FRIDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 2008

@ One Central Street, off Albert Square
Manchester M2 5WR - Info & Directions
10.30pm - 4am / £7 tickets available
£7 nus / £9 after midnight

Guest DJ:
KARIZMA (Basement Boys / Kohesive / Defected / Objektivity / USA)

Resident DJs:
LES CROASDAILE
SCOTT CAREY
TOMGOLDEN

It’s a new venue and a day earlier for Stylus in 2008. We may be changing our location but we are definitely not changing our desire to bring the best guest DJs the house world has to offer to the rainy city. Kicking of the new season we are proud to welcome Baltimore’s own house don, in the form of Kohesive recordings main man Karizma.

Karizma's musical career started with him djing at age 13, doing various fashion shows and college parties. He landed a radio show on Baltimore's college radio station WEAA, playing hip hop and at the same time was playing at various clubs around the city showing an obvious love for house music. Around this time 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 Spen's 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's "Tommorrow", Mary J Blige’s "Beautiful", Kenny Bobien's "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 and Ministers de la Funk to name a few. It was 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, Marques Wyatt, Tony Humphries and many more.

Karizma is also an accomplished international DJ, one of the most innovative on the scene, who recently destroyed the Powerhouse room at the legendary Southport Weekender.

Contact Info:
web: www.lovestylus.com
myspace: www.myspace.com/stylusmanchester
email: info@lovestylus.com
phone: 07946 512 885 / 07790 656 080