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Soulful house

DeanJay

DeanJay first learned to mix back in 1984 aged 13 when his older brother bought a pair of 1210's. He learnt how to mix on them before his brother did (on the quiet while he was out working). Already a lover of Soul and Hip Hop this new skill lead to him being taken over by this music and later on House music. To say he loves house is a massive understatement, he lives and breathes it. Currently a resident for Flawless Dean has played at most of London's house venues including Turnmills, MoS, Bagleys, Hidden, Pacha, Urban Inc and at countless bars in and around London.

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Kerri Chandler

Kerri grew up in the New Jersey area during the days of the infamous Zanzibar club with resident DJ Tony Humpries. Kerri's father was a DJ as well, which gave Kerri a rich background in the origins of the New York Underground Sound (known also as "Garage" music). He made his DJ debut at the Rally Record Club in East Orange, New Jersey at the age of thirteen. Kerri eventually found himself intrigued with the production element in dance music and soon began to create his own grooves on his self-label, Express Records.

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The Sunburst Band

Veteran UK electronic producer Dave Lee (aka Joey Negro) is one of the few people who can glide effortlessly from the chilly depths of the 'underground' to the moneyfied glitz of commercial music, while keeping both his dignity and his wide-ranging fan-base intact. Having moved on recently from the cool ad-friendly, chill-out throb of his Jakatta moniker, Dave has embarked upon a series of production projects including developing and producing new electro- rockers "The Like Me’s" due to release their first album at the end of this year.

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Kinky D

"..she has this encyclopadic knowledge of music... it becomes almost anthropological...she can immediately smell what the crowd is wanting." 'My Favourite Londoner' Time Out "Enter the realm of Kinky D and you walk into another world." Diva Magazine, " Kinky D she rocks!" DJ Magazine Kinky D a professional in the music industry since 1994; as a worldwide DJ, club promoter, and BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra presenter.

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Louie Vega

"Little" Louie Vega. Louie Vega is the Miles Davis of dance music. Like the impossible to categorize Davis, Vega is constantly reinventing himself; and revolutionizing the musical landscape in the process. During his nearly two-decade long career, Vega has crafted some of the most ground-breaking singles in dance music history (“The Nervous Track”, “It’s Alright, I Feel It” and “You Can Do It”), kick started genres like soulful house (“Beautiful People,” “I Get Lifted”), and revitalized the careers of legends like Roy Ayers, George Benson and Tito Puente.

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Tall Black Guy

Tall Black Guy was birthed from humble beginnings in Detroit, MI and homegrown on a diet of Motown, jazz and early hip-hop. He relocated to Illinois suburbia, where over a decade he has studied some of hip-hop’s greatest producers like; Dj Premier, J-Dilla, Madlib, Pete Rock, and Timberland. Whilst he was perfecting his music production skills and spending long nights honing his craft, local emcees and good friends of his; Dee Jackson, Will and Jamal spotted his immerging talent and between them, they formed; Pathfinders (http://www.

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Eat More Cake

Eat More Cake are a DJ/Production/Songwriting collective from Harrow in North-west London, whose sound incorporates elements of Dance, Chill-out and Hip-hop. Having received worldwide radio support and critical acclaim for their remix of Stardust’s “Music Sounds Better With You” and their genre-mashing debut EP “Climb The Ladder, Live The Dream”, the group have been hard at work in the studio cooking up a feast of new ideas and plotting their gradual, but inevitable, rise to world domination.

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Copyright

There are three artists called Copyright. 1) (...) Soulful house music with a global vibe.” Stalwarts of the house scene for almost a decade, London based DJ/production duo Sam Holt and Gavin Mills – aka Copyright – are about to jump to the next level with the release of their debut album, ‘Voices and Visions’. An assured collection of soulful house, classic song writing, with latin, afrobeat, disco, funk and tech influences and outstanding vocal performances from a stellar cast of collaborators, ‘Voices and Vision’s’ is set propel Copyright into the super league of global house players.

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Traxx

Chicago born and bred Melvin Oliphant aka Traxx is known for constructing the "jakbeat" sound -- "a turbo-charged take on old school acid and Chicago house for the '00s put together with the unmistakeable tones of classic analogue gear such as the TR-909, TR-808, and, of course, the TB-303". Traxx himself talking about this phenomenon:
"It's a truly separate genre in its own right... the reason is because jakbeat is influenced from not just by techno and house...

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