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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Ricky Stone quits DJing - last gig announced
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Ricky Stone quits DJing - last gig announced 10 December 2009 Ricky Stone quits DJing - last gig announced 10 December 2009 http://www.myspace.com/djrickystone http://www.myspace.com/flatbellyrecordings Ricky Stone, former N35 in DJMag Top 2008, best high ranking DJ in Asia region and co-owner of Flat Belly Recordings, yesterday announced that he will play his last gig on this New Year Eve in Bali. After this he is going to take part in a "very exciting New project" which details we will know very soon. Here is his official statement: Dear Family and Friends, I thought it was about time I put finger to keyboard on the reasons why I am quitting Djing. On July 5th 2009 I made a decision that had been on my mind for quite some time. I decided to retire from Djing. After 15 years of touring the World I will play my Final DJ Set this 31.12 in Bali at Double 6 Club. The decision was not an easy one but I felt the time had come to call it a day. Djing changed my life and it has been one hell of a ride. I have traveled to many, many places and seen so many wonderful things. I think the realization that having to sleep a few hours in the hotel before going to the club wasn’t an ideal situation anymore! In my early and mid twenties sleep wasn’t a factor. I could go three days without sleeping. These days I lead a much more ‘healthy’ lifestyle, awaking daily at 7am to hit the gym. I just felt that I needed a new challenge in my life and wanted to spend more time in the place I love and call home, Hong Kong. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family and the many friends I have met around the World and to the people who were instrumental in my success here in Asia. I am now part of a very exciting New project that will launch in early 2010 which has five major name djs as shareholders. More information to come on that shortly…. Big Love Ricky Stone x http://www.myspace.com/djrickystone http://www.myspace.com/flatbellyrecordings Ricky Stone, former N35 in DJMag Top 2008, best high ranking DJ in Asia region and co-owner of Flat Belly Recordings, yesterday announced that he will play his last gig on this New Year Eve in Bali. After this he is going to take part in a "very exciting New project" which details we will know very soon. Here is his official statement: Dear Family and Friends, I thought it was about time I put finger to keyboard on the reasons why I am quitting Djing. On July 5th 2009 I made a decision that had been on my mind for quite some time. I decided to retire from Djing. After 15 years of touring the World I will play my Final DJ Set this 31.12 in Bali at Double 6 Club. The decision was not an easy one but I felt the time had come to call it a day. Djing changed my life and it has been one hell of a ride. I have traveled to many, many places and seen so many wonderful things. I think the realization that having to sleep a few hours in the hotel before going to the club wasn’t an ideal situation anymore! In my early and mid twenties sleep wasn’t a factor. I could go three days without sleeping. These days I lead a much more ‘healthy’ lifestyle, awaking daily at 7am to hit the gym. I just felt that I needed a new challenge in my life and wanted to spend more time in the place I love and call home, Hong Kong. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family and the many friends I have met around the World and to the people who were instrumental in my success here in Asia. I am now part of a very exciting New project that will launch in early 2010 which has five major name djs as shareholders. More information to come on that shortly…. Big Love Ricky Stone x

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

DJ Mag and why i dont want you to Vote this Year for me..
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http://www.skrufff.com/2009/08/‘vote-for-me’-dj-says-‘don’t-vote-for-me’/#more-1241

Hong Kong DJ Ricky Stone begged fans to abstain from voting for him in DJ Magazine’s annual Top 100 DJ poll this week, some four years after he first entered the chart.

“At the request of Ricky – PLEASE DONT VOTE for him in this years DJ Mag

Top 100!”, a statement circulated by his management team pleaded, “We do not believe in this list – it means nothing!” they added.

Chatting to Skrufff this week, Ricky insisted he’s serious about wanting to drop out of the 100 voluntarily.

“As people know I was one of the biggest and most proactive ‘Vote for Me’ guys out there but we feel that the chart lost a lot of credibility over the past year,” he explained.

“We formed that opinion from asking promoters and clubbers alike if they thought that me being in the Top 100 was important to them or not; in terms of bookings and credibility: and it wasn’t,” he said. “I felt I was becoming just a number rather than a DJ.”

Ricky also discounted suggestions that poll placement brings automatic high fee bookings in superclubs in territories such as China.

“With reference to mainland China – they do not continue to book just for the sake of a number from the list – not anymore. The scene has changed so much in Asia; not only promoters, but more importantly the sponsors have gotten wise and more knowledgeable about the scene,” he insisted.

It’s really a poll of who has the best marketing team and I don’t believe it is healthy for the scene anymore to be judged as ‘the’ only chart,” he continued. “We could have run again for our fifth time and with the database / mailing lists / friends and networks we have all over the world we could have probably again featured in 2009. But for the above reasons I mentioned I want to distance myself from this chart now and no longer have a number attached to my name,” he said.

He replied carefully when quizzed how he’d respond if DJ magazine replied that his appearance in the chart 4 years ago, had transformed him into an international premier league DJ.

“That is hard to say and a theoretical question. I don’t see my self as a ‘Premier League DJ’ and never have done,” he insisted.

“There are scores of what I class as ‘Top drawer djs’ who have not featured in the chart for a few years. I’m not going to reel off a list of names either,” he vowed.