Laurent Véronnez
| Laurent Véronnez | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Laurent Véronnez |
| Also known as | Airwave, Lolo, Planisphere, Cape Town, V-One |
| Born | 10 December 1977 |
| Origin | Brussels |
| Genres |
Progressive Trance, Trance |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Remixer, DJ |
| Instruments | Keyboards |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Bonzai, Green Martian JOOF |
| Associated acts | Antidote, Attack, B4, Body-Shock, Bunkerz, Cape Town, E.N.E.R.G.Y., Extended Mirror, Fire & Ice, Groove Syndicate, Lounge, The, Montera, Nova Brothers, Planisphere, Rebelgrooves, Red Sign, Squad, Ultra Vibe, Yamakasi |
| Website | airwave-music.com |
Laurent Véronnez (born 10 December 1977) or Airwave, is a Belgium-based progressive trance and electronic music artist. He has created hundreds of tracks for more than 35 projects. His work is most notable under his alias Airwave. He is also known as Lolo.
Born in 1977 in Brussels, Belgium, it was at age 7 where he first discovered Electronic music, which led him to release his first single at age 18 on the Bonzai label. He lived in Brussels until he was 20 years old, experimenting with computers and synthesizers at his home. After sending his first demonstration to Lightning Records – the original home of the Bonzai label, in 1996, he became one of the main artists of the new age in electronic music.
After the first small successes with PLG, North Pole, Montera and Magnetix, all little projects he developed on vinyl, he had his first breakthrough with the first release of Fire & Ice, produced together with DJ Fire. He decided to move to Antwerp so he could concentrate more on his productional work. He became a professional artist using Airwave as his main project in 1998. Slowly but surely his music came to the ears of a fast-growing generation of Dutch Trance DJ's when Trance music exploded in 1999. Armin Van Buuren, DJ Tiësto, and Ferry Corsten played an important role in Airwave's development over the years. Tiësto commissioned Airwave for 2 remixes of his hit-single "In My Memory", and later on, Armin Van Buuren and Airwave created a couple of collaborative tracks called Sunspot and Slipstream, respectively appearing on their debut albums (Believe for Airwave, 76 for Armin van Buuren).
As years went by, the name Airwave went big outside Western Europe, and quickly the United Kingdom opened its doors the big way for the artist, being booked at the 3 major Trance Venues of the early 2000s: Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, and Slinky. Slinky offered him the great chance to Tour in Asia, most notably in Japan and South Korea, but also to New Zealand and Canada, where Airwave was billed as the main artist each single time. Airwave went back to Canada several Times, as well as Japan, South Africa. His Debut album in 2002, Believe, was immediately acclaimed by the Trance Community, getting raving reviews on several community blogs from back then, with community site trance.nu backing him up constantly. Containing several previous hit singles such as Innerspace, Alone In The Dark (Championed by Tiësto), Believe was completed with true stompers that would later on let him enter the hall of fame of Trance Music: Ladyblue and When Things Go Wrong sold by thousands on Vinyl. Believe got a little brother in 2004 in the form of I Want To Believe, containing even more hits released in 2004.
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