Ireland is known for many things: Guinness, shamrocks, and now - John O'Callaghan. Firmly established in the A-list trance elite, John O'Callaghan is set to continue his journey further up the ladder of electronic dance superstardom. John's high- energy trance mix coupled with a highly refined precision mixing style has seen him surge up through the DJ ranks. Spinning his first Radio 1 Essential Mix in the summer of 2008, the gifted 28 year old was one of only 4 trance DJs to do so during the year.
Immediately following that he made his debut in DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs rundown, arriving at No.60. In the 2009 chart he became one of the year's highest climbers, leaping 36 places into the world's top 25 (at number 24) and cemented his place as Ireland's foremost DJ and producer.
In his home country he has picked up the Best DJ awards at the Irish Dance Music Awards for 3 consecutive years; decisively conquered the notoriously competitive testing ground of Ibiza and was the first Irishman to play Trance Energy. John has achieved so much already but this is just the beginning of a trance legacy.
Production News
John has been hard at it in the studio, squeezing in some essential hours in front of Cubase in between all of his hectic travelling. Recently, he just finished a remix for Ronald van Gelderen, this is a big room destroyer! Back to his popular J.O.C alias, comes a new groover called 'Botnik' - sample coming soon! Also in the works is a John O'Callaghan remix for the great track 'Lustral - I Feel You' ... coming soon on Armada!
1. Intro - Heatbeat & Exit - Go (Joint Operations Centre remix)
2. Ummet Ozcan - Trinity
3. Jon O'Bir ft. Fisher - Found A Way (Joint Operations Centre remix)
4. Tom Colontonio - Induction (Acid mix)
5. Tim Besamusa vs. John O.Callaghan - Find Sanctum (John O'Callaghan mashup)
6. Nick Sentience - Nocturnal
7. John O'Callaghan - Desert Orchid
8. Matt Everson - Heist Manoeuvre (Nick Sentience remix)
9. Tom Colontonio - Nighthawk
10. John O'Callaghan ft. Audrey Gallagher vs. Paul Webster vs. Sean Tyas - Big Time (John O'Callaghan mashup)
11. Giuseppe Ottaviani - Angel (Night mix)
John has just been made the Exclusive Cream Ibiza resident, with a bumper 6 dates on the white Isle at what many feel is the best Club in the world - Amnesia!
17th June / 8th & 15th July / 19th August / 16th & 23rd September www.cream.co.uk
Resident for GlobalGathering!
JOC has been announced as one of the residents for GlobalGathering 2010! After such a record breaking year in 2009, 2010 starts with the announcement that he will be teaming up with one of the biggest brands in the world of Dance Music: GlobalGathering.
John will be appearing in the
following countries so far...Poland, Ukraine, Russia, UK. globalgathering.com
JOC Russia Tour
Check out the highlights here!
Subculture grows
With the first 2 releases on JOC's new label getting support from all the A-List heavyweights, the 3rd release is set to follow suit. John Askew has provided a smashing tech-trancer and has an excellent remix from Tylor-Leigh who is bouncing back in style to become the biggest female star in trance today!
The future is bright for the label with names like Ummet Ozcan, Nick Sentience & Tom Colontonio scheduled for releases!
Joc recently broke a club record in Ireland's best superclub LUSH by selling out to a capacity crowd with the doors closing at 10pm!
Check out this AMAZING video that captures just a slice of the vibe, what a night!!
Subculture: the label
In 2010 John's own Subculture label will launch, with the first release being the ever growing 'STRIKER' !
Working alongside Armada to promote the label, John is extremely excited about this project. Promising only to release the absolute finest in trance and tech-trance, John is really looking forward to this venture.
Striker will be coming with a huge UMMET OZCAN remix!
Number 24 in the World!
What a year for John O'Callaghan! His 2nd artist album 'Never Fade Away' is still burning hot in speaker cables around the world, he played at the massive Trance Energy 09 Festival, stormed the main room at Cream @ Amnesia Ibiza all Summer long ... and he has topped the year off in style with a huge leap of 36 places in the DJ Mag Poll!
Thank you to every single person out there who voted, your support is really really appreciated!!
See you in 2010 - Thanks again!
Never Fade Away : The Remixes
On Jan 18th 2010, a double digital album will be released containing a selection of the best remixes of JOC's album!
Artist's such as Heatbeat, Robbie Nelson, Ernesto & Bastian, Sly One & Jurrane, Matt Hardwick & Bryan Kearney have contributed to a huge remix package!
John has begun early work on his new album planned for 2011. He is looking to work with some new vocal talent, could be you? Send your demo to:
jocmusicenquiry [at] gmail dot com subject: VOCAL DEMO
John knows there is some great talent out there and is looking forward to discovering new vocalists!
Impossible (John O'Callaghan remix)
Matt Hardwick had a new single recently with amazing vocals. John noticed this and wanted to take it into a high energy trance remix. Spotting the potential, John worked for weeks in the studio to craft this into a huge trance peak time stormer.
Coming soon on Matt's own label: Matt Hardwick & Gulf - Impossible (JOHN O'CALLAGHAN REMIX)
John O'Callaghan - Striker
John has been working hard in the studio recently coming up with some new ideas, for possible tracks to exclusively include on his forthcoming "Subculture" 2 x CD compilation to be released in October.
STRIKER is a 136bpm, tech trance crossover with a long breakdown and huuuuuge build. Already fans of the track: Eddie Halliwell & John Askew. This is massive!
Cramped / Backup
2 new techno experiments from the Joint Operations Centre project.... 128bpm chunky bass with a big room hook - climaxes in chaos!
Backup... the angry brother of Cramped... comes straight in with heavy percussion and dark synths combined with a melodic breakdown, and the rest... wait and see! Coming end Nov on Armada.
Subculture: Out 19th Oct
A double CD of the finest in trance and tech-trance, mixed by John O'Callaghan....available from 19th October!
For more info check www.armadamusic.nl
Never Fade Away Remixes OUT NOW!
To make sure 'Never Fade Away' fitted a club setting, Scottish producer Andy Duguid and Italian producer Guiseppe Ottaviani reworked it to true club anthems. Andy Duguid gave the track a lovely progressive touch, with pure feel good moments. Andy's remix, already featured on Armin's 'A State of Trance 2009' album as the opening-track on the first cd, is in perfect balance of ambient and progressive. Guiseppe Ottaviani, one of the major players in the uplifting trance scene, covered 'Never Fade Away' with a tasty layer of activating peak-time trance. All together, this 'Never Fade Away' package has plenty in store for any type of setting.
1. Never Fade Away (Andy Duguid Remix)
2. Never Fade Away (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
Find Yourself @ Argentina!
Check out this amazing video of John's recent gig in Fiesta PURA @ Crobar, Buenos Aires.
This is a brand new remix of 'Find Yourself' - more news soon!
Never Fade Away Tops the Charts
No Less than 11 of JOC's tracks from his album have stormed into the Top 50 of Beatport, a record for any album! With 'Find Yourself' topping the charts over at Audiojelly too, it's fast becoming a modern classic.
The 3rd single from the album will be the title track 'Never Fade Away' with remixes from Giuseppe Ottaviani & Andy Diguid.
