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Karizma Paul "trouble" Anderson @ Lamerica July 7th 07 Cardiff @ Liquid
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Karizma Bio
Karizma's musical career started with him djing at age 13,doing various fashion shows and college parties,later on he landed a radio show on Baltimore's college radio station WEAA, playing hip hop. at the same time he was playing at various clubs around the city,with an obvious love for house music. He would often bump into Dj Spen and bug him for advice, As fate would have it Spen and Karizma would work together at radio station V103. this prompted the two to work together on his 1st Jasper street company album project. Karizma contributed the song E.B.W.2.R.T.W(Everybody wants 2 rule the world) and did drum programming on the track "Temptation". After this Spen&Karizma worked on Kim English "Tommorrow", Mary J Blige "Beautiful" , Kenny Bobien "Let me show you" and SuSu Bobien's "Thank you" . The rest is history
Spen and Karizma(now with Basement Boys productions), went on to remix Everything but the girl, Amira,Lenny Kravitz,Ann Nesby,Ron Carroll,Roy Ayers,Boris Dlugosh, Bob Sinclar,Kathy Brown,Jocelyn Brown,Ministers de la funk,just to name a few. It was also in these remixes Karizma developed the "deepah dubs" and "deepah ones" moniker for his rendition of the remixes.
Flashing forward ...after a healthy career of remixes and productions, Karizma struck out on his own a formed Kohesive Productions. His first production "Samma Ganni" was released on Basement boys imprint "Elphunk". His remixes, redits and productions are heard weekly at the "Sky Lounge" bar on Thursdays, his residency in Baltimore. Many of his productions have championed the likes of Louie Vega, Simon Dunmore, Dj Spinna,Marquis Wyatt,Tony Humphries and many more.
Karizma is also an accomplished international dj, one of the most innovative on the scene. His debut solo album, “A Mind Of Its Own” is released on 20th March 2007 on R2 Records.
Ladies and Gentlemen.......Karizma
Karizma's musical career started with him djing at age 13,doing various fashion shows and college parties,later on he landed a radio show on Baltimore's college radio station WEAA, playing hip hop. at the same time he was playing at various clubs around the city,with an obvious love for house music. He would often bump into Dj Spen and bug him for advice, As fate would have it Spen and Karizma would work together at radio station V103. this prompted the two to work together on his 1st Jasper street company album project. Karizma contributed the song E.B.W.2.R.T.W(Everybody wants 2 rule the world) and did drum programming on the track "Temptation". After this Spen&Karizma worked on Kim English "Tommorrow", Mary J Blige "Beautiful" , Kenny Bobien "Let me show you" and SuSu Bobien's "Thank you" . The rest is history
Spen and Karizma(now with Basement Boys productions), went on to remix Everything but the girl, Amira,Lenny Kravitz,Ann Nesby,Ron Carroll,Roy Ayers,Boris Dlugosh, Bob Sinclar,Kathy Brown,Jocelyn Brown,Ministers de la funk,just to name a few. It was also in these remixes Karizma developed the "deepah dubs" and "deepah ones" moniker for his rendition of the remixes.
Flashing forward ...after a healthy career of remixes and productions, Karizma struck out on his own a formed Kohesive Productions. His first production "Samma Ganni" was released on Basement boys imprint "Elphunk". His remixes, redits and productions are heard weekly at the "Sky Lounge" bar on Thursdays, his residency in Baltimore. Many of his productions have championed the likes of Louie Vega, Simon Dunmore, Dj Spinna,Marquis Wyatt,Tony Humphries and many more.
Karizma is also an accomplished international dj, one of the most innovative on the scene. His debut solo album, “A Mind Of Its Own” is released on 20th March 2007 on R2 Records.
Ladies and Gentlemen.......Karizma
Born in North London, but spent most of his childhood in Gloucester.
A keen sportsman with a passion for football, played for Charlton youth, Tottenham youth and Middlesex County and run for Haringey athletics.
He used to dance in the pre-mixing days, and still does in the box, he hurdle over the decks, boogie down and jumps back in just in time to cue the next record.
Paul started of playing at the time of the Sound System days… As well as a DJ he was a soundman. He followed Chicken, Scrap Iron and Fat Man Around those days. Paul had a sound from his uncle a reggae sound that was converted in to a soul sound. They called it Troublefunk and this is where he acquired his nickname “Trouble”.
Around this time he meet George Power, one of the founders of Kiss FM, who asked him to be a warm up DJ at several venues. Who was best respected for his jazz funk at Crackers.
Paul had a fresh funky sound and was playing at many clubs, to name a few, The Maize Club at Ronnie Scott’s, Bumbles and Red Box.
With more and more work he made DJing his Fulltime Career and started up his own Night at the Electric Ballroom. A Roller Disco night, three times a week. As well as spinning records, he would also make a point in showing of his Agility on Roller Skates.
Trouble was Instrumental in the London music scene, and helped making clubs like Crackers, Spats, The Embassy, Global Village and Electric Ballroom Legendary.
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n the mid 80’s he helped pioneer the ‘Trouble Funk Sound‘, he brought his sublime blend of dance music to the Warehouse scene. It is also from there he acquired his nickname ’TROUBLE’.
1985 he was asked to join Kiss and found the prospect of promoting dance music on-air an exciting one. That is when he developed his creativity and skill. To his fans, Paul has an amazing ability to make you want to move, the way he makes the music come alive and his brilliant mixing skills.
Paul also found time for the Studio, and lent his remixing skills to Nomad’s UK NO1 ’Devotion’, Junior Reid’s Jamaica NO1 ’One Blood’ and remixed for Blaze, Pet Shop Boys, Soul11Soul, Thelma Houston, Byron Stingily and many more.
At his own night ‘Troubles House’ at Legends, a major star in London’s club land, he had many big name guests like Ten City, Todd Terry, DJ Pierre and David Morales.
1990 Kiss went Legal and Paul took over the Saturday Prime spot 2100-2300, which continued as ‘Troubles Original Mix Show for 8 years. Then there were changes in the Stations music policies, and Paul reluctantly decided to leave.
He still delivered his sound to the fans through his night ‘The Loft’ at HQ, that run for ten years. With weekly guests like Loleatta Holloway, Jean Carne, Jocelyn Brown, Masters at Work, Tony Humphries, Rosie Gaines, Michael Watford, Darryl Pandy and Barbara Tucker. ’The Loft was voted NO1 Midweek club for 3 years running, by magazines like Time Out, The Face and the Evening Standard. Paul had a dedicated following, who made Wednesdays at ‘The Loft’ a priority. Later HQ sadly closed down.
2000 Paul released a live mix album “Troubles House” on R2 Records which features an inspired collection of soulful uplifting favourites mixed with Troubles flavour. Paul also continued the Loft vibe at ‘Loft 2’ at Madam JO JO’s.
Paul has since been playing a big role in the Italian Club Scene, as well as having a close link with the fashion world. To name a few, The Julian Macdonald show at London Fashion week and Chanel at the Milan Fashion week. He worked for Italian Fashion TV for 2 years. He has also been photographed for Italian Vogue with Giorgio Armani.
Recently he performed on a Ministry of Sound tour in Italy with Howard Donald from Take That, and has done a few guest radio shows for Radio 1, Virgin FM, Jazz FM and Ministry of Sound. He was also interviewed by Channel 4 for a documentary about the influential club Crackers.
Now in his 30th year of DJing, he is still going strong, still refusing to be labelled, and is maintaining that, a House is where you live and a Garage is where you park your car.
Paul’s projects at the moments include, setting up his own Record label ’Trouble Soul Records’, Mixing his own album with his own songs, writing an Biography and Poems.
Paul also has a weekly radio show at www.pushfm.com, every Friday at 2000-2200.
He is also about to start running a monthly Friday night, Loft Revisited! Where he will be having live PA’s and guest DJ’s from all over!
One of the attractions with Paul is his way of mixing classic gems with freshly cut acetates, and his passion for the music stands out bright and clear. As an Artist Paul has an restless soul and the dedication to carry on championing Dance music at present and in the future.