Nick Havsen
Birth nameTorzsa Gabor Hunor
Born (1994-05-09) 9 May 1994 (age 30)
OriginCovasna, Romania
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • DJ
  • record producer
Years active2014–present
LabelsSmash The House
Revealed Recordings
Rave Culture
Intensity Recordings
Lord Of The Rave
Reaching Altitude
TurnItUp Muzik

Hunor Gabor Torzsa (born (1994-05-09)9 May 1994), known professionally as Nick Havsen, is a Romanian DJ and record producer.[1] Notable releases include "Armata", "Sheriff", "Lord Of The Rave", "The Light" and "Bigroom Is Life".[2]

Biography

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Hunor Gabor Torzsa was born on May 9th, 1994, near Târgu Secuiesc in Covasna, Romania, and is of Hungarian background.[3]

As a young child, he played melodies he heard around his familiar environment on a toy keyboard.

In 2006, the young Torzsa started listening to hip-hop music, and installed Reason 3.0 in order to make beats.

In 2012, being interested in DJing, Torzsa started watching DJ sets from the likes of Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. He thought that he needed to produce his own songs in order to make a name for himself, trying Ableton and crucially FL Studio, which he would ultimately stick to.[4]

Nick Havsen started his career at the age of 20 in 2014, releasing his debut track "Armata," a big room house record, on the Hungarian imprint Audioland Music. "Armata" proved to be Havsen's first breakthrough, featured in multiple compilations and remixed by Audiokiller, Senseekers, and Marsax.

Havsen's ascent continued with solo releases and collaborations on Casual Music and Cub, most notably "Backstab" with Joel Hong. In March 2016, he released his first track on Armin van Buuren's sublabel Armada Deep, a remix of Tim Gartz's "Uptown Girl."[3]

Nick Havsen had his major breakthrough in mid-2020, after releasing "Deva" with Grimix on Smash The House earlier in the year[5], releasing several big room house tracks, including "Bermuda" in collaboration with TBR on Chris W. Lao's Intensity Recordings, "Baby" with Atom Panda[6], and "Lord Of The Rave" with Wolfpack and Futuristic Polar Bears on Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike's label Smash The House. The latter song premiered at Tomorrowland over a year earlier. Havsen also released "Eriu" on Hardwell's label Revealed Recordings.[7]

Multiple releases on TurnItUp Muzik followed, featuring collaborations with Codex (SE), Aki-Hiro, Marc Blou, David White, and Marco Deleoni, before he established his own record label, Lord Of The Rave, in May 2021.

2021 also marked one of Nick Havsen's first major live performances since his pre-2020 Asian and European gigs[8], playing a DJ set for 1001Tracklists on the roof of the Balvanyos Resort in his native Romania.[9]

At the start of 2022, Havsen released multiple tracks on Revealed Recordings, in collaboration with Gaspar and Ezra Hazard.[10] In December 2022, Havsen became the first Romanian artist to release on W&W's label Rave Culture, with "Bigroom Is Life," which he called 'his greatest release so far.'[11] In 2023, he released two more tracks on the same label, "Tranceylvania" and "Aftermath." In early 2024, Havsen returned to the Dutch label with "Say Goodbye," in partnership with Taiwanese producer DJ Junior.

From 2021 to 2024, most of Havsen's significant releases were on the Dutch label TurnItUp Muzik[12], where he released "Harmonia," "Dreams," "The Light," "Raverface," and "Ready For The Action," as well as multiple hardstyle remixes on Reaching Altitude.

Discography

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Singles

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Title[13] Year Record Label Additional Information
"Armata" 2014 Audioland Music
"Backstab" 2015 Casual Music with Joel Hong
"Stars" 2015 Muzikbox Records with Resize
"Insanity" 2015 Casual Music
"No Pressure" 2016 Cub
"Your Love" 2016 Cub
"Blows My Mind" 2016 Cub
"Empire" 2016 Cub
"Sheriff" 2016 Cub Sweden
"Sing For You" 2017 ZeroThirty
"Tromba" 2017 Elephant House with DJ Flower, Suck My Disco
"Highlander" 2018 Spin Media with Arien
"Reality" 2019 Overtuned Records with Wattex
"Warfare" 2019 Bourne Recordings with Mashd N Kutcher, Avadox
"Massive" 2019 AX Records with Avadox, Yaksa
"Deva" 2020 Generation Smash (Smash The House) with Grimix
"My House" 2020 ZeroThirty with Jakd Recordings
"Bermuda" 2020 Intensity Recordings with TBR
"Eriu" 2020 Revealed Radar (Revealed Recordings) with Naems
"Baby" 2020 Generation Smash featuring Atom Panda
"Easy To Love" 2020 Smash Deep (Smash The House) with Tom Field, Lukas Innemann
"Lord Of The Rave" 2020 Generation Smash with Wolfpack (DJs), Futuristic Polar Bears
"All Of My Love" 2020 Generation Smash featuring Atom Panda
"VIP" 2020 Zero Deep with Dante
"Instagram DJ" 2021 Smash Deep with Avadox
"Monsta" 2021 Revealed Recordings with Naems
"Hypernova" 2021 Intensity Recordings with EMKR, Jetty Rachers
"Masquerade" 2021 Glow Records with Koen Fagen
"Dreaming" 2021 Glow Records with Wav3motion, Anklebreaker
"Let The Rhythm Take Control" 2021 TurnItUp Muzik with Marc Blou, Aki-Hiro
"Waiting For You" 2021 TurnItUp Muzik with Codex (SE)
"Techno On My Mind" 2021 Lord Of The Rave
"Chill N Fun" 2021 Zero Deep with Greg Katona
"Where You Wanna Go" 2021 Generation Smash with Emre Cizmeci, Codex (SE)
"Your Soul" 2021 Sub Religion with Dante
"Big Room Army" 2021 TurnItUp Muzik with Rayven, Alejandro
"United Forces" 2021 TurnItUp Muzik with David White, Marco Deleoni
"Get Money" 2021 Zero Cool with Mike Miami, Codex (SE)
"Get Loud" 2021 TurnItUp Muzik with Mike Miami, Codex (SE)
"Red Light, Green Light" 2021 TurnItUp Muzik with Alejandro
"Badman" 2021 TurnItUp Muzik with Kazden
"Closer" 2022 Revealed Radar with Buiatti
"Warning" 2022 Reaching Altitude with SE3K
"Big Room Is Back" 2022 Generation Smash with Aki-Hiro, Alejandro
"This Is How We Rave" 2022 Revealed Recordings with Gaspar
"Turn It Up" 2022 Revealed Recordings with Ezra Hazard
"Rave Money" 2022 Generation Smash with Marc Blou
"The Awakening" 2022 Reaching Altitude with XanTz
"Harmonia" 2022 TurnItUp Muzik with Mike Miami
"Ocean" 2022 TurnItUp Muzik with David White
"You" 2022 Generation Smash with XanTz, Greg Katona
"Pirates Anthem" 2022 Generation Smash with GRYM
"Lights In The Sky" 2022 TurnItUp Muzik with Aki-Hiro
"Game Of Raves" 2022 TurnItUp Muzik with L3N
"The Light" 2022 TurnItUp Muzik with Mike Miami, TRIF3CTO
"Can U" 2022 Revealed Recordings with Manche
"Venom" 2022 TurnItUp Muzik with Greg Katona, Ragom
"Everybody Listens To Techno" 2022 TurnItUp Muzik
"Bigroom Is Life" 2022 Rave Culture
"Thirsty" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with DualGun
"Ravers Of The Night" 2023 Revealed Radar with Alejandro, Lockdown
"Dreams" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with David White
"Tranceylvania" 2023 Rave Culture
"Desire" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with XanTz
"Love Of Yesterday" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with Kazden, Josh Le Tissier
"Rumble Jungle" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with Rave Republic, NoTech
"Feel You" 2023 Reaching Altitude with K1LO, Wav3motion
"Oldskool" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with K1LO
"Fly High" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with Aeroshift
"Aftermath" 2023 Rave Culture
"Nexchapter" 2023 Nexchapter with Justin Prime
"Cyberwave" 2023 TurnItUp Muzik with David White
"The Legend" 2024 Generation Smash with GRYM
"Say Goodbye" 2024 Rave Culture with DJ Junior
"Wild" 2024 Revealed Radar with MatricK featuring Jessie Lee Thetford
"Raverface" 2024 TurnItUp Muzik with GRYM, Greg Katona
"Ready For The Action" 2024 TurnItUp Muzik with David White, Sisters Cap
"Take Me Home" 2024 Dragon X Records with Aeroshift
"Kungfoo" 2024 TurnItUp Muzik with Aryue
"Etherea" 2024 TurnItUp Muzik with Codex (SE), NYROK
"Nightscope" 2024 TurnItUp Muzik with Aki-Hiro
"Sparta" 2024 TurnItUp Muzik with Greg Katona

Extended Plays

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2021:

  • Amazonia with Futuristic Polar Bears featuring Sesco [CMMD Records]

Official Remixes And Edits

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2016:

  • Tim Gartz - Uptown Girl (Nick Havsen Remix)

2018:

  • WHODO feat. Lola Rhodes - Catching Fire (Nick Havsen Remix)

2021:

  • Nick Havsen, Jetty Rachers, EMKR - Hypernova (VIP Mix) [Intensity Recordings]
  • David White - Rave Memories (Nick Havsen Edit) [Lord Of The Rave]
  • MaRLo feat. Monica Santucci - Colder (Nick Havsen Remix) [Reaching Altitude]

2022:

  • Nick Havsen & SE3K - Warning (Nick Havsen & Greg Katona Remix) [Reaching Altitude]
  • Beatmad & EyeMad feat. Rey Khan - Unusable (NicK Havsen Remix) [Reaching Altitude]
  • MatricK feat. Jessie Lee Thetford - Phoenix (Nick Havsen Remix) [Reaching Altitude]
  • MaRLo - Rise As One (Nick Havsen Remix) [Reaching Altitude]
  • Nick Havsen & XanTz - The Awakening (Nick Havsen & Greg Katona Remix) [Reaching Altitude]
  • MatricK & Achilles (OZ) - Control (Nick Havsen & Van Snyder Remix) [Reaching Altitude]

Unofficial Releases

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Havsen is also an avid remixer, frequently releasing unofficial remixes and even original tracks for free on his YouTube channel.[14]

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2023:

  • Tujamo feat. Kid Ink - Drop That Low (Nick Havsen & GRYM Festival Mix)

2024:

References

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  1. ^ "NICK HAVSEN: Information". Beatport.
  2. ^ "Nick Havsen".
  3. ^ a b "Székelyföldi községből indult, a legnagyobb elektronikus zenei fesztiválok színpadáig jutott – Nick Havsen DJ-producerrel beszélgettünk: Information". Főtér. 28 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Biografie · Nick Havsen · Torzsa Hunor · DJ: Information". Partyflock. 24 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike sign massive banger from Grimix & Nick Havsen". 12 January 2020.
  6. ^ "DV & LM sign Nick Havsen & Atom Panda's track 'Baby' to their label". 21 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Nick Havsen Discography: Information". FDiscogs. 27 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Nick Havsen Vanitymix 2019-2020 Winter Music Recommend". December 2019.
  9. ^ "Nick Havsen Brings Out the IDs for Breathtaking Live Set in Romania".
  10. ^ "The biggest dream I had was to sign with Smash the House and Revelead - Nick Havsen - Deep Waves Music". 4 September 2022.
  11. ^ "Nick Havsen Makes His Debut on Rave Culture with 'Bigroom is Life'!". 19 December 2022.
  12. ^ "Nick Havsen and Mike Miami Keep the Bangers Flowing with 'Harmonia'!". 4 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Nick Havsen Releases on Beatport". Beatport. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  14. ^ "Nick Havsen". YouTube.