Taking the very best of the 70's, 80's and 90's into the 21st century.
Including new remixes by The Next Level DJs that you won't hear anywhere else in the world.

DJ Profile
Name: Christian Sorensen
DJ name: "The Great Dane"
Born: Denmark

DJ Profile
Name: Christopher Price
Disguises himself as: "The Eargasm"
Born: Grand Cayman

The Story

Christian Sorensen, "The Great Dane", first got involved with musical events in the late 80's in college at UCSD in California. Living in a 6 story dorm known as the "Zoo" in the center of a 16,000 student population, it was pretty easy to get a good starter crowd for a party. He and friends began throwing parties that would consist of rigging up a series of students' stereos, tape decks and speakers and blaring the music from all 6 floors so that the whole building was vibrating to the point of being heard miles away. Charging guys a very low $2 each and women free for all you could drink, amazingly turned out to be profitable due to the extremely low overheads. Booze was brought in cheaply from nearby Mexico. Premises were free and thousands of customers (students) were right there. Bouncers were college security paid for by the University, musical equipment borrowed from students. On trips back from Denmark, Christian would introduce the latest European Dance music long before it came to the U.S market, which was a great advantage since so much of the great 80's music came from Europe. The parties became a big success drawing many hundreds, sometimes thousands of people from not just college, but others that heard about it. The musical presentation was by no means proper Djaying by today's standards. There was no beat-matching, as none of us knew how to do it, plus we mostly had tape-decks and not turntables. It was more about "what" music was played rather than "how" it was played.
After University, Christian began composing his own original electronic tracks made on his home secondhand synthesizers. In 2000, a DJ friend from London introduced him to Chris Price on a Thursday night at "Tabu", which then was the happening place to see and be seen on a Thursday night in The Cayman islands. Chris asked Christian for a copy of some of his tracks so he brought in a CD up from his car. He thought Chris was going to give it quick listen, but was shocked to hear Chris mixing the tracks right into his set. At first Christian wanted to hide or run away until he realized that no one knew it was his music. It also helped that everyone continued dancing just as before. Chris and Christian then started putting together new songs which they presented with much success on Thursday nights. When "Tabu" closed and they took it over as "The Next Level", Chris taught Christian how to beat-mix so that he could start Djaying. Their latest collaboration in music production is taking classic Retro hits and remixing them in the home studio to give them more punch and feel for the year 2002. These remixes are presented on Friday nights at The Next Level.

Christopher Price, "The Eargasm", is another old man of music, with an equally silly Dj name. He has held a weekly residency on the island almost continuously since 1992. Accused of introducing questionable European dance music of the early nineties to Cayman, with then partner in crime James Bovell, he has since used Djaying as an excuse to get royally ripped once a week. And when James couldn't keep up the pace he conned a succession of likeminded suckers (Phat-E-Boom etc), into sharing his passion for a dangerous beat and spiritual breakdown. He has played everything from early 90's hardcore, happy hardcore, DnB (Jungle was big in Cayman in the mid 90's), top 40 dance, trance, vocal house . . . you name it. In other words, he is a complete music-slut who will play to the crowd. He has been given a standing ovation at the end of the night twice in ten years and he still recalls the rush, which is probably why he lives in the past when people were "cool" and would dance to music they had never heard before. He hopes anyone bored enough to read this will consider taking action along these lines. In the meantime, he will continue enjoy himself thoroughly whenever he is lucky enough to get behind the decks with a full dancefloor, a powerful sound system, a great lightshow and, above all, people who simply want to have fun.