Pappa & Gilbey, a remix & writing team born out of a cheeky request; Pappa called Choo Choo for a copy of a track he wanted and mentioned he couldn't get into the studio he normally worked in to do a remix. Barry asked if he would consider doing the remix with him - the track was Gypsy's "I Trance You", and ever since then they have consistently turned out corking remixes and original tracks. From Gypsy they moved onto RR Workshop's "Mess with da Bull", a firm favorite for Sasha & Digweed.
Taking a break from remixing other artist's tunes, the duo set out to record some of their own tunes…the first of which was 'Interference' and it was quickly picked up for Dave Seaman's "Renaissance Awakenings" CD. The next step, create some shade against the light of "Interference". Pappa & Gilbey got into a dark mood and out came "Twisted" a truly dark and foreboding track with a riff some likened to 'The Devil's Chainsaw' halfway through it. Warped vocal snippets repeating the word 'Twisted' make this tune not for the faint hearted.
Although Pappa & Gilbey's mammoth schedule makes studio work almost impossible, they make sure to find time to record whenever possible. After their first single, they were licensed for a remix of Aquilia's "Earthbound", which was released on the excellent Miami based label Inversus Records. With review quotes like: "…a quality dark & dirty progressive-tech number filled with driving synth lines & haunting stabs. Already deep in the boxes of Nick Warren, Paul van Dyk, Sasha & Digweed just to name a few. Consider yourself warned. 9/10" [JR - Canadian National Dance Magazine] you know they're doing something right! Anthony & Barry's third original track "Void" has recently been completed even though Anthony was very ill with flu at the time. It's safe to say that over-doses of menthol and lemon, although not life threateningly dangerous, must be a bit mind expanding…to say the least!! "Void" is as you would expect a superbly produced slice of chunky, prog-house with a full and rich sound - big but not obvious, deep and dark but not too scary, cool as always but not inaccessible. It has that balance that so many others try to imitate…but all fall shy of actually obtaining.
Not content with this, the pair have just finished work on the flipside to Void..."Validate" simply takes the pair to another level. Massive! The two cuts were quickly picked up by the new record label Twilo Recordings. The US superclub has recently setup its own label and "Void/Validate" will be their second release.
Check out the Interview with Anthony Pappa and Barry Gilbey here
Barry Gilbey
 When house music was born in the late 80s DJs didn’t play just one sound. The concept of a techno DJ, a progressive DJ or a funky house DJ didn’t exist. DJs played a broad spectrum of ass-shaking sounds that rocked dancefloors.
It’s playing that broad spectrum that makes Barry Gilbey an amazing DJ. With a sound that includes everything from deeper house grooves to techno and breaks, most weekends you’ll find him playing underground music to packed dancefloors from Moscow to Kuala Lumpur and Delhi to Krakow.
- I travel all over the world every weekend, playing my own and others’ amazing music to thousands of happy faces. It’s a privilege to be able to travel to places hungry to hear new music and see the diverse range of people who come out to hear me play. Whether I’m in Siberia or Singapore the people are surprisingly similar - they just want to have a good time and I try my hardest to give it to them.”
Music fans will know him for his storming hybrid tech-house-breaks productions on his revered Sheffield-based label, Choo Choo, and from releases under a range of pseudonyms, including:.
Mara with Sara Whittaker-Gilbey.
London Squeak Motif
Finger Fest Inc with tribal-house producer D Ramirez.
The Phony MCs with James Mowbray.
Pappa & Gilbey with Anthony Pappa
Barry’s productions are played the world over by everyone from Erick Morillo to Deep Dish and Meat Katie to Sasha.
With regular mixes appearing on London’s Kiss FM, Ireland’s 2FM and Manchester’s Key 103 and a full DJ schedule in coming months, covering all seven continents, make sure you catch one of his electric sets .
Aliases
Mara - with Sara Whittaker-Gilbey
Pappa & Gilbey - with Anthony Pappa
3 Monkeys - with Alan Bremner and Anthony Pappa
Finger Fest Inc - with D.Ramirez (Dean Marriot)
Jarrod & Gilbey - with Andy Jarrod
Digital Penetrators / Praxis
North Eye - with Chuck Martin
Subliminal - With Sara Whittaker-Gilbey, Bill Hamel & Sam Mollison
Hyperion
Prototype
Phony Mcs - With James Mowbray
London Squeak Motif
Productions
Mara - Learn to Love (White Label) - 1997
Mara - Falling (White Label) - 1998
Mara - Always / Orinoco (Choo Choo Records) - 1998
Digital Penetrators - Penetration (Choo Choo Records) - 1998
Andy Jarrod - Corixa 1&2 (Choo Choo Records) - 1998
Mara - One (Choo Choo Records) - 1999
North Eye - Monsters (Choo Choo Limited) - 1999
Jarrod & Gilbey - Venom (Choo Choo Limited) - 1999
Prototype v. Quadrant - Disillusion (Choo Choo Limited) - 1999
Praxis - Assassin (Choo Choo Records) - 1999
Jarrod & Gilbey - Deliverance (Choo Choo Records) - 1999
Subliminal - Voices (Sunkissed USA) - 1999
Mara - Song for Zoe (Emotions Collective) - 1999
Mara - Lateral Horizon (Choo Choo Records) - 2000
Mara - Desanitize (Acetate Limited) - 2000
Pappa & Gilbey - Interference (Choo Choo Records) - 2000
Pappa & Gilbey - Twisted (Choo Choo Records) - 2000
Mara - Fall from Grace (Choo Choo Records) - 2000
Mara - Song for Zoe (Choo Choo Records) - 2001
3 Monkeys - Crazy People (Bliss Universal) - 2001
Prototype - Control of Sound (Tune inn) - 2001
Hyperion V. Revolt - No Compromise (Bliss Universal) - 2001
Human League - Tranquillity (Papillon) - 2001
Mara - Heretic (Choo Choo Records) - 2001
Pappa & Gilbey - The Rhythm (Choo Choo Records) - 2001
Mara - Turn It On (Choo Choo Records) - 2001
Pappa & Gilbey - Skin Deep (Choo Choo Records) - 2001
Pappa & Gilbey - Twisted (Inversus USA) - 2001
Prototype - La Caldera (Tune Inn Records) - 2001
Pappa & Gilbey - Void (Twilo USA) - 2001
Finger Fest Inc. - Autoporno (Choo Choo Records) - 2001
Hyperion - Heaven’s Calling (Bliss Universal) - 2002
Mara - Coming Down (Choo Choo Records) - 2002
Fingers Fest Inc. - Autoporno (Yoshitoshi USA) - 2002
Pappa & Gilbey - Validate (Twilo USA) - 2002
Pappa & Gilbey - The Rhythm (TBC) - 2002
Mara - Turning it on (Choo Choo Records) - 2003
Mara - 1974 (Choo Choo Records) - 2003
Mara - If you only knew ALBUM (Choo Choo Records) - 2003
Mara - Love Song (White Label) - 2003
Gilbey - Pull the trigger (Beat Industries) - 2004
Gilbey - Girls & Boys (Beat Industries) - 2004
Pappa & Gilbey - Miracle TBC - 2004
Fingerfest Inc - Chemical Whore (Choo Choo Records) - 2004
Phony Mcs - Raw (Choo Choo Records) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Losing my way (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Ascent (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Aramaic (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Partizan (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Losing Control (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Snoodled (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Abacus (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Lumu (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Phantoms (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Jade Scorpion (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Give me peace (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - House of Morocco (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Satellite (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - Good Love (Standard) - 2004
Barry Gilbey - You are the one (Standard) - 2004
Gilbey - Plastic Man (Choo Choo Records - 2005
Gilbey - 8 Bit Style (Beat Industries) - 2005
Gilbey & Cargo - Chunkafunk (Choo Choo Records) - 2005
Phony Mcs - Black (Choo Choo Records) - 2005
Remixes
Static Rhythm - We Exist - Little Fluffy - Mara - 1999
Praxis - Assassin - Choo Choo Records - Mara - 1999
Freefall - Skydive - Renaissance - Mara - 1999
Subliminal - Voices - Sunkissed - Mara - 1999
Enzo Scifo - I’m Alive - 3 Beat - Mara - 1999
Marcus Schultz - You won’t see me cry - Eve - Mara - 1999
Chakra - Home - WEA - Mara - 2000
Antarctica - Illusion - React - Mara - 2000
Dark Driver - Revision 2 - Choo Choo Records - Mara - 2001
Mark Shimmon - Dark Feeling - Tune Inn - Mara - 2001
Fred Numf - Illusion of the Truth - Black Hole Recordings - Mara - 2001
Tipple - Hope - Limbo - The Scream - 1998
BPC - Micromega - Flying Rhino - Jarrod & Gilbey - 1999
Paris Red - Git wit me - Glow - Jarrod & Gilbey - 1998
Gypsy - I Trance you - Limbo - Pappa & Gilbey - 1999
Oudja - Never Tell - Bonzai - Jarrod & Gilbey - 1999
RR Workshop - Mess with the bull - Avant Garde - Pappa & Gilbey - 1999
Steve Gibbs - Azure - 5AM - Hyperion - 2000
Aquilla - Earthbound - Inversus - Hyperion - 2000
Cass - Emotion Surfer - Choo Choo Records - Hyperion - 2000
Inkfish - Body & Mind - Choo Choo Records - Hyperion - 2000
Finger Fest Inc - Autoporno - Yoshitoshi - Finger Fest Inc - 2002
Pappa & Gilbey - Twisted - Inversus - Pappa & Gilbey - 2001
Moogroove - Deuce - Saw - Mara - 2002
Space Manoeuvres - Stage One - Unknown - Mara - 2001
Morel - Funny Car - Yoshitoshi - Pappa & Gilbey 2002
Ben Camp - Timestretch - Fade - Mara - 2002
Dino Lenny - I Feel Stereo - Yoshitoshi - Mara - 2002
Oko Tek - Bento - Choo Choo Records - Mara - 2002
Remark - So Pure - Choo Choo Records - Finger Fest Inc - 2002
Attica - Cyber Girl - Plastic Fantastic - Mara - 2003
U Fac vs the Man - Speechless - Climax - Mara -2003
Alcatraz - Give me love - Yoshitoshi - Mara -2003
Oxygen - Inside me - Release - Barry Gilbey -2003
Rick Pier O Neil - Dark Tribal - Garbage - Gilbey - 2004
Mara - 1974 - Beat Industries - Gilbey - 2004
Anthony Pappa
 Born in the Australian outback and raised by wild dingoes, Anthony Pappa was a child prodigy when the Avalanches were mere snowballs on a mountainside. Having worked in the family business from an early age, he decided to strike out on his own and become an international renowned disc jockey, in the days when international renowned disc jockeys were as rare as tap dancing marmosets. If not rarer.
Anthony was alarmingly good from the off. Annoyingly good. At the tender age of 15, he entered Australia’s DMC Mixing Championships. And won. Not content with this, he worked regularly in the clubs in native Melbourne, where he forged a reputation as one of the city’s hottest DJs. In 1993, Mixmag organised a mixing competition (it was a forerunner to Muzik’s Bedroom Bedlam contest) and he won that, too, with a brilliant and musically clever mix of funky and vocal house.
In 1994, frustrated at being halfway around the world from where the music he loved was happening, he hopped on a banana boat and landed in Southampton docks six weeks later armed with a bag full of records, and a cache of funnel web spiders. Hooking up with Dave Seaman and a sinister enclave of DJs and producers based in Maidenhead and Slough, he plotted his takeover of the world. He struck a friendship up with engineer/producer Alan Bremner and together they formed Freefall: by day mild mannered janitors at the Daily Globe, by evening world beating dance music makers. Gigs began to arrive as he established himself in the UK. First a trickle, then a flood (these days, the passport rarely leaves his back pocket). Both promoters and punters noticed something particular about the way he played: smooth mixing, musically complementary, great programming. Trainspotters noticed something else again: that his record box was organised in keys. Crikey. Who’s a clever dick, then?
Thanks to his nefarious links with Mr. Seaman, Freefall were signed to Stress Records, where they released two singles. Their debut, ‘Shrug’, was followed by ‘Skydive’, a tougher-than-leather main room anthem that said, ‘we’re here, and we’re not going until you’ve noticed us’. They were duly noticed. They have also, it should be noted, done a few remixes in their time, too, including Beloved’s ‘Sun Rising’, though ‘prolific’ is not a word you’d associate with Freefall.
His Resolution mix album is Anthony’s 7th in his career so far, including ones for compatriots Mushroom and Stress. Pappa was also responsible for last year’s acclaimed debut for Global Underground offshoot, Nu-Breed, which saw his face (not to mention blue jacket and brown eyebrows) splattered all over every available poster site in Britain.
Productions
Freefall - Shrug (Stress)
Freefall - Skydive (Stress)
Pappa & Gilbey - Interference (Choo Choo Records)
Pappa & Gilbey - Twisted (Choo Choo Records)
Pappa & Gilbey - Void (Twilo/MADE USA)
Pappa & Gilbey - Validate (Twilo/MADE USA)
Pappa & Gilbey - Skin Deep (Choo Choo Records)
Pappa & Gilbey - Twisted (Inversus USA)
Pappa & Gilbey - The Rhythm (Choo Choo Records)
Pappa & Gilbey - Untitled (Choo Choo Records)
Remixes
Visions - Coming Home (Stress)
RHC - Fever Called Love (DMC)
Innerself - Guatama (Stress)
Chicane/ Power Circle - Offshore (Xtravaganza)
The Beloved - Sun Rising (DMC)
Gypsy - I Trance You (Limbo)
RR Workshop - Mess With Da Bull (Avant Garde)
Angel - Goldrush (Growth)
Aquila - Earthbound (Inversus)
Pappa & Gilbey - Twisted (Inversus)
Morel - Funny Car (Yoshitoshi)
Dj Remy - Butterfly (Additive)
Mix CDs
Cooking up a mix (Mushroom)
DJ Culture, Vol 3 (Stress)
Renaissance Presents, Vol 2 (Renaissance)
Best of Platipus (Platipus)
Nu Breed (Global Underground)
Choo Choo Vol. 1 (Choo Choo Records)
Resolution (React)
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