RED STAR ARCADE

Red Star Arcade (AKA Paul Johnson) is a house producer, DJ and musician. Whilst most DJ's follow the traditional route of bedroom DJ straight to the club, he has felt his way through many other genres before landing on the deep/tech house styling's of his latest productions.

Paul is as influenced by The Beatles, Radiohead and Arcade Fire as he is by John Digweed, Dyed Soundorom and Danny Howells. In fact, he was initially more accustomed to plugging into a guitar amp than a DJ mixer through his formative musical years playing guitar and singing in bands such as Chemical Vacation, Vacuum and Elba round the Middlesbrough band circuit in the late 90's and early 00's.

Whilst in Elba, a band known for mixing big electronic beats and samples with funky guitar-based indie known as acid-pop he fine-tuned his skills in using music software and experimenting with genres and sounds and crafted his first house track 'Groove Again'.

As the end of the 00's approached and Paul began to be more interested in the increasingly more exciting sounds of progressive, tech deep house alongside minimal and techno, it became less about guitars and more about creating quality tech-based house music.

Since 2012, he has had remix credits on the Good Voodoo Music label and 2013 saw his debut original release on Sidetrak Records: "Compassion Love"