Hello!

I hope your all well and thank you for reading this!

This is my first ivibes diary so I thought I would summarise my year so far as well as what I’ve been up to lately…

Production

Summer Breeze kicked off the year nicely for me and received massive support from just about every major trance DJ. It also reached no 5 in Mixmag and was played 4 times on Radio 1’s Dance Anthems show. Another one of my productions ‘Magicka’ was signed to one of my all time favourite labels Bonzai, which was a dream come true for me. This will be out in August/September with a rather tasty Gareth Emery remix. The follow up for Summer Breeze has been completed for some time, entitled ‘Melodica’ and it’s been getting some huge reactions in the clubs. Canadian producer Alucard has provided a sublime dark proggy workout to complete the package. This will hopefully be out very soon on Hotdecks. I have been working under a couple of other guises too. Firstly ‘Holla’ (obvious eh?!?!) for which I have taken a techier, harder style. The first release is called Detonate which will be out on Hotdecks with a Neo & Farina remix. Many people may have seen that I have done remixes as Will Holland’s ‘Satori’ Remix. This was because I started producing under Satori, many of the tracks, however, like Magicka, I have decided to release under Will Holland. The first 'Satori' release is called Blackout and will be out on Monster records this summer with a Mesh remix and probably gets the biggest reaction out of all the tunes in my box at the mo. I have begun work on some other new material and I’ve got a few collaborations lined up, but getting any finished at the moment is proving to be a struggle because of the vast amount of remix work I’ve currently got on.

My remix of Alucard feat Yana Kay – Eyes of a Perfect Stranger should be out any day now. The day I finished it I sent it to the label and the next day they went to Passion and gave a copy to Rank 1. Apparently, they gave it one quick listen and then dropped it last tune of the night and it blew the roof off…which was nice!! I’ve had many emails and requests for my remix of Tension – I Get Lost in You. I am pleased to say that promo copies will be in Tuneinn Records next week. My mix is the A side of disk one and I’ve just been told the track will be No 2 in the Mixmag chart in July. I have just completed 3 remixes in the last 6 weeks. Firstly I have done a Satori remix of a Greg Murray production called Saviour – Solarflare which will be out on Platipus this summer. Secondly, Filo & Peri pres Taxi – Distance, which will be out later on this year and last but not least John O Callaghan vs Arizona – Dayafter which is out on Equilibrium at the end of the summer!

DJing

I’ve been pretty busy this year with DJing, both in the clubs and on the radio. Last weekend was a bit hectic as I made my second appearance of the year on Galaxy FM with Riley and Durrant, which as always, was a good laugh. I was also on di.fm on the same night, and then played at Passion on the Saturday. Next month (17th July) you can catch me at Passion alongside Scott Bond and Above and Beyond, a night that I really can’t wait for and it should be really good, so anyone that can come down, I’ll see you then! My own radio show has been going from strength to strength this year. As always I have been pushing the up and coming talent, so far I have had Marc West, Digital Delinquents, Chris Chambers and Samuel Lamont on the show. Putting on bigger names has been something I have always wanted to do, and I was delighted to find that John Digweed was coming to Leeds the day of my show- and so we had a live 2 hour broadcast from the man himself! I must say, he is one of the nicest, most down to earth ‘superstar’ DJ’s I have ever met.

Well, that’s about it, apart from my new website has recently launched so keep an eye on it for all the latest news, dates, release info and samples. Im just about to add the live di.fm broadcast along with some new samples... hopefully by the end of the week.

Thanks for reading & see you soon!

Will.

www.willholland.com