Noah Pred

Noah Pred: Toronto, Canada

Producing dance music and performing live for the past ten years, Noah Pred emerged from Vancouver's underground as a sought-after techno DJ with a sophisticated sound and unique style. Devoted to authentic and soulful strains of techno in all its permutations, Noah's sound continues to evolve while remaining firmly driven by the dancefloor.

Since his first records were released, his productions have received international support, garnering critical acclaim while moving dancefloors across the globe. As a DJ and live act, he's toured throughout Europe and North America, performing alongside such diverse artists as Josh Wink, Mathew Jonson, and James Holden. After a three-year stint in Montreal working for Consigned Recordings while holding a residency at Stereobar, Noah relocated to the West Coast to produce his field recording based techno full-length, 'Ecocosm', which was soon released on New Kanada.

Exploring his compositional versatility, Pred launched the Shen project in 2004. Geared towards digital downtempo, electronic dub and emotive IDM, Shen provided a creative outlet for productions that roam beyond the borders of clubland. Noah's debut Shen full-length, 'Outlines', was released on Native State Records in late 2006.

Now based in Toronto, Pred has developed a loyal and devoted following for his potent DJ sets while running the digital imprint Thoughtless Music from his studio headquarters. His recent productions and remixes have been causing a buzz, and following high profile performances at last year's MUTEK and Decibel festivals, Noah's poised for exciting things in the year ahead - with his new full-length, 'Blind Alignments' out now on Thoughtless.

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Max Cooper

Max Cooper is a London based musician and geneticist. A combination of these influences is evident in Max’s turntablist DJ sets, technical production style and abstract research topics. Max started DJing in the late 90's in his home city of Belfast, Gaining inspiration from artists like QBert, DJ Craze, Baboo and DJ Noize, who used turntables as instruments to create new beats and sounds through scratching and juggling. This DJ style consumed Max’s time for several years until he turned his focus to his next musical obsession in productions.
Max’s DJ career started in 1999, with a residency at ‘Rumour’ in Belfast. A move to Nottingham to pursue his scientific studies then followed, with the start of his long-standing residency at UK club night, ‘Firefly’, now in its 9th year. Max was quickly recognised by the media, receiving the label of Mixmag ‘future hero’. This National recognition helped Max along the way to a BBC Radio1 invite on Fergie’s Friday night show early in 2004. Max’s Radio1 set was well received, and provided him with a signing to Ornadel Management and Mainstage artists. This provided Max with regular dates across the UK and abroad while he pursued the development of his academic and music productions career. Following the completing of his degree, masters and PhD in Nottingham, Max made the move to London to work on new music and research projects. Currently his main projects include the development of his productions and DJing career with Traum schallplatten and management, Germany, mathematical modelling research on the evolution of networks of genes at University College London, and a sci-art project combining evolutionary and music production algorithms.

Since 2001, Max has played a fundamental role at Firefly, helping the night develop into the giant it is today. This residency has seen Max perform alongside acts including Jeff Mills, Booka Shade, Vitalic, Hot Chip, Dave Clarke, Justice, Digitalism, Derrick May, Slam, Alter Ego, Umek, Alex Under, M.A.N.D.Y., Stanton Warriors, Paul Woolford, Justin Robertson, Speedy J, Daddy G (Massive Attack), Marco Bailey, Andrew Weatherall, Ben Sims, Adam Freeland, Plump DJs, Technasia, Freq Nasty, Phil Kieran, Rolando, Fergie, Hybrid, Green Velvet, Luke Slater, Brodinski etc etc etc!

Max’s personal production career began in 2006, with signings to Firefly recordings and Evolved Records, with considerable chart and press review success for Max at an early stage. Much in line with Max’s DJing style, his production is a fusion of elements from electronica, minimal, electro and techno. 2007 saw Max gain new Residencies The Key - London, Stealth – Nottingham and The Cross – London. Firefly also continues to expand, with new events and festivals in Bristol, London, Sheffield, Birmingham and Nottingham. 2007 also saw Max’s turntablist skills commissioned by the BBC to make a scratch tutorial video which is available on the BBC website.

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dub KULT

dub KULT has been making music and DJing since 1990. His records and his label, Living, get props from everyone from Bug to Villalobos to Weatherall to Vath. He’s been remixed by Guido Schneider and remixed Efendin, and been in Groove’s top 10 techno releases of the year as early as 2003. He's released on Warp's offshoot Arcola, German labels Traum and Raum...Musik, Belgium’s Curle and has a track coming on the UK’s Veryverywrongindeed and a remix of Petar Dundov due out this year on Music Man. He did the soundtrack for Channel 4's upcoming Burning Man film, the Tomorrow's World Live show and he’s played every where from Watergate, Berlin, to Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

Always pushing the boundaries and an experimentalist at heart, he has developed a unique, bleeding edge live AV set with integrated improvised music and live triggered/generated visuals.

dub KULT doesn't serve up an arid musical mono-culture, but a rich mix. The diversity of his music is a reflection of his background ­ half-Indian, half-English, part-time member of both the cool crowd and the geek gaggle, neither definitively house nor techno. The music he makes is for both the head and the body. It is both experimental and accessible. Even tunes that seem made for those moments when you're lost on the dance-floor always have some latent, brooding meaning ­ an intention. Like few DJs of his generation, dub

KULT understands that at the centre of clubbing madness lies a still, reflective core.

It's a special insight into party music that's great for your mind, body and soul.

dub KULT is a man whose whole career has been dedicated to the un-ending call-and-response of rhythm, this time expressed in electronic music.

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Swayzak

James Taylor and David Brown
United Kingdom

As a true product of the musical diversity ever present in London, Swayzak drift among genres and create something that is undeniably original and distinctive. This is electronic music that has funk, feeling and atmosphere - not just breakbeats and samples.

is a tech house duo from the United Kingdom that consists of James S. Taylor and David Brown. They live and work in London and released their first 12" single "Bueno" / "Fukumachi" in February 1997 to much acclaim. It was followed up by the 12" "Speedboat" / "Low Rez Skyline" to become part of the burgeoning tech-house scene in the UK.

Their debut long player, Snowboarding in Argentina was released by The Medicine Label (USA) and Pagan Records (UK) in May 1998. It garnered many positive reviews. The album was later chosen as 1998 Album Of The Year in the U.S. dance publication Mixer.

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Noise Destruction

It's pretty fair to say that DJZ and FAKIR are the pioneers of house and techno culture in Serbia & Montenegro.They started as NOISE DESTRUCTION in 1992. although they met in 90. Their interest in HIPHOP and later ACID HOUSE resulted with collaboration and when their first bootleg/single called "Laki is a little nervous" became really big in clubs,duo decided to continue producing music. During the 90's they were responsible for building the scene in the country through their residencies in clubs,TV and RADIO shows and shocking live acts. Their first international recognition was through German NEUFORM label with 3 singles which came out during 1997-1998 In 1999. when EXIT festival started DJZ and FAKIR were involved and they stayed residents for this biggest festival in eastern europe for 4 years. NOISE DESTRUCTION performed live in june 2007. with CHEMICAL BROTHERS and on DANCE ARENA / EXIT festival in july 2007.After a long brake new tracks are coming out and they are starting their own label called Boomerang Fish with two sublabels Stativa and Vaseline Kamikezes.In June 2008 Noise Destruction will start hosting a internet radio show called Boomerang on greek Dance radio.

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Taras van de Voorde

Taras van de Voorde is a not to be overseen little big musical gem hailing from the Netherlands, at this moment Taras is rocking clubs locally as well as worldwide like in Athens, Lyon, Barcelona, London, Izmir, Istanbul and Antwerp as it was all he ever did since he was born, leaving nothing but a trail of dancefloor destruction and loads of smiling people behind.. This guy is seriously on a dancefloor shakin’ tech tip, working around the clock and world to promote his sound. Which can be described in one word as : DEEPGROOVYPROGRESSIVETECHHOUSEFUNK.

Definition of his sound is not too hard, not too soft but quality music with a firm uplifting energetic drive not afraid to bend or cross boundaries whenever necessary...and always with the goal to rock your socks off. Taras as a producer has already crafted a range of well-received and heavily supported tracks and remixes on highly respected labels like; Exceptional, Manual, Lofi-Soul, Stolen Moments and Octopus. Summer 2009 will be even more exciting due to his upcoming releases on Darko Esser’s Wolfskuil imprint which holds a massive remix made by Laurent Garnier’s ‘ F-Comm’ hero’s: The Youngsters and ofcourse his follow-up EP “Music Kills”on Exceptional records which has been released as we speak. Taras has also been asked to do the remix for Filippo Moscatello’s Kleinmond tune from his brilliant new album ‘Pagliaccio’ on Sasse’s and Berlin based label ‘Moodmusic’ , which will be released later this year.. also having Crepe D’amour peaking in rotation(270.000+Views and counting!!) on worlds best youtube deephouse channel and you could say that this is a pretty nice start of 2009 isn’t? But this aint all yet cause there is much more to come soon!

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ray K

ray K was born in Bartow FL sometime in the mid 70's. He grew affectionate for music of all forms very early in his childhood. His first mix tapes were done on large dictation tape recorders. Later he moved on to two tape decks and then two Belt Drive Turntables... All before teaching himself the art of sophisticated blend. His current mixes employ a wide variety of down tempo, classic, and current electronic dance music . In that respect there is really no specific sound for ray K . In one set or release he may play soulful / instrumental; in another he may be playing more progressive or techy. "There are only two requirements for the music I play. It must groove and it must be sexy."

Recently, more of the world was turned on to ray K with his guest mix appearance on Lars Behrenroth's Deeper Shades of House a popular weekly radio show for the deep house community, ray K's own radio show "The Rumor" www.wrumor.com is also gaining global poularity as well; featuring the roots and fundamental core music of electronica as well as new releases from producers all over the world. Future plans for ray K involve more work in the studio; as he is now working on his fourth original release and a host of edits and remixes.

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00 Ray K flhousemusic@aol.com by rayk