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RANK	SCORE ?	GENRE	LOCATION
1504	178	House	Buenos Aires, AR

Ariel Gandolfo - Aka Nicholas Van Orton

While growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ariel first got involved with music at the age of 16, singing in hardcore metal bands. At the age of 19, bought his first hardware and started producing dance tracks under the "Zero Reality" nick, getting great support among local djs.

Ten years after , having played live for more than 20.000 people in his country and recorded three studio albums with his band "il phantasmo" (smokinghome records, 1999, 2001 and 2003), he co-produced kozmic3..s second album "hallucigenia" (ksk records 2005), and then decided to work as a solo artist and started producing under the alias Nicholas Van Orton. His tunes had a great welcome at the house scene, and are supported by many international and local djs such as hernan cattaneo, andy moor or anthony pappa, to name a few.

Ariel now spends his time producing different styles of music, djing and vjing, as well as running "SmokingHome", his graphic design lab, where he works as a free-lance 3d animator and sound designer for movies and TV. Some of his clients are FOX, MTV, AXN, Converse, etc, and some samples of his work are shown at his studio site smokinghome.com.ar

Besides from his releases at prestigious labels around the world, Ariel helps in the production of KSK radio nigths, and also hosts the following radio shows>>

GROOVES FROM THE PIT - Hosted by NVO

Every 1st Tuesday 7AM PST - Frisky Radio friskyradio.com

DIGITAL BLACKOUT - Hosted by Gerardo Boscarino, Buenos Aires Deep and NVO

Saturdays 9PM - Buenos Aires - KSK RADIO 101.9 FM kskradio.net

NU GEN - Hosted by The Defender Droids (White Rhino & NVO)

Sundays 10PM Buenos Aires - KSK RADIO 101.9 FM kskradio.net

THE BALKAN CONNECTION - Hosted by Ogi Gee Cash & Synchronized

Guest Host NVO

e/4th Monday 12PM East - Proton Radio - protonradio.com

Nicholas would like to thank all djs, producers, promoters, radios and magazines, labels and friends around the world who helped him in many ways along these years.