Ivan Gough

Ivan Gough
Ivan Gough with Luke Chable as Digital Mind Control
Background information
Also known as	The Traveller, Van Gough
Born	(1969-05-19) May 19, 1969 (age 47)
Origin	Melbourne, Australia
Genres	House, Progressive house
Occupation(s)	Producer, Songwriter, DJ
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Axtone Records, Neon Records
Associated acts	Cleva Cleva, Dark Alley, Deep Funk Project, Digital Mind Control, Future Renegades, L'Triс, MI$FIT$, The Free Radicals, Traveller & Quest, TV Rock

Ivan Gough is a multi platinum selling ARIA award winning Australian house music producer and DJ. Ivan grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Wonga Park on the edge of the Yarra Valley. He attended Yarra Valley Grammar, where he discovered an interest in music production through listening to a school mates cassette tape edits. After visiting a studio in 1989, he became interested in production and began collecting synthesizers and drum machines. After a chance meeting with an old school mate, he began to DJ in and around Melbournes club scene, whilst producing tracks during the day. His first release, a remix of Pendulums "I Need You" became an instant club anthem, being played by the likes of Paul Oakenfold and Pete Tong in the UK. He released many tracks throughout the late 90's and was an influential producer in the Melbourne underground scene working with "Zero Tolerance" recordings running their CBD studio. In 2004 he and fellow Melbourne DJ Grant Smillie began the production outfit TV Rock and toured with the Future Music Festival in 2010. Gough left TV Rock early in 2013 to pursue solo projects.

Over the years Ivan's records have made it into the playlists of the worlds best DJ's like old school legends Sasha and Paul Oakenfold, and the more recent class of top DJ's like The Swedish House Mafia and Tiesto. Ivan's records have also been getting regular plays on Pete Tong's influential Radio 1 show 'the essential selection' in the UK, with one of his TV Rock remixes (with Grant Smillie) getting the coveted 'essential new tune'. He also has more releases (and remixes) to his name than any other Australian, with dozens of records and cds bearing his name. Over the years Ivan has produced Progressive house, deep house, trance, electro and breaks, making arguably the first nu school breaks record in Australia with Phil K and Andy Page in 1997. He also ran the studio and produced for respected Australian Deep House label Zero Tolerance from 1999-2004. More recently he has turned his hand to writing and producing Big room house. Not only is he renowned for his enthusiasm, flair and technical prowess in the studio, but on the decks his legendary track selection and brand of main room tunes (often his own) has seen him tour nationally and internationally on a prolific basis.

In 2005 the song "Someday", co-written by Ivan Gough with Slinkee Minx and performed by Slinkee Minx, reached #55 on the Aria Charts and #9 on the Aria Dance Charts.