OB1 sets off around the country for his fourth New Zealand tour

OB1 sets off around the country for his fourth New Zealand tour

RENEGADE Grande Tour - eight dates from October 25 to Nov 23.

Renegade represents the tougher and deeper side of OB1's sound, an uptempo fusion of cutting edge progressive house and trance.

Auckland, New Plymouth and Christchurch dates feature special guest Australian superstar DJ, MARK DYNAMIX who describes his style as pro-tech,
a fusion of progressive, techno and house styles.

Mark Dynamix

Australian superstar DJ, MARK DYNAMIX describes his style as pro-tech; a fusion of progressive, techno and house styles. His sets are as varied as any DJ in the world.

The one thing that is constant is his ability to uplift and inspire with layered sounds and perfectly timed scratching and sampling. His technical abilities have earned him the praise of Humate, Ferry Corsten and Paul Van Dyk .

He tours constantly. In 2001 he held five Sydney residencies, Plastic at Zen, Kinki Disko/Sublime at Home and Progress at Gas , and played alongside Way Out West, Hybrid, Green Velvet, Ritchie Hawtin, Satoshi Tomiie, Taucher, Carl Cox, Darren Emerson, Paul Oakenfold, Fat Boy Slim, Lottie, Chicane, Seb Fontaine, Danny Howells, Pete Heller, Mario Piu and Mauro Picotto Early 2002 he played to a 10,000 strong crowd in the Boiler Room at the Big Day out and headlined at Two Tribes, Gatecrasher Sound System, Transmission, Utopia, Slinky, God's Kitchen and MoS.

Voted number 2 DJ in Australia by 3D World readership earlier this year, the latest mix album from Ministry's own boy-down-under has outsold all other Australian Ministry compilations so far, four-fold.

OB1

OB1's selection adds pace and impact to the texture and groove that is the backbone of the progressive genre ,exploring cutting edge new dance music with state of the art production, while maintaining a commitment to keeping the dancefloor energy jumpin'.

Now with his own specialist record store in Auckland (PLAY), he's immersed in the world of cutting edge of new dance sounds day and night and Renegade will show case the gems he has recently unearthed.

Few local Djs can match OB1's track record of appearances, - top spots at the Gathering, Destination, Unity, his own showcase tours - club LOVELY (2000/ 2002), the B2B / OB1 Tour-de-Force (2001), coveted support spots for Yoji Biomehanika, Paul van Dyk, Chemistry, Steve Lawler, Two Tribes, Judge Jules, and Nick Warren and Gatecrasher.

The release of his third mix album at the close of 2001 marked the end of a phenomenal two year assault where more than 50,000 people witnessed his Djing live and 21,000 people owned one of his mix albums pre-empting the success of his last nationwide trek, The Summer of Love Tour.