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Ville Virtanen (born July 17, 1975), better known by his stage name Darude is a Trance music producer and DJ from Eura, Hinnerjoki, Finland. Debuting in 1999 with the smash single "Sandstorm" and subsequent album Before the Storm, Darude is known worldwide for his progressive/uplifting style. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 643 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This picture was taken by myself at the Darude show back in July or August 2004 (sorry I forgot the exact date). ...
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Eura is a municipality of Finland. ...
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In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
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is the 198th day of the year (199th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A stage name, also called a screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, comedians, musicians, djs, clowns, and professional wrestlers. ...
This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ...
Eura is a municipality of Finland. ...
Before the Storm track listing Beginning of Album Sandstorm (1) Burning (2) Sandstorm is a 12 and a CD single by the Finnish DJ Darude. ...
Before the Storm is Darudes debut album. ...
Biography
Beginnings Virtanen started his career as an amateur musician while in high school, making music using his PC's tracker software. As his interest in music production rapidly grew (and his grades correspondingly dropped), he moved on to more serious production techniques.
While at a classmate's party, Virtanen played the song "Rude Boy" (written by Swedish artist Leila K) four times. This earned him the nickname "Rude Boy", which gradually morphed into "Da Rude", which in turn inspired the name "Darude". Leila K (born September 6, 1971 as Leila El Khalifi) is a Swedish Eurodance singer and former rapper of Moroccan descent. ...
Virtanen continued producing music while in technical school, occasionally releasing demos to radio stations beginning in 1997, and offering his music for download on MP3.com. In 1999, he gave a demo for "Sandstorm" to his producer, JS16 (Jaakko Salovaara). Virtanen signed on with JS16's 16 Inch Records label, and shortly thereafter, "Sandstorm" was released as a single. MP3. ...
JS16, real name Jaakko Salovaara, is a Finnish musician and record producer. ...
Early career "Sandstorm" was a smash hit in Finland, topping the Finnish Single Chart, selling platinum and holding the #1 spot on the Finnish Dance Chart for seventeen consecutive weeks. Word quickly spread about the track, which found global success. After becoming the #3 single in the United Kingdom (Becoming the first record by a Finnish artist to do so), "Sandstorm" eventually sold 2 million units worldwide, and was the world's biggest selling 12-inch record in 2000.
Shortly thereafter, Darude released his debut album, Before the Storm, selling 800,000 copies worldwide, topping the Finnish album charts, and earning him three Finnish Grammy awards. Before the Storm was produced by JS16, and features two of his remixes.
Darude's second single, "Feel the Beat", closely followed the success of Sandstorm, reaching #5 on the UK Singles chart. Subsequent releases, "Out of Control", and "Out of Control (Back for More)" (A remix of the former, featuring vocals by Tammie Marie) failed to match the success of Darude's first two singles. Feel the Beat may refer to: Feel the Beat, a 2000 song by Darude Feel the Beat, a song by S Club 8 from their 2002 album Together Feel the Beat, a song by LL Cool J from his 2004 album The DEFinition Feel the Beat, a song by Najwa...
Darude began a successful world tour in 2001, releasing Before the Storm: Australian Tour Edition in the process. 2002 saw the release of Before the Storm: Special Edition, featuring a collection of remixes of Darude's work. Since the release of Rush, Darude has remained on the road, particularly the United States and Eastern Europe.
In 2003, Darude released his second album, Rush, along with singles "Music" and "Next to You". All three had modest success, with Rush reaching #4 in weekly Finnish album sales and "Next to You" being commonly featured in DJ mixes.
Recent developments Darude is currently ranked #53 on the DJ List As of October 3,2007 (Link) and #84 in the DJ Mag Top 100 (Link).
Darude posted his singles "Tell Me" and "My Game" from his upcoming new album Label This! on his official MySpace page. "Tell Me" was released in Finland on April 11, 2007 and "My Game" was released in Finland on September 19, 2007. At time of writing, international release dates have not been published.
The Finnish release date for Label This! is October 17, 2007.
Discography
Albums Before the Storm is Darudes debut album. ...
Rush is Darudes third album. ...
Singles - 1999: "Sandstorm"
- 2000: "Feel the Beat"
- 2000: "Out of Control"
- 2001: "Out of Control (Back for More)"
- 2003: "Music"
- 2003: "Next to You"
- 2007: "Tell Me"
- 2007: "My Game"
Before the Storm track listing Beginning of Album Sandstorm (1) Burning (2) Sandstorm is a 12 and a CD single by the Finnish DJ Darude. ...
Official remixes - 2000: Rising Star - "Touch Me (Darude Remix)"
- 2000: Rising Star - "Touch Me (Darude's Sandstorm Mix)"
- 2000: Blank & Jones - "Beyond Time (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2000: Boom! - "Boy Versus Girls (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2000: Barcode Brothers - "Dooh Dooh (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2000: JDS - "Nine Ways (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2000: Waldo's People - "No-Man's-Land (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2000: Waldo's People - "1000 Ways (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2000: ATB - "The Fields of Love (Darude Remix)"
- 2000: Bleachin' - "Peakin' (Darude vs. JS16 Short Version)"
- 2000: Bleachin' - "Peakin' (Darude vs. JS16 Long Version)"
- 2001: Safri Duo - "Played A-Live (The Bongo Song)(Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2001: The Thrillseekers - "Synaesthesia (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
- 2002: DJ Aligator Project - "Lollipop (Darude vs. JS16 Remix)"
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