2006.02.28 with special guest: Thomas Bronzwaer A.K.A. Arizona

[Chris_Allen]

Thomas was born on the 30th of September in 1984, in a town called Nijmegen, Holland. Since 2003, he has been living and studying in Utrecht (also in Holland).

He started making music in 1999, and had only been listening to it intensively for about 2 years then. Somehow it took him a very long time to develop any interest in music - somewhere about the age of 12 he started listening to the fantastic soundtracks of the Wipeout-game series on the Playstation and became hooked! From there, he started off producing goofy stuff with programs such as MODplug tracker, and then somewhere in the year 2000 a friend of him inevitably introduced Thomas to the sounds of DJ Tiësto. Of course tracks such as 'Push - Universal Nation' really blew his mind, and that's when it all started for Thomas.

Well, some three years of making lots of snippets followed. The real producing process started rolling in 2003 - the first record deal followed that summer; Arizona & Greg Murray - Daylight on Afterglow recordings.

Shortly afterwards more tracks followed, most notably Octagen & Arizona - Starburst/Profound with Thomas' friend Paul Moelands. This track received some big attention! Featured on Gatecrasher and Marco V compilations and hammered by all the big jocks, Starburst was the first project in which Thomas was involved, that made waves in the trance world. In 2004, more stuff followed - a new track with Greg Murray on Platipus called 'Solarflare', a remix for John O'Callaghan's 'Mercury' and, 2004's big one, a collaboration with good friend Galen Behr (Passiva). Arizona vs. Passiva - 'Halo' was in fact finished in 2004 but turned out to be a devil to get signed! The year turned again and eventually 'Halo' found a home on esteemed Dutch trance label Dedicated (United Recordings). United proved a helpful ally, providing us with a remix by Danjo & Styles who made a total monster! Once again, the Arizona moniker rippled across tranceland, receiving major support. Thomas and Galen were asked to remix Menno de Jong's new 'Sayla' single shortly afterwards. An Arizona remix of Stenna's 'Skyline' followed on Discover UK's 'Flux Delux' label. After that, Thomas produced his very first solo single 'Close Horizon' which was released on United's 'Yakuza' imprint. Since this was the first track he put out under his real name, it was an exciting time - fortunately it couldn't have turned out better for Thomas! With support from every major name in the scene, massive positive feedback, an appearance on Paul van Dyk's new album 'Politics of Dancing 2' and a license deal to his label Vandit (including a PvD remix!) Thomas of course was completely blown away by how well this track was doing. From there on, things started rolling really well.

Tracklist will be updated during the broadcast.

Hour One - Chris Allen
01. ID - ID
02. ID - ID
03. Perry O'Neil - Switched
04. ID - ID
05. Blake Reary - Hanging On (ID remix)
06. Orange 3 - Your Eyes (ID remix)
07. Kuffdam and Plant - The Wire Tears (feat. Attack) (KP 3 Deep mix)
08. Marcel Woods - Advanced (Woods 2006 Re-Visited mix)
09. Substate - Horizon (Mac Zimms remix)

Hour Two - Thomas Bronzwaer
01. Assure - Arrogance
02. Thomas Bronzwaer - Shadow World (Midway remix)
03. Galen Behr and Robert Burns - Till we Meet Again (Galen Behr mix)
04. ID - ID
05. Estuera - Flow
06. Armin van Buuren - Sail
07. Greg Downey - K.I.A.
08. Thomas Bronzwaer - Shadow World (Original mix)

[Wes_J]

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[Chris_Allen]

Special thanks to Thomas for a great guest set