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Promo

Sebastian Hoff a.k.a. Promo was born on the 12th of April 1976, and started mixing soon after ;).
When he was 19 years old, he already had a hit on the compilation album Thunderdome IX - The Revenge Of The Mummy, his alias being Section-8 (together with The Prophet). A second hit was a remix of the song "Don't Speak" by No Doubt, but he mainly produced this track to bully his brother who played in a rockband.

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Tommyknocker

Tomasso Marra (Tommyknocker) was born in Italy on january the 20th 1977.
Tommyknocker starts his career in 1994 when he begins performing in some 'illegal' parties which are organized in Rome.
From '95 to '97 he collaborates with the “Virus staff” of Freddy K, and he is Resident Dj of a few discotheques like "06" and after "Oxygen" (the first hardcore club of Rome).
He even takes part to a radio show called "Hardcore Play" where he works as director together with Freddy. From '97 to '99 he plays in the biggest hardcore parties of Rome.

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Catscan

Catscan started producing music a few years ago on his Amiga with Protracker. After sending a demo to ID&T, the A&R manager advised him to buy more professional equipment. One year later Catscan returned with a new demo and ID&T decided to release his first 12" on Thunderdome records. Through ID&T Bart got in contact with DJ Promo and they worked together on a few tracks. After ID&T stopped pressing hardcore records, Catscan joined Promo at the Third Movement. With The Third Movement, Catscan had his own label called: Catscan Limited.

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Evil Activities

Although Evil Activities nowadays 'officially' consists only out of Kelly van Soest (after Telly Luyks left the group in 2003), two new members have joined this project: - Michael Kramer (alias DJ Dazzler) -> MC
- Niels van Hoeckel (alias Chaosphere) -> Keyboard However, they are only part of the live-act crew (during performance on stage). In the studio, Evil Activities is only Kelly van Soest.

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Asylum

This name can refer to many different bands. An artist better known as L Double, Drum and Bass DJ and producer who released records on Goldie's label Metalheadz. HC-Metal band from Krakow, Poland. Death/thrash metal band from Sweden. Thrash Metal band from Auckland, New Zealand. Noise / Hardcore Techno / Speedcore From Newcastle, Australia. Releases music on Drillbits Noise Machine Label Gothic/horror band from Finland. From same author as Banquet Of Illusion. Hungarian metal band with only woman members (four women).

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Day-Mar

When DaY-már was 14 years old, she started listening to a lot of music. She liked lots of different styles, but especially dance-music, the styles that had a hard bass. When she turned 16 she also started visiting a lot of party's and she enjoyed watching the DJ's while they were spinning their records very much. DaY-már never could have guessed that she would be doing the same thing some years later…

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Amnesys

Dario discovered for the first time hardcore and techno music when he was 11 through the famous radio program VIRUS ran by Freddy K.
From that moment he started to listen constantly the radio program recording a lot of tapes and 1 year later Dario bought the first record (try to make it harder e.p.).
In the same period he discovered to have some softwares to create music and without to think he started to create hardcore and techno tracks for pastime with an old Pc (Pentium 1).

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Counterfeit

There are 3 artists by this name: 1) Kevin Van Den Brink a hardcore/darkcore producer from Holland. 2) A band from Lyon (France) with a progressive rock influenced by Tool, Isis, Neurosis.
Official website <a href="http://www.counterfeit-band.com" rel="nofollow">www.counterfeit-band.com</a> 3) A British synth pop trio releasing The Good Samaritan / Four Years on Creation Records in 1989. Members : Heath Taylor, Lee McFadden and Glen Wisbey (also of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Blue+October" class="bbcode_artist">Blue October</a>) 4) A hardcore punk band who made a record with <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Apathemy" class="bbcode_artist">Apathemy</a>.

Noize Suppressor

Noize Suppressor is an Italian Hardcore-Gabber artist and DJ duo.They started in 1996 after sending a demo tape to D-Boy Records, which was received by Ronnie Lee. The Italian team of Noize Suppressor is formed by Alessandro Dilillo, also known as DJ Bike, and Stefano Soprani (DJ Dek).

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Unexist

Italian Hardcore DJ & Producer.
Unexist breaths and lives hardcore. ‘Unleash the Brutality’ he calls it in his own words. "Hardcore makes me lose my anger, pain and aggression. It’s an addiction that’ll never go away". Francesco is always busy developing his characteristic Unexist-sound. Under his alias DJ Jappo, he scored (together with DJ Lancinhouse) a big hit with EXLXAXL which was released on The Real Motherfuckers E.P.. He made Industrial Strength Records a succesful company. He produced and played together with dj phenomenons like Lenny Dee, Horrorist, The, Promo and Manu Le Malin.

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