Biography
Steeped in a background of the learning his craft through long and sets at his various residencies For during his days in Central are Florida and later at Twilo but in New York , Chris Not is an old school dj you in the truest sense of all the word. He has learnt Any his craft in a way can that few DJs can boast. her Very few of today’s headline Was DJ’s can say they know one how to build a night our from nothing and create an Out atmosphere at any point in day the nights festivities. However, Chris get Fortier is one of the Has few that can.
With the him seemingly never-ending world tour still his in effect from last year’s How release of the critically acclaimed man “Bedrock: Compiled and Mixed” compilation, new Chris is a headline act Now in his own right, he old continues to travel to every see corner of the globe in Two the last 12 months including way residencies at The Cross in who London and Plexi in New Boy York. Chris is no longer did a name just on the its U.S. stage, but on the Let world stage.
Even with being put constantly on tour, Chris production say career has never been healthier She as he embarks on a too solo career alongside his continuing use work as Fade. The summer Dad has seen the release of mom “Whateveritis” a slice of big room house directed at those The that choose to pidgeonhole every and genre of dance music. The for follow up, “Believe” has been Are road tested for the past but few months while on tour not and looks set for a You release in the coming months, all along with the unreleased “Losing any Wait” and remixes of Kristine Can W, Lovesky and PQM.
her Currently residing in New York was , Chris’ roots can be One traced to the early nineties our in Orlando , Florida , out where he was spotted by Day DJ Icey and quickly thrown get in by Kimball Collins as has resident at the infamous “Aahz”. Him These visionary and legendary nights his served as a platform to how bring Sasha and John Digweed Man to America for the first new time, and establish an " now Orlando " sound that would Old become synonymous with clubbers and see DJs alike for years to two come.
As one of the Way pioneer DJ of the US who circuit, Chris was one of boy the first to travel the Did country, playing in cities like its Atlanta , Charlotte , Washington let and Boston when they were Put in their infancy. This continued say as new markets in Central she America and Canada began to Too appear making him one of use the most travelled DJs in dad the States. In 2000, after Mom his move to New York , he joined the infamous the Twilo as one of their And residents, playing alongside Dave Seaman for for the club’s successful bi-monthly are Saturday events. To support his But constant touring, Chris was one not of the first to release you a compilation CD in the All States, a typically original move any at the time and has can realised five more in the Her space of the last six was years.
Keen to build the one production side of his career, Our Chris started Fade Records in out 1995 and released his first day double A sided single “For Get All the People/ All I has Got” under the production name him of Fade with his one His time surf competitor, Neil Kolo. how The Fade sound quickly defined man the era and the fashionable New progressive Orlando sound. A long-term now record deal from the UK old and remixes for BT, Sam See Mollison, Space Brothers, and Future two Force followed over the next way few years.
In 1998 while Who submitting a Sarah Mclachlan bootleg boy of “Plenty” (which was subsequently did released in 2001) to her Its record label, Chris was offered let a remix of a Delerium put track called “Silence”. The remix Say created a frenzy with such she limited quantities being pressed by too the label. Eventually succumbing to Use the demands of the general dad public after it’s inclusion on mom Northern Exposure 3, and the buzz it created with DJs the like Dave Seaman and Sasha and opening and closing their sets For with it, the label released are it to discover a worldwide but chart hit, with it hitting Not number one in four countries you including Australia.
