VINCE WATSON
About VINCE WATSON
This year Vince Watson celebrates 30 years in the House and Techno landscape. With well over 1000 songs and more than 250 EP's, 18 albums and numerous remixes - this hard work has been rewarded with recordings for some of the very best electronic music labels as both Vince Watson, his Techno alias Amorphic and to a lesser extent the downtempo alias of Quart. 2026 will see a 4th artist project being launched entitled FREQ, focusing on Electronica and IDM.
Since the beginning his skillsets have allowed him to work with some of the very best electronic artists including Laurent Garnier, Joe Claussell, Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Carl Craig and Carl Cox and as a touring musician has been able to play at some of the worlds best clubs and events including Enter at Space, Ibiza, Berghain Berlin, Womb Tokyo and many events in The Netherlands, where he is resident of 909 Festival and former resident at Tresor Berlin.
His radio show 'Radio Drama' featured top guests over the years including Ben Sims, Truncate, Manoo, Fred P, Steve Bug, Osunlade and many more until its transition to the RadioRadio platform in Amsterdam, where he now does his shows live every month.
In 2020 Vince was hired to record an LP for The Outlaw Oceans music project entitled 'Hope', which was commissioned by the New York Times investigative journalist Ian Urbina, which is now being produced by Apple and Netflix as a documentary.
As a performer, Vince's live shows are in demand around the world. He was a guest at Carl Cox's 60th birthday at DC10 Ibiza and his DJ sets are also now highly requested with appearances in clubs such as Berghain and Womb. He is also a regular at Berlin's HoR stream as well as a resident of 909 Festival in Amsterdam.
His sets can be heard in many headline podcasts series, where he has featured in podcasts from Carl Cox, CLR, Slam Radio, John Digweed, Dave Clarke, Luciano, DJ Mag, Electronic Beats and Resident Advisor.
His 2021 His 18 track Detroit Techno LP 'DnA' was '[re]Sequenced' by some of his favourite artists from the genre, including Carl Craig, John Beltran, Claude Young, Jon Dixon, Shawn Rudiman, Steve Rachmad, Stephen Lopkin and Stephen Brown.
2023's 'Another Moment In Time' featured Jon Dixon from UR/Timeline [Detroit]. The album was the follow up to the seminal 'Moments in Time' released on Ibadan in 2002.
2024 was the year of the Archives, with Vince re-releasing a huge back catalogue of Vinyl releases into Digital for the first time, with the series continuing ahead.
With zero signs of slowing down, 2025 was Vince's busiest ever release schedule, with a total of 13 releases over the year, including 2 albums. Singles on labels by Marco Bailey, MORD, James Ruskin's Blueprint, and album on Carl Cox's Awesome Soundwave label along with 3 singles meant 25' was a banger of a year.
His ambient album 'Lost In Zero Gravity' released in January last year was the follow up to 'Serene' that released on Rekids in 2012. The album featured heavily on Apple's series and playlist selections.
As well as his 'normal' touring schedule and studio commitments, Vince's experience and knowledge is also being put to use by Conservatorium van Amsterdam where Vince is working as a Senior Degree Lecturer for AEMA, the CvA's new Electronic music school, where he teaches DJ classes, Production classes and Remix classes as well as mentoring 8 students along their personal growth in music production.
