DAVE AUDE
catch him at: THERAPY 11/29
"A force to be reckoned with"
It's no accident that cutting-edge recording artists like Superstar DJ Keoki, DJ Feelgood, Christopher Lawrence, Micro, Cirrus, DJ Dan, and Tall Paul have created some of their best work with Dave Audè. Since 1994 this producer/writer/re-mixer's name has become synonymous with irresistible electronic music. "What I do best," Audè says, "is to take DJs/artists to the next level."

What exactly sets Audè apart from the rest is that few producers working in electronic dance music today combine a depth of musical knowledge; melody, harmony and song structure, with such a high degree of technical expertise. In fact, by the time he was 18, Audè had already produced three albums worth of his own music. As a result, at 22, he was a full-fledged MIDI instructor at the respected Los Angeles Recording Workshop, a post he held for four years.

By 1991, Audè was all geared up with nowhere to go. On a visit to the club "Truth" (ground zero of LA's techno dance scene), is where Audè heard House music for the first time. With its relentless pulse and piercing beats, House music rocked his world and set into motion the endless possibilities of electronic music. "As a keyboard player I'd always loved electronic, synthetic sounds," Audè recalls. "And here was this amazing music, one-hundred percent synthetic. That really turned me on." Audè introduced himself to Truth's promoter, Steve Levy (now President of Moonshine Music), and shortly after, the group Lunatic Fringe was born.

The band's first single, "I Believe", successfully helped launch Levy's Moonshine Music label and allowed Audè to come into the Moonshine fold from the start - building a recording studio in the new company's West Hollywood offices and becoming their go-to producer/remixer extraordinaire. There Audè found himself working with a growing influx of artists, mixing a series of compilations, including "Basslines" and Club Flys", as well as recording his and Levy's own one-off projects, including the 1995 pumpin' House, summer hit single, "Everybody Listen" (credited to the Gypsy Queens with Tall Paul), the adrenaline-drenched 1996 track, "Stop/Go", (credited to D'Still'd), and "That Zipper Track" co-written & produced with DJ Dan as 'Needle Damage' that has enjoyed quite a long chart life.

Soon Moonshine Music became known as rave culture's label of choice -- a label run, not by suits, but by talented, dedicated music people. More importantly, it became obvious that Dave Audè was not just a talented remixer, but had the rare ability to take raw, unfocused dance club DJ's and enable them to blossom into full-fledged recording artists whose music had artistic integrity as well as chart-busting impact. "I do rely on the technology a lot," says Audè, who has also produced projects for Coca-Cola, Nike, Sony's Gran Turismo 3 and Activision. "You have to, but electronic music needs to have more than cool sounds, it needs a foundation."

Audè's been djing for over seven years with residencies at "Rubber" in Orange County, CA as well it's twin venue in Las Vegas, NV and at Velvet in St. Louis, MN. Audè also travels quite a bit previewing his singles and remixes, playing to packed houses across the US and has recently found grand acceptance in the UK, playing such hot spots at Sundissential, The Gallery and Golden. In 1999, Audè released one of his most successful singles to date, "Push That Thing" on Duty Free Records - Tall Paul's imprint in the UK. This single can be heard in clubs around the world as well as on the Ministry of Sound's "Millennium" disc set. In 2000 Audè followed un "Push That Thing" wit the release of "I Can't Wait", which was also highly received. Audè continues playing his bangin' peak-hour sets for crowds between 800-4000 weekly. In between gigs, Audè is fine-tuning remixes for major acts such as BareNaked Ladies, Faith No More, Love & Rockets, Orgy, Leann Rimes and the one and only, Madonna.

With all this producing and remixing under his belt, it was only a matter of time before Audè felt the itch of putting together another one of his very own mixes. 2000's "Rush Hour", a combination of hard, aggressive club tracks, placed Audè in the same company with the DJs he helped catapult.

As the year 2001 continues to bring Audè many more opportunities, including the recently released, much awaited and highly anticipated studio effort of Keoki's "Jealousy", Audè partnered with legondary event promoter, Pasquale Rotella to create the Nocturnal Wnderland commemorative mix. For the past eight years, Nocturnal Wonderland has been a right of passage for any West Coast electronic music lover and it's annual running has helped make household names out of many of its artists. It is with the amazing handywork of Dave Audé that this disc comes to life - with the combination of Audè's own futuristic style with elements of House, Tech, Breaks, and Trance to make for an ecclectic auditory experience, much like the event itself.

Having four #1 Billboard Club singles and 20 more breaking the Top 10, Audè, albeit just under the proverbial radar, is a force to be reckoned with.