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Theo Parrish

Theo Parrish grew up on Chicago house parties. He went to art school in Kansas City, and then moved to Detroit. His eclectic DJ sets in Detroit in the late '90s and early in this millennium are legendary. "Love of the music should be the driving force of any producer, performer or DJ. Everything else stems from that core, that love. With that love, sampling can become a tribute; An expansion on ideas long forgotten, reconstruction, collage.

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Fritz Kalkbrenner

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.

Nadastrom

Nadastrom(ˈnä-dəˈstrȯm) - Established 2007: The collective brainchild of Washington, D.C. natives Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom. Emerging duo experiencing significant buzz. i.e. The debut release from Nadastrom sold out on vinyl and became a digital store annual bestseller. As a longtime resident of Spin Magazine’s “Best Party in America”, Taxlo, Dave Nada perfected his in-demand dance floor sensibility, combining elements of dance, hip hop, and punk rock. Not long after that he was touring the world with well-respected DJs like DMC champ DJ Craze, DJ Ayres, and Tittsworth.

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Paul van Dyk

Grammy nominated artist and globally acclaimed DJ and Producer Paul van Dyk continues to dominate the electronic music charts and appears at the pinnacle of every Top DJ list across the globe. His fifth original album In Between was released August 2007 and features collaborations with David Byrne and Jessica Sutta. PvD is renowned as one of the hardest working artists, with sold-out tours that cross each continent, headline spots at every major festival, and a hugely successful recording career.

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Logo

There are four bands and one podcast called Logo. One from the Netherlands, one from London, England, one from Riga, Latvia, one from Makarska, Croatia, and one from the American Television channel Logo from the Netherlands is an new pop, rock band that has many influences from Radiohead, dEUS and Millionair. Logo from Croatia is rock band with many blues influences. Logo is an LGBT American television channel that has a comedy podcast.

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.

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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Erol Alkan

Erol Alkan is a London-based Turkish electro DJ. He was resident DJ and co-founder of London club Trash, and still has a hand in the running of its successor Durrr. He released a series of mash-ups using the alias Kurtis Rush in the early 2000s. Erol also uses the alias Mustapha 3000, and is half of the psychedelic rock act Beyond The Wizards Sleeve. At 2010 he was acclaimed to be the best DJ of the world in year 2009 according to UK's TOP Magazine.

Seth Troxler

As a comparable youth on the scene, Seth Troxler's achievements far outweigh his tender age of 22. His Detroit roots are unmistakable and his recent relocation to Berlin has already earned him a place in the elite of the European techno scene. Seth's musical influences include the chirping of crickets, the whirring of space ships, and the sweet sounds of whistling voodoo magic. With much-hyped and played releases on revered labels such as Spectral, Wagon Repair and M_nus, each join the dots of his distinctive sexy techno sound.

Sidney Samson

Sidney Samson (born 2 October 1981) is a Dutch disc jockey and dance musician. Samson started DJ'ing at the age of 14, focusing on hip-hop music before working seriously on house music. He is a DJ at The Matrixx, a major Dutch nightclub and released "Bring That Beat Back" and "It’s all funked up" on the digidance and Spinnin' Records labels respectively. His most popular song "Riverside", was released in 2009, which reached No. 2 on the U.K Charts, No. 8 on the Dutch Top 40 and No. 10 on the Australian ARIA Charts.

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