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Iron & Wine, otherwise known as Sam Beam, is a remarkable craftsman and deeply literate songwriter who has become one of the top selling indie artists in the US.

He has released three full-length albums, a handful of EPs and singles, plus a collaborative EP with Calexico, indeed his sound is born from that alt-country movement but is more a reflective yet life affirming folk sound. Last year he stole the show at All Tomorrow's Parties New York curated by the Flaming Lips and 2011 sees the release of a new album Kiss Each Other Clean.

‘The natural – and, frankly, wonderful – successor to the Elliott Smith and Nick Drake school of perfectly beautiful songwriting’ NME

The Katharsys is born in 2001, when Hugo Figuera, a graduated pianist and Thomas Le labousse, a sound technician, start producing their first drum'n'bass tracks ,inspired by the dark grooves and demented beats of artists such as Technical Itch, Konflict ... Three years later ,after countless hours of waveshaping and savage beats processing, they were ready to give the project a substance .Since then, they've been producing fat tunes and dropping some hard sets troughout wherever.

Ryme Tyme is a drum and bass MC from the United Kingdom. He is part of the Virus Records crew along with Ed Rush And Optical.