"Serenity" is the 1st track with vocals I produced.  Kelly had recorded the vocals to another track and after hearing them I just knew they would be better suited with an atmospheric trancey type track.  I immediately got to work and when it came time to lay the vocals in they didn't fit with the vibe.  She had originally sang them to bright, so we went to a professional studio to rerecord.  This was new to me as I had never worked with a vocalist before, but the experience taught me a lot.  

I listen to this track now and remember the feeling I felt back then of beginning to be able to express exactly what I heard in my imagination thru my keyboards and other various instruments coming out of the speakers.  A milestone in my opinion!  I imagine this is why most of us that produce spend countless hours of writing and tweaking so that others may hear and feel exactly what we do in our heads...

"Serenity" ~ feat. Kelly Noland

"Imagination for the conception of the dream, Ambition and Inspiration to go after it, Dedication, Discipline and Perseverance to stay the course and achieve the desired results, along with the Will to Succeed to truly make it become your reality!" MM

To explain the name 1st and foremost...  nothing in life is really easy, for anyone.  We are certainly no exception to that rule.  Daring to dream, setting a goal and then finding the courage, strength and ambition to go after it is hard work in and that of itself.  That set goal always stays in the center of your efforts, but the path one takes to reach set goal might change over and over.  However there are only three hundred sixty degrees in a circle and no matter how many times one goes around that circle, no matter how many times one has to back up and find another way... there is always an               ANGLE OF ATTACK to go after and achieve that dream!!!

Beginning lifes journey in New Orleans Louisiana, surrounded by the funkiest of jazz, the deepest of blues and the hardest of rock, I, Mavi, developed a love for music with emotion at a very early age. My earliest memory is unwrapping a saxophone I received at the age of four. By the age of six I could literally blow everyone away. From there I went onto guitar and remain devoted to the instrument today. Somehow or another I found myself in my early teens wanting to express myself through sound. Hoping to find others wanting the same I tried to form a band, but to no avail I was left to my own devices.

At the impressionable age of fourteen I was taken to an afterhours club by some older friends and heard techno for the first time. I was hooked in seconds. I was captivated by the art of djing and how sound and songs could be combined together to create something new and move an audience. Coincidently Trent Reznor, NIN, released Pretty Hate Machine and after learning his story and how he came to be I knew I could do this myself.

I fell in love with the industrial sound and how many different directions it could be taken in. Which led to the developement of my dark sound as a dj. Spinning mostly tech house and hard trance I witnessed how the energy of this hard driving music moved people in audiences all over the world. I was lucky enough to share the stage with a few of the absolute biggest dj's in the world, to include Sasha, John Digweed, Paul Oakenfold and Paul Van Dyke.

After a long endeavor into the djing world I realized I had grown tired of only playing other producers music and wanted to use my formal education in music along with an extremely vivid imagination of what I heard in my head to share with others who love this particular sound. Over the years I've experimented with rock, hiphop, pop, dance and the industrial trance sound.

For the past decade I've been living in Miami Florida, a dance music and party mecca. Easily one of the most influential cities in the world. Having allowed some of the newer sounds of today to enter my creations I try to stay within the lines of what hooked me into this world. Time will ultimately tell as to what AOA will be known for.

GlowWorm Recordings
Outerbass Records
Malicious Recordings
Sundance Records
Hoodwink Records

Bookings, Productions or Collaborations... angleofattack@ymail.com