Nick Hook started DJing in the early days of the house music revolution. He recorded his first house track in 1990, and started promoting his first club night, Loosen Up, in 1991.
Loosen Up became one of London’s most influential house clubs during the early 1990's, and Nick soon became a regular guest DJ at some of the country's top clubs, such as the Ministry of Sound, Club UK, and the Drum Club in London, and Slam at The Arches in Glasgow. He also started playing regularly abroad, and has now played his progressive and funky house sets in such countries as France, Germany, Russia, Ireland and Ibiza.
In 1995 Loosen Up joined forces with Whoop! and Nick became one of the residents at the resulting club night, Whoop It Up. The club ran every Friday night for five and a half years, and became London's most significant progressive house night, with guests such as Sasha, John Digweed, Seb Fontaine and Timo Maas all playing alongside the residents.
After the demise of Whoop It Up Nick re-launched Loosen Up in 2002, and you can now catch Nick playing at Loosen Up club nights at various venues across London (see www.loosenup.me.uk for the next event), or at his other residency, Roasted (www.roasted.org.uk) at Infinity in London's West End.
Nick's recording career took off when he collaborated with Morgan King on many projects in the early 90s, the most successful of which was Soundsource whose track 'Take Me Up' was signed to FFRR and became one of the biggest club tracks of 1992. Together they went on to launch Om Records, which became one of the most influential early progressive house labels.
In the intervening years Nick has produced over 70 tracks (including remixes) for various labels such as Whoop!, Distinctive, React, Multiply and DMC as well as for his own label, Off The Hook, under artist names such as First Life, Pleasure Box, Subterfuge, and Hook as well as, of course, Nick Hook. His many remix credits include artists such as The Grid, Gusto and Saint Etienne. For a full discography and a more in-depth biography go to www.nickhook.com
Nick is currently recording tracks for labels such as Wallop Recordings, In Music and Segment Records with many collaborations and solo projects due for release. See the Music page or nickhook.com for more details.