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Gavin Herlihy Biography
Moniker(s) / Herlihy & TorranceWhether house or techno his tracks have consistently earned praise from tastemakers like Luciano, Sven Väth or Laurent Garnier and earned him bookings at Berlin's Panorama Bar, Watergate and Bar 25, London's Circo Loco and TDK Cross Central festival, Amsterdam's Studio 80, Munich’s Registratur, Italy's Kama Kama, Brazil’s Warung Club and D’Edge, Manchester's Tribal Sessions, Spain’s Nitsa as well as a residency for Bristol/London based party Bump.
Now living in Berlin, the Irish born, one time Londoner was tipped by Carl Cox to be one of his Heroes of 2009 on his Global radio show at the start of the year. Since his move to Berlin he has released EPs and tracks on Leftroom, Paradigma, Get Physical, Kindisch, Cocoon and Cadenza. As a remixer he's turned his hand to tracks by artists like UNKLE and Sasse as well as remixed for labels like Bauns, Meerestief, Fade and Get Physical.
In June he submitted a mix for the hugely influential Ibiza Voice podcast series adding to a long list of mixes he's created for stations and podcasts like London's taste making Allez Allez, Carl Cox's Global radio show, Kiss 100, Galaxy FM among others.
Perhaps its thanks to a youth spent lost in the experimental rock of bands like Sonic Youth, Rage Against The Machine and Fugazi before uncovering electronic music during an eye opening trip to England at the early age of 13 that’s lead to his obsession with futuristic music.
During this pivotal trip he remembers in particular hearing early drum ’n’ bass on a north London pirate radio station. “It sounded like the future being beamed down the radio waves,” he says. "and I've been chasing it ever since."
