Rui da Silva (DJ)


Rui da Silva is a Portuguese producer and DJ, whose single "Touch Me" topped the Portuguese Singles Chart. Outside Portugal, "Touch Me" also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, where it became the first progressive house song to top the UK Singles Chart, the first song by a Portuguese act to top the chart and the first new UK chart-topper of the 21st century and third millennium.
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Career

Silva started producing house music in 1992, just as club culture was getting established in Lisbon. Noticing the lack of dance music labels in Portugal, he teamed up with DJ Vibe to form Kaos Records, the first label in Portugal specialized in house and electronic music.
His first major hit was "Não", a track that sampled vocals from a Xutos & Pontapés track, released under the alias Doctor J. With DJ Vibe, he also formed the Underground Sound of Lisbon project in 1993. A year later, their track "So Get Up" achieved worldwide fame after getting picked by the Tribal America label and support from Danny Tenaglia. Tenaglia also remixed the track.
During his years at Kaos, Silva also worked with other artists, namely Luís Leite and Alex Santos.
In 1999, he left Lisbon for London, to move from producing to DJing, and also to start working under his own name. Silva left Kaos Records, and produced his final collaborative effort as Underground Sound of Lisbon in 2001. In the UK, he founded Kismet Records, where he began producing a more progressive sound. He has released a number of tracks under his own name, as well as collaborative efforts with Chris Coco and Moshic.
Silva has achieved some fame as a remixer, creating his own versions of Jennifer Lopez's "Play", Lighthouse Family's "Happy" and Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice".

Discography

Albums

Produced & Remixed
  • ''Praying Mantis''

Singles

Rui da Silva

  • "Touch Me" with Cassandra Fox
  • "Fire/Earth"
  • "Feel the Love"
  • "Pacman/Punks Run Wild"
  • "So Move Closer"
  • "Dance.Come.Feel.Exe"
  • "Lixuneanos"
  • "Amidar"
  • "Spreading Isolation/The Regressors"
  • "The Whole Room Dematerialized"
  • "Escaping My Mind"
  • "On My Mind"
  • "Crazy Love" with Dada featuring One

Doctor J

  • "Não"
  • "The Sax Theme" with Alex Santos
  • "Human Soul", as Doctor J Presents Mata Hari

The Four Elements

  • "Earth/Water"
  • "Fire"
  • "The Fifth Element"
  • "Matrix/Stoned"

Coco da Silva

  • "Coisa Nossa/Close My Eyes"
  • "Lost"
  • "@ Night"
  • "Saudade"
  • "This Time You're Mine"
  • "The Shiva Chant"
  • "Don't Say Nothing "

Other aliases

  • "So Get Up", as Underground Sound of Lisbon
  • "Work in Progress", as LL Project with Luís Leite
  • "Khine No. 3 ", as LL Project with Luís Leite
  • "Fat Beat/Bossa Nova", as Gum Club
  • "Matrix", as Morpheus
  • "Obeah Dance", as The Obeah Men with Terry Farley
  • "Riding", as Teimoso with Shelly Preston
  • "Radar House", as Hyper da Silva with DJ Hyper
  • "Deep as the Rivers", as Moshic da Silva with Moshic
  • "Gibberish", as Moshic da Silva
  • "Cosmic Mind", as Sound Projectors
  • "Dark Love, as '''The Downloaderz'''