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Kenny Larkin

Profile: With the deluge of techno artists from all over the world making headlines, it's easy (although very wrong) to forget that techno was created in Detroit, Michigan by African-American visionaries like Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins and Derrick May. From there Kenny Larkin began his music career in 1990 after serving two years in the U.S. Air Force, where he was repairing computers. Hanging out at local Detroit clubs like The Music Institute and The Shelter, he soon hooked up with Richie Hawtin and John Acquaviva records under a variety of monikers, including Dark Comedy, Pod and Yennek.

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Ryan Davis

Based in his hometown Magdeburg city in Germany, the 24 old guy Ryan Davis is working hard with his friend and label mate Lanny May on creating new sounds. In the age of 9 he started with a classical guitar training till 18.In these years he experienced with sounds from everything wich made a tone. Later he wanted to discover the world of mixing tunes together and become a good dj, but soon he noticed that he had to design his own songs.

Binge & Purge

Binge & Purge is the union of personality and noted DJ Tommie Sunshine and producer Mark Verbos. The two started working together in 1998 in Chicago. Their 2001 debut as Binge & Purge was a doublepack, released on Switzerland's Mental Groove, called "Wait, It's Fantastic." Highly regarded by the press and the big DJs at the time, it sold small numbers. Their only other release, "Take Your Drion Pill," was a collection of left overs and re-edits from the same sessions.

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Frankie & the Heartstrings

Frankie & The Heartstrings are a 5-piece band from Sunderland, Northeast, United Kingdom. Their first single, 'Hunger/Fragile' was released at the beginning of 2010. According to Songfacts, the song title and lyrics of 'Hunger' pay homage to the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun's 1890 semi-autobiographical novel Hunger, which describes a young writer's descent into near madness as a result of famine, poverty and homelessness.

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The Lost Brothers

The Lost Brothers are Mark McCausland and Oisin Leech. They released their debut album 'TRAILS OF THE LONELY (parts I & III)' on November 17th 2008. SInce then they have performed at Glastonbury 09 and played shows with Richard Hawley, M Ward and Jolie Holland. Their album was recorded in Portland, Oregon by MIke Coykendall and Adam Selzer who have worked with artists such as M Ward, Blitzen Trapper and Monsters of Folk. The band are currently working on their second album. http://www.myspace.com/thelostbrothersmusic

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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Jacques Lu Cont

Jacques Lu Cont, born as Stuart Price on Sept. 7 1977, is the same gentleman who brings you Madonna's tour this year (2006), as he is her manager. Reportedly, he has said that the Human League's album 'Dare' inspired his sound the most, as evidenced by the video "Hey You What's That Sound," which looks amazingly like Madonna's "Hung Up." Hmm. He also laid down some sexy beats to her Confessions album...

Robert Babicz

From Cologne, Germany techno producer has recorded a number of records as Rob Acid, Acid Warrior and Department of Dance for Force Inc in the nineties, now he begins releasing under his name since 2004. He also had records released by acid and techno labels such as Important and Labworks and at some point had launched his own label too, Junkfood. His most recent output is a blend of minimal and deep tunes with a lot of care taken for the detail. His mixes feature melodic constructs set, at times, in a more experimental field of electronic sounds which is considered innovative by many.

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Kyson

Kyson is an electronic musician from Adelaide, Australia currently based in Berlin, Germany. Electronic music as a whole is a disparate and ever-changing field – what was once a domain dominated by the big techno and dance record labels, clubs, and distributors is now an irrepressible force which has infiltrated the pop, alternative and hip-hop music, the advertising, and the radio stations that we hear around us, constantly, every day.