Biography:

Biography
Welcome to Diarmaid O Meara's Official Website

Firmly planting himself in a front seat in the international Techno scene, be it through critically successful and supported tracks, complicated and intense three turntable performances, or his far reaching Gobsmacked brand and label… the Irish three deck techno peddler, Diarmaid O Meara, is a name that has quite rightly been etched into the minds of a sizeable and ever growing chunk of Europe’s even more sizeable and ever growing Techno cult.

After an intensive and successful number of years of acclaimed releases and remix’s across numerous top labels, collaborations with numerous artists, and being as ‘One to Watch’ by M8 Mag UK… Diarmaid was branded as “One of Techno’s brightest new stars” by Tilllate Magazine following features in myriads of music publications including Notion, Tilllate, CORE, DJ Mag and I-DJ, Connected, and radio and music tv features about the release of his Structured Noise and Indecent Welfare albums. This alongside endless production work, collaborations, a hectic gigging schedule, and a uniquely intense, energetic, and entertaining style of three turntable techno mash up sets, has placed Diarmaid up there with his peers as one of the best in his field to emerge in recent years.

Since his first vinyl release in 2008, Diarmaid’s style has been grabbing attention with releases across dozens of labels, an endless remix list, and regular track support from countless giants of electronic music, after a kick start with techno giant Dave Clarkes number one track of 2010, Selfish Bass. His almost constant airplay across UK and European radio stations includes regular features on BBC Radio 1, White Noise, 2FM, ATL Dance Show, Absolute Technoise, RTE Radio, KISS FM, NRJ Radio, DI – FM and XFM UK. Guest mixes and exclusive broadcasted sessions for dozens of high profile series include Dave Clarke’s White Noise, Clash Music Magazine’s Series, Dr Hoffmanns Blindspot, Rolf Mulders ‘A Public Stand’, Mastertraxx Podcast, Naked Lunch Cast, BBC ATL etc.. Not to mention the intense mixing style he brings to clubs and radios across Europe, where regular live dates include a blasts of the best clubs in countless European cities, also with regular appearances in his current stomping ground of Berlin. This comes alongside Gobsmacked‘s Wired up Series, which is pushing the sounds of artists big and small since mid 2010 through countless global radio/digital stations.

As one of the UK and Irelands busier techno producers and releasers, now resettled in Berlin, his collaborations and remixes to date include hero’s like A.Paul, Robert Armani, Mike Humphries, Space DJz, Patrick DSP, Spiros Kaloumenos, 3phazegenerator, Vegim, Niereich, Go!Diva, Luke Creed, Ortin Cam etc., on labels including Gobsmacked, Potential, Mastertraxx, Nachtstrom, Starkstrom, Naked Lunch, Driving Forces, Slap Jaxx etc. His album “Structured Noise” was nominated for Best Album and his label Gobsmacked for Best Label multiple times in the Irish dance Music Awards. Constantly following on these successes with a broad spectrum of projects constantly on the horizon, numerous and continuous upcoming releases across some of the genre’s finest labels, not to mention his own Gobsmacked label, which has recently celebrated its 130th release… Diarmaid’s name will keep appearing regularly in the statutes of techno as he pushes the boundaries of electronic noise and ingenuity in the production, performance, and promotion of electronic music.