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Friday, June 20, 2008Larry Tee (NY/US)Brooklyn DJ/producer Larry Tee, the orginator of the electroclash sound makes his way to Shanghai to celebrate the launch of his brand new hit track Licky, a collaboration with New York party royalty Princess Superstar. Video courtesy Larry Tee Larry Tee originally coined the word “Electroclash” after self-styling an ambitious new project called the Electroclash Festival which he coordinated and managed in 2001 and in doing so helped launch careers of Scissor Sisters, Fischerspooner, Ladytron and Peaches, Felix Da Housecat, and 2 Many DJs/Soulwax. He also created and managed the nouveau-electro girl group, W.I.T. and held fort as manager of the genre’s one-time bastion in Berliniamsburg, The Luxx. 
With roots in Atlanta, Tee’s DJ style was always progressive, even back in the early 1980s. “You’d play Depeche Mode for these queens and they thought it was wild,” he says of the early days mixing in Atlanta. He eventually moved to New York in the infamous drag-queen roadtrip immortalized in the 1995 feature film “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar” starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo. Tee hit major commercial success in ‘93 when he wrote “Supermodel (You Better Work)” with 6’4” drag queen and Atlanta cohort RuPaul. The track, a runaway hit, unabashedly praises the glamourous life in the spotlight of the original supermodels Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Christy Turlington. Tee’s career soared through the 90’s in New York as he was a key component of the internationally-popular Club Kids scene, making appearances on exposé TV show Geraldo, The Joan Rivers Show, and Inside Edition, which introduced the Club Kid world—with it’s alternative views on gender, sexuality, music and fun—to the national forefront. Tee helped make the parties Lova Machine and the raucous Disco 2000 with the notorious clubkid Michael Alig whose life was the focal point of the 2003 feature film Party Monster. After throwing 4 festivals stateside, which included Electroclash 1 and 2 as well as the Outsider Electronic Music Festivals 2003 & 2004 he moved on to playing cutting edge dance music to thousands each week at his NYC parties The BANK and Distortion Disko. Last year Tee launched an international music festival in New York City called Dance Music Invasion 2007 which brought together everyone from Loco Dice, Lil’ Louie Vega to Kele from Bloc Party and Princess Superstar. His innovative spirit and attitude are summed up in his new style, which he has dubbed Maximal. Larry’s been putting the finishing touches on a new collection featuring collaborations with Princess Superstar, Perez Hilton, Hervé, Sébastien Léger, Amanda Lepore, Christopher Just, Princess Julia, Tomboy, and 8 year-old Amanita to name but a few. “Licky” the first single off the album, is being supported by a huge range of DJs including Justice, Pete Tong, Errol Alkan, Judge Jules and Laurent Garnier. Larry Tee is set to make his first appearance in Shanghai on Friday, June 20, 2008 at Club Bonbon in the first installment of a new series of monthly LGBT-inspired events. Next month we dig deep into the dirtiest dumpsters of London’s Shoreditch section to find a rare gem of a party named “Trailer Trash” tipped heavily as “a dirty eastend disco for truckerboyz and cowgrrl’s alike, playing filthy nasty electro music...” Trailer Trash head honcho DJ Hannah Holland brigs her “Batty Bass” sound to Club Bonbon July 11.
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