The Barefoot DJ hooks up with local talent Lee Roby to find out how his new record label "Flawless Records" is doing.

How did you get into the dance scene?
It all began for me in 1990 when I first discovered dance music through pirate radio stations and Illegal raves.
Soon after that I purchased my first set of turntables and started buying tracks like 'Orbital Chimes' and 'Strings of Life'.
Things progressed for me as a DJ over the following years. I travelled around the UK playing venues like Madison's in Bournemouth and Brunel Rooms in Swindon with the likes of Judge Jules and Dave Seaman.
Eventually I settled back in the North West in my hometown Wigan, where I decided to start Flawless Records UK.
At the same time I got involved with Neil Smallridge who had just started a night called On A Plate, which is now very successful.
We have recently got involved with Good Grief from Manchester who are known all over the country especially after their involvement with Radio 1 recently.
We have decided to throw a boat party on August the 9th which should be fun! Our music policy is funky pumpin house however Flawless Records has a trance tip to the label as well.
I work under the name of Adagio when producing but when DJ'ing it's just plain old Lee Roby so people know who I am, well for the moment anyway!
You can check out On A Plate on the 28th June at Kilhey Court, Standish, Wigan and then again on August 9th!!

You've set up a record label - tell us a little about what you've been doing with this. Flawless Records UK has been running now for 12 months, I launched it last summer and a couple of months after was joined by Andy Charnock who works with me on selected projects.

Its first release was produced by Kenny Hayes from 'All Around The World Records' it's an uplifting trance anthem with a Chicane style groove that's definitely one for the Balearics this year.
It's got an excellent flip side to it that's been done by local Preston producer 'Sandro" called 'Touch Me'. The songs got all the café Mambo ambient style sounds with a pumpin of beat baseline, sounds good!!
This record is available now through all good record shops via Unique Distribution.
The second release is a real funky diva number, produced by French guys D'Allergic. The tracks called 'Deep' and it's going to be out on 1st July.
The promo's have already had a lot of airtime from radio stations and was on Mark Freejacks Rock FM acid test 3 weeks in a row. Its got an original vocal done by Jemma Blades and all the fancy guitar licks and rollin baselines are done by live instruments giving it a nice warm feel just right for the summer.

What's the latest gossip from Flawless? Any tips?
My secret weapon for this year though is our August release by 'The Sucker Tips' the tracks called 'Keep on Pumpin it up' and was originally done by the 'Freestyle Orchestra'.

It's a 4 track double pack with two rockin house mixes one of them by D'allergic and two uplifting trance mixes with progressive style build ups leading into major atmospheric drops, come on!!!

I can't wait to get this baby out into the shops, the promo's are over in Ibiza next week and you can probably hear it played by Freejack on Rock FM from 1st July. Without giving too much away we've got several tracks lined up for this year that will put us on the map.

We have recently hooked up with Sheffield Producer/Engineer 'Nick B' who's been working last year with progressive label 'Convert' he does all the engineering and co production for my tracks at the Flawless Studio's in Wigan.

So keep your eyes on the buzz charts and watch this space!

Anything else on the horizon?
We're opening a new record shop in Hallgate Wigan called Flawless Records UK Retail (strangely enough) which will be focusing on Soul, Hip-Hop, R&B Funky House, Trance you name it!!!
We will be having a grand opening day where we will be giving away free records, CD's record bags and loads of other stuff so keep a look out for flyers and posters advertising in July!