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Les Adams

real name Leslie Adams

Les Adams is credited on 604 releases across 171 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2021 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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604

Credits

171

Albums

8

Decades active

149

In collections

Biography

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Les Adams was a UK DJ, producer and radio host (born November 29, 1955–died September 2, 2019, UK, of a heart attack).
Les “The Mix Doctor” Adams was a professional DJ since 1979 and was one of the first DJs in the UK to adopt the American beat-matching form of mixing. He became a member of the DJ club DMC team in 1983 and started remixing commercial releases soon afterward. He became a recording artist in 1987, under the guise of L.A. Mix, signing a reported 5-album deal with A&M Records.
Adams was also a radio host, joining Capital Radio, BBC Radio One, then Solar radio, while pursuing a club DJ career and lecturing in DJ skills and DJ technology at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guilford.

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Credited work

604 releases · 171 albums · active 1954–2021

  • Engineering · 524
  • Performance · 446
  • Production · 272
  • Other credits · 84

Studios: La Mixdown Studio One · Shakedown Sound Studios · L.A. Mix Studios · Ardent Studios

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