Spatial Awareness is a dj, producer, and live electronic artist used to taking the slightly more oblique path. The sum of many parts – unreconstructed indie kid, soul enthusiast, techno fiend, and disco weirdo – Spatial Awareness has delighted dancefloors all over the world. Spain’s Benicassim Festival and Razzmatazz Club, the BBC 6Music Festival, underground warehouse parties in LA, to the Secret Garden Party and the Ministry of Sound in the UK, (and many more besides) have all been in thrall to the wayward magic of Spatial Awareness.
The remainder of 2024, and 2025, still has many releases lined up – including remixes of Princess Superstar, The Woodentops, Ladytron, (and more), an album for Blow Up Records, and the fruits of a collaboration with the iconic vocalist and songwriter ROY INC. Previous releases and remixes on such prestigious labels as Sous Music, Twirl!, HE.SHE.THEY., Wall of Sound, and Batty Bass still move dancefloors and trouble the airwaves the world over.
Spatial Awareness – or Tony – was blessed with a musically eclectic youth… Raised in the Essex soul music hotspot of Canvey Island with 2 djs for older brothers, and exposed to their various influences of all things soul, funk, hip hop, emerging house, but also indie and classic pop, young Spatial inevitably became a mobile dj by the age of 15 – a baptism of fire around the insalubrious establishments of deepest Essex. A progression to clubs soon followed, as well as a growing urge to make music. Stints playing bass in terrible punk bands lead to an interest in engineering and production and eventually actually creating electronic music.
Acid, disco, techno, and house all blur together sublimely at the edges in the world of Spatial Awareness. His somewhat eclectic tastes encompass a lot of quite disparate things – dub, film soundtracks, electronica, post-punk, motorik rhythms, synthpop, Bowie and Roxy and the Velvets and more besides… Elements of all these seep into the music Spatial Awareness creates and plays.
01. The Director – End Credits / Kookoo Records
02. Djebali – Santa Olala / Volumo Direct
03. Mochakk – Locomotiva Ibiza 2099 (Dub Mix) / CircoLoco Records +
04. Jean Jacques Smoothie Feat. Tara Busch – 2People (Dr. Packer Acapella) / Glitterbox
05. Ron Flatter – Taatsoo / You Plus One
06. Jake Beautyman – Tender Loving Crash / Rhythm Cult
07. DJ Rap vs R33DY – In My Brain (DJ Sneak and Blakkat Remix) / Shaboom Records
08. Wallace – Cravings (Dub) / Phantasy Sound
09. Punx Soundcheck & Ascii.Disko Feat. Princess Superstar – Gasoline (The Hacker Remix) / Icon Series
10. Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Jupiter Jazz / Underground Resistance
11. Roots Manuva – Colossal Insight (Soft Pink Truth Remix) / Big Dada Recordings
12. The Woodentops – A Pact (Spatial Awareness Remix) / Hottwerk Records
13. Jerome Hill – Gaffney / Craigie Knowles
14. Anna Prior – UP2U (PPJ Bloco Tunnel Version) / House Anxiety
15. George Daniel – Screen Cleaner / dh2
16. Melé – Baile Techno Banger / Fabric Originals
17. Josh Caffe – Peak (Jerome Hill Bad Dream Mix) / Heras
18. Cameo – Money (Reese Revamp) / Reprise Records
