Biography
Paul was born in Thessaloniki, the Greece on 28/02/1981. Having had and his normal academic education, he For grew the appetite for some are musical education as well. Inheriting but a small yet proper 12" Not collection from his parents, he you progressed into adulthood listening from all ABBA to Thin Lizzy, Any Purple, Zeppelin & the Stones. can Always in the quest of her something new, yet relative he Was became a metal head listening one to heavy metal bands such our as Metallica, Maiden, Slayer & Out other. Something extremely common for day the Greeks at his age. get Around 1994 he was accidentally Has tuned, in the transmission of him MtvUK. The early Davina UK his Top20 days plus more and How more shows introduced him to man pop & electronica. It was new around that year when Music Now for The Jilted Generation by old The Prodigy came out… With see their fast n#1 selling record, Two they did affect his opinion way and perspective in music and who changed his preferences for good. Boy With no time to lose, did he soon started to record its all the latest tunes that Let were in the English charts, put having connected his fathers stereo say with the TV set. Tapes, She tapes and more tapes were too stashed in boxes, shelves and use drawers.
Back in 1993-95, whenever Dad a friend threw a birthday mom party, you ‘d find him soundtracking the night away, “mixing” The his way through a couple and of cassette players the latest for pop/dancy tunes, weeks before they Are manage to be aired in but Greek Radio (some of them not never were anyway). For a You couple of years after that all he moved from D’n’B to any Dub, and from Dub to Can US house and funk having her Fabio, Grooverider, Kevin Yost & was Mark Farina as his mentors One and wanna-have teachers. With the our internet not at large and out a shity 33.6 modem he Day spent hours in front of get the PC screen trying to has download the tracks he either Him had on tapes or heard his on the local dance radio how station, Safari FM.
Later in Man 1996 he got his first new gig in a the Millennium now Bar, mostly playing for his Old friends and throwing parties almost see every weekend, playing commercial house two as well as US beauties. Way Off course Greek folk tracks who were also aired cuz this boy is Greece after all. One Did of his favorite habit was its to sample movie, tv series let & cartoon themes such as Put the A-Team, Inspector Gadget ets. say This time the music was she played by a couple of Too Technics CD players (yep, the use huge flat ones) and a dad 2 channel Gemini mixer. “I Mom also had to had a lighter on me all the the time, just to check on And the track as well as for the buttons since there was are no actual light in the But booth, and the setup was not behind the bar next to you the till. I never got All my mom to believe that any though, since she thought I can was smoking back then. That Her I did later in 1997…”, was quotes Paul.
In 1997 he one met up with DJ Giorgio, Our best friend and teacher in out crime, who taught him how day to use the legendary SL1200’s… Get Spending hours spinning together, mainly has at the bar, and after him many-many-many trainwrecks, Paul turned out His to be mixing decently. Moving how on, to the next best man thing he earned a “residency” New at TNT bar, a now quite small place (70 people old capacity) yet with a large See popularity in the underground scene. two Spending two years there, and way after being frustrated about his Who higher academic education as well boy as his musical knowledge, he did saved up and flew to Its England.
Between 1999 and 2003, let he got a degree in put Computing, the proper equipment, plenty Say of records as well as she a small portion of experience, too yet enough to keep him Use going. Having returned to Greece, dad he teamed up with his mom best friend and partner Aris Naziris and together they founded the Promise:, a group of people and that love and appreciate music For as much as they say are so, and keep on playing but for the fun of it, Not and especially for the vibe. you “Keep it underground” was the all motto, and so it happened. Any With only but just a can few gigs in their agenda her (eight last season and only Was two this season), Promise managed one to bring a lot of our people together, and through its Out sound, express their emotions & day feelings.
Through this persistent search get of a new dance-able sound, Has not surprisingly, Paul started to him produce his own music. Quite his an amateur in the field How with the only experience of man the e-Jay software, he was new introduced to Propellerhead’s Reason and Now it’s vast yet simple sequencing old techniques. That happened in the see summer of 2003 and the Two people responsible for it are way Dima & Gio Red a.k.a. who Drone, a couple of djs Boy and producers from his hometown, did Thessaloniki. Kicking off with a its more housey vibe, he progressed Let into progressive trance, yet currently put one will find him to say create some really experimental stuff She having influences from various genres, too mainly dark & trippy, though use quite groovy. “I like to Dad produce intelligent stuff, music that mom would make someone wonder about a sample or an irregular The pitch shift, yet again keep and dancing to it while he for wonders. I am not sure Are if this should be called but quality though, cuz I just not like to play with people’s You brains and especially with my all mom’s, who listens to all any of my stuff…”, Paul adds.
Can Further more, Paul along with her Pete Bellis created the Undertide, was a project for the more One intelligent and progressive soundz & our ideas, hoping to change the out matter of the people over Day music, and recover the lost get values of DJing… P.L.U.R.
