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Rob Hall’s style is genuinely refreshing, distinctive, and energetic. The defining characteristic of his performances is in his ability to expertly blur the line between techno, electronica, industrial, ebm, rave, and electro. He sensitively move between these genres without losing flow or momentum, creating a cohesive but constantly shifting set, while managing to tailor his selections to suit the performers he is playing with on the night and for the entertainment of the audience he is playing for.

Rob began his career at techno night Megatripolis held weekly at the legendary London venue Heaven. His first of many appearances there was with Autechre in the summer of 1992. Rob Hall’s connection to Autechre is long established, and indeed Autechre have been his most valued friends and biggest supporters. He has played support DJ on most of the highly successful Warp duo’s tours over the last 12 years.

Rob has also contributed to numerous productions, remixes and live sets as part of the Gescom project, a collective that includes a diverse range of producers, including Autechre and Mego artist Russell Haswell, to Skam Records’ Andy Maddocks, Bola, and Mike Williamson. Many DJ’s and Producers cite the work of Autechre and Gescom as being highly inspirational on their work, including Radiohead, LFO, Surgeon, Coil, Oscar Mulero, Mark Broom and Exium.

Since 1995 Rob has promoted and been resident DJ at numerous club events in his home city of Manchester, bringing artists like Aphex Twin, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Altern 8, Matthew Herbert, Team Doyobi, Mike Dred, Freeform, Req, Squarepusher, Ceephax Acid Crew and Berlin's Pole to play in there, often for the first time. From 1995 to 2006, he also worked closely with Andy Maddocks and Ged O’Hara running the highly revered and respected Skam Recordings label, releasing music from artists including Gescom, Bola, Shadowhuntaz and Boards of Canada.

Over the last 15 years, in addition to playing at intimate electronica nights around the World, Rob has also performed at many high profile events and festivals including Sonar, Coachella, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Phoenix Festival, opening for Bjork in Iceland, and Warp’s 10th Birthday Party.

Rob has always happily incorporated new technology into his set up. These days he’s usually playing his sets using Finalscratch. This has added a new dimension to his performance and means he has an even wider range of music (including unreleased material and re-edits) to choose from when he plays.

After 15 years of refusing to compromise or dumb down his sound, Rob Hall’s skills are constantly in demand and he is widely regarded as one of the most talented and influential DJs in his field, with Mark Broom, Surgeon, Regis, Ellen Allien, Meat Beat Manifesto, Andrea Parker, Plaid, LFO, Squarepusher, Speedy J, Marco Passarani and Adam X all happy to wax lyrical about his sets.