About

Jason Eli’s DJ & production career grew from a love of making people dance and a desire to explore musical genres from House, Soul & Jazz to Disco and beyond. From humble beginnings as a kid growing up in London watching his older cousins play live funk music in their loft, he progressed to remix songs for icon’s including Whitney Houston, perform with some of the world’s best DJ’s and produce music for labels including Motown, E.M.I. and many more.

Artists he’s remixed include Mos Def, Masters at Work, Sola Rosa, Nesian Mystic, and many others. His productions have been released on labels including Sony, Defected and many more.

Jason held a four year DJ residency at Ministry of Sound when the Ministry was at the cutting edge of underground House music. He regularly warmed up the club’s main room dance floor for DJ’s like Todd Terry & DJ Harvey. Jason’s toured with legends like Techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson, ex Studio 54 resident Kenny Carpenter, as well as Roger Sanchez, Norman Jay, and many more.

Back in the day, always on the look out for new percussive soulful sounds, Jason dived into London’s growing Broken Beat scene, which spoke to his Jazz influences, producing records for Bugz In The Attic’s head honcho Orin “Afronaught” Walters and starting his own Groovadelica record label.

Fast forward to the early 2000’s and Jason made a big move – from London to… New Zealand?! The call of love hit (how could we have a story without a love interest?) and in following a beautiful Kiwi girl back to her homeland, he left the London nightlife for Antipodean beaches, greenery and a less frenetic vibe. Jason continued to spread the soulful music gospel by morphing his Groovadelica record label into a successful club night & radio show on Auckland's George FM.

Fast forward to the now and our man continues to produce soulful, percussive & progressive music. His DJ sets are full of vibes, energy and grooves.

For more information on Jason's Groovadelica music brand, click here