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Jon Carter (born 1970 in
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, England) is an English electronic musician. He initially rose to prominence in the 1990s as a
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DJ. However, as his career progressed both his productions and his DJ sets began including a variety of musical styles. From 2004 onwards, he began to scale back his DJing due to
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, but simultaneously launched a second career as a businessman, co-founding a company that runs a chain of live music
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s across London.


DJ and production career

Carter began his musical career playing in bands when he was at
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. Dropping out of his studies, he moved back to London and started to learn studio engineering, ending up working in the No U-Turn studios which at the time was involved in the nascent
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scene of the early 1990s. During his spare time, Carter began making his own tracks, which caught the ear of Mark Jones, the founder of the
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record label. Carter was eventually signed to Wall of Sound and released his first record "The Dollar" under the name Artery. At around the same time, Carter was one of the regular DJs at The Heavenly Social, a Sunday evening club in the Albany pub on
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in central London. Alongside the other regular DJs
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,
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and Richard Fearless of Death in Vegas, the night was instrumental in developing the form of
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that became known as
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, with its mix of rock,
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and
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, as well as dance.Jon Carter's MySpace website
Retrieved on 19 December 2012.
In 1995, Carter left Wall of Sound and signed with
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to produce dub and
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-influenced dance music under the name of Monkey Mafia. The project developed into a full band playing live shows, and an album, '' Shoot the Boss'', appeared in 1998. By now he was also in demand to produce mix albums and remix songs by bands as diverse as U2,
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and
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. By the end of the 1990s he had secured DJ residencies at several nightclubs in the UK and was regularly playing sets abroad. In 1999, Carter moved back to Wall of Sound and its new subsidiary Nu Camp to release "Women Beat Their Men", a
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record under the new pseudonym of Junior Cartier. In 2003, he and fellow DJ Tim Sheridan formed a short-lived record company, Saville Row, and released a few singles on the label. A severe bout of tinnitus curtailed his DJing activity and brought a halt to his record productions for a couple of years, but by 2008 Carter had returned, first with another one-off collaboration with Tim Sheridan, and then "The Rabbit" with Stretch Silvester of
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, the first single in a planned series of collaborations with other DJs under the name Gentleman's Agreement. He has also teamed up with
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-born, New York-based DJ Alex Blanco under the name Roosevelt High. In 2009, he became a member of the Rizla Invisible Players, an ever-changing collective of musicians and artists. Alongside Carter, the 2009 line-up included Jazzie B,
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,
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and
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and performed at a number of festivals across the UK that year, including
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, Lovebox, The Big Chill and
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.


Business ventures

Carter's first foray into business was in 1998 when he became co-owner of The Lock Tavern pub in Camden, London. In 2004, he co-founded 580 Limited, a company which owned several live music pub venues, initially across the UK but later solely in London. Working with the company, Carter helped to set up The Lock Tavern Tent at the
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from 2003 until 2010, and a Lock Tavern arena at the
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festival in 2010. The company was also involved with the Beacons Festival that takes place annually near
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in North Yorkshire. In October 2014, the four pubs in the 580 Limited chain were sold to the brewer
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.


Personal life

Carter married model-turned-DJ/presenter
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in October 2001. Their daughter Lola Anne was born on 13 June 2004. In December 2005, the couple separated and then divorced the following year. He has since married his second wife Nina. Carter also has a son from a previous relationship.


Discography

(taken from
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)


Studio albums

Monkey Mafia: * 1998: '' Shoot the Boss'' (Heavenly Records)


Singles and EPs

Artery (with Mark Jones): * 1994: "The Dollar" (Wall of Sound) The Naked All-Stars (with Derek Dahlarge): * 1996: "Hot Pursuit" (Wall of Sound) Monkey Mafia: * 1995: "Blow the Whole Joint Up" (Heavenly Records) * 1996: "Work Mi' Body" (featuring Patra) (Heavenly Records) * 1997: ''15 Steps EP'' (Heavenly Records) * 1998: "Long As I Can See the Light" (Heavenly Records) * 1998: "Work Mi' Body" (remixes) (Heavenly Records) * 2012: "Royal Ascot" (Nice Up!) Junior Cartier: * 1999: "Women Beat Their Men" (Nu Camp) Jon Carter: * 2002: "Everlasting Life" (Bugged Out!) * 2002: "Humanism" (Shine) * 2003: "Go Down" (Saville Row) * 2004: "The Dance" (Saville Row) Tim Sheridan/Jon Carter: * 2003: "Justice Is a Must"/"Need I Say More" (Saville Row) Tim Sheridan vs. Jon Carter featuring Ferank Manseed: * 2008: "Freakshow" (Very Very Wrong Indeed Recordings) Stretch Carter (with Stretch Silvester): * 2008: "The Rabbit" (Pieces of Eight) Roosevelt High (with Alex Blanco): * 2009: "Stevie's Drop"


DJ mix albums

* 1996: ''Essential Mix 4: Pete Tong/Paul Oakenfold/Jon Carter'' (third CD of a three-CD set) (FFRR) * 1996: ''Live at the Social Volume 2'' (Heavenly Records) * 2000: ''7 Live #1'' (DMC Publishing) * 2002: ''Viva Bugged Out!'' (Virgin) * 2003: ''Acid House Reborn!'' (Mixmag) * 2004: ''Ministry of Sound Saturday Sessions'' (with Mark Hughes) (Ministry of Sound)


Notable remixes

* 1996: Saint Etienne – "Filthy" (Monkey Mafia Vocal Mix) * 1996:
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– "
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" (Busts Loose) * 1997: U2 – " Last Night on Earth" (First Night in Hell Mix) * 1998:
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– "Cubik" (Monkey Mafia Remix) * 1999:
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– "
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" (Jon Carter Remix) * 2000: Mekon – "What's Going On?" (Junior Cartier Remix) * 2000:
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– " I Am the Resurrection" (Jon Carter Remix) * 2001: Stereo MCs – " Deep Down and Dirty" (Jon Carter Club Mix) * 2001: U2 – "
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" (Escalation Mix) * 2002:
Happy Mondays Happy Mondays are an English rock band formed in Salford in 1980. The original line-up consisted of brothers Shaun Ryder (vocals) and Paul Ryder (bass), Gaz Whelan (drums), Paul Davis (keyboard), and Mark Day (guitar). Mark "Bez" Berry la ...
– "24 Hour Party People" (Jon Carter Remixes) * 2004:
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– "Jin Go Lo Ba" (Jon Carter Remix) * 2005:
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– "
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" (Jon Carter Remix)


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Jon British club DJs Living people Big beat musicians 1970 births Musicians from Essex Musicians from Portsmouth English remixers English record producers English electronic dance music DJs