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Juno Reactor

Juno Reactor is an electronic psytrance group, often known for its world fusion influences and consisting of Ben Watkins and Mike Macguire. At one time or another, Juno Reactor also included Johann Bley, stephen holweck and Jens Waldenback. Juno Reactor was formed in 1990 by Ben Watkins and Stephen Holweck. The group came together as an experimental ambient project in order to record an accompanying soundtrack to sculpture artist (and Watkins' girlfriend) Norma Fletcher's art installation and performance piece called "The Missile Project".

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Arjun Vagale

Arjun Vagale is undoubtedly the most hardworking and prolific DJ in the Indian EDM scene. Having spent over a decade in an ongoing love affair with house music, he tirelessly promotes the genre in all ways possible, shuffling between a hectic DJ schedule, a super-successful live act, long studio sessions, running a promising record label, and moonlighting as a promoter.

Arjun Vagale on Last.fm.

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Procs

Procs is Mikael Stegman from Stockholm, Sweden. He was born in 1979 and in his early years in school his first music teacher let him play the piano on the breaks. This soon led him into taking piano lessons and he started playing classical music. In the beginning of the 90s he got his first keybord and also a new soundcard which was delivered together with an old DOS based sequencer. He started trying to make all kinds of music with this sequencer, altough, no trance or techno. The only electronic music he heard so far was Jean Michel Jarre, which he was very inspired by in the beginning.

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Steve Haines

Steve is fast becoming an in-demand producer and has been busy in the studio remixing for a broad range of artists including Stonebridge, Will Bailey and Reza. He has also remixed alongside Russell G (Blackhole records) for labels including the legendary Baroque and Whoop records. Along with underground success from tracks such as ‘Takin u Back’ and his remix of Sanfernando Sound’s ‘For you black heart’ which reached dizzy heights in the DJ Download chart, Steve has also gained worldwide recognition on a commercial level with the vocal house anthem ‘Be with you’.

Read more about Steve Haines on Last.fm.

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Burn in Noise

Burn in Noise (Gustavo Manfroni Amaral de Souza) was born in Brazil. He was brought up dedicating his time and interest completely to music. He's been playing the guitar since his early days. He played in 2 rock bands, up to the day when, during a trip to London, got in touch with the psychedelic trance music. The interest in electronic music grew fast and, in the end of 1999, started buying softwares for producing music.

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Jai

Self-described as "a mod for the hip-hop generation," Jai grew up in the same British village as PJ Harvey and played in a trio whose other two members later formed her first backing band. Born Jason Rowe in Yeovil, England, he was inspired by a variety of musical sources both modern (Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, Public Enemy) and classic (Marvin Gaye, Burt Bacharach). Rowe began playing with a pop band, but when his mates left him to play with PJ Harvey, he moved to London and met up with guitarist/producer Joel Bogen while at a club.

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