![]() 2014 saw him play his first international parties for Launch in Belgium and Barcelona. The bookings grew substantially in 2013 with gigs for Cool Breeze Radio in Norfolk, representing Origin UK at Promised Land, Jungle Splash and Dread Recordings and his personal biggest achievement to date playing at Riverdance alongside Jedi, March Archer, Jerome Hill and DJ Storm. It’s from this show and the shared interest in those tunes that he met the Distant Planet crew and was delighted with the opportunity to play for them in 2013. He’s hosts a regular 4-6 Sunday show on which has been going for over 5 years with the sole intention of giving lesser played and rarer tunes the airplay he feels the massively lack. Far too young to make it to the raves himself he’s spent the last 10 years searching and building a modest but carefully selected collection. Hijack has been massively into 91-93 hardcore since the age of 12 since his older sister got him recording tapes from the pirates so she could listen to them when she got back from the legendary raves from back in the day. Spinning everything from Acid House to Jungle and from Electro to Techno, Louise is extremely versatile and will rock any dance floor. She also plays at Rupture one of London’s most successful Drum’n’Bass and Old Skool nights held at Corsica Studios and in October is due to play at Long live beautifully crafted Jungle! at the Bunker in Deptford and Kapow at Club Union. Louise is constantly trying to promote quality within the scene and has been co running Distant Planet for the past three years a quality night which features the best Old Skool DJs, who dig deep into their collections, all playing vinyl.Įarlier this year Louise made her Glastonbury Festival debut alongside DJ Hughesee, playing with Miss Pink at Bloc 9, Brainwash and the Chelsea Crew Bar. Originally starting off playing for the London based squat sound system “Shtonka”, she quickly progressed to playing for a number of different promotions and was the person behind the hugely successful ReRaveAll night held at the legendary Dungeons in Lea Bridge Road and Mass in Brixton which showcased artists such as Jerome Hill, Break, Silent Witness, D Bridge,Woody Mcbride, Chase & Status, The Surgeon, 2 Bad Mice and Top Buzz. ![]() Louise+1 has built up a solid reputation as an innovative, cutting edge DJ within the UK underground scene over nearly two decades.
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