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On a Saturday night in Los Angeles Suzanne Welker Jurgens from the Schulz Army had the chance to sit down in the green room at Avalon to talk to Tim Grube, Mike Hovsepian and KhoMha about Coldharbour no longer being under Armada, Coldharbour Nights, the DJ Mag Top 100 poll, kandi bracelets, the EDM explosion and more. Grube & Hovsepian are two of the driving forces at the Coldharbour studios, relative newcomer KhoMha has been KhoMhatizing crowds at every chance.
When a lot of people hear the name Coldharbour they think Markus Schulz but a Coldharbour Night is more than just the Unicorn Slayer. As Mike Hovsepian put it, “The Coldharbour Night concept is basically three acts, Grube & Hovsepian, KhoMha or Beat Service or Mr. Pit.”
“You get the old Coldharbour sound through us opening up the night and it’s just a nice little build throughout the night. And that’s what we do with the formula for Coldharbour Night,” Tim Grube said. “We originally did Dallas but these major cities are nice too. All these cities just blow up, it’s amazing.”
One of the highlights of a Markus Schulz open to close set is the journey he takes the dance floor on by building the night into a mid set and then closing it out and these nights follow the same formula. Grube & Hovsepian open followed by KhoMha and then trance to close the night with Beat Service or Mr Pit.
Suzanne Welker Jurgens interviewing KhoMha, Mike Hovsepian & Tim Grube at Avalon in Los Angeles
Heading into 2014 dance music continues to grow in popularity and embrace new audiences, the talk of a bubble that could exist but as Mike Hovsepian says, “Embrace it, live in the moment.”
“If EDM is blowing up in the states it’s a good thing,” Tim Grube said. “Because we’re able to explore other cities that we’ve haven’t been able to before, because it’s been all over the radio and people are getting familiar with the sound. As DJs it’s pretty good. It’s really good for us.”
“We play towns we’d never think about playing three or four years ago, like Fresno which we played with KhoMha and that’s not known for EDM,” said Mike Hovsepian. “Norfolk, we were there. KhoMha is going to be there. These aren’t EDM towns, they’re embracing it, they want it and the promoters are giving it to them.”
We asked Mike Hovsepian about the acronym EDM and he said, “I don’t get why people make it a big deal. So EDM, it’s like Electronic Dance Music. It defines all of the genres. I see people arguing about it saying ‘no it’s trance, don’t call it EDM’. Who cares! It is what it is.”
When speaking about popularity the DJ Mag Top 100 poll immediately comes to mind. Tim Grube spoke about its relevance and he said, “It’s going to be around. It’s not going to end this year, it’s not going to end next year, it is going to be around for a while.”
“I think it is more important to the smaller guys to get voted in,” Mike said. “Because that in effect helps you get booked. Because some promoters do book based off of the DJ mag. I think fans should vote for the smaller guys. Continue to still vote.”
Tim Grube agreed, “Continue to still vote.”
No matter where you live the bookings are often based on the popularity of artists. This could be the DJ Mag rankings but is also based on demands of the fans. It’s important to still vote but Tim Grube adds on, “get on your Twitter, get on Facebook. Just tweet. Tweet your favorite artists and demand them in your city. That works better than DJ mag, in my opinion. It’s the word of mouth and getting it out there on the social networks.”
Mike spoke further saying, “You reach a certain point in your career like Tiësto, Markus, Gareth and Armin and I don’t think it matters anymore to them because they have their fan base. They have their loyal fans.”
Tim added, “It helps certain artists.”
Speaking of asking your local promoters and artists about visiting your city the idea of a Coldharbour Tour has been talked about. Tim and Mike said, “We’ll eventually get there. Maybe do a bus tour.” So if you’d like to see any of these guys in your city take the time to get on Twitter and Facebook and mention it to them and also reach out to your local promoters as well about the idea.
The end of 2013 will continue to be busy for the guys. KhoMha shared the biggest news for himself saying, “Right now I working as well with a big collaboration with one of the biggest trance legends Cosmic Gate, so yeah it’s great.” KhoMha’s track “Hydra” is set to be released this month and he also said, “there is a new Coldharbour release (I can’t tell you the name of course). It’s going to be maybe at the end of the year.”
Grube & Hovsepian recently released their track “Trickster” that rose to number nine on the Beatport charts which was an accomplishment for them. Tim said, “It went in as four or five jumps” Mike added on saying, “80, then 40, then 18, then 14, then 13 and finally nine. I woke up in the morning and logged into Beatport and it was 14 or 13 the night before and I refreshed and it’s like top 10! Woo!”
Markus Schulz is releasing his latest city series compilation titled Buenos Aires ’13 and will feature three Grube & Hovsepian productions. Their own tracks “Trickster” and “Palermo” and the third is “Fair Winds” that they produced with Elevation.
Trickster was also remixed by Italian producer Gai Barone. How did two guys living in Miami connect with someone from Italy to remix a track? Tim Grube explained, “That’s funny we were sitting in the studio and decided that we needed something different. We play a lot of opening sets, like tonight and obviously we cannot play our 132 big room track Trickster. We leave that up to everyone else, even when we do our main headline set. We needed something that is our style that the old Coldharbour fans would love and we could count on Gai Barone because he has been on fire lately. Markus has been supporting his stuff for the past couple of years. There’s a track that just came out from him (Gai Barone remix of Danilo Ercole “Player One”) that we truly love and we wanted that kind of similar sound and he nailed it. It was perfect, it was great package, a big big room, a nice progressive trance track, deep. It worked out.”
Another bit of big news in the second half of 2013 is that after eight years Coldharbour Recordings and Armada Recordings are no longer affiliated. The two had been working together since 2005.
Tim Grube immediately eased concerns saying, “Fans don’t even need to worry, Coldharbour is Coldharbour. It’s still Coldharbour and Markus is still fully behind it. It’s just not Armada.” Tim added on more details saying, “And the thing is that we have to evolve a little bit. We want to do more different things that we weren’t able to do. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. So we wanted to expand a little bit and we were able to do that with Markus. He’s able to make us expand and make us get more on the radio. We want to expand in the states because it is blowing up here. Us taking more control and us having more control over the artists. We had to. It’s not a bad thing that we left. Nothing is going to change from the forefront. It’s just the back end internal stuff. The forefront is not going to change and the quality is still going to stay the same.”
Audio Cargo is another record label that was created in 2013 and Tim explained the label further saying, “It has nothing at all to do with Coldharbour. It’s like Armada vs. Black Hole. It’s totally different. That label Audio Cargo is fueled towards commercial radio tracks, vocals. We just signed a new Jonathan Mendelsohn track that will probably come out the end of September or early October by the Venom One guys. We had our first release which was Memory Lane on there. It’s not something you’ll hear a release from every two or three weeks like Coldharbour. It’s when we have a great great vocal commercial track.”
Stay linked up with Coldharbour (Facebook, Twitter) and Audio Cargo (Facebook, Twitter) to stay on top of all of their new releases.
Markus Schulz has often called KhoMha his little brother from another mother so we asked the guys what they considered him.
Mike Hovsepian said, “His older brother from another mother.” That got some laughs from everyone in the room.
Tim Grube, “He has many different names.”
KhoMha added, “Well you know, Markus is really important person in my life. There is a before and after an Markus in my career. He’s been an inspiration to me. He’s an awesome person with me. He not only supports me as an artist, but always he tries to give me good advice and something like that! He is really great!”
We mentioned what a great experience the Scream Bus Tour must have been and KhoMha added, “Yea, he is one of my biggest inspirations. It’s kind of awesome.”
What are some of the funniest things you’ve seen from the DJ booth?
Mike: Well tonight we just saw three or four guys throwing punches and a guy with a bloody face and security guards breaking it up. There were like five or six security guards.
Tim: Huge fight, right in front of us. We saw him get hit in the face and it was like… oooph! It was bad.
Mike: There was a big brawl out in the middle of the dance floor during one of the tracks. They just dragged them off the dance floor.
Tim: That was the craziest fight. But I think for myself it was when I was with Markus in Bogotá. Some fan took the whole DJ booth and pulled it out into the crowd. He was drunk. But it was the type of booth that was standing still but it went like right into the crowd. That was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.
Mike: KhoMha’s peeps.
Tim: Colombians. They party hard!
What are some of the strangest things you’ve had to autograph?
Tim: What haven’t we autographed.
Mike: Sometimes we feel uncomfortable because they ask you to sign certain places on their body. I’ve never done that. But we’ve been asked to autograph breasts before, butts.
Tim: You do it!
Schulz Army: There was a girl at TAO Beach that was proudly displaying her signature.
Mike: Sometimes those signatures turn into tattoos.
Do you ever compare kandi after the set?
Mike: I wasn’t that big on bracelets, but I’ve embraced it after KhoMha and Tim started wearing them. It’s a good conversation starter. People see you wearing them. They’re like what’s that? Cool!
Tim: I usually wear that (referring to #SchulzArmy), but I left mine at home this time.
But you’ve got the Unicorn Slayer one.
Tim: I always wear that. I wear that every day.
Mike: It’s his good luck charm.
For the last question we asked about the old Markus Schulz pictures that have surfaced from the 1990s and whether they pick on Markus about that or his old remixes. Tim Grube took the reply and said, “We have, but now it’s all out there. So it’s like the joke is like… okay. He always gets a kick out of it when he sees it. The memories that come back, where he’s from and all that. It’s always good to see that type of stuff.”
Coldharbour Day 2013 is in the history books and it was an amazing 27 hours of music from the Coldharbour family. The AfterHoursFM stream was eating up data limits and cell phone batteries but was well worth it for everyone. We’ve begun compiling the tracklists and download links here in this post.
Even though the link may say download it could just be a stream, it’s up to the artist. Keep checking back for updates!
01. Audien – Iris
02. Adam Szabo & Johan Vilborg – Two to One
03. Alex M.O.R.P.H. – Bay of Bengal (Corti Organ Remix)
04. DNS Project – Gauntlet
05. Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Protoculture – Waking Up the Stars (Skytech Remix)
06. DNS Project – Terra
07. Ferry Tayle & Darren Porter – Neptunes Return
08. DNS Project – Shatter
09. Dave Gravell – Bulldozer
10. DNS Project – Confront
11. Rex Mundi – Opera of Northen Ocean
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01. Digital X – ID
02. Styller – What We Left Behind
03. Solis & Sean Truby featuring Alana Aldea – I Need You (Digital X Remix)
04. Basil O’Glue – Sigil
05. Beat Service – Metro (Digital X Remix)
06. Purple Stories – Locust
07. Aaron Camz & Solid Stone – Process Of Elemination (Digital X Remix)
08. Alter Future – Own Way
09. Digital X – Stealth
10. Dart Rayne & Yura Moonlight – The Air
11. Vast Vision – Shadow (Digital X Remix)
12. Digital X Vs. Relyk – Everything About Raptor
Rick Valentine | Facebook Played about 10 minutes while the Purple Stories set was loaded.
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01. Markus Schulz presents Elevation featuring Justine Suissa – Somewhere (Clear Blue) (Darren’s Coldharbour Day Intro)
02. Spiral Waves – Time Runs Too Fast (Club Mix)
03. Markus Schulz presents Dakota – Gypsy Room
04. Purple Stories – Locust
05. DJ Tarkan – Sad Story
06. Sassot – Where it All Begun
07. Probspot – Blueberry
08. Mr. Pit featuring Vicky Fee – Back for More (Funabashi Dub Mix)
09. Rex Mundi – Bella Monaco
10. Glenn Morrison – Blue Skies with Linda
11. Lightflow featuring Ken Spector – Alone (Benya Dub Mix)
12. Monogato – Climate Change
13. Markus Schulz featuring Fiora – Deep in the Night
14. Mario Hammer featuring Asheni – Life Before the Earthquake
15. Rex Mundi – Opera of Northern Ocean
16. Reverse – Absolute Reality (Arty Remix / Markus Schulz Big Room Reconstruction)
17. Nifra – Dark Harbour
18. Kamera – Lies (Markus Schulz Remix)
19. Niklas Harding presents Arcane – Red Jewel
20. Markus Schulz – Soul Seeking
21. Styller – All That Remains (Basil O’Glue Remix)
22. BT vs. Sasha – Remember Magnetic North (Coldharbour 2012 Big Room Reconstruction)
23. Sonic Division – Bulky Hero
24. Aerofoil vs. E&G – Oslo Anthem
25. Elevation – Biscayne
26. Markus Schulz – 65.4Hz
27. Markus Schulz and Departure with Gabriel & Dresden – Without You Near (Afterhours Mix / Reprise Outro)
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01. John O’Callaghan – 2 Alien Craft Departing
02. E.F.G. & Neptun 505 – Hoovercraft
03. Oscar Vasquez – On the Edge of the Abyss
04. Damabiah – La Machine Humaine (Cid Inc. Remix)
05. Quivver – The Fog (Kassey Voorn Vintage Interpretation)
06. Markus Schulz presents Dakota – Progression
07. Ilta Deep – Let’s Call it a Day (Horizons Remix)
08. Groven – Fieldwork
09. East Cafe – Bending the Curve
10. Sebastian Weikum – Sky is the Limit
11. ID
12. Danilo Ercole – Player One (Gai Barone Remix)
13. Markus Schulz featuring Carrie Skipper – Never be the Same Again (Coldharbour Club Mix)
14. Facepalm – Brainwash (Arcalis Remix)
15. ID
16. Markus Schulz presents Dakota – In a Green Valley
17. Plastic Angel – Try Walking in My World
18. KhoMha – Hydra
19. Dezza – Grado
20. Timewave – The Reaper
21. Aaron Camz – Emission
22. Basil O’Glue – Sigil
23. Markus Schulz presents Dakota – Katowice
24. Wellenrausch – Tonight (Danilo Ercole Remix)
25. Purple Stories – Locust
26. Markus Schulz featuring Ana Diaz – Nothing Without Me (Markus Schulz Return to Coldharbour Remix)
27. Probspot – Blueberry
28. Jace Williams – Open Up (Purple Stories Remix)
29. Beat Service – Outsider
30. Markus Schulz presents Dakota – Sleepwalkers
31. Protoculture – Laguna
32. Tim Besamusca – The Universe in Us
33. M.D.K. – Vanquish (Solid Stone Remix)
34. Meridian – Exit
35. Reverse – Absolute Reality (Arty Remix / Markus Schulz Big Room Reconstruction)
36. Kalafut & Fygle – 3579Km
37. Mike Foyle presents Statica – Headrush (Markus Schulz Big Room Reconstruction)
38. Basil O’Glue – Angular Momentum
39. Markus Schulz featuring Ana Criado – Surreal
40. Armin van Buuren – Last Stop Before Heaven
41. Rene Ablaze featuring Jacinta – You’re My Destination (Wellenrausch’s Dark Matter Dub)
42. Beat Service & Susana – Reach the Sun
43. Lost Tribe – Gamemaster (Protoculture Remix)
44. Harry Square – Royal Flush
45. ID
46. Max Graham – The Evil ID
47. Skytech – The Other Side
48. ID
49. Chris Harvey – In Dreams with Betty (Markus Schulz Big Room Reconstruction)
50. Grube & Hovsepian – Trickster
51. Markus Schulz – The Spiritual Gateway
52. Mauro Picotto – Lizard (Solis & Sean Truby Ibiza Mix)
53. Markus Schulz featurring Dauby – Perfect (Digital X Remix)
54. Hammer & Bennett – Language (Phynn Remix)
55. Paul van Dyk featuring Hemstock & Jennings – Nothing But You (Super8 & Tab Remix)
56. ID
57. Solarstone – Solarcoaster (Remix)
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01. Rex Mundi – Bella Monaco
02. ID
03. ID
04. Rex Mundi – Voodoo People
05. ID
06. Rex Mundi – Seek & Destroy
07. ID
08. ID
09. ID
10. Rex Mundi – Sandstone
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01. Alex Stealthy – Being (Sterio & McGrath Trojan Remix)
02. Egostereo – Gaijin
03. Arnej – Rendezvous
04. Markus Schulz Pres. Dakota – In A Green Valley (Return to Coldharbour Remix)
05. Grube & Hovsepian Feat. Tiffany Johnston – Venom
06. Ben Coda & Tom Real – Side By Side
07. Taxigirl – High Glow
08. Chable & Bonnici – Ride (Olivier Weiter & Eelke Kleijn Remix)
09. Elevation vs. Grube & Hovsepian – City of Angels (Deep Mix)
10. Funabashi – Daylight
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1 Danilo Ercole – Player One (Gai Barone Remix)
2 Roberto Capuano vs Sir Adrian – Space Inversion (Danilo Ercole Mashup)
3 ID – ID
4 ID – ID
5 ID – ID
6 ID – ID
7 Morttagua – Mars Express (Danilo Ercole Remix)
8 ID – ID
9 ID – ID
10 Danilo Ercole – Cruzer (Original Mix)
11 ID – ID
12 Wellenrausch – Tonight (Danilo Ercole Remix)
13 Karen Overton vs Perry Oneil – Loving Bass (Danilo Ercole Mashup)
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01. Grube & Hovsepian feat. Vice – Memory Lane (Skytech Remix) (INTRO)
02. Don Diablo feat. Alex Clare & Kelis – Give It All (Don Diablo & CID Remix)
03. Skytech vs. Kosheen – No catch for words
04. Skytech – Cardboard Box
05. Marco V – Second Bite (Dannic Remix)
06. Skytech – Clear Vision
07. Markus Schulz feat. Sarah Howells – Tempted
08. ID
09. Vertruda – Night Highway
10. Marcus Schossow – Reverie
11. Ferry Corsten – F the Bullshit
12. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford – Sun & Moon (Acapella)
13. Skytech vs. First State – What’s Wrong Falling (Tekno Mashup)
14. Axwell – Centre of the Universe (Axwell Remode)
15. Beat Service – Aurora
16. Armin van Buuren – Pulsar
17. Skytech – Planet
18. Lentos – Forget about us (Barnes & Heatcliff Remix)
19. Rex Mundi vs. Sir Adrian – Perspective Space (Markus Schulz Mashup)
20. Skytech – Comet
21. Santiago Nino – Language (Dub Tech Mix)
22. Max Graham – The Evil ID
23. Skytech – The Other Side
The Coldharbour crew is back again to take over AfterHoursFM on Tuesday July 30, 2013 for Coldharbour Day 2013 featuring an exclusive four hour set from Markus Schulz and the rest of the Coldharbour family. Don’t leave your headphones at home and make sure that your cell phone battery is charged to stream the AfterHoursFM broadcast wherever you are.
12am PT | 3am ET | 8am UK | 0900 CET – DNS Project
1am PT | 4am ET | 9am UK | 1000 CET – Digital X
2am PT | 5am ET | 10am UK | 1100 CET – Purple Stories
3am PT | 6am ET | 11am UK | 1200 CET – Basil O’Glue
4am PT | 7am ET | 12pm UK | 1300 CET – Wellenrausch
5am PT | 8am ET | 1pm UK | 1400 CET – Nifra
6am PT | 9am ET | 2pm UK | 1500 CET – Tucandeo
7am PT | 10am ET | 3pm UK | 1600 CET – Darren McNally (2 Hour All-Coldharbour Set)
9am PT | 12pm ET | 5pm UK | 1800 CET – Mr. Pit
10am PT | 1pm ET | 6pm UK | 1900 CET – Beat Service
11am PT | 2pm ET | 7pm UK | 2000 CET – Markus Schulz (4 Hour Set)
3pm PT | 6pm ET | 11pm UK | 0000 CET – Rex Mundi
4pm PT | 7pm ET | 12am UK | 0100 CET – KhoMha
5pm PT | 8pm ET | 1am UK | 0200 CET – Grube & Hovsepian
6pm PT | 9pm ET | 2am UK | 0300 CET – Danilo Ercole
7pm PT | 10pm ET | 3am UK | 0400 CET – Elevation
8pm PT | 11pm ET | 4am UK | 0500 CET – Arnej
9pm PT | 12am ET | 5am UK | 0600 CET – Mike Saint-Jules
10pm PT | 1am ET | 6am UK | 0700 CET – Aaron Camz
11pm PT | 2am ET | 7am UK | 0800 CET – Aerofoil
12am PT | 3am ET | 8am UK | 0900 CET – DJ Tarkan
1am PT | 4am ET | 9am UK | 0000 CET – Skytech
2am PT | 5am ET | 10am UK | 1100 CET – Fisherman & Hawkins
For those on Twitter use the hashtag #CLHRDAY and also join us on the Schulz Army Facebook page and follow us on Twitter @_SchulzArmy.
