DJ Harry

Originating in Boulder, Colorado, DJ Harry issued his first album, The String Cheese Remix Project, via Instinct Records and SCI Fidelity Records during 2001. He concentrates on dance electronica with a strong emphasis on high-energy club textures. Among his key influences stand the Grateful Dead and the Wicked Crew, a San Francisco DJ collective that supplied dance music at gatherings outside Dead shows. At one such Bay Area event he first observed how the improvisational and spontaneous qualities of these two contrasting styles could intersect. After leaving Northern California in 1994 he settled in Telluride, Colorado, and began spinning records in modest local bars. It was in that mountain community that he connected with the String Cheese Incident. Noting shared traits between jam bands and electronica, he proposed to his friends in the group that the two forms might be merged. The outcome was The String Cheese Remix Project, a continuous 66-minute mix drawn ninety percent from samples of the band’s live recording archive. The finished work reinterpreted a single concert captured on 24-track tape. With this release DJ Harry helped launch the progressive house jam genre, later joined by acts such as the Disco Biscuits. SCI Fidelity remains the String Cheese Incident’s own independent label.