Deep Space
There are a few events in which I have had the pleasure of playing where I can express myself freely with all the tools I need take my audience on a journey and back with a safe landing.
Francois’s Deep Space is one of these great forums. I feel honored by the opportunity to have taken command of the ship Francois K has built, on several occasions, when he is off on other missions. Francois is a master from the 70′s and has made a tremendous mark on musical history with his production skills and other worldly presentations. Creating Body & Soul, playing at the Garage, along with his mixes on Prelude Records, has set him apart as being a master of the craft. “Deep Space” the party, is a rhythmic presentation of spacey vibes translated by use of effects and programming. You might hear every genre from rock to reggae on the Funktion One Sound System at Cielo Night Club in NYC. After you have landed it all makes for a grand musical tapestry imprinted in your brain. Here are some scenes from my last journey in the cockpit…
Sugel September 29, 2011
Francois started DJing around New York playing clubs such as Experiment 4 along with John Jellybean Benitez JJ Knickerbocker the Flamingo and New York New York. He went on to remix and or edit the majority of Prelude releases including such club classics as D Trains Keep On Body Music by The Strikers as well as signing seminal tracks which helped define the dance music aesthetic like Double Journey by Powerline or Disco Circus by Martin Circus..Meanwhile Francois continued his DJ work spinning at legendary clubs such as Studio 54 Les Mouches Better Days Buttermilk Bottom The Loft AM PM Bonds Zanzibar and The Paradise Garage filling in for resident Garage jock Larry Levan. He also started collaborating with Levan a major remixer in his own right on studio work and soon became so busy behind the console that he decided to stop DJing in 1983.By the mid-eighties Francois had become an in-demand top remixer and producer on both sides of the Atlantic.