Rui da Silva (born 25 April 1968) is a Portuguese producer and DJ, whose single "
Touch Me" went to number one in the United Kingdom in 2001.
At the time, he was the only Portuguese musician to have a hit in Britain, and hence was the first to score a chart-topping hit there.
Career
Silva started producing
house music
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in 1992, just as
club
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* Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises
...
culture was getting established in
Lisbon
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. Noticing the lack of dance music labels in Portugal, he teamed up with
DJ Vibe
DJ Vibe (real name António "Tó" Pereira) is a house music DJ.
Career
Vibe was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and became a DJ at 15. At this age he started to perform in clubs and before long he was playing side by side with big names of the dance ...
to form
Kaos Records
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History
The first version of KaOS was released ...
, the first label in Portugal specialized in house and electronic music.
His first major hit (and Kaos' first release) was "Não", a track that
sampled
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* Sample (material), a specimen or small quantity of so ...
vocals from a
Xutos & Pontapés
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track, released under the alias Doctor J. With DJ Vibe, he also formed the
Underground Sound of Lisbon project in 1993. A year later, their track "So Get Up" (which features an original spoken-word poem by Californian songwriter Ithaka Darin Pappas) achieved worldwide fame after getting picked by the
Tribal America label and support from
Danny Tenaglia
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. Tenaglia also
remix
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ed the track.
During his years at Kaos, Silva also worked with other artists, namely
Luís Leite (under the guise of LL Project, creating the song "Khine #3") and
Alex Santos (with whom he released the
garage house
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track "The Sax Theme").
In 1999, he left Lisbon for London, in order to move from producing to DJing, and also to start working under his own name. Silva left Kaos Records, and produced his final collaborative effort as Underground Sound of Lisbon in 2001. In the UK, he founded
Kismet Records, where he began producing a more
progressive
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sound. He has released a number of tracks under his own name, as well as collaborative efforts with
Chris Coco
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People with the given name
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...
and Moshic.
Silva has achieved some fame as a
remix
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er, creating his own versions of
Jennifer Lopez
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's "Play",
Lighthouse Family
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's "Happy" and
Yoko Ono
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's "Walking on Thin Ice".
Discography
:''see
Underground Sound of Lisbon for the rest of Rui da Silva's discography''
Albums
* ''Produced & Remixed'' (2002)
* ''Praying Mantis'' (2006)
Singles
Rui da Silva
* "
Touch Me" with
Cassandra Fox (2000)
* "Fire/Earth" (Kismet Records, 2001)
* "Feel the Love" (with
Victoria Horn
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Personal life
Victoria Horn began studying the piano at age three and later learned the guitar. At an early ...
(2002)
* "Pacman/Punks Run Wild" (64 Records, 2004)
* "So Move Closer" (2005)
* "Dance.Come.Feel.Exe" (2005)
* "Lixuneanos" (2005)
* "Amidar" (2006)
* "Spreading Isolation/The Regressors" (2007)
* "The Whole Room Dematerialized" (2007)
* "Escaping My Mind" (2007)
* "On My Mind" (with
Ben Onono
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(2008)
* "Crazy Love" with Dada featuring One (
Destined Records
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Biography and life
Born in Israel, Schwartz came to London in the early 90s. Schwa ...
, 2011)
Doctor J
* "Não" (1993)
* "The Sax Theme" with
Alex Santos (1994)
* "Human Soul", as Doctor J Presents Mata Hari (1995)
The Four Elements
* "Earth/Water" (2000)
* "Fire" (2002)
* "The Fifth Element" (2002)
* "Matrix/Stoned" (2003)
Coco da Silva
: ''All are collaborations with
Chris Coco
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People with the given name
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...
''
* "Coisa Nossa/Close My Eyes" (2000)
* "Lost" (2001)
* "@ Night" (2001)
* "Saudade" (Kismet Records, 2002)
* "This Time You're Mine" (2002)
* "The Shiva Chant" (2003)
* "Don't Say Nothing (Say Something)" (2011)
Other aliases
* "So Get Up", as Underground Sound of Lisbon (1993)
* "Work in Progress", as LL Project with
Luís Leite (1995)
* "Khine No. 3 (The Remixes)", as LL Project with Luís Leite (1996)
* "Fat Beat/Bossa Nova", as Gum Club (1996)
* "Matrix", as Morpheus (1999)
* "Obeah Dance", as The Obeah Men with
Terry Farley Terry Farley is a British DJ, remixer and producer from London, active since the mid-1980s.
Career
Farley started out going to clubs in the late 1970s and first visited Ibiza in 1982. He then started working as a DJ, performing at the same clubs ...
(2001)
* "Riding", as Teimoso with
Shelly Preston
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* Shelly Township, Norman County, Minnesota
* Shelly Park, a suburb in Aucklan ...
(2001)
* "Radar House", as Hyper da Silva with
DJ Hyper
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(2003)
* "Deep as the Rivers", as Moshic da Silva with Moshic (2003)
* "Gibberish", as Moshic da Silva (with Moshic (2003)
* "Cosmic Mind", as Sound Projectors (2003)
* "Dark Love, as The Downloaderz (2004)
References
External links
Rui da Silva's homepageKismet Records, Rui da Silva's labelRui da Silva page at DiscogsRui Da Silva page on The Dj ListRui Da Silva on Spotify– Free Streaming
Rui Da Silva on Soundcloud– Listen to & Free Downloads
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Portuguese house musicians
Portuguese DJs
Club DJs
Remixers
Living people
1968 births
Electronic dance music DJs