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Artist name:

Wandii

Real name:

James Wood

Location:

Leicester, England

Website:

www.wandii.co.uk

   

Wandii was born in Leicester, England, on the 12th of January 1988. He began to make MIDIs in 1995. From Music 2000 to eJay, Wandii soon found FL Studio in 2000, and thanks to Dave ‘DefT’ Gradwell’s demos, he stuck with it.
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In 2001, Wandii was introduced to Ken Cook, who got him his first FM airplay in the USA. He later met Ken Spector, with whom he started a project called LightFlow. In April 2004, Wandii remixed ‘Calanit - Sculptured’ for EMI.

Wandii met DJ Andi C online in May 2004, and they’ve since become close friends and work together on an uplifting melodic trance project under the name ‘Karanda’.

Aside producing, he takes interest in Astronomy, Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, Palaeontology, Photography, DV editing, and CGI.

At the age of 18, Wandii became head of label and co-owner of Moonrising Records with Bruni Bergeron. He has since become immersed in the producing community and has signed tracks from friends like Airbase, and Vadim Zhukov.

In July 2007, Wandii met the legendary Andy Moor in London and shortly afterwards signed 'Beautiful Dirt' to Moor's label AVA. Having signed ‘Airbase - Lucid’ to Moonrising also in 2007, he finally got the chance to remix his favourite artist!

Later in 2007, Wandii signed his track 'Storybook' to Presence Trance, receiving trance tune of the month in IDJ Magazine upon it's release in 2008, and support from Judge Jules on his BBC Radio 1 show, Lisa Lashes and many more.

Judge Jules then proceeded to support his remix of 'Global Warming - Far & Away' for 4 weeks straight, and invited him onto the show for an interview! This then led to Wandii being contacted by the Ministry of Sound, as Jules wanted the remix on his Judgement Sundays 2008 compilation.

2008 saw Wandii and Andi C get off to a perfect start in January, launching their own radio show on Digitally Imported - the biggest online station for trance - called 'The Karanda Show'. Their first episode debuted with over 4000 listeners! They then signed their first track 'Karanda - Karanda' to the label Alter Ego.

Wandii and Ken Spector also signed their first LightFlow track 'Alone' in 2008 to Armada's Coldharbour label, keeping in close communication with Markus Schulz.

Things are looking bright at the present, and he’ll continue to grow, pursue, and aim his goals higher than ever before.