PACIFIC BLUE

BIOGRAPHY:

Biography

Per Kristian Grytdal (22.02.74) is the producer and the man behind PACIFIC BLUE. His music-career started when he was 15 years old. He performed a rap together whith a friend at a party. Furthermore, he got in touch with a DJ. They decided to form a rap-act. As time went by, they changed the act into a dance-act..

In 1993 they nearly got a deal with EMI, but the negotiations were interrupted. Then during militaryservice the act passed away, and Per Kristian had a long break. Then in 1998 he made "HURRICANE" and suddenly, he was contacted by several recordcompanies and he had finally reached one of his goals. He signed edel, autumn 1998.

He started his career performing at a danceparty in Oslo Spectrum (x-mas 1998) together with Sash! among others.

The first single, HURRICANE, got great reviews from the UK and support from IBIZA DJ's. In September 1999 he released his first album, HORIZON. The album sold over 20,000 copies in Norway, which is more than a wellknown artist like ATB. From this album he released 4 singles, where HURRICANE, SUNRISE and OCEAN all reached the Norwegian top 10. The songs got also very high placements at the Norwegian and Scandinavian Dancecharts. (Hurricane and Sunrise both in the all-time-high of the year 1999). After touring Norway in spring 2000, he decided to take a break.

Edel Records closed their office in Norway during 2001/2002 and Pacific Blue got signed with Nordic Records Norway, summer 2002. He has released 3 singles from an upcoming album.

In the year 2003, he's still the most-selling norwegian tranceact.

Facts about releases from HORIZON:

Amore
- was be the last single from the album Horizon.
- straight into #32 at Norwegian Dance Chart. That means that all Pacific Blue singles have entered this chart.

Horizon
- over 20,000 copies sold (25,000 = Gold Record)
- advertised at TV3 (Norway) several weeks.
- contains 12 great trancehits including all released singles.
- stayed 9 weeks at Album Top 40 in Norway.
- highest rank Top 40 : # 14!

Ocean
- stayed 11 weeks at Norwegian Dance Chart
- 8 weeks at the Norwegian Top 20, reached # 11
- available at Club Zone 4, Partyzone 6, Partyzone 2000 (Norway) + compilations in Thailand

Sunrise
- stayed 6 weeks at the norwegian Top 20 and it reached # 8.
- stayed 14 weeks at Norwegian Dance Chart, - 6 weeks at #2
- is available at compilations in UK, Sweden, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Argentina, the Gulf + Partyzone 5, Clubzone 3 (Norway)

Review:
Beats PM Magazine: "Follow-up to the magnificant Hurricane, SUNRISE is set to cause some serious damage on the dancefloors of Europe over the summer months. With some crisp production and a guitar lick simular to ATB "9PM (till i come)", ignore this track at your peril - MASSIVE!!!"

Hurricane
- was the first norwegian instrumental track which entered Top 20, where it stayed 7 weeks with highest position 10.
- stayed 14 weeks at Norwegian Dance Chart, 9 weeks at top 5! It also had a short appearence at two clubcharts in the UK.
- is available at Club Beats 5 (UK), Mixology UK's January issue + Absolute Music 26, Mc Music 6, Clubzone 2 (Norway)

Reviews:
Beats PM Magazine:
"...A thumping kick drum leads to a spine tingling pizzicato riff that builds and builds to great effect. Amazingly this is still unsigned in the UK, though we're sure it will be picked up very soon. Excellent! "