Richard Durand (; born 5 April 1976) is a

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

and

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. His real name is Richard van Schooneveld ()

Biography

Starting his career in 2005, Durand was recommended by

Tiësto Tijs Michiel Verwest (; born 17 January 1969), known professionally as Tiësto ( ), is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda. He was voted "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by '' Mix'' magazine in a 2010/2011 poll amongst fans. In 2013, he was ...

as his 'Tip For the Top in 2007' in ''

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''. In that same year, he was placed in the ''DJ Magazine'' Top 100 DJs poll. His first creations were tech trance singles "Make Me Scream" and "Slipping Away" on the Terminal 4 label, but his real success started with remixes of Tiësto singles "

Lethal Industry "Lethal Industry" is a single which appeared in DJ Tiësto's first album. Before the album was created he released several singles to see what the popularity and the reaction of his audience would be towards these tracks. He first released ''"Leth ...

", "

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" and " Break My Fall", and reworks of

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's "

Smack My Bitch Up "Smack My Bitch Up" is a song by English rave group The Prodigy. It was released in November 1997 as the third and final single from their third album, ''The Fat of the Land'' (1997). In 2013, ''Mixmag'' readers voted it the third greatest danc ...

" and

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's "

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" which brought him into the playlist of DJs such as

Armin van Buuren Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren ( , ; born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Leiden, South Holland. Since 2001, he has hosted ''A State of Trance'' (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40&nbs ...

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Ferry Corsten Ferry Corsten (; born 4 December 1973) is a Dutch disc jockey, record producer and remixer from Rotterdam. He is well known for producing many pioneering trance tracks during the 1990s–2000s under his numerous aliases, including System F, Moon ...

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and Eddie Halliwell. In 2008, Durand remixed

Fragma Fragma are a German vocal trance music group, originally comprising three producers. The group was successful in the early 2000s when they released several singles that charted successfully across Europe, especially the United Kingdom and Irel ...

's "

Toca's Miracle "Toca's Miracle" is a release by German vocal trance group Fragma featuring vocals from British singer Coco (also known as Coco Star). Taken as the second single off Fragma's debut studio album, ''Toca'' (2001), the song is a mashup of Coco's "I ...

" and Armin van Buuren's " In and Out of Love". His solo productions included "Weep" featuring

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from

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on vocals, which was signed to

Perfecto Records Perfecto Records is a British trance record label, founded by Paul Oakenfold in 1989. Perfecto was also a remix team consisting of Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne and in its later years, Osborne was replaced by Andy Gray. Perfecto Records h ...

. In 2009, Durand remixed

Art of Trance Simon Paul Berry, known by his alias Art of Trance, is a trance music artist from England. Berry is also known as Poltergeist or Vicious Circles, and has been a member of the trance groups Clanger, Conscious and Union Jack. He has been producin ...

's "Madagascar" followed by his debut artist album ''Always the Sun'' on

Magik Muzik Magik Muzik is a sub-label of Dutch label Black Hole Recordings that was founded by Tiësto in 2001. History In 1997 with the help of Arny Bink, co-founder of Black Hole Recordings, Tiësto was able to compile various styles of electronic music ...

Black Hole Recordings Black Hole Recordings is a Dutch record label founded by Tijs Verwest (Tiësto) and Arny Bink in 1997. In August 2009, Tiësto decided to leave Black Hole Recordings, setting up the record label Musical Freedom in association with PIAS Entertai ...

. The album spawned three singles: "Into Something", "Always the Sun" and "No Way Home".

Discography

Albums

* ''Always the Sun'' (2009) * ''Wide Awake'' (2011) * ''Richard Durand Versus The World'' (2012) * ''The Air We Breathe'' (2018) * ''Reactivate'' (2022)

DJ mixes

* ''Portrait'' (2013) ;In Search of Sunrise series * '' In Search of Sunrise 8: South Africa'' (2010) * '' In Search of Sunrise 9: India'' (2011) * '' In Search of Sunrise 10: Australia'' (2012) * '' In Search of Sunrise 11: Las Vegas'' (2013) * '' In Search of Sunrise 12: Dubai'' (2014) * ''In Search of Sunrise 13.5: Amsterdam'' (2015)

Singles

Remixes

- " Wild Wild Son" (Richard Durand Remix) (ft.

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) *Art of Trance - "Madagascar" (Richard Durand Remix) *Ruben de Ronde &

Roxanne Emery Roxanne Emery, known also by her stage name RØRY, is a London-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. She is the sister of the DJ and producer Gareth Emery. Music career On 6 June 2011, Emery released her debut EP title ...

- "Gold" (Richard Durand Remix) *

- "

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" (Richard Durand Remix) *Tiësto - "

" (Richard Durand Remix) *Armin van Buuren - " In and Out of Love" (Richard Durand Remix) (ft. Sharon den Adel) *Tiësto - "

" (Richard Durand Remix)

References

External links

Official websiteRichard Durand Discography
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