Nicholas Van Orton Artist Bio

Ariel Gandolfo – Aka Nicholas Van Orton –
While growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ariel first got involved with music at the age of 16, singing in hardcore metal bands. At the age of 19, he started attending rave parties and clubs and got pretty interested in dance music so he bought his first hardware and started producing dance tracks under the “Zero Reality” nick, getting great support among local djs. Ten years after , having played live for more than 20.000 people in his country and recorded three studio albums with his band “Il Phantasmo” (smokinghome records, 1999, 2001 and 2003), he co-produced kozmic3´s second album “hallucigenia” (ksk records 2005), and then decided to work as a solo artist and started producing under the alias Nicholas Van Orton. His tunes had a great welcome at the house scene, and are supported by many international and local djs such as hernan cattaneo, anthony pappa, moshic, pole folder, dnox, martin garcia, dj tarkan, dpen, yvel & tristan, greg benz, deep mariano, guille quero, gerardo boscarino, and bs as deep, to name a few. Ariel now spends his time producing different styles of music, djing and vjing, as well as running “SmokingHome”, his graphic design lab, where he works as a free-lance 3d animator and sound designer for movies and TV. Some of his clients are FOX, MTV, AXN, Converse, etc, and some samples of his work are shown at his studio site www.smokinghome.com.ar
Besides from his releases at prestigious lables around the world, Ariel also hosts three radio shows, one at the famous KSK radio in buenos aires with his friend Rhino, called NU GEN , where mixes of their own, as well as by guest djs are broadcasted every sunday on prime time by air and through internet, “Little Robots” , hosted by Facundo Mohrr and nicholas, every first wednesday of the month at Frisky Radio and the new one >>> DIGITAL BLACKOUT, again on kskradio, every saturday prime time, with bs as deep and gerardo boscarino.
Nicholas would like to thank all djs, producers, promoters, radios and magazines, labels and friends around the world who helped him in many ways along these years.

DISCOGRAPHY

>> luckysouth (kaya records)
>> moscas (kaya records)
>> triplets (Pure Substance Digital)
>> sick of my life (Pure Substance Digital )
>> tremble (Pure Substance Digital )
>> elephunk (Pure Substance Digital )
>> evil forces and maniac behaviour (existence records)
>> lava (existence records)
>> cactus (augenring recordsTBA)
>> nicholas van orton feat Cream Sound – gravity – (Carica Deep TBA)
>> unpacked (Carica Records)
>> bones messiah (mushroom recordings)
>> fantasmas – (mushroom recordings)
>> 8 bit drum machine – (mushroom recordings)
>> ninita (on ward records TBA)
>> the dharma initiative (carica TBA)

REMIXES & COLABORATIONS

>> Dfuzhion – My Utopia – nicholas van orton remix (Augenring Records TBA)
>> Jacco @ Work – Patrull – nicholas van orton remix (Ballerine Recs TBA)
>> 4mal presents Square Coil – Black Tube – nicholas van orton remix (Flash Records)
>> Ogi Gee Cash & Synchronized – The Hype – nicholas van orton remix CARICA
>> Ogi Gee Cash & Synchronized – Can u count – the defender droids mix CARICA
>> The Defender Droids – Formentera (Acute TBA)
>> The Defender Droids – Boxing Day (Headrush Music TBA)
>> Ogi Gee Cash & Synchronized feat nvo – Slave Carve – (Pure substance TBA)
>> Ogi Gee Cash & Synchronized feat nvo – Average Mungos
>> Niko Fantin – save me – nicholas van orton remix (dubcoast records)
>> Lesvicon Soul – Forget the future – nicholas van orton remix (Xela records)
>> Ogi Gee Cash – Tokio – nicholas van orton remix
>> Ruh – through my eyes – van orton remix (Sundown Records)
>> Gerardo Boscarino – Cecilya – nicholas van orton remix (Acute)
>> Sound Xperience – Dark side of my soul – nicholas van orton remix
>> Cream Sound – always – nicholas van orton remix (Carica Records TBA)
>> ifrolov – cloudy – nicholas van orton remix
>> alucard and code – beautiful midnight – nicholas van orton remix
>> deepmariano & somnus corp. – inner fields – nicholas van orton remix (Sentient Audio Collective)
>> bs as deep – no identity – nicholas van orton remix
>> dj tarkan and dammex – in a dream – nicholas van orton remix
>> tom sawyer – too expensive – nicholas van orton remix
>> kozmic3 – hallucigenia – nicholas van orton remix
>> totem pole & kozmic3 – generations

ALSO APPEARS IN:

dub safari compilation – (as dubagroova soundsystem ) – 2006 (delish music)
kozmic3 – hallucigenia – 2005 – (ksk records)
karmasutra – (with Dj Axion as Rocco and Co.) 2004 – (Pataya records)
the growing process – become a frog – 2002 – (smokinghome records)
il phantasmo – disco de saturacion digital – 2003 – (smokinghome records)
il phantasmo – disco tasmo original .fruta – 2000 – (smokinghome records)
il phantasmo – disco de presentacion – 1999 – (smokinghome records)
ban this – humanware -1996 – (draf records)
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