Rui da Silva

Infobox musical artist
Name = Rui da Silva
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Rui da Silva
Alias = Doctor J
Instrument =
Genre = House
Occupation = Producer, DJ
Years_active = 1992-now
Label = Kismet Records, Sixty Four Records
Related_acts = The Four Elements
URL = http://www.kismetrecords.com
Associated_acts = Underground Sound of Lisbon, Coco Da Silva
Current_members =
Past_members =

Rui da Silva is a Portuguese producer and DJ, whose single "Touch Me" topped the UK Chart in 2001. At the time, he was the only Portuguese musician to have a UK hit and hence was the first to score a UK number one.

Career

Rui da Silva started producing house music in 1992, just as club culture was getting established in Lisbon. Noticing the lack of dance music labels in Portugal, Rui teamed up with DJ Vibe to form Kaos Records, the first label in Portugal specialized in house and electronic music.

His first major hit (and Kaos' first release) was "Não", a track that sampled vocals from a Xutos & Pontapés track, released under the alias Doctor J. With DJ Vibe, he also formed the Underground Sound of Lisbon project, in 1993. A year later, their track "So Get Up" (which featured spoken word vocals by rapper Darin Pappas) achieved worldwide fame after getting picked by the Tribal America label and support from Danny Tenaglia. Tenaglia also remixed the track.

During his years at Kaos, Silva also worked with other artists, namely Luís Leite (under the guise of LL Project, creating the African tribal anthem "Khine #3") and Alex Santos (with whom he released the garage house track "The Sax Theme").

In 1999, he left Lisbon for London, in order to move from producing to DJing, and also to start working under his own name. Silva left Kaos Records, and produced his final collaborative effort as Underground Sound of Lisbon in 2001. In the UK, he founded Kismet Records, where he began producing a more progressive sound. He has released a number of tracks under his own name, as well as collaborative efforts with Chris Coco and Moshic.

Rui has achieved some fame as a remixer, creating his own versions of Jennifer Lopez's "Play", Lighthouse Family's "Happy" and Yoko Ono's "Walking On Thin Ice".

Discography

:"see Underground Sound of Lisbon for the rest of Rui da Silva's discography"

Albums

* 2002 "Produced & Remixed"
* 2006 "Praying Mantis"'

ingles

Rui da Silva

* 2000 "Touch Me" (with Cassandra Fox)
* 2002 "Feel The Love" (with Victoria Horn)
* 2005 "So Move Closer"
* 2005 "Pacman/Punks Run Wild"
* 2005 "Dance.Come.Feel.Exe"
* 2005 "Lixuneanos"
* 2005 "So Move Closer"
* 2006 "Amidar"
* 2007 "Spreading Isolation/The Regressors"
* 2007 "The Whole Room Dematerialized"
* 2008 "Escaping My Mind"

Doctor J

* 1993 "Não" (as Doctor J)
* 1994 "The Sax Theme" (as Alex S & Doctor J, with Alex Santos)
* 1995 "Human Soul" (as Doctor J Presents Mata Hari)

The Four Elements

* 2000 "Earth/Water"
* 2002 "Fire"
* 2002 "The Fifth Element"
* 2003 "Matrix/Stoned"

Coco da Silva

: "All are collaborations with Chris Coco"
* 2000 "Coisa Nossa/Close My Eyes"
* 2001 "Lost"
* 2001 "Saudade"
* 2001 "@Night"
* 2002 "This Time You're Mine"
* 2003 "The Shiva Chant"

Other aliases

* 1995 "Work In Progress", as LL Project (with Luís Leite)
* 1996 "Khine #3 (The Remixes)", as LL Project (with Luís Leite)
* 1996 "Fat Beat/Bossa Nova", as Gum Club
* 1999 "Matrix", as Morpheus
* 2001 "Obeah Dance", as The Obeah Men (with Terry Farley)
* 2001 "Riding", as Teimoso (with Shelly Preston)
* 2003 "Radar House", as Hyper Da Silva (with DJ Hyper)
* 2003 "Deep As The Rivers", as Moshic Da Silva (with Moshic)
* 2003 "Gibberish", as Moshic Da Silva (with Moshic)
* 2003 "Cosmic Mind", as Sound Projectors
* 2004 "Dark Love, as The Downloaderz

External links

* [http://www.kismetrecords.com/ Kismet Records, Rui da Silva's label]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Rui+Da+Silva Rui da Silva page at Discogs]
* [http://www.thedjlist.com/djs/RUI_DA_SILVA/ Rui Da Silva page on The Dj List]