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Rise of the Northstar

Rise of The Northstar is a young thrash band whose spirit was born in the back alleys on 1980s Shibuya. Indeed, Japanese culture, mangas and it's "Furyos" are all an integral part of ROTNS's music. Through it's lyrics and imagery distilled winthin the music, the band created a real identity for themselves, unique, close to 90's New York Hardcore, Shonen manga and contemporary metal-core... Tokyo hold on tight, Rise Of The Northstar is coming.

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So Solid Crew

So Solid Crew are a UK garage and grime act whose hits include "Oh No" and "21 Seconds", the latter of which reached number one in the official UK Singles Chart in August 2001. Another hit, "They Don't Know", reached number three in November 2001 and "Haterz" got to number eight in January 2002. "Ride Wid Us" was less successful (UK number 19 in April 2002). They have also released a single, "Broken Silence" which spoke out about government prejudice which they had faced.

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FUSED FORCES

Fused Forces is a duo of Essex-based producers/DJs Adsassin and Moriatti, both 25 years old. They first started DJing on pirate radio over 12 years ago and have been making music themselves for over 5 years. These days they mainly produce and mix dubstep.

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Aches

Aches is twenty-four year old producer and visual artist Jonny Fox from Sheffield UK currently based in Bratislava, Slovakia. His recently released debut EP (via Exitab) brims with melancholic guitar sketches, compressed artifacts, ambient textures and breathing percussion which teams with the rhythms of UK garage and spacey Jungle; Whispers are skewed, embedded in the ambiance, fading in hazy dense textures.

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DJ Luck & MC Neat

Luck & Neat are a London based duo composed of DJ Luck and MC Neat, creating a distinctive mix of House Music and Garage Music. They are most recognised for their 1998 release, 'A Little Bit of Luck', starting out as a promo dubplate costing a mere 50 pounds. Their debut album ('Its All Good', released 2002) has only solidified their wide following among 2 Step Garage fans. To this day they attract both underground and mainstream success.

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Kashii

"Absolutely of the moment gear from Kashii. All the house and garage influences that will draw comparisons with Floating Points, Joy Orbison and the like. We are very pleased to have been given "Tru Da City" upfront by Southern Fried." - Bleep

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This City Ignites

This City Ignites are a heavy mosh band from Brisbane, Australia. For fans of Hatebreed,The Acacia Strain,Legend

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3rdeye

Half-Scottish, half-Australian producer/DJ based in Byron Bay, Australia. 3rdeye has been DJ'ing for just over 3 years and became involved in dubstep and drum and bass production in 2005. Now spinning and producing dubstep and "random electronica", 3rdeye is hard at work in the studio refining and redefining his sound.

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TRG

TRG (Bucharest, Romania)
Tempa, Hotflush, Hessle Audio, Cool&Deadly The excitement surrounding Bucharest's dubstep sensation TRG has been steadily growing with Mary Anne Hobbs championing his first release, Put You down/ Broken Heart on BBC Radio 1, followed by an enviable music press coverage in ATM, iDJ, Mixmag, Dummy, One Week To Live and support from the blogosphere. Releasing later tracks on Hotflush, Hessle Audio, Subway, Immerse, Audio Freakz have put TRG firmly on the music map...

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Zed Bias

Dave Jones, AKA Zed Bias, Maddslinky, Phuturistix.... a producer and DJ from deep within the UK dance music scene. He scored his first top 30 track with 'Neighbourhood' before setting the blueprint for the darker UK Garage sound at the end of the 90s. He was asked to mix the definitive "Sound of the Pirates" compilation and at this time began to infuse a jazzier influence into his tracks. Alongside remixes for Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, The Streets, Kosheen and Gabrielle...

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