While still at school he held down his first residency at Propaganda in Sligo Town playing alongside top UK and European DJs. From this he built up the necessary DJing skills and style to enter the Irish Mixing Championship back in 2000, which he won. To add to this achievement he also won two more competitions that same year. One, was to open the main stage at Creamfields Ireland and the other was to play a set at Shines 5th Birthday bash in November of that year.
His interest in music found him furthering his education and pursuing an houours degree in Music Technology at Leeds Met University in England which greatly enhanced his engineering and production skills. Working with bands and DJs while at University led to his involvement in putting on the 'Leeds Met Live' event in 2008 which he also performed at. Since then he has been working hard on improving his own sounds, compositions and techniques. As a producer he has already hit the headlines with his music been featured in mixes and charts including Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, John Digweed, Darren Emmerson, Carl Cox, Hernan Cattaneo, Dave Seaman, Jamie Jones, Jerome Sydenham, Ben Klock, Joel Mull, Pan Pot, Derek Howell, Mario Fischetti, Silvio Conchon to name but a few.
With a string of releases on a number of labels such as Particles, Stripped, Baires, Babylon, Electronic Tree, Balkan Connection to name but a few. John has found himself very busy in the studio as his quality productions start to rack up. As well as this he has found the time to put DJ mixes together for Frisky Radio as he was nominated to be their Artist of the week back in August of last year.

John Kearns (Lateral Cut Groove)
John has been Djing since he was 16 years of age. While still at school he held down his first residency at Propaganda in Sligo City playing alongside top UK and European DJs. From this he built up the necessary DJing skills and style to enter the Irish Mixing Championship back in 2000, which he won. To add to this achievement he also won two more competitions that same year. One, was to open the main stage at Creamfields Ireland (a very memorable gig indeed) and the other was to play a set at Shines 5th Birthday bash in November of that year. He also set up his own club night with his brother called Chunk-A-Funk in Letterkenny which ran for over five years. As well as this he played regularly at big club nights such as Shine in Belfast, Lush in Portrush, Tripod in Dublin and Deep Fried Funk in Derry.
His interest in music found him furthering his education and pursuing an houours degree in Music Technology at Leeds Met University in England which greatly enhanced his engineering and production skills. Working with bands and DJs while at university led to his involvement in putting on the 'Leeds Met Live' event in 2008 which he also performed at. Since then he has been working hard on improving his own sounds, compositions and techniques while also teaching Music Technology and Production to his students at his very own studio (The Vault).
He has recently released tracks for labels such as Liquid Grooves, Stripped, Baries and or course Proton’s Particles label. With a string of releases already scheduled this year the future looks promising for this Irish man. His massive remix of Celeda and Danny Teneglia’ ‘Be Yourself’ is going to generate a lot of talk for this producer as his take on the classic gets its long awaited release on Twisted this year. As well as this he has just remixed Stephen J Kroos’ Amygdala which is out on Particles.

To add to his defined production skill his DJ sets have been featured on numerous radio stations around the globe including 2FM, Frisky, Proton, Galaxy, Ibiza Global Radio and Ministry of Sound Radio which have led him to setting up his very own podcast. The unique 'Deeper Sides' show goes out once a month which expresses his wide range in electronic music, mixing a variety of tastes ranging from deep soulful house through to uplifting techno.
As a DJ his sound is truly his own. His style which could be described as a selection of deep prog tech house is enough to get anyones head bopping so if you haven't already experienced this exciting new producer, Now is the time.