TranceElements Trance DJ Biography
Trance Music DJ Interview & Biography
Bruce Cullen, trance music DJ, was brought up in a small colonial town in Amherst New Hampshire from ages 4-18 where his father, a Captain with Delta Airlines transferred from Boston to Los Angeles. Bruce graduated from Newbury Park High School in 1989 after spending 3 years at Milford Area Senior High (MASH) in Milford New Hampshire. Once in Los Angeles Bruce's family pushed him into Acting and Commercial Print. Bruce's uncle Jim Santangelo, now second from the top in the Teamsters Union under Jimmy Hoffa Jr. was Bruce's first inspiration. "I am half Italian & half Irish and all my family came through Ellis Island to the USA. I want to work hard following the footsteps and success of my family" Bruce remembers being told Hollywood was impossible to break into.
Shortly after working on movie sets Bruce was asked to join The Screen Actors Guild after only 1 year. Bruce's first role, with Dustin Hoffman in the movie "Outbreak"; soon after Bruce was asked to appear on "In Living Color" with the just starting out Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and others, Bruce was now a full member of AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and SAG (Screen Actors Guild). Bruce worked on shows such as Beverly Hills 90210, the Soap Opera "Days of Our Lives" and appeared as a principle in many Major TV commercials, he worked with Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched on an NBC Mini Series and in print advertisements all over the world. "Don't ever trust anyone but yourself, anything is possible" Bruce says. "The music industry should take notice as we will do things that have never been done before in trance music; we have a cutting edge team to allow everyone to know of this industry in short order, Hold on!"
"Soon after I was bored, not sure which direction to go." Bruce became involved in Wall Street and held a position with AG Edwards & Sons Investments at age 21 while trying to finish his Business Administration Degree in California. "Still I was bored, at this time I was fascinated by Jan Hammer's Music that had been so popular from Miami Vice, Jan Hammer from Prague Czech Republic was an inspiration to me as well as "The Cure", and even Opera and Classical music, I just could not listen to them enough, the lyrics, the sound, I like it loud! It went on for a while this boredom. Trying to finish college, it was not happening, Hollywood gigs, motion pictures, I kept falling behind in school, frustrating, I remember thinking what is best, real life experience or education. I was told to get a college degree yet I was learning so much in the real world and making difficult tasks look somewhat easy enough; I kept chugging away at everything I could get my hands on."
Bruce was also busy learning about technology from his work on Wall Street writing stories... some which were able to help drive interest in public corporations, when he wrote stories stock prices at times would rise 100% or more from the publications alone. Bruce was asked to join (Ingram Micro) a Fortune 500 top 10 company as a testing engineer before finishing his 3rd year of college. At this point he was in full understanding of technology, music, Wall Street, and the media world.
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Bruce decided to check into the European scene, thanks to his father it was quite easy for him to get around the globe. "I went to Holland to see this thing called Sensation put on by ID-T; I had no --- idea how amazing this was going to be, I was like this is me for sure, loud, big, and wonderful people to meet from all over the world, I felt at home instantly, hard to explain really... 55,000 people dancing... all the feelings they give you... and listening to loud music with performers, the huge Holland Amsterdam Olympic Arena Soccer Stadium... wow, shocking! I remember watching a clip from trance music dj Eric Morillo talking about how amazed he was of this event, I agreed fully, go Eric!"
(Trance Music DJ Eric Morillo grew up in the USA and in Columbia beforehand as well, Eric we agree, let's get this industry in full swing, no need for faceless artists, we need this industry to be professional and move up the ranks as a genre for sure!)
Bruce took it all in at once, overwhelmed already, Sensation VIP tickets in hand... he decided to walk what seemed to be a mile to the VIP rooms upstairs at the mega Sensation Black event. The VIP rooms are where different DJ's from around the globe (Global DJ's) play in different rooms. "I walked into a room and heard some incredible music, I was like shit this is good!... I approached the DJ and said hey, your music is awesome. The DJ's name was DJ-Joop from Leeuwarden Holland, to make a long story short, whew, I told Joop of my interests and dreams, I told him that I was managing the marketing of one of the Super Bowl 1/2 time shows (potentially millions of advertising eyeballs) in the States and I think he understood right away (thanks Joop), we have been good friends ever since. Joop introduced me to ID-T's Irfan Van Ewijk, one of the true founders of ID-T Radio Holland who's shows worldwide are just incredible, everyone must see one, Sensation Black, Sensation White, Mysteryland etc. From there I was invited to join ID-T the next summer on their ID-T VIP stage to meet all the others like me from all over the world who "get" trance music, many must know what I mean. Once you get in ya wont be able to get out, haha. The VIP ID-T event was amazing, got hardly any sleep after arriving in Holland from Los Angeles as the show Sensation started. The next day I was able to eat lunch with Rank 1 & DJ Joop, and was back stage with Armin Van Buuren at an open air festival in Joop's home town."
"The fun did not stop, even that night at the famous Club Noa I met with Mark Norman who I had met the year before (Yo!). I think we were up about four days straight... the 2nd trip to Amsterdam this time around. Joop kept us jumping around all night, yeaaaaah!
I think we saw the sun rise every day for two weeks straight; never get old, it only happens when you want it to. I don't want it to!"
"Trance music is amazing, we now make our own new trance tracks at TranceElements.Com, mixing the best of the best trance songs, house music, progressive trance and hard core trance, also called hard style. I want to introduce opera, trance, oldies and just great music for everyone to hear; Hollywood at least made me understand how to perform and make people see what you see in your minds eye (or ears), that's it, see what I see... but I want everyone to see it, thus my plan for pushing global trance music, we'll even introduce lyrics in vocal trance coming soon.
We want everyone to enjoy life much more then ever, these days there is too much corporate mumbo jumbo, it's shit! Nenes, from Amsterdam agrees, we need more trance music abroad. If you like trance watch out, we are gonna bring it on like never before! Nenes is another serious and dedicated musician/dj who has much in store for all, dedication, seriousness and professionalism, go Nenes!" So in the end his love for trance music helped start a phenomena where if ya cant beat 'em join 'em, TranceElements.Com's team expects to get a following of its own and then use the eyeball muscle to pull everyone in... cause as he Bruce says "once your in ya cant get out... it's a good thing!"
Sensation events; The large events with over 50,000 people are amazing... Bruce was fascinated to no end and told Irfan from ID-T (Slam FM Radio) in a 1 hour meeting (sit down) as the trance event was live (Sensation White 2005) that he wants to bring this to America, Irfan offered every answer Bruce needed and now TranceElements.Com is making the dream a reality. DJ Joop made his first appearance in America in Hollywood on June 23, 2006 at "Heaven" and June 24th at "Avalon". In May 2007 Joop had his first tour in the USA with all of us here at TranceElements. Joop performed again at Avalon Hollywood and the famous "The Church" nightclub in Denver where Trance Elements & now Hands Up Entertainment (HUE) is based.
As Irfan says, an ID&T motto "Tell them we're coming" Big thanks to all those involved, Joop, Nenes, Armin Van Buuren, DJ Tiesto, Mark Norman, Ghosh & Nitemere in Denver, Eric Morillo, Irfan Van Ewijk, Jonathan Morning, ID-T, Fred Baker, Y-Catch Agency, Nenes, Bob Motamedi, Sasha and the rest! I have sent big thanks out many times before to everyone involved and I will continue this trait always.
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