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Ed Rush & Optical

Both Ed Rush and Optical are the co-heads of a drum and bass record label called Virus Recordings, based in London, UK. Both have earned acclaim separately, with Optical engineering tracks on Goldie and Grooverider's albums and releasing some excellent solo tunes on the likes of Prototype, 31, and Metro. Ed Rush also has countless releases, notably on No U-Turn, where he and Nico first emphasized the dark era of drum and bass with the masterpiece album Torque, and Metalheadz, where he produced such classics as "The Raven" and "Locust".

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Rachael Starr

Combining skill with modernism, and her aptitude for style with ingenuity, Rachael is breaking new ground in the electronic and dance music industries. One of the only female producers on the scene, she feels it necessary to prove herself and work very hard at what she does. "I guess that one of the most important things to me is to not forget why you are doing what you are doing. Take yourself seriously, and other people will too." She says, "In the end what it comes down to is the music, what it is as a whole and how it makes me who I am."

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Don Diablo

Small town boy makes it big; that pretty much sums up Don Diablo’s career path up to this date. But who is this Don Diablo dude that everybody seems to be talking about? Well, for starters he is a producer, musician, imaginary friend, DJ, singer, writer, visualist, record label boss and to some people, the uncrowned King of hooligan house, but let’s start at the beginning. Don Diablo’s musical journey kicked off at the age of fifteen, when he started making music for short movies he was directing.

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Marshall Jefferson

Marshall Jefferson (born September 19, 1959) is widely regarded as one of the leading innovators of the genre of music now known as house music, in particular the subgenre of Chicago house. Born in Chicago, Illinois he was originally a producer in the Universal recording studios in Chicago it is here that he met owner of Trax Records, Larry Sherman. He may be best known for inventing the squelchy acid house sound on tracks like "Dream Girl" and "Acid Tracks".

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Sel

SEL is a lithuanian band, formed in 1992. The founder of the band is Egidijus Dragūnas.
The history of the band started on the 10th of November in 1992, when E. Dragūnas resolved to call Andrius Mamontovas (who back then was hosting a popular radio show on the M-1 radio station) and ask for help to found a rap group. His idea did not go unnoticed and A. Mamontovas’ brother Justas Mamontovas (who was a producer of the popular lithuanian Hip-Hop group Pompa) started to work with Egidijus.

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Driftwood

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!

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Stealth

There are two bands with the name Stealth and one selfpromoted dj. The first is one of the aliases of happy hardcore producer Nick Arnold, whose recordings as Bang! are more familiar to listeners. Stealth have appeared on Sy's Bonkers 6 Mix as well as Happy2BHardcore 4. The second is a 5 piece metalcore band from Whittier, California. Stealth started off as a 3 piece band with no vocals that consisted of Nik Ontiveros, Jimmy Saavedra, and Josh Parker. After a search for a vocalist initially failed, they decided to bring in Josh's brother, Jon Parker.

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Shy Child

Shy Child is a two-piece from New York City consisting of Pete Cafarella on vocals/keytar and Nate Smith on drums. The duo was formed in New York in the summer of 2000, Cafarella and Smith having previously played together in the band El Guapo (now called Supersystem). The band has played for years in New York, and in more recent years has toured in the United States, Europe, and Japan. In the summer of 2006 they signed with UK label Wall of Sound.

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