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Leftfield

Neil Barnes and Paul Daley, inspired by house music's many facets formed the production team of Leftfield, working with several artists who were at the cutting edge of dance music. Leftfield were famous in the studio for their remixes of such artists as Adamski and Detroit house legend Kevin Saunderson's Inner City project. In 1991 their first single, "Not Forgotten" was an instant club hit heard around the world, trademarking their production work on a simple, but cutting edge dance track.

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Darren Emerson

Darren Emerson (born 30 April 1971, in Hornchurch, England) is a dance music DJ, and later joining member of the UK electronic music outfit, Underworld. Emerson began mixing Hip-Hop records at the age of 14, and by 16 was DJing regularly at local venues. He began to explore House Music and quickly acquired a reputation as one of the top British DJs, and demand for his services saw him playing at top clubs such as The Milk Bar, Limelights, and Venus. Darren has garnered several accolades such as "DJ of the Month" in The Face magazine, and also i-D magazine.

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hooks4hands

Forming in 2010, comprising of members in local bands from the north and south of Perth, Western Australia, and sharing a love of Hardcore/Metal/Drum and Bass/Techno and everything electronic, Hooks4Hands teamed up with Drum and Bass producer GPower to fuse hardcore/metal with Electro Drum and Bass on a mission to create an intense hard hitting sonic soundscape a step away from other genres. Having just finished a 5 track demo, Hooks4Hands with their spectacular mask wearing, laser shooting live show will be releasing their debut 10 track album "Ignite Me" in July 2012.

Carl Craig

Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music, and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs. Like many of his peers, Carl Craig has approached techno using inspiration from a wide range of musical genres, including jazz and soul. Carl Craig has released many successful albums under a large number of aliases, such as BFC, Psyche, Paperclip People, 69, Designer Music and Innerzone Orchestra.

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Total Control

1) Total Control was a French punk band in the 90's. 2) A garage rock band featuring members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Straightjacket Nation, UV Race. 3) Total Control is an eurodance act from Germany.

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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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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.

Audiovoid

Lindsey R. Green (a.k.a. Audiovoid / LayerZ) grew up in Healdsburg, a small town in Northern California. From involvement in Death Metal band "Lamia" and journeying to IDM, Techno,Psy-Trance, Breakbeat and Electro. Audoivoid never limits himself to just one genre of music.
Groups like 'The Orb' and 'Art of Noise' were also early influences. In 2002 Lindsey compiled 80 minutes of material from various demos and created his first full length CD, "Twilight Machine". In 2003, Ultra Records nominated him a top finalist for a remix he did of Sasha's 'Wavy Gravy'.

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