Djing Career Highlights
1996 - Paul Edge makes first Canadian appearance, headlining at Destiny in Toronto.
1997 - Paul Edge makes his first US appearance, headlining to a sellout crowd in New York City at the Roxy for US promoters, Phato.
Paul Edge’s The Outer Limits co-promoted the first annual World Trance Festival, in Toronto, with Destiny Promotions. The three-day event features nearly 100 artists and is, at the time, the largest dance festival in city history.
1998 - The Outer Limits and Phato co-promoted The Galaxy Project, At New York City’s Twilo nightclub (capacity: 1,000), DJ Paul Edge performs a headlining set in front of a packed crowd of 3,000.
1999 – Paul Edge begins playing out all over Europe. Germany, Austria, Estonia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia feature prominently during this time. Limited by having to be in the UK every Saturday for The Outer Limits which always took priority.
2000 – Paul Edge tours America under The Outer Limits with The Advent, with shows in Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and Nova Scotia. The final show for renowned Canadian promoters Massive, in front of a sell out 5000 capacity crowd, prompts Massive supremo “Tony Hage to state” “Paul Edge played arguably the best set in the 12 year history of the respected Halifax electronic scene". ”
2001 - Shortly after 911, Paul Edge became one of the first DJ`s to return to America on a promotional tour for the launch of the Nintendo`s Cube , culminating in a 7 day stop at The Mall Of America where Paul performed 7 hour sets for 7 Days.
Paul Edge releases Wappi, described by techno icon Dave Clarke as “one of my favourite classic techno tracks of all time”. Wappi is played by Clarke consistently for the next 4 years at every major festival and club across the globe and was featured as one of a handful of tracks played by Dave Clarke at the Fuse 15th Anniversary party - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnN5vDyS3D0
2002 to 2003 - Paul Edge under his new concept, Remote Control. The Nintendo Cube Tour had seen another change in Paul Edge musically, as he now became the first DJ to bring the emerging Electro-Clash sound to North America, DJ Paul Edge introduces the style to United States crowds on his Remote Control tour, with Keoki in support. In the words of DJ Simon Patee (Redux on XM Radio and promoter of Washington DC`s legendary "Sleaze" nights) - "Paul Edge made jaws drop during his debut performance at Buzz [December 2001]. His techno electro-fusion [electro-clash] sound was still largely unknown, and pushing labels like Gigolo to an uneducated U.S. crowd was indeed groundbreaking, but that is what makes Paul Edge such a good DJ. From being one of the first DJs to play Trance in Canada in 1995, to introducing tech house to a packed Twilo crowd, Paul Edge consistently treads where others fear to go. Perhaps his lack of worldwide ‘fame’ stems from the fact that once other DJs catch on, he`s already moved on."
Paul Edge releases the Live In Phoenix mix series, with Volume 2 receiving over 6,000,000 downloads to date
2004 - Appalled by the rising body count in Iraq, Edge writes and creates "We Will Not Be Silenced", a TOL23- produced viral video that would also feature Paul Edge's new creation, Psychedelic Dance Music. Combining music, speech, imagery and text, the movies have resulted in the design term “dynamic text” being created. Widely viewed as a defining moment in online agit-prop, part 1 has been viewed more than 6.0 million times online, in July 2007 the video is awarded the inaugural Progressive Source Award for Best Awareness-Raising Video.
2005 – Paul Edge took some time out from making techno to work with a number of bands, including The Doors. After hearing his recreation of "Five To One" in February 2005, The Doors authorize Edge to move forward with "Unlock the Doors". Maintaining the integrity of the band and keeping their seminal recordings intact, Edge’s production reignites The Doors’ catalog for the new millennium.
Says legendary Doors' keyboard player, Ray Manzarek , "I think that’s the way we (the Doors) should do all our re-mixes. Other people can futz around with our stuff, but we should remain true to the original conception and then bring it up to today’s style. This guy did a great job. Go with it."
Following Hurricane Katrina, DJ Paul Edge and The Doors launch "NOLAAID" , a website featuring a video of Katrina ravaged images set to Edge’s rework of "Riders On The Storm”. The site receives more than 500,000 visits, raising $250,000 for The American Red Cross and other direct charities. Due to contractual issues, the seven completed reworks in Unlock The Doors were never released, however it remains a pivotal body of work in the development of the genre "Psychedelic Dance Music". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BcGeR40ees
2006 - In 2006, a second movie, We Will Not Be Silenced Part 11 was released. The movie took 6 months to complete and utilizes cutting-edge Cinema 4D and After Effects. In it, Edge samples Barry McGuire’s ‘60s folk anthem "Eve of Destruction". Says McGuire: "We are totally overwhelmed. There are no words to convey the power of that piece" Flabbergasted and honored that ‘Eve’ might have helped inspire such a work.
2008 - CSI- Crime Scene Investigation - In 2008, as a result of the huge impact made by We Will Not Be Silenced, Paul Edge becomes the first DJ to appear on “CSI- Crime Scene Investigation,” the world’s No. 1 television show. He appears as himself in the Oct. 30 episode, spinning two original tracks as well as his rework of Stone Temple Pilots’ “Sex Type Thing.” The episode attracts 19.2 million viewers in the US alone. Paul Edge completes his first interview in 2 years for leading online website, ARTIST DIRECT. Since it`s initial airing, the episode has been watched by in excess of 80 million people in over 40 countries.
2009 - Psychedelic Dance Music - Whilst working on a rework project for iconic band The Doors, Paul Edge observed that due to the limitations of recording techniques of the late 60s, an unusual frequency interaction was occurring. He then proceeded to study live concerts from artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin to ascertain if the same phenomena occurred, which not surprisingly it did.
Fundamentally, he theorised, that due to feedback in a live setting, identical sounds were interpreted by the brain at different frequency levels creating a frequency differential that causes similar effects to those listed by Binaural beats. When applied to techno or similar music, the act of mixing two records by DJs also created this frequency differential, as the sounds whilst similar, were invariably "pitched up" or "pitched down" to ensure correct beat matching, thus creating a frequency differential. Paul recognised that certain frequencies have an indisputable effect on the brain, something explored by Nikola Tesla in the first half of the 20th Century, and theorised if he could incorporate sub-binaural theory into electronic dance music, specific frequencies could effect how the audience responds emotionally to the music.
A 4 year journey was then started that absorbed Paul as he tried to perfect the medium, which he successfully did in late 2009. The frequencies employed have long been recognised as having an effect on the brain. A frequency differential of approximately 10 hertz for example, results in an enhanced release of serotonin & mood elevator and is considered universally beneficial.
For the neurological effects of Psychedelic Dance Music to impact an audience, it is believed that a minimum of 1 hour is needed. The purpose of a one hour minimum performance time is that it allows the brain to synchronize with the parallel frequencies. Enhancing the music is a highly specialised visual show based on the principles of Psychoacoustics.
2010 – Paul Edge returns to the studio to record the 23 Album
Super Fantastic Easy Sex - The long awaited remixes concept were released in November 2010. Featuring vocals from The Horrorist and mixes from Woody McBride and 9 others, as well as a brand new mix from Paul. A dedicated website has been set up and can be viewed at http://www.superfantasticeasysex.com .
