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Alongside his partner Chris Jennings, they are the most revered and successful trance producers in Britain. Their productions are played by the worlds top DJ's including Tiesto, Armin, PVD, Ferry, Ornadel, Gielen - the list is truly endless! After joining forces a few years ago, Hemstock & Jennings had a string of massive anthems as Sagitaire, Merge and Hemstock & Jennings, lining the UKs record shops, resulting in them being one of the most in demand remix and production teams in the UK. Les has remixed for the likes of Ian Van Dahl, Warp Brothers and Joshua Ryan and his winning collaboration with PAUL VAN DYK is certainly a major highlight. Their record “Nothing But You” sold tens of thousands worldwide charting in every Top 20 national chart. As an international DJ, Les has entertained crowds all around the world. Whether it be playing in front of 60,000 clubbers at the huge Dance Valley festival in Holland, rocking the BBC Radio one soundstage in Ibiza or touring Asia with Gatecrasher. In England Les regularly appears at all the major trance clubs including Gatecrasher, Slinky, Goodgreef, Promise, and Escape. 2004 saw Hemstock & Jennings hit the worlds clubs with yet more huge trance hits including “Reverance” signed to Mondo Records and “Magenta” which has featured on Gatecrashers compilation and Paul Van Dyks Mixmag covermount compilation CD. Not only did Judge Jules and ArminVan Buuren make Reverance their radio shows tune of the week and Tried and Tested accolade, but world number one DJ Tiesto used it to open his live gigs! 2005 saw the release of "The Passion" on Mondo records and Hemstock and Jennings make another global advance by signing to fellow trance producer and top DJj Armin Van Buuren's label for future H&J releases, beginning with their widely supported "Babylon" tune. With DJ dates around globe, and a production schedule as long as his career, 2005 is going to be yet another very busy year for Les Hemstock. You have to see Les DJ live to understand what his magic is all about - catch him at some of the biggest and best International events!
Gatecrasher Tours BBC Radio One - Ibiza & London Dance Valley, Holland Planet Love Festival - Ireland Stargate Event - Vancouver Escape - Swansea Promise - Newcastle Slinky - Bournemouth Gatecrasher - Sheffield Goodgreef - Yarm Frisky - Northampton Hotdog - Notts Golden - Stoke Impulz Festival - Holland Koolwaters - Taunton Stargate - Canada Slinky - Bristol Dance Academy - Plymouth Room at the Top - Scotland Planet Love Festival - Ireland Wakestock Festival, Wales JIVE BUNNY He was sending these mixes to a UK company called Music Factory run by John Pickles and his son Andy. They would press them to vinyl and sell them to DJs all over the world. Eventually Les would get to know these guys during his frequent visits home to the UK and would call in at their studio and personalise their dealings to that of an eventual close friendship with both Andy and his father. As Les was playing a variety of swing and rock and roll records to the Hotel punters in Norway it seemed only wise to make a mix of that style that he could get good use out of. He purchased an old Glen Miller medley record for 50 pence from a ‘used record’ shop in London and based his swing mix around the drum beats from that record which was recorded on tape and edited over and again to create a backing track of percussion to base his final mix upon. Les recorded “Swing the Mood” [so called because of the use of Glen Millers “In the Mood” tune as main lead] in a collective 7 hour session at the radio studio on a material cost of around £3 of old audio tape over night. On his next trip to England he took the mix with me to the Pickles’ and they bought it for £100. The mix was pressed, distributed to the various territories and the reaction over the next 18 months was phenomenal – just the reaction the company had been waiting for to enable them to have a commercial release with a fairly calculated success possibility. This mix became the million selling “Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers” He purchased a nice house on a beach front in Sandefjord and had quite an enjoyable lifestyle over the following 2 years until the performance money and the relationship dried up leaving him in the terrible situation of being a house owner in the worlds second most expensive country with virtually no income. He was expecting some money from record sales by now to help support his new production career but as he trusted the Pickles’ he didn’t tie them to a contract, and because of this he never received any further monies from the Jive Bunny project. (3 #1's in the UK, a #2 Album, #11 in the USA, #1 in Germany, Italy, Spain etc, worldwide #1's and a huge album] Les got legal advice but lawyers only advised without a contract he wouldn’t win the case even though he has BPI awards for sales of over 900,000 albums! Now Les and Chris are steadily working their way to further musical success with their new productions and only hope and pray that God gives them the strength and perseverance to succeed in what can obviously be quite a ruthless industry.
Dance Productions from 1993 onward regular contributor to Mix company exclusives; DMC [Disco Mix Club] and Music Factory producing over 100 mixes. 1/ GOLD N DELICIOUS - ASCENSION - SERIOUS 1998 PHAZE PHAZE RELEASES Phaze 001 H&J 'Mirage' REMIXES 1/ BLAG - KIDS GO FREE - THE SWAT MIX - POWER LES HEMSTOCK pre HEMSTOCK & JENNINGS
1/ JIVE BUNNY AND THE MASTERMIXERS - SWING THE MOOD - MFD REMIXES 1/ KATA - LITTLE BY LITTLE MEGAMIX - FINLAND Bookings & Info: +44(0)1246 210832 / 07904 388675, Bookings@tek-djs.com
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