James Curd

James Curd is a Greenskeeper. At the age of 18 James built up a music studio and began producing Chicago house. His first release came out on the french label Basenotic in 1999. Soon after James released "Whats Your Man Got To Do WIth Gan" on Classic Records. He released it under "Greenskeepers" and forever left it's mark in the electronic music world. The stand out song on the EP was "Low and Sweet" which was named one of the "Festive Fifty by British dj John Peel. This helped make James an international Dj that was constantly traveling to spread James' Greenskeepers sound. "The Ziggy Franklin Radio Show" was James first full album that included the club hit "Should I Sing Like This" and "Low and Sweet". It was a great success around the world and showed James wide range of ability. It was at this time in 2002 that James released swing house music under the Greenskeepers name. "Low and Sweet" was a fore shadowing of the new style that would take the dance floors over. He also established a new record label "G-Swing" specifically dedicated to this sound. James collaborated with many other artist that shared his love of electronic music and released his second full album "Pleatch" Pleetch was greatly received across the music world. The quirky song "Lotion" , that is inspired by the cult figure Buffalo Bill from the film The Silence of the Lambs was an underground hit. James cut a video using the original film footage and uploaded it online. In less then two weeks the "Lotion music Video" had been downloaded over one million times. Pleetch also had commercial success by licensing songs to T.V and film. "Lotion"," Back In the Wild", and "You Don't Know Me" were all featured on the prime time show "Greys Anatomy". "Slippin" was featured on C.S.I Miami and "Keep It Down" was featured on "Point Pleasant". Now that the Greenskeepers had a new album James put together a LIVE show to rock the clubs with. The show consisted of James djing, Mark Share playing keys and Coban Rudish playing bass. This version of the live show blew crowds away from Scotland to Jerusalem to Los Angeles. They toured as a three piece band for all of 2004 and then Nick Maurer moved back to Chicago to join the Greenskeepers and debuted the full four piece band at Miami music conference in 2005. Billboard called it the stand out performance of the conference. James went in the studio with the band soon after. The finished product of this teamwork was "Polo Club" released on OM. "Polo Club" is a two disc album. The first disc is 17 electronic, rock songs. The second disc is a continuous DJ mix by James. The title song "Polo Club" and "15 Minutes" were released with remixes by The Rapture, Derrick Carter, Dimitri from Paris, Tommie Sunshine and more. "Polo Club" was given amazing reviews and full marks in magazines around the world. Their version of "I Want A New Drug" was featured in the film "What Happens In Vegas" and it was time to hit the road again. James and the band were constantly touring at some of the most respected clubs and festivals around the world. Park life in Australia, T In the Park in Scotland, Fabric in London, Avalon in LA, Electric Daisy in Ireland and SXSW here in the States. Rockstar games contacted James with a request to feature a song on their new game "Grand Theft Auto 4" The guys kicked ideas around and came up with the song "Vagabond". It was made by Mark, James, Nick and long time friend and singer JDub. It was a perfect marriage of rock, dance and great back and forth vocals by Nick and JDub. Rockstar loved the song so much that they used it for the worldwide T.V. ad campaign. It was at this time in 2008 that the Greenskeepers name would transform and represent James on his own again. James shifted gears and focused on working on new solo songs and collaborating with other artist. He made "Pick Up What I'm Putting Down" that was featured on Mark Farinas Fabric mix CD. He released a full mix CD on GKM/OM for the Australian super club Electric Circus called "Limbo Sessions". James also went back into the studio with Nick like the early days when it was just the two of them. Nick and James finished a full album and wanted to do something special with it. . James called up longtime friend Tommie Sunshine and set the stage for an outside the box collaboration. James handed over all the studio sessions to Tommie and he put his special Sunshine touch on all the songs with live drums and a massive sound. This album is going to be released under the Greenskeepers name . Currently James is touring the wold as a DJ and also with the Greenskeepers band. The LIVE is a three piece with JDub on Vocals, Mike Steve on Bass and James on keys and vocals too. Things have not slowed down in 2009 for james with the signing of his single "We Just Won't Stop" that features JDub on vocals to DFA. He also remixed "The Juan Macleans" single "One Day" for DFA as well. The Dukes of Windors "Runaway" received a James Curd mix for Island in Australia. This summer James will be in the studio to work on a new Greenskeepers album featuring many guest vocalist and artist. A new Greenskeepers EP is set to be released soon introducing Dan Scalpone on vocals. read more read less