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http://www.myspace.com/tannerrossbeats Tanner Ross aka Marcel Wave Tanner Ross has risen quickly to shine amidst the hot lights and fast life of the international dance music scene. Born and bred in New Jersey, Tanner moved to Boston to study sound synthesis at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in 2005. His experiences at Berklee drove him deeper and deeper into the underground dance music scene.

Homecut Directive, the North of England's best kept Hip-Hop secret, released their debut single "Come The Revolution" (featuring Corinne Bailey-Rae) in March 2004 after five years of gigging, recording, freestyling and generally "putting the hip in Hip-Hop" (North Guide). Over the years this six-man live Hip-Hop crew have developed one of the UK's finest live shows, supporting Black Twang, People Under The Stairs, Fingathing & Ty. With regular shows at The Hifi Club in Leeds & Sheffield's Tuesday Club, Homecut are currently recording new material for release in 2007.

A native of Santiago, Martin Schopf has lived in Germany since the late '80s, taking an active role in the scene and contributing to labels such as Pete Namlook's Fax and Atom Heart's Rather Interesting. Whether as Dandy Jack or in a number of collaborative projects (Ric y Martin, Gonzalo Martinez), Schopf hopes to intensify the link between electronic music and Latin sound. With Frankfurt's Pink Elln, he records under the name Sieg Über Die Sonne...

There are at least two artist with name Makoto: 1. Based in Tokyo, Makoto Shimizu, better known as simply Makoto, is Japan's chief Drum & Bass ambassador. After completing an Acoustic Engineering major at Nippon University, Makoto first signed with LTJ Bukem's legendary Good Looking Records back in 1999.
Since then he has gone from strength to strength, releasing a long string of quality music in the form of singles and EP's, but also on the famous 'Earth' and 'Progression Sessions' compilation albums.