Richard Dinsdale

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House music: it's more than just a feeling. For young turk Richard Dinsdale, it's a way of life. Although only a sprightly 24 years old, this new kid on the house block's been living, breathing and bleeding dance music for the best part of a decade. His mouth-watering mix of tech-tinged electro and bass-heavy house is a regular fixture at leading London nightspot The Cross, his solid, groove-led productions snapped up by UK labels Renaissance, Kinky Vinyl, Big Love and Toolroom. He also counts some of the scene's most successful movers'n'shakers - Erick Morillo, Mark Knight, Seamus Haji, Trophy Twins, Plump DJs - among his famous fans. So where did it all go right for Richard? Skip back to the late Nineties, when as a schoolboy he got his first introduction to club culture through his elder sibling. "He used to go out clubbing and have his mates come round the house" he recounts. "They would be on the decks and then when they'd go out, I'd stay up listening to radio and recording sets" He was hooked. Which, given his family's own love of music, is unsurprising. "Even when I was very young I remember my mum used to listen to old Motown records!" Disco's clearly in the Dinsdale blood. Bitten by the house bug, 13-year-old Richard got himself a pair of decks. "They were a pair of really dodgy belt drives! One broke, so I ended up hooking a tape player to the mixer, just so I could still practice on the other one" It was an unorthodox method, but while his school friends were

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Ministry Of Sound Clubbers Guide 2009

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Edge Of The Earth (Remixes)

Glitter Fever EP

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The 2007 Annual [Disc 1]

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The Annual 2007 Disc 1

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Clubbers Guide to 2013

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Toolroom Itrax 004

Drifting from City to City

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Afterhours 3 (Deluxe Edition)

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Wallop / Code Red

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Beatport Download TOP 100 April 2011

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Global Underground Summer Collection

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