JOE VOR-TECH

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RANK	SCORE ?	GENRE	LOCATION
69028	0	Electro	Chicago, US

Little is known about the strange denizen 'Joe Vor-Tech' but for all his mystery, the fact remains he owns a lot of records (2000+, he counted). Starting in 1999 as a booking agent for Saturday nights at New York City's notorious Tunnel, Joe soon realized that, while DJs were a dime a dozen, good ones were few and far between. After the collapse of the old mega-clubs he began Djing himself, starting spinning rave hardcore and drum n' bass for underground warehouse parties in Brooklyn and Manhattan. But Joe was never satisfied being a one or even two genre DJ and soon became addicted to the virulent plague known as 'Bin Digging' obsessively tracking down used record stores and finding obscure LPs and 45s.

With the rise of the Brooklyn 'electroclash' scene Joe finally found a venue to not just spin but MIX every genre imaginable from Belgium techno and rave like Messiah and Alec Empire to classic euro-dance like Culture Beat and Clubzone to eighties pop and new wave like Kim Wilde and Gary Numan. All the while he also kept with the newer sounds of groups such as Avenue D and Waldorf. After Djing gigs such as Larry Tee's psychotic Berlinsburg and being the ambassador of new school retro mash ups for Drop Bass's 2003 New Years, Mr. Vor-tech teamed up with New York industrial/psy-trance DJ Erek Tinker to form Dysco Noir.

From there he moved more into the direction of new school disco like Cassius and Special Unit and classic electro-boogie like Erotic Drum Band and Lipps Inc, infused with industrial and synth-pop riffs. He now regularly assaults dance floors with mixes that can be described as unholy (Luomo vs. Prince) to mixes that are REALLY unholy (The Cars vs. Culture Beat). But then again his personal philosophy has always been. If they didn't want to hear Steve Hurley, The Prodigy, La Bouche, Junior Jack and Divine in the same set then there's just something wrong with 'em. To date he spins something like thirty different genres, usually at the same time.