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Eclectica

There are three bands with the name Eclectica. One is based in Nashville, TN, featuring Tracy Silverman on electric violin, Roy "Futureman" Wooten on the drums, and Steve Forrest on bass. Each musician in the band performs with other groups or solo, but they have produced one album as a group, "Streaming Video Soul". Steve Forrest was not bassist at the time of the production of the album; instead, Kyle Whalum did bass for the group.

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Danny Rampling

Danny Rampling was a British based House Music DJ and is widely credited as one of the original founders of the UK's rave/club scene. His long career began in the early 1980s playing hip-hop, soul and funk around numerous bars and clubs in London. During a now legendary holiday in Ibiza in 1987, Rampling, along with fellow DJs Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway, Jonny Walker and Lisa Loud, attended Amnesia, a then open air nightclub in San Rafael.

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Himan

Himan (Julien Lacroix) was born in France in 1985 and is a DJ / Producer of electronic music. Influenced by the French House of the late 90’s and early 00’s that dominated the music scene in France, he is also inspired by disco, funk and eighties culture. At the age of thirteen, Stardust’s release of “Music Sounds Better With You” began his fascination with music styles composed of samples and filtered loops.

Read more about Himan on Last.fm.

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Stu Hirst

DJ, Producer, Remixer and Label Owner Stu Hirst has firmly established himself as one of the UK's most exciting talents in recent years, with a string of underground hits and remixes on a variety of leading electronic labels. Described by Steve Lawler as "a great songwriter with some fantastic ideas", Stu's first release "Rhythmique" gained numerous plays from Pete Tong on his Essential Selection show, as well as being one of Lawler's closing records in his sets throughout 2005. It was included as the final record of the

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DJ Spen

DJ Spen - legendary DJ, songrwiter, producer, and remix master of soulful and inspirational house music. Spen began his career at the age of 13, producing mix shows for WEBB AM in Baltimore. Even at that young age, Spen founded one of the area's first hip hop production groups, the Numarx. In 1986 they wrote and recorded a track called “Girl You Know It's True”, which was later covered and made famous by Milli Vanilli.

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Happy Clappers

Happy Clappers are a house studio project from the UK, featuring Chris Scott, Graeme Ripley, Martin Knotts and Mark Topham with Sandra Edwards on vocals. They scored two hits on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, first in 1996 with "Can't Help It" (which went to number two) and "I Believe" (as Chris Cox Vs. Happy Clappers), which went all the way to number one in 2003. "I Believe" was a top 10 hit in England in 1995, but was never released in the U.S.

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