First Effect
On new year’s eve 2006-2007,
Christopher V contacted me via my friend Bram that was producing with me for Paradise Troopers. Chris wanted to know what I thought of his productions. Then, with time, we got to know each other’s style more and more, and I started tweaking his productions to make them sound better, and he started helping me with melodies.
We eventually decided to meet and make msuic, and we produced many (unreleased) tracks. As Chris had released a couple of tracks on the same label that was interested in Paradise Troopers back in time, we knew we could just fix a few tracks together and release them.
However, it quite strangely didn’t work that easily, because every single time we decided to do a “simple track” and produce it in an effective way (that is, with not too much attention for detail), we continued working and working on these tracks, and they eventually became so complex (and heavy for our production software) that I got bored of them and threw them away before I put the last final note in it.
We were close to signing on a couple of labels, so we had to come up with a name. As christopher’s surname start with a V and mine with a W (double-V in french), there were three v’s, and we thought we’d make something funny out of that. But actually, no I wrote a script that took all the artist names out of the trance MP3′s I owned, and shuffled them and arranged them in random two-words groups. First Effect was one of them, as well as the title of a couple of track names we kept for the future, by reviewing that list.
About our latest projects as First Effect, we released our first track ‘Humanity Highway’ feat. singer Olivia, on the Silent Shore Records label. It got the supported by many dj’s yet as Adam Nickey, Roger Shah, Eco, Jon O’ Bir, John Askew, Fast Distance, ReOrder, Dave Deen, Haris C, Pedro Del Mar, … and has the likes of Above & Beyond, M.I.K.E., Ernesto vd. Bastian, Running Man, Suncatcher...
Since “HH” got released, we receive a lot of remix requests we’re currently working on, so stay in touch for more stunning releases of First Effect.
