Ravotica

Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, Shaun Braswell whom you know as “Ravotica” grew up in a musically enriched household. Like his sister he grew up learning to play the piano and other instruments at an early age as well as learning to sing and music theory. While growing up in Kaiserslautern Germany, he got his first true taste of electronic and club music. He attended his first rave outside of Munich, Germany, in 1989 and was hooked ever since. From the moment he felt the first beats it would never leave his head or his heart. It was almost a decade later before he started producing his own tracks and became a club/underground DJ himself. Starting out on an old set of decks and a custom made mixer he traveled around doing shows from small parties to larger underground raves. From 2001-2006 he took time off and gave up the scene to pursue other matters of life and in 2006 he picked up strong again and began work on his debut album Ethereal Dreams under the new name Ravotica. In 2006 he won the Mynetwork TV Band Call Out for Best Electronica Producer, got picked up for a charity album called Hot Tails in the City to help assist in saving stray animals, was selected to be a part of MyTracks with Coca-Cola, and was picked up by Trance Fury Radio. In 2007 he was picked up by Little Mud Music, Noteborn Music, and Feature Sounds, which all do placement for Film and Television. He resides now as a resident DJ of Overdrive Underground and under the Chicago based label Andromeda Recordings.
"There are moments in your life that make you and sets the course of who you’re going to be. Sometimes they’re little, subtle moments. Sometimes, they’re big moments you never saw coming. No one asks for their life to change, but it does. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.”
"There are moments in your life which you always want to hold onto. Moments, so special, they seem to define in a single instant all the joy that is there in your life. Times, at which when you look back, they seem to be posters of your favorite classic movie, and a song to associate with them. Memories so beautiful, your heart aches. Mundane activities gain special meaning just because it was shared by someone close to you. The most ordinary seems extraordinary just because you know someone had felt the same way about it. You feel good to be alive. The air around you seems so fresh, you over-breathe. Life, at times, does seem beautiful even with all its imperfections. Or maybe, the imperfections make it seem more beautiful. Such an irony. You live for the future but the past, your memories, gives your life all its meaning.”