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Full Frequency: Claude VonStroke (US)
What started as a fake name and small booking at a friends birthday party has spiraled into an international DJ career for Claude VonStroke (aka Barclay Crenshaw.) One night in San Francisco after a long night of partying, Barclay and his friends began to make up fake European DJ names. Just kidding around, Barclay came up with 'Claude VonStroke'. It ended up sticking after someone at the party booked him to DJ and used the new moniker on the flyer.
Raised in the suburbs
After University in New York and a diversion in Hollywood working as an assistant on a series of big budget feature films, Barclay moved back to Detroit and re-discovered his passion for electronic music, initially inspired by listening to drum n bass mix tapes from the UK. He built a massive live rig of synthesizers and samplers and played live at local Poor Boy underground warehouse parties until he lost all of his music in an electrical outage.
One year later, Barclay re-located to
Since 2005, dirtybird has carved out a niche as a premiere American tech funk label and has released over 20 EPs. Claude VonStrokes very first record, 'Deep Throat' was a major hit of 2005. The success of the single was followed up by 'Whos Afraid of Detroit?' another international hit championed by Richie Hawtin who called it the best track of 2006 in DJ magazine. Soon after that Claude released his full-length debut album Beware of the Bird to outstanding reviews, further establishing him as an original talent in the underground.
Since then, he has recorded over 25 remixes for a range of commercial and underground artists from The Rapture to
In an effort to give something back to the community Claude unveiled a deeper techno label called 'mothership' in 2007. A large percentage of the labels proceeds go to a music school for children in Claudes hometown of
A VonStroke DJ set is based on meticulous track selection and outrageous risk taking. He always takes time to find the special ass-wiggling cuts that keep the dance-floor percolating, evident in his recent effort Fabric 46.
Claude VonStroke annihilates Transit Bar for the evening of Friday October 2nd, for one of only two sideshows during his Parklife visit.
Supported by Mikah Freeman, Ronnie Gordon, Biggie, Staky, and Bobbin.
http://www.myspace.com/claudevonstroke
http://www.dirtybirdrecords.com
http://www.fabriclondon.com/label/fabric/46/
Very limited presale tickets go on sale on Wednesday September 9th, through moshtix.