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A tastemaker with regular festival appearaces We Out Here, Beat-Herder & Gottwood - Ché forged his own sound from broken beat, acid house & jazz funk with sharp selection, unique production & 10 years of DJing/event curation, including work with Red Bull.
Ché Wax is a producer, DJ and white label from Liverpool who has played at festivals such as We Out Here, Beatherder, and Gottwood and has forged his own sound from a versatile record selection exploring the psychedelic outskirts of genres like bruk and jazz-funk, to dub-disco and 80s boogie, or electro-funk and acid-house, with releases on labels such as Fabric, Atjazz, Erbium, Heavenly, and Rough Trade.
Ché's eclecticism and expertise has led to writing collaborations with major artists, playing a key role in the early development of chart-topping band Confidence Man, whilst keeping it real under various other aliases producing with broken beat legends Sticky Dub and EVM128. Ché has played alongside the likes of Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, Alexander Nut, and Radioactive Man, at seriously underground secret locations across Europe - including Parisian warehouse raves, Amsterdam coffeeshops, and London hifi clubs.
Born in the council estate of Norris Green, Liverpool, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and producer recording his own various recording projects from a very young age, Ché’s DJ career began at age 18 as the weekly resident DJ at the iconic Jacaranda, the basement famous for being where The Beatles first played a gig under that name (as owned by their manager Alan Williams). In the Jac he spun a diverse mix of soul, reggae, punk, and funk, to the late night dancing crowd, 2am - 6am every Saturday, now seen as Liverpool's last real weekly dance music residency before the pandemic changed the scene. Looking for a deeper and more expressive artistic outlet, he founded the invite-only secret location warehouse party “Keep It Cryptic,” taking over derelict spaces all over the country and leading him to curating club nights and festival takeovers with Red Bull, including at We Out Here Festival.
It was his Indian electro-dub edit of Charanjit Singh’s 'Raga Bhairav' that caught the attention of BBC Radio 1’s Jay Carder, leading to a signing with Erbium Records and the release of his Guerrilla Warfare EP under his Guevarism alias in 2023. He released his edit of 'Raga' as a vinyl-only white label 'Ché Wax Vol 1' the following year with a new 303-infused rework of the 60s psychedelic track 'Love Buzz' by Shocking Blue, which has gained serious respect and recognition in a very short space of time, going straight to number 1 on Juno’s Electro chart in 2024. The record was played by Seth Troxler at Fabric in 2025, as well as receiving support from Ruf Dug, Make A Dance, De La Reef, and Milly On Air.
As well as writing and producing for Confidence Man, he has also remixed with his father, the legendary DJ Greg Wilson, for Gabriels, Jarvis Cocker, Happy Mondays, and Simply Red, contributing to releases on prestigious labels like Fabric Records, Heavenly Recordings, and Rough Trade.
With a rich musical history and an ever-growing influence in both production and live performance, Ché continues to push boundaries while maintaining a deep connection to his roots in Liverpool’s dynamic music scene.
