///DJ NICK HOLDER (DNH RECORDS, TORONTO)/// took place on Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:00 PM - 3:00 AM
at Ginger62 Cocktail Den and Kitchen
in VANCOUVER BC. More details on the event are below.
Nick Holder rose to prominence in the late '90s and early 2000s as one of the world's most championed house producers, his voluminous output appealing to various camps of DJs, from techno to progressive house and everything in between. Based in Toronto and owner of DNH Records, Holder spent years DJing before gaining notoriety for "Erotic illusions," his first big success. He had produced tracks for labels like Strobe records and Stickmen throughout the '90s, Soon, the NRK label was inviting him to release full-length albums and everyone, or so it seemed, was spinning his records, some of his more popular tracks being "Trying to Find Myself," "No more Dating dj's," "Summer Daze," and "Sometimes I'm Blue."
Holder's music career began in the early '80s when he first started DJing. Later in the decade, he discovered the burgeoning Detroit techno scene only a few hours away from his home in Toronto. Detroit icons like Derrick May and Carl Craig captivated Holder, as did many of the tracks coming from Chicago during the same late-'80s period by producers like Adonis and lil louis. In the '90s, Holder began producing his own tracks and released 12"s for a number of labels such as Aquarius, Stickmen, Hi Bias, Strobe, and Studio K7, the label that released two full-lengths of his in 1997, One Night in the Disco and Back on Track. Furthermore, Holder released many of his productions through NRK, including many of his biggest hits such as "No more dating dj's", "Summerdaze" and "Feel" in addition to full-length efforts such as "From Within" and "Underground Alternatives" and The Other Side.