Chris Hampshire – Recoverworld Radio

DJ Biography

Chris has been involved in dance music since the very beginning, when in the early nineties he was a regular at Brighton’s infamous Zap club listening to the likes of Eric Powell, Dave Clarke, Tall Paul and John 00 Fleming. Already from a strong musical background, Chris started working with the connections he made and learned the ropes as a dance music producer. His early works were well received but it was his 1996 tune, ‘Breathless’ (co- produced by Zap resident John Weatherley) that catapulted him forward. The release, helped by a classic remix by Tony De Vit, went on to sell over 30,000 copies and appeared on numerous compilations. From this point onwards Chris became a full time producer/sound engineer working with some of the coolest producers in the business notching up quite literally hundreds of engineering and production credits. As a producer in his own right he has remixed and been remixed by the likes of Sinead O’Conner, Tiesto and Satoshi Tomiie through to Sourmash and Tony De Vit. He has sold over 100,000 vinyl units and had well over 100 commercial releases. He is one of only a small group of producers with genuine cross genre appeal with successful projects in house, progressive, techno, hard dance and trance. His first label, Interflow Sounds, went from being a small imprint set up as primarily a vehicle for his own productions, to one of the leading independent hard dance/trance labels with no less than 20 releases and two subsidiary labels. In 2002 he released the critically acclaimed mix album ‘Harder, Faster, Deeper’. In 2007 he released the mix album Dark Sessions which became Album of the Month in Mixmag and prompted DJ Mag to say, “this is trance at its most gorgeous” In 2001 he signed to the established trance label, Eve Records, forming a relationship which would ultimately see him buy the company in 2004. He now presides over a suite of labels and works alongside some of the most exciting names in the industry, including John Askew, Thomas Datt, Sean Tyas… the list goes on and on. The diversity of the labels also allows Chris to indulge in all of his favourite dance music genres, be it house, tech house, progressive, trance or techno. Chris’s DJ’ing career has mirrored that of his productions - eclectic and always one step ahead of the game. Since he started Chris has played as far a field as Japan and Australia together with regular European and UK dates. He has taken the famous ‘Recoverworld Live’ brand across Europe and his monthly radioshow “Recoverworld Radio” is now syndicated across the globe.

Past shows and track lists