I saw Darude the first time he came to Columbus right after his hit single, “Sandstorm”, was released.
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t impressed. I like his super trancey singles, but his mixing ability is greatly lacking. Who knows, maybe since then he has improved. Let’s cross our fingers.
Either way, it will be interesting to see his track selection and if he’s expanded a little past his ancient “Sandstorm” and “Feel the Beat” sound.
Darude is currently ranked #58 on the DJ List as of January 1, 2008[1] and #116 in the DJ Mag Top 100.[2]
Darude posted his singles Tell Me and My Game from his upcoming new album Label This! on his official MySpace page. Tell Me was released in Finland on April 11, 2007 and My Game on September 19, 2007.
The Finnish release date for Label This! was October 24, 2007.
This is no ordinary show. This duo is known to play some of the largest events in the world. Granted it’s only one of the renowned duo DJ team, I think this will still be a sight to see.
In 1988-89, a 20 year old exchange student from California Institute of the Arts, was living in The Hague in Holland and studying at the Institute of Sonology. Josh Gabriel had already been working with digital music since his high-school days, achieving mastery of the DX7 and TX816 by the age of 17. With an Apple Macintosh Plus, operating system 3, and the earliest of music applications like Mark of the Unicorn’s “Composer” and “Performer”, Josh was already at the bleeding edge.
In Holland, Gabriel’s inventor spirit took shape as he wrote a computer application to control samples on an Akai S900 in real-time with a joystick. And the inception for what later became Mixman had been born. Along with electronics whiz Jan Pannis, (Stockhausen’s tech-man) Gabriel and Pannis built an apparatus which converted beams of light coming up off the floor into a Midi Control device and the 20 year old Gabriel dressed in black, wearing white gloves performed his real-time beat-trigger device in the clubs of Amsterdam.
By 1993 Gabriel was doing high-end digital sound editing, design and production in Los Angeles, and finally found a business partner and the journey that was to become Mixman began.
