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J.Phlip

In a male-dominated industry, it’s hard to find girl DJs who are as down to earth and talented as J. Phlip. Hailing from the Midwest and a recent addition to the famous Dirtybird crew, J. Phlip’s newest record Rumble Rumble drops this week. This prolific DJ also has remixes coming out on Dotbeep and Alland Byallo’s Nightlight label. Blending the sounds of house and showing off her audio engineering skills, there’s no way one can ignore her original beats that radiate energy and innovation.

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Broke

There are four artists with this name: 1) Broke is a Minimal/Tech-house group who release on Kompakt consisting of artists Markus Rossknecht & Matias Aguayo. 2) BroKe is a two-man Alternative Metal Band from Frankfurt, Germany.
They mix very different styles of Metal, for example Death Metal, Black Metal, Metalcore, Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, Hubawaba Metal, Melodic Death Metal or Heavy Metal.
3) Broke is a St. Louis metal band.

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Maetrik

Eric Estornel, under the names MAETRIK, MARIEL ITO, and simply ESTORNEL - has been contributing to his musical world around him since '93. First a dj, and later developing his skills as a producer, Eric has always searched for the future of electronic dance. Not being confined by rules of styles or genres is most important to Eric, as he makes his way through a political and fickle industry. Eric as Maetrik has released music on such respected labels as Treibstoff, SubStatic, Morris Audio, Onitor, Immigrant, Iron Box Music, and many others.

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Pig & Dan

Pig & Dan are made up on producers Dan Duncan & Igor Tchkotoua (Pig). They met a number of years ago and from there have developed an extremly solid and fruitful partnership. After a few months of producing together they signed a deal with Dutch label, Sadie Records, they began to enter into the market and gain success. This gave the duo a boost and they started to produce two/three tunes a week. They then decided that it would be a good idea to build their own record company 'Submission' and work together with Sadie to create a bigger market.

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Plasmik

Plasmik are the brothers Roman and Marcel Fritz. Both originate from Black Forest`s finest city Freiburg, located close to the swiss border. In the middle of the 90ies they got infected by the dry, deep and organic Techno, which was imported from the USA at that time. So they started to buy records and to produce with simple senquencers and drumcomputers. Later both went different ways. Roman studied classical guitar, whereas Marcel moved to Berlin to visit the University of the Arts.

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Funk D'Void

Scotland's Lars Sandberg (Currently residing in Spain) aka Funk D'Void has been releasing deep funky techno since roughly 1997, whilst Djing since 1986 . He's had three albums to date - '1997's 'Technoir', 2001's 'Dos', and 2003's 'Volume Freak' (all on Soma). His new LP "Second Skin" promises a new arena for Lars to showcase his talents as he is constantly looking for new sounds and inspiration - whilst never losing that visceral, emotional core to his music and performances.

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D'Julz

D’julz started his career in 1992. He quickly got a personal style that turned him into one of the leading French dj’s. His music is at the crossing of Electro House and Deep Techno with strong acid and funk influences.
D’julz’s sets demonstrate mixing skills and eclecticism - the hallmarks of any big D.J. After one year spinning in Paris early raves and legendary clubs: Rex, Queen, Palace… he releases the first ever mix Cd in France and decides to take this as an opportunity to export his sound.

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Pedram

Pedram was born in Teheran in 1974 in a family of amateur musicians. His father plays several instruments, his mother sings, his sister plays setar and his brother plays tar. “I have always heard music at home: when we entertained guests or relatives, each member of the family had to play, sing or dance after dinner. Soon, I knew to play several instruments.“ At the age of 10, he starts learning the santoor, first in Isfahan (where his father, an helicopter pilot...

Read more about Pedram on Last.fm.

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Chaim

Born into a family of traditional musicians and the son of a father who was already spinning records in the late sixties, Chaim grew up to become a complex producer. Influenced by Moroccan music he heard at home while growing up, and the sound of Chicago House he fell in love with while working as a light jockey in his local clubs, his productions tell a story of a sensitive musician from Tel Aviv.

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Hector Moralez

Now in San Francisco, Moralez began playing records at Rebecca's weekly at The Top, as well as at Liquid, and other DJ bars. It wasn't long before he got his own residency on Fridays at The Top, playing alongside Buck, Miguel Migs, Lance Desardi, J.T. Donaldson, Wally Callerio, Joeski, Onionz, the Idjut Boys, Joshua Iz, Solar, Mark E. Quark, John Howard, Simon DK, Steve Loria, Jeno, Tony, Gene Farris, Mark Ambrose, Pepe Bradock, Alexi Delano, Evil Eddie Richards, Gemini, and many other renown producers.

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