Waze & Odyssey

Waze & Odyssey
Birth name	Serge Santiágo, Firas Waez
Born	England
Genres	House
Occupation(s)	record producer
Years active	2010 -
Labels	W&O Street Tracks, Wolf Music, Tsuba, RCA
Associated acts	Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Disclosure, Duke Dumont
Website	wazeandodyssey.com

Waze & Odyssey are a British House production duo consisting of Serge Santiago and Firas Waez.^[1] Coming together in 2011 the duo came to prominence after releasing on labels such as Wolf Music, Lets Play House, Tsuba and Throne of Blood.^[2]^[3]^[4] Waze & Odyssey also have their own record label W&O Street Tracks releasing house music from the likes of Citizen, Ejeca, Squarehead.^[5]

In 2014, Waze & Odyssey had a top 5 hit in the UK in 2014 with a remix of R. Kelly's Bump n' Grind.^[6]

Waze & Odyssey's sound brings together house music, techno, disco influences and UK bass music.

Career

As DJs

Waze & Odyssey have toured extensively across Europe, USA and Asia. They have played many of the worlds biggest and most influential clubs such as Panorama Bar (Berghain), Fabric, The Warehouse Project, Amnesia and at festivals including Glastonbury, EXIT Festival, Bestival, and Secret Garden Party.^[7]

They have received significant support from BBC Radio 1’s Pete Tong, Annie Mac.

In February 2015, they were invited to do BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.^[8]^[9]

Waze & Odyssey also host a monthly radio show on Rinse FM and in 2014 did a Boiler Room session in Berlin.^[10]^[11]

As Producers

The pairing have released records on Wolf Music, petFood, Disco Bloodbath, Lets Play House, Tsuba, Throne of Bloody, and their own label W&O Street Tracks.

In 2012 they were nominated for Best Breakthrough Producers at the DJ Mag Awards.

They have also remixed a wide spectrum of artists such as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Ejeca, Disclosure and Duke Dumont.^[12]

W&O Street Tracks

In 2012, Waze & Odyssey started their own label W&O Street Tracks, releasing new, exciting and underground house music.^[13]

As well as releasing their own music, the duo have released the likes of Sage Caswell, Ejeca, Citizen and xxxy. In 2014, they released a compilation named WOSTC001.

Bump & Grind 2014

In 2013, the duo created a bootleg containing R. Kelly's Bump n' Grind and MK's version of Push the Feeling On by Nightcrawlers (band).^[14] Having been originally intended only for their DJ sets, the track received club support from the likes of Duke Dumont, Skream and Rudimental.

In 2013, Sony Records approached the duo to release the record and the sample was signed off by R Kelly. The track released by RCA and sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone and became a number 3 hit.^[15] The track featured official remixes Le Youth and Paul Woolford (DJ) under his Special Request alias.^[16]

Discography

Singles

As lead artist

Year	Single	Chart Positions							Album
Year	Single	UK^[17]	UK Dance	AUS	AUS Dance	BEL	IRE	SCO	Album
"Bump & Grind 2014" (with R. Kelly)	2014	3	1	39	8	74	65	3	N/A

Singles/EPs

Title	Year	Label
"I Want You You You EP"	2012	Throne of Blood
"Love Attack"	2012	Disco Bloodbath Recordings
"Love That (Burns Hot Enough) / Ma Body"	2012	W&O Street Tracks
"2 Cool 2 Clap EP"	2012	Southern Fried Records
"Be Right There EP"	2012	Mad Tech
"Early Bites"	2013	Southern Fried Records
"Don't Bring Me Down"	2013	Tsuba Records
"Feelin You"	2013	LPH White
"Please Don't Dance EP"	2013	Dirt Crew Recordings
"Real Good Like EP"	2014	W&O Street Tracks
"Let's Call Out"	2014	W&O Street Tracks
"Ways of the Underground"	2014	W&O Street Tracks

Remixes

Title	Year	Artist(s)
"Your Love"	2012	Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
"Play Along"	2012	Dan Le Sac
"Lividup"	2012	Disclosure
"Call Me"	2012	Matthias Zimmermann
"Need U (100%)"	2013	Duke Dumont
"Emperor"	2013	Ali Love
"Fall In Love"	2014	Phantogram
"Comeback"	2014	Ella Eyre
"Under The Shadows"	2015	Rae Morris
"Lights Down"	2015	The New Sins