PARTY: Tash & Kostas Skretas @ Kimbara

This Tuesday 14/08/2012 at 23.00 we present Movement Rec showcase w/TASH (Movement Rec/Iboga Rec) & KOSTAS SKRETAS (Movement Rec/ Mystique Music) @ Kimbara

Sponsored By DK Hair Design (Εμμ. Ροΐδη 19, Tel: 2281087551)

Tassos Papagiannoulis aka TASH was born & raised in Veria GR in 1984. Since his early childhood he’s been surrounded by art-forms with Music and Design to play afterwards a big role into his way of living, being involved into organizing music events & art festivals since his 13 (!) back in his hometown, and having his first experience on turntables / decks in the last ‘90s ! 

The new millennium finds him attracted by the progressive genres of Electronic Dance Music industry, and Tash starts to spin House, Progressive, Tech House and Trance vinyls getting his first residency in Mojo (Veria) where his EDM journey started in ’00, and started building a great rep regarding his special mixing skills & unique style.. A couple of years after, he meets dutch dj Stage Van H and they join forces for gigs & events in Greece, forming the DJM Productions (DJ Movement) based in Thessaloniki in ’05.. Since then, the DJM duo has been responsible for successful events in Greece presenting artists like Gabriel & Dresden, Andy Moor, Kasey Taylor, Parham & Dominic Plaza, Harry Lemon, Leama, Eelke Kleijn, Cjay, Gpal, Nikola Gala, ao.. 

Since then, Tassos has performed in major events & top clubs in countries like: United Kingdom (Ministry Of Sound / Gallery, London), Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, and Kosovo, to huge dance music festivals such as Fusion Festival 2012 (DE), Amsterdam Dance Event (NL), SeeMe (BG), Aurora Festival (GR), Butterfly Dance Festival (GR), Baracuda Openair (KS), ao.. All this time he has shared the decks with top artists like: DJ Tiesto, Nick Warren, Jody Wisternoff, Quivver / John Graham, Spektre, Minilogue / Son Kite, James Monro, Neelix, Vibrasphere, Atmos and Ticon, to name a few…! 

As a Producer, he’s been experiencing in his home-studio since the mid ‘00s, presenting his debut release on Greed’s swiss legendary SOG Records, with important releases to follow on labels like the infamous Baroque Records (Uk), Kasey Taylor’s Vapour Recordings (Au), Andy Moor’s AVA Recordings (UK), Presslab (It), Pure Substance (Ms), System (Us), Spherax (Sl), AlterImage (Us), Echoes (Il), Lowbit (Uk), Iboga Records (Dk), and Tribal Vision Records (Cz) – to name just a few – being a part of the TVR artist-roster alongside artists like Perfect Stranger, Brisker & Magitman, Vibrasphere, Tegma, Jaia, ao.. 

His firs album came In late 2008, entitled ‘Movement’ alongside Stage Van H launching at the same time their own label imprint, Movement Recordings based in Thessaloniki.. The album climbed on #6 of Psyshop’s Top-Selling Charts, following the 1st label CD Compilation compiled by Tash, himself entitled ‘Technical Progress’, another release reaching the Top10 @ Psyshop Charts..! His productions have been receiving the support of main ‘players’ of the industry incl. Hernan Cattaneo, Sander Kleinenberg, Armin Van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Dave Seaman, Above & Beyond, Nick Warren, Jody Wisternof, and many more..! Nowadays, Tash is getting busy with label duties on Movement Recordings, alongside touring the world for gigs as also Label Nights in Greece & Movement Tours all around – with next couple to come up in India (September) & South America (December) – while he collects inspiration to sit down and work on his first solo Album CD to come up in 2013 ! So stay tuned for his forthcoming studio projects, shows & updates! 

LINKS:

www.facebook.com/djtash1

www.youtube.com/djtashgr

Kostas Skretas was born in 1984 at the city of Athens(Greece) and grew up in Syros, an island of Cyclades until the age of 17. He studied Electronic Engineering at the city of Lamia(GR) till the age of 23 and then he returned back to Syros(GR) to finish his military duties at Hellenic Navy. He started playing the piano in a very young age, but soon he realized that his music interests went far away from just classical melodies! In 2001, after a few years of collecting music he started playing music at local bars and clubs in Syros. Experimenting in various music he understood that progressive house music was closer to his likes. Releases of Kostas have been supported by artists like Hernan Cattaneo(ARG) , Eelke Kleijn(NL), Shiloh, Flash Brothers, Christian Cambas(GR), V-Sag(GR), Adrianos Papadeas(GR), Denis A, Eelke Kleijn, Nick Varon and Cid Inc. just to name a few. These days he is really busy producing and organizing events along friends under the name of DeepGroove Music Arts TM.