JOHAN SOH Biography
It should really be enough just mentioning this fact. Johan Soh is the don of Scandinavian breakbeat. Apart from his Swedish residencies at Peacock and Main, he has frequent DJ-gigs across the world including USA, Europe, Asia and the UK, and is well renowned for his surgically refined mixing techniques. He has opened for the Prodigy, Faithless and Roni Size and has played alongside such greats as Rennie Pilgrem, DJ Hyper, General Midi, Shut up and dance, Krafty Kuts and one way or another worked with 90% of the world-wide breakbeat elite. Johan is also head honcho and label boss for Sweden based beakbeat label Sound Of Habib Recordings as well as label manager for Disuye records HK. He is also involved in both SOD and Disuye records. He started producing music in 1999 and the tune “Enjoy (remix)” became the first ever SOH release. He has since done some remix work and released a string of well received 12"s. These include Invincible “My mind” on Freakaboom and Johan Soh “The Blizzard” on Music by numbers/React. He is also one third of Random Source (together with Dan F and Stisch) responsible for the notorious “Zombie Rats” and “Big stupid grin”. The heat was turned up even more with the release of the Johan Soh and Stisch produced Invincible “Mean streets” in October 2004, the best selling 12" in the label’s history. Recent work includes remixes that have all been played on BBC Radio 1, like the Invincible remix of Karton’s “Firefucker”. He helped compile and mix the Safe Breaks breakbeat compilation for Dorigen, and is hard at work with the labels as well as getting back into the studio to finish some new slamming Johan Soh, Invincible and Random Source cuts. Lately the label has brought you the impressive “Heads collide” longplayer by Stisch which has once again turned heads world wide. Recent releases have been getting great reviews. Haj & Mental “Supertunes” entered the DJ Mag beats chart at no 2, Stisch “Emotions” was at no 2 in the Beatport.com top sellers list and the new Stisch single “Sawdust Caesar” entered the Scandinavian club chart at no 10.For Johan Soh, the second half of 2006 holds a new Random Source release called “Halo” and he is planning to take some time off Djing to work in the studio, both in Sweden and in Hong Kong, as well as finishing a mix CD compilation. Busy man. | read more
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