Cliffy Burrows Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Digital Journeys - 1st Anniversary feat. Airwave & Activa Sunday 21st March 9pm - 1am GMT On www.sense.fm This month Digital Journeys celebrates it's 1st Anniversary and to celebrate we have a 4 hour special featuring none other than legends Airwave and Activa. Anyone in the scene knows just how big these 2 are and the massive impact they have made. Both are prolific and consistent producers and incredible DJ's. I myself will be doing a mix of classics, modern classics and new music, so it's shaping up to be one hell of a show. I hope you can join the journey. Airwave Biography: Born in 1977 in Brussels, Laurent aka Airwave is a natural born musician. At the age of 7, he discovered and has developed since then his perfect ear, a precious gift that would later lead him to release his very first records at the age of 18, on the infamous Bonzai record label. Back then, under the influence of 80's and 90's electronica, he already knew what he wanted and fought for his right to express himself, which led him to the very first Airwave release "I want to Believe" EP. This alongside with the many other aliases and collaborations (Fire & Ice, Planisphere...), and the development of Bonzai records outside Belgium (UK, Germany, Italy and many other countries) made his career take off in 1999. Releases were just dropping like rain on Scotland, that made him hit dance top tens and dj charts several times. Versatile in the studio, also extremely gifted as a producer, he's of that generation that breaks boundaries by doing any kind of music, whether it's house, chill-out, trance, progressive, techno. Virtually any dj has played a record of his in the last ten years, seeing him championed by the likes of Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, John 00 Fleming, Tiësto, Armin, Judge Jules and many, many more. "Believe", his very first critically acclaimed artist album, was released at the end of 2002. A much better (and of course updated) version of it "I want to believe", that in a way "looped the loop" was released in 2003 and confirmed the successful career that he had already achieved. But he always wants much more... Because of all this knowledge, because of all the endless possibilities he feels he has as a musician, he put together a new concept as a performer in order to promote his 3CD album "Trilogique", a perfect definition of versatility, bringing the audience 3 different tastes of electronic music into one single package, and showing how much difference matters. As guided by the Greater God like he uses to say, he developed the Triloset, a combination of dj'ing with totally improvised keyboard parts on top of them, which led him to promote Trilosets first instead of Dj'ing, although the audience had seen him DJ worldwide since 2000, with many gigs in England, Scotland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Canada, Netherlands, Spain, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa... The brand new Triloset concept led him to countries he had never been before, with the likes of Turkey, Qatar, USA, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and many others, finally having the Airwave treatment they deserved!! Today, Laurent's discography counts no less than 500 productions, a lot of them being collaborations and remix works for the biggest superstars of nowaday's dance scene (Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Judge Jules, Markus Schulz, M.I.K.E, Yves Deruyter just to name a few). Time saw him finally running Bonzai Records with his long time partners and friends, and also expanding his knowledge of acoustics in order to develop his producer career, as a sound designer among others. And God only knows what tomorrow will be made of for Airwave, but keep in mind that the boy does deliver whatever happens, this for ten years already, with a huge passion and a huge amount of fans pushing his back up to the top electronic musicians hall of fame. http://www.djairwave.com Activa Biography: In a relatively short time since his first release on Somatic Sense, Rob Stevenson, better known as Activa, has been one of the most hard working producers in the Trance genre. He has created many new alias’ such as Solar Movement, Mekk, Substate, Force One, Aira Force, CMR and Eluna to showcase the range of his production skills, while continuously developing the sound of his main Activa alias. Rob has appeared on the likes of Spinnin (Liquid), Discover, High Contrast, Black Hole, Enhanced, Somatic Sense and finally Paul van Dyk’s mighty Vandit Records which has enabled him to push his way into the record boxes of the biggest names in the industry and receive their continuous support. He released his first artist album 'This World' on Discover last year which became an immediate success. The album featured some massive tracks including collaborations with the likes of Giuseppe Ottaviani. As an engineer Rob has worked closely with Jon O’Bir to create Jon’s first artist album, From Within and has engineered and produced, singles and remixes for Jon, Aled Mann (Discover), Owen Clark (Club Elite), Freesoup (Five AM), Chris & Matt Kidd (Joyride) and David Newsum (Discover), clearly showing the range and diversity of Rob’s production skills. Although he is primarily known as a producer, Rob has been DJing since his first experience with a pair of turntables while at school. He has gone on to play at the biggest nights in the UK including Gatecrasher and Passion and regularly travels the UK and often abroad to perform. He is a bi-monthly resident at easily the best and fastest growing night in the UK, Digital Society, where his late sets have become a popular part of the night showcasing the harder side of his style. If that wasn’t enough, Rob also owns and runs Conspiracy Recordings along with Jon O’Bir and Kev Ribbens. The label, which has grown rapidly in the first few years, has had massive support from the biggest names in the industry including regular appearances on Armin’s ASOT, Above & Beyond’s TATW, VONYC Sessions, Sound garden as well as Radio 1 and various other FM radio support. The label has developed a reputation of showcasing brand new music from new artists, has helped kick start the careers of Tom Colontonio, Anguilla Project and Peter Martijn Wijnea, as well as releasing tracks from more well known artists like Ian Betts, Dan Stone and Peter Dafnous. http://www.activamusic.co.uk/ To tune in on the day simply go to www.sense.fm and click on the listen tab. Running order tonight will be: Airwave 9pm - 10pm GMT Cliffy Burrows 10pm - 12am GMT Activa 12am - 1am GMT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Cliffy sir I will definitely be tuned into this. 2 of my favourite artists there already! Looking forward to this, you're in good company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quadrant Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Oh crap, this has already been broadcast!! Damn. EDIT: I see u have put them up for download here, thank you sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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