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Stuart Langelaan, stage name Lange, (born June 4) is a British DJ.
Lange's career began in 1997, signing his first recording contract with Additive Records in the UK. Early popularity was achieved with a collection of releases attracting the attention of industry leaders such as Paul van Dyk, Sasha, Paul Oakenfold and Judge Jules.
A mixture of slow build ups and melodic choruses has allowed Lange to notch up 20 Top 40 UK hits in the UK Singles Chart. His first success was his remix of DJ Sakin's "Protect Your Mind", which became a club track reaching No.4 in the UK sales chart and selling in excess of 200,000 copies.Citation needed
His trance anthem "Drifting Away" reached Number 9 in the UK Singles Chart in 2002, and resulted in Lange performing on the BBC One's Top of the Pops and also the Pepsi Chart Show. Lange was also behind the SuReaL track "You Take My Breath Away" which peaked at No. 15 in the UK in 2000.
Lange mixes have accumulated hundreds of appearances on compilation albums including two tracks on the million-plus selling EMI ''Now That's What I Call Music! series.
Other more club-orientated projects include his 'Firewall', 'LNG', and 'Vercetti' guises. In 2003 Firewall's "Sincere" established itself as a club anthem on Armin Van Buuren's 'A State of Trance' record label, and has recently been re-released on Lange’s own label, Lange Recordings.
Lange has found similar success as a club DJ, reaching No. 37 in the internationally renowned ‘DJ Mag DJ poll’. As well as playing some of the UK's biggest clubs (including Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, Passion, Gallery, and Slinky), Lange regularly tours internationally
. Touring has taken him to Australia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, China, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Ibiza, Canada and the USA, amongst others. Lange has headlined prestigious festivals including Australia's Summadayze (alongside Tiësto), the Popsicle festival in San Francisco (attended by over 8000), Spooky and WEMF in Canada, and Fortdance in St Petersberg performing alongside Ferry Corsten and Tiësto (attended by 25,000).
He released his debut album Better Late Than Never on Maelstrom and Lange Recordings digitally in October 2007 and on a double CD in Spring 2008. The album had one CD of new material and a second disc called "History" that highlighted some of his past hits from 1998 to the present. 3 singles from the album had successful releases, these were "Songless", "Angel Falls" and the most successful release was "Lange feat Sarah Howells - Out of the Sky". This release retained a top 10 position on the Beatport Trance Chart for a considerable time after the tracks release in October 2008 and earnt Lange the nomination as one of the Beatport Top 10 selling Trance Artists 2008.
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