Joined at the hip through a love of extreme partying and bad fashion, Deepgroove’s Lee Pattison and Grayson Shipley have been setting the world alight with their incendiary 4 Decks:Efx DJ Show and red hot productions.
Their sound has travelled the globe with props from everyone from Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Deep Dish, Steve Lawler, Medicine8, Tom Stephan, Jon Carter, Fatboy Slim, to Annie Nightingale, Seb Fontaine, James Zabiela and Nic Fancuilli.

Deepgroove’s ‘Jus Luv Bass’ was awarded Radio One’s Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune in March 2006. A month later the duo appeared on the show for his ‘DJ on the Phone’ section, playing their remix of Ricky Stone’s ‘Shanghai Taxi’. Deepgroove’s ‘Fascinated’ also reached no. 1 in the UK Dance Industry’s Music Week Chart, rode high in the DJ Magazine HYPE Chart for over a month and peaked at no.5 in the CLUB CHART.

Deepgroove have recently been given the honour of mixing the launch CD for a new compilation on Darren Emerson’s Underwater Records called the SOLO Series. Their SOLO World Tour has already taken in Shanghai, Australia, Singapore, Latvia, Lithuania, Dubai and will be touring Europe extensively in the coming months.

“Book these guys and the only way you’ll get rid of them is to find them another party”
DJ Magazine

'No messing, they do exactly what it say's on the tin...they know how to drop it!'
Pete Tong (BBC Radio 1)

We caught up with the duo before their trip to Manchester to play for Azuli vs Filth at AREA51.......

Hi Guys, thanks for taking the time do this interview. Let’s start at the beginning, how did you get into music and then into dj’ing?

It’s all we have ever done. Being full time delinquents makes the concept of a day job pretty unappealing and our twenty four hour party lifestyle brought us together after 10 years of Dj’ing separately

Who did you take inspiration and influence from when you started out and who inspires you today?

The original spark is from the distant days of the birth of rave – dancing in fields, free parties and scummy warehouse’s; and thankfully that’s all come full circle and were sampling the vinyl we bought all those years ago. Constant inspiration comes from The Chemical Brothers, Erol Alkan and the spirit of acid house.

It’s been quite a year for you with DJ Mag naming you best British breakthrough. What has been your highlight of the last 12 months?

Our best was closing the Isle of White festival for Strongbow, everything else shut at the festival after the Stones had played and about thirty thousand people tried to get into our tent – consequently the atmosphere was intense

You signed to Underwater records, how did that come about and what have you got coming out on the label?

Underwater came about through sending music to Darren and generally bothering him – he’s got a great ear for new talent thankfully. Next up is our next instalment of the Weekend Weapons series – with a particularly filthy tune called “Bad Acid”

Other than the Underwater stuff what else have you been up to production wise?

We’ve just had an EP out for Jesse Roses’ Madetoplay in collaboration with Jamie Anderson and another one with him on Alter Ego’s Klang Elektronik which lead to them asking us to remix their new single. We also finished up a mix of Armand Van Helden’s new single last week.

What software/hardware do you use for your productions and remixes and how would you describe your sound in 2008 (both as DJs and a producers)?

We’re Mac based using Logic & Ableton – currently we’re mining the ground between minimal, wonky techno and rave crafting big club bombs with an equal mix of funk and fury!

Moving away from your own production which artists feature in your DJ sets the most at the moment?

Guido Schneider, Luetzenkirchin, Woolford, Radioslave, Switch, Dubfire, Dusty Kid, Thomas Schumacher and loads of obscure records made by people we never hear from again!

You run your own night Play in Bristol. What’s the crowd like down there and what DJ’s have you had down?

It’s absolutely mental – 500 nutters, fancy dress, mutilated soft toys and soaring rave energy. Recently we’ve had Radioslave, Konrad Black, Cagedbaby, Fergie and next up it’s our first live gig with Deadset performing.

With it being your own night do you get away with playing stuff you wouldn’t normally play in other clubs?

Not really, we always want to play the most exciting records wherever we are, but I guess that with Play you can create the same levels of excitement with odder records!

Finally, let’s ask you about the gig for Azuli vs Filth at AREA51 in Manchester on Easter Sunday, what can we expect?

Hopefully a big old moshpit!

Check out Deepgroove's new mix at deepgroove.co.uk

For tickets please visit www.skiddle.com