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[Producer] Featured Music Artist Profile -- Darren Styles | Views: 784 | |
 Darren Mew: AKA Darren Styles, a mixture of tough German beats and full-on euphoric hard trance riffs that combine to create an instant explosion on the dance floor.
Encouraged from an early age by his father, an avid blues fan, Darren had always possessed a passionate craving for music. Many late nights were spent enthusiastically mastering his natural ability on the keyboard, engineering it into an undisputed skill whilst developing his own style, ever inspired by Dance music.
In 1992, during a wintry February night out in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, Darren had his first "hands on" experience of the then underground rave scene - the venue being none other than the unforgettable "Oscars Nightclub" situated on Clacton Pier. This initial exposure instigated a desire to be at the heart of such a community, and since that rainy February evening, Darren has never looked back…
In 1993 along with friend Paul Hobbs aka Dj Force, Darren signed to legendary
Hardcore label, Kniteforce records…….Artist name 'Force + Evolution'.
Many of these releases were championed by the mighty Carl Cox!
Soon after the pair were producing for DJ Slipmatt's 'Universal' label…….
Artist name 'Sense of Summer'.
By 1996 Darren and Paul, artist names 'FORCE + STYLES', were DJ'ing every weekend up and down the UK, touring Australia, The United States, Canada and Ibiza on a regular basis, whilst holding down residencies (which he still has) at 'Slammin Vinyl', 'Helter Skelter', and 'United Dance', to name just a few.
Due to the ever increasing demand for their original work combined with the sheer speed the two partners in crime produced their music, they started their own record label offering themselves a portal to create and distribute their work. This portal held no boundaries, and gave the pair infinite musical freedom - UK Dance was born.
UK Dance went on to host a catalogue of big selling tracks…….Such as 'Pretty green eyes', 'Feelin Fine' and 'Heart of Gold' to name but a few!
Serious recognition followed, including awards for……
Best Producers
Best Record Label
Best Hardcore Record 1997 Force + Styles - Heart of Gold (Kiss Fm Awards)
Best Hardcore Record 2003 Styles + Breeze - You're Shining (Hardcore Heaven)
Best Live PA
Rookie DJ's of the year 1997
Best visiting DJ's (Ireland)
Also in 1997 Force + Styles were the first ever Hardcore DJ's to do a mix for
Pete Tong's Essential Mix on Radio 1!
While Darren's piano breakdowns continued to work their magic on the nations dance floors, his natural progression alongside his ever-growing interest in trance hinted at a change of direction for his productions. "If you listen to my hardcore productions post 97 you'll hear that they're mostly trance influenced, so making some trance tracks at a slower pace seemed the obvious thing to do" explains Darren. Around this time fellow hardcore jock Mark Breeze was also leaning towards the
trance sound and very soon, Darren and Mark had set about writing a number of
trance based tracks together, at a varying range of speeds. This lead to a number of Trance based productions being signed to the UK's biggest Hard Dance label 'Nukleuz'……
Infextious - Let Me Fly
FutureWorld - Chemical Love
Darren Styles - Black Magik
Disco Brothers, Darren Styles + Mark Breeze - Feelin' Me
Disco Brothers, Darren Styles + Mark Breeze - Take Off
To echo a quote from Nukleuz themselves:
"Darren's music is unique; a mixture of tough German beats and full-on euphoric hard trance riffs that combine to create an instant explosion on the dance floor. Darren has recently brought the house down with his legendary remix of the classic trance track 'Silence' by Taiko and Vinylgroover and the Red Hed's 'Everlasting' that has seen a-list DJ's from around the world beating down his door in search of exclusive tracks to play in clubs and on the radio.
More recently Darren has been working very closely with arguably the UK's biggest commercial dance label 'All Around the World'!
Darren is 100% writer of 'Feelin' Fine' by Ultrabeat. Which entered the UK top 40 at no. 12 and went on to sell over 150 thousand copies in the UK. Feelin' Fine also dominated the Radio 1 A list for 5 Consecutive weeks.
Darren is one third writer of 'Pretty Green Eyes' by Ultrabeat. Which entered the UK top 40 at no. 2 and sold over 250 thousand copies in the UK. 'Pretty Green Eyes' went on to be the 25th biggest selling record of 2003. It was also the biggest selling dance record of 2003 and stayed in the top 40 for a staggering 3 months!
Darren is 50% writer of 'Heart of Gold' by Kelly Llorenna. Which entered the UK top 40 at no. 19.
Darren is 50% writer of 'Field of Dreams' by Flip + Fill. Which entered the UK top 40 at no. 28.
It's quite clear that, for the time being, there's absolutely no stopping him! As Darren puts it "studio work is non stop right now which is great. General production is paramount, with lots of new and exciting projects on the way!
http://www.darrenstyles.co.uk Posted by: head_case, 3 Mar 06, 01:35
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