GERALD BELANGER- DJ
Gerald Belanger has been active in the electronic music scene since 1990, fusing his love for experimental sounds with his passion for dance music. DJ'ing extensively at festivals and clubs throughout North America, Europe and now Japan, Belanger has been infecting audiences with a highly charged blend of futuristic house, broken beats, drum 'n' bass and eclectic freestyle grooves.Along with close friends and KINDER ATOM bandmates Christopher Drost and Heiki Sillaste, they opened up the NICE+SMOOTH recording facility in 1997. Now completely independant, nice+smooth ultramedia has morphed into it's own label, studio, commercial production agency, clothing line and design house. Kinder Atom's biggest commercial success to date was with Grammy award winning reggae vocalist Michael Rose on the worldwide smash single "Illegal". The Green Man remix on Basswerk records also became an international mega-hit, and was featured in a May 2005 episode of tv's CSI Miami. Another chart-topper from Kinder Atom was a remix they produced for Canadian rap star Snow and his track "Boom Boom Boogie" in 1998, released by Warner Brothers in Japan and the USA. Recently, Kinder Atom have worked with Jamaican via London singer Musical Sniper (from UB40's Oracabessa Records), and chanteuse Genvieve Marchessau (formerly with BMG). On the ambient/chillout front, Kinder Atom have co-written and produced groundbreaking crossover albums with Vancouver's DEAD VOICES ON AIR, as well as England's RAPOON. Belanger has also been producing a weekly radio mix-show since 1990, Unfortunate Sonic Casualties on Toronto station CKLN-FM, providing an outlet for the electronic underground community to network and communicate through music and action.