Alex Hall

Alex Hall

Milwaukee | WI | USA

house | techno | breakbeat

Source of Gravity (UK) Kroton Sounds (Germany) Polytechnic Recordings (USA) 7 Seas Records (Hungary)

Entering his 20th year as a DJ, Alex has played over 600 gigs in his lifetime, for crowds as small as a few people to parties in the thousands. No matter what the size of the crowd, there are always hands in the air when he throws down a set. His DJing career started the summer of 1992, after being inspred by the Milwaukee warehouse rave scene delivered by Drop Bass Network. From 1992 to 1998, he made regular appearances around the midwest scene Milwaukee, Chicago, Madison and Minneapolis.

In 1998 he joined forces with Paul Determan to form Marscruiser, and the duo ended up producing a myriad of musical styles spanning many genres. Over the years, they released several successful tracks, with numerous compilation placements, including appearances on Cass and Slides Fire Recordings imprint, Strictly Hype, Max Music, as well as their own imprint, Barley There Records. In 2004, Marscruiser teamed up with renowned breakbeat producer Andy Page, and the lead man for Parliament Funkadelic, George Clinton, to produce 'Elementalelectrofunk'. Widespread praise came from numerous notables, including Hybrid, who said "Our tune of the year since we first heard it!"

In 2006 Alex started some solo music work on his own imprint, Longhall Recordings. His first solo release 'Future Living' got solid support from the likes of Jondi and Spesh, 365mag.com, and Global Underground artist Phil K. In 2006 and 2007 Alex was working the DJ circuit heavily with appearances in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. He also pushed out solid remixes for labels like Source of Gravity, Ascension, Biohazard, and Knob records. In 2008 Alex received support for his work with Q23 on the track "I Like the Robots", including heavyweight DJs Ferry Corsten, Dave Dresden, and Steve Lawler. He has gathered a large online following in the last 3 years, with an exclusive home to all of his mixes at Hybridized.org, along with the likes of Way Out West and Hybrid. It is here where he has had over 50,000 downloads of his DJ sets since 2005. His online presence on MySpace has grown to a list of over 30,000 fans, with over 100,000 plays of his music over the past few years. Alex has also made numerous appearances on satellite and web radio in the last 3 years, including DJ sets on Sirius Satellite Radio, XM Satellite Radio, Proton Radio, and Frisky Radio.

In 2009 his "Take Pride" and "Nuns on Waterskis" tracks were signed to Polytechnic Recordings, and received support from Dubfire (of Deep Dish), Sandra Collins from Perfecto Recordings, Judge Jules of Radio 1 UK, and Swedish Egil from Groove Radio. In April 2009, Alexreleased a collection of original and remix work from the past 3 years on his Longhall imprint, available exclusively on iTunes. In 2010 Alex came out with a bootleg remix of Placebo - Runing up that Hill (from the movie Daybreakers) and it got high praise from the Flash Brothers. In 2011 he has 2 EP's coming out on Beatport. His 'Symphony EP' is out on Kroton Sounds of Germany, and his upcoming 'Formant EP' will be out on Source of Gravity in the UK.