Jonathan Ulysses

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Voted "Best club in the world": at 2001 Dance star Awards, it's understandable that Jonathan describes his five years residency at Space as "Living the dream". Playing alongside luminaries including Eric Morillo, Darren Emerson, Steve Lawler, Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox and Armand Van Helden. Jonathan has also mixed three terrace selection sides of the Space CD series and DJ s globally as main resident on the Space World Tour. Though Jonathan built up a stellar reputation as a house DJ, he still does not like to pigeon hole the music he plays and keeps his record box suitably eclectic. He describes the majority of his house style as percussive with a funky twist - very pumping and uplifting. Through out his fifteen year career Jonathan has played every genre of dance music. His aim is to educate the crowd rather than play only the obvious commercial tracks, this has helped him break boundaries and receive the acclaim he deserves. However, Jonathan's career was no overnight sensation. After leaving school, Jonathan formed a sound system called Soul Plus and fancying himself as a bit of a raga MC competed in sound clashes across south London. In 1989 he started working for a holiday company in Corfu where his stage presence and crowd control training served him in good stead as a DJ. Once the season was over Jonathan returned to London and spent time DJ around NW8 until the next summer, he was sent to the Balearic Isle of Ibiza. In Ibiza he found himself being pushed to DJ

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