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Chris Lake

Globally recognised as one of the most exciting, forward thinking and cutting edge producers on the scene, Chris Lake's rare ability to create tracks that fuse elements of house, electro and techno has not been lost on his fellow peers. His innovative productions continue to receive wave after wave of support from such luminaries that include Sasha, Danny Howells, Justin Robertson, Sander Kleinenberg and Carl Cox, whilst Pete Tong leads the way in championing the unique sound that has established Chris as one of the world's elite.

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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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Tocadisco

Tocadisco (Spanish for record player) started his DJ career around 1996 at Düsseldorf's Unique Club. A remix of Slam's "Lifetimes" was his breakthrough as producer when the track was voted among the best remixes of the year 2001 in the reader poll of Groove magazine. With "Nobody (Likes the records that I play)" Tocadisco entered the international charts as well as radio and tv rotation lists in 2003.

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Worakls

French whiz kid of 23 years only, Worakls is one of these artists whose music is organic. Stemming from musicians' family, he learns the piano from the age of 3 years. Having studied to the academy, its knowledge goes beyond the electronics, and allows him to create compositions which can’t be defined by a style. His music is powerful, dreamlike and sophisticated. It draws its strength from the synthesis of a multitude of kinds and periods. As if Mozart and Rolling Stones had been made an appointment some years later...

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Traxx

Chicago born and bred Melvin Oliphant aka Traxx is known for constructing the "jakbeat" sound -- "a turbo-charged take on old school acid and Chicago house for the '00s put together with the unmistakeable tones of classic analogue gear such as the TR-909, TR-808, and, of course, the TB-303". Traxx himself talking about this phenomenon:
"It's a truly separate genre in its own right... the reason is because jakbeat is influenced from not just by techno and house...

Read more about Traxx on Last.fm.

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