Groove Terminator

Name: Simon Lewicki / Name: Simon Lewicki: Born: Australia Resides: Los Angeles As one of the most respected and influential DJ’s in Australia with 20yrs experience under the (not so serious) moniker, Groove Terminator started out playing punk, hiphop and electro on his radio show in the early 80’s as a teenager then fell in love with acid and the early Chicago house sounds coinciding with the arrival of 1988’s Summer Of Love. In the early 90’s he released 2 techno ep’s called Terminator Trax, which were flogged by the likes of Carl Cox and Jeff Mills. Signed to Virgin/EMI in 1997 and has so far, released 2 full length artist albums picking up several ARIA nominations including best male artist along the way. Other awards include Best Producer at the inaugural Australian Dance Music Awards and has several times been nominated for Best National DJ. Other aliases include Chili Hifly (Ministry Of Sound/Kontour/Central Station) with the first single “is it love?” scoring a billboard 1 in 2001! And Loverush (Azuli,Credence.) And enjoys an ongoing mix cd and touring relationship with Ministry Of Sound and describes his current DJ sound as ” electronicacidfunksweatrocknoise”. In 2006 Simon collaborated with Sam Littlemore (gwen stefani.black eyed peas.Robbie Williams)on a side project called” Tonite Only” which fused a contemporary dance floor aesthetic with a post-modern pop sensibility called “Tonite Only” who managed the amazing feat in 2006 of scoring 2 Australian Club chart number 1’s both of which remained there for over 3 months and several other noteworthy releases and remixes for the likes of Sneaky Sound System,Tv Rock and The Similou including their own genre defining chart smashing singles “the bomb” & “where the partys at” (Ministry Of Sound) now shoot to 2008 where Simon now has several residencies In Los Angeles (soon to be Las Vegas as well) including stints at celebrity heavy clubs- S bar ,Green Door and Hyde Lounge with his LA dj partner in crime Chris Carter and together they perform under the name of the “jump jump dance dance dj’s” –they recently signed to ETCETC and have a debut album to be released in spring 2008 following a slew of hot remixes for artists like Datarock,the Cribs and The Kaiser Chiefs For recent dj mixes listen to the podcast on itunes – keywords:groove terminator For Bookings:info@gtworld.com.au Everything else: www.myspace.com/grooveterminator