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 Paul
Holden
is one of Australia's all-time most successful,
versatile & popular DJ's. He is a veteran of the
industry & one of the single biggest
contributors to the advancement of dance music
and dance events in Australia. He also has the
untouched reputation of being at the top of the
field through all his different musical phases
for the whole of his 23 years as a professional
DJ.
For the last 13 years Paul has maintained
the status of Australia's No.1 Touring DJ
playing in every city, most country towns and
regional centres, including Tasmania and New
Zealand and doing more shows, more often than
any other Australian DJ on average per year. His
country-wide profile sees him averaging 60 - 80
gigs outside his home base of Sydney per year.
He appears in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide,
Melbourne, Cairns, Townsville, Darwin, Port
Macquarie, Newcastle, Surfers Paradise,
Wollongong, Canberra, Coffs Harbour, Gosford,
Toowoomba, Byron Bay, Port Douglas, Orange,
Lismore, Armidale, Fremantle, Bunbury, Thredbo,
Katoomba, Margaret River, Erina, Terrigal,
Sunshine Coast, Lake Jindabyne, Fraser Island,
Magnetic Island, Mc Claren Vale and also
Auckland (New Zealand) and Hobart & Launceston (
Tasmania).
Paul's main musical stylings are Hard house, NRG
and Rave, but having DJ'd for so long he also
specialises in old-skool Anthems, Happy Hard,
and has a mammoth collection of original house
(Detroit, Chicago, and New York), Hip House,
Electro, Rap, and Club Classics.
Paul has appeared at far too many club, events
raves, dance parties to mention but some of the
more significant gigs include: Two Sydney Mardi
Gras parties (25,000 patrons each), Two Sleaze
Balls (25,000 patrons each), two Gatecrasher
Tours (18,000 total), Big Day Out Festival
(Australia's single biggest music festival -
85,000) which featured such acts the Prodigy,
Basement Jaxx, New Order, etc.
Other Hard House touring events such as Frantic,
Adventjah Festival (12,000), System 6 (Brisbane,
Adelaide, Sydney, Perth and has played all the
best clubs in Australia including Home, Gas,
Icebox (Sydney) Bubble and Hard Kandy
(Melbourne), Family, The Arena, The Beat
(Brisbane), Heaven, Church, Rise (Adelaide),
Metro City and Metropolis (Perth) and many more.
Clubs come and go, but Paul hasn't.
He has worked alongside such DJ's / Acts as Tony
De Vit, Carl Cox, Nick Sentience, Grooverider,
Chris C, Karim, The Brainbashers, Sasha, Laurent
Garnier, Sash!, Lisa Lashes, Steve Thomas, The
Tidy Boys, R.R.Fierce, Ultrasonic, De La Soul,
Marmon, Jungle Brothers, Moby, Paul Van Dyke,
Fergie, Faithless, even Bananarama & Dead or
ALive (!) and literally hundreds more top dance
artists / DJ's since 1980 when he started his
profession.
Paul is always described as having a unique
sound - identifiably "Paul Holden" - always
uplifting, pumpy, melodic, infectious, and he is
someone rare with that special ability to
genuinely "Read" a crowd and keep them happy and
hungry for more. Thousands of engagements and
the fact that interstate clubs, parties and
special event promoters see fit to bring Paul
back to their venues is testimony to his
talents, it says far more than any words could
be written here. Paul exudes a seemingly endless
energy at his performances that pumps up the
crowd like no other DJ in Australia.
 Paul
is also an accomplished Producer, Songwriter,
and Remixer. His successes include: "It feels
great (To deviate)" which went to No 3 in the UK
Hard House Charts (October 2001) with a remix by
Karim and his previous release "Honey Buzz" was
a club hit in Germany and was included on the
massive European CD Compilation "Ravermeister
Volume 10" which has sold in excess of 160,000
units. His latest recordings include two remixes
for the new single for Australian Pop Star
Sophie Monk for whom he has done a Hard House
mix and a Euro Trance Pop Mix. He has also
completed four other tracks this year for
International labels due for release in the end
of 2003.
Simply put, Paul is one of Australia's finest
Hard House / NRG DJ's a captivating performer
and one of the leaders in his field, always at
the forefront of the Australian Club and party
scene for over two decades and only going from
strength to strength, a legacy that is likely to
be untouched in Australian dance music history.
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