Although Evil Activities nowadays 'officially' consists only out of Kelly van Soest (after Telly Luyks left the group in 2003), two new members have joined this project: - Michael Kramer (alias DJ Dazzler) -> MC
- Niels van Hoeckel (alias Chaosphere) -> Keyboard However, they are only part of the live-act crew (during performance on stage). In the studio, Evil Activities is only Kelly van Soest.
Noize Suppressor is an Italian Hardcore-Gabber artist and DJ duo.They started in 1996 after sending a demo tape to D-Boy Records, which was received by Ronnie Lee. The Italian team of Noize Suppressor is formed by Alessandro Dilillo, also known as DJ Bike, and Stefano Soprani (DJ Dek).
At an early age Bas Oskam aka Kasparov started his interest in electronic music. When he was 16 he started making music with ft2 and later on with skaletracker. As a producer he was interested in all electronic music but hardcore soon got his attention. Nothing can be compared with hardcore, it's technical and rough. After a few years, not producing much, he decided to start with a pro sequencer, synthesizers, etc in 2005. The new gear opened new doors. The first release came; The Kasparov - Black Noise 12" and he remixed the famous Masoko Solo - Pessa Pessa in the beginning of 2006.
Tomasso Marra (Tommyknocker) was born in Italy on january the 20th 1977.
Tommyknocker starts his career in 1994 when he begins performing in some 'illegal' parties which are organized in Rome.
From '95 to '97 he collaborates with the “Virus staff” of Freddy K, and he is Resident Dj of a few discotheques like "06" and after "Oxygen" (the first hardcore club of Rome).
He even takes part to a radio show called "Hardcore Play" where he works as director together with Freddy. From '97 to '99 he plays in the biggest hardcore parties of Rome.
When DaY-már was 14 years old, she started listening to a lot of music. She liked lots of different styles, but especially dance-music, the styles that had a hard bass. When she turned 16 she also started visiting a lot of party's and she enjoyed watching the DJ's while they were spinning their records very much. DaY-már never could have guessed that she would be doing the same thing some years later…
You have artists with that unique special talent, Robert alias Dyprax is one of those artists. The moment Masters of Hardcore received his demo they knew they had encountered something special and they needed to act fast.
Within months the Dyprax productions got played by all major hardcore artists and received the praise of the people on the dancefloor.
With already a release on the worlds biggest hardcore label and an international scheduled agenda this is the new hardcore revelation.
Mathijs Maas aka Re-Style was born on 13th March 1986 in Middelburg, Zeeland, Holland. He quickly became a fan of the hardcore scene, but it didnt stop at just listening to the music. At a young age Mathijs started to produce his own music at home which quickly advanced to a high quality level which enabled him to send his demo's to the infamous label Masters Of Hardcore. With the help of Bass-D & Outblast for his mastering & mixing skills, he was able to release his 1st record with Bass-D & King Matthew - Land Of Hardcore at the age 16.
Marco Collini was born on the 9th of March 1983 in Campobasso and he always liked music, he started to love electronic music when he was child, and in 2000 he listened for the first time hardcore music in a compilation of that period (Extreme 2000) and he loved it at the first listening. In 2002 Marco bought his first turntables and started to improve his skills in deejaying, but in his city unfortunately there wasn't hardcore music, and he must go to Rome to buy Vinyls and CD's...
Art of Fighters started out in Brescia (Italy) in 1997, from the idea of 3 guys: Cristian Nardelli, Matteo Pitossi and Luca Lorini. Thanks to FastTracker, 3 years of try-outs, tons of rejected tracks and the big help of the Stunned Guys, the first record The Beat Can't Change came to life in the year 2000. In 2001 their second E.P. Artwork appeared in the stores, definately putting them on the map of hardcore. Their tracks appeared on many compilations and their fame began to expand.
Dario discovered for the first time hardcore and techno music when he was 11 through the famous radio program VIRUS ran by Freddy K.
From that moment he started to listen constantly the radio program recording a lot of tapes and 1 year later Dario bought the first record (try to make it harder e.p.).
In the same period he discovered to have some softwares to create music and without to think he started to create hardcore and techno tracks for pastime with an old Pc (Pentium 1).