LEE SMITH

One of the UK’s foremost supporters of minimal house and techno, Lee has been DJing for 13 years. He founded Brighton’s notorious Hideout party in 1998, playing alongside guests including Dave Clarke, Ben Sims, Green Velvet, Funk D’Void, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Josh Wink, Layo & Bushwacka, Carl Craig, Derrick May, and many more, before forming Kliks in 2003. Kliks rapidly gained a reputation as a genuinely pioneering party, hosting the likes of Steve Bug, Alex Smoke, Kompakt records and numerous others, and is now regarded as one of the most important underground club nights in the UK. Playing everything from blissed-out pop ambient to full on, driving club grooves, his emotive, stripped-down take on minimal techno never fails to ignite the dancefloor. He’s also an accomplished journalist, writing for Jockey Slut, Update, Juice and Beatmag, and currently writes the Minimal reviews page in IDJ Magazine. He’s also one of only four UK DJs to have ever played at Kompakt’s legendary Total Confusion party in Cologne.

MARK LERMAN

Mark Lerman's first forays into music began with his involvement with a clutch of punk bands in and around Leeds and Bradford during the early nineties, before relocating to London and promoting a host of underground techno parties at venues across the capital. Upon moving to Brighton, he gained a residency at Hideout, the town's only dedicated night for techno at the time, and went on to help establish the club as one of the most important and long-running parties of its kind. Alongside Jack Gillies, he founded Hidden recordings, an outlet for his own twisted take on minimal techno, before starting Kliks with Lee Smith and Tom Ridsdale in 2003. Since then, he has built a reputation as one of the UK's most original Djs in the minimal scene, throwing down his distinctively lo-fi, bass-heavy, occasionally abrasive but danceloor-friendly grooves at numerous parties across the land. He also promotes Mammoth at Brighton's Ocean Rooms, playing alongside Derrick May, Carl Craig, Luke Vibert and many more. His Agent Orange alter ego, meanwhile, sees him mashing up everything from UK Grime white labels to classic early hardcore.

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