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South Side born Earl Smith, one of the youngest members of the Ghettoteknitianz crew has been part of the footwork culture before he even hit his teens. Cutting his teeth as a dancer for the Creation Crew, he eventually tried his hand at making music and was taken under the wing of DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn who taught him the fundamentals of how a track is made. Yo can catch him cutting his records at almost all of the weekly battles that go on in the city of Chicago.

1) Burning Bright is a band mixing modern hardcore, neocrust and screamo, created in Caen, France in late 2011. The band is composed of Aurélien Gibert (ex-Eightfold Path & ex-Cercueils), antoine grezel (Aussitôt Mort & Amanda Woodward), Martin Aubeut (ex-Kusila), Antoine Ganso (Defiance) and Camille Blanchemain (The Hectic Dull Sound).
A split LP with Death Mercedes in April 2012, some months after the start of the band : tours multiply, in numerous countries, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, etc.

Read more about Burning Bright on Last.fm.

A perennial presence in music since the early 90's, Ron Trent pulls no punches! Considered to be one of the architects of the Chicago music scene, Ron studied and collected various types of music as a young boy, taking cues from his father who ran a record pool in the late seventies. Later becoming a respected DJ in his early teens in the mid eightes. Ron began to work on his own productions which lead to his first release, the highly recognized classic "Altered States" in 1990, giving him international acclaim.

For an international audience reawakening to the influence of Chicago house during the 1990s, Curtis A. Jones acted as quite a renaissance leader. Besides donning his straightahead house guise Cajmere and a flamboyant, neon-haired acid-house alter-ego named Green Velvet for several of the most memorable underground house tracks of the decade (including "Preacher Man," "Answering Machine" "Brighter Days" and "Flash"), Jones helmed the two most respected labels in the new school of Chicago house, Cajual and Relief.