Biography: Angelo
was born in Zurich, his childhood was characterized
by (classical) music. His mother was singing
in a choral, his father played various instruments,
and that’s why he made his first own music
at the age of 10 years. First the traditional
way by playing the trombone. His first steps
towards electronic music, Angelo made in 1994,
while watching tv-magazines like housefrau (VIVA
TV), Sputnik-TV, a regional tv station in Switzerland,
showing some rave parties. The following year,
now being 15 years old, he did attend his first
big rave party, the “Evolution 1”
in Zurich. Fascinated by the mood of the people,
and the feeling of freedom, he started living
for this music. After a turbulent time banned
by deafening hardcore music, Angelo tended more
and more to listen to softer trance music. from
now on, harmonics controlled his (musical) life.
One year later, he decided to spin decks by
himself, and so he bought himself dj equipment,
using his pocket money.
After some time of mixing
and practising at home, the day of his first
dj-gig arrived, the day he always has waited
for. After playing on numerous little events
and private parties the first “real”
gigs followed. He was invited to spin his decks
on the legendary nights at the “Galvanik”
in Zug. By different circumstances, his first
booking was made in 2000 in the club “OXA”
in Zurich, which is well-known far beyond the
borders of Switzerland. By having an unbelievable
good resonance, another booking at the OXA followed
some months later.
In the beginning of the
new millennium, Angelo started producing. Supported
by the well-known Swiss producer Andy
Prinz, he made his first step by remixing
“Keys of infinity” by Flash Project.
This Collaboration with Andy was the first step
in the right direction, and numerous other remixes
followed. The productional Highlight in 2002
was the remix for Jaro’s "Turn the
night“, which was released on Epic / Sony
Music. Solid Slide played also various dj-gigs
beside his productions and remixes. In december
2002, he had his first booking outside of Switzerland,
in Slovenia. This experience will be forever
in his memory…
A new project was founded
in December 2002. Ayion, a collaboration between
Andy
Prinz, Josi Sterba (Guitars) & Solid
Slide, was signed by dutch recordlabel “Gesture
Music”. “Thru the night”,
released in June 2003, got a massive support
by Armin van Buuren (nominated as “future
favourite” in his ASOT radioshow), Ferry
Corsten, Darren Tate, M.I.K.E., Les Hemstock,
Jon O’Bir and many more… The release
of Ayion increased the reputation of Solid Slide
enormously and it was just a question of time
until he got his first own contract.
During the Summer 2003,
he got in contact with famous belgium record
label Banshee Worx/Bonzai Music. After a few
weeks of correspondence, the contract was signed.
The first ever Solid Slide solo-single will
be released soon on Bonzai sublabel “Fourty
5”!
