Munster Express Online

You wouldn’t know it from the antics of Kelly and Jack as they trudge around the celebrity circus, but Ozzy Osbourne has one offspring with real musical talent, ……step forward internationally respected DJ Louis Osbourne, who makes his Waterford debut at the Loft for Viva on Saturday 6th Feb. Support on the night comes from Nic Furlong (Viva) and Alan Harris (Retech).

Louis Osbourne has been involved in the electronic music industry for 16 years now. His epiphany happened during the early 90s when he visited the dance events that took place every weekend in his native Birmingham. It didn’t take long to persuade the then 16 year old that his future lay with techno music. Through his job in a record store, he got to know other Birmingham DJs like Steve Lawler and Pete Gooding and when Lawler left his Café Mambo residency in Ibiza in 1998, Pete rang Louis to offer him the slot.

The Mambo residency didn’t make Louis rich, but his daytime mixture of down tempo French-oriented sophistication and night-time jacking Chicago house, as well as his sharp deck skills, meant that he got noticed by other clubs on the island. He was offered a residency for Cream on the Amnesia terrace, which he held for two years.

Since then, Louis has played some of the world’s best clubs: from China to the Czech Republic and Dublin to Dubai. His ability to move smoothly between underground house and techno and his ear for cutting edge electronic music, mean that he has been a regular fixture at world-renowned clubs like U60311 (Frankfurt), Spundae (LA), Centro Fly (New York), D-Edge (Sao Paulo), Home (Sydney), Bugged Out (Liverpool) and Pacha and Amnesia (both Ibiza). Whilst being busier than ever Stateside, Louis met his Irish fiancée whilst living in LA, and subsequently moved to Ireland in 2003. His move back to Europe coincided with the release of his first mix CD Tilted: Motion Audio in the US, followed by a second compilation, ‘Beats Reality’ on German label Delta, which highlighted his ongoing passion for jacking house and clubby techno, and gained him high praise on review pages.

In 2009 Louis formed Mija Recordings which launched last September to critical acclaim. He has Mija parties taking place in Frankfurt & other locations in the coming months, and now also has his own radio show, “Louis Osbourne Presents Mija Music on RTÉ Pulse”, with syndications going out to other networks worldwide. After 16 years of DJing, Louis’ passion for cutting edge house and techno remains as strong as the time he attended his first rave. The next time Louis shares this love affair with electronic music and “weekend offending” at a club in your town, make sure you don’t miss out!