Desmond Craine

Executive Producer | Artistic Director | Collaborator | Curator | Finesser From architecting foundational moments in the early Australian urban , hip hop and electronic movements to steering sophisticated modern global deep house, chill & jazz fusion today, Craine’s legacy is defined by curation and crossover collaborations. His current international, experimental projects a further testimony His first credited Production was as Executive Producer of the compilation All Our Loving, featuring reimagined versions of the Beatles track All My Loving in various genres (licensed to TV1/Warner Music). Then, operating under the electronic alias Janthong he served as the creative, again in Partnership with TV1 (licensed to Sony Music / Columbia), he originated the concept & curated the landmark compilation album, Variations To A Theme, uniting the talents of Wicked Beat Sound System, MC Trey, Fatt Dex, The Rockmelons & others, electronically reworking TV themes. The same project spawned the Australian electro-hip hop classic "Creepin'" by Fatt Dex featuring MC Trey + the Illpickl remix & the MTV nominated video clip In his early new millennium era, productions through his Jusagroove & Subsidiary labels included underground releases for Astro & Physics with drum & bass mixes by Overcast (Mark N/BloodyFIST), Switchkicker & DJ Krusty trance beats + Trapazoid & Salamander remixes & releases. All while independently developing many other artists from an A&R and marketing perspective