DJ Schwa
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Michal Ruzicka, aka Schwa, is the man behind Beef records and electronic duo Shades Of Gray. Michal became engaged in music thanks to his father, who is also a musician himself as well as an owner of a recording studio in Prague – ORM. At the young age, dance music caught his attention mainly through Radio 1 and soon he tries to mix his first tracks. In 2000 he started collecting records and performing publicly. In 2002, Michal started his weekly resident night in Prague at Cross Club. Show full description
In 2005 Michal moved to Sydney where he met his studio partner Nick West and together they formed project Shades of Gray. Schwa was also resident jockey at Sydney's craziest after-hours party Spice and that is where Shades dropped some of their first unreleased tracks. It wasn't long after that the boys were touring internationally performing from Tokyo to Moscow and London to Prague. Their debut album “Soul Machine” was critically acclaimed by the press receiving glowing reviews in DJ Mag (included in top 50 albums of 2012) and DeBug to name a few. Tracks from the album have been charted and played by some of the key players in the scene and also licensed for OM records, Defected and Clubstar compilations. In 2012 the boys teamed up with legendary deep house west-coast wizard Miguel Migs with whom they collaborated on 12” album for Om records US. This album received great press reviews and in 2014 Djuma Sounsystem approached Michal and Nick to co-produce EP for Steve Bug’s label Audiomatique. Till now Dj Schwa/Shades of Gray released over 50 singles, 2 full length albums and 4 mix CDs. Furthermore in 2014 Schwa’s first solo material got released on Munich based Compost records.
At the end of 2005, Schwa rapidly changed his style and the idea of an innovative techno/house label became reality and thus established the foundation for “Beef Records”. Beef records has since then been slowly establishing itself as one of the most reputable labels on the underground house scene with release from artists such as Glenn Astro, Robert Babicz, Deepchild, Joyce Muniz, Kuba Sojka, Smash TV, El_Txef_A, Inxec, Arnaud Le Texier, Shur-i-kan, Pezzner, Mike Monday, Jori Hulkkonen, Jeff K and of course Shades of Gray.
At the end of 2005, Schwa rapidly changed his style and the idea of an innovative techno/house label became reality and thus established the foundation for “Beef Records”. Beef records has since then been slowly establishing itself as one of the most reputable labels on the underground house scene with release from artists such as Glenn Astro, Robert Babicz, Deepchild, Joyce Muniz, Kuba Sojka, Smash TV, El_Txef_A, Inxec, Arnaud Le Texier, Shur-i-kan, Pezzner, Mike Monday, Jori Hulkkonen, Jeff K and of course Shades of Gray.
