Clubbing Magazine

	Kasey Taylor, founder of Vapour recordings, is one of Australia's most prominent DJ's and is rapidly making his mark on a world wide scale with a string of production and remixes. From his meager beginnings as a 13 year old DJ at the local roller rink he has progressed to have worked at most of Melbourne's big clubs and parties. In particular his time spent rocking Melbourne's Mansion club are fondly remembered by lovers of the progressive sound. During Kasey's stint here the club played host to some of the worlds leading DJ's and was voted one of the best clubs in the world by the UK's Ministry Magazine. Alongside the likes of Sasha, John Digweed, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Pete Tong, Dave Seaman and Ian Ossia, just to name a few, he has become a regular at all major clubbing events in his home town of Melbourne including the Northern Exposure, Renaissance, Trade, Gatecrasher and Cream tours. Internationally Kasey has played at the Ministry Of Sound (with Danny Howells), United (alongside John Digweed), Leisure Lounge and Up Yer Ronson, all major UK clubs. From the early 1990's Kasey was also exploring production. Firstly through Quench, which he left after their first single "Feel My Love" and then, in 1995, via his Our House project, in partnership with another Melbourne DJ Sean Quinn. Our House were signed to Dance Net here in Australia and to Paul Oakenfold's prestigious Perfecto label in the UK. They came to Paul's attention after he heard "Floorspace" at a Melbourne party featuring Pete Tong and himself as guest DJ's. The success of "Floorspace" then led to several remixing options for Perfecto (Virus - Moon , Juno Reactor - Jungle High) and other high profile labels, not to mention Australian tours DJ'ing, playing live as Our House and a mix CD, "DJ Excursions".
His solo work started in early 1997 with remixes for Chrome by Chrome and Summer Breeze by the Free Radicals, both gaining attention in the UK market. It was later on in that year that Kasey first started work on his own label, Vapour Recordings. In partnership with long time friends Vicious Vinyl, Kasey created an environment for Vapour Recordings that had all of his creative drive plus the experience of a long established indie label behind it. Moving forward to 1999 and Kasey has remixed for the likes of Breeder, Blue Amazon and Fade records in the USA. His label Vapour now has nine single releases under it's belt with artists such as Rush and Highland two of the new school Australian outfits signed to the label. He has helped put Australian talent on the map and Vapour's results are making DJ's the world over take notice with tracks licensed to mix CDs from Dave Seaman (Renaissance USA), Anthony Pappa (Renaissance UK) and Nalin (from Nalin & Kane fame for his "Hands On Decks" CD out of Germany). Apart from all this Kasey's own Ocean Wave act signed with one of the UK's most "on it" labels, Rhythm Syndicate, (home to Breeder). Kasey's DJing skills are still very much in demand. He plays regularly both in Melbourne and Interstate, has co-presents a radio show on Kiss FM with Our House production partner Sean Quinn and has released Volume One and Two of his label's "Vapourized" DJ mixed compilation series. 2004 has been a big year for Vapour Recordings and especially in the studio with Kasey Taylor & Chris Meehan. Kasey Taylor has been playing all over the planet on a weekly basis these days and if your in the right place at the right time, you should just about catch him anywhere at some point at the moment. Vapour has some exciting new artists on board now for 2005. dousk from Bedrock fame is one, his track titled 'Estrange' is already on the new Masters series compiled and mixed by Hernan Cattaneo due for release in February with the single coming about a month after. Along with dousk Vapour has Mercurio from Argentina, Espen & Stian, Stealthy & The Blue Room Project all joining the roster of existing talent, and Vapour have some stunning releases ready for the 2005 season. Vapour have also the classic Greed release from SOG Records 'Promises' coming this yeah as well with new mixes from D Nox & Beckers, Talyor & Meehan and dousk, along with a stunning new single by Quest titled 'Air', which is up there with Luke Chable's best work to date.	In January 2005 Kasey started a second label. The reasoning behind the new label is simple. 'Vapour Recordings' has it's 'sound' and will continue to produce it, 'VapouRise' will compliment it with a more 'anything goes' attitude, so expect everything from tech house, deep house, electro house and breaks to be turning up on our new label. Gift, D Nox & Beckers, Dominic Plaza, Parham & Isloe have all come on board to ensure the label impresses and to date it has, with big guns such as Hernan Cattaneo charting Gift and using Parham & Ilsoe's 'Love sequence' on his upcoming Renaissance compilation due out in February.
Vapour forthcoming releases Vapour Recordings VR42 MOS Difficult Emotions (As featured on Gpal's One mix compilation) Original & Blue Room (NOW) VR39 Progresia - After Universe (Original & Perry O' Neil & Ozgur Can remix) (FEB 28) VR41 Chris Micali - Juice/God Gave Us (TBC) VR43 Mecurio - Music/Box (MAR 25) VR44 Luke Chable presents Quest - Air/String Theory (TBC) VR45 Blue Room Project - Tuned Exposure & Brandie (TBC) VapouRise VS12001 Gift - I'm inside you/Look into my eyes (FEB 21) VS12002 Dominic Plaza - Another Reality/Deeper Thoughts (MAR 29)
	Audio part You can listen to the interview with Kasey Taylor here, It was done in Copenhagen on the 29th of August 2003. Length: 17.55 min, mono 32kbps Size: 4202Kb Format: MP3 Vapour Recordings
	Audio interview and photos by: Christian Almind