Vourteque
By the early 2000s Vourteque had DJed throughout New York, the east coast and the Midwest, having played shows for the likes of Larry Tee, Drop Bass Network, Fischerspooner, Vito Fun, and Dysco Noir. All the while he honed his skills as a producer, doing remixes for the likes ofDavid Barrett, aka Yellow Note, Houston Bernard, and an unofficial hardcore break-beat remix of Bikini Kill's Rebel Girl.
In 2004, Vourteque decided to move to Chicago because half of his family lived there and rent is REALLY REALLY cheap compared to NYC. He continued to DJ and produce, working with local producer/DJ-Mr. Automatic, on the band The Image Front while throwing pretty obviously illegal parties in his basement that seconded as a nightclub known as "The Velvet Elvis." In 2007 he joined up with DJ Fatboy and became part of rave-banger DJ group The BBK where he produced tracks such as Gas Bill and Dirty Car. He also did unofficial remix work for Lady Gaga that a whole lot of people liked and so now it's semi-unofficial remix work
In 2008, Vourteque became enamored of steampunk and working with Sam Flint createdSteampunk Chicago. From there he's produced many large-scale events such as The Carnivale Delirium and The Clockwork Vaudeville series. He's also done remix work for the likes of Good Company, The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing, The Clockwork Dolls, Alkemic Generator and more . He's DJed throughout the United States and can be found at some of North America's largest steampunk and circus-punk events including but not limited to New York's Anachronism, Philadelphia's Dorian's Parlor, Detroit's Theatre Bizarre and Up in the Aether, Madison's Tesla-Con, Milwaukee's Dead Man's Carnival, Tampa's Steampunk Ball, St. Louis's Beggar's Carnivale, and North Carolina's ConTemporal.
He's performed with the likes of The Show Devils, The Swingrowers, Eric Stern, Vagabond Opera, The League of STEAM, Unwoman, Frenchy & The Punk, The Ford Theatre Reunion, The Squidling Brothers, Hellblinki and a ton of other amazing and fantastic people.
In the fall of 2012 he unleashed his very first release onto the world, The Swing Mechanical, an EP that coalesced his loves of the anachronistic, the hard and the dark into an awesome seething... er... something of seething awesomeness.
He's currently working on a full length album, fusing even more bizarre genres into something that will hopefully be both relevant and make lots of money. Oh and it'll be fun.
Yes, tons and tons... and tons of fun!
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