Justin Harris’ illustrious musical career kicked off way back in 1987 when he was a regular DJ at the first pioneering Acid House events in the UK. He later went on to become one half of the DJ partnership North & South (Nigel Casey, House of 909), who were infamous on the Warehouse and free party / DiY circuit throughout the UK and Europe... a blur follows of free parties, thrills, pills, and belly laughs..read on..

Upon moving to London in the early 90’s, Justin turned his technical dexterity to the studio and began making some of the most innovative and leftfield house music around. Eight years ago, he teamed up with Luke Solomon to create the groundbreaking Freaks project. Freaks have over 80 productions under their belt, including remixes for artists such as Revlon9, Matthew Herbert, The Good Books, Kassabian, Soft Cell, The Human League, Derrick Carter, Greenskeepers, Tiefschwarz and Damon Albarn to name a few… and have themselves recorded for such esteemed labels as Perlon, Wally's Groove World, Classic, Playhouse, International Deejay Gigolo, Silver Network and of course the legendary Music For Freaks (MFF) and Classic Recordings.

Freaks, over the last nine years, have continued to concentrate their musical output on their own 'Music For Freaks' imprint and have released around 20 EPs along with Three Albums - 'The Beat Diaries’ , 'Meanwhile Back At The Disco' and the most recent 'Man Who Lived Underground'. All three albums were creative landmarks in house and electronic music production, bending people’s perceptions of how house music should sound. Probably also worth mentioning is the fact that one of the songs Creeps (originally from their album 'The Man Who Lived Underground') got to number 9 in the UK pop charts and was a huge dance anthem around the world. No mean feat for a dance track these days..Freaks have been writing and recording their next album 'I LOVE TECHNOLOGY' for over three years now and this project promises to be an oasis in this confused world of electronic music. Their next EP 'U Make No Sense' is to be released on Crosstown Rebels This Summer (2009) - the perfect home for where the band are coming from.

Other highlights of Justin’s sonic career over the years include further collaborations with Luke Solomon under the Robotic Movement, Oliloqui and Freesoul (also featuring Diesel) guises. The audio fruits of these partnerships found homes on seminal house labels such as Classic, Phono, 20/20 Vision, Large, Seasons and SSR and of course their own Wash House imprint. Justin has also recorded his own solo projects as himself or Philippe Maurice for Classic, Sensory Productions, Swag and Tombone. He also runs an underground house label 'Paranoid' with old friend and side-kick Lil Mark (Classic Recordings) which is now on it's seventh release and has been geting world-wide support from such Dj's as Chris Duckenfield, Mark Farina, Ritchie Hawtin, Rob Mello, Laurent Garnier and Linus. Over his 22 year DJ'ing career Justin has played literally hundreds of venues around the world (170 cities in 33 countries and counting) such as Fabric (UK), The End (RIP), Planet K (Manchester), Fuse (Brussels), Rex (Paris), Batofar (Paris), Skanssen (Oslo), Lolita (Barcelona), Robert Johnson (Frankfurt), WMF (Berlin), Panorama Bar (Berlin), Back To Basics (Leeds,UK), Sankeys (Manchester-UK) As well some HUGE DJ sets at the following festivals : Homelands, Love Box, The Glade, Rip Curl Festival ......Well the list literally just goes on.....you get the picture..

Fast forward to 2009 and we see things hotting up with new solo remixes for Luke Solomon (Rekids - UK), Jake Childs (Pin-UP Recordings - NYC), Timo Garcia, Sawtooth Sucka's (DotBleep - Chicago), Chris Coco, Alland Byallo, and a cheeky Redo of Kid Cudi's Day N Night, and that's just January until March.Forthcoming Productions include the Freaks 'Madness and Mayhem' EP on Crosstown Rebels which is already gaining props from Laurent Garnier and Andrew Weatherall to name a few. As well as a bunch of new solo productions on Paranoid, Fine Art Recordings, Baker Street and Dot Bleep with more releases to be announced soon (see the website for info). As well as his underground projects, Justin has also been delving further into producing and writing with other vocalists, there are a number of projects on the front burner with such acclaimed vocalists as Laura Vane (The Streets, Arman Van Helden), Erire Obano (whose hits include Dusk Till Dawn and could this be the love) and our very own Stella Attar (his Freak sister). Justin's DJ schedule is also starting to fill up for 2009 with numerous solo dates and also some fantastic dates with Nigel Casey as DJ's north and South. As well as his solo DJ sets, justin also plays with his band Freaks - performing DJ sets too with Luke Solomon and Jonny Rock.with more festivals in the pipeline and talks of a couple of residencies in the UK as well as a string of dates with In Bed With Space. These are for both DJ sets and his brand new Ableton live set which promises to take things to a whole new level. Also on the cards this year are tours to Asia, Australia and the USA..

LATEST NEWS: justin has just completed a tour in Asia with Nigel Casey as DJ's North and South. They lifted the roof warming up for Underworld live on Sept 24th and DJ'd for the other dates playing alongside the likes of Darren Emerson and Will I.Am… Justin Also flew to Seoul in Korea to play alongside Luke Solomon for a Freaks DJ set.

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