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SEAN CARNAHAN
Bio
Sean Carnahan started out by spinning a wide variety of eclectic
house and trip hop music at the age of 18 in college in Austin,
TX. Spinning at campus and various house parties, he soon
began to bring it to smaller clubs in the city. His weekly
night party at a 6th street bar called "Stephanie's"
became a hot night spot in a predominantly live-music area.
At this time, Sean's versatile selection and technical ability
to drop beats behind any style of music (essentially making
any track danceable), became quite the spectacle in a well-known
live music city. Artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy
Gibbons, and other guitar and blues legends would come visit
to hear him make funky trip hop sounding versions of many
classic blues and rock tunes. "A very unique digital
beat oriented layered blend of live and digital sounds you
actually start looking for the band.." was the way the
local student paper described his performance.
After college he moved to Houston to become a social worker,
primarily working with youth. Starting a career as a youth
social worker took a lot of time and emotion, yet his resume
for this includes The Covenant House, TRS, Austin Gang Task
Force, C.H.A.N.G.E. youth gang program, and a variety of city
and state runaway shelter programs, committees and boards.
Sean thought to offer to DJ at the youth and runaway shelters
on weekends and have a sort of lock in for street youth. The
deal: he would provide a DJ event if they would come off the
streets and stay at the shelter for the night. This blending
of the two loves of social work and DJing took Sean to a variety
of youth shelters doing parties throughout the state. It allowed
him to develop a deep understanding of how music is a powerful
spiritual experience. He continues to see DJing as a soul
touching experience that is very important and very powerful,
and applies this concept when DJing to any crowd. His diversity
and amazing ability to use all genres with authority is amazing
when heard in the mix. He focuses on the emotions of songs,
not so much the genre, even today. This time of DJing showed
Sean one of his heart felt principles worked everywhere, from
shelters to clubs. It's about the people on the dancefloor.
Music is powerful and if people leave a better person after
a night of house music, then it went off properly.
Soon DJing to clubbers again became something he desired.
Seeing that it was extremely difficult to get noticed or get
a job without the right connections, Sean decided to go back
to his roots and started to throw a weekly party. His first
club nights, Social, Lollypop Soul Shoppe, and The G Spot
all moved around weekly to various locations. When he held
his G Spot parties at a club, the place was packed, quickly
getting him noticed by club owners.
Having established a strong following and a wide network
of support as a favorite DJ to most promoters, DJ Sean Carnahan
is now one of the more known regional DJ's and boasts a huge
following of clubbers in his loyal network. He attributes
a lot of his rise to his supporters, such as legendary underground
club owner Neil Heller, Billy Blatty, Noah Flom, and a slew
of promoters throughout the years. Neil Heller understood
Sean's seriousness about music and approached him about doing
a second room at his famous underground Club Some in 1995.
Sean started there in 1995 and remained one of the Saturday
night residents for the entirety of its existence.
When Club Some moved and opened as the new club Hyperia in
2000, Sean went there as well and remains a strong part of
that now legendary club. In 2001, Sean was brought to New
Orleans by Noah Flom and Billy Blatty for one of the highly
attended and legendary Fat Black Pussy Cat parties. He was
slated as an opener to a large list of respectable name DJ's.
Sean's set blew them all away and he gained instant residency
for the events, which he remains part of even today. As the
demand for the Fat Black parties became large enough for a
weekly spot to handle, it blossomed into the opening of a
club called Ampersand in New Orleans. Ampersand is a now internationally
known club for the best in progressive music and house.
Sean shares residency at Ampersand with events featuring
people like Ron Carroll, Quivver, Parks and Wilson, Sander
Kleinenberg, D:Fuse, Danny Moore, Heaven, Sean Cusik, &
Chris Fortier. Ampersand is a leader in the music of that
city. This, along with Hyperia in Houston, started his collaboration
with some of the worlds best producers for music.
Sean has received a wide variety of main floor residencies
over the past years in Houston. He has resided at Prague,
M Bar, Avalon, Revere, Rich's Lollipop Soul Shop, Liquid Lounge,
Club Some, Spy, Tonic, Regines, 804 Underground, Jones Bar,
Club 410, Prague, Pacific Street, Davenport, Power Tools,
Oz, Loft, Hyperia, Social, M Bar, 2401, 8.0, Davenport/tastylick,
Karma, Space, Spundae(Houston), Godskitchen(Houston), South
Beach, Mantra/Club Ice, as well as Club Ampersand and at Fat
Black Pussy Cat in New Orleans. Additionally, Sean has spun
repeated events and parties for Cirque Du Soliel, Chanel,
Cartier, D&G, Kuhl & Linscomb, Saks 5th Avenue, Bulgari,
Lucky Mag, and Versace.
Sean has been booked as the opening act for bands such as
The Toadies, Wallflowers, Earth Wind and Fire, Hunger, and
as a dj has spun with the likes of practically every major
world DJ including main floor line ups at club functions with
Carl Cox, Misstress Barbara, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk,
Tiesto, Sasha, Donald Glaude, Josh Wink, Photek, Jay J, Marques
Wyatt, Christopher Lawrence, DJ Dan, Bad Boy Bill, Heaven,
Slacker, Noel Sanger, Joshua Ryan, Stacey Pullen, Benji Solis,
Mea, Jeremy Healy, D:Fuse, Jimmy Van M, Chad Kinkle, Cliff
T, Rob James, MindX, Thee O, Agnelli and Nelson, Doc Martin,
Dan Bailey, Quivver, Keoki, The Crystal Method, Arkarna, Gus
Gus, Chris Fortier, you name the DJ and more than likely Sean
has laid down a set or event with the person.
Sean resides or regularly spins in cities such as New Orleans,
Houston, Dallas, Austin, Miami, & Las Vegas and has even
taken his career to a higher plateau by being one of the first
USA DJs to perform with UK's Slinky in the USA. He also has
been headline stage of Slinky in the UK operahouse as well.
His addictive sets of Progressive tech house / tech trance,
blending all sorts of sounds and styles together with ease
and perfection, bring a very loved style to clubbers and DJ’s
alike. Presently Sean resides Ritual, Mantra/Club Ice, Sundown@
The Social, Davenport, along with a full schedule of various
clubs for special event bookings.
Keeping up with Sean is a hard task. He co-owns the electronic
music production studio Tastylick with Legendary Producer
Randall Jones. In addition, Sean maintains a column and review
section as the music editor for 77002.com, a weekly newsletter
to his subscriber list of a massive 89,000+ members at 77002.com,
a netmix broadcast on Proton Radio, weekly schedule in the
recording studio, and daily contact with membership at his
music website www.77002.com as well as his weekly gig bookings
and residencies.
Sean is also one of 40 DJs in the world that has been added
as part of the Balance Record Pool. This highly prestigious
organization further allows him to break songs by adding the
best new music to his sets each week. This connection has
also allowed Sean to bring in famous special guest DJ's to
events at clubs where he holds residency. He regularly assists
club owners and event promoters in bringing the best music
producers to every place he resides, to give the region a
taste of talent from all around the world and assist his fellow
city DJs by spreading electronic music.
You can read more about sean at
www.djsean.com
www.balancepromote.com
www.thedjlist.com
www.77002.com
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