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Fritz Kalkbrenner, brother of the Berlin-based <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Kalkbrenner" class="bbcode_artist">Paul Kalkbrenner</a>, grew up in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg, which is full of projects, sadness and desolation. It’s the nineties – nothing to do but lots to fuck up. And for most of the people from that time and that corner of the world there is nothing more important than first of all: hanging around, killing time and second: music, music, music.

There are two artists with this name. 1. From the first time he heard a DJ beat-mix acid house in 1987, Thomas Schumacher immediately knew that he wanted to be a part of dance music culture. With a strong foundation in Detroit techno and House, Thomas has been an active - and eclectic - producer and DJ for over 15 years, and is one of the leading players on the international DJ circuit. His international breakthough came on legendary techno label Bush Records in 1998 with the track “When I Rock”;...

Claude VonStroke is a tech-house/electro-house producer based in San Francisco, California. "Claude VonStroke" is better known to locals as Barclay Crenshaw, the owner of San Francisco's avant-house label, dirtybird. The Dirtybird label consists of Crenshaw (VonStroke) fellow producer Justin Martin, and a wide assortment of top remixers from around the globe such as John Tejada, Sammy D, Jesse Rose, and Frankie. In 2005, Dirtybird released a series of daring and creative singles that were played by everyone from Richie Hawtin to Damian Lazarus and received top marks from all the DJ magazines.

Forget tulips and windmills… Bart B More is well on his way to being Holland’s finest export! Over the last few years Bart has been bubbling under in the Dutch scene with a refreshing sound that blends big room electro and jackin’ beats… now with his forthcoming Toolroom Trax release “So It Goes” garnering the support of such big names as Nic Fanciulli and James Zabiela, and being crowned ‘Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune’ on BBC Radio 1, this hot talent is the toast of the wider dance scene, reaching music fans across the globe.