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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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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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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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Noisecontrollers

Noisecontrollers consists of 2 fulltime producers: Bas Oskam and Arjan Terpstra. Founded in 2005 both with a totally different musical background but with a great preference for Hardstyle (in every shape that is). Their First release was on DJS-Records called “Wanna Freak You” and their second release “Creatures” already on the big Fusion Records. In 2007 their popularity grew strong and they started to perform their live act (including their own MC.

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Code Black

Code Black (real name Corey Soljan) is a hardstyle producer from Sydney, Australia. He came to prominence with Sam Gonzalez (also known as Audiofreq) in the hardstyle collaboration known as Bioweapon. When Bioweapon fell apart in 2010, Corey went on producing under the name Code Black (although he originally used the name Inverse, while Gonzalez was named Orbit1), while Sam still kept using Bioweapon as a name and later introduced a new nickname, Audiofreq (rd. Audiofreak). He is one of the many upcoming hardstyle talents in the world with the popularity of hardstyle rapidly rising.

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Toneshifterz

Toneshifterz, aka Elie & Olcay, is an upcoming hardstyle project from Sydney, Australia. They are signed to Fusion Records, home to famous hardstyle artists like Zany, Noisecontrollers and Donkey Rollers. Their first tracks are called Sahara and Rock Tha Place. They also teamed up with Noisecontrollers, with the track Jaydee as a result. They have also recently released a preview of their new collaboration with Bioweapon: Future of Noize.

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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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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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Zatox

Gerardo Roschini is one of the best known producers of Italian Hardstyle. Working hard in his studio, his productions are in every djs case. Producing under many names as: Supaboyz, Smashing Guys, Ironblood and Machinehead, his biggest hit was Zairon - I Am Techno.
He also regularly teams up with other producers, making duos such as Tat & Zat (Tatanka & Zatox) Act & Zat, Wild Motherfuckers, ZTX and even Zatox & The Prophet. Zatox releases primarily on Ipnotika / Wicked Records.

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