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STA Presents:Solarstone
Seattle Trance Alliance Presents:
Solarstone
Pure Trance/Music First
From scene founding father to ringleader and flag-bearer of the Pure Trance movement,Solarstone (producer, composer & DJ Richard Mowatt) enduring influence stretches back almost as far as the genre itself.
Releases like Solarcoaster, The Calling and Seven Cities are all benchmark classics of its pre-millennial period. The latter track among the first of the Balearic trance anthems -
has been re-released 3 times, and now sold in excess of million copies. Remixed by Armin van Buuren amongst others, its instantly recognizable sunset/sunrise-sound legacy is
still heard in tracks today. With the albums Anthology One RainStarsEternal, Touchstone, Pure and most recently the cryptically titled . - - - - , hes also released a
quintet of critically revered long-players.
Solarstone has long brought his sound to some of the most famous clubs, arenas and festivals on the planet. In Europe, those have come to include Tomorrowland, Cream Ibiza, A State Of Trance & Global Gathering, whilst further afield hes rocked TomorrowWorld, Stereosonic, FSOE and numerous others.
Pure Trance: Having championed trances true nature from his very first release, the last 5 years have seen Solarstone push its origin sound - almost singlehandedly - back to the top
of the genres agenda. Through his gospel of #PureTrance - modernizing the genres heart, whilst ring-fencing its soul - he caught the disposition of the scene with zeitgeist timing.
Within its first year, Solarstones ideology of Pure Trance had developed into a bona fide musical movement. Its one which has been captured by a major a mix-compilation series,
worldwide Pure Trance club and festival shows, the Pure Trance and Pure Progressive record labels & its weekly radio show.
Now standing at six volumes, the Solarstone Presents Pure Trance series has seen him team up with co-mixing likeminds including Giuseppe Ottaviani, Orkidea, Bryan Kearney, Gai Barone, Sneijder and Forerunners to mix-comp-define the movements sound. DJ Mag said of its 4th edition: Pure Trance has established itself as the genres new bedrock and a firmer one, few could wish for.
Having now touched every electronic music capital, the Pure Trance tour has sold-out shows in spots including Miami, Ibiza, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Pure Trance Radio is the latest incarnation of Richards long running, widely syndicated radio show. Its weekly hour-long format includes features like the Progressive and #WeLikeItPure Selections, Not The Kind of Thing We Usually Play, the Big Tune and the Chill Out Moment. Pure Trance Radio is now broadcast across some 30+ FM & Internet stations to a listenership now in excess of 8 million. Receiving its first airing on every Wednesday at 22:00 CET on DI.FMs Trance channel, the summer of 2017 see it reach its landmark 100th show.
With the launch of Pure Trance Recordings & its sub-label Pure Progressive, the Pure Trance label group has risen to a position as one of the best sellers on Beatport. In partnership with esteemed Dutch music house Black Hole Recordings, it brought a label platform to the movements most gifted music makers. Reaching its 70th release in May of 2017, its discography includes work from M.I.K.E. Push, Salt Tank, Robert Nickson, Bobina, Ferry Tayle, Driftmoon, Future Disciple, Orkidea, Adam Ellis, Simon Templar, Basil OGlue, Forerunners, Lostly and DIM3NSION.
Solarstone The Music: In 2012, following the release of the Anthology One RainStarsEternal and Touchstone albums, Solarstone released Pure. A reaction to the ever-greater federalization of trances sound, he used the album as a means of sonically clarifying his position. It spawned seven singles, including The Spell (a revelation EDM Magazine), Fireisland (with Aly & Fila), its title track, as well as Falcons with Giuseppe Ottaviani (a MIXMAG Tune of the Month), Jewel, Please and Lovers. Pure became the birth point for the Pure Trance movement.
2014 to 2016 saw a clutch of additional hits including Once (with IKO), Nothing But Chemistry Here, Shield, Lost Hearts, Infatuation, Fata Morgana (w/Gai Barone) and
Herald arrived, elevating Solarstones profile to the international DJ A-List.
They were followed in spring of 2017 by the 8-track album . - - - -. Ciphered in Morse code, it was Richards enigmatically minimalistic encouragement to fans to look deeper into what it
was they were seeing & hearing. Its debut single, the 11-minute odyssey A State Of Mind, was called lavish, hypnotic and epic by DJ Mag, who further stated that the track was trance at its timeless best. That single was followed by the Meredith Call sung I Found You, which featured a remix by Solarstones PureNRG partner (see Aliases & Collaborations section below), Giuseppe Ottaviani.
Electronic Architecture: The Pure Trance series aside, Solarstones also the helmsman of the highly successful mix-compilation project Electronic Architecture. Born from his
longstanding love of pop art, its first edition won immediate acclaim for its imaginative concept. It was hailed as a magical blend of music, art and design by Tilllate Magazine, a genuine gem by DJ Mag and in 2010 was nominated for an IDMA award in the Best Full Length Mix category. A progressive-trance Yin to the Pure Trance Yang, two years later Electronic Architecture (Or Electronic Architecture Squared) was released to similarly
high praise, with MIXMAGs giving it an Album of the Month award and saying it captured the essence of what we all love about trance. Triple-Disc compendium EA - released April 2014 - won further critical acclaim with EDM Magazine calling it modern Trance perfection.
Solarstone The DJ: Solarstone behind a pair of CDJs is something that every electronic dance music lover, planet-wide, should witness at least once in their clubbing lifetimes.
Worldwide his Pure Trance shows have captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands in electronic music hotspots like Miami, Ibiza & Amsterdam. Since learning the craft in the
late 90s, hes played some of the most renowned names (inc. Tomorrowland, Cream Ibiza, A State Of Trance, Global Gathering, TomorrowWorld, Stereosonic, FSOE & numerous others) and spun alongside the worlds best-known DJs many times over. Richard's
worldwide travels have also taken him to some of the biggest events and festivals across the globe, as well as some of the most remote. Over the years these have included islands in the
Philippines, bush parties in Australia and massive festivals in the heart of Brazil.
The Labels: over the course of his career, Solarstone has owned, co-owned and A&Rd many other successful labels. Included among them have been Touchstone Recordings Solaris Recordings, Deepblue, Molecule and Crashing Waves. At the start of 2009,
Richard launched solarSwarm, an online community record label for die-hard Solarstone fans. In the summer of the same year his insatiable label morphed into solarSwarm Recordings. In a groundbreaking move solarSwarm became the worlds first social network record label.
Solarstone Aliases & Collaborations: In order to showcase different musical perspectives & sounds, Richard has also recorded under a number of pseudonyms. In 2002 he initiated
the 80s-influenced Young Parisians outfit, who subsequently scored substantial club hits with U Write the Rules and Jump the Next Train. The natural successor to Young Parisians, 2012 saw him reteam with Ben Lost as Federation a new band-based live act. Drawing on an even greater range of influences, from several decades, it was signed to Paul Oakenfolds Perfecto Flouro and resulted in 4 Beatport top 10 charting singles.
Launched in the spring of 2015, PureNRG is Solarstones LIVE fusion with Giuseppe Ottaviani. A connection of musical minds, creative ability & on-stage magnetism, it has since seen the duo grace festival stages like EDC Las Vegas, Tomorrowland, A State Of Trance and Electronic Family. To date, the pair have released five singles together, including the uplifting (DancingAstro) Secret Of The Sahara Pump Up The NRG, Era, Scarlett and
the DJ Mag Single of the Month ranked Prophecy.
Solarstone The Remixes: Over the years Solarstone has always maintained a keen production/remix balance. Most recently he has worked on remixes for names like Royksopp (I Had This Thing), Aly & Fila (The Other Shore), Hurts (Blind) London Grammar (Wasting My Young Years) & Marcus Schulz (Facedown).
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