BRIAN TAPPERT

Brian Tappert is a New Jersey-born producer and remixer who has spent nearly three decades at the heart of house music. As one half of Jazz-N-Groove and Urban Blues Project alongside partner Marc Pomeroy, he has delivered official remixes for Crystal Waters, Sounds of Blackness, Loleatta Holloway, Deborah Cox, and Shakedown's crossover hit "At Night," while UBP records like "Love Don't Live" and "Deliver Me" with Michael Procter and "Testify" with Jay Williams became soulful house standards on labels including Strictly Rhythm, Sub-Urban, and AM:PM. As Cleptomaniacs, with John Julius Knight, his rework of Stevie Wonder's "All I Do" on Defected reached number 23 on the UK singles chart in 2001. In 1996 he co-founded Soulfuric Recordings, one of the most respected labels in house music history with early releases from Axwell, Copyright, and Hardsoul, and the partnership went on to co-create Traxsource, today the world's leading download platform for house music DJs, home to over 25,000 labels and two million tracks. He remains active behind the boards and in the booth, producing and DJing from his Tree House Studio in Florida.