From: Karri K (karri_at_finrg.com)
Date: Tue 02 Sep 2003 - 09:28:03 EEST
Sat 27th of September 2003
Club Kino and Finrg Agency present together:
A legend of kixutrance from London:
MIKE KOGLIN www.koglinlab.co.uk
+ Finnish support:
Seb (www.djseb.net)
Karri K (www.finrg.com)
@Club Kino, Kauppiaskatu 7, Turku
Time 26.9. 22-04
Age limit 18.
Price only 6 euros!!
Mike Koglin info:
Having grown up in Bonn, Germany he relocated to London in 1990 where he
was inspired by the early british dance music scene and he soon started to
work with dj's and producers from the UK underground. Having made a name
for himself as a talented producer it wasn't long before he began to work
with dance legends such as Boy George and Jeremy Healy. Koglin's and
Healy's track 'Stamp' reached no 11 in the UK charts in summer '96, and
since then many of his productions have entered the top40. His production
of 'When Will You Learn' co-written with Boy George even got nominated for
a Grammy for Best Dance Recording in '97.
But it was in 1998, bitten by the Trance bug that was flooding into the UK
that Mike truly found his forte; moving away from the House sounds into
the powerful, driven world of Trance. This soon yielded production gems
such as "The Silence" and "On My Way" on Multiply which both hit the UK
charts in 1998/99, and with the success of Mikes clean, polished trance
sound remix offers soon began to come in. With over 50 remixes in the last
5 years, Mike has remixed not only dance classics such as Lustral
"Everytime"; DreamCatcher ''I Don't Wanna Loose My Way''; and Brainchild
"Symmetry C"; but also such big tunes as ''Fine Day'' (Kirsty Hawkshaw
from Opus 3) or Dido's "All You Want "
Besides releasing records under his own name he has worked under many different guises such as 'Clubzone', 'The Argonauts' (with DJ Dave Ralph), 'Planet K', 'Divide&Rule', or most recently 'KoTa' and 'State One'. In 2002 Mike forged an ongoing working relationship with Trance master Darren Tate (of Jurgen Vries and Angelic fame) which recently brought us Tate vs Koglin - ''Now Is The Time'' and 'KoTa - 'Waiting', and with the Dirt Devils he's formed the 'Skoob' project. Another collaboration to look out for this summer is his work with U.T.O, a Trance workout of truly anthemic proportions...
This year is the year Mike has chosen to launch two massive projects - one
under the name of "State One" out as a major release on Incentive in
august. The first State One single ''Forever And A Day'' is already being
caned by the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten and Graham Gold.
Cleverly utlising a seriously well known but so far untouched sample this
tune looks set to be one of the summer anthems of 2003..
His other project is the launch of his label NOYS MUSIC. Designed as an
outlet for new tunes on the harder side of Trance this label - as the name
suggests - is here to make some serious noise in both the world of Hard
Dance and Trance. On the darker, harder side the first release on NOYS is
a collaboration with japanese dance floor master Energy Dai, entitled
"Loaded". Championed by the likes of Nick Sentience, Tom Harding and Phil
Reynolds this Hard Trancer was awarded 'sureplayer of the month' in DJ
Magazine (5 stars).
Having had so many years of success producing gems of Trance for the dancefloor Mike has turned his attention onto the decks, and this is presently reaping its rewards - internationally having played at huge events in Japan three times in the last year, in Germany and around the UK. Mike, an immensly talented producer and a wizzard on the decks should show himself to be one of the ones to watch as a DJ in the next year.
JUST RACK IT UP!!
-- FINRG RECORDINGS Scandinavian Sound of Hard Dance and Banging Techno