Essex, UK
Agent: David Oyston
Press Kit
Upcoming Shows
Fri Feb 21 - Acanteen, ChelmsfordSat Feb 22 - EndUp at The Pav, Cork
Sat Mar 1 - Omeara, London
Fri Mar 21 - Three Kitchen & Bar, Skopje
Fri Mar 28 - Acanteen, Chelmsford
Sat Apr 5 - Acanteen, Chelmsford
Sat Apr 12 - Arch 535, London (Loxodrome DJ set)
Fri Apr 25 - Acanteen, Chelmsford
Mon May 12 - Soul Fusion, Portimao
Sat May 24 - Deep Into Soul at 93 Feet East, London
Fri May 30 - HIFI Collective at 9910, Edmonton
Sat May 31 - Industrial 236, Vancouver
Fri Jun 20 - Suncebeat New Horizons, Lisbon
Biography
Producer, DJ, remixer, label boss, taste-maker. Jamie Odell wears many hats and wears them well.
Under his Jimpster alias, he has become one the most revered deep house artists operating on the scene today. His esteemed labels Freerange and Delusions Of Grandeur continue to help break incredible new music and equally impressive acts such as Detroit Swindle, Tornado Wallace and Session Victim. From his UK base, Jimpster has inadvertently become a standard-bearer and custodian of the authentic house sound, and carries this flag to the four corners of the world.
Despite early releases dating right back to 1991 on Jumpin’ & Pumpin’, it was his seminal debut LP ‘Messages From The Hub’ which established Jimpster as an artist of note back in the late 90’s. This LP brought critical acclaim and invites for collaborations and remixes for artists as diverse as Coldcut, Solomun, Lamb, Airto Moreira and Bob Marley. The music has flowed steadily and consistently since then, mostly on Freerange, with the 2006 excursion ‘Square Up’ on Ben Watt’s seminal Buzzin Fly label proving to be a (temporary) transfer of one London-based deep house icon to another.
Releases such as ‘English Rose’, ‘Dangly Panther’, ‘A Love Like This’ and ‘Can’t Stop Loving’ continue to be choice cuts for many DJ’s whilst ‘These Times’ and ‘Porchlight And Rocking Chairs’, two more deep house anthems, were remixed by Dixon and KiNK to serious effect. 2021 proved to be a landmark year for Jimpster and his label with Freerange celebrating 25 years in the business, a 3 volume Jimpster Anthology, as well as his 7th LP Birdhouse winning many new fans. 2021 could even be his most productive year to date with an amazing collaboration with Rich Medina released on Foliage, Soul Spectral EP already hitting 3 million streams on Spotify and remixes for The Sunburst Band, Soichi Terada, Hot Since 82 and many more consistently hitting the top spot on the Traxsource sales charts.
His current stat count as a remixer recently passed a century and the acts to receive his midas touch include everyone from Osunlade (“Mommas Groove” still being hammered by Moodymann on a regular basis), Kerri Chandler, Kollektiv Turmstrasse and Josh Wink (‘Jus Right’ stole the show at Dixon’s 2015 Detroit Movement set) through to Seal and Terrence Parker. More recent remixes for Detroit Swindle, Butch and Atjazz show that the inspiration is still flowing thick and fast.
With Jimpster still doing the business at globally renowned hotspots like Brooklyn Mirage (New York), Womb (Tokyo), and Heidegluhen (Berlin), a slew of new music on the way including an EP for legendary label Nu Groove and with over three decades of experience to draw on, we see clearly that the fire is still burning as brightly as ever.
As he puts it himself, “The mission is clear: to try to inject warmth, depth, soul, sincerity and attitude to both my productions and my DJ sets. This is what sets the major players apart from the pretenders. That challenge is what keeps me focused and inspired 30 years on and I’m sure it will keep the fire in my belly for many years to come.”
Upcoming Shows
Fri Feb 21 - Acanteen, ChelmsfordSat Feb 22 - EndUp at The Pav, Cork
Sat Mar 1 - Omeara, London
Fri Mar 21 - Three Kitchen & Bar, Skopje
Fri Mar 28 - Acanteen, Chelmsford
Sat Apr 5 - Acanteen, Chelmsford
Sat Apr 12 - Arch 535, London (Loxodrome DJ set)
Fri Apr 25 - Acanteen, Chelmsford
Mon May 12 - Soul Fusion, Portimao
Sat May 24 - Deep Into Soul at 93 Feet East, London
Fri May 30 - HIFI Collective at 9910, Edmonton
Sat May 31 - Industrial 236, Vancouver
Fri Jun 20 - Suncebeat New Horizons, Lisbon