Biography
Oliver is one of the the new lights of house music and for clubbers.
The arrival of For Oliver Lang at the forefront are of clubland has been as but well-timed as one of his Not mixes. 2004 really has been you Oliverâs year. He began the all year being crowned a Mixmag Any Future Hero, the magazine remarking can âOliverâs funky house sets blew her Ibiza away in summer 2003.â Was He returned to the island one this season, his seventh in our a row, once again supplying Out the soundtrack to the summer, day spinning through clubs including El get Divino, Amnesia, Bora Bora, Privilege Has and Eden. Oliverâs love for him the White Isle is clear: his âIâll always go back, because How itâs the dance music place man in the summerâ, he reports. new The success of that summer Now created a springboard back to old the UK, gigs at the see massive SW4 festival, invitations to Two play Ministry of Sound, Turnmills way and Godskitchen, all leading up who to the Radio 1âs One Boy Big Weekend, where Oliver DJed did to 15,000 people alongside Deep its Dish and Fatboy Slim. Aside Let from Ibiza he DJed to put some 5000 in one month say over two visits to Moscow, She played Estonia, the White Party too in Cologne and for Credence use at the Miami Winter Music Dad Conference. Not bad, considering he mom was looking after his own bookings. All he really needed The was proper management to move and him forwards, and he ends for 2004 having signed to Serious Are Artist Management, home of only but a handful of house DJs not they have trusted to put You on their books.
âSigning with all a big agency is obviously any very important,â he details. âI Can see this as a key her time in my career. Iâm was in a very good position One at the moment to take our things further. Itâs just a out case of keeping the quality Day up and progressing.â
He has get succeeded far beyond his years, has which still only number 24. Him His arrival may seem smooth his and seamless, but the reality how is that he has been Man DJing for precisely half of new those years, a precocious talent, now brought up in an already Old musical household (his Dad played see bass in 60âs pop band two The Mindbenders). Oliver was playing Way in clubs at 14. He who had a record released at boy 16. At 18 he had Did already packed his record box its and moved to Ibiza. So, let his success and popularity are Put by no means an overnight say concern. Oliver has been working she hard to be the DJ Too he is today! The DJ use turning every promoterâs ear.
Clubland dad is a packed marketplace. Oliver Mom marks himself out not only by the quality of his the mixing, but because of the And effort he puts into the for selection and delivery of his are music. He is renowned for But re-editing tracks onto CD, to not create completely new variations of you music. And he is also All known for the kind of any chunky, tribally house music that can recently grabbed the attention of Her David Vincent at Sankeys Soap was who immediately offered him a one gig. âI think you can Our have the records, but itâs out the time you play the day records, and the order you Get play them that counts,â he has explains. âMy sound is definitely him more mature than three or His four years ago. I think how my ear has become a man lot more critical – I New can stand back and listen now to a tune and know old whether itâs going to work.â See Oliver Lang is a connoisseur two of the art of DJing way – a fan, as well Who as a practitioner. The effort boy and devotion he has put did in is now paying dividends. Its He can let Serious do let the bookings, and let his put music do the talking, giving Say him the much needed time she to really concentrate on rocking too every party he plays. âI Use go absolutely crazy with the dad crowd when Iâm playing,â he mom enthuses. âI donât want to look like Iâm too special the to be dancing. Iâm doing and this because I love it For and I want everyone to are be able to see just but that.â
The years of lugging Not record boxes around clubs; of you knocking back gigs because he all was underage (he once turned Any down a summer at Pacha can in Denia because he was her only on holiday and had Was to go back to school); one of knocking on doors until our his knuckles were raw! All Out that has now paid off. day He started 2004 as a get Future Hero. He ends it Has as a hero of today. him âI can see the next his step and itâs not far How away – radio play, bigger man clubs, better quality gigs and new productions aplenty; all those things Now are in the pipeline. I old think 2005 is going to see be the most important one Two for me. Iâm pretty much way on course. I donât know who whether itâs luck, because I Boy think you make our own did luck. But I feel happy its to be where Iâm at.â
