Monday Social

Lee Burridge
Hoj (ADID Resident)

TICKET LINK: http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?484273

A few summers past Lee Burridge began to weave a unnamed sound together from disparate genres of electronic music. Inspired by these wonderful musical compositions All day I dream was born. A musical story told through a style of playing, long forgotten by many. Never heard by most. All day I dream encouraged the Dreamer to join a new, and, very musical concept.

This new sound no longer relied on relentless energy but, instead, on a feeling. It offered delicate melodies and a charm that warmed each and every gentle heart and smiling face under Brooklyn's blue skies. Sultry and seductive basslines made you tingle and wouldn't allow you stop dancing until the sun had long since set and the last track had drifted away.

Each party the dreamers grew in numbers. Connecting the experienced and the musically open minded. Creative energy to artistic believer. Even the inexperienced ear was seduced time and time again by the music and the feeling.

Burning Man, and Lee's lauded sets there, have had an obvious influence. His encouragement to "join in and add to everyone else's experience" resonates deeply at each party. Friends and strangers add trinkets and flowers to the booth adding to the parties already beautiful aesthetic . Some share gifts and tokens of love and thoughtfulness with each other. The party itself has a very personal feeling for everyone.

Lee says "The question I'm asked repeatedly though is…what are we listening to"? "What is this sound"? Allowing his mind to wander away one sunny afternoon Lee daydreamed a name for his muse. Melodica.

The name has a certain feminine beauty to it, doesn't it? Melancholic and etherial in feeling, Melodica not only parallels the musical journey of each party but also Lee's own productions with Matthew Dekay and his All day I dream label. It also reminds me of all the pretty girls I've seen at each event, dreaming their day away. Eyes closed. Smiles beaming across their faces.

So there you have it. A new sound defined by a dreamer.

Love from the clouds

Artist Bio

My biography by me:

I’ve been a DJ since December 26th 1984 when I started a mobile disco for weddings, birthday parties and the like.
I played lots of pop music including Depeche Mode and The Pet Shop Boys until discovering house music in the late 80′s.
I went to a lot of parties in fields and clubs and fell in love with dance music (and a voodoo woman named Phyllis).
I moved from the UK to Hong Kong in 1991 (which isn’t in Japan, as lots of journalists seem to think).
(I like using parenthesis).
I helped build up a crazy underground scene in HK between 1991-97 as no one was playing dance music there.
I also spent a lot of time from 1992 onwards playing at the full moon parties in Thailand as no one was playing records there either.
I moved back to the UK in 1997 and teamed up with Craig Richards and Sasha to play at the Tyrant parties in London and Nottingham.
I slept on a trolley in Craig’s studio for a while but eventually got a real bed.
I released two super Tyrant mix CDs with Craig.
I have also released four other mix CDs including two for Global Underground and one for Balance which I love.
I play many, many crazy clubs all over the world each year and usually end up DJing in someone’s living room or garden (weather permitting).
I play at festivals such as Coachella, Love Parade, Exit, Creamfields, Notting Hill Carnival and enjoy camping.
I often get asked by journalists to describe what type of music I play.
I don’t know is the answer.
I launched my 365 project in June 2005. It was really fun and unbelievably interesting.Why don’t you ask me about it.
I mostly play records but sometimes play CDs.
I don’t take my computer clubbing.
I like making records with silly titles.
I don’t ever seem to get round to releasing them though.
I can’t play the piano.
I can play the triangle.
I have been in the DJ mag poll at number 10, 27, 31, 56, 76 and 88 but still feel exactly the same.
I was number ten on Resident Advisors top 100 DJ’s in 2008 but failed to turn up in DJ mags one.
I think if you need to know any more odd little details, this interview is the one to read….. http://www.clubplanet.com/news/archive/the_dj_more_than_just_sex_drugs_and_vinyl.asp
I have lied once (or was it twice?) in this biography.