Darren Tate (born 22 October 1972, in

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) is a British record producer, film composer and club DJ.

Biography

As a classically trained musician, Tate has worked with international

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and songwriters with whom he collaborates regularly. He has also worked in the areas of television, film and musical theatre. Appearing in various television advertisements during his childhood, he attended boarding school for ten years. As he got older, he was trained in several classical

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s, studied Music at

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and enjoyed success in television, film and musical theatre. In a ''DMC'' magazine interview of March 2007, Tate stated that his favourite record was "

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" by

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. In the same interview, it was revealed that three of his biggest influences in his life were

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and

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. Tate has a son who was born in February 2006.

Career

Like many of his fellow DJs, Tate has used a large number of pseudonyms. His first project was a joint effort with

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in 2000. Together with Jules's wife, Amanda O'Riordan, they named themselves Angelic. Later the same year, he cut a few tracks under the name Orion. September 2002 saw the return of Tate under the name Jurgen Vries. Since then, he has used the name DT8 and most recently was part of DT8 Project. His most successful track in terms of

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presence came with " The Opera Song", which featured

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, credited on the sleeve as CMC. Several compilations of dance tunes by major

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s have been mixed by Tate and reached the charts. Tate's first album (released under his own name) was issued in 2006 and titled ''Horizons 01''. The first official DT8 Project album, ''Perfect World'', was released on 1 October 2007. It was a

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, the second containing

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es from other producers. Tate is also known as a DJ. As well as headlining many events and touring, he hosts the monthly 'Mondo Sessions' (with co-host Dale Corderoy) which is syndicated across an international radio station network (including Ministry of Sound Radio, DI.FM, ETN,

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, Fresh FM,

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and others). In addition, he has performed mixing duties on albums such as ''Beyond Euphoria (MOS)'', ''Trance Republic'' (with John Askew and Agnelli & Nelson) and ''Mondo Sessions 001'' with

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. Tate has also recorded under the name Citizen Caned and now heads

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, a company which he started in 2000. Also included in the Mondo umbrella are Mondo Publishing (established in 2004) and Mondo DJs (formed in 2007). In January 2008, Tate revealed during an interview on his official website that he was doing some movie work. In 2008, Tate completed a track for the film ''

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'', which can be heard over the credits at the end of the film. He also released ''Horizons 02'' as an EP. In 2009, Tate was given a special mention and distinguished musician award by the IBLA Foundation for his classical work "Dark Skies" recorded with the

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(CNSO) in Prague (October 2008). In 2011, Tate announced several new projects, including Funkysober with

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and Marc Vedo, and Tate & Diamond with Harry Diamond. The first Funkysober single "Sunshine into My Life" features vocals by Sharlene Hector and was released in the summer of 2011 on Very Good Records. The first Tate & Diamond single "Turn It Back" was released in summer 2011 on

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with the follow up "Electrified" released on

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. In addition, Tate announced the launch of a collaborative film scoring project entitled Brainstorm with composer

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. The first film they completed together was called ''Sid's Paralysis'' by director Babar Ahmed which went on to win a prize for musical excellence by the Park City Film Music Festival. In 2012, Tate with

scored the motion picture ''

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'', directed by

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and starring

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and

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In addition, Tate & Lampl worked together on the feature film ''How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song'' (director Gary King) which won best film and up and coming director at the

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and best picture at the

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amongst other awards. The team are currently scoring the motion picture ''Snapshot'' (dir. Eric Etebari), ''Awakened'' (dir. Arno Malarone, Joycelyn Engle) and ''Scavenger Killers'' (dir. Dylan Bank) which starred

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in his final role. In 2013, it was announced that the duo would be scoring the feature film '' Frontera'' starring

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and

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(dir. Michael Berry). In 2018, Tate co-produced and orchestrated the first album for The House and Garage Orchestra, ''

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''. The album features performances by Kayla Amor,

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, Denzee,

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, Camden Cox, MC Neat,

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, Shy Cookie,

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, Oggie, Freejak, Safety First, BB Diamond,

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and Reigns. On Record Day 2021, Fat Possum Records released a limited edition album, ''Give Me More Love'' by

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which was co-produced by Tate. The album took the original recordings from Green which were originally released by

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and incorporates new orchestral arrangements by Tate. It features updated versions of some of Green's greatest hits including " Let's Stay Together", "

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" and "

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". In 2022, Tate collaborated with Above & Beyond on ''The Last Glaciers'' (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) and started another project with A&B's Jono Grant under the name JODA with the first single being "We Find Ourselves".

Discography

Charted singles (as producer)

* June 2000: "It's My Turn" - No. 11 UK ( Angelic) * October 2000: "Eternity" - No. 38 UK (Orion) * February 2001: "Can't Keep Me Silent" - No. 12 UK (Angelic) * April 2001: "The Journey" - No. 41 UK (Citizen Caned) * November 2001: "Stay with Me" - No. 36 UK (Angelic) * September 2002: "The Theme" - No. 13 UK (Jurgen Vries) * February 2003: " The Opera Song" - No. 3 UK (Jurgen Vries feat. CMC) * May 2003: "Destination" - No. 23 UK (DT8 feat. Roxanne Wilde) * October 2003: "Wilderness" - No. 20 UK (Jurgen Vries feat. Shena) * June 2004: " Take My Hand" - No. 23 UK (Jurgen Vries feat. Andrea Britton) - cover of Dido's track of the same name * August 2004: "The Sun Is Shining (Down on Me)" - No. 17 UK (DT8 Project feat. Rob Li) * March 2005: "Winter" - No. 35 UK (DT8 Project feat. Andrea Britton) * August 2008: "I Surrender" - No. 4 Flemish Ultratip chart, No. 21 Wallonia Ultratip chart, No. 12 Dutch chart (co-written with Victoria Horn and performed by

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)

Other releases

* 2002: "Let the Light Shine In" (Darren Tate & Jono Grant) * 2003: "See Me Here" (Orion with uncredited vocals by Rebecca Raines) * 2003: "Nocturnal Creatures" (Darren Tate & Jono Grant) * 2004: "Prayer for a God" (Darren Tate) * 2004: "The Other Love" (Darren Tate vs Blue Amazon) - remix of the original Blue Amazon track * 2005: "Venus" (Darren Tate) * 2006: ''Horizons 01'' (Darren Tate) - Tate's first album * 2006: "Narama" (DT8 Project feat.

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) * 2007: "Hold Me Till the End" (DT8 Project feat. Alexta) * 2007: "Echoes / Chori Chori" (Darren Tate) * 2008: "Perfect World" (DT8 Project feat.

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) and ''Perfect World'' album * 2018: ''Leave It All Behind Vol. 1 EP'' (DT8 Project) * 2018: "Timeless" (Darren Tate) * 2018: ''

'' (The House and Garage Orchestra) (as producer/arranger/orchestrator) * 2019: "Cycles" (DT8 Project) * 2019: ''Leave It All Behind Vol. 2 EP'' (DT8 Project) * 2019: ''Leave It All Behind Vol. 3 EP'' (DT8 Project) * 2019: "Carry On/We Are Oxygen" (DT8 Project) * 2020: ''Where We Go From Here Pt. 1 EP'' (DT8 Project)

Filmography

Film credits

*''The Last Glaciers'' (with Above and Beyond (band)) (2021) *''Little Horror Movie'' (2019) *''Among Us'' (2017) *''Bwoy'' (2016) * ''Definitely Divorcing'' (2015) * '' Frontera'' (2014) * '' Hear No Evil'' (2014) * ''The Fright Night Files'' (TV film) (2014) * ''Unnerved'' (2014) * ''A Christmas Blessing'' (2014) * ''Awakened'' (2014) * ''Snapshot'' (2014) * ''Scavenger Killers'' (2014) * ''

'' (2013) * ''How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song'' (sound mixing) (2013)

Short films

*''Less Heat in Arizona'' (2018) *''The Prison Web'' (2015) * ''Enhanced'' (2015) * ''The Boy Next Door'' (2014) * ''Princess & Grace'' (2014)

Television

* ''Compromised'' (Pilot) (2014)

References

External links

Official website

Darren Tate
on the website of Mondo Records
Darren Tate (DT8 Project)
on the Mondo DJs website {{DEFAULTSORT:Tate, Darren Club DJs English DJs English dance musicians English record producers 1972 births Living people English trance musicians English film score composers English male film score composers Musicians from London Electronic dance music DJs