It’s heading towards the end of 2008 and Will Holland, now 26 is poised to release his 3rd compilation; the second in the critically acclaimed ‘Digitally Enhanced’ series, whilst his world renowned label, Enhanced Recordings is nearing its 50th release. A lot’s happened in the short career of the young Englishman, who first came to prominence in late 2003 when he made his debuts at UK super-clubs Passion and Goodgreef...
Meet freak no.1 - Itay Avraham (24), and freak no.2 Itay Dangur(27). The Freak Show's secret studios are based in Holon, 500 meters from BNE's headquarters. The freaks have been living and breathing music throughout their lives since early childhood having been raised with music all around them. Much of their inspiration comes from black music and hip hop, with more up to date electro & trance mixing in, reflected in their upcoming tunes.
www.facebook.com/schillermusic / www.schillermusic.com Schiller is one of Germany's leading electronic artists. The multi-Gold and Platinum-awarded project has been created by electronic musician, producer and composer Christopher von Deylen in the tradition of teutonic sound-pioneers. Over the last years the Echo-Award winner and Grammy-Nominee performed more than 100 sold-out concerts - highly acclaimed by the audience and media.
There are two artists going by the name Heatbeat: 1). An Argentine trance duo. Heatbeat Music is formed by 2 young Argentine DJs and producers, Matias Faint (23 years old) and Agustin Servente (21 years old). This duo was created in the middle of 2006. As children, Matias and Agustin were influenced by artists like The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, BT, Judge Jules, Paul van Dyk and more. Their productions range from progressive trance, electro trance, tech-trance, uplifting trance, Nu trance (or also known like Minimal trance).
1) Driftwood is a collaboration of three dutch producers: Ron van Kroonenburg, Thijs Ploegmakers and Dirk Jans. Three fanatics who generated a huge response with their first release 'Freeloader'. Several big names in the international dance scene like Blank & Jones, Cosmic Gate, Armin van Buuren and Dave Pearce support the three guys by playing their records on many occasions. Hence the fact that in Deave Pearce's BBC 1 show, Freeloader got elected "Best of 3" for three weeks in a row! Their second release Anything Goes also got a big response from the dance scene!
Behind alias Beat Service is Estonian Madis Sillamo. First seriously-taken production was the remix to Dns Project's track Invisible Touch, year was 2007. Well known music magazine released interview with Gareth Emery, where He named the track as "dancefloor killer". Great success along with the massive supportlist showed that this thing aint gonna end up with one track only. Right after releasing his first remix under Uk label Five AM, DNS Project and Beat Service decided to join their skills with the project called Polymental.
R.A. the Rugged Man, real name R.A. Thorburn, is a rapper from Stony Brook, Long Island. He began his music career at age 12. At 18, he signed to Jive Records. R.A.'s legend, perpetuated by the P.R. biographies at his various labels, say he was dropped due to violent and disgusting behavior, but in interviews he disputes many of the more extreme stories told about him, adding that Jive just didn't know how to break new artists at the time.
RATTY was a side project from the German Techno-Band Scooter. Under this pseudonyme they released between 2000 - 2004 the 2 singles "Sunrise (Here I Am)" & "Living On Video", and several remixes for acts like Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo, ATB or Marc et Claude.