Bio
& press kit.
London-born, Dorset-based. Deep house, spiritual sounds, jazz and the leftfield edges of club music.
Forty years in. Still here for the music.
South Beach Recycling is Gary Ellis: DJ, producer, record collector and promoter. Born in London and based in Dorset, Gary has spent more than four decades around records, club nights, radio and underground parties.
His music draws on deep and spiritual house, jazz-rooted electronics, raw US grooves, soul, dub and percussion. Detroit and Chicago sit alongside the more leftfield records that have always found their way into his sets.
Since house music hit UK shores in the late 80s, Gary has run a record shop, been involved with three radio stations and put on parties on the South Coast. His productions and remixes have appeared through Atjazz Record Company, Situationism, Beyond Tomorrow, Nervous Records and Midnight Riot. His ongoing relationship with Atjazz has brought a run of releases including RESET.
Behind the decks, he likes room to build a set: good sound, an open-minded crowd and a line-up that makes musical sense.
Influences
Craig Smith · Phil Asher · Atjazz · Joe Claussell · Patrice Scott · Jovonn · Ron Trent · Trinidadian Deep
Selected releases.
Selected appearances.
Number 90 / Hideout
London
We Out Here
2022
Victorious
Southsea · 2026
Pikes Ibiza
Ibiza
BBE Store
London
Hootananny
Brixton, London
Spiritland
King’s Cross · flyers below
Camden Lockside
With Atjazz & Julian Gomes · 2025
Supermax
5 March · flyer below
Funksoul Disco Special
The Oval, East London · 29 July
We Turn Tables
Alicante · 2025
Also: the Atjazz All-Dayer in Bournemouth, and Deep in the Forest with Atjazz, Jimpster and Craig Smith. Gary continues to promote underground music and radio on the South Coast. The Hootananny 24 October 2026 date shown below is upcoming.
Flyers from the archive
The flyer photos are a bit rough. I’ve always cared more about the records and the room than putting a grey bloke in his fifties front and centre. These are the nights as they were.
Spiritland, Supermax and Funksoul flyers show the day and month without a year, so the year is left unspecified. A matching Mixcloud recording has not yet been verified.
RESET in circulation.
August electronic roundup
Joe Muggs selected RESET in Bandcamp Daily’s August 2026 electronic round-up.
Read feature ↗RESET review
Featured in the 15 August 2026 weekly house review.
From Prague to Ibiza
Published RESET tracklists include Douglas Arellanes (Radio 1 Prague), Pat Steele (Global Soul), Simon Harrison (Basic Soul), Back Corner Radio, Ruben Estevez (Nuwave), ASMR Deep Sonic Grooves, Mark Randle (Starpoint) and DJ Sol (Ibiza Stardust). Paul Stuart featured RESET (Original Concept). Gary has also confirmed two Benji B plays on BBC Radio 1 and a Rohan Rakhit play on Worldwide FM. Martin Lodge on Mi-Soul Radio, Eavesdrop Radio on WKDU 91.7 FM Philadelphia, and Vocal Booth Radio (Get Comfy) are also in the radio list while episode links are gathered.
Explore shows and episode links ↗Pat Steele / Global Soul
“Total No Recall” appears in the 5 September 2026 Too Funky tracklist, alongside Pat’s earlier RESET play.
Listen to show ↗Wider DJ / selector / playlist support
François K · Craig Smith · Laurent Garnier · Tedd Patterson · Benji B Selects
Playlist and selector support is separate from the radio plays listed above.
Abel / In My Dreams dub feedback
These comments are for the South Beach Recycling Dub of Abel’s “In My Dreams”, separate from RESET.
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A selection of feedback sent through the release promo. Open the original screenshot for context; feedback or a download does not by itself confirm a radio play.
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