Artist & DJ, Michael, also known as AnR, is probably one of the best trance producers to come out of Australia to release quality tracks on a global scale. Lets start from the begining...
Michael was born on the 11th of May 1981, and was raised in southeast Melbourne, Australia. When Michael was a child, he always wanted to become a musician. He wanted to create and share his unique and passionate style of music with the world. Music is a part of Michael's family, and he grew up listening to 70's, 80's, Country, Rock & Roll, Reggae and Dance music. Michael has loved dance music most of his life. It all started from listening to dance music on the radio. At the age of 21, Michael wanted to produce music, with friends teaching him the music program FL studio. He spent many hours learning the ins and outs of producing music. He discovered that writing and producing trance and dance tracks fulfilled his musical life. Michael works hard on every project, including original work and remixes. Michael's biggest influence in his life is his family, and all aspects of life. Michael's tracks have been played across the world from Europe to down under Australia. Michael's tracks have also been recognized by artists Passiva, The Thrillseekers, Agnelli & Nelson, SolarStone, Funabashi, Steve Strangis, Starchaser, Christian Rusch, Adam K, Pedro Del Mar & DJ Shah. 2006 was the year where Michael had his tracks unleashed upon the world. Four of his tracks were officially signed & released on a Belgium digital label 4 -stroke , which were Summer Dream, City lights, Blue water & Silent Tide. U.S based label Solis Digital signed and released Michael's track "Surrender" and it made its way to the labels top 10 best sellers chart. Over the months Michael's tracks got bigger and bigger. From starting with his first release with the label, other labels found interest and wanted to sign on new tracks. Life just got busier for Michael, from radio gigs to interviews, in and out of the studio, even talks of having Michael doing gigs locally and outside of Australia. But at the end of the day, Michael successfully gained much respect from family, friends, labels and his fans all over the world, all the hard work has payed off.
In early 2007 Michael had his first cd release named "Only One" signed to a U.S based label Juiced Up records featuring song writer vocalist Mel O'Shea, a local girl from Melbourne, Australia. Michael was so keen to work with Mel with her strong powerful voice. The CD contained 10 smashing remixes. Within days of the release, it went to the top 50 best sellers charts on junodownload shop. "Only One" has had lots of great feedback by support from DJs around the world, but it doesent stop there...
Dave Kirsner, director of Live Club Music ,one of Melbourne’s boutique booking agencies, found interest in Michael's music and his DJing skills. After some talk, he was immediately added to the busy DJ roster. After the success of "Only One", Michael was back into the studio producing.
Michael's next track named My Love, was the next in line for a release on Sensational records (a sublabel to trance communication). My Love was released in early 2008, gaining support from one of trances biggest names DJ Shah. The track gained a position within the top 50 best sellers chart on junodownload shop for the second time. Michael's new track is titled Before You Leave, a more progressive trance filler. This track was supported by sucessful trance producers SolarStone on their deep blue radio show. The track was named the unsigned track of the week on thier 100th edition show.
Michael's track "Before You Leave" is now signed to Starlight Music and is on the Emotional Heartbeats Compilation CD. The track has made its way onto most of the online stores top 100 charts including Beatport, Trackitdown & DJdownload to name a few. Sucessful German trance DJ's Duende supported Michael's tracks saying "AnR productions are always welcome in our radio show" the tracks were Before you leave and MST's "Lights Of Summer" AnR remix.
To be continued...
Discography:
Singles:
1. AnR - Summer Dream (Original Mix) [Trance4M8 Records] 2006
2. AnR Feat Mel - Silent Tide (Original Mix) [Trance4M8 Records] 2006
3. AnR - Blue Water (Incl. Mixes) [Trance4M8 Records] 2006
4. AnR Feat Michelle Richer - City Lights (Original Mix) [Trance4M8 Records] 2006
5. AnR - In Too Deep (Original Mix) [Trance4M8/Nulogic Records] 2006
6. AnR - Holding On (Original Mix) [Solis Digital Records] 2006
7. Michael Robert - Surrender (Incl. Mixes) [Solis Digital Records] 2007
8. AnR - Only One (Original Vocal Mix) [Trance4M8 Records] 2007
9. AnR Feat Mel O'Shea - Only One (Incl. Mixes By Ananyi & MST) [ Juiced Up Records] 2007
10. AnR Feat Cherry - My Love (Incl. Mixes By Sequence & MST) [Sensational Records] 2008
11. AnR - Hold on (Original Mix) [Nightrain Music] 2008
12. AnR - Before you leave (Incl. Mixes By Dankann) [Starlight Music] 2008
13. AnR - Before you leave (Incl. Mixes By Da'others, Dankann & David Jones) [Starlight Music] 2009
14. AnR - Catching feelings (Incl. Mixes By Da'others & Deux Minds) [Deux Minds Records] 2009
Remixes:
1. Raffia Prest. Ian De Franco - Dont Forget, I Love You (AnR Remix) [Ocean Drive Records] 2008
2. Setrise - Sunny canon (AnR Remix) [Sunset to Sunrise Recordings] 2008
Compilations:
1. Internal Design Vol. 2 incl. AnR - Hold on (Original Mix)
2. Sensational Trance Vol. 1 incl. AnR - My love (MST Remix)
3. Emotional Heatbeats Vol. 1 incl. AnR - Before you leave (Original Mix)
Upcoming Releases:
AnR - Distant Highway TBA [Monoceros Records]
33 Feat Costa - Never be alone (AnR Remix) TBA [Mixology Digital Records]
MST - Lights of summer (AnR Remix) TBA [Falling Recordings]
Bailey - Fearless (AnR Remix) TBA [Digi Traxx]
