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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.
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