World number s e v e n a n d global favourite Gareth Emery heads to Bangalore for a scintillating and hyper energetic Submerge gig at Bling, on October 8, 8.30 pm.
This time, it’s going to be thrice as good with Nikhil Chinapa and Rohit Barker sharing stage space with the legend.
GARETH EMERY
Gareth Emery is one of electronic music’s most influential and innovative DJ producers, voted no 7 in DJ Mag’s ‘Top 100 DJs’ poll making him the UK’s highest ranked DJ.
In 2010, he released his debut artist album ‘Northern Lights’ on his own label Garuda, hitting no.1 on the US iTunes dance chart within hours of it’s release.
Born in Southampton, but now based in Manchester, England, Gareth Emery is a producer and DJ of trance music.
He comes from a diverse musical background that includes classical piano training, jazz, and a little punk rock.
Gareth has emerged in the last few years as one of the world’s major trance DJs.
Since entering the DJ Mag Top 100 poll at number 34 in 2006, he has climbed every year since being ranked 31 in the 2007 poll, 23 in the 2008 poll, and entering the top 10 in 2009 at number 9.
He is widely tipped to become one of the next global stars of trance music, with both Paul van Dyk and Ferry Corsten naming him as a future star in their DJ Mag Top 100 interviews in 2006 and 2007.
In 2010 Gareth was named the seventh DJ in the world by DJ Mag.
He also celebrated 100 episodes and four years of his award winning podcast, collaborated with Above and Beyond for the crossover international radio hit ‘On A Good Day (Metropolis)’, whilst also finding time to play 130 shows and rocking festivals in 40 countries to over two million people.
Emery first came to the attention of the electronic music community early in 2002 when his debut vinyl release, a white label remix of The Shrink’s classic ‘Nervous Breakdown’, was broadcast live on BBC Radio 1 from the Mardi Gras festival on Judge Jules’ show.
After being championed by a host of DJs, including Eddie Halliwell, Pete Tong, Guy Ornadel, Scot Project and Dave Pearce, Nervous Breakdown was picked up by Nutrition for an official release and later featured on a number of compilations including the Godskitchen Direct mix album.
Following the hard techtrance flavour of Nervous Breakdown, Gareth turned his attention back to his traditional style of trance with his next release, a double A-side comprising the tracks Psiclone and Flood Control on his own label Influential.
The release picked up considerable support from all the major trance spinners including Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten.
However, the track that truly put Emery on the production map was GTR Mistral, which was the fourth track he had produced.
It was created entirely on a laptop computer over the course of a two week holiday in Provence.
Nevertheless, the CDR that Gareth sent to Paul van Dyk caused a storm when van Dyk debuted it live on the radio during the Nature One Festival.
‘Mistral’ received huge support from some of the world’s leading DJs, including Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Dj EGG, Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten, and received highly positive reviews in Mixmag, Muzik, and DJ.
Emery has a distinctive and unique production style that can perhaps best be described as a fusion of trance and progressive, with psy, tribal and techno flavours.
His productions have been described as intelligent, driving, melodic and progressive.
His dub mixes are often done in his signature stuttering vocal style, which he pioneered on his early hit Bouncebackability (coproduced with Jon O’Bir).
He is well known for playing a diverse showcase of music both in his DJ sets and his podcast, and has often dismissed his categorization as a ‘trance’ DJ simply stating that he plays good records regardless of genre.
Gareth Emery’s production aliases include GTR, Cupa, Digital Blues and a house project under the meme Runaway.
His production history includes collaborations with artists like Lange, Solid Globe, Jon O’Bir and Cern with releases on a multitude of labels including A State of Trance, Lost Language, Multiply, Bonzai, and his native Five AM label.
In May 2005, Gareth released his debut mix CD, five am sessions: Volume One, featuring a diverse blend of electronica that ranges from deep and dark tech-trance, to funky tripped out electronica, and his own signature style of pure driving trance.
In September 2010 Gareth released his first artist album Northern Lights.
Reviews have generally been positive, with Maxumi Magazine saying Slick production and excellent use of vocals firmly cements Emery’s reputation as the up and coming trance producer of the decade.