Bookings: Ben Lovejoy
bookings@abovethenoise.uk

London based daytime Trance Party. 
Upcoming events
01/01/26 - Trance Sanctuary NYD at The Steel Yard, London
21/03/26 - Trance Sanctuary presents FSOE at Outernet, London
25/04/26 - Trance Sanctuary presents Factor B: Theatre of The Mind, London

Bald Paul is a massive trance fan and DJ for UK Trance Society.

Paul's journey with trance spans decades, ignited by a chance encounter with the Reactivate 5 compilation. Featuring timeless hits like the Jam and Spoon remix of "The Age of Love" and Sil "Blue Oyster," this CD stands as the most influential album in Paul's life, sparking a passion for trance that continues to burn brightly.

Hailing from Somerset, Paul, who used to DJ back in his hairy days, rekindled his passion in 2018. Since then, he's graced the decks for London trance brands Trance Sanctuary, Liberation, Transcend, and All Things Trance, sharing the stage with trance icons like The Thrillseekers, Signum, Maria Healy and more. 

While Paul's favourite style leans towards the uplifting and euphoric, he also has a soft spot for melancholic tracks like Airbase's "Escape" and Activa's "Disharmonic," as well as emotionally charged tunes like Dave Neven and Nicholas Gunn's "Love You More."

Paul is a regular DJ for UKTS and plays at events several times a year, check out his Facebook page for details about his next gig.

International DJ/Producer  
Hear You Call - Out now on @armadamusic @asotlive 
For inquiries- jamiewalkerproduction@gmail.com

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Born in the hot summer of 1979, I grew up in the center of The Netherlands. At the age of 12 I discovered the wonderful new genre of House music. Still a schoolboy, I used all my pocket money to buy cassette tapes of famous Dutch house compilations like Move The House, Turn up the Bass & House Party. In the following years several new subgenres emerged, in which the melodic ones were my favourites. That means lots of Eurodance, and instead of the popular Dutch Hardcore, I chose for German Rave and Hardtrance. That combination of powerful beats with lots of melodies was golden and formed my music taste.

Some years through genres like Dream House, Club Trance and the famous Pizzicato house followed and the first Trancemaster! CD’s were collected. And then the year 1999 came, I discovered a strange imported English mix compilation called Gatecrasher:Wet
It contained a wonderful combination of trance tracks from all over Europe. At that moment I started to save some money for buying my first turntables. When I bought my first 2 belt drive turntables and a basic mixer a new world opened. The world was far less international so it was quit a challenge to get those gems from abroad. In 2005 this trance addiction was expanded with producing my own tracks with the then brand new FruityLoops software. Exploring all ranges of trance music my production portfolio is very diverse, like all the different music styles I like to play. 

Being a bedroom producer and DJ for many years my collection grew to about 2500 records ranging from deep progressive house to hardtrance. Around 2007/2008 vinyl records stopped being the main medium for electronic music and things were getting all digital. Missing the fun part of buying and spinning part of records, together with a changing sound of trance made that spinning music was not on my highest rank anymore. But although not too active, this was the period that I discovered harmonic mixing, which still forms the base of all my mixes. By combining the harmonies of different tracks, my mixes are full of homemade mash-ups and by using the harmonic mixing wheel I try to make one continuous journey through harmonies.

In these years my turntables and record collection were gathering dust. I still followed the trance scene sideways and made an occasional mix (with Virtual DJ) or track. In 2018 something changed. I decided to go to a trance festival again after 15 years, so me and my friends made a trip to Luminosity Beach Festival 2018. I was overwhelmed by the fact that this scene was so much more alive than I expected. Especially the fact that there were so many DJ’s that still played those classic trance tracks. Inspired by those sets I decided to upload some of my older mixes on my SoundCloud page for all those classic trance lovers. 

In the past 4 years I created my own themes for my mixes, some modern ones but lots of classics. For example my yearbooks in honour to those golden years of trance. My Exhibition of Classic Trance does reflect my personal taste the best, those mixes are always more than 3 hours to ensure a complete journey through different styles of trance. My personal favourite series is Hidden Treasures, which completely consists of all those hidden gems from back in the days. Of course I love the obvious classics, just as much as all trance lovers, but mixes with only the well-known classics are sometimes a bit exchangeable. With these hidden treasures I can let people discover tracks they never heard of and be more unique. It’s my pleasure to provide you all with a broad range of trance music.

- Trance producer
- DJ
- Co-owner of Victims of Trance
- 1/2 of @wearecaptionthis

Supported by Armin van Buuren, Aly & Fila, Paul van Dyk, John Askew, Simon Patterson, Sean Tyas, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Manuel Le Saux, Solarstone, Sneijder, Jordan Suckley, David Rust, Shugz and many more.

Signed into labels: 
- Vandit 
- Nocturnal Knights
- High Voltage 
- Afterdark
- Damaged
- AVA White
- HTE
- Borderline
- Reason II Rise
- Extrema Global Music
- Unversal Nation 
and many more...

Fan of all things Trance, Used to Dj in the early 00's and recently found a love of it again. I make and share regular mixes and would love to play some sets live again. I've also got more Trance & Techno mixes on mixcloud. https://www.mixcloud.com/samjgarlick/

You can also catch me streaming on Twitch occasionally, follow me for alerts on when I'm live in the mix.

https://www.twitch.tv/sam_garlick_dj

The producer behind the 'Factoria' project and half of the 'Distortion Riders' duo is Dave Dowsett.  Dave's productions have been supported over the past couple of decades by many highly respected DJs & Artists including: Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Aly & Fila, Paul Van Dyk, DJ Tiesto, Sean Tyas, Bryan Kearney, Giuseppe Ottaviani, and many others.

Other past projects include 'Bass Enchanters' (With Oceanforce) & 'CSX'.

Factoria is following