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Kris Menace

Kris Menace (born Christophe Höffel) is an electronic musician. He began to work as a producer and writer in the mid 1990s for different projects and started using the pseudonym "Kris Menace" in 2005. Menace is the owner of the house label "Work It Baby". Menace's debut single (in collaboration with Lifelike), Discopolis, was released on Vulture Music in 2005 and was one of the most anticipated house tracks and an Ibiza anthem within the same year. Discopolis was later picked up by Defected Records and re-released with various remixes and a video directed by Seb Janiak.

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Kettel

Kettel is Reimer Eising (born 1982), a self-described "elixir-brewing, camping-loving and musicmaking sorcerer-to-be." He is well-known for his playful, spontaneous melodies and organic folk sounds similar to Aphex Twin, Jega, and Plaid. Kettel has frequently performed live in his home country of the Netherlands, including at the Virus festival in Eindhoven, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam, and at Eurosonic and Noorderzon in his home town of Groningen. He has also collaborated on several projects of various remixes and compilations on his many record labels.

Louis La Roche

Louis La Roche is a French House producer from Norwich, UK. His style is French house/house. Around Valentines Day, a song named "Love" was published many places, saying that Thomas Bangalter made the song. However, Louis La Roche is the real artist behind this song. The album he was working on "I Delete Myself" was apparently scrapped, said by Louis, as he was not happy with the album. He just released an EP titled; "Me & Her" which is a 4 track EP that includes the hit song "Be Brave". It was released under the new label "Ever After Records", Louis is their first signed artist.

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Mr. Flash

Mr. Flash, real name Gilles Bousquet, is a DJ and producer in the French house scene. His work is a mix of hip-hop and house with guitar sounds.
He started producing tracks since 1999 under the name Flash Gordon, featuring many rap artists. He also worked on TTC's album. He found his own label Lust Island in 2001 which only featured his own release Le Voyage Fantastique. After that Busy P, founder of Ed Banger Records, asked him to join his label.

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Madeon

Hugo Leclercq (born May 30, 1994), known by his stage name Madeon, is a self-described "electro-pop-house-whatever" producer from Nantes, France. Leclercq started composing music at the age of 11, and adopted a nu-disco style under the name "Madeon" in 2010. In the fall of that year, at the age of just 16, he gained popularity for his award-winning remix of The Island by Pendulum which was praised by the likes of Skrillex and Pendulum front-man Rob Swire.

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Galleon

There are three known bands using the name Galleon: 1. a progressive rock band hailing from Sweden and
2. a French dance group.
3. a four-piece indie rock group based in Adelaide, Australia. 1. Galleon started as a three piece named Aragon back in ´85 , experimenting with different kind of music and musicians , but never really found the "right" feeling. . . Because Micke Värn, guitars - Göran Fors, bass and Vocals and Dan Fors, drums had the idea , they wanted at least to document their sweat and blood in composing the music they believed in under so many years , just in case . . .

Himan

Himan (Julien Lacroix) was born in France in 1985 and is a DJ / Producer of electronic music. Influenced by the French House of the late 90’s and early 00’s that dominated the music scene in France, he is also inspired by disco, funk and eighties culture. At the age of thirteen, Stardust’s release of “Music Sounds Better With You” began his fascination with music styles composed of samples and filtered loops.

Nicholas

There is more than one artist with the name Nicholas. Nicholas (1) is an Italian house producer from Perugia (b. Nicholas Iammatto) responsible for the series of unofficial releases of edits on the No More Hits italian imprint. He also records under the nicknames Ni and Nims. Nicholas (2) is Nicholas Lemercier (AKA Heartbreaker) He is best known for his collaboration with Demon on the hit track "You Are My High" He was also in the Group 12 Angry Men along with artists like Benoit Bollini, Demon, and Lifelike.

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Acid Jacks

“Coloring the disco floor landscape in hues of awesomeness at the edge of insanity, the ACID JACKS sound has been described as “computers making sweet synthesized digital love whilst driving Ferraris on a beach, at night, in the future.”. In semi-live or DJ format, his magical club & festival stage performances are nothing short of radical to the power of incredible. ACID JACKS is no mere disco car wash for your eardrums, nor just some dirty one night ear sex - ACID JACKS is 2000 % Grade-A Dance Awesomeness. Did you say "Dance"? then you must be thinking: ACID JACKS .”

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Defender

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Defender is a House band from France. This is a one-time collaboration between Alan Braxe, Fred Falke, and Savage. They've released only one mini-EP, called Defender, in 2005 on Vulture Music. It also appears to be the most successful Defender on last.fm. 2) Defender is a Chicago based band. The brainchild of childhood friends Jorge Ledezma (guitars, keyboards) and Gabi Meszaros (bass, keyboards) who began making home recordings and sound collages in the early 90's.

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