Andrew Campbell presents. Sounds of Downunder Episode 022

Wednesday 17th August - 8pm - 11pm


This month on the show I have trance super producer and record label owner - Paul Moelands (Octagen/Re:Locate) & Australian Guest DJ, JulePLees.

Bio -

Paul Moelands
Born on the 16th of June 1983, Paul Moelands grew up in Breda, The Netherlands. At early age he got musically interested. It runs in the family cause the family on his fathers side are musicians. Paul started piano lessons and kept at it for a long time.

Primary school ended when the gabber/hardcore music was popular in Holland. This attracted his attention and he got interested in more "modern" music. After buying a few CD's and listening to a local radio station, it was the Mystery Land CD of that time that attracted his attention. It was this 3-CD-compilation, but the third CD wasn't really hardcore. At first he didn't like it, but he started to listen to it more and more. This was probably the predecessor of the actual trance nowadays. It wasn't as fast as Hardcore and it was kind of laidback for that time. A lot of these "trance" albums followed.

This must also have been the time he got into touch with Jan Waterman [SonOfAPitch / Yanave red.] at school. At that time Paul got this wicked Magix Music Maker tool, he toyed around with for some time. Not resulting in total creative freedom, because of the samples, it wasn't really usable. Jan was always listening to Van Diepens Dance Department on Dutch radio and he passed Paul some tapes of it. Rapidly he became very interested in the genre. Together they visited the city buying CD Maxi Singles and the Magik Store, which was founded by Tiesto those days, on Friday afternoons.

2003 meant the "breakthrough" for Paul. Early 2003, his track "Walk away" got sniffed up by Trance.nu, and it was licensed exclusively for the ".Nu Trance Generation" CD, a compilation of up and coming artists around trance.nu. Things were looking up at the time, and Paul really got things going. Fundamental records sniffed up "Waterfall", after discussing with Discover. Waterfall was actually the first "real" release for him, being a milestone in his little producer career.

From then on things got in a hurricane, with the second half of 2003 being the most intense. Paul met Thomas on trance.nu, which started with a clubbing evening in The Hague where Armin played, resulting in a collaboration deal set that night. Octagen & Arizona produced Profound and Starburst a month later in 3 weeks, meeting up 3 times. Having these super positive comments, Paul sent the tracks to Armada, which were instantly interested in licensing.

Various projects and tracks have been signed to various labels, and I did a lot of remixes in the past time. I've released records who have been supported by every big DJ out there, which is really inspiring and motivating.
I've been licensed to quite a lot of exciting compilations. Seeing myself on Marco V, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten and Tiesto compilations is for me quite an achievement. I'm still amazed when I look at my discography, which has grown silently into quite a big list!


Hour 1 - Andrew Campbell 1 Hour Mix
Hour 2 - Paul Moelands Guestmix
Hour 3 - Australian Guest DJ - JulesPLees


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