Playing all over the globe, Dutchman Richard Durand has slowly established himself as one of the big names in the Trance scene. His first release “Make Me Scream” was one of the biggest club hits in 2005. His famous remixes of Tiësto’s tracks “Lethal Industry” and “Flight 643” where released worldwide. Next to that Richard Durand was recommended by Tiësto in the DJ Mag Top 100 voting, as new big talent!
Most people only know this Amsterdam resident DJ under his alias. He was born in 1976 and since a very young age he has been active in music. Ever since he was a little boy he played the piano. His musical youth is a great fundament for the profession what he’s doing nowadays. At this point Richard Durand produces various styles of dance music and is performing as a DJ all over the world.
He likes to play the small venues because that way it's possible to keep in close touch with the audience. However he also love’s to play at the big festivals, because it gives him tremendous pleasure to move big crowds. You can find Richard Durand performing everywhere.
His record "Make Me Scream" is the first production which was released under his own name Richard Durand. “Make Me Scream” became a huge hit, and was playlisted on the BBC Radio 1 radio show of Pete Tong and also for 4 weeks in a row at the radio show of Judge Jules. For several months “Make me Scream” worked wonders on the dancefloor by big jocks like: Tiësto, Ferry Corsten, Johan Gielen, Rank 1, Ronald van Gelderen, Graham Gold, Les Hemstock, Loukas Pour-Hashemi, Colin Sales, Organ Donors, Choose, Michael H, Nomad, Laidback Luke (with his own edit) and many others. “Make me Scream” resulted as one of the popular hits in the Trance Scene of 2005.
In December 2006 Richard Durand released, like Trance.nu says, another Superb release: “Slippin Away” on Holland’s Terminal 4 records. This record completes a techy sounding Ronald Van Gelderen remix and the vocals of famous singer Anita Kelsey. Again a hit from the top shelve. “Slippin Away” is a favourite play of jocks like: Paul van Dijk, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Judge Jules. Also the reviews on Trance.nu and DJ Mag are with full support.
Which started with a bootleg, turned out in a world famous remix. Besides his own productions, Richard Durand also found some time to lay his hands on two of the biggest hits made by the world famous Tiësto. Both remixes of Lethal industry and Flight 643 positioned #1 at the Dutch Dance Charts and are still played out by all the big jocks.
Next to his official releases, at the beginning of 2007 Richard Durand also brought out two downloadable tracks such as “Inside My Brain” and “Any Time”. Both tracks became top 10 in the Dutch Download charts and where favourite play outs from jocks such as: Tiësto, Eddy Halliwell, Matt Darey, Preach, Mark Etteson .
April 13th Richard Durand has his first UK debut at Turnmills London. One of the big highlights of the night will be the release of his new record “For The Believers 2.0”, one of the first records of a three series E.P. The E.P. series will contain different releases and a bonus track “Sunhump 2006’, which was only released earlier as a download.
With a very hectic DJ schedule playing in countries such as Scotland, Estonia, Poland, Switzerland, and with a two week tour planned in Australia in June
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