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Lou Cooper (Head of Albums, Toolroom Records)

Lou Cooper is Southampton Solent University’s BA (Hons) Popular Music Journalism graduate. She has worked at Three Six Zero’s London office’s music department as a label assistant on Deadmau5, Calvin Harris, Sasha & Steve Angello’s (Swedish House Mafia) labels.

After that, she worked as a freelancer at her own label consultancy business and ended up label managing John Dahlback’s label ‘Mutants’ where she was securing radio placement & interviews on Radio 1, features for online & print press, writing press releases and promoting each release. After a successful five months running ‘Mutants’ she took on the role of Album Co-ordinator at Toolroom and now manages the Albums team.

Read: Graduate Lou Cooper charts her journey to managing albums at Toolroom Records

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Dave Spoon (DJ, producer, Radio 1)


Dave Spoon is the alias of DJ and producer Simon Neale. He currently hosts Radio 1’s ‘In New DJs We Trust’.

Signing ’21st Century’ to Toolroom Records in 2004 was a key point for Spoon, an instant success supported by the likes of Pete Tong and Roger Sanchez. The piano led ‘Sunrise EP’ followed and was instantly signed to Seamus Haji’s Big Love imprint. With a lot of buzz surrounding his releases, the remixes poured in with re-works for the hottest underground labels including Stealth, Cyber, Toolroom & Cr2.

In 2006, keen to push musical boundaries and break new sounds, Spoon released ‘At Night’ – a dance floor killer. Championed by everyone from Deep Dish to Tiesto, the track caused a stir on dancefloors. With an added vocal in 2007 from Lisa Maffia the track crossed over as ‘Bad Girl (At Night)’ on Universal, it was one of the biggest records last summer, earning Spoon his first top 40 hit.

With a Ministry Of Sound “Summer Sessions” compilation under his belt, remixes of artists like Dizzee Rascal, Pet Shop Boys plus updates of classics such as Gat Décor’s ‘Passion’, 2007 has moved Spoon further into the limelight. Having landed himself a show on Radio 1’s ‘In New DJs We Trust’, writing his artist album and writing with the likes of Pete Tong, it seems a string of new material is soon to be heard on a sound system near you.