Meet Justiy our First play artists of the week:
Of course if you love iRadio, you already know who Justiy is. He presents Justiy's Jungle every Saturday evening from 8-10pm. He's been the freshest beats to iRadio every weekend since 2010. Now, not only is he playing big anthems, he's producing them too.
You can check him out putting the finishing touches on the track here
Justiy says about the song (Dance into the unknown)...
It's kind of difficult to really explain the song, because it was written in two parts essentially.
I wanted to create something that everyone could appreciate and enjoy, I'd done collaborative work before and gained some success but that was all instrumental stuff apart from one remix we did which never got released unfortunately.
But this is my first real solo single. I drew inspiration from big piano tracks back in the 90s such as Bryon Stingily - Get Up Everybody and a record from 1989 which I found in one of my siblings record collection which I still have Ten City – Thats The Way Love Is, which has an amazing piano solo and chords, I wanted to do something with that style in mind.
The feel good piano chords are my favourite part of the track itself, they will always make me feel like I'm on a beach sipping on an ice cold drink just enjoying life.
When Dance was finished, I knew I needed a vocal and I had a particular theme in my head for how it should sound. I reached out to a friend in the industry, Audrey, and she hooked me up with Rachel Grace, a really talented singer-songwriter from Wexford.
I sent the track to Rachel and literally within 24 hours she had a demo back to me and I loved it.
Rachel had perfectly interpreted the emotions I was hoping to make people feel with the track, the joys of life, love and adventure, never really knowing what's going to happen but going for it anyway.
Musical inspiration
I grew up in a family with a wide variety of music coming at me, from my Mother who listened to a lot of country music, Hal Ketchum being one I particularly remember to my Father being really in to surf music by The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and even Nana Mouskouri I had a wide influence of music from an early age.
But my music taste really started to develop when my brothers and sisters started to go clubbing and they brought that music back home in the early-mid 90s. I remember discovering Rave music along the likes of the Prodigy and Scooter (yes! Scooter).
One of my all time favourite tracks has to be “Delerium – Silence” a track which gained massive popularity when Tiesto remixed it. The original 12 minute version I loved it so much I ordered it on vinyl. The only place my local record shop in Letterkenny could get it from was Canada, so I waited a month for it to arrive. Music still has that power for me, I hear a DJ playing a great song I don't know about it drives me crazy till I get it.
Track has early support on the Irish club scene from the likes of John Gibbons
(You can hear 'Dance into the unknown' as our First play, every day this week on iRadio on iWork & IRL)
If you love it as much as we do you can listen to it again and again on our iRadios First Plays Spotify playlist
