Oliver Portamento GAWP

Oliver has dedicated his life to music for the last 25 years. As a fully fledged artist under the alias ‘GAWP' he has had his music released through a number of highly regarded record labels which translated into DJ shows all over the world. In 2019 he toured the U.S with Oliver Heldens, recently remixed numerous records for Idris Elba the actor and released on his 7.Wallace imprint, headlined a tour of Australia and performed numerous shows throughout Europe including one at the infamous ‘Printworks' in London.​

Oliver has a host of experience in a workshop environment, teaching production and DJ’ing globally with well established bodies including Ibiza and Australia - Orbit Music Retreats, Los Angeles I/O Academy, Mixtank, and Sonic Academy. He has led 1-2-1 and group sessions with Young People for North Yorkshire County Council, workshops for the disadvantaged and Residential Team Building courses for young people. As well as working in West Yorkshire alongside Life Experience, Trinity College, Dj School UK setting up various workshops and music curricular programmes.​

During the course of Olivers music career he also worked as part of the initial team at www.thisisdistorted.com as a senior producer, creating and producing some of the most prolific radio shows and podcasts worldwide. He was a key part in the initial growth of ‘Distorted’ which is now the biggest electronic dance music production and podcast companies.​

For the past few years Oliver has been working with many high profile clients writing music, recording, mixing, mastering, sound designing and sample pack/preset creating for the likes of Sony Music, Numskull Games, Radio 1, Splice, Loopmasters, Example, 220kid, Utah Saints, Hayla, X-Ray Ted and Bam (Jungle Brothers) to name a couple... All at his studio spaces in the Centre of Leeds, Under the name 'Most Wanted Audio' at Crown House, 94 Armley Road.