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What started as a fake name and small booking at a friend’s birthday party has spiraled into an international DJ career for Claude VonStroke. now one of the new superstars of house music and one of its most demand DJs, producers and remixers. Best of all Claude is back at Nightflight this Friday.

Only slightly less extravagant than his moniker of Claude VonStroke comes his real name!; Barclay Crenshaw Barclay creates house music thats bottom-heavy and constantly surprising with elements of ghetto-tech and baltimore styles. His early tracks like “The Whistler“, “Chimps“ and “Who’s afraid of Detroit“ stood out from the house and techno crowd as utterly unique sounding productions.
Tellingly Barclay cites his favorite dance track as Cajmere’s The Percolator.

Originally hailing from Detroit, Barclay re-located to San Francisco and decided to merge his passion for music and film by releasing Intellect, a six hour DVD package, self-directed and produced, including interviews with over 35 top producers and legendary DJs such as Derrick May, Swayzak, Derrick Carter, Dubfire, and Theo Parrish. The main goal of the “Intellect” project was to make an informative DVD that could help DJs advance their careers in electronic music. The result was Crenshaw taking lessons from his own DVD by starting a record label called “Dirtybird” and a production career under the name Claude VonStroke.

Since 2005, dirtybird has carved out a niche as a premiere American tech funk label and has released over 20 EPs. The early EP’s came to international fame after being championed by Richie Hawtin who called it the “best track of 2006” in DJ magazine. Soon after that Claude released his full-length debut album, “Beware of the Bird” to outstanding reviews, further establishing him as an original talent in the underground. Since then, he has recorded over 25 remixes for a range of commercial and underground artists from Indy rock group “The Rapture” to Detroit techno legend Kevin Saunderson.

In an effort to give something back to the community Claude unveiled a deeper techno label called “mothership” in 2007. A large percentage of the label’s proceeds go to a music school for children in Claude’s hometown of Detroit, Michigan. This label features a more euro flavor featuring groups like Catz ‘n Dogz, Italoboyz Maetrik and Voodeux.

Right now Claude is putting finishing touches to his second album and mixing Fabric live number 46

This Friday we will also be making our membership keyrings available, so should you want to avail of reduced entry on guest nights as well as residents nights – get in touch with us now !