Music Style: Hard "Melodic/Uplifting" Trance
Best Tune: Flutlicht - Ahmea
Current Residencies:
CHEMICAL ELEMENT @ The Beehive, Bridport
CHEMICAL ELEMENT @ The Grove, Seaton
GENETICALLY ENGINEERED @ The Kiva, Weymouth
Past Residencies:
CHUNKY @ The Kiva, Weymouth
CHUNKY @ Liberty's, Dorchester
Underground Nation @ Paul's Nightclub, Dorchester
Past Gigs:
Trance Parties @ The Old George, Dorchester
Justify Your mind @ The Exibition, Dorchester
Headstopmers @ Pinner Cricket Club, London
Underground Nation @ The Kiva, Weymouth
Booked alongside the likes of:
Flutlicht,
S.H.O.K.K,
DJ Wag,
The Trance Generators,
The Elite,
The Organ Donors,
DJ Choci,
Chris Hare,
Major Tom,
Dave Scott,
Hashimi,
Bio:
"I was First inspired by commercial trance in 2000 at dance parties held
at the local youth centre (DYC). It was also here that I was given the opportunity
to first try out the basic skills of mixing on a set of Numark CD decks. With
my experience with musical structures before, coming from learning instruments
such as Guitar, Bass and Keyboard, the theory side of mixing seemed pretty
simple. After a few basic lessons I was hooked and started practicing constantly
down the centre day after day. It wasn't long before I was playing the harder
side of commercial trance and even a bit of hardhouse at the centre's monthly
"Dance Anthems" events. The events would pull about 200-250 people
aged 16-21 and it was a great way to learn how to "work" the crowd
and get the responses that I was looking for. Another benefit was I was learning
to
play straight out on a large soundsystem and club environment.
After about three months of this I became more and more interested in the harder edge of the music I was playing, and started playing less and less commercial trance and hardhouse, and turning to Import Trance instead. By now I was pulling off good mixes on the CD decks and wanted to take it a step further by progressing to Vinyl. It was lucky that DYC also had a pair of 1210s as well so I was able to practice weekly on these. Four weeks later and I was given some Sony DD Turntables, two to three more months of hard practicing, and vinyl buying and I was asked to play at a local trance/techno event. By this time my style had become a lot harder, and certainly no longer commercial.
It was only about two months later that I picked up a residency with "CHUNKY", held at the Kiva in Weymouth. My style was now mainly consisting of German Hard Trance. It was at the Kiva that I was recognized by some well established DJ's, this led to a second residency with "Underground Nation" where I got to play alongside some of the "Country Club" residents, which at the time was the biggest and best club around. "CHUNKY" started playing at Liberty's as well, and I was instantly made a resident there. My main interest now was "Underground Nation" as this was where I was receiving the most respect from. After a few months I dropped my residency with "CHUNKY", I started Promoting some of my own nights at local Venues and they seemed to work really well. It was then that I realized just how many useful contacts I had picked up.
Since then "Underground Nation" has stopped, and I was lucky to
pick up a residency with "Chemical-Element", I am now employed as
there webdisigner as well, so I'm still well into the underground scene around
the south west. My Residencies with them are at "The Beehive" and
"The Grove" two of the Southwest's major players in the Hard Trance
scene."