For close to 10 years now, The Thrillseekers have been at the forefront of the world's dance scene. From his first single 'Synaesthesia', through to the club anthems 'Dreaming of You', ‘NewLife’ and 'By Your Side', Steve Helstrip has been behind some of the most emotive, evocative electronic music, ever released. He’s worked with pioneers like Trevor Horn, shared co-production credits with Chicane and co-wrote on Ferry Corsten’s Grammy award winning ‘Right of Way’ album. He’s remixed Tiesto and Armin, amongst many others, and reworked Sonique’s ‘Feels So Good’ into a worldwide, No. 1 record.
Steve is now as well known as a DJ as he is a producer; having quickly risen through the ranks, captivating crowds the world over with his tough, cutting-edge sets. The Ministry, Gallery, PaSSion and Gatecrasher have all born witness to his fluid mixing, unique style and kinetic, energetic performances. His spinning career took off with such speed, in fact, that just 12 months after he first put needle to vinyl, he found himself invited to play at Paul van Dyk’s Birthday party! 2004 saw The Thrillseekers crack the DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJ's chart for the first time, before going on to break into the top 50 (landing at no. 45) in 2006.
The Thrillseekers story started back in 1999, where, with a relatively basic home studio Steve constructed the trance milestone that is ‘Synaesthesia’. Signed and released by Neo Records in 1999, at the height of the trance explosion, it has gone on to sell over 1,000,000 copies, across its numerous, repeated worldwide releases.
Following the collapse of Neo Records in 2003, Steve took charge of his catalogue by launching his own label Adjusted Music. With demand high for the re-releases of 'Synaesthesia' and ‘Affinity’ (which was originally came out under his Hydra moniker), both tracks were brought back out in 2004, to a huge response. As well as releasing his own records, Steve’s also sought out fresh talent for Adjusted. He signed the club hits ‘Safe to Dream’ by Russian act Evolve and ‘Alone Again’ by transatlantic duo Deep Voices. His remix of the former showcased a new housier sound, one which was fully realised with his ‘By Your Side’ release. The track was championed by Paul van Dyk and Pete Tong, being marked up, quite simply, as “Brilliant” by the latter, after he played it on Radio 1.
Artist collaborations have played an important part in Steve’s production career. Immediately following the success of ‘Synaesthesia’ Steve went on to launch a new moniker for M.O.S. subsidiary, Incentive. En-Motion was born with ‘Truth’ in 2000 and ‘Getting Away with It’ following in 2002. In the adjoining years he also pushed forward, partnering collaborations with Andy ‘Pulser’ Perring as Insigma (‘Insigma’/’Open Our Eyes’/’Avalon’) and with ATCR owner Tim Stark under the name Rapid Eye ('Never Going Back'/"Circa-Forever"/"Stealing Beauty"/'Santa Cruz'/'Absolut').
In late 2005 The Thrillseekers moved into compilation territory, with the release of ‘Night Music Vol 1’. The CD and 30 date world tour that followed it was an instant smash, mushrooming the fanbase further and generating State-side and Russian releases of the comp. Summer 2007 will sees the much-anticipated follow up hit the stores, again encompassed by a world tour.
The phenomenal ascent of Australian born vocalist/songwriter Emma Hewitt to the status of Trance Royalty began in 2007 when she crashed onto the international dance scene as co-writer and featured vocalist on the Chris Lake U.S Billboard 1 (Hot Dance Airplay) smash hit, Carry Me Away. Carry Me Away was premiered by seminal tastemaker Pete Tong on BBC’s legendary Radio 1 and went on to become a dance floor classic worldwide spending over 50 weeks in the U.S Billboard Dance Airplay Chart where it knocked Britney Spears’ “Toxic” off the 1 position in December 2007. The track was a mainstream Top 10 hit in Spain and Norway and peaked at 2 on the UK Club Charts receiving massive support from the dj elite including trance heavyweights Armin Van Buuren (World 1 dj) and DJ Tiesto (World 2 DJ) who proclaimed Carry Me Away to be “THE song of the Summer” in 2007. In 2009 a collaboration with German trance legends Cosmic Gate led to the haunting anthem Not Enough Time, whilst a recent collaboration with Dutch Superstar Producer, Dash Berlin titled Waiting earnt Emma Hewitt another 1 crown, this time on the Global Trance Charts as well as achieving the highest honor in Trance; being voted the 1 Vocal track of the year on the illustrious A State Of Trance Annual Countdown for 2009 (2 Overall). Waiting provided Emma Hewitt with a 1 radio smash in Germany, Belgium and Mexico and is currently ascending the mainstream charts throughout Europe as well as being scheduled for U.S release in 2010 through the World’s most successful dance label, Armada Music. An extensive touring schedule in 2009 included sold out performances across the globe in Las Vegas, San Francisco, London, Spain, Malta and Australia with heavyweight Artists such as Cosmic Gate (GER) and Dash Berlin (NL). With writing currently underway for a highly anticipated debut Artist album the stage is set for 2010 to be a watershed year for this unique Australian talent with the ethereal, unmistakable voice.
NT$ 18,000 (includes 10 VIP Tickets + Seating for 9-12 people + 1 Table + 1 Bottle of Hennessy VSOP +3 Coke+ 3 Water + Ice + Best View in the House + Exclusive Restroom + Private Dance Area)
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Tainan
Armory Pub No.82, Gongyuan S. Rd., North Dist. 06-226-9520 MAP
HIVE No.3, Ln. 21, Zhongzheng Rd., West Central Dist. 06-228-8516 MAP
Afire No.49, Qingnian Rd., West Central Dist. 06-221-3110 MAP
Neu No.56-1, Weimin St., West Central Dist. 06-228-1672 MAP
Fusion No.483, Sec. 2, Yonghua Rd., Anping Dist. 06-293-0911
Yes! Waffle No.14, Guangci St., West Central Dist. 0926-557-503 MAP
Pingtung / Chiayi / Taichung / Taipei
Fresh No.78, Shanghai Rd., Pingtung City(besides Birkenstock) 08-765-2608 MAP
Wager No.449, Ren’ai Rd., West Dist., Chiayi City 05-223-7020 MAP
Neu & Paul Frank 2F., No.68, Gongyi Rd., West Dist., Taichung City (Park Lane) 04-2326-7986 MAP
Neu No.17, Ln. 177, Sec. 1, Dunhua S. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 02-8771-8170 MAP
Species Records 2F., No.20, Ln. 96, Kunming St., Wanhua Dist., Taipei City 02-2375-5518MAP
iNDIEVOX Internet Ticketing，Pay & Pick-up at 7-ELEVEN iBon
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2. Go 5/22 Dance Port event page, and order your tickets。 http://www.indievox.com/spunite/event-post/4744
3. Remember your order number。
4. Go to any 7-ELEVEN ibon enter your ID number and order number， and print out the recept。
5. Go to the register to pay and receive your ticket for DancePort。
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Departing Kaohsiung (~30 Min)
1. Go NORTH on the "1" Freeway
2. Exit Luzhu (路竹)
3. Make a Left (West)
4. Drive till the end when you hit a parking lot, and you are at Lover's Wharf.
Departing Tainan (~25 Min)
1. Go SOUTH on the "1" Freeway
2. Exit Luzhu (路竹)
3. Make a Right (West)
4. Drive till the end when you hit a parking lot, and you are at Lover's Wharf.
For safety reasons, please do not jump into the water.
For enviromental protection, do no throw any trash into the water.
1. Under 18 years old not permitted to this event, please bring your I.D. or proof of age.
2. Ticket does not include drinks, all outside drinks not permitted.
3. For safety reasons, do not bring opened cigarettes boxes.
4. We will have security staff checking your bags, pockets. (We reseve the right to search for illegal objects
5. Prohibitted to bring fireworks, knife, baseball bats, glass objects and other dangerous objects.
6. Prohibitted to bring or sale of any illegal substance, if found, we will turn you into the local police.
7. For everyone's protection, we will security and undercover police officers on site.
8. Please respect other people, any unruly action will result in removal from event without refund.
9. Please buy tickets from authorized ticket outlets, if you bought a invalid ticket, we could not honor it.
10 . Any act of sales of "$10" or "$0" value tickets, or fake tickets, we will turn you into the local police
11. If you enter the event without proper ticket, once found, you will need to pay 200% of the door price.
12. Please bring light jackets.
13. If there is bad weather, please check the official wbsite for news.
14. All performer is subjected to change, please check the official wbsite for news.
15. . http://spunite.com/danceport is the offical website.
