Introduction: Marking a new dawn in British progressive / progressive-trance, his precision-built, evocative electronic soundscapes have fast found the ears of many of the scene's leading lights. Prog maestros like Sasha, Nick Warren & Dave Seaman are ardent supporters, as are forward-thinking trance legionnaires like Ferry Corsten and Gareth Emery. Ad is regularly called upon to remix some of music's biggest stars, including the only official Sony BMG dance remix of Ushers hit 'The DJ Got Us Fallin In Love Again'. No less a talent behind a pair of turntables, he has become the warm up man-of-choice for some of the biggest names one the scene. In 2009 he supported Calvin Harris and Paul Oakenfold on their respective UK shows, since then he has gone on to tour the States (inc Pacha NY), and more recently India (inc Quantum, India's biggest and most advanced superclub.) He is Ad Brown and he is an impossible-to-miss presence.
Ad Brown – The Early Years: Attending the prestigious Academy of Contemporary Music (the starting point for stars including Sugar Babe Amelle Berrabah and Mercury Music Prize Award Winner Toby Couling), Ad took his degree in Business and Music. Whilst studying he learnt the music industry ropes moonlighting in the promotions department of heavy-hitting dance label, Serious Records. Upon graduating, Ad had to decide whether to go down the record label or DJ/recording artist route. Believing in himself as a producer and DJ, he opted for the latter…
Release The Music: Through both his Ad Brown and Maxi Valvona releases, he quickly made a name for himself as the go-to man for enriched prog-themed atmospherics. Think the melodies of Above & Beyond crossbred with the backing tracks of Digweed and you're nine tenths of the way there.
Originally signed to Black Hole Recordings, he debuted on the off shoot progressive label Fris! in late 2008 with the double-header release 'Smoke' and 'I Just Do'. Just a few months later recognition came fast to his door with the '09 releases 'Hope' and 'Chasing Rainbows'. The latter scored the 5/5 Money Shot review in DJ Mag, with the publication stating that the track "positively bulged with dark synthery, thudding drums and imaginative percussion" and added that it was one with "a murderously good chiming top line". A month after its release the track was compiled onto the 2009 Trance Energy album and Ad himself was named by the music-critics.com website as "a producer to watch". Over the course of the 2010 Brown drew manyplaudits for his much-spun bootleg rewiring of Holden & Thompson's prog house classic 'Nothing'. It was music again championed by a remarkably broad spectrum of DJs. In May of that year he also delivered the 'Velvet EP', his debut release under his new pseudonym, Maxi Valvona (for Solarstone's Insatiable Records). On the
immediate horizon he has an intensive release schedule with tracks & remixes forthcoming on imprints including Anjunadeep, Black Hole, Baroque, Electronic Elements, Intuition Deep and Silk Royal.
Ad Brown – The DJ: You will rarely see a spinner more at home and at ease in front of a pair of CDJs than Brown. Combining flawless mixing with sophisticated selection and electric audience interaction, both UK and abroad, he has brought clubs under his spell. He's played nights that have included UK club landmarks like Serious' night at the Cross, Dusted, The Honey Club in Brighton, Maximal at Turnmills. Of late he's also spun at famed progressive night, Twisted Audio, as a guest alongside Anthony Pappa. Ad is also is the only UK artist to be invited to play the fastemerging Silk Royal Showcase night in Philadelphia.
TRACKLIST
1. Roger Martinez - Moment (Original Mix) Novus Ordo EP [00:00]
2. Makotraxx -Hagoromo (Paul Thomas Remix) [Mango Alley] [08:22]
3. G-Tek - Infinito (Ad Browns Melodic Main Room Mix) [Silk Royal] [14:06]
4. Kino Oko - Lovely Serenade (Eelke Kleijn Remix) [Tribal Visions] [21:09]
5. Maxi Valvona - Lost in Vagueness (Soundprank's Coastal Mix] [Electronic Elements] [27:02]
6. PROFF - Abandoned Dream [Anjunadeep] [33:24]
7. Andres Cabrera - Lumino (Niklas Gustavsson Remix) [Nellie Recordings] [38:55]
8. Ad Brown - Marimba (Original Mix) [Perspectives Digital] [43:49]
9. John Graham aka Quivver - In Your Boat (Original Mix) [Bedrock Records] [50.54]
10. Moonbeam - Lilt (Tom Glass Mix) [CDR] [56:51]
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