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DJ Vibes

DJ Vibes (Real name Shane) is from Essex in the United Kingdom and is a happy hardcore musician/DJ. DJ Vibes started Djing in 1991 inspired by his father who played soul on a pirate radio station Vibes started his own radio station playing Garage which was popular at the time. Vibes' first gig was at 'Rush' at the Pyramid Centre in Dalston, London. The radio station was busted in late 1991 and he landed a £1200 fine and all of his equipment was confiscated...

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EQ

A few EQ's exist out there... 1.
EQ is Nicholas Hunt, an underground rap-artist from Reston, Virginia. He released his debut mix-tape, Define Dreamer on Datpiff in April 2011. His second mixtape is called Never There Yet, and was put out in August of the same year. 2.
A Finnish jazz fusion band called EQ (active late 90's) is something hard to categorize. Something about jazz, afro, contemporary music, tango and ambient techno - a creation of Finnish composer and pianist Jukka Linkola. The EQ line-up consists of some heavy weight top pros of Finland:

Read more about EQ on Last.fm.

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Urban Shakedown

Urban Shakedown was the joint venture of Gavin King, Mickey Finn and Claudio Giussani. The trio were responsible for rave classics 'Some Justice' and 'Bass shake'. There are other tracks in the shakedown catalogue including 'Bass Speaker', 'Ruff Justice', 'Do it Now!', 'Assasinator', 'Analogue' and more.
Mickey and Gavin went on to form Urban Takeover, Claudio is now producing a more trance sound as Terra Ferma.

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Clancy

Clancy is the name of two artists; 1) a folk-pop group from London formed in 2006, and 2) a British group prominent in the pub rock scene of the early 1970s. 1) Clancy are a group of singer/songwriters who create quirky folk-pop songs. They are fronted by singer/actress Sharon Clancy who is from Wexford, Ireland, and from whom the band takes its name. Sharon has starred in numerous musical (on and off the West End) and enjoyed a lengthy solo career.

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Quadrophonia

Quadrophonia were a Dutch dance act formed by Olivier Abbeloos (also known as part of T99) and Lucien Foort in the late 1980s, with rap vocals on several of their tracks performed by Marvin D (A.K.A. Ripmaster). They had two top-40 hits in the United Kingdom. "Quadrophonia", which reached #14 in April 1991, followed by "The Wave Of The Future", which charted at #40 in July of the same year, as well as 3 other singles from around this time, "Find the Time (Part 1)", "Schizofrenia - The Worst Day Of My Life" and "The Man With the Masterplan", all three of which weren't particularly successful.

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Zomby

Having appeared on the display of the dubstep radar somewhere in 2007, Zomby has firmly established himself during 2008 as one of those, who fucks the D pidgeon holes right up to bonkers. Be it a classic "as good as it gets" formula Spliff (both musically and sample-wise), reworking of old jungle hardware in Where Were U In '92? ("the album sounds like it's made out of, or inside, a handful of crucial 2 Bad Mice tunes" Simon Reynolds ), or the recent Hyperdub EP, he proves that dis style is not a folder, but a compost to be fertilized upon.

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Myoptik

For 10 years myoptik has been a radio presenter, dj, music journalist, producer and event promoter based in not-so-sunny Leicester. Live performance is Myoptik's natural home with appearances in all sorts of places, under all sorts of musical guises and monikers at events such as the Sonic Arts Network, Summer Sundae, Monastery Of Sound and Delia Derbyshire's old home. Myoptik is also known for his vibrant Leicester based PVC club nights which pioneered his trademark live Funkatronix sound.

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DJ Seduction

DJ Seduction (AKA John Kalkan) started his career in 1989, DJing at events such as The Dungeons and Crowland Road, and on the pirate station Sunrise FM. In 1991 he was signed to ffrr and released Hardcore Heaven which stayed on the UK charts for several weeks. DJ Seduction then started one of the most successful happy hardcore labels of all time, Impact Records, and was also heavily involved in setting up the Hardcore Heaven and United Dance events. His recent projects include collaborations with CLSM, the Maximum Impact record label and Uproar events.

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