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Zany

DJ Zany is rightly known as a veteran of the dance scene, with over ten years of experience at the turntables. Raoul van Grinsven, who lives near Eindhoven , the city of lights, is currently a fulltime DJ/producer, after having worked on the side for ten years in a record shop. He started his career in the hardcore world, working between times with techno and trance, and has had many hits in the top 10, under various aliases. For the last few years, he has been concentrating on hardstyle.

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Vazard

Real Name: Stewart Edwards British born, Australian raised. Vazard crept out of the bedroom and began his musical career back in 2008, placing in the grand final of the 3D DJ comp in Melbourne. Since then he has gone from strength to strength in both his performances and production. With a strong focus on his productions, Vazard describes his sounds as diverse and true to himself.
Tough, hard and driving is the key focus to his productions, combining influences from the early days of hardstyle to the fresh crunch of today.

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A*S*Y*S

A*S*Y*S (Acid Save Your Soul), is the alias of German producer/DJ Frank Ellrich. Frank Ellrich has long been an icon of the hard edged scene, however it is his ability to evolve and remain at the very cutting edge that has seen him rise above many of his contemporaries- Frank is unquestionably hard dance royalty. Although cutting his teeth alongside Kai Tracid as part of the Tracid Traxxx mafia, Frank has since spread his wings aligning himself with the Straight On Black crew from Holland.

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Waverider

There are 2 bands under the name WaveRider currently active. 1)WaveRider is François Giroux from Montreal and he started releasing his music under this name on the net in 2004. Drawing from diiverse influences, but mainly from dub and electro, WaveRider's music is a blend of electronic grooves and experimental techno. WaveRider has received some radio airplay in Canada on electronic music shows, and has a following on the internet since he started.

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Hellsystem

Giorgio Coniglione started to listen to techno/hardcore music in 1991. In 1998 he moved to Rome, bought a PC and began to make music on it. In 2002 he sent a demo cd to Hardcore Blasters, his tracks were good enough to be released on his first E.P Beat Motherfucker EP. To make his tracks he use only a simple PC without any other instuments.

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Frontliner

a.k.a Abject Real name: Barry Drooger A Dutch Hardstyle producer, started producing from the age of 11, together with his best mate Scope. Mostly trance, but from the age of 17 he started first producing hardstyle under the name of Drone. And the name Abject when he was 18.
Abject got a girlfriend and he left producing for what it was for 3 years. After he broke up, he picked up producing again.

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Crypsis

(Crypsis, the metal band can be found here Crypsismetal ) Crypsis, who is also known as Grzegorz Luzynski, was born in Zielona Gora (Poland), in 1985. When he was 6, his parents decided to go to Holland, to Denekamp to be precise. As a kid, he always saw the dj's from then behind the wheels of steel. This made this much impression, that he wanted to stand there too. After alot of savings, he could afford his first DJ-Set. He bought alot of records, but at a point, he wanted more. So he started producing records himself.

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DJ Isaac

Roel "DJ Isaac" Schutrups was born in Winschoten in the northern part of Holland on June 8th 1974. He started his music career as a remixer for Dutch radio stations with an oldschool tape recorder and a small Casio sampler. Through the years he bought new and better equipment and started to develop his own unique style of production which resulted in his first record called "Bad Dreams" which was released in 1995 and became a huge Dutch hardcore techno hit. DJ Isaac started deejaying as well and became one of the pioneers of Dutch hardcore techno.

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