Rennie Foster

Rennie Foster has been a well-respected figure in the Canadian music and art community for three decades. He influenced many as an early pioneer of the Hip-Hop / B-Boy movement, and then later the House Music and Techno / Rave scene, participating in the first events in Western Canada during the birth of these now widely known urban subcultures. He is also very well known within the niche of graffiti art for his early work, having been archived in several published books on the topic. Rennie relocated to Tokyo Japan in 2004 and became an important part of the Japanese club scene, DJing all over Japan in venues such as Womb, ageHa, and Yellow, maintaining DJ residencies in Tokyo, Shizuoka and Kyoto at the legendary Metro club and at the bi-yearly Nagisa Music Festival in Tokyo and Osaka. Rennie was consistently ranked in the top 50 DJs in Japan by LOUD Magazine, peaking at #22, until re-locating back to Canada in 2011. Rennie was resident DJ at Vancouver after-hours club, Gorg-O-Mish from 2013 to 2023, and is currently a resident DJ at GARDN, an edgy underground venue and event series in Vancouver. Rennie DJs regularly playing as a guest at underground venues across Canada, Detroit, New York, Paris and has played as a headliner at festivals such as Shambhala, Bass Coast, Rifflandia, Tall Tree, Soundwave, Sunwave, among many others. Rennie Foster has released music with Jack White’s Third Man Label, classic dance music labels including Derrick May's Transmat, Laurent Garnier's F-Communications, Ben Sims' Ingoma label, Synewave, Teknotika, Subject Detroit, Thoughtless Music, Manual, Monoid, Little Helpers, and is widely recognized for his underground anthem Devil's Water on Rebirth Records. Rennie has remixed, or been remixed by, some of the top names in dance music such as Juan Atkins, James Zabiela, Rick Wade, Uner, Edu Imbernon, Altern 8, and Swayzak. He has released many singles, EPs, and four full length studio albums. In 2017 Rennie collaborated with celebrated Detroit painter Abdul "HAQQ" for the cover of his LP Game of 100 Ghosts, his debut album The War of Art release ten years earlier featured artwork by MoMA resident Alexander Gelman, or GLMN. He runs a signature record label RF and continues to produce tough urban house music and stylish techno for cutting edge dance music imprints including Skylax Records in Paris, Weapons of Desire UK, and the Detroit based Soiree Records.