and Germany’s Basic Channel. ‘Sublimina’ on Glasgow label Headspace was Vince’s 3rd Full length album and was his most accomplished to date gaining huge respect across all divides of the electronic movement, the prelude to which, ‘Lost Episodes Ep’ has already been spun heavily by Dave Clarke and Derrick May. An Ep for Ben Sims ‘Native’ imprint called ‘Fragments’ also experimented with this universally revered sound, while a remix for The Black Dog itself has been gaining huge support since its release in Jan 2005.

The Next Steps
2004 was also a hugely successful year for his career as an Fcom artist. The 1st release called ‘Pure Innersense’ has been a massive selling release and has gained many licenses already.
Vince recorded a double EP release for the legendary Detroit techno label Transmat, and was due for release now in 2004. but sadly this was never released and ‘The eMotion Sequence’ was released via legendary amsterdam label, Delsin records in late 2006 preceeded by a sampler 12” to massive acclaim by media and his contemporaries. The CD version of the album was massive in Japan. A follow up album will be released in late 2008.
Vince also released his debut single on Planet e ‘Renaissance EP’. Carl Craig has been spinning it heavily in most of his sets worldwide, and the feedback has been overwhelming. There will also be a follow up single on Planet e in 2008.

Whats next for Vince Watson?
Bio will relaunch on Nov23rd as a digital label, starting out with a Funk D Void remix, which has been dubbed Diabla pt2!
Vince will also launch his new broken/jazz label ‘Everysoul’ in the new year.

NEXT RELEASE : Vince Watson ‘A Very Different World’ feat. Funk D Void Remixes. Bio 020

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