Rob Tissera

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Rob Tissera
Born1966 (age 59–60)
OriginMilton Keynes
GenresHard trance, hard house
OccupationsRecord producer, Disc Jockey
Years active1989 -
LabelsTidy Trax, XL Recordings, Nukleuz

Rob Tissera (born 1966) is a British hard house disc jockey and record producer. His releases have achieved UK chart success over a c. 10 year period from 1996, and he is known for his live performances and club nights.

Biography

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Tissera has achieved chart success under his own name, and with Ian Bland as Quake. He has also released tracks under the name of Circle City, through the Warp record label.[1][2][3]

In 1990 he was arrested and ultimately given a 3-month custodial sentence for inciting a riot: while DJing at Love Decade, an unlicensed rave in a Leeds warehouse, he became aware that the police had surrounded the venue and announced on the PA that the audience would have to fight the police to keep the party going. A violent scene followed and it was the largest mass arrest in British history, with 836 people arrested in total. Tissera regretted the act, though his notoriety for defending the rave scene helped him further his DJ career.[4]

Tissera is known for his live performances at events such as Global Gathering, Creamfields and Homelands, and for promoting the Leeds-based Kissdafunk club night. His music has been played by a range of well-known DJs, including Pete Tong, Carl Cox, and Judge Jules.[3][5][6] In 2012 Tissera made it into the Mixmag list of top badly behaved DJs, after getting into trouble with the authorities for inciting the Kissdafunk crowd to resist the police.[7]

Tissera has released several DJ mix albums, some of which have achieved chart success, including GoodGreef Album 2 and Kissdafunk that reached #77 and #56 in the UK official compilations chart in 2004 and 2007 respectively.[3][8][9] In 2004 he was also invited to perform a two-hour Essential Mix for the BBC Radio 1 Pete Tong show.[10]

The music press has provided commentary on Tissera and his work. Resident Advisor have called him one of "dance music's most prolific stars", while Mark Kavanagh of Muzik magazine called him the "party animal from Hell" in 2002 but qualified that his music had been "huge all summer". Noel Gardner of the Quietus was more circumspect, calling Tissera a "hard trance dork" following his change to a harder style.[2][5][11]

Discography

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Rob Tissera releases
Title Artist Year Peak
UK Singles		 Peak
UK Dance
Kick Up The Volume[1] Rob Tissera 1996 84 5
The Day Will Come[12] Quake feat. Marcia Rae 1998 53 3
Mantra[12] Quake 1999 16
Burning (Can I hold you?)[1][11] Rob Tissera 2002 84 18
Bring The Lights Down[1] Rob Tissera & Nathan D'Amour 2004 33
Stay[1] Rob Tissera/Vinylgroover/Red 2004 61 9
The Revolution/Bitch[1] Rob Tissera/Dark By Design 2004 99
Feel The Drums[1] Rob Tissera & Guyver 2005 81 24

Bibliography

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References

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