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Sandy Warez

The serious start of Sandy comes in 1995, there is a club called “La Grange (Charente Maritime France)” that offers him a residency, he spins there every day from June to September 1995.

During this event he meets David Duriez (private la Grange resident).
From October to November 1995 they start to work together on an hardcore project which has been released on a label in Antwerp called ZOMBIE Records in January 1996.
Meanwhile Sandy has another residency in a club called Café Face, which is also owned by the chief of “La Grange”.

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Razor

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) A Canadian thrash metal band.
2) A grime/garage MC from the UK.
3) A German hard techno artist.
4) A thrash metal band from Argentina. 1) Razor is a Canadian band formed in 1984 at Guelph, Ontario. The group shot music videos for songs such as "Evil Invaders", "Shotgun Justice", "American Luck" and "Sucker for Punishment". The band dissolved in 1992, but reformed in the late 1990's to record another album, titled "Decibels", in 1997.

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Eric Sneo

Eric Sneo started collecting electronic instruments and Synthesizers with the age of 12. After he studied audio-engineering at SAE Frankfurt, he began his work as producer and soundengineer at beatdisaster studios germany.
1992 he started Djing and 1997 he became resident in one of the biggest techno clubs in germany: the palazzo. Also he played big festivals and clubs like: Nature One (2002), U60311 Frankfurt, Cherrymoon, Mayday Belgium, Kashmir Budapest etc.

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Rackitt

Rackitt, rak’et, n. A confused din; clamour; the bat used in tennis, &c. ; make a racket; to frolic! Rackitt’s involvement in the dance scene has spanned over a whole decade. An early introduction to acid house in the late 80’s soon turned into a passion and almost immediately she started to learn to DJ. 1996 saw her play her first gigs on the free party scene with support from Acid Techno stalwarts, Aaron and Chris Liberator, both of whom introduced her to the Immersion sound system crew.

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Zatox

Gerardo Roschini is one of the best known producers of Unite Records. Working hard in his studio, his productions are in every djs case. Producing under many names as: Supaboyz, Smashing Guys, Ironblood and Machinehead, his biggest hit was Zairon - I Am Techno.
He also regularly teams up with other producers, making duos such as Tat & Zat (Tatanka & Zatox) Act & Zat, Wild Motherfuckers, ZTX and even Zatox & The Prophet.

Read more about Zatox on Last.fm.

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Ophidian

1) Ophidian is Conrad Hoyer, a hardcore producer from Gelderland, Netherlands. Using keyboards and cassette recorders Conrad Hoyer started recording his first songs and mixes in 1993, 11 years old (born september first 1981) at the time. By 1995 hardcore music had become very infuential for the Dutch youth and he started using computer software to write hardcore songs. With the artists of the Ruffneck label as main lead he worked on perfecting his technique, specialising in fast, breakbeat-orriented juno-sound hardcore.

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DJ Sketchy Steve

Sketchy Steve is a Brighton based DJ. He has changed his preferred style from Psy Trance to Techno recently and is a promoter for Sicknote a Brighton based techno night. Influences include Carl Falk, Ritchie Hawtin, Dave The Drummer, T Rex, NIN, David Moleon and Ministry. Currently has a 9-12 Monday slot on upfrontdance.net, a local dance music radio station.

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