twisthead

At a House party in London, Pej and Aris were introduced to one another by mutual friends. We realised that there was a huge gap in the music out there. Good quality Souful, Funky and Jackin house was not being played much, So we decided to throw a House Party.
Then like a snowball effect the House parties got bigger and Bigger and we out grew the house. One night we brainstormed and came up with the name Twist Head London...... We wanted to spread the love outside of the House party and create a group that encompassed Djing, Producing and Promoting. We organised our first Twist Head gig in Surbiton UK in late 2010 where we had Victor Simonelli headlining. Twist Head has grown rapidly, and with gigs starting to crop up regularly, we have been playing alongside legendary names including Paul Trouble Anderson and the likes of House legend Victor Simonelli.
This year we have played at the Black and White Balls @ Gilgamesh, Promised Land @ the Egg London, The Groove Committee with Victor Simonelli and we are also playing in Ibiza Summer 2011.

Early in 2011, we entered one of our mixes into a competition run by Open House Recordings, Chicago (run by David Dee, Marshall Jefferson, Chauncey Alexander and Harry Dennis) to pick the best DJ mix from a handful of up and coming DJs from around the world. We won mix of the months in March/April 2011. We subsequently entered again in the June competition and won that too. The top prize is a record deal with Open House Recordings. We are now working on producing a track in the near future. In June 2011 whilst Djing at our friend's (DJ Marie's) 50th Birthday we got spotted by Jazzy M (Mervyn Victor) from London 's Passion FM Radio Station (www.passionfmlive.com). and he asked us if we would like to play on the radio having loveds Twisthead's unique sound!
We now have our own show on Passion FM every Wednesday at 8pm - 10pm.
House music is our life and we have played through all Genres of it......bringing us to where we are now, our style being a mix between Old and New Soulful, Disco, Deep, Jackin’ and Tech House.

Over and Out, Twisthead London!

Contact :- bookings@twisthead.co.uk

ARIS (Aris Papadakis)

Born and bred in Twickenham, Middlesex, UK, as a teenager back in the mid to late Eighties, I was spinning 80’s Soul / Electro and Hip Hop on a pair of prehistoric turntables and listening into various underground radio stations. During my teenage years, although club entry wasn't easy, being younger than most of the crowd, I managed to charm my way in to some of Londons biggest names in the London Underground House scene including Philip Salon's Busby's, Shoom at The Fitness Centre, Astoria, Charing Cross road to name a few!! It was about this time that I went out and bought my first pair of turntables with a pitch slider and started to trawl record shops in Soho to buy and find more music to mix together and it was at this time that my love of house music really began.

This was the beginning of something special, and my introduction to the House scene: listening and playing tunes from Marshall Jefferson, Ralphi Rosario, and Steve Hurley to name a few. I started to attend the Raves of the late 80's and early 90's including ' Sunrise , Biology and Genesis and attending Warehouse parties meeting successful Promoters and DJ's from the scene. I was listening to more and more of this style of music and how the DJ’s including Kid Batchelor,Danny Rampling,Tony Humpries and Louie Vega were blending the tunes together seamlessly. House music and the rave scene had exploded and I was going out clubbing most week nights and weekends: listening to house music, spinning tunes at private after party’s, dj-ing various underground parties including Yikes in Slough and clubs and bars in South London. By the mid nineties, my passion for house music had really taken off!

I then took a short break from dj-ing from the London circuit whilst running my Computer Solution Agency and then as the Milennium dawned, once again got the urge to start playing 'out' again!

PEJ (Pej Yavari)

I was brought up in Caversham, Berkshire, UK and bought my first vinyl back in 1985. Whilst listening to Soul and Hip Hop.

I went to my first illegal outdoor party somewhere in a field in the middle of
nowhere in Berkshire in 1989 and that was when I was first introduced to House music. I then started to buy House Vinyls. I bought a pair of Technics 1210's in 1991 and started bedroom Djing and went on my first trip to Ibiza in the summer of 1991 where I was introduced to the Balearic sounds listening to the likes of Alfredo and Jose Padilla. It wasn't until 1992 when I started University in London that I played my first gig at a House Party in the Student Union. I then became Vice President of the Student Union
and helped organise more House Parties. During the weekends I used to go to the
Ministry of Sound and The Gardening Club and listen to the likes of Tony Humphreys, Jeremy Healy and Danny Rampling.
When I left University in 1995 the Djing and promoting took a bit of a back burner as I concentrated on my career in the City. I still continued to buy the records and attend House nights from time to time though.

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