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MARKUS SCHULTZ

Style:	Trance , Progressive , Electronica
Sites:	http://www.markusschulz.com
	http://www.globaldjbroadcast.com
	http://www.twitter.com/markusschulz
	http://www.youtube.com/markusschulz

Introduction:

Over the last 10 years Markus Schulz has crafted the individual musical identities of progressive, trance & house into his own unique hybrid sound. The combined influence of his headlining DJ sets; Armada and Coldharbour label releases and highly prominent Global DJ Broadcast radio show have seen him at the forefront of the US EDM revolution. This success has been reflected in weekly sets spun in front tens of thousands, a GDJB listenership up in the millions and critically acclaimed albums, including ‘Do You Dream?’ and most recently ‘Scream’.

Following several highly ranked positions, in 2008 Schulz broke into the # 10 of DJ Mag’s Top 100 chart. He’s remained there for the last four straight years (polling #9 in 2011) and now stands as the busiest international DJ playing out of the United States.

Markus Schulz - -The DJ:

Through his natural audience interaction, flawless, intuitive harmonic mixing, unparalleled tune selection and now famous open-till-close sets, he has wowed crowds in every major metropolis. Schulz’s DJ career has largely tracked that of his productions. In the early noughties he was among the first producers to zero in on the hinterland between trance & progressive.

His career received a significant boost when, in 2004, he signed with the David Lewis Productions DJ agency (also home to Armin van Buuren). Now a regular fixture at the world’s biggest & most celebrated clubs, arenas and festivals, he lays down his inimitable trance-progressive vision on a weekly basis. In Europe, he’s smashed Tomorrowland, Transmission, Nature One, Dance Valley, Electronic Family, Sunrise and; worked tent-pegs loose at Creamfields; gridlocked Global Gatherings and played open-till-close sets at Space, Miami, Avalon, LA and both Amnesia and Privilege in Ibiza. Stateside the colossal EDC, Nocturnal, and Ultra Festivals have all felt Schulz pressure and yet further afield still he’s engineered floor uproar across South East Asia and Australia.

Schulz has polled 4 consecutive years inside DJ Mag’s world’s top 10, has been regularly ranked in the FTB, Trance Addict and Trance Podium charts as the genre’s 2nd biggest spinner and won Best American DJ at the 2008 IDMAs.

How It Began:

Born in Eschwege, central Germany, Markus emigrated to the United States. Age 13, his dance music awakening came during the grip of the country’s then-nascent breakdance scene. His early production and DJ career roughly tracked that of the second Stateside House explosion and he caught his first production break in 1993 when he remixed Sagat’s ‘Why Is It? (F** Dat)’ for FFrr.

Markus’ freshman production release followed in 1994 with the 6-track ‘Plastik Trax EP Vol 1’. Throughout the mid to late Nineties he continued to accrue acclaim with a range of releases on numerous luminary U.S. labels. In 1998 he recorded ‘You Won’t See Me Cry’ for Plastik Records (his first label), which was picked up by the UK’s Eve Records and became his first non-domestic release.

M.S. Productions 2010 - 2012:

‘Do You Dream’ and ‘Scream’: On June 15th, 2010 Schulz released his ‘Do You Dream?’ album. The 16-track long-player propelled another raft of tracks (‘Surreal’, ‘Not The Same’ and ‘Perception’ among them) onto floors and radio waves. Its release prompted Tilllate Magazine to hail it as “energetic” & “exhilarating”, whilst DJ Mag asserted that it was “hard to see why you won’t completely adore this”. On April the 1st, 2011 the album’s remix edition was released. It included remakes from heavyweights including Ferry Corsten, Cosmic Gate & Super8 & Tab. The remix edition was followed a month later by Schulz’s first DVD release, which documented his ‘Do You Dream?’ globetrotting tour.

Following the release of ‘Go!’ (a co-production with Dennis Sheperd), in March of 2012 it was announced that the single would be the first to be taken from his new artist album. With principle recording of his fourth long-player completed in mid June, ‘Scream’ was released on August 31st. Subsequent tracks ‘Caught’ (with Schulz protégée Adina Butar) and ‘Loops & Tings’ (with Ferry Corsten) perfectly captured the 2012 EDM mood, with the latter racing to the #1 position on the Beatport chart.

The album has been met with much critical acclaim. Giving it their Album of the Month award, Mixmag said that “tonally, lyrically and vocally (Schulz’s) fourth artist album swings from one highpoint to another” and that the long-player “dazzles”. America’s EDM Magazine meanwhile said that “Scream’ excels most noticeably is among its manifold vocal numbers”.

Markus Schulz presents Dakota:

Markus has only made rare use of pseudonyms throughout his career - seeing them only as valuable if they represented an outlet for something other than his established sound. At the turn of the millennium he released 3 tracks (‘Swirl’, ‘Frozen’ & ‘Lost in Brixton’) under the alias, Dakota. Over time the tracks became first-contact points for many new fans.

In 2009 Schulz paid dues to that by resurrecting the guise, recalibrating its sound and directed his attentions to a whole album of material. ‘Thoughts Become Things’ was the result and it became a route diversion that branched out to embrace techno, house and other sub-genres. It swelled both Schulz’s fanbase and the range of DJ support for his music. The album justified 7 single releases that have included particular fan-favourites ‘Chinook’, ‘Johnny the Fox’, ‘Koolhaus’ & ‘Mr Cappuccino’.

Such was its success in July of 2011 he followed it up with the sequel - ‘Thoughts Become Things II’. Giving it their prized Album of the Month award, MIXMAG said: “With ‘Thoughts II’ Schulz’s Dakota guise could be about to take centrestage”, while DJ Mag noted it contained “lush riffs at a housier tempo” and was “epic stuff”. Further afield America’s DJ Times wrote: "every track pushes great sounds and solid club vibes that throw you off your feet", whilst Germany’s Raveline said that: "no DJ should miss out on the techier, darker and more progressive side of the Schulz sound". To date it has spawned 5 singles (‘Sinners’, ‘Sleepwalkers’, Katowice’ and the AA ‘In A Green Valley’/’Saints’), as well as a remix edition with reworks from Arnej, KhoMha, Mr Pit, Wellenrausch and others.

Remixes:

Markus started his remix career in the early 90s with a 30-strong volley of high-profile reworks. Over the course of the decade he re-tooled the production works of Euro dominators like The Real McCoy & Technotronic, house masters & divas including Armand van Helden & Liz Torres, legendary Nineties icons RuPaul, Bette Midler & Sandra Bernhard and fully-fledged A-listers like Madonna (on Love Don’t Live Here Anymore).

As the Millennium arrived he began to work on deeper, more intrinsically electronic dance fare... In 2000 he remixed trance innovator Pablo Gargano’s ‘Absolution’, PQM’s Renaissance classic ‘The Flying Song’ and Fatboy Slim’s ‘Sunset (Bird of Prey). Satisfied that he’d found the right dance strata to focus on Markus has gone on to rewire tracks by Oceanlab, Motorcycle, Dance 2 Trance, Cosmic Gate, Nalin & Kane, Kyau & Albert, John O’Callaghan, & Space Manoeuvres amongst many, many others.

Prepared by Stark Profiles PR.