Knob Jockeys are three Ableton Live digital DJs from Manchester, blending breaks, electro, fidget, funk, hip hop, pop and cleverness into a mix that you’ll just have to love. Or hate. It’s up to you really.
Keep up to date with the blog below or download our latest mixes and mashups.
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Here’s a little reworking of La Roux’s excellent Bulletproof. Ended up on the long side, but well, you can mix into it and stuff innit 
). Wanna credit Foamo, D.I.M., Rico Tubbs, and La Roux of course.
As there are three of us in Knob Jockeys, we’ve thought often about ways to make sharing our library of tunes easier between ourselves. For a while, having the one external hard drive with everything crammed on seemed to work, but more and more we’d spend our practice sessions munging bits and bobs we’d been working on into the main library, and more often that not, sticking stuff in temp and scratch and limbo folders all over the place, never to be found again. Also, a Firewire device chaining incident meant we lost a quarter of our data a couple of years back, which brought home even more the fragility of everything being in one place.
We’re playing a gig at Carry On, Manchester at the Ruby Lounge on 10th July 2009.
We’ve got the last set of the night following the godfather of ni-skool breaks, Rennie Pilgrem! We’re a little bit scared…
Nonetheless, we’ll be playing a storming mix of breaks, fidget and electro to keep everyone going until they kick us out 
Hope to see you there.
In the mean time, you can check out our previous mix for Carry On.
Here’s the Facebook Event Page.
We’re really pleased to be playing at Beatherder Festival 2009 on the Stumblefunk stage.
Beatherder is an intimate festival taking place in the Ribble Valley in Lancashire on July 3rd-5th.
Other acts already confirmed include: The Whip, Filthy Dukes, The Young Punx, Meat Katie, Utah Saints, Beardyman, Dub Pistols, 808-State and many more!
If you can’t wait until then, you can still check out and download our set from Beatherder 2007.
Date: April 2009
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Here’s the set we played at the recent Easter event in Manchester – a mix of breaks and electro/fidget house and some usual pop silliness. It also includes a version of one of our own tunes – Dirty Slap.
We tried to not include a Fake Blood tune again, but he slipped in again! Jack Beats features twice – another artist we’re really digging at the minute!
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We’re playing at The Amazing Easter Egg Painting Competition! – an all day event in Manchester which brings together the cream of Manchester’s underground club nights.
Club nights and artists confirmed to play are Drum Music, Bass Camp, Crash, State Of Mancunia, Carry On, Spin Cycle, Naughty Panda, Groove Allegiance, Abrupt, The Knob Jockeys, Jusme and more. Full line up to be announced.
Date: Sunday 12th April 2009
Time: 5pm – 2.30
Venue: Saki Bar, Rusholme, Manchester
There is also a prize for the best painted egg!
Date: March 2009
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This is the remastered version of our end of the night set at the Carry On! NYE Party 2009. We played after Vandal to the end of the night, and it was a wicked party. Hopefully this will bring back some memories if you were there, or whet your appetites for next time if you weren’t!
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Just in case you hadn’t noticed, we have a Twitter account – follow us! We’ll be tweeting about our own mixes, mashups and gig alerts as well as stuff about DJing and Ableton Live.
A mashup from late last year that’s already becoming a classic – Mark Morrison meets the Muppets… Oh ma gaad!