Since 2006 Akira Kayosa has steadily been building his reputation as one of the worlds fastest growing trance prodigies. Based in the UK, Akira has been pumping out quality tracks in abundance. This multi faceted producer is comfortable producing and engineering many styles of dance music from progressive to uplifting trance and tech trance. As well as being one of the hottest up and comers in the production realms, Akira has also been a DJ for over a decade, learning his trade in New Zealand under mentor Leighton Smith.

The skills carefully passed onto him from what many people regard as New Zealand’s best trance DJ, Kayosa is technically gifted behind the decks, being able to play warm up and his more traditional full on styled sound also, whilst working up emotionally fused energetic sets, creating what can only be described as any unmissable performance from the big man!

It’s been a whirlwind start to 2010, his latest production with Michael Dow ‘State Of Origin’ has been picked up by Ferry Corstens label Flashover Recordings! Being exclusively used on Ferry’s new album ‘Once Upon A Night’ his recent remix of Andy Tau’s
‘Late Nights’ on Deepblue records with fellow Swedish producer Eldritch Project was hammered by Above & Beyond for 2 weeks in a row on TATW 305 & 306, his remix with fellow Brit Peter Drury of ‘Misja Helsloot & PMW’s – Ass You Wish’ was supported by the worlds number one DJ Armin Van Buuren on his A State Of Trance radio show, Armin even used the track in his weekly podcast (3 tunes only) the remix also made it onto the ASOT top 15 tunes of February 2010 digital singles compilation, not only that but Akira’s tracks can be heard on 5 compilations with it barely being two months into 2010.

February also saw the release of Akira’s version of System F’s Out Of The Blue 2010, his remix was released exclusively in Japan,The producer of the original track himself Ferry Corsten even hammered the mix on an exclusive guest mix for Above & Beyond’s TATW radio show.There aren’t many producers let alone up and coming producers that can claim to officially remixing and releasing one of the biggest tracks, if not the biggest track of all time…

2010 certainly looks to be the year of the Kayosa, with tasty projects forthcoming with fellow producers Hugh Tolland, Micheal Dow and Henrik Melender, be sure to keep your eyes peeled and your feet on the dance floor.

2008 and 2009 were breakthrough years for Akira with playing at some of the UK’s top brands including events like Passion, Digital Society, Majefa, Versatile to name but just a few, supporting and playing alongside the worlds elite Inc Armin Van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Rank 1, Cosmic Gate, Sean Tyas, Menno De Jong, Rapheal Frost, Super8&Tab, Gareth Emery, Simon Patterson, Grover, Ali Wilson, Marco v, Sied Van Riel, Guiseppe Ottaviani the list goes on and on…

In march 2009 Akira gave none other than Tiesto & Ferry Corsten’s track ‘Vimana – We Came’, the Kayosa treatment. His remix was snapped up by the original label it was released on (Tiesto’s Black Hole Imprint) and pulled huge radio support getting airplays on Tiesto’s ‘Club Life’ and Ferry’s ‘Corsten’s Countdown’. The tune also featured on the illustrious Trance Master CD series.

Akira Kayosa signed his first deal in 2007 with the now legendary Somatic Sense label group, this was Akira’s first single release on Somatic’s sub label Profuse. ‘Collective Hysteria’ featured 5 superb mixes and was the shape of future things to come from the young 22 year old producer, even gaining BBC Radio 1 plays for his first single.

Resonate

In 2006 Akira along with Will Watson started Resonate Records, a small digital label looking to unearth the best of up and coming producers. It’s a chance to be heard worldwide and stand alongside some of the best artists there are around, we offer top packages for only the best up and coming producers, the team along with Hugh Tolland (Firestorm) have helped bring on artists like Eldritch Project, Ultimate, Impulsive Drive and Alexey Omen to name but a few along with more established artists like Akira Kayosa and Van Gelder, with remixes from the likes of Genix, Ferry Tayle and Akesson, the label is full of young talent and prospects all around for the producer looking to breakthrough and be heard.

Alexey (real name Budylev Alexey) hails from Russia and is known for his work on labels such as Vandit, Shah Music, Only One and many others over the last few years.

From the beginning of 2006 Alexey has been supported by the world’s top DJs and his works can be seen in tracklists of various DJs from all levels.

Alexey appears regularly on a huge ammount of guestmixes on various radio stations worldwide as well as having tracks on rotation on radio stations in more than twenty cities of his home country and on most of the biggest internet radio stations such as DI.FM, Afterhours.FM. Some Omen works also can be heard on TV.

Omen has his own radioshow called ‘Progressive Vibes’ on Pure FM focused on fresh and energetic progressive trance styles.

Being dubbed by Passion residents JFK and Genix as “the future of trance”, Will is currently rocking the socks off clubbers and promoters nationwide with sets from euphoric banging trance to the more down tempo warm-up beats.

In 2006 Will started Resonate Records with Russ Ogden, better known as Akira Kayosa. Both Will and Russ have taken Resonate to the pinnacle of all trance labels. Receiving regular support from the world’s greatest DJ’s such as Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Above and Beyond, Agnelli and Nelson, Aly & Fila, Alex
MORPH… the list goes on.

Not content with running a world class record label, Will’s career has seen him play alongside some of the finest DJs from around the world. Marco V, Sied Van Riel, Eddie Halliwell, John O’Callaghan have all been on a bill with the name ‘Will Watson’ following shortly behind proving Will takes a firm stand behind the wheel.

2008 was a huge year for Will. His remix with Akira Kayosa of ‘Van Gelder – Together’ released on Resonate in January kicked things off to a great start. He has played some great events and festivals all over the UK and appeared at the legendary Passion night who celebrated their 14th birthday in March 2009.

January 2009 brought ‘Beyond Motion’ a new radio show presented by Will on afterhours.fm and reaches listeners of 1300 every month. Together with his Resonate show with Akira Kayosa Will reaches an average of over 4000 listeners each month rapidly building his fanbase from countries far and wide.

Will also made an appearance in the world famous Blue Room at Passion in February 2009 cementing the fact that it was a great year.

At the age of only 21 and still early in his career, the future looks bright for this talented individual who has a pure passion for music as well as succeeding. Keep those eyes and ears alert, Will Watson is sure to be a name on the lips of clubbers and DJs for years to come.

www.will-watson.com