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DFRNT

Having discovered Dubstep in 2007, DFRNT jumped at the opportunity to try his hand at production. He had worked on a number of styles in the past, all developing out of his previous production work on mashups and bootlegs. Within a few weeks, he had worked up a furious remix of Dead Prez’s “Hip Hop” and with a solid base of feedback, decided to work on a number of entirely original tracks. His previous production work under other aliases, (including mixtapes, mashups, unofficial remixes and original production from chill-out stuff...

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Seizmic

Seizmic is UK based producer & DJ Marc Lewis. While continually working on his own productions for the past few years, he has also played DJ sets and performed Ableton Live PA’s of his tracks at some high profile gigs playing alongside some of his idols and the biggest names in the scene. Seizmic has more recently set up the Narukami Records imprint alongside some of the other label artists as an outlet for their music, and he aims to continue releasing his work through Narukami as well as other labels in the future.

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Thought

Ivan Sotirov, known as Thought - is a drum&bass producer and dj from Sofia, Bulgaria. Mainly flirting with the darker, harder sound of the genre. His inspiration stems from sounds in the 97-99 period with a combined background in drum complexity. His first debut vinyl release on Dylan's Obscene Recordings was just the beginning for this growing artist. Since his first step into the genre, he has went on to work with labels such as Tech Itch, Freak, Counterstrike, Soothsayer, Vampire, m-Atome, Backlash and is also currently involved with Bassline Agency and Therapy Sessions Bulgaria.

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Cooh

BIO 2009 Ivan Sashev Shopov (Cooh aka Balkansky) started playing bass guitar in a hardcore-metal band when at 16 and got involved with creating electronic music at the age of 18. Producing Drum And Bass for 9 years, now at the age of 27, he has 40 vinyl and 12 CD releases. Together with Valery Sholevski (Ogonek), in 2002 he began intense promotion of drum and bass in the borders of Bulgaria, sending "patriotic" messages to the young generation and playing a lot in the busiest clubs in Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria.

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Evol Intent

Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia the crew consists of Knick, Gigantor and The Enemy. Apart from being a production outfit, Evol Intent also owns and operates their own label, which functions as an outlet for their own work as well as like-minded artists. After building an underground following with their first 3 releases, Evol Intent signed a deal with Alpha Magic to handle their distribution for Evol Intent Recordings.

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Paul Blackout

Paul Blackout (Paul Rayner) Paul started going to 'raves' in 1993, and after collecting many recordings of various radio shows, he started buying records, and a little while later, his first set of decks. First he played old school techno and breaks, stuff like early Moving Shadow and Formation, along with Edge Records, Rabbit City, Bonzai etc etc. After hearing Wedlock's "Acid Rain" on Ruffneck, he got the bug for hardcore, and went on to play hardcore techno, such as Ruffneck, Twisted Vinyl, Rotterdam etc until he got into some harder traxx too.

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The Outside Agency

The Outside Agency are DJ Hidden and Eye-D, hardcore and drum & bass artists from Goes, Netherlands. The Producers As true dissidents within the hardcore scene, The Outside Agency has always had its own unique sound. This was already evident on their first release, which they produced for Mokum Records in 1996. After that period hardcore suffered a drastic change in direction and the two members of TOA no longer felt at home in the genre and focused their attention on drum & bass instead.

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