Armin van Buuren
Aged just 33, Armin van Buuren has been named number one in the prestigious DJ Top 100 poll three times in a row, in 2007, 2008 and 2009 – voted for by over 350,000 people across the world, and an indication of his prolific output over the 10 years he’s been dj’ing and producing. Being the official World’s Most Popular DJ is just one of his many achievements, but the driving force behind his success is an overriding passion for dance music.
Infected Mushroom
"Infected Mushroom" is an Israeli psychedelic trance (psytrance) DJ/LivePA duo who have attained significant popularity from the late 1990s to the present day. Formed by Erez Aizen (also known as I.Zen) and Amit Duvdevani (also known as Duvdev), in Haifa, Israel, the duo have earned a large international fan base. "Infected Mushroom" are known for their consistent sonic evolution exemplified by their albums: "The Gathering" (1999), "Classical Mushroom" (2000), "B.P.
ARI
Ari Posner composes an eclectic variety of music for series television, feature and documentary films, as well as radio and TV commercials. Originally from Winnipeg, Ari came to Toronto and completed an Honours Fine Arts degree in Music at York University (1989 to 1993). With a strong background in classical and popular piano his studies at York focused on jazz performance, composition and music for film and television under the direction of composer Paul Hoffert.
Vertigo
That soaring melodic tension between guitar and vocal, its bass lines, tinged with longing, and driving yet thoughtful rhythm section make Vertigo one of those rare bands whose offerings of gritty beauty and haunting intensity escape the trap of cliche and affectation. The four-piece band out of Knoxville, Tennessee, marries alt/pop lyricism and well-grounded composition with yearning themes and experimental musicianship, connecting with audiences in electric, deeply personal live performances.
Armand Van Helden
Armand Van Helden is a house music artist and music remixer whose biggest commercial successes came from his remixes of the 1996 Tori Amos song "Professional Widow", which reached the top of the UK singles chart, and his own track "You Don't Know Me" which was Number 1 in the UK in January 1999. Van Helden was born in Boston in 1970 to a Dutch-Indonesian father and a French-Lebanese mother, but travelled around the world as a child spending time in the Netherlands, Turkey and Italy, as his father was a member of the US Air Force.
Wippenberg
The project WIPPENBERG started in 1995 as a simple side-project, with its first release NEURODANCER on the German underground label Hyper Hype Records. OLAF DIECKMANN - a German producer and dj, who made his first steps as a teenager in the early eighties in the EBM scene - created a big and worldwide club-tune with the hymn NEURODANCER, which was f.e. licensed in UK to the genius techno label Prolekult.
Avenger
There are at least 6 bands of this name: 1) Avenger is a Czech black/death band from Volyně (Czech Republic) formed in 1992 by Petr Rámus Mecák. They were formerly known as <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Astaroth" class="bbcode_artist">Astaroth</a> and currently have a side-project called <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Rain" class="bbcode_artist">Black Rain</a>. They released 2 demos (Minster Of Madness; The Black Zone), 4 full length albums (Shadows Of The Damned (1998); Fall Of Devotion, Wrath and Blasphemy(1999); Godless(2003);Feast of Anger - Joy of Despair(2009)), one compilation (Minster Of Madness/The Black Zone(2009), and one live album (Live at Open Hell Fest 2003).
Ingrid
1.) A hardcore duo from DC with two former members of Mass Movement of the Moth. http://www.ingriddc.org/ 2.) Ingrid was named after the famous film star, Ingrid Bergman. Her parents ran a cinema (and still do) and Ingrid grew up watching movies which she says were a major influence on her decision to become a singer. Films sparked her imagination and fuelled her ambition to communicate strong emotions to as many people as possible.
Ceres
1- Ceres is a dance artist from Germany. She was produced by Stephan Distel.
Ceres recorded the album "Deep From My Heart".
From that album were taken the hits "Open Your Heart" and "Inside To Outside.
Musical Team: DJ Pasi, Lemos Rodriguez Nelson and MC. G. Gabriel. 2- Ceres are Marinus Benno De Goeij and Jim Van Maanen. They recorded the single "Ease Your Mind". 3- Ceres is an artist from the Philippines. She wrote her hit "Payong" for a project when she was in school in University of the Philippines Baguio. The project was a movie with the same title.