Roger Shah w/ Zara Taylor @ GOSSIP
Friday Sep 03, 2010
INDEPENDENT Entertainment and TWISTED Productions presents:
I LOVE FRIDAYS: Roger Shah w/ Zara Taylor - Featuring Roger Shah from his Sunlounger tour! With *LIVE* vocals by Zara Taylor. Also featuring a performance by local DJ Allya
On stage, clad in his trademark white, he is impossible to miss or mistake. Wireless keyboard in one hand, an ever-ready clutch of his own productions in the other, his live crowd-interactive performances have brought a new apex experience for club and festival goers worldwide.
In 2009 this unequaled approach was reflected in DJ Magazine’s Top 100 chart, where he moved up from his ‘08 debut position of #58 to #21. As a music producer he's scaled the heights of national charts and with 5 artist albums & compilations released in the last 2 years alone, he is very possibly the most prolific trance musician working today.
In late 2008, Shah took the decision to change his artist name. Dropping the ‘DJ’ prefix, he revised it to Roger Shah – a move that signaled a move away from straightforward DJ sets.
His successive live-on-stage more concert themed ones have brought a sea change to how trance music is presented to an audience.
Many countries around the world have already born witness to this, among them: Mexico, Sydney, Ibiza, Argentina, Ukraine, Poland, & India, with Roger performing at tent-pole events including the ASOT400, I Love Kiev, Gatecrasher’s NYE & Judgement Sundays.
In 2007, Armin named Shah’s ‘Who Will Find Me’ release as his favorite track of 2007. Having heard the demo of its follow up, Van Buuren saw massive crossover potential in the track and made contact in early 2008 to ask if Shah would like to collaborate on it. The result was the Chris Jones song ‘Going Wrong’… A national top 5 smash in The Netherlands, the track went on to become one of the biggest selling trance singles of the year.
From there, Magic Island Records – Shah’s primary label moved from his own stable to that of one of Armin’s industry-leading Armada Music.
After having been labeled as one of the top-selling artists on Armada, the move toward the Dutch master dance label has proven to be a successful one for Roger, and we can only imagine what tomorrow will bring.
Its been a long hard road for Roger Shah, but through his hard work in the studio and one of a kind live performances, this fast rising trance superstar is blazing a trail only a few have traveled before him, and the top is only a few steps ahead.
Zara Taylor - She has been called one of the most tender voices in dance and a stimulating aural aphrodisiac. Best known for her intoxicating melodies and profound lyrics, appearing on over 60 albums including singles and compilations, Zara Taylor's voice has already made an impact on the dance music scene. In 2008, after debuting on the trance scene with the all-time balearic favourite 'Crawling', Zara teamed up again with Roger Shah (a.k.a Sunlounger) for the massive hit 'Lost' which quickly became number 1 on the beatport charts. The single was voted Future Favourite and won the number 1 Trance Song of the Year on ASOT. Now, two years later, Armin Van Buuren's mash-up of the epic tune is again reaching the number 1 spot on the charts proving to be a timeless winner. With her latest single 'Found' just released on Armada and it's hot new video out now, the much anticipated follow-up to 'Lost' already has her fans deeming it the Tune of the Year 2010. Shortly following the release of 'Found' Zara's sensual and up-beat love song 'Feels Like Heaven' is to be released this summer on the new Sunlounger album 'The Beach Side Of Life'. Currently, Zara resides in Vancouver B.C and is busy in the studio composing her debut solo album and exploring collaborations with some of the most compelling producers in dance music today. This singer-songwriter continues to show us that pure heart and soul cannot be bought, it is tuned in to. Zara aims to catch our ears and hit heart frequencies for years to come.
More information available at:
Tickets available @:
- Beatstreet: 439 West Hastings Street, DT Vancouver - (604)683-3344
- East Side Urbanwear: Metropolis, Metrotown, Burnaby - (604)451-3310
- any INDEPENDENT Entertainment promoter
Ticket prices:
- early birds (first 100): @ $25
- next 300: @ $30
- $35 thereafter
- more tickets available at the door!
VIP GOSSIP Black Gold (10 guests) and VIP GOSSIP White Gold (6 guests) packages are available!(details at info@independentvancouver.com)
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For more information, VIP / birthday bookings, tickets and guestlist contact:
info@independentvancouver.com
- or contact any INDEPENDENT Entertainment promoter
COSMIC GATE @ GOSSIP
Friday Oct 15, 2010
INDEPENDENT Entertainment, TWISTED Productions and BLACKHOLE Recordings present:
I LOVE FRIDAYS: COSMIC GATE - They're back in Vancouver by popular demand for what is sure to be another crowd pleasing performance!
Featuring:
- an exclusive 3 hour set
- Alongside TWISTED's resident DJ, DJ Allya
Over 10 boundary-pushing years, Nic Chagall and Bossi have evolved Cosmic Gate into one of the most creative and highly sought after electronic music acts in the world. Revered uber-producers, their musical acumen has seen them become long-term favourites of the trance’s Big 5 DJ's with their 3 hugely-received albums transporting anthems like ‘Body of Conflict’, ‘I Feel Wonderful’, ‘Analog Feel’, or the classics ‘Exploration of Space’ and 'Fire Wire' to the dancefloor. As DJ's, their kinetic, blood-pumping live performances are seen by hundreds of thousands of club and festival goers annually. Playing a 100 nights every year, it's this ever-visible club presence that saw them reach their highest position to-date on the DJ Mag Top 100, landing at No.62 in 2008.
Following a chance meeting at a label office in Cologne in late 1998, the pair collaborated for the first time. It's a production partnership that has become one of the dance world’s most successful and memorable. In their homeland of Germany, they’ve maintained a consistent level of chart success, with no fewer than 7 Top 40 singles to their name and a Top 10 hit in the UK in 2001, with the quintessential club hit, Fire Wire. Drawing on a broad-range of their individual musical tastes and influences, they’ve continued to advance and enhance the sound… Following up the long-players ‘Rythm & Drums’ and ‘No More Sleep’, in 2006 they released ‘Earth Mover’, which saw a seismic shift towards a more melodic and electronically orientated music. Including the club hits ‘Analog Feel', ‘Should Have Known’ and ‘I Feel Wonderful’, the long-player was IDMA nominated for Best Album of 2007 and was latterly seen as a new ‘year one’ for Cosmic Gate.
In 2009 Nic and Bossi are set to release their fourth studio album ‘Sign of the Times’, which contains 11 floor-monsters-in-waiting, last year’s vocal anthem ‘Body of Conflict’ and the latest smash single ‘Not Enough Time’, which in the words of Tiësto is “a great and solid vocal trancer that touches all your musical senses!” And in the broader scale on ‘Sign of the Times’ Armin van Buuren says “The new Cosmic Gate album is one of the most anticipated releases of this year. They are on the forefront of the dance music sound of the moment… Bring on 2009!”
Deck-side Nic and Bossi have whipped floors into frenzies all the way around the world. In 2008 they played Tiësto’s now-famous Monday nighter at Privilege in Ibiza, rocked roofs at the Judgement Sunday nights and decisively broke into the US and Australian clubbing scenes through a string of sell-out tours. They appeared in the DJ Magazine’s list of Top 100 spinners for 6 years now and are regular festival attraction, spinning at events like Trance Energy and Mysteryland in The Netherlands, Summadayze in Australia, Germany’s Nature One and Stateside at Nocturnal. In early 2009 they are set to roadblock the Freedom Festival with Tiësto in Malaysia and Sunrise in Poland.
Back2Back, Cosmic Gate's on-going compilation series was devised as the at-home testament to the pair’s club-rocking exploits. 2007 saw the release of the 3rd volume through Tiësto's Black Hole label. The compilations bring the evocative mix of trance, progressive and electro and stands apart through their use of numerous at-the-time unreleased productions and unique Cosmic Gate edits.
Over their production lifetime, the Cosmic Gate remixes have become almost as fêted as their productions. Essentially a blow by blow of trance music’s A-list, Nic and Bossi lent their studio know-how to productions by the likes of Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Above & Beyond's OceanLab project, Rank 1 and Blank & Jones. Most recently they rewired Deadmau5’s ‘Clockwork’ to devastating effect and created two highly-praised remixes of ‘Vincent De Moor - Fly Away’ and ‘Veracocha - Carte Blanche'.
Check them out at:
Tickets available @:
- any INDEPENDENT Entertainment promoter
- Beatstreet: 439 West Hastings Street - (604)683-3344
- East Side Urbanwear: Metropolis, Metrotown - (604)451 3310
Ticket prices:
- early bird tickets @ $25 (first 100)
- $30 (next 200)
- $35 thereafter
- more available at the door (limited)
VIP GOSSIP Black Gold (10 guests) and VIP GOSSIP White Gold (6 guests) packages are available!(details at info@independentvancouver.com)
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For more information, VIP / birthday bookings, tickets and guestlist contact:
info@independentvancouver.com
- or contact any INDEPENDENT Entertainment promoter
