Music, Style & DJ Rob Lemon!

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DJ ROB LEMON

Starting in the mid 90's, DJ Rob Lemon commenced procuring his St. Louis fan base by throwing house parties.  Doing so gained him much exposure and finally landed him his first few gigs in the St. Louis nightclub scene.  Back in the day Lemon explains-" DJ'ing club music was not genre specific. A DJ played music ranging from deep house to trance all in one set. Around 2000, the touring DJ became the new rock star and the music ultimately became very genre specific. A DJ would come into town and would play either house, progressive or trance but never all of the above in one set. Today the touring DJ is even more genre specific. For example a DJ today may play tech-house, minimal, epic trance or deep house."

Lemon describes his "style" as progressive house with a deep sexy vibe. His main goal while working the decks is to paint a musical picture over the night by building tension early and then delivering a sound that has even the "wallflowers" dancing by the end of the night. Speaking of style, it got me pondering the age-old question of  "does art imitate life or does life imitate art?" The same goes for music and fashion.  Lemon explained- "Music sets the trends and fashion follows. Fashion designers want to design pieces to compliment whatever music style is hot at the moment. There is so much money and power behind fashion that it appears that they are in sync because fashion can be produced, marketed and delivered so quickly. It is that simpatico that creates the cool element that is executed at fashion events or in an advertisement. "

Even though DJ Rob Lemon travels a large part of the year spinning in Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, Miami and LA, he never forgets his roots and adores the St. Louis music market. "St. Louis has a more extreme core group of electronic dance music lovers verses other cities. The people here who love dance music are totally addicted to it. They do not listen to anything else and I really love the passion they express about club music"-he explains.  While in St. Louis, Lemon has residencies at the $15million nightclub HOME located at Ameristar and SOL in the heart of the Central West End. He describes-"HOME has greatly elevated the expectation for nightlife in St. Louis with a national roster that compares to none. SOL lounge is the closest example to a New York City underground bar that draws an international clientele and has a very cool vibe."

In 2006, Lemon produced a massive hit named Hypnosis. It's been played by such international DJs such as Deep Dish and Paul Van Dyke. In 2009 he is working on a track of that magnitude and hope that it will surpass his last club hit. Even with today's economy in the tank, Lemon feels that it has actually helped the nightlife scene. "People want to let loose now more than ever before which has resulted in packed houses at almost every national nightclub."-Say's Lemon.

Today it seems that every Hollywood starlets and stud are claiming their DJ status and Lemon feel that this has only helped promote the club music scene by exposing more people to it.  However, if your career is DJ'ing you must eat, drink, breathe and sleep music 24/7. Lemon hopes that once the Hollywood DJ trend has passed, those who were newly exposed to club music for the first time will continue to go out.

If reading this article on one of St. Louis's ICONS of club music hasn't got you excited about experiencing Deep House Dance then you should check out DJ Rob Lemon spinning at one of his up coming performances or log onto www.RobLemon.com . Below is a list of his up-coming performances. Now get yo' booty on the dance floor,

Style ON!

DSly

DJ ROB LEMON

March 13^th            SOL                                                 9:00pm

March 14^th            HOME                                            10:00pm

March 20^th            HOME w/ Sander Kleinenbeg            9:00pm

March 21^st            CZAR BAR (Kansas City)                  10:00pm

March 28^th            SOL w/ Justin king                            9:00pm

April 4^th                SOL                                                  9:00pm

April 24^th              HOME w/ D-Fuse                             10:00pm

April 25^th              SOL w/ Justin King                            9:00pm

May 24^th              HOME w/ Benny Benassi                   10:00pm

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