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It's hands in the air time as Ejeca delivers a banging mix
Listen to an exclusive, euphoric Choice Mix from Northern Ireland DJ and producer Garry McCartney, aka "trouse music" pioneer Ejeca.
Ejeca is proof that dedication to one’s craft really does pay off. Born Garry McCartney in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he discovered a passion for bedroom-based production as a teenager, and spent the next decade honing his skills until he was ready for his breakthrough moment. That came back in 2012, when UK DJ Pete Tong – an acid house original turned superstar DJ who launched BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix – played two Ejeca tracks on prime-time radio. With an fearsome arsenal of dancefloor weaponry in his locker, it was only a matter of time before the wider world eventually discovered Ejeca's flair for house and techno.
Listen to Ejeca's Choice Mix below:
Ejeca's back catalogue shifts across vast plains of club music, from peak-time house tracks with big, catchy vocals like Night Rays and deeper, slow-building, after-hours tracks like Jalek to the skipping garage grooves of Horizon. For a few years, McCartney released music via on his own Exploris label, but he’s since put out tracks on some of the most revered dance music labels in the business, including Ellen Allien’s BPitch Control, Will Saul’s Aus Music and Sasha’s Last Night On Earth.
McCartney also produces under the previously hush-hush moniker, Trance Wax. He established the once anonymous outlet to reshape popular trance and hard dance tracks into music that would work in the sorts of clubs he was already playing at, pitching down and chopping up tracks like Future Sound Of London’s Papua New Guinea and Corona’s The Rhythm Of The Night. Such was the popularity of Trance Wax that he now regularly DJs under the alias and also recorded a massive prog-trance burner for BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. (You can find the tracklist here).
McCartney weaves elements of Trance Wax into Ejeca’s musical world now, effortlessly joining the dots between disparate corners of dance music. "I wanted to make a house/trance crossover track – 'Trouse' music," he said recently of his Ekstac, his brand-new single for iconic British imprint Skint Records – a nod both to the heady rush of ‘90s rave and impeccably-produced house euphoria.
Ahead of his set at Scotland's annual Terminal V party on 11 April, Ejeca delivers an exclusive Choice Mix – listen above – powered by the same hands-in-the-air energy that propels his own tracks. Hit play and get your weekend off to a flyer.
Belfast 'trouse' music producer, Ejeca
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