I have been into electronic music since 1991. Been DJing since 1995, back then for little more than a cab ride home. Grew up in London, UK promoting parties and earning my rites of passage. I relocated to Amsterdam in 20…

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RUN DMT’s sound reflects a torrid love affair with heavy basslines, thunderous beats, and haunting melodies. Formed in Austin, TX in the summer of 2010, RUN DMT approached heavy bass music without borders; touching on Du…

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Brothers Juan Conchas and Fernando Conchas, known as the Electronic Dance Music duo OMG & ShockWave. Started their musical careers back in 2004 producing Hip Hop and Pop music as the Production Duo (Ace and Wan-C "Justbe…

“The hardest-working motherfucker in Chicago” — Stool Pigeon “a virtual walking encyclopedia of the last 30 years of dance music” — XLR8R “If anyone shows the world that dance music truly is in a state of permanent…

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DJ/producer Oro11 is co-founder of the equatorially inclined Bersa Discos label, renowned Tormenta Tropical parties, and half of the burgeoning Banana Clipz production outfit collaborating with artists such as Delorean, …

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King Midas Sound, Techno Animal/Ice/God (with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu), Razor X Productions (with The Rootsman & various M.C’s), Pressure, Ladybug, the man behind Pathological Records, compiler of various compi…

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Brooklyn by way of Chicago based DJ and producer, Brenmar, represents a strange musical paradox. Somehow defying the odds, he marries the artificial gloss of commercial R’n’B with the urban grittiness of underground styl…

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Los Rakas is comprised of cousins Raka Rich + Raka Dun, pioneering Panamanians by way of the Bay Area on the frontier of new Latin urban music. Known for their fresh mix of hip-hop, plena, reggae and dancehall music with…

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Brooklyn selector Dubbel Dutch is impervious to the crutches of genres, though a student of many of them. An accomplished producer of cosmic tone poems and club anthems from the abyss, many claim his now classic Throwbac…

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In the past year, Brooklyn DJ/producer Dre Skull has done an incredible amount. He executed and produced an entire album with dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel; called Kingston Story, the record shot to the top of dancehal…

Producer/DJ DallasK has come a long way since his fourth grade self was “buying Ibiza trance mixes.” ”Once I started hearing the new wave of electronic music like MSTRKRFT and Justice, that’s when I decided that this was…

Hailing from Montreal, QC, Charlie Darker is poised to take over. Yes, he's received accolades from some of the top producers in the industry, including Tiësto, Hardwell, Zedd, Porter Robinson, and Madeon. Yes, at only 2…

From his (recent) beginnings as a dorm-room producer at Georgia Tech, uploading tracks to Soundcloud as a hobby, to being the first signing to Wolfgang Gartner’s Kindergarten Records, Ralf Popescu never imagined that ele…

“I have to make something that’s never been made before; have to make the best thing that I’ve ever done in my life - otherwise it gets stagnant or worse,” says producer/DJ Wolfgang Gartner. Whether or not his progressiv…

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Quit Together is more or less the documentation of the duo's primary reactions to each other's sounds. Between the two of them, influences range from early-mid 90s Hip-Hop and Trip Hop, DJ Screw, Joy Division, Nina Simon…

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Crafting dreamy synthpop since 2010, Brothertiger, AKA John Jagos, aims to capture the beauty and awe of life in his music. He released his first full-length, Golden Years, with great success on Mush Records in 2012, and…

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Kool Thing began as the duo of Julie Chance and Jon Dark, originally from Dublin and Sydney, respectively, who met in Paris in 2010 at some side-street dive bar where Chance was DJing. The girls quickly noticed their ove…

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Joywave is a Rochester, NY indie pop band. The band released its first track “Golden State” on January 4th, 2011 via its website, and followed up with their 77777 Mixtape in March 2011. The collection is a complex arrang…

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TEEEL (Jim Smith) is a electronic music producer/songwriter from New Jersey, founder of Synth Records (Synthemesc Recordings) and iheartsynths.com. Inspired by the 80s new wave movement, Teeel credits his sound to marath…