Psy-Trance

Progressive, Ambient

Europe

Amsterdam, NL

Just a few Dutch artists get as much critical acclaim both nationally and off-shore, right up to Brazil. Then again, when you're no stranger to performing at major festival style raves such as Dance Valley, you must have made a lasting impression. As a DJ, Riches received his first invitation in 1996 to mix psychedelic dub & chill-out at the famous Melkweg venue. Multigroove asked him to become a resident DJ for their chill-out zones at their bigger raves as the response grew in enthusiasm. Since then he played chilled music at loads of different events. From small parties to festivals in Spain and the Swiss alps.

Summer 2002 marked another milestone for DJ Riches. His appearances at Mysteryland and at two leading psytrance events in Brazil, Trancendence in the summer and 3 amazing DJ-sets at Universo Paralello, concludes the distinction with the average DJ. A year later at Dance Valley 2003 he proved that he got more tricks on his sleeve. He played a glorious live Aerophobia performance, the longest live-set of the whole event. When he performed at the Legalize street rave, he attracted a major amount of the audience from the 8 stages. On top of that he did a double appearance on the 1st Solstice festival in Amsterdam/Ruigoord. Next to that he also began as programmer and resident DJ for the underground Alien Vibes party series. Earning him the title as one of the most active and promising trance artists in the Netherlands, this resulted in the honor of playing a rocking live-set for the Earthdance organization. That same year, and a part of 2004 he was hosting the progressive area for the biggest and most successful club of Amsterdam, the Xtra Large. At the end of that year he did a Brazilian tour playing live & Dj-sets at various places in the country, to end on new year again at the 5th edition of Universo Paralello, where he did double live-sets and a DJ-set.

In the spring of 2005 he started Holland’s only weekly progressive/psytrance club night Aknatronix together with his good friends; Liftshift and DJ Zen. This club night finally made it possible that the captivating progressive tunes got accepted by the psychedelic crowd in Holland, thanks to the great atmosphere they created. In October 2005 Aknatronix was invited to join the Amsterdam Dance Event, one of the worlds leading international conferences for electronic dance music. For the event that had to be organized they contracted the German G-Plus label (X-Dream, The Delta, Midimiliz) and was completely sold out in advance. His music style varies from pumping progressive, full-on to groovy psychedelic beats.

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