Darren Styles
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Darren Styles, born Darren Mew (1975 in Colchester, Essex) is a British DJ, Record Producer and Song Writer, currently having success touring at vastly popular events such as Hardcore Heaven and Hardcore Paradise. Forms half of the well-known and loved hardcore duo Styles & Breeze (with Mark Breeze). Darren Styles has worked and featured on many Hardcore albums throughout his career as a DJ.
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[edit] Early Career
Encouraged from an early age by his father, an avid blues fan, Darren had always possessed a passionate craving for music. Many late nights were spent enthusiastically mastering his natural ability on the keyboard, engineering it into an undisputed skill whilst developing his own style, ever inspired by Dance music. In 1992, during a wintry February night out in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, Darren had his first "hands on" experience of the then underground rave scene - the venue being none other than the un-forgettable "Oscars Nightclub" situated on Clacton Pier. This initial exposure instigated a desire to be at the heart of such a community.
In 1993 along with friend Paul Hobbs aka Dj Force, Darren signed to Hardcore label, Kniteforce records...Artist name 'Force + Evolution'. Many of these releases were championed by the mighty Carl Cox! Soon after the pair were producing for DJ Slipmatt's 'Universal' label... Artist name 'Sense of Summer'.
By 1996 Darren and Paul, artist names 'Force + Styles', were DJ'ing every weekend up and down the UK, touring Australia, The United States, Canada and Ibiza on a regular basis, whilst holding down residencies (which he still has) at 'Slammin Vinyl', 'Helter Skelter', and 'United Dance', to name just a few. Due to the ever increasing demand for their original work combined with the sheer speed the two partners in crime produced their music, they started their own record label offering themselves a portal to create and distribute their work. This portal held no boundaries, and gave the pair infinite musical freedom - UK Dance was born. UK Dance went on to host a catalogue of big selling tracks.
[edit] Styles & Breeze
In 1999 Darren teamed up with another up and coming hardcore DJ, Mark Breeze and together they formed Styles & Breeze.
Darren has been the writer behind the following singles:
- Pretty Green Eyes – Ultrabeat – no.2 in 2003
- Feeling Fine – Ultrabeat – no. 12 in 2003
- Heart of Gold – Kelly Llorenna – no.19 in 2002
- Field of Dreams – Flip & Fill – no. 28 in 2003
With Styles and Breeze he has also had the following releases as artist, producer and writer:
- You’re Shining – no.19 in 2004
- Heartbeatz – no.16 in 2005
Late 2006 saw Darren make a clean sweep at the Hardcore Awards, winning Best DJ, Best Producer and Save Me won single of the year. Darren is also responsible along with Breeze and Hixxy, for the compilation series – Clubland X-Treme Hardcore which has sales of over 450,000 across its 3 volumes.
[edit] Save Me
Save Me is the first solo single from Darren Styles featuring his own vocals. It has reached #70 so far on the UK Singles Chart.
