Simon Shackleton
Simon Shackleton is a prolific, award-winning electronic musician and DJ, with 20 successful years in the industry, under a number of different guises. Simon’s music has appeared on Hollywood Blockbusters such as The Matrix,Arlington Road & Charlie's Angels , massive selling console-games such as the MotorStorm (series) , and he soundtracks many of the world’s biggest club floors with his unique brand of emotive house & techno on a weekly basis. From 1996, he has operated as a solo electronic music producer under a number of aliases including the multi-genre Elite Force, and has won several high profile music awards including a 2011 Beatport award for the highest selling Breakbeat track of the year. In the same year he won two International Breakbeat Awards Awards (aka Breakspoll Awards), one for Best Producer and one for Best Label (for his highly regarded U&A imprint). Prior to this he ran the Fused & Bruised imprint between 1996–2002, and is often cited as one of the leading proponents of the emergent Tech-Funk movement, fusing house, breakbeat, electro & techno.
