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Biography

Soul Mekanik are Disco Brothers Kelvin Andrews and Danny Mekanik.

The roots of their music reaches deep into a wealth of sounds touched in one way or another by their music making over the last 20 years. With an epic catalogue of credits to their name, you are sure to have heard one or more of their creations.

Having written a number one single with one Robbie Williams, remixed the likes of Sister Sledge, The Doobie Brothers and Aretha Franklin and been lauded as acid house heroes, they have helped soundtrack some of the last two decade’s most symphonic moments.

In the early 80s, Kelvin was DJing in an underground club called, curiously enough, The Basement and soaking up the vast array of musical revolutions that seemed to be occurring on a weekly basis: hip hop, post punk, electro and early house were all up for grabs and Kelvin was devouring them religiously, as well as schooling his younger brother Danny, at that time winning awards for his breakdancing skills.

House music was their real year zero though. Kelvin got his hands on an early copy of the seminal primer The House Sound of Chicago and the pair were hooked. “Everything else was irrelevant,” they both proclaim. Indeed Danny went straight into the studio as an ebullient teen and fashioned Ride The Rhythm under his evocative This Ain’t Chicago moniker – it shot to number 41 with a bullet.

After one particularly messy night at Manchester’s famed Hacienda nightclub, Danny hit upon the idea that would precipitate his first brush with fame and notoriety. Buzzing off DJ Graeme Park playing Fresh Four’s cover of Rose Royce’s blissful ‘Wishing On A Star’ as the last tune of the night, he and his studio partner Ric Peet decided to try and emulate such a scenario. In a moment of serendipity, The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever was the only song they could listen to on the radio while driving home. The temporary monster that was Candy Flip was thus conceived, a number three hit ensued, as did a visit to Top of the Pops and a Smash Hits cover.