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Darren Pearce is a British electronic dance music disc jockey and record producer. Active from the 1990s, he has been a resident DJ at several London club nights and has UK chart success for both his mixing and as part of the music duos Gems for Jem and JDS.
In 1991, with Steve McCutcheon, Pearce remixed and reissued the Frances Nero single "Footsteps Following Me". Pearce and McCutcheon also joined forces to form the duo Gems for Jem. Their single "Lifting Me Higher", sampling "High Energy", topped the UK Dance Chart in May 1995.
Partnering with Julian Napolitano, Pearce formed the house music and breakbeat music duo JDS, active from the mid-1990s. Their track "Nine Ways" was a club anthem in 1997, and peaked at number 4 on the UK Dance Chart that same year, with Pearce also contributing the breakbeat remix. In May 1998, the JDS single "London Town" peaked at number 49 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2001, a JDS remix of earlier hit "Nine Ways" was released, peaking at number 47 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2005 the duo released the album The Adventures of the Purple Funky Monkey, as well as the single "Purple Funky Monkey", which brought humour into the typically "austere" electronic music scene.
In 1999, Pearce entered the DJ Mag list of the world's top 100 DJs, at number 61. His album Sunnyside Up: Chapter 1, mixed with John 00 Fleming, peaked at number 79 in the UK Compilation Chart in June the same year.
Pearce mixed several of the Reactivate trance music compilation album series, including volumes 16 and 18 which peaked at numbers 29 and 58 on the UK Compilation Chart in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
As of 2015, Pearce continues to release music, with his hard dance single "Bullshit Man", released on Absolution Digital, garnering a 9/10 review in Mixmag magazine.
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