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Zongamin

Left-field dance music producer and one-man band Susumi Makai released his first album as Zongamin in early 2003, but not before a couple of 12" releases for Flesh and XL. Released on XL, Zongamin featured a number of previously vinyl-only tracks, in addition to a handful of new productions. Makai has also churned out a handful of strong remixes for the likes of Playgroup (who featured his "Tunnel Music" on a DJ Kicks mix), Grafiti, and Seelenluft.

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Mat Payne

Mat Payne: DJ, producer, remixer and bus pass holder (don‘t ask). Mat first set clubland alight (NB. not literally) with his notorious remix of Busy P‘s ‘Rainbow Man’, which re-imagined the original as a balls-out, 130 BPM, floor-filling smash. The mix regularly gets Europe-wide airings (it’s a big favourite in Barcelona) and has even seen Mat’s name make the transatlantic jump to the Big Apple of A (New York).

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Vicarious Bliss

Vicarious Bliss; real name Andy Gardiner; a tall red haired bloke signed by an even taller (debatable) blond bloke and PSG supporter, Busy P - driving force behind the Ed Banger Records empire. Released 'Theme From...' EP with dope remixes from Busy himself, Justice and Lifelike. Grew a beard and got licensed by a slightly shorter Brighton supporter bloke who's Skint and got remixed by Dave Clarke and got re-released yesterday afternoon last year. Remixes for others include N*E*R*D, Kid Loco, Rinocerose, Sebastien Tellier, Daisy Daisy, Mystery Jets, Ladytron, Yuksek.

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Krazy Baldhead

Krazy Baldhead, 34 years old, child of the south of France who became a Parisian, jazzman (10 years at the music academy) and sometimes sound engineer for a radio in prison. He bought his first machines in 1998, groped around, and then decided to become a full-time musician in 2002. He still had a barbaric pseudonym when he sent his demo to Pedro Winter, who saw in him a good mid-tempo alternative for his quite young label Ed Banger records.

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Kavinsky

Kavinsky, also known as Vincent Belorgey, is an electro house artist from Paris, France, and has released two EPs on the Record Makers label : Teddy Boy in 2006 and 1986 in 2007. In 2008, he has released his newest EP, Blazer, on fool's gold label. Kavinsky released his newest EP Nightcall on March 2010 (Produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo from Daft Punk). He has been remixed by SebastiAn and other prominent electro artists.

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Mr Flash

French producer from Aix en Provence. "Flash Gordon" use to work for Virgin Music (France), in the cinematography, to finally have fun with his samplers and take the "guys of TTC" with him to produce them on their firsts 12". In 2001, he found his label Lust Island but the history is brief, after his first release, Pedro Winter will rapidly contact him to have his next releases on his label Ed Banger Records.

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Mr. Flash

Mr. Flash, real name Gilles Bousquet, is a DJ and producer in the French house scene. His work is a mix of hip-hop and house with guitar sounds.
He started producing tracks since 1999 under the name Flash Gordon, featuring many rap artists. He also worked on TTC's album. He found his own label Lust Island in 2001 which only featured his own release Le Voyage Fantastique. After that Busy P, founder of Ed Banger Records, asked him to join his label.

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Para One

Para One is most known for a string of hard-hitting vinyl only tracks, but the "Beat Down" EP (2003) wasn't his first music venture. From an earlier digital hip hop/reggae era stem some vinyl, cassettes and cd releases on smaller labels such as Co2 Activity, Quality Streetz and N Records.
Moving on to colder and more electronic pastures, while seeking to infuse his music with more emotion, he started working with Paris's crunkest rap crew : TTC, joining them on their 2 lp's "Ceci n'est pas un disque" and the hit "Batards Sensibles" (Big Dada).

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