"Without a shadow of a doubt Eddie Halliwell is a legend, a hero and a massively popular DJ worshipped by many’ DJ Mag ‘Is Halliwell the most exciting DJ on the planet right now? Maybe!’ Tillate Magazine Eddie is a DJ legend to rank among the best of them, so make some noise for clubland’s answer to Rocky." - Mixmag
"There are people who play records and there are DJ’s who blow minds, Eddie Halliwell is the latter…who makes every set, no matter how small the club or how big the festival, feel like the closing party of the end of the world." – Mixmag
There’s a rapturous roar when Eddie Halliwell steps in to the DJ box, one that grows into that world famous chant – “EDDIE! EDDIE! EDDIE!”
It’s certainly been a meteoric rise - Eddie is a major player in the dance music scene, having just been titled one of the ‘New Superstar DJ’s’ by Mixmag and ranked number 9 in its world top DJ’s of 2009, as well as voted top 20 for 4 consecutive years in the DJ Mag top 100 DJ’s poll.
To understand how all this has happened so quickly you have to see Eddie in a club. Fundamentally when everything else is swept away, DJing is about making the dance floor erupt. Few possess the same talent as Eddie - behind the mixer he seems frenetic, a hive of activity. Constantly manipulating the music with lightning cuts, layers of effects and slick scratches, making you question both your eyes and ears. Playing tracks from across a broad musical spectrum – trance, techno, house and electro – he harnesses the energy of every beat, synth, hi-hat, squelch and squeak, making each sound stand out and yell at the people on the dance floor. As the music thunders along he bounces to each twist and turn in the track, interacting with the crowd in a highly visual performance, connecting with them, compelling them to dance. Eddie reached into millions of UK homes with his own BBC Radio ONE show from 2003 – 2008, along with seven essential mixes, now in 2009 Eddie broadcasts to millions of worldwide listeners via his new syndicated radio show – FIRE IT UP RADIO
Using his technical expertise to generate energy and manipulate new sounds his peers also acknowledge him as one of the leading innovators when it comes to using technology to push boundaries. As Paul Van Dyk pointed out, technology completely changed what clubbers could expect to hear from the most cutting edge DJ’s: “Now kids just use them, for example, Eddie Halliwell — what he does with those Pioneer CD players is f*cking nuts! He had no hesitation; he just went for it and has probably got the best out of the machine”.
Tiesto has also always shown great support to Eddie and recently labeled Eddie as a ‘Legend,’ in an interview with DJ Magazine!
The world’s leading DJ equipment manufacturer, Pioneer, used Eddie to help develop the “DJM-909” (the world’s first digital scratch mixer) and more recently the revolutionary new PIONEER CDJ2000. Eddie is part of an elite group of forwarding thinking DJ’s who have been selected to work alongside the Pioneer development team.
Eddie’s new concept ED-IT (Eddie DJing with Integrated New Technology), that launched in August 2009 at Creamfields, showcases just how creative and mind blowing his performances can be – using only the freshest equipment to edit and remix music live on stage, accompanied by a full interactive visual display and stage show.
2010 is already another storming year for Eddie that started with a bang in Sydney on New Years Eve, followed by a two-week tour of Australia and New Zealand with Summadayze. Its full steam ahead with another full on year of world tours scheduled, more ED-IT dates, Ibiza residencies, album releases, live broadcasts from Eddie’s global gigs on Fire It Up Radio, a new podcast and much much more – check out http://www.eddiehalliwell.com/
Bday beats :} crackin' the quarter century @ Time. How appropriate? :P
Djsketchbag
:toothless
die Reise
Rofl
Djsketchbag
I'm kind of suprised there aren't more people wanting to go see eddie :conf:
PoLskAltima
im fortunate i get him here in the D on Fri...
and get to go to the Guv on Sat... :D
KStuff
I went to TIME for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was pretty ghetto (lots of drunken fun though); I couldn't believe that they could book a well known DJ there.
There's a youtube video of Eddie at Godskitchen playing his interpretation of Len Faki - Just a Dance a few years ago (can't link to it now, at work). Does he actually play like this? Because that video was madness...
Djsketchbag
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Originally posted by KStuff
I went to TIME for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was pretty ghetto (lots of drunken fun though); I couldn't believe that they could book a well known DJ there.
There's a youtube video of Eddie at Godskitchen playing his interpretation of Len Faki - Just a Dance a few years ago (can't link to it now, at work). Does he actually play like this? Because that video was madness...
This video was posted in the Roll Call before Eddie played for the First time at Guv .... i think i still have the flyer ...
Djsketchbag
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Originally posted by CAKE
i think i still have the flyer ...
I think this is the first time i saw him .... maybe second
Coxx
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Originally posted by Djsketchbag
I'm kind of suprised there aren't more people wanting to go see eddie :conf:
b/c everyone will be at the guv ;)
v-vaughn
Why the same night as Contact :( Just not doable over Guv. I wonder if you guys will get as many trainwrecks as we did in Buffalo during the summer. :P I'd still see him in a heartbeat though, Eddie is the man.
mahalliner
I know, it's really too bad he's the same night as Contact. I've seen him a couple of times but never seen JOC or W&W. If this were the Friday night I'd be there in a heartbeat. Very few other DJs out there who work as hard as he does behind the decks. There's been a couple of shows where I just stood there and watched him for 15, 20 minutes on end. Oh well, hopefully he'll be back sometime soon. When was he last here?
