Sidney Charles by GROOVES

How To Make Music Like Sidney Charles: https://youtu.be/N-5l24yOwpU

His take on house music is known amongst fans as The Sidney Sound: it’s one built on heavy low ends, the immediate impact of chunky drums, cavernous low frequencies and hard hitting rhythms that connect directly with your body. Both as a DJ and a producer, Sidney favours rough, dirty sounds that defined the old school pioneers, but all with a modern, full and punchy approach. His signature tunes like ‘House Lessons’ and ‘Warehouse Romance’ established this early on, and since then the artist has homed in on ever more irresistible rhythms on key labels like Truesoul, Hot Creations and Saved. HIs upfront, dark, hard hitting take on house is about physicality and making your body move. He wants to get you jacked up on the dance floor and keep you there. He does so with a mixing technique drawn from his long standing love of hip hop and battle DJs: beat matching, subtle scratching and tight, quick, energetic mixes that move things along at a pace.

His love of direct rhythms stems back to a A Tribe Called Quest’s seminal Low End Theory album, which was the first in hip hop to really focus on the power of the drums and placement of them in the mix. After initially being a hip hop DJ who peaked with a warm up set for the legendary Xzibit, house music really turned Sidney’s ear: he’d grown up with it all round him as his mother was a music journalist with Strictly Rhythm promos arriving on a regular basis, but only later did he grow to appreciate its more immediate sense of energy and drive, coupled with the funk he loved from hip hop.

Tracklist

1.	Sidney Charles - Track Preview	4:32

2.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Kick	0:15

3.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Clap	0:15

4.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Snare	0:15

5.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Hats	0:15

6.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Open_Hats	0:15

7.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Percussion	0:15

8.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Percs	0:15

9.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Bassline	0:15

10.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Background	0:15

11.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Modular	0:15

12.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_FX	0:15

13.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Crash	0:15

14.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Reverse_Crash	0:15

15.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Arp	0:15

16.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Chords	0:15

17.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Hit	0:15

18.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Keyboard	0:15

19.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Pad	0:15

20.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Pluck	0:15

21.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Sequencer	0:15

22.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Stab	0:15

23.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Strings	0:15

24.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Synth	0:15

25.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Kick_Stems	4:32

26.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Bassline_Stems	4:32

27.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Percussion_Stems	4:32

28.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Clap_Snare_Stems	4:32

29.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Hats_Stems	4:32

30.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_SFX_Stems	4:32

31.	Grooves_Sidney_Charles_Synth_Stems	4:32

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released January 10, 2024

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