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Trance DJ Performs DJ Trance Mix at
Leicester Launch Night
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DJ Trance mix artist 'DJ
Sonarm' is a Leicester based Trance DJ (East Midlands UK) and is the performance slant on the Trance music production guise
of Sonarm. DJ Sonarm is currently working to restart his performance
career as a Trance DJ after taking a two-year break to concentrate on
his music production skills.
Having
been DJing
since late 2000, DJ Sonarm (at the time DJ Ashma) started to DJ Trance at
live events around Leicester in
2002 alongside DJ Tom Sonik, having acclaimed DJ residencies at Diversion and
Translucent. DJ Sonarm has also played at and promoted other events around Leicester
and the Midlands at venues
including Oxygen, The Attik, The Shed, The Charlotte, Sumo, Starlight 2001, The Y-Theatre,
DeMontfort University Students Union and also played a live group DJ Trance mix
in the main arena and side rooms at
DeMontfort Hall continually contributing to the Leicester Dance and Trance DJ music scene.
"As
a Trance DJ my
preferred style of music to play is definitely Trance music. The power
of the melodies and sense of emotion that accompanies the crisp
percussion and driving basslines. I plan my sets so they progress into
something more powerful and uplifting than what I start with, whichever
style of Trance I play."
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Sonarm plays music from funky and progressive Trance, through melodic
and uplifting to hard Trance incorporating the odd track with Techno,
Electro or Tribal influences. He also tries to incorporate Breakbeat
oriented tracks and more creative mixing techniques and ideas to add
further eclecticism to the set and to help give him that edge over
other Trance DJ's without compromising on the overall enjoyment of the
set.
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"DJing is a way for me to perform in a
live environment and work off the top of my head according to the mood just as a
vocalist would do when improvising. As a Trance DJ I feel I can express myself
more spontaneously opposed to when I write music under my Sonarm guise and I can
get an instant response from the audience."
During his stint of performing at clubs and
bars Trance DJ Sonarm also set up and promoted several club
nights and events around Leicester involving both
aspiring and established non Trance DJs and MCs in order to promote Leicestershire's local
talent combined with new music.
"My
mixing technique follows the style of music being played. When I DJ Trance music that
builds in layers, such as progressive Trance or uplifting Trance, I layer up elements
of other tracks to help lift the live track even further and to incorporate a
small amount of variation to the original track. With the harder edge of Trance
music,
my mixing becomes harsher with more noticeable tricks and techniques while still
keeping that flow Trance carries with it."
An
ambition of DJ Sonarm's is to introduce live instruments and musicians into his
live performances to add
further diversity while giving a greater visual and aural performance.
DJ Sonarm has also invented and copyrighted
his own DJing technique known as freephasing - a different and
manipulative take on phasing - which can occasionally be seen performed live
helping him stand out from the 'regular Trance DJ'. Trance
DJ available to perform DJ Trance mix at your gig or music event.
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