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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Boards of Canada

Boards of Canada (commonly abbreviated BoC) are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Michael Sandison (born June 1, 1970) and Marcus Eoin Sandison (born July 21, 1971). They are signed with Warp Records and have released several works on that label with little advertising and few interviews, while also having an elusive and obscure back-catalogue of releases on their self-run Music70 label. They have also recorded a few minor works under the alias Hell Interface.

Boards of Canada's music is reminiscent of the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970s media and contains themes of childhood, nostalgia and the natural world. Michael and Marcus have mentioned the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which the group's name is derived, as a source of inspiration.

BoC's sound is a product of their use of analog equipment, mix of electronic and conventional instrumentation, use of distorted samples as well as live and recorded lyrics, and their layering and blending of these elements. Their avoidance of a purely synthetic sound gives their music a warmer, emotive quality often meant to inspire nostalgia. This is helped by the use of samples sourced from 1970s television shows and other media prevalent in the era of the brothers' shared childhood, especially the nature-inspired documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

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Archive - You All LookThe Same To Me

ARCHIVE started off as a trip-hop outfit back in 1994 when Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths got together with female singer Roya Arab and a young rapper named Roski John. They released a few singles on their own Swam label and broke up in 1996 following some dispute. A year later, they reformed with new personnel to record their first official album entitled "Londinium" - purely trip-hop. After a brief split-up once again, Keeler and Griffiths hired yet another couple of musicians and in 1999, released "Take My Head" - strictly a pop album. In 2002, with yet another set of helpers, they finally decided to go prog and gave us "You All Look the Same to Me".

From the very first notes of "You All Look the Same to Me", you can tell the boys all hold their PINK FLOYD collections in high esteem. It incorporates mainly floydian elements with some RADIOHEAD and COLDPLAY, and features some well orchestrated epics that merit its inclusion on this site. However, the fan base is much divided as to its progressive merits: some rave about it while others would much rather have the boys stick to their trip-hop shenanigans. One thing they do agree on is the excellent musicianship displayed throughout.

If you're a true-blue PINK FLOYD affionado, ARCHIVE's latest release won't live up to your standards. If RADIOHEAD or PORCUPINE TREE meet your prog criteria, then there's a fair chance you will appreciate it.



Studio Album, released in 2002

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Again (16:19)
2. Numb (5:47)
3. Meon (5:43)
4. Goodbye (5:38)
5. Now And Then (1:22)
6. Seamless (1:43)
7. Finding It So Hard (15:33)
8. Fool (8:26)
9. Hate (3:41)
10. Need (2:27)
11. Again (Radio Edit) Bonus track (3:30)
12. Men Like You (Exclusive New Track) (3:56)

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BT

Brian Transeau (born Brian Wayne Transeau on October 4, 1971, in Rockville, Maryland) is a musician who records under the stage name BT. Classically trained from the age of 13, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for one year before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles, California, and then back to Washington, D.C…

Brian Transeau is the father of a young daughter, Kaia. He lives and composes his works in his Los Angeles home/studio in which he has a few Apple G5’s and 8 AMD dual-core Opteron 64-bit desktops which he uses for his techno-wizardry.

BT is known in production circles for his signature technique, the stutter edit, also known as the BT stutter. This technique consists of taking a small sample of a sound and then repeating it in a rhythmic way.

When recording with other artists, BT has used the aliases Kaistar, Libra, Dharma, Prana, Elastic Reality, Elastic Chakra, and GTB.

In February 2009 BT began to use Twitter to update his fans on the progress of his new album, BT has described the album as, "very focused, glitchy beats, lots for a dancefloor, amazing mixes and great guitars." He has also stated that his long awaited software releases will be released along with this new album as a limited edition box set containing remix material for all of the new songs.

This following information could change as the album has not yet been released.

Track names:

Feed The Monster
Metric Convolution
The Unbreakable (Feat. Rob Dickinson)
Suddenly
Rose of Jericho
Every Other Way (feat. Jes)
The Light In Me (feat. Jes)
A Million Stars (Unconfirmed)



BT Albums:

Ima
ESCM
Movement in Still Life
Emotional Technology
This Binary Universe


Remixes
BT has remixed songs from Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Sasha, Diana Ross, and Seal.

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Ben Watt

Ben Watt (born 6 December 1959, Barnes, London) is a UK musician, DJ, and record producer, best known as one half of the duo, Everything but the Girl. Watt is the son of British bandleader Tommy Watt. He lives with his spouse and creative partner Tracey Thorn in North London. The couple have twin daughters born in 1998 and a son born in 2001.

Ben Watt began recording in the early 1980s with a collection of folk-jazz solo recordings on Malvern, Worcestershire indie label Cherry Red (North Marine Drive). He then joined forces with vocalist Tracey Thorn in 1982 and concentrated for 18 years on writing and recording nine studio albums together as Everything but the Girl, racking up several UK Top 10 singles and albums and a global and U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-two ("Missing") in 1995. The band memorably shifted focus from their alt-pop in the mid 90's to achieve widespread recognition for their hugely successful interpretations of electronica (Walking Wounded, "Protection" with Massive Attack, Temperamental).

He run two independent record labels called Buzzin' Fly (House and Techno flavours) and Strange Feeling (Alt-Indie).

Now a central figure on London's club scene, Watt DJs regularly in the capital as well as all over Europe, Australia and North America with regular sell-out shows in many metropolitan cities. 2005 saw him tour extensively on the festival circuit (Good Vibrations, Homelands, Coachella, Ibiza, Lovebox Weekender, Electric Picnic)

Ben also hosts a weekly radio show, the Buzzin' Fly Radio Show




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