Janette Slack

not the usual...

When director Doug ‘Scratch’ Pray set out to find people who embody an independent attitude for his short film series ‘Veer’, he hit the bullseye with Janette Slack. In the film you meet a strong-minded DJ/producer with intelligence, experience, an exhausting schedule, and dreams of world domination. In the flesh you get exactly the same thing.

Janette’s house-driven progressive and breakbeats and electro have rocked Australia, Asia, Europe and North America from the hottest spots in Montreal to desert parties in California. She’s an experienced producer and remixer, and that’s before you mention label-management, club production, stage management, modelling... Catch her if you can.

LATEST PRESS: (Tracks) Janette’s latest track ‘Never Enough’ is out on Re:Connect, and has support from Phil K, Hybrid, Future Funk Squad and Stanton Warriors. This little number has graced dance floors as big as the Glastonbury festival to messy after parties. Her next singles ‘Shake and Play’ and ‘Little Wai Tai’ will be released on Air Recordings.

(Magazine Press) In Mixmag’s February issue, they chose Janette to be one of their ‘Future Heroes’. Doing a full photo shoot and article. They have been following her steps this year closely and have included another article again in their May issue as one of the fastest growing artists currently in London and a definite future artist, as she’s booked and confirmed to play at Fabric and numerous big festivals in the UK and all over Europe and Asia.

Her advert and full page picture for Dr Martens has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Fader and Nylon magazine to name a few.

DJing

International DJing came early for Janette. She mastered her native Hong Kong with residencies throughout 2000-2001, took on gigs across the rest of the world, and is now based in London. Drawing on elements from progressive, electro, house and breaks, she has a very defined signature style, but also the breadth of taste to explore the full range of the scene.
RADIO Janette has guested on numerous radio shows including a live appearance on Ministry Radio, Rhythm FM (Australia) and makes regular guest appearances in numerous radio shows. Some include IBREAKS, NSB radio, Breaks FM, Vibe FM and Ministry of Sound Radio.

RESIDENCY Janette has residencies at Platform 12 and C64, two of London’s hottest diverse party organisers.

SUPPORTING She’s appeared on bills alongside the Plump DJs, Leeroy Thornhill (Prodigy), Hybrid, Freestylers, Future Funk Squad, Jonathan Lisle (Bedrock) Hyper, Stanton Warriors, Evil Nine, Rennie Pilgrem, D.Ramirez and more.

HEADLINING Janette headlines events all round Europe and the UK, including Russia, Italy, Spain and Greece, Croatia to name a few.

Productions

A studio force to reckon with

REMIXES THIS YEAR: ‘Towards the Sun’ (Original by Future Funk Squad) This track will be released next year on a bonus CD along with the Future Funk Squad album, ‘Audio Damage’. Out on Universal.

‘Rock My World’ (Original by High Eight) This track will be released on Re:Connect in mid 2006.

TUNES TO LOOK FOR NEXT YEAR: ‘Little Wai Tai’ and ‘Shake and Play’. Coming out on Air. ‘. ‘Shake and Play’ is already featured on Ali B’s compilation ‘Air Breaks’.

SOUNDTRACK: www.drmartens.com/ Hear more of Janette’s productions online here.

Janette sees production and DJing as inseparable. No mere bedroom producer, she has the technical know-how to drive studios large and small, and experience recording both electronic and rock acts. After completing an Audio Engineering course with distinction in June 2002, she sharpened her skills as Audio Engineer for New World Music Group. Guys who mistook her for just a pretty face have been severely humbled when she set them straight on the finer points of their equipment.

Other stuff

Here it gets really frantic.

She sure doesn’t sit around much. Armed with a direct Hospitality and Business Management High National Diploma at University in London as well as a Diploma in Audio Engineering, Janette gets herself involved in a whirlwind of projects.

LABEL MANAGEMENT 2002-03 Janette set up and ran a record label, Cold Fusion, where she released her first track ‘Quark’. She has left Cold Fusion in order to focus more on her own production and her debut album.

TEACHING A qualified teacher, Janette regularly donates her time to community projects teaching underprivileged kids the art of music making and DJing, focusing on the latest music equipment and software.

DOCUMENTARY In 2004 director Doug Pray (of hip hop doc ‘Scratch’ fame), chose Janette as a subject of a day-in-the-life documentary, ‘Veer’, about ‘people taking a different direction’. A subsequent Dr Martens ad campaign based on Doug’s films means you can see Janette in magazines across the world, especially in the US. See the full project at www.drmartens.com

MODELLING She keeps it very separate from her DJing, but Janette’s not proud to make some money from her looks, (Vauxhall Cars, Pepsi, Theme) and music videos (Ms Dynamite, Lisa Mafia...) Watch it though – call her a glamour DJ and she’ll spit bricks at you.