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Mihai Popoviciu

Mihai Popoviciu is considered as being one of the best electro producers from Romania and Eastern Europe. Born in 1981, Mihai found himself attracted to the rave scene of the mid 90s and at the age of 15 he discovered house music and detroit techno through Berlin House, a TV show from the german music channel Viva TV. His passion for the electronic sound grew very fast and after 4 years of being obsessed with techno, by the time he was 19, he started producing his own music.

Read more about Mihai Popoviciu on Last.fm.

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Delano Smith

Delano Smith was one of the first ‘mobile DJs’ in a city that embraced DJ culture early on, before Music Stores sold more turntables than guitars. Emerging as one of the top progressive DJs in Detroit during the 80s, alongside the legendary Ken Collier (RIP), Smith mastered the art form while playing the underground and club parties that set the stage for today’s global party circuit. After taking time off from Djing in the 90s to pursue personal interests, Smith began playing events again after receiving numerous requests from promoters.

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Sonique

Born "Sonia Clarke" in London, England in 1968, of Trinidadian parentage. She was sort of written-off at school but had shown talents in sports. She dreamed of becoming a successful pentathlete up to the time ending up only second in a race. Then she turned to the music scene, dancing at clubs etc. and joined a band as a singer at the age of 17. She was homeless in these times. Her band went defunct the same year, but she got a solo record deal leading to an immediate hit in the UK.

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Dixon

Dixon is either a DJ/producer Steffen "Dixon" Berkhahn or a British band formed by Adam Rogers in 1989. Steffen Berkhahn has recorded under the aliases Dixon and Wahoo. More information: http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/artists/Dixon The band Dixon are known for their unusual style of music, or as they like to call it; "Arabian Grunge Surfmetal". Their first singer, Steve Birby O'donnel was fired from the band when Berry Mouse, Musk fifth street's former singer, showed his intrest in joining Dixon.

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Quentin Harris

Born and raised in Detroit, Quentin Harris came of age inspired by many of the legends of his hometown. Motown, Prince, P-Funk and of course, early techno instilled in Harris, a love of all forms of music. Today, he is recognized as one of the leaders in the field of deep house. It has been said that his work re-vitalized what had become a saturated and tired genre. Indeed Harris resists the very notion of working within genre parameters.

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Chris Gray

There are two artists by the name of Chris Gray: 1) A house artist from Mississippi. 2) A country singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. --- 1) It began Spring of '86 when a poorly-recorded WKKC 89.3 FM mixtape fell into his hands. A close cousin had provided him with a new style of music that would change his life forever. Although the seeds of house music were planted in the culture rich pockets of Chicago during the late 70's and early 80's, its presence had yet to be felt in the fertile farmlands of the Mississippi Delta.

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Klartraum

Klartraum is a co-operation of Helmut Ebritsch and Nadja Lind. Manifesto
we are here to bring you something from consciousness - dreamphase induced minimal grooves :) brain wave stimulation
deeper consciousness float
astral music revelations
reperfection of imperfection
stellar interconnection beats
parallel awareness streams
hypnotic groove yoga http://www.klartraum.name the new klartraum ep will be released on their own label lucidflow at the 27.7.2009

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