Glenn Morrison (born September 12, 1985) is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

DJ and

record producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

from

Toronto, Ontario Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

. He is best known for his tracks, "Contact", "No Sudden Moves", "Hydrology", and "Circles," produced by Joel Zimmerman aka deadmau5. As a DJ and performer he entertains with melodic

progressive house Progressive house is a subgenre of house music. The progressive house style emerged in the early 1990s. It initially developed in the United Kingdom as a natural progression of American and European house music of the late 1980s.Gerard, Morgan; ...

and big-room club sounds. Morrison has had the support of DJs varying from

John Digweed Thomas John Digweed (born 1 January 1967) is a British DJ and record producer. ''DJ Magazine'' voted him World No 1 DJ in 2001. As well as achieving success as a solo act, he has collaborated with Sasha as Sasha & John Digweed, and with Nick M ...

and

Richie Hawtin Richard "Richie" Hawtin (born June 4, 1970) is a British-Canadian electronic musician and DJ. He became involved with Detroit techno's second wave in the early 1990s, and has been a leading exponent of minimal techno since the mid-1990s. He becam ...

Pete Tong Peter Michael Tong, (born 30 July 1960) is an English disc jockey who works for BBC Radio 1. He is the host of programmes such as ''Essential Mix'' and ''Essential Selection'' on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio stre ...

David Guetta Pierre David Guetta ( , ; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ and music producer. He has over 10 million album and 65 million single sales globally, with more than 10 billion streams. In 2011, 2020 and 2021, Guetta was voted the number one D ...

and Tiesto and has performed around the world with over 400 shows. Morrison has created over 100 tracks which have been put out on over 700 compilations. His productions and

remixes A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...

have been released on numerous labels including Sony, Universal, EMI, Ministry of Sound, Bedrock, Extinct, Mau5trap, Songbird, Robbins Entertainment, Pokerflat, Hope and Time. Morrison is the owner and founder of Alpine Mastering, a mastering studio located in Toronto, Ontario. The studio offers a number of services from

Music Production A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

, Mixing and Mastering. Through Alpine Mastering, Morrison has worked on sound design for video game companies like

Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...

EA Sports EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to imitate real-life sports networks by calling themselves the "EA Sports Network" ...

Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one o ...

and

Rockstar Rock Star or Rockstar may refer to: Films * ''Rock Star'' (2001 film), an American film starring Mark Wahlberg * ''Rockstar'' (2011 film), an Indian Hindi-language film by Imtiaz Ali * ''Rockstar'' (2015 film), an Indian Malayalam-language fi ...

. A partnership with

IMAX IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating. Graeme F ...

for electronic music focused on sound-scoring live theatre visuals. Morrison and

unveiled this concept with a 3 part show series at the 2012

ComicCon A comic book convention or comic-con is an event with a primary focus on comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other. Commonly, comic conventions are multi-day events hosted at con ...

. Morrison also ran Morrison Recordings which designed, developed, manufactured, marketed, sublicensed and supported a wide range of mediums, from music to print services. Over 400 records have been released on Morrison Recordings over the course of five years and 95 releases with artists including

deadmau5 Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (stylized as deadmau5; pronounced "dead-mouse"), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. He mainly produces progressive house music, though he also produces ...

16 Bit Lolitas Anjunabeats is a British record label started by producers Jonathan "Jono" Grant and Paavo Siljamäki of Above & Beyond in 2000. Initially exclusively a trance music label, around 2011 Anjunabeats started releasing primarily trance-edged ho ...

, Gutterstylz,

Robert Babicz Robert Babicz (born January 5, 1973 in Niemodlin, Poland) is a Polish-born music producer, mastering engineer and live performer living in Malta. With a career spanning nearly three decades covering genres from techno to acid house to minimal, Ro ...

, Charley May and Redanka. In 2016, Morrison Recordings was closed down in order to allow Morrison the time and ability to create and run four new record labels - Dying Light Records, Fall From Grace Records, Ambient Wave Records, and Wolfe Records. Each label caters to different stylistic sensibilities and headspaces.

Life and career

Morrison is a classically trained pianist. Starting piano lessons at the age of four, he began composing and competing through CMC,

Kiwanis Music Festival The Kiwanis Music Festival movement consists of regional music competitions. These festivals are named after the Kiwanis Kiwanis International ( ) is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in In ...

, Richmond Hill Music Festival, and ORMTA - Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association. Morrison received his ARCT through the

Royal Conservatory of Music The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), branded as The Royal Conservatory, is a non-profit music education institution and performance venue headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1886 by Edward Fisher (musician), Edward ...

by the age of 14. In his early high school years, Morrison discovered

Techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

from a friend in his science class, and started collecting vinyl and becoming absorbed in underground DJ culture. He then worked at Release Records for five years before starting his own record label Morrison Recordings. Around the age of 20, Morrison started producing electronic music, learning from close friends

, Bruce Aisher, Peter Kriek, and Ariaan Olieroock. His first international hit was in 2007 when

DJ Tiësto A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music festival), mobile D ...

featured his track ‘Contact’ on his compilation In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza and it shot to the top of the World Dance Charts. His hit single ‘Goodbye’ has been Certified Double Platinum and went Number 1 for 11 weeks in a row on the Canadian Artists Billboard Chart, as well as going Number 1 in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

and the

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

Billboard Charts. ‘Goodbye’ was the 3rd highest grossing single for radio play in all genres for 2014 in Canada. For three years Morrison was a resident at Amnesia nightclub in Ibiza, Spain, and was a resident at Space nightclub in Ibiza, Spain for one year after that. He took part in North American residencies as well at Space nightclub in

Miami, Florida Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

for two years, along with the Marquee nightclub in

Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...

. Morrison's latest addition to his residency repertoire was a monthly night at

Palms Casino Palms Casino Resort is a hotel and casino located near the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. It includes 703 rooms and a casino. It was originally owned by t ...

's Moon Nightclub in

Awards and nominations

Juno Awards The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...

, - , , , Glenn Morrison , , Breakthrough Artist of the Year , , , - , , , "Goodbye" (Glenn Morrison), , Dance Recording of the Year , , , -

Sirius XM Radio Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. It was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Sat ...
Music Awards

, - , 2015 , , Glenn Morrison , , Dance Artist of the Year , , , -

SOCAN The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collects ...
Radio Music Awards

, - , 2015 , , Glenn Morrison , , Artist of the Year , , , - , 2015 , , "Goodbye" (Glenn Morrison), , Song of the Year , , , - , 2015 , , Glenn Morrison, , Dance Artist of the Year , , , -

Discography

Albums

*''Into the Deep'' (2016)

Extended plays

*''Odyssey'' (2009) *''Drone'' (2009)

Singles

">http://www.tophit.ru/russia_weekly.shtml?week_st=1390248000 , - , rowspan="2", 2007 , "No Sudden Moves" , — , — , , rowspan="5" , - , "Contact" , — , — , , - , 2013 , "Goodbye" (featuring Islove) , 12 , 1 , * MC: 2× Platinum , - , 2014 , "Colourblind (featuring Andrew Cole) , 88 , — ,

Other singles

*No Sudden Moves/Circles (2007) *Contact/Hydrology (2007) *Cosmic Flight (2008) *A Lament (2008) with Zoo Brazil *Blue Skies with Linda (2008) *In a Trance (2008) *Rubberband (2008) *Gravity Falling (2008) *Odyssey (2009) *Starship Road (2009) *Playing with Ivory (2010) *Another Suggestion (2010) *Tokyo Cries (2011) (feat.

Christian Burns Christian Anthony Burns (born 18 January 1974) is an English singer. He is the son of Tony Burns of The Signs, a Liverpool-based rock band signed to Decca Records in the 1960s. Career Burns was a member of the popular British band BBMak, ...

) *Secrets (2011) (feat. Mike Tompkins) *Marquee (2013) *Time Warp (2013) *The Flute (2015) (feat. Brian Cid) *Stereo Retrograde (2016) *Psychedelic (2016) *Diamondback (2016) *Perception (2016) *Expressions (2016) *I'm the King (2016) *Cold Day (2017) (feat. Whitney Phillips) *Time To Go (2017) (feat. Michael Warren) *All For You (2017) (feat. Rumors) *Little Piece of Summertime (2017) (feat. Deb's Daughter)

Remixes

*Bernard Sumner (New Order) - Miracle Cure (2008) *The B-52's - Juliet of the Spirits (2008) *Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (2009) *Armin Van Buuren - Not Giving Up On Love (2010) *Moby - Life Me Up (2014) *Trevor Guthrie - Summertime (2015)

References

External links

*http://www.beatport.com/artist/glenn-morrison/19729 *http://www.soundcloud.com/glennmorrison {{DEFAULTSORT:Morrison, Glenn 1985 births Living people 21st-century Canadian male musicians Canadian DJs Canadian house musicians Canadian electronic musicians Canadian record producers Canadian techno musicians Mau5trap artists Musicians from Toronto