Jon Doe
{{Short description|British dance music disc jockey}}
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| genre = Happy hardcore, hard dance
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Colin Meon, known professionally as Jon Doe, is a British hard dance disc jockey and record producer. Doe has charted several times in the UK Dance Chart, and also releases music as CLSM including the track "John Peel Is Not Enough".
Biography
Doe released the single "Fire/Always", which samples the sixties track “Always Something There To Remind Me" in a gabba style, in 1996.{{cite news |last1=WYBURN |first1=CLAIRE |title=Hardcore Reviews |url=https://archive.org/details/muzik015_august_1996/page/n131/mode/2up |access-date=26 May 2025 |work=Muzik |date=August 1996}} He has produced several singles which have charted in the UK, including "NRG" which peaked at number 18 on the UK Dance Chart in 2000. In 2001, Doe collaborated with Billy Daniel Bunter to release the hard house single "Clap Your Hands", which also reached number 18 on the UK Dance Singles Chart.{{cite news |last1=Kavanagh |first1=Mark |title=HARD HOUSE Reviews |url=https://archive.org/details/muzik070_march_2001/page/n79/mode/2up |access-date=26 May 2025 |work=Muzik |date=March 2001}} As CLSM, and along with Sharkey and Kutski, Doe mixed one of the CDs on the Bonkers 16 compilation album, which peaked at number 15 on the UK Compilation Chart in 2006.{{cite web |title=BONKERS 16 – VARIOUS ARTISTS |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/various-artists-bonkers-16/ |website=Official Charts Company |access-date=26 May 2025}}
Doe, with Madame Zu, produced the track "999 Matrix (The Red Pill)", known as one of the Mohawk label's "biggest classics" it was remixed in 2015 receiving a positive review in Mixmag.{{cite news |last1=Whitby |first1=Andy |title=999 Matrix (The Red Pill). |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=108448257&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=26 May 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=July 2015}} In 2018 Mumbles & Miss KT9 remixed the Jon Doe track "D2", which was given an 8/10 rating by critic Andy Whitby, also in Mixmag.{{cite news |last1=Whitby |first1=Andy |title=Jon Doe D2 (Mumbles & Miss KT9 remix) |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=128346764&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=26 May 2025 |work=Mixmag |date=March 2018}}
In the music press, Doe has been called the "master of all things uplifting", and "one of hard house’s underground legends". Fellow DJ Kutski has stated his favourite DJ experience was performing with Doe, amongst others.{{cite web |title=BBC - Radio 1 - Residency - Biography |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/residency/biog_kutski.shtml |website=BBC |access-date=26 May 2025}}
=John Peel Is Not Enough=
In 2003 on BBC Radio 1, John Peel was the only DJ playing hard dance music above 140 BPM. To critique, or "bemoan" this, CLSM released the track "John Peel Is Not Enough" which listed all the Radio 1 DJs and the max BPM they would play, to call for more support for the genre on the station. The track came to the attention of the John Peel production team following inclusion in a Bonkers mix by DJ Sharkey, and made number 9 in the John Peel Festive 50 that same year, and was included in the 2009 retrospective album Kats Karavan: The History Of John Peel On The Radio.{{cite web |title=BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Festive 50s - 2003 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/2000s/2003/ |website=BBC |access-date=26 May 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Perry |first1=Kevin |title=Album Review: Various - Kats Karavan - the History of John Peel on the Radio / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound |url=https://drownedinsound.com/releases/14825/reviews/4138307 |website=Drowned in Sound |access-date=26 May 2025 |date=2 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105192241/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/14825/reviews/4138307|archive-date=5 November 2009}}{{cite news |title=Tastemakers. |work=Music Week |id={{Gale|A112860541}}|date=17 January 2004}}{{cite web |title=Kats Karavan: The History Of John Peel On The Radio |url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/kats-karavan-the-history-ofjohn-peel-on-the-radio |website=Record Collector |date=8 November 2009}}
Discography
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| Title | Artist | Year | Peak UK singles{{cite web |title=JON DOE songs and albums |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/1713/jon-doe/ |website=Official Charts Company |access-date=26 May 2025}} | Peak UK dance |
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| "Fire / Always" | Jon Doe | 1996 | ||
| "NRG" | Jon Doe | 2000 | style="text-align:center;"|18 | |
| "Out of It / NRG" | Dynamic Intervention / Jon Doe | 2000 | style="text-align:center;"|29 | |
| "Clap Your Hands" | Billy Daniel Bunter / Jon Doe | 2001 | style="text-align:center;"|93 | style="text-align:center;"|18 |
| "Feel So Good / Mind Games" | Billy Daniel Bunter / Jon Doe | 2001 | style="text-align:center;"|31 | |
| "Rock Your Body / Start Dancing" | Jon Doe | 2002 | style="text-align:center;"|100 | |
| "John Peel Is Not Enough" | CLSM | 2003 | ||
| "The Sonic Expansions - pt2" | Jon Doe | 2004 | style="text-align:center;"|38 | |
| "999 Matrix (The Red Pill)" | Jon Doe & Madame Zu | 2015 | ||
| "D2" | Jon Doe | 2018 |
References
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External links
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- [http://www.harderfaster.net/?section=features&action=showfeature&featureid=11022 A Tasty foursome – interview with Tasty resident djs Billy Daniel Bunter, Jon Doe, Kutski & Roosta] on HarderFaster.net
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