Vangelis Viras (a.k.a. Dj Vee Rush) considered by many, one of the most experienced and talented Dj’s – remixers – producers in Greece
He multi liked the idea to offer music to people. Then, he decided to try playing music in haunts of his own friends. He was just 18 years old. And it was the beginning of a golden decade of music. The decade of the 90’s.
The next few years, he dealt with more professional mixing. He has played music in several clubs of the town who lived, until 1991. Then, he tried his luck in other near towns.
Larissa,Trikala, Kozani, Florina, Kastoria, Ptolemaida, was some of the places that he has played, until he reached the city of Thessaloniki, in 1993. It was a very successful year, gave him a big boost and mass audiences. Chalkidiki, Lesvos, Skiathos, Andros, Crete, Kos, was some of Vee’s summer destinations as resident or guest DJ, too. He also passes from many other Greek towns as a event’s guest dj such as Korinthos, Sparta, Chalkida, Volos, Katerini, Serres, Edessa, Ioannina, Lamia and many more, and of course the capital city of Athens.
Vee Rush’s musical style reflects his eclectic influences; from high-modernist integral surrealism to pop-funk fusion to rock epic poetry to 80’s hair metal; all distilled down to pure, crystalline deep tech house. He’s not limited to house, instead combining disco, minimal, indie, glitch, and progressive house to create some new sounds.
Until 2005, he had already played in bigger places of his town (NEMESIS, FACE, AKRI, ASTERIA, BLUES, N-DIAMESO, D-TOX, ENZZO and more) and some of the trendiest club of Greece (WAIKIKI, ORIGINAL, SAX ON THE BACK, COHIBA, KGB, MILLENNIUM, COCOMERO, SCALA, HEAVEN, AQUARIUS, ESCAPE, BABYLON, MAYA, PLASTIC, PASA, NOMAD, ALTO, INK, MASCOT BAR, WILD BULL, MEMORIES and many more) as a resident or as a guest Dj. The result was, he has acquired, together with the extensive experience and tremendous recognition and respect as professional Dj. And combined with his mature character, he was become very beloved and gained many friends throughout the country.
The years that followed were full of energy. Vangelis was not playing music longer as resident Dj. He preferred to play only on some parties and events. This gave him more time to get into the studio and deal with the creation of music. This started experimental and tried to make some remixes. He worked on big hits of his favorite musicians; Depeche Mode, Moby, Faithless and some Dj works, like Sasha and Fatboy Slim to Deep Dish and some youngest guys. And the first successful remixes and productions not took too long to come.
“It’s no good” from Depeche Mode was one of the first Vangelis’ remixes. That was one of the first remixes, which shake the calm waters so much that several record companies to propose him for a cooperation. So did “U-TEAM”, a label based in Athens. Vangelis accepted. The first production that he did gradually began to be heard by radio throughout Greece it was the “Rising”. A track inspired by the greatest rave anthems of the 90’s. Several remixes and releases followed. “Deep Sheet”, “Under Control”, “Dark Square”, “Feather Virtuoso”, “Dark Square”, “Satellite”, “Samba Greco” was some of the tracks with great success and many radio airtime plays.