
DJ Ollis - Melancholic Thoughts - Aug 2006
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bacterio
Genre: Progressive
Date of Set: Aug 2006
Filesize: 175.72 MB
Total Downloads: 0
Biography of DJ Ollis
Olli Sovij�rvi, an uprising 25 year- old new talent from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Although he has been dj�ing only since the beginning of year 2003, OlliS was voted for the 2nd place in the Finnish club awards in the .New DJ of the year. .category. He has already played in almost every major club in Finland including Hallmark, Unity, Fantasy, Jack, VooDoo, Illusions and Dive. He has been playing alongside Ian Ossia, Kasey Taylor, Parham, Tarmo Vannas, U&K, Orkidea, Jori Hulkkonen, Mr.A and many other Finnish DJ.s. OlliS holds a residency in Club 404 (Helsinki) and is one of the founding members of the .Break That House. -DJ-collective with DJ.s Milla Lehto and Genki. He is also having a weekly radio show in Finland�s biggest radio station YleX. OlliS is a ground member of �Further� -progressive community which is a new collective that is bringing in the future some fresh winds of today�s progressive house&trance. Next spring he is going to play in Latvia, Estonia and Liethuania where the progressive trance scene is huge.
OlliS� musical history goes way back in time. He grew up in a very musical family where many different kinds of music were present most of the time. At a young age of 6 he started to play the piano and a few years later his parents offered him a chance to study theory of music. Drums were the second instrument to be added on OlliS� repertoire when he started studying at junior high school.
At around 12 years of age Olli got interested in electronic music. His first musical idol must have been Paul van Dyk. Olli was also really into rave at those times, which were the peak moments of the genre. That was also the time when he got interested in making electronic music with simple tracker programs. After following the trance scene from the mid 90�s he moved to progressive house music. Since then his all time favourites DJ.s have been Sasha & Digweed, Chris Fortier, Anthony Pappa, Ian Ossia, Nigel Dawson and Paul Oakenfold to name but a few. At the moment there are also so many great producers that it is even hard to be updated, but OlliS. favourite ones are Derek Howell, Luke Chable, James Holden, Chris Fortier, GPAL, Mick Burns, Matthew Dekay, Yunus G�venen, John Graham & Max Graham to name a few. Big respects go to Finnish talents U&K, Orkidea, Miika Kuisma, Incolumis and Introvert also.
OlliS represents a new generation of progressive house music, a style that is built on strong melodies, groovy basslines, breakbeats and trance elements. He also likes to play tribal and tech house and more chilled house once in a while if needed, but the key word is progressiveness. Expect to hear a lot from this man in the future! And meanwhile, enjoy his nicely flowing moody mixes and accurate mixing skills.