Here's my BBC Radio 1 Musicube! When I'm playing in clubs, it is mostly trance and house plus the odd track from one of the other dance derivatives. In my downtime I'm partial to the rest - from Nuyorican Soul to Roisin Murphy to Roni Size!
Tiesto Playing 'Galactica' @ Gachibowli Stadium, Hyderabad, India
Tiesto Playing 'Galactica' @ Escape, Amsterdam, Elements Of Life DVD Launch
Stuart Millar – DJ, Radio Presenter & Producer
Stuart has presented for BBC Radio 1. He fronted a two hour show in between Colin Murray and Giles Peterson called BBC Introducing representing Northern Irish dance music along with alternative, unsigned, and under-the-radar tracks. Stuart continues to provide monthly on-air content packages for this show. Prior to this he was asked to record a pilot show in the main BBC building in Belfast for the Radio 1 Thursday 12am–2am slot. Audio clips are on Stuart’s MySpace. He is in talks with RTE’s new digital dance music station, Pulse, and has been involved with podcasting, radio and webcasting for over five years. RTE is the Irish equivalent of the BBC, and Stuart is a weekly volunteer presenter on Ulster Hospital Radio too.
When Stuart Millar and others from the Northern Ireland dance music scene were invited by BBC Radio1 to meet in Belfast with the Head of Programmes and Head of Live Events it was Stuart who was invited back to BBC Radio1 HQ in London. There followed a meeting at which all the key R1 personnel were present, where Stuart was asked to give his opinion on the UK music scene. Stuart now has a robust relationship with the station both in London and Belfast, and champions new dance music from UK and Ireland whenever possible. In March 2009 Stuart attended the Miami Winter Music Conference for the first time as an official delegate, and spoke on a panel regarding RSS Feeds, Podcasting & Webcasts. He is travelling to Ibiza later in 2009 to continue this work.
In the seven years he’s been DJing Stuart Millar has been featured on stations across the globe including the “the big four†- Tiesto (Radio 538 Clublife Holland), Ferry Corsten (Corsten’s Countdown Holland), the world’s no. 1 DJ Armin Van Burren (A State Of Trance Holland) and Judge Jules (BBC Radio 1 UK). His track called ‘Galactica’ was shortlisted by Blackhole and Tiesto for inclusion in Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise compilation for 2008 and selected by Jules to open his R1 show. It was also nominated as the track of 2008 on Armin’s ASOT show.
Stuart Millar has signed tracks to Secure ID, Monster Tunes, Used & Abused Music, Proxoz and Nukleuz / UMM. His tunes are available on over one hundred download sites and are reviewed regularly in MixMag. He co-produced a record with Judge Jules, called ‘Undisputed Love’, under the Mass Motion alias. The Mass Motion project is a joint effort with Dave Lievense. The next single, ‘Nobody Better’ has been given exclusively to Pete Tong and features vocals from the Angie Brown from Bizzare Inc, written by Danny Kirsch. The duo have also been asked to produce a theme tune for Simon Cowell’s X-Factor show. As well as running his Limited Company Smart Move Music, he has promoted in the award-winning Boom Boom Room and Café Ceol.
His reviews in the local publication Timeout have been used by labels in Europe and America on their sales sheets and websites. He has undertaken other journalistic roles including promotional copy for Mynt in Belfast for their Fever nights and their Fierce Angel Bank Holiday events. It was also a measure of his talents that he was asked to judge at one of the most important heats of the Corona Movida World DJ Mixing Championships.
Appearances
BBC Radio 1, RTE 2FM, The Source Cool FM, MOS Radio Germany
Event Horizon, The Potthouse, Filthy Gorgeous, Yello / Fever / Kinetik @ Mynt, La Lea, Thompsons, Milk, Tatu, Skye - Belfast
Traks / Club SOI - Portrush (including the afterparty for the Basement Jaxx Beach Party)
The Coach – Banbridge, Eden – Galway, Cafe Ceol / Boom Boom Room – Bangor
Colorsfest @ Engima – Carrickmacross
Bookings
please email stuart at smartmovemusic dot com
