Dylan Smith

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With a knack for pristine musical selection, tight mixing ability, and first rate production skills, DJ Plateau has been active in the electronic music community for more than 11 years. His musical path was chosen long before being exposed to techno when at the ripe age of eight he began to study piano. Years would pass and a general interest in recording with digital instruments would develop. In 1997 his first exposure to the electronic world began with such artists as BT ("Ima" and "ESCM" were getting played to death in his CD player), Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, and Moby. It was in 1998 that he felt it was his calling to move from in front of the speakers to behind the decks. During his studies at UNC-Greensboro in North Carolina armed with a pair of belt drives and a Blue Dog mixer he began to record demo tape after demo tape. Eventually he was able to spin at his first party "Headstrong" at Club Babylon in Greensboro, NC in November 1998. 1999 rolled around and the wheels were in motion for a very productive year. He received offers from Hoodwink Records, joined a local DJ/production crew, Sinirgi, and played many local bars and clubs. By the end of '99 DJ Plateau gained enough popularity to be coined as "...the best kept secret in the NC underground scene."

By 2000 he had begun to record his own music and comtinued to promote his style around the Greensboro area. In 2001 he placed 12th out of 50th in the preliminaries of a Raleigh-Duram based DJ competition called "Da Skillz" and competed in the finals that same year, placing 5th. Not bad for an out of town kid who was up against some hometown favorites.

In 2002 DJ Plateau moved back to his home state of Virginia and decided to spend more time in his home studio recording a number of tracks including an EP entitled "Trance Mission vol.1." In 2003 he moved back to the beach area of Virginia and joined with a local DJ promotional crew and would play out regularly that year. 2004 brought about new songs and more local DJing gigs even getting his feet wet in the PsyTrance scene. In 2005, he performed a couple of times in Washington D.C. under the name "Psy Kick" but found that the ethereal, hard, vocal trance was more his style.

Between 2006 and 2008 projects and gigs were coming left and right for Plateau. His recording studio is the main area of interest and he is currently putting the finishing touches on his second EP "Trance Mission vol. 2." At the same time he has built a following in the New Age community with his 2005 side-project release of an ambient/chill out album under the performance name of Deosil (http://www.myspace.com/deosilmusic). He also runs a very small private recording/production company, "Other Realm Music." Now with 13 demo CDs later (including one that explores Drum'n'Bass) and an "official" release, the sky is the limit....so stay tuned.

Taking music to a higher level is his goal....are you ready to go on that journey with him? ..

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