Artist: Sasha
Genre(s):
Pop
Dance: Pop
Drum & Bass
House
Dance
R&B: Soul
Discography:
Open Water
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Greatest Hits
Year: 2006
Tracks: 17
Goodbye
Year: 2006
Tracks: 4
Fundacion NYC
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
Involver
Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Airdrawndagger
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Xpander
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
Surfin on a Backbeat
Year:
Tracks: 12
Multi-talented North Wales native Sasha became one of the world's about noted and popular DJs. Starting prohibited in the late '80s as a club DJ, the former Alexander Coe got his showtime big break when he was hired by the dance ball club Shelly's to reel and rework popular sounds of the day. It was there that the young DJ establish fame with the dance and house crowd, merely it wasn't until he started egg laying down his grooves at the Haçienda and Renaissance that he get known nationally and, finally, globally. His sound and proficiency get so popular that a Renaissance compilation was released, one of the very first DJ mix albums to ever pip the book stores.
It was patch noneffervescent at Renaissance that Sasha met another DJ, John Digweed. The two became a remixing team and presently released the first volume of their Northern Exposure series (a shuffle album that also functioned as a aggregation of the duo's remixes for others). The duet toured behind the vent, visiting the U.S., Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Sasha refused to limit himself to DJ work, however; he collaborated with singer Maria Naylor on the Top 20 strike "Be as One," and remixed tracks from such popular artists as the Pet Shop Boys, Simply Red, and M People. He likewise formed his possess book company, Excession Recordings, and wrote originals for Deconstruction.
In late 1997, another Sasha + John Digweed compilation appeared, Northern Exposure, Vol. 2, useable in both East Coast and West Coast versions (each contained totally different songs). He's released several shuffle albums on his possess as well, including multiple volumes in the Global Underground series (San Francisco and Ibiza). A rare production vent, the Xpander EP, became a dancefloor strike in 1999. The mix album Communicate followed a yr later, and in 2002, he scored an American record conduct with Kinetic and released his showtime production full-length, Airdrawndagger. His succeeding major book image, Involver, was a fusion of shuffle album and production record, consisting of his have sole remixes of tracks from UNKLE, Felix da Housecat, and Ulrich Schnauss, among others.
