It has been a very busy time for Eddie Richards, dance music’s quintessential pioneer and "Britain’s godfather of house and techno" (Mixmag). One of the first DJs to champion house back in the mid 8O’s & one of the UKs original mix DJs residing at London’s Camden Palace, voted ’best club in the world’, (R.M.) Eddie Richards became a key figure in a new music and cultural movement soon to explode worldwide. After playing at such influential and original underground clubs as Clink St. & Heaven in London and Manchesters Hacienda, he went one to headline legendary pay parties’ Sunrise. Energy. and Helter Skelter among countless others. Remix and production work led to the release of club classics; ’Acidman’ in ’88 which hit National Top 20, followed by other chart topping remixes of Ralphi Rosario, Orbital and The Shamen. Since the mid 80s Eddie Richards has been included in virtually every book, documentary and film on the dance culture and sought after all over the world for his flawless mix of deep bass driven techno with soulful & tough tribal house, a format he has always maintained, and has led him to be widely regarded as the pioneer of ’tech-house’.
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TIGERSKIN is the alter ego of german producer Alex Krüger aka DUB TAYLOR. He released on labels such as Forcetracks, Morris Audio, Resopal and more recently Highgrade or Oposum...He is with no doubt one of the most respected producers in the global electronic music circuit alongside with his uncountable exceptional live performances that made legendary to many people...
Solidly entrenched in Berlins underground house scene and boasting a growing global following, he plays an important role in shaping and producing numerous tracks and releasing for mostly established dance music labels...
Alex's motivation behind the live p.a. or in the studio has been to always add a new wrinkle to dance music's vibrant fabric.
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Dj & Producer Dave DK (aka David Krasemann) has been making waves in the electronic music scene for a couple of years now.
In 1999 he became resident at Tresor in Berlin (RIP), and later also at the legendary Panorama Bar.
His sound simply is the result of different styles that have influenced him throughout the years. "I have a passion for the wide range between house and techno tunes as well as pop music and dancefloor stuff of the early 90's".
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London’s Mark-Henning has risen up as one of the international underground's true players - recording for a volley of acclaimed European labels by night and slaving as a corporate whore by day. But now Mark has freed himself from the 9 to 5 shackles and slog of the city to concentrate on his passion for music full time - ROCK N'ROLL!
Born in 1977 to English and German parents, he has spent most of his life in England, though has never forgotten his German techno roots and has recently relocated to Berlin. Inspired by a whole range of music (from Dan Bell to Dinosaur Jr. to Ed Rush & Optical), Mark-Henning's sound sits somewhere between house and techno, with a healthy dose of futuristic bleeps, funk, darkness, groove and deepness.
Mark has established himself as a player in the scene over the last couple of years, not just through his productions (on labels such as Cynosure, Trapez, Freude am Tanzen, Foundsound, Einmaleins, Frankie, Morris Audio, Safari Electronique, Mo’s Ferry, Milnor Modern), but also through his European-wide performances - mixing up his own clever style of deep, yet jackin' house and techno to get the dancefloor kicking up a sweat. His releases have found their way into the record boxes of the likes of Craig Richards, Brett Johnson, Akufen, Fumiya Tanaka, Ricardo Villalobos and Richie Hawtin to name just a few. Additionally his tracks have been included in compilations such as MANDY's latest Fabric mix and Magda's Minus mix - as well as acheiving airplay on BBC Radio 1's late night underground shows.
Balancing his heavy day job in London with his music wasn't easy, but the hard work over the past few years is beginning to pay off. Mark is now a sought-after producer and remixer in the underground scene and his DJing has taken him all over Europe - all whilst holding down a corporate job in London. Watch out for his debut album on Soma in the summer of 2008 plus more remixes and EPs.. stay tuned!
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It is less than two years since the debutsingle "Electroeleganz" was published on Livelarge Records (2005) and yet the record-companies and producers are lining up to snatch a remix from the guys or even sign a track on their label.
To be sure the big step into publicity Monoroom made the single "Memory Inc." and a massive Gui Boratto Remix, which played itself on playlists or charts of well-known DJs and advanced to a clubhit.
Successful remixes for big labels like Kling Klong Records (Diringer - Flake Escape) or Multicolor Records (Eyerer&Namito - Reel Thing) accrued and Monoroom jiggled into focus. Their credo is still the employment of keyboards, synths and a microphone. This and their own and memorable sound makes them to one of the most demanded liveacts in the country. Their sound is not a mosaic of different samples but convinces because of its rhythm and aesthetics. Thus they construe their own style as a mixture of all techno-genres.
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(REMIXER) This project is something the boys have been working on for most of 4 years now. Starting purely as a production outfit the boys meandered casually through their few productions looking for a sound which they could explore as their own. Throughout the last 3 years they have been developing that sound and their dynamic back-2-back DJ sets. and today Audiofly (and AudioflyX) has a definitive sound easily recognisable as their own, and just starting to appear on the general underground radar. Geddes meanwhile over the last two years has built up one of London’s most established underground nights called ‘Mulletover’. Over the last two years Mulletover have been responsible for introducing Londoners to a different kind of clubbing, their events mainly take place in illegal warehouses across East London.
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(REMIXER) Pablo Bolivar, dj and producer started with music very young, being his first radio editions and dj sets in his natural city, focused on electronic music since 1996. After a good impulse to this kind of music in Santander, he moves to Barcelona searching for new ideas and shapes, playing at clubs and festivals all around Spain, Europe and the rest of the world. In 2003 he won the prize for the most risky proposal at Bilbo-Rock Festival in Bilbao. Definitely he was different...
He produces for Regular label, where in January 2006 released his first LP on his own "Anjanas", a work full of electronic dance tracks and experimental music. We can also find other works under the name of Paper on labels like Minuendo, Software, Bay Street, Pulsewith, Galaktika, Dpress, Justified Cause... and also has made several remixes for different artists.
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Zentrale Randgruppe are Simon Schwendener (Khainz) & Piero Scherer (Mirio) both living in Switzerland. Since the early 90's they both became interested in electronic music and the party-movement around the globe. Some years later they started to produce different styles of music in their home studios. Simon in Buchs (SG) and Piero in Lucern. In 2002 Simon moved to Lucern where they met for the first time. They quickly found that they had common interests in music & production, so they started work together making tunes. Soon they where working together more often and formed the band 'Zentrale Randgruppe'. More news will follow soon...
(REMIXER) Jens Bond is a master of finely balanced rhythms. In his percussion †tracks he brings beats to life like no other – every beat is in place, even the background sounds are carefully arranged to brings the track forward. He brings percussion to perfection. In his youth he was a †drummer and toured with several bands before he got sucked into the †melting-pot Berlin. The solid musical background formed his career as a DJ and Producer and helped him to stay on top of the competition in Germany’s capital City of electronic music. Jens Bond made himself a name as a DJ and producer in Berlin, where he is a resident at the infamous Watergate Club and on several dance floors all around Europe. His hand for the right sound at the right time plus his sixth sense for the right rhythm played their part in his success. His nose for crisp rhythm patterns and his faible for hypnotic melodies make in his own productions stand out. His various releases on Berlin’s most prolific labels as Pokerflat, Sender or Highgrade, not to mention on the English imprint Immigrant Records, speak for themselves. His tracks cum all over the floor with airy funk, without ever being all too functional. It’s no big surprise that Bond belongs to Highgrade core artists, he plays a major part in defining the label’s sound. But that is not all. His releases with Benno Blome (as Bond & Blome) or with Guido Schneider are very popular. His debut with Schneider on Pokerflat - "Oh my buffer" - from back in 2004 still fills the dance floors today. Bond is all but a flash in the pan, his releases are catchy and solid. He keeps us in suspense about his musical future, his mission is far from being accomplished.
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Born in London on Nov 29th 1972, Phivos (Phoebos) was raised in a musical family and it quickly became apparent that the passion had been inherited. By the time he was 11 he had an addiction for synths. As a teenager his taste became more electronically inclined by the success of bands such as Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, John Foxx, Ultravox & Japan. At the age of 16 he already had a basic collection of analog synths/drum machines and had played In a number of bands as a keyboard player. His love of Detroit Techno / Chicago House emerged from going to the early warehouse parties and underground clubs in and around London back in ’88, ’89.
Dexter discovered the sound of acid house at parties organised around London in the late 80's. Nights such as Mad Cats, Sabre Sonics, the RIP parties held in Clink Street; and then later the infamous Wiggle parties, which were to become a major influence in Dexter's sound.
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