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Deep Swing

Based on the West Coast of the USA in Los Angeles, Erik and JD are the Production/DJ team known as Deep Swing. Using other aliases such as "The Sunkids", and "Jazz Transit" , Erik and JD's steady dedication to pushing forward their production style and sound came to fruition with the release of the biggest records to emerge from the 1999 Winter Music Conference in Miami.

"Rescue Me" which featured the vocal talents of Chance took the annual Music Conference by storm when it was promoed by Tony Humphries on his label, YellOrange Records. With additional remixes by The Masters At Work, and Bini and Martini, many DJ's and Producers proclaimed, "Rescue Me" as the anthem of the Music Conference. 1999 was a phenomenal year for Deep Swing as every record they released gained critical acclaim across the world.


Apart from "Rescue Me"; tracks such as "Rise Up" the latest Sunkids release, "Shelter", "I Promise You", "I Am Somebody", "Lets Do This", and "Takin Me Higher" have propelled the duo into one of the hottest Production teams around. Deep Swing were formed in 1993 with their first release on Megatone Records, and since their first production Erik and JD have gone on to record tracks for labels like Yellorange, Soulfuric, Soulshine, Kult, Narcotic, and Suntune, during their career. Inspired by many music styles and influences, the Deep Swing sound is based around strong and funky musical arrangements, drawing on their own musical abilities, Erik is an accomplished musician playing guitar, keyboards, and other instruments as well as being a DJ. James aka JD learnt his Djing skills playing at clubs across the mid west of the US. Within their various projects, the duo are at equally at home working with strong vocalists such as Xavior ("Shelter" and "Takin Me Higher") and Chance ("Rescue Me" and "Rise Up") as well as instrumental jazzed up house tracks such as "Lets Do This" and "Steppin Out". Deep Swing like to draw on their musical background by employing the talents of musicians to add a real live flavor to their productions. Last year they delivered the much-anticipated follow-up to "Rescue Me" with "Rise Up" which again featured the vocals of Chance, which was proclaimed as one of the major record's of this years Winter Music Conference. Deep Swing's new label Generate Music was launched with the new track from Xavior entitled "I Promise You", which was promoed to good responses at WMC. The second release "In The Music" has been getting solid support around the world and was recently licenced to Time Records in Italy. The third release will feature Donna Washington and is entitled "Going Up" Apart from working on their own productions the guys have recently been applying their magical touches on remixes for Annette Taylor for Defected, Kristine W for Champion Records, and Michael Proctor for Oxyd Records. February see's the guys return to Europe for club dates in the UK, Italy, Germany and Greece. They are also set to play their first gigs in Asia later this year also with dates in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia plus additional dates in Australia, to be confirmed. Deep Swing productions: Deep Swing feat Donna Washington "Goin Up" - Generate Music Deep Swing feat Xavior "His Grace is Great" - Generate Deep Swing "In The Music" - Generate Deep Swing feat Xavior "I Promise You" - Generate Music Deep Swing feat Xavior "Takin Me Higher" - Raw Nerve Deep Swing feat Xavior "Shelter" - Soulshine Deep Swing feat Toney Jones "Across the Land" - Soulshine Deep Swing feat Cristienne "Touched By Love" - Kult Sun Kids feat Chance "Rescue Me" - Yellorange Sun Kids feat Chance "Rise Up" - Yellorange Total Xperience "Left Turn E.p" - 4th Floor Soul Justice "So Right..You Are 2 Me" - Velocity Dept of Soul "Love Will Find You!" - Narcotic Deep Swing "Joy" - Velocity Deep Swing "I Am Somebody" - Kult Records Deep Swing "Baby, I Want You Bad!" - Suntune Deep Swing "Love Has No Color" - Suntune Deep Swing "He's Got The Love !" - Kult Deep Swing "Get up ! Get down" - Maxi Deep Swing "Do You Really Wanna Love?" - Kult Deep Swing feat Maxine "Lost In Love" - Simplex Deep Swing feat Greyling "Are You Ready?" - Kult Jazz Transit "Let's Do This!" - Soulfuric Deep Jazz Transit "Steppin Out" - Soulfuric Deep Dept of Soul feat Toney Jones "Stand Tall !" - Narcotic Love-drop feat.. Davina "Take Me Up!" - Hibias Deep Swing remixes: Taylor Caine "Bomshell Cabaret" - Polydor Michael Proctor "Angel" - Oxyd Kristine W "FeelWhat You Want" - Champion Annette Taylor "Faith" - Defected Records Romero "What Hope Have I" - Champion Artful Dodger feat Craig David "Woman Trouble" - FFRR Groove Junkies feat Mijan "Music Is Life" - Champion Pearl "Take You Higher" - Suntune Althea McQueen "A Little Bit Of My Love" - Velocity Micheal Watford "So Into You" - East West On The Contrary "Too Sexy" - Coal Mine Recs Eddie X "Temple/The Message" - Moonshine Mt Rushmore "I've Got The Music In Me" - Moonshine Mike Oldfield "The Bell" - Reprise Casserine "Why Not Take All Of Me" - Warners Off Its Face :: Clubbing, DJing & dance music :: Articles