Amsterdam Dance Event is always great opportunity to catch up with superb Dutch artists like Daniel Wanrooy. We requested an interview with him and I'm very glad he accepted the challenge to talk about his past, present and future of his career. With a busy schedule of releases on variety of labels including Black Hole recordings, High Contrast Recordings and as Borderless at Armada Music Daniel has certainly a lot of interesting stories to share and in this interview he take us back in time when he was warming up for Tiesto to present with top notch trance anthems and the future prospects with the forthcoming release of his album One as Borderless at Armada Music which is more experimental, leftfield, progressive project that explores all the shades and colours of electronic music.
"Hailing from the flatlands of Dordrecht, Southern Holland, Daniel Wanrooy is official remixer for no one less than Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, Sander Kleinenberg, The Crystal Method and many more. No wonder he has been influencing the playlists of some of the world’s biggest & best artists for the last decade. Both as producer and DJ his evocative, imaginative music has successfully cross-bred virtually every subgenre of nowadays Electronic Dance Music. His music got support by several DJ Mag no. 1 DJ’s like Tiësto, Hardwell, Armin van Buuren, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Martin Garrix and many more!
Daniel’s career really started to take off from the early 2000’s. Daniel was spotted by the mighty Tiësto, who took Daniel under his wing, supporting him around the globe and took him as support for his tour through Europe.
During the years the superstar DJ used a total of 5 tracks of Daniel’s work on his mega-selling “In Search of Sunrise” series. His first album “Different Day, Different Light” was credited by MTV as “two hours of fascinating music”, receiving a huge reception from press and DJs alike. His second album “Slice Of Life” was also a massive success, with the music video USA Idols finalist Blake Lewis for their single “Stay In The Moment”.
During his Slice Of Life world tour he was special guest on national Malaysian television during the “Hello on 2” breakfast show for over 5 million live viewers. Daniel Wanrooy has works with & released on such labels as Spinnin’ Records, Mixmash, Armada Music, Electronic Elements, Black Hole Recordings, EMI, Magik Muzik to name a few.... achievements that most artists can only dream of.
A wish to see his tracks working from the perspective of the DJ booth along with a desire to travel the globe prompted Daniel to take the DJing plunge. Daniel threw himself headfirst into his performances playing to over 15,000 strong crowds across the World!
Definite highlists during his career were spinning at the legendary Heineken Hall in Amsterdam, Trance Energy - Holland, Winter Music Conference - USA, Technoparade - France, Myst Shanghai - China ,The Point (TIËSTO tour) - Ireland, Es Paradis - Ibiza, Eden - Ibiza, FFWD Dance Parade - Holland, Hellinikon Complex (TIËSTO tour) - Greece, Luxy - Taipei, Oslo Streetparade - Norway, Monday Bar Cruise - Sweden, Brixton Academy - England, Carling Academy - Scotland, Suikerrock - Belgium, Halo - South Africa, Rising Festival Malaysia, Mysterious World - Indonesia and many many more." taken from his facebook about page.
Its nearly more than 20 minutes interview that you will find captivating, entertaining and informative to watch so better press play and enjoy!
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