Victor G started DJing at a tender age of 15 spinning tunes in high school proms and house parties. As he immersed in the club culture more than 8 years ago behind the turntables as he took up his first residency in The Whiteroom as he learnt the whiz and skills of house music behind the decks. Establishing his residency there, Victor G has learnt the know-how to easily entertain the crowd on the dance floor.
Later on, he took up residency in KL’s premier pre-club Echo Bar and Ohm Private where he has matured musically. Citing John Digweed and Carl Cox as his main influences, Victor’s sets is funky, uplifting and exciting. Playing a wide range in house, tech house, electro and techno, he easily pulled crowd from its inception. Victor was also a regular guest at KL’s premier underground club The Backroom*, where he produces sonic attacks to the larger crowd at a bigger arena. Needless to say, he has graced the decks in all major super clubs in Kuala Lumpur such as Zouk, Maison and Velvet Underground. He is also a familiar face in numerous local lifestyle and clubbing magazine like FHM, Klue, Faces and Juice. On January 2004, Victor G hosted his very own dance show wicked on red104.9 radio station. Victor has graced decks internationally including Tokyo, Bali, Jakarta, Singapore, Brunei and recently rocked Melbourne Australia.
On September 2003, Victor participated and won first place in the Heineken Juice Magazine DJ Quest. One year later, he bagged another trophy by winning the 2004 Vestax Extravaganza DJ competition mixing category and the Pioneer Digital DJ Battle 2004 and 2005 championship and recently the Pioneer Digital DJ Battle Asian championship 2006.
Although 8 years in the club scene, Victor G has been exposed to various music directions such as house, tech-house, progressive tribal, techno and has played alongside big names such as Mauro Picotto (ITA), Eric Entrena (ESP), Hybrid (UK), Luke Chable (AUS), Dano (USA), DJ Tatiana (USA), BT (USA), Dimitri from Paris (FRA) and many more. Musically matured, he has spent a lot of time in productions where he has produced tracks “How Now?” which have received big response from the crowd as well as the support from top regional dj’s. Also a his track “Dispenser” released under Gillazia Records for the Presence Global Dancefloor compilation. Few other projects and remixes are on the way as he will be releasing under Love International and many more.
“ Victor G’s set was a mature one that showcased technical expertise as well as
music sense, and while these were qualities displayed to differing degree, he was clearly superior. “ ~The Star 22nd October 2004 ~” |
