Interviews
When it comes to cutting edge trance music this guy has been firing on all cylinders for the past few years now and 2012 looks set to be his biggest on the scene. With his enviable energetic stage presence behind the decks and the fact that his productions are championed by everyone from Armin to Oakenfold, he certainly has a very bright future ahead of him.
I caught up with Ben Gold to ask him a few questions ahead of his forthcoming appearance at Hindsight's Valentine Ball on the 11th Feb, 2012 in Exeter and to ask about what lies ahead for him in 2012.
There is no denying that Holland are at the forefront of the harder music scene and have been for quite some time. With events on a massive scale like Defqon 1, Dance Valley and numerous others, this nation of advanced music producers have set the standard for the rest of the world to follow. Firstly, by leading the Dutch trance invasion at the turn of the millennium and secondly, by giving the world hardstyle and gabber.
However, creating a globally supported niche in the market are a group of Dutch producers, who fuse techno and trance influences and have been producing a new style of sound that the rest of the world are really taking notice of. They are running radio shows, DJing at high profile events, producing at a diligent rate and endeavouring to get their sound released on some of the most cutting edge labels out there, and all are artists which have been featuring in my record boxes for quite some time!
2011 has been a wonderful year for DJ Fresh, also known as 31 year old Dan Stein, with his single 'Louder' (featuring the vocal talents of Kosheen's Sian Evans) topping the UK charts and featured on a Lucozade commercial. His immense contribution to the drum & bass scene is celebrated, but he's not a one-trick pony. His roots in production are fimly cemented as part of the massively successful act, Bad Company.
As well as touring the globe extensively with Bad Company, DJ Fresh is one of the founders of the legendary community Dogs On Acid (www.dogsonacid.com), which has become a platform for producers and DJs to freely exchange ideas and opinions on the drum & bass scene and breaks out into other genres such as breakbeat and dubstep. Here he kindly spares a few minutes of his time for us at Core!
As a DJ - hell, even as a fan - I love not just drum and bass but music in general. I like to chill out at home with some hip hop, some rnb and soul. Some people love rock, some people love pop, some people love jazz - whatever you like one thing is for sure, how we listen to our music has changed. And continues to change.
We have The Third Movement record label head honcho making one of his very rare UK appearances at our Impact “9th Birthday” party in Glasgow at the end of this month, so thought now would be a perfect time to ask the man some questions, in preparation of a whole feature in the next issue of Core! So... here goes...
Until this year, the acclaimed 2003 compilation ‘Music for the Masses’ was the pinnacle of Timo Maas’ DJ career. But after a phone call from the makers of the infamous ‘Balance Series’ that all changed, with the release of the double CD ‘Balance 017’. Core talks to Timo Maas about why he did the mix and his plans for 2011.
In an overpopulated scene where exciting new records are seldom found, there is a buzz happening around Portugal.
The Drum and Bass Awards 2011!
The voting for the Official Drum and Bass Awards, billed as ‘the greatest drum and bass show on Planet Earth’ is upon us, with voting commencing on Saturday 4 December 2010. Now in its fifth year, the Official Drum and Bass Awards has grown from a small event at Air nightclub in Birmingham (with a reasonable capacity of 1,500) to a sell-out (5,000 capacity) event in the Custard Factory in 2010. And they had to turn people away at the door.
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