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TONY ROHR LIVE & DJ SET Cocoon, Clink, Plus 8, Drum - USA
At this point it is difficult for us to sum up the multi-faceted career and personality of Tony Rohr. He is Brooklyn’s bang mixed with Mid-Western politeness, and is easily one of the most original and well-liked artists in the industry. His sought-after Live PA, matched with a discography and release schedule that aspiring artists would kill for, keeps him consistently in high demand. He has turned up the heat in recent years, burning miles across the globe and sharing his enthusiasm for music and life via Macbook, Machinedrum and two Korg’s.
Tony’s lengthy journey from a College scratch DJ in Effingham, IL, to Brooklyn live artist and International superstar has been driven by his love and fascination for innovative musical ideas. His range of inspiration fuels his indefinable sound, gathering ideas through early Hip-Hop, House, Industrial and finally Techno. Channeling these expressions through his performances has earned him center stage at places like I Love Techno, Nature One, Awakenings, Tresor, Berghain, Chris Liebing’s Spinclub, Kozzmozz, Fuse, and even the closing of the famous La Real in Spain.
In 2005 Tony met Tim Xavier and Camea in Brooklyn, and they began releasing together on Clink Recordings. He has contributed to five of their releases as a solo artist, and collaboratively with Tim as the Afternoon Coffee Boys. He ignited the label’s popularity with his biggest record of 2007, Kreuzberg Krunk. Tony also works with Alexi Delano, Dietrich Schoenemann and Dave Shokh (Dirka Dirka) on numerous projects and his work has been featured on top labels such as Cocoon, Weave, Podium and Frankie Records.
2008 is set to be Tony’s biggest year with two releases on Clink, one Techno and a new side of Rohr set for this summer, a House release! With additional plans for work under the Afternoon Coffee Boys moniker, coupled with his numerous collaborative releases on other labels such as Plus 8 with Alexi Delano, Tony is placing himself in the center of the action. With the rising popularity of Live PAs, Tony’s experience, production and performance skills have set him above the rest, and he is considered to be one of the hottest techno acts coming out of America today.
DIGITAL MYSTERY TOUR LIVE Twisted , Iboga - France
DIGITAL MYSTERY TOUR is a collective of composers living all over the planet. It all started in the year 2000 in Tokyo when Stephane Holweck asked Michio Baba to write music with him and made a track together.
Back in Europe Guillaume Thévenin, Florian Sériot, and Loic Vanpoucke joined the projet. Getting every body together in the studio proved difficult so they started to meet and write through the web using their computers running the same software
The first album "Digital Mtstery Tour" was released by Twisted Records It's a journey into ambience with the subtle flavor of previous releases by both Stephane’s band TOTAL ECLIPSE and Michio Baba as an innovative artist & producer from Tokyo, the music lilts from side to side teasing the listener with ambient electronic atmospherics before jumping into a profusion of funky electro beats and rhymes that will keep all heads nodding whether at home or out on the town. D.M.T. blend the best of world music flavors with modern digital psychedelic production.
The latest album "DMT Express" was release on Iboga Records new sublabel for chillout music, Sofa Beatsin september2005.
It' s an open door to dream land, with a good dose of romanticism and emotions. It is a bit like traveling from outerspace to the jungle The production of the album is this time far more analogique guitares, flutes, vocal, percusions...
TOTAL ECLIPSE LIVE Total Eclipse Music - France
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ZEN MECHANICS LIVE Neurobiotic, Iboga - Netherlands
Zen Mechanics was launched in 2002 by the multi-talented Dutchman Wouter Thomassen,
Drawing from his 12 year DJ experience, he soon caused quite a stir with his eclectic style.
By fusing elements of futuristic Trance, Progressive, Ambient & Breaks into a powerfull dancefloor-friendly and atmospheric sound, he quickly gained critical acclaim and interest from a range of top labels as varied as his output (such as Aleph Zero, Iboga, Neurobiotic, Nano, Alchemy and Flow).
Since then he's been travelling the planet nonstop, and booked for some of the world's biggest psychedelic festivals such as Boom, Glade, Universo Paralello, Sonica, Tribe, Solstice, Kaballah & Rainbow Serpent.
Besides this, Wouter runs 2 other projects, Citizen (Progressive) and Transmissions in Bloom (Ambient/Freestyle)
Wouter is currently in the final stages of writing the much anticipated debut album from Zen Mechanichs "Holy Cities", which will be released early 2008 on Neurobiotic records.
U-RECKEN LIVE & DJ SET Dooflex - Israel
Yaniv Ben-ari a.k.a. U-Recken born in 1978 in Haifa Israel, and he is living till today on the beautiful carmel mountains...made his firsts steps too the world of music in his early teenage life,strating as a guitar player and very soon a founder&leader guitar vocalist of two sucses full metal bands... like everybody else,he made his turn too the world of psychadelic music, by the haloocinogenic effect of you know what... nower days u-recken is about too realese is second album"deeper into man" stay tuned...
LOGIC BOMB LIVE Solstice Music International - Sweden
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TRANAN LIVE-Solstice Music - Sweden
Music has always been a great passion in Jonas life and as a young boy he played the piano. In his teens the music interest went from hard rock to punk and hip hop, but he never really found what he was looking for. In 1993, Jonas Pettersson met Dennis Tapper and together they discovered the psy-trance scene. (Dennis is the one responsible for Jonas nickname, that later became the name of his solo project, Tranan. Tranan means the crane, a skinny bird with very tall legs that has a somewhat resemblance to Jonas appearance) Jonas got hooked instantly and a couple of years later he and Dennis started the Hux Flux project. They felt that the music they wanted to hear didnt exist so they might as well make it themselves. The first Hux Flux album Cryptic Crunch was released in 1997 and was followed by many gigs around the world on the side of a fulltime day job. In 1998 Jonas left Hux Flux and started Logic bomb with Johan Krafft, and later Jonaz Bergvall. He was also working on his solo project Tranan on the side and had his first release, the single Moody, on Flow Records in 1999. In 2000 Jonas quit his day job and put all his attention into the Logic Bomb project. Soon after that, Logic Bomb released their first album Headware on Spiral Trax and in 2002 their second album Unlimited was released on TIP World Records. The albums were very successful and followed by heavy touring that took Jonas to all continents except Antarctica , with highlights like Solstice Music Festival in Japan 2002, Boom Festival 2000 and Samothraki 2002 and 2003. In the category Not so very good gigs, Solstice Music Festival 2001 can be mentioned. In front of 8000 excited Japanese fans, the whole system went dead. In addition to touring as Logic Bomb, Jonas made a name for himself while DJ:ing as Tranan. In 2003, Jonas decided to cut down on touring and focus on music production, especially on his solo project Tranan.
LIQUID SOUL LIVE Iboga Records - Switzerland
Nicola Capobianco, based in switzerland, became already at an early age addicted to the magic of electronic music. He started playing progressive trance in the end of 1993. After many years of djing and producing, he has played and performed on big raves next to people like Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Armin van Buuren etc. etc. In 2001, he decided to start a new project and Liquid Soul was born.
After many releases on top labels and playing in brasil, japan, mexico, uk, germany, greece, israel, portugal, belgium, austria, hungary, italy...., the long awaited debut album of Liquid Soul, released on Iboga Records, hits the street in 2006 and was the best selling album in the progressive scene in this year. With perfectly produced pumping tunes he rocked the progressive dance floors all over the globe. It’s a milestone in the Iboga records catalogue.
In the same year he started together with his friend martin the label mikrokosmos (mikrokosmos-records).
Beside of his solo projects Liquid Soul and Sleek, he is also a part of the project earsugar (Liquid Soul & dj martin).
ATMOS LIVE & DJ SET Digital Structures - Sweden
It all started in the early seventies when a young boy saw television for the first time. Instantaneously fascinated by different soundtracks and jingles, a deep interest for music was born. After a short bedroom dj career, Tomasz decided to produce his own music and thanks to a natural talent, he released his first single in 1996 on Pablo Gargano’s label, EVE records. It sold very well and gave him both zest and confidence to strive for more. His influences from electronic and ambient-rock music like JM Jarre and Pink Floyd quickly formed a style that was to make him one of the most successful producers in hypnotic and atmospheric trance. Under this trademark, Atmos had released 3 albums, loads of singles and has countless appearances on compilations but more important - his music has been embraced, played and loved by such a broad spectra of people, ranging from the top 10 djs to aspiring bedroom djs all over the world. Tomasz has also been touring all parts of the world, to every possible kind of event, for well over 12 years now and with great success. His sense for merging rhythm programming with delicate strings into a well-produced groovy sound is guaranteed to make everyone get down to the dance floor and that has made him an installment to count on in events all over the place. The winter of 2008 will see the new Atmos album "TOUR de TRANCE coming out on Spiral Trax so keep ears and eyes open for another milestone in trance music.
RINKADINK LIVE Alchemy Records - United Kingdom
Rinkadink's unique brand of high-energy music continues to find appreciative dance floors around the world as he enters the 7th year of his non-stop global gig schedule.
Drawing from a life-long interest in electronic music and 13 years of DJ experience, Rinkadink lays down set after set of his signature sound: relentless baselines,hypnotic melodies and sharp techno percussion, all delivered with humour and skillful irreverence.
SHANE GOBI DJ SET Alchemy Records - United Kingdom
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SHIVA CHANDRA LIVE- Spirit Zone - Germany
Shiva Chandra is Daniel Vernunft and was born in November 1972 in Hamburg. As he was involved with making music his whole life, he started to make trance in the beginning of the 1990's. His main project is Shiva Chandra. He has intelligently developed his own very independent trance style by taking acoustic samples and integrating them in a homogenous, complete music, launching the minimal progressive “Hamburg Style”. Since 1996 Daniel Vernunft has released with different labels and pseudonyms.
With over 70 tracks he is continiously working on his project "Shiva Chandra" with seven albums released to date. He played at various and all important international events, with great response. He worked together with artists like Boris Blenn aka Electric Universe, dj Mapusa Mapusa ("Auricular" projekt), Dominic Sangeet (Planet Inspiration), DJ Magical and DJ Philipp (Prime Time Plastix) and other artists. He has also composed music for several short films, commercials and different projects. In Summer 2003 the 6th Shiva Chandra album called "subsonic" has been released. In November 2004 the second album of Auricular-(time) has been released.The 7th. and latest album of Shiva Chandra (change of air) was released on Sinn-Tec -Recordings in August 2005. Regarding to the new productions he worked out some new creative tracks, changing his style to electro with a touch of house.
ILLEGAL MACHINES LIVE & DJ SET Free Radical/Bom Shanka - France
Illegal Machines is Fabien, french electronic producer. His influences come from different kind of music and artists like Squarepusher, Autechre, AFX, Funkstörung, Snake Ting, Kox Box, Alec Empire, Phoenecia, Autophonic and many more.....this mixture render a music based on psyckedelik sounds, acid leads and groovy basslines............ He released more than 20 tracks on differents labels like TIP, Bom Shanka Music , free Radical Records , Peak Records, Looney Moon Records.... He also make collaborations with artists like Parasense, Psymmetrix, Asimilon, Suria, Orca. In bands Pirated Machines, Psykodrïds, BSM Crew.
PSYKOVSKY LIVE & DJ SET Tantrumm, Osom Music - Russia
Psykovsky aka Vasily Markelov a maverick Russian psytrance producer.
from Russia began playing in groups as early as 12 and first achieved success as the member of Transdriver.
Since 2000 Vasily has worked with a number of different solo and collaborative projects, and is nowadays acknowledged as one of the most auspicious psytrance artists.
After a few compilation releases in the beginning of his solo career, soon in 2005 Psykovsky appeared on Vertigo Records with a superlative Debut album.
His long-awaited second CD rebounds to the glory of the great predecessor and tends to suit different palates and minds.
With undiminished enthusiasm Vasily continues to engross listeners and successfully performs all over the world.
MAPUSA MAPUSA DJ SET - Germany
His interest in electronic music was awakend during the early 90's. Later in 1993 Thomas aka Mapusa Mapusa visited the first psy-parties and was
completely fascinated by the music. During 1995 he began buying vinyls and building a collection. Starting off with a pair of turntable imitations he
was able to mix music. In early 1996 Thomas travelled to Goa / India, to still the growing curiosity he had for this country, its people and of course
the music. Immediately following the return to Europe he went to Ibiza for a few months. There and before in India he played initial dj sets and got completely thrilled. Returning to Germany, Occiasional booking convinced him to continue his new passion. Many thanks in this place to Ernst and Andrea, who layed the foundations. After meeting Fabio they began spinning as a team. 1999 and 2000 they had the huge honour of playing
at the Voov Experience festival, as well for U-Site, Free Form etc. The interest n their dj sets grew well beyond Germany. Gigs in South Africa,
Japan and Europe followed. Later Fabio and Mapusa decided to go their own paths, because interests began to change. Then he met Daniel
(Shiva Chandra) and they began producing regularly together. Quite fast they produced the first track together. ''Schaukelstuhl' became a big
succes and really surprised them both. So the decicion to found the Auricular project was made, and a year later the first album 'Audion'
was released.. Request from around the world increased. With appearances on all continents he began travelling. Never pausing
performing as a dj, the task remains very enjoyable, with memorable sets in Cape Town, New York, Japan, Mexico and of course Europe.
After a while he started a new project Human Traffic with Stephan Wötanowski. The debut album is going to released in April 2007 on Blue
Tunes Records. Today he is 43 years old and can say that he's having as much fun as ever travelling the world and pleasing people with music
and never would want to miss it!
ROE REVOLUTION - USA
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AURICUlAR LIVE Spirit zone/Plusquam - Germany
AURICUlAR - the project Shiva Chandra´s Daniel Vernunft and Thomas Johanshon aka DJ Mapusa Mapusa.
Directly their first production ´Schaukelstuhl´ was a big hit in the psytrance scene and caused a major success. Since then, they made aware of themselves with their debut album AUDION, presenting a new genre defining style of minimal progressive trance.
DOMINO DJ SET - United Kingdom
DJ Domino is the first trance female DJ to be recognized all over the world. Her dynamic, energetic DJ style is filled with beautiful melodies which gets her into a trance dance herself while playing. She has an innate ability to create a mysterious atmosphere while bringing people together on the dance floor. Domino was born in England in 1972. Her exotic appearance is a result of her West Indian, Chinese and British ancestory. Domino was raised in Goa, India from when she was five by her mother. Goa, India is the spiritual origin of trance music similar to Ibiza, Spain. People from all over the world have gone to Goa seeking creativity, and freedom in every way, finding their inner-selves , or just simply to dance to trance music in the nature.... Naturally, Domino was influenced at a very young age by all kinds of electronic music like Front 242, Yellow, The The, Kraftwork, Nitzer Ebb and many others. Domino was scouted as a model during her teenage years and modeled swimwear and expensive designer wear for a Swiss magazine called "Living in Zurich". She thought she could do something more challenging and decided to become a DJ at the age of eighteen. Surprisingly, she began mixing tracks with a walkman and making many mix tapes for her friends. She began collecting all kinds of music like Voodoo People, Juno Reactor, Hallucinogen, Eat Static and Resistance D. Eventually, Mike Maguire from Juno Reactor heard Domino play in Goa and was astonished. In 1991, Domino decided to go and explore more of Europe and ended up in England as a dance performer for Eat Static at the famous Brixton Academy and other clubs. After performing a couple of times for Eat Static, Domino kept Djing and Mike Maguire gave her an incredible opportunity. 1995 was Domino's overseas DJ debut in England with Juno Reactor (Ben Watkins, Mike Maguire, and Paul Jackson). She was the opening DJ for the event and used her walkman at the time. She got such an amazing feedback from the crowd they decided to tour together for the year in England, France and Greece.. In 1996, DJ Domino played in Yokohama, Japan for the first time at an Equinox sposored party at Yokohama Bay Hall. At first people didn't know what to expect from a female DJ but gradually when Domino started playing the music began to swell, the crowd started to roar and people danced, their hearts pounding. The whole party lifted into a unified force. Since that time , the Japanese people and culture have captured Domino's heart. A message from Domino, " The Japanese People are warm hearted and full of energy on the dance floor. I think I get the most energy playing here in Japan. I also love shopping here because you can get unusual things. I have made a lot of great friends here in Japan." In 1997 DJ Domino's first mix CD, EQ001, was released from Equinox in Japan. Since then, she has been playing all over the world in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Holland(Amsterdam), India(Bombay, Bangalore), Israel, Japan, Portugal, Spain (Ibiza), and the United States (New York and Los Angeles). DJ Domino also played in open air festivals like the Antaris(Germany), Boom festival (Portugal) and Equinox (Japan). In 2000 DJ Domino's second mix CD, EQ011, was releasd from Equinox in Japan. Domino also wanted to give more opportunities and confidence to other female artists and DJ's in the art scene so she created a new project with other female organizers involving only female artists, VJ's, decoration and PA. Since then she has organized three female events, all of them resulting in big successes. This has not only given female artists confidence but also shown people there is something more important, which is "love" A female who was brought up in the so called "sacred place of trance music" is now giving full energy, strength and love to the world.
SOLAR DELIRIA DJ SET Zenon Records - Mexico
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