RICHARD ENTERS DJMAG TOP100

CHECK IT OUT !!!!! :D

91: Richard Durand
STYLE: james@djmag.com
KNOWN FOR: My remixes for Tiësto, 'Lethal Industry', 'Flight 643' and 'Break My Fall', and my own tracks 'Make Me Scream', 'Ricohet' and 'Sweep And Repeat'.
TUNE OF 2007: First State vs Anit Kelsy's 'Falling'.
PRODUCER OF 2007: Sander van Doorn
BREAKTHROUGH DJ OF 2008: Pascal Feliz

Your musical inspiration? The tunes come to me when I'm fit and well rested! Best festival on the planet? Mysteryland in Holland and Sunrise Festival in Poland. Best bit of kit? My Apple notebook that I take with me all the time so I can make music on airplanes and in hotels. What tune makes you cry? I hate the track 'Heater' by Samim. Naughtiest thing you've done this year? I had sex with a girl who I then met again a few weeks later with an older friend of hers who I'd also had a nice night with a few months ago. The younger girl introduced me to her older friend and said, "This is my mother"…

"I've played for eight or nine years in Holland," says Dutchman Richard Durand of his career before 2007. "And Holland's not so big! Now I can play my music all round the world and that's really nice."
Breaking free from the confines of his homeland after remixing trance superstar Tiësto, a former Top 100 Winner, the last 12 months have seen a huge upswing in his career with a newfound international status to boot.
"I couldn't believe that everyone knows me and my tracks," beams Richard

With a wave of bookings, crowds have been going crazy for his sets, which consist almost entirely of his own productions, remixes and re-edits.
"I think it's better to play my own tracks," explains Richard. "It's not necessarily that they're better, but it's a more personal experience. And you're really sure that you're playing something different to the DJ before or after. I just do my own thing."

Such great news! Here's to breaking the TOP-5 next in 2008 (you'd better beleive it :)

To celebrate here's a decent new version of Richard's SMACK MY BITCH UP remix (courtesy of dj peach's well-chosen setlist)

DURRRRAND BABY <3

MORE GODSKITCHEN

Here's some short but sweet vids of Richard's Godskitchen tour (alas, still only in Australia). Especially hope to be hearing more of the Snow Patrol remix, as their latest album has been helping me get up in the morning for the past few weeks now. Wish I could've been there, sigh.. I would definitely have stood as close to Richard as physically possible; can't see much of him from where you were standing mister cameraman <3 (thanks for posting them none the less of course :).

SNOW PATROL (DURAND REMIX)


BASEMENT JAXX - WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT (DURAND REMIX)


DAFT - PUNK AROUND THE WORLD (DURAND REMIX)

SO JEALOUS !

These were taken at GODSKITCHEN, PERTH. Check out the extremely lucky ladies dancing next to Richard's booth. Looking good! I'm sure I could manage dancing like that if you were just to ask me Richard <3

IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IN SYDNEY

Some class clips of Richard taken on his conquests around the world, sure to get your weekend off to a banging start! Especially if like me, you just woke up and are reading this half-naked on your laptop, with a banging headache due to substances taken the night before and are pondering on whether or not to do the same again this evening. I seemed to be set in on staying in tonight, but changed my mind after finding these.. Even the slightest glimpse of Durand seems to always get me in the party-mood, whatever wicked state I might be in! So do your dance-loving self a favor tonight and embrace the two-day-a-week weekend-phenomenon, wherever you might be around the world :)

RICHARD DURAND @ GODSKITCHEN, HOME SYDNEY (30-09-2007)


RICHARD DURAND @ PLANET LOVE 2007 (BBC STAGE)


MORE RICHARD DURAND @ PLANET LOVE 2007 (BBC STAGE)

We Just Wanna have Fun !

Hey fellow Durand lovers! First off, let me apologize for the lack of updates in the past few weeks. We've both been really busy with school (blegh) and after that went on holiday together (london, which was amazing!).

To make up, we've got lot's of cool stuff in the pipeline! Here's a taster; the two of us completely kaylied on tequilla dancing our asses off to Durands' "Inside my Brain" :D enjoy!