NEWS: Christophe Chantzis - songwriter/producer for UK Top 3 act Ian Van Dahl (EMI Music), songwriter for Samantha Cole (UNIVERSAL Records) will remix Alex's "WACKY JACKY" ! (Wacky Jacky <- one of Alex’s most dynamic and definitive singles to date) ...
[...Christophe Chantzis & Erik Vanspauwen are Belgian's most successful Artists/Producers in the UK ever, Through the years all Alpha Omega team members collected an impressive amount of Awards: TOP OF THE POPS AWARD "Top Dance" (beating Moby, Basement Jaxx,..), MTV Dance Star Award, DI Award UK ‘Best Act’, TMF Award, Musicbeat Germany ‘Best Single Dance International', International Dance Music Award USA, Smashhits Award UK, Veronica Award Holland, iTunes USA 1 downloaded album. Best sold dance album & dance single of the year UK. Numerous European, UK & German dance 1's. Christophe Chantzis managed to have a release in the Belgian Dance Chart for an uninterrupted period of 3 years !!
"IAN VAN DAHL" (EMI Music Netherlands) was created by Christophe Chantzis and Erik Vanspauwen in the beginning of 2000. Christophe Chantzis was already involved in famous Electronic projects like "Absolom" and "Astroline"(Astroline -> Kathleen Goossens, Bart Smolders, PETER LUTS, Gert Corvers & Christophe Chantzis) in the past. Their first single "Castles In The Sky" was an instant hit, no only in Belgium. In Germany it reached 2 in the dancecharts, it was 3 in MTV UK, and in the Canadian dancechart it got up to 1 ! Last but not least they entered the American Billboard Charts (highest place 78) for a few months and they got into the Top15 ! ]
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CD "Best of 2001-2005" PRESS REVIEWS:
"…Imagine a few friends sitting around and trying to find really weird sounds to include on a mix tape and you have Alex Ross-Iver's "Best 2001-2005" album. This album seems to sample every weird beat line and synthesizer tone known to man…. Listening to the entire album, I don't think I heard Ross-Iver's actual voice once. He used vocal distortion on almost every song, mixing in bits of house and techno aspects.
A bright note, "Permanent Cooky Loves U" sums up this entire album with a really cool baseline, cool techno aspects and a great beat… but then comes the primal singing of Cro-Magnon man… In summing everything up, I am still having a hard time deciding whether Ross-Iver is ahead of his time or has just tried too many drugs… " – Tim Williams/Music-Reviewer.com
NetFuture Magazine:
" ...If there is one word to accurately describe Alex Ross-Iver, it is busy. This individual has cut over 500 tracks since ey got into the music scene at the age of five, and this "greatest hits" collection sports 27 separate tracks. However, just because someone has 500 tracks to their name does not necessarily mean that any of the tracks are particularly exciting. A sterling case of that concerns Steve Lieberman, who is up to eir 11th or so full length, and only can claim an album's worth of strong tracks throughout eir career. Unlike Lieberman or Mizar, Alex Ross-Iver has a very high set of production values that start off tracks like "Wacky Jacky". This does not change in subsequent tracks, and by the time tracks like "Latin" hit listeners, one can almost hear a cohesive album being created. This sound is something that is bolstered with each following track, even as Alex moves between different styles , tempos, and instruments used. The one act that immediately reminds me of what Alex Ross-Iver does on this best of CD has to be Wired All Wrong, which is an act that had a member of God Lives Underwater in it... Ross-Iver is able to jump through a number of different styles throughout the entirety of this disc, and it never feels as if ey is trying to throw crap on a wall and sees what sticks. "Will I Be The Best in Berklee" is one of the strongest tracks on the disc, as it brings Alex Ross-Iver into a very eighties type of electronic rock, almost as if Nine Inch Nails mated with Depeche Mode. The pseudo-soul sound of Ross-Iver comes back heavily during "Cin! Find Me A Small Car!". This track also changes up the output of Ross-Iver by having the vocals sound as if they have been screwed and chopped. I am not familiar with what Ross-Iver has done in the past beyond the tracks culled from eir previous works on this album, but this CD sounds as good of a place to go to learn about Ross-Iver than anything. ...Even though the tracks are all odd when one compares them to the rest of popular music, there is a lot here than individuals can find that they can love about Ross-Iver. Part Wendy Carlos, part Berry White, Ross-Iver has a number of tricks up eir sleeve to properly get fans to eat out of eir pocket. Top Tracks: Will I Be The Best in Berklee, Cin! Find Me A Small Car!..."
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PS: Ian Van Dahl 'Castles In The Sky' Live DanceStar Awards London: