Green Velvet @ Drumsheds, London

Green Velvet plays a DJ set from the Defected party at Drumsheds, London. Green Velvet has been intrinsically linked with house music almost since the start. Like all good stories, there have been many different chapters to the Chicagoan’s journey, each as important as the next. From seminal dance anthems to influential record labels, electrifying DJ sets to his iconic green flash of hair, he has always stood out from the crowd and is a deserving winner of our Outstanding Contribution award for 2024. Depending on your age, you will know Curtis Alan Jones either as a freaky cyber-punk with a penchant for dark but tongue-in-cheek house anthems or as a more serious and mindful preacher who champions a religious way of life. He is one of the early pioneers whose Cajual and Relief labels were some of the most prominent and prolific in all of Chicago in the early ‘90s. They helped usher in a new wave sound after the early blueprint of Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy and the acid of Phuture. His style w