Biography

Here you will find Ridgewalkers story so far!
You will also find links to individual Biography's at the bottom of this page

Ridgewalkers were formed by two Dublin based DJ / producers
Podje and Ive. Podje who is renowned for his 8 year residency
at the U2 owned Kitchen nightclub and Ive, who is also a long
time musician and sound engineer. After many years of djing
and re-mixing under different guises the two meet up with
singer / songwriter El

This was back in 2002, over that summer they spent time in
studio working with music and vocals. It was in November of
that year an ambient mix of a resulting track from those
sessions "Find" appeared on a chill out album called
"Sundazed" this compilation featured down beat mixes from
UK and Irish acts and was released on Nippy records

Many tracks were started during that summer, but "Find"
always seemed to come out on top. now it was time for the
dance treatment and shorty afterwards a progressive house
track was produced by the newly re-named Ridgewalkers

After a period of travelling for El, the trio were reunited in the studio
in 2004. Having signed their dance mix of "Find" to Baroque records and
an Andy Moor remix on the cards, the stage was set for their first major
dance release Their first vinyl came out on Baroque in June 2004 and
instantly picked up rave reviews and high buzz chart placements.
Over the coming months the track was hammered by the world's top Dj's
across the globe including PVD, Tiesto, Armin van Burren, Matt Darey
and Judge Jules. The list is endless! Also having a solid three month
stint on Jules's radio 1 show over the late summer and turning up on
Armin van Buuren's "Universal Religion live '04" CD and Tiesto's
"In Concert" DVD, which was recorded in frount of 50,000 fans

In the early part of 2005 "Find" was re-released on Armin’s own label
Armada with a tougher mix from the German duo Kyau vs. Albert on the
B side and Andy Moor’s mix taking the A side. This re-release again
caused a storm and has already picked up full backing from mix mag
with a no.8 in their big tunes chart for January and a no.1 in their
trance chart for February 2005. Armin van Burren listeners to his
"A State of Trance" radio show have also voted "Find" at no.4 in the
trance tracks of the year 2004 poll. With dance charts across Europe
placing "Find" high on their lists Ridgewalkers have reached no.1 on the
Technics Dutch dance charts in February 2005

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But the band is not just a dance production team but
has a whole live feel to their music. With Ive and El
coming from a live performance background their
song writing is based in a more conventnal form with
songs arising from guitar and vocal.

With this in mind, Ridgewalkers enlisted some new
band members to make it possible to perform their
songs live with Aaron on bass and Alan on drums.
the band have also ended off summer 2005 with a
killer performance at Dance lake event, Poland.
sharing a stage with names like ABT, Rank 1 and
Alex morph

At the moment the band are very busy recording. With
the follow up single to "Find" and production of their
debut album well under way the birth of the live show
and a few co-production projects on the burner you will
be hearing a lot more from this new Irish talent
very soon!