It’s another funky week of I LOVE MUSIC continuing to bring Bangalore cutting-edge dance music from around the world with electronic turntable wizard DJ URI from London. Setting our mid-week stress-buster off will be our own Dj Vid-Youth bumping some house sounds.
With a career spanning over 2 decades, Uri Solanki a.k.a Mr Manali has been consistent and true to the Underground. The mid to late 80’s saw him playing Classic Soul & Funk to Hip Hop, Acid House and Rave, and with gigs at the Legendary ‘Amnesia House’ and ‘Total Kaos’ in the early 1990’s, Uri has and still is enjoying the musical ride of life.
Born in East London in 1974, Uri’s journey has been in full flow since the early 1980’s. Influenced by the ‘Street Sounds Electro Compilations’, and the whole Break Dance Era, when he first saw a DJ on 2 Turntables, through the Acid House explosion in the mid 1980’s, to the Rave and Jungle Culture of the early 1990’s and the House and Trance movement in the mid 1990’s. Uri has had a solid musical upbringing from an early age.
His versatility and DJ skills have allowed him to play many different genres, and fuse many styles and influences, with a no holds barred attitude. Uri is at ease playing anything from Glitch Hop, Dubstep, Minimal Techno, and Electro House to Breakbeat and Drum & Bass.
1995 was the year that India became his second home, and with various gigs across the country over the next 10 years, from beach parties in Psychedelic Goa to the Underground revolution that was taking place in major cities such as Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, he has become a household name within the scene.
Uri has been an unsung hero for India’s emerging Electronic Music Scene. Since the mid 90’s, he has been training India’s first wave of Turntable enthusiasts, giving personal tuition on Scratching, Beat Juggling and various other Turntable Techniques to now, some of India’s Leading DJ’s. Still to this day he is the source of Fresh Music for many DJ’s in India that are looking for That Cutting Edge.
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