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Date: 1st February 2005
Time: 12-2pm PST // 3-5pm EST // 8-10pm GMT
Place: www.eccentricbeats.com
Hour 1: Darren Adam
Hour 2: Max Graham (www.maxgraham.com/)
Someone once called Max Graham's rise to fame "meteoric". From 2001-2004 he went from local to international through a couple of lucky breaks, incredible talent, and years of hard work.
Although born in the UK, Max began his career in an unlikely house music city: Ottawa, Canada. Max and his friends created a small Sunday night party which, through hard work turned into the legendary Atomic nightclub. This residency (from 1995 through 1999) paved the way for Max's diverse sound, inspired by the Sasha-esque progressive music of the time. It was at this venue that he honed his skills with weekly 6-hour sets.
After gaining attention in eastern Canada, Max decided it was time to take things to the next level and he subsequently relocated to Vancouver to write music. During this period, from late 1999 to 2001, Max wrote the hit songs that put his career into overdrive: Airtight, Tell You, Barnone, Shoreline and remixes such as Bullit's - Cried to Dream, just to name a few.
Some of Max's original songs were chosen to grace the mix CDs of the best in the business, including Tiesto and former tour-mate Paul Oakenfold. Airtight held the coveted #1 spot on the influential Balance Record Pool chart and was nominated for a Juno Award - the Canadian version of the Grammy - in 2001. After gaining recognition as a producer, Max was asked to remix tracks for acts such as Delerium and Uberzone as well as for reputable record labels like Hooj Choons.
It was these songs that helped gain the attention of some of the biggest industry players. Max was offered a monthly residency at the world famous UK club Gatecrasher; he was regularly flown from Canada to Sheffield to open for Paul van Dyk and others. In addition to renowned clubs vying for Max's turntable time, Paul Oakenfold promptly called and offered Max tour dates as well as gigs in the world's clubbing capital, Ibiza.
Although it was his original material that first got Max noticed, his diverse style, coupled with unique mixing and scratching performances, has been instrumental in impressing the masses on a global scale. His successes became evident when in 2001 Max was voted #23 in the world in DJMag's Top 100 DJs poll, the highest new entry that year. This poll, which is based strictly on public votes, is considered the most prestigious and accurate gauge of a DJ's popularity. Max has not left the top 100 since 2001.
In early 2004 Max toured in support of his mix CD Shine. He also launched his own label Shinemusic, with an original production Coastline, and has since released his own reworks of the much talked about Do What U Want by Jase From Outta Space. Additional tracks, such as Max's own - Does She Know Yet and his bootleg of Yes' - Owner of a Lonely Heart are being played by industry leader Sander Kleinenberg, Grammy award winners Deep Dish, and BBC Radio One's Pete Tong.
Discography:
Original material:
Max Graham - Coastline - Club and Dub mix - spring 2004 - Shinemusic
Max Graham - Tell You - Original and Luke Fair mix - spring 2002 - Hope Recordings
Max Graham - Sepia/Dying to Survive - fall 2001 - Hope Recordings
Max Graham - Shoreline/Falling/Barnone - spring 2001 - Hope Recordings
Max Graham - Airtight/Yaletown - fall 2000 - Hope Recordings
Max Graham - Backdraft - spring 2000 - Hope Recordings
Max Graham vs Starecase - Love the Bomb - spring 2000 - Sunkissed/Hope Recordings
Remixes:
Madoka - Afterburner - fall 2004 - Private Reality
JaseFOS - Do What U Want - Afterhours in Montreal and 3rd St remixes - fall 2004 - Shinemusic
Subsky - Strawberry Fields - fall 2003 - Release Records
Cultivate - Broken Pieces - spring 2003 - Lost Language
Conjure 1 - Sleep - fall 2002 - Nettwerk
Baraka - Song to the Siren - summer 2002 - Lost Language
Boowy - Symphonic - summer 2002 - Tokuma (Japan)
Bullit - Cried to Dream - fall 2000 - VC recordings
Subgod - Velodrome /TV - summer 2000 - Polyester
Starecase - Lost 22 - summer 2000 - Hope Recordings
Vicious Circles - Vicious Circles - winter 2001 - Platipus
Conjure 1 - Redemption - winter 2001 - Nettwerk
Uberzone - Bounce - spring 2001 - City of Angels
Private Taste - First - summer 2001 - Automatic
Compilation signings:
BACKDRAFT/LOVE THE BOMB:
Gallo label compilation - South Africa
Global Nation, Australia
AIRTIGHT/YALETOWN:
Summerdaze compilation, Shock Records, Australia
Chris Fortier - Engine Recordings, USA
Paul Oakenfold - Another World - SIRE USA
DJ Tiesto - Black Hole, Netherlands
Dome presents Mainroom - Global Recordings, Australia
Dave Ralph - Love Parade - Kinetic USA
BARNONE
Paul Oakenfold - Travelling (Pefecto presents PO)
UK - Japan - South Africa - Australia - Israel - USA
FALLING TOGETHER
Debo - Bliss - USA
SHORELINE
Dave Ralph - Love Parade - KINETIC 2001
SEPIA
Gatecrasher - Fall 2001
Oakenfold - Ibiza summer 2001
Huge thanks to Max and Lisa @ Shine Music for letting us have this mix, we really appreciate it.
Hope you can all tune in
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