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dour festival 2006

Ed Rush & Optical

Both Ed Rush and Optical are the co-heads of a drum and bass record label called Virus Recordings, based in London, UK. Both have earned acclaim separately, with Optical engineering tracks on Goldie and Grooverider's albums and releasing some excellent solo tunes on the likes of Prototype, 31, and Metro. Ed Rush also has countless releases, notably on No U-Turn, where he and Nico first emphasized the dark era of drum and bass with the masterpiece album Torque, and Metalheadz, where he produced such classics as "The Raven" and "Locust".

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Elan Tamara

Elan Tamara is a singer/songwriter/instrumentalist and has been writing music since she was 14 years old. Elan Tamara first discovered a love for the piano when she was 8 and rekindled that love in her teenage years (also picking up the saxophone at 11 years old). She began writing instrumental pieces for the piano at around 14 years old, moving on to piano/vocal songs when she was 15/16 years old.

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Space DJz

There are few Djz and producers in the modern techno world who can truly claim to have pioneered a style and sound, and call it their own. Such statements are often declared, but rarely justified. In the case of Ben Long and Jamie Bissmire, the names behind the revered Space DJz this claim would be unarguable.??Ever since the pair's formation in the early 1900's their unerring ability to fuse techno with their life long love of Hip Hop, has set them aside from there peers.

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Sweatshop

A DJ and a rookie producer, who both had a long experience at the turntables within the Belgian electro scene, formed Sweatshop in 2001 for the fun of mixing together. This cosmopolitan duo then moved on to producing tracks and five years later became a trio. In 2003 their first 12 I like it dirty is signed on Eskimo Records. 2004 is the first live show at Club Dirty Dancing (Brussels). In 2005 the track Back in the days (remixed by Kiki) marks the beginning of the alliance with Dirty Dancing Recordings.

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Giant Drag

Giant Drag is a Californian group, composed of singer/guitarist Annie Hardy and simultaneous drummer/synth-player Micah Calabrese. They have released an EP, Lemona, in 2003 and a debut album, Hearts And Unicorns, which was released in the United States on September 13, 2005, and February 27, 2006 in the UK. Giant Drag played their first show on June 4, 2003 at the Scene in Los Angeles, eventually getting residencies at area clubs Silverlake Lounge and Spaceland.

Read more about Giant Drag on Last.fm.

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lefto

DJ/Producer LEFTO started in 1996. His father had to borrow money from the bank to buy two turntables to his son. And here he is. He learned his first scratches and mix techniques with AKRO of Starflam. LEFTO finished an album of remixes called “Out Of The Blue” for the prestigious jazz label BLUE NOTE in 2005 and dropped an ep of instrumental beats in the same period, a well-demanded record in Japan. The record has been re-released as a box-version for Blue Note Records in 2007. Today he is a demanded dj in Amsterdam, Paris, Prague and all around Belgium.

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Furyon

Think you know what FURYON are? Think again! Since their inception FURYON have been a band who like nothing more than to challenge expectations. Raised on a diet of heavy metal, prog, and classic rock, FURYON mix all these components for a truly unique and contemporary sound. Delivering huge rock radio friendly songs, with technically challenging, yet infectiously catchy musicianship. Dedicated to one sole purpose, making hard hitting songs that will stand the test of time.

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Terence Fixmer

Terence Fixmer, born in Lille (north of France at the Belgium border) in 1972, discovered the EBM (ELECTRONIC BODY MUSIC) when he was 15 and became a NITZER EBB-, FRONT 242-, KLINIK-, - AND DAF- fan. At the beginning of the 89-90's he was a party freaker and his interest for the electronic sound increased with the apparition of the New-Beat and Techno in Belgium. At this time he started to buy records and " flashed" on VORTREX from FINAL EXPOSURE(+8). In 1992, he decided to produce his own music and he started to throw parties called "Cosmos" and "Space" in a club called PYRAMIDE.

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