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“To Live a dream is a dream come true, for those who don’t dream don’t live”
DJ/Producer Andy Duguid a.k.a. Reeves
“I’m a child of the 80’s,” he begins, “I was born in Guttersloh, Germany, although my parents relocated to England very soon after. I remember being drawn and influenced by music from a very early age, not least Jean Michel Jarre, so when my parents bought me a keyboard the circle became complete. I remember spending hours practising, first teaching myself the musical basics and then developing an obsession and desire to create weird and wonderful sounds. Nothing in the house was safe, everyday objects were all fair game; I even made a Xylophone out of a water bottle!”
All this dedication at such a young age proved fruitful. At just 14 he played his first gigs in and around the local nightclubs and things looked really promising for a while, although the realities of life soon caught up with the young Duguid, as he explains, “When I left school finances dictated I had to go get a job and I really wasn’t prepared for how time consuming it would be. It always felt like a frustrating waste, keeping me from music, the true passion in my life. It wasn’t until my Father sadly passed prematurely in 2005 that something snapped inside me. I knew I had to seize the - albeit sad - opportunity and go for it, so I quit the nine-to-five and focused on music full time.”
But, it was not only grief and impending poverty Andy had to overcome, geography played a part too; the rural beauty of Pitslago village some hour north of Aberdeen could hardly be described as the global epicenter of dance. “I don’t see my village as a handicap,” he counters, “quite the opposite in fact, it has allowed me to forge and develop my own sound without a mass of outside influences. I actually have much to thank it for.”
With a personal timeline of three months, Andy set about the task of re-igniting his career and, in a true movie magic ‘stop the bomb before it reaches zero’ moment, he signed his first single to Dutch giants Black Hole bang on ninety days later. “I don’t know if there is such a thing as yin and yang, but it was weird how this opportunity came about so soon after my father’s passing,” he says with mixed emotions, “and it really did open the flood gates. Being on Black Hole firmly put me on Tiesto’s radar and his support catapulted my career in ways I could never have imagined.”
Twelve months on and things had indeed rocketed: Black Hole had extended Andy’s contract to the rarest of beasts in the dance world, a three album deal and he could be found on Tiesto’s legendary ‘In Search of Sunrise’ compilations whilst traveling with him to gigs in front of 8000 people, as he happily recalls, “I had gone from working in a garage to private jet in the space of a year. The jet may have been Tiesto’s of course, but even so... I often had to pinch myself to check I wasn’t dreaming.”
Sadly, dreams don’t last and Andy was given a rude awakening when tragedy re-visited his life with the news of his brother having terminal cancer, “I was obviously devastated,” he says, “But so proud he managed to live long enough to see the release of my first album, even if it was by two days.”
Despite the tragedy, the album was a success and the widespread support it received provided the platform for yet another step forward in his career as he acknowledges pensively,“Life can be so weird, peaks and troughs don’t even begin to describe it.” So, back to work Andy went: the album picked-up 5 stars from DJmag; he released a mix compilation, ‘Miracle Moments’; began the ‘After Dark Sessions’, his own globally broadcast radio show and continued to tour to the four corners of the earth. Just as well he loves to DJ as much as being in the studio... “I am a producer and DJ so I feel it’s important my sets reflect this; as a
