Jason Eli’s career grew from a love of making people dance and a desire to explore musical genres from House, Soul & Jazz to Disco and beyond. From humble beginnings as a kid growing up in London watching his older cousins play live funk music in their loft, he progressed to remix songs for icon’s including Whitney Houston, perform with some of the world’s best DJ’s and produce music for labels including Motown, E.M.I. and many more.
Artists he’s remixed include Mos Def, Masters at Work, Sola Rosa, Damage, and many others. His productions have been released on labels including Sony, Defected and many more.
He held a four year DJ residency at Ministry of Sound when the Ministry was at the cutting edge of underground House music. He played with DJ legends like Todd Terry & DJ Harvey. Jason’s also toured with Techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson, ex Studio 54 resident Kenny Carpenter, as well as Roger Sanchez and many more.
Moving into the late 1990’s, and always on the look out for new percussive soulful sounds, Jason dived into London’s growing Broken Beat scene, which spoke to his Jazz influences, releasing records for Bugz In The Attic’s head honcho Orin “Afronaught” Walters and starting his own Groovadelica record
label.
Fast forward to the early 2000’s and Jason made a big move – from London to… New Zealand! The call of love hit (how could we have a story without a love interest?) and in following a beautiful Kiwi girl (who is now his wife) back to her homeland, he left the London nightlife for Antipodean beaches, greenery and a less frenetic vibe. Living in Auckland, Jason continued to spread thesoulful music gospel by morphing his Groovadelica record label into a successful club night & radio show on Auckland’s George FM. Jason left George FM in 2015 to concentrate on music production and running the Groovadelica label.
Notable releases on the label have been Jason’s eclectic & soulful debut album “Take Your Time” and the amazing vinyl only single “Back To Dilla” from Soul Prophet featuring UK Soul legend Omar. Look out for new music coming soon and some amazing DJ sets of course!
Jason, I didn’t get to say thanks and goodbye, but thank you so much. We had such a good night, hope you could tell by the spontaneous rendition of Thank You for the Music! I just wanted a party to get everyone together, give them some fun and have a good old dance, and that’s exactly what happened. Very happy.
Best wishes
Lizzie, 50th Birthday
I just wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to you both – Paddy for being so amazing with our postponements and queries over the last couple of years. Jason for giving us the perfect party and completely getting what we wanted from our reception music! The dancefloor was never empty and we’ve had so many guests say how great the music was.
Especially want to say thank you for being so accommodating with the random requests from various people, you always managed to get them in even when the music was going in a different direction! You were absolutely fab and I’m so glad you were our wedding DJ. I’ll fill out the feedback form now too but just wanted to say thank you so much from both of us.
Love Jen and Nick, Wedding
“Wow, what can I say! The office absolutely loved having you as our DJ. Its our best Christmas party to date! I hope our craziness wasn’t too much to handle! We are a bonkers bunch.”
Amelia Lewis, Xmas Function
Thank you so much for making our wedding party so much fun 🙂 As a couple, we used to love dancing so much, but because of covid and just being tired and busy, it became less and less possible. I am so happy that you made our day special so that we could go back to what we like doing so much! You were incredible, and I wish you all the best for the future!
Maria, Wedding
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