Being an avid Trance lover since 1999, I'm always searching for amazing new sounds. One of my goals in life is to see all the great DJs/Producers perform that I really enjoy. There is so much amazing talent in this world and I will always be searching for someone new and unique.
My goal with my new radio show and podcast is to search for newer and less known Trance & Progressive artists. I have had the pleasure of seeing and hearing most of the Big Named Artists over the years and now it's time to move onto the new talented artists of the future.
So for my first episode I wanted to have on one of my favorite Trance DJs/Producers, Danny Chen.
I met Danny Chen around January 2010 in the #trancefamily irc chat room. This is also how I met the #trancefamily. I was bored one evening and searching through the various chat rooms on the mixxnet irc server. I stumbled across one called #trancefamily. It sounded like there might be some nice trance lovers in this chat room, so I joined.
Danny Chen was the moderator of the #trancefamily irc chat room and he also ran trancefamily.net at the time. He was very popular with all of the #trancefamily spinning for hours upon hours with his legendary Zombie Sessions. Danny had also made many mashups, some spectacular year mixes and a few remixes.
Last year around the time of ASOT450, Danny Chen produced his first Original Track, 'Oceanside' using Ableton Live. Being a new artist, it is very difficult to get your first track signed. I saw such great potential in Danny, he was only 21 years old at the time and an amazing DJ and a fabulous new producer.I told Danny, let me help you, you are so amazing and I see a great future in you. So I began sending out some of Danny's mashups to some big DJs for him. Tydi played his Good Dream Right back mashup on his show twice. I also secured Danny a couple radio shows on 1mix.co.uk and ETN.fm.
In the music industry, it's one of those things, where you have to be in the right place at the right time. A few productions later, my friend Cristina was over at my house spinning on my livestream channel for some of the #trancefamily. Joanna invited Ruben de Ronde to tune in and Cristina played Ruben some of Danny's tracks. The next thing you know, Danny Chen was signed to his first label, Statement!, doing a fabulous remix of 'Ruden de Ronde - Forever In Our Hearts'.
Since then Danny Chen has produced several amazing tunes for Statement!, Armada, Black Hole Recordings, LW Recordings and We Stand Alone. His tracks have also been featured on a couple compiliations of Big Trance Artists including 'ATB – The DJ™6 - In The Mix Vol.1' and 'Andy Moor - Breaking The Silence Volume 2'.
Needless to say I am so happy I met such an amazing person as Danny Chen and I am so proud of his success so far. He is definitely one artist I will always believe in and continue to support through his musical journey.
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