Nov
10
Dj Laurent Garnier
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Dj Laurent Garnier
In 1987 he discovered the Haçienda club in Manchester and met Mike Pickering the resident DJ. Chicago House and Detroit Techno became very popular, and Garnier started mixing at the Haçienda club under the name of DJ Pedro. Garnier becomes one of the first Europeans to begin mixing American house music in Britain, [...]
Jul
16
Digweed
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In addition to Europe, Digweed has had a tremendous career in North America. Digweed, along with Sasha, established a monthly residency at the now defunct New York club Twilo, a legendary residency that established itself at the forefront of progressive trance and house music into the American mainstream. Digweed underwent a six week country-wide tour [...]
Jul
16
Paul Oakenfold
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In 1987, Oakenfold spent several months in Ibiza, Spain, where he fell in love with the dance club music (see 1987 in music). Using influences from Ibiza’s sound, Italo disco, soul and house, Oakenfold produced Happy Mondays’ Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, followed by productions of remixes for U2, Massive Attack, Arrested Development, The Cure, [...]
Jul
16
Ferry Corsten
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Ferry Corsten started to work as a musician in 1991, producing underground hardcore Gabber tracks, later expanding into club-house and trance music.[citation needed] In 1999 he produced Out of the Blue (under the alias System F), a melodic tune that became a hit on dance floors all over the world.[citation needed] His growing popularity in [...]
Jul
16
Deep Dish
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Deep Dish is a duo of DJ and house music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, DC they are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle, and for their live DJing sets. They often collaborate [...]
Jul
16
Sasha
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Sasha (born Alexander Coe on 4 September 1969), is a Welsh DJ and record producer. Sasha began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s, and became a central figure in the development and popularisation of electronic dance music. He partnered with fellow DJ John Digweed in 1993, touring internationally and producing [...]
Jul
16
ATB
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Andre Tanneberger has been living in two worlds for quite some time. One is the world of electronic music, where he has created extraordinary, melodious club tracks and played countless DJ sets all over the globe. Worldwide fame came courtesy of numerous top ten hits such as “9 PM (Till I Come)”, “Don’t Stop”, “Killer”, [...]
Jul
16
Carl Cox
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Carl Cox began 1996 with the launch of his own record label, Worldwide Ultimatum, releasing his debut self-produced album ‘At The End Of The Cliche’. This album was a culmination of influences gained from 18 years of the experience. It took over two years to complete ans stormed up the UK charts attaining a position [...]
Jul
16
PAUL VAN DYK
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Born December 16th, 1971 in Eisenhuettenstadt, East Germany, Paul grew up in communist East Berlin. Prior to Germany’s reunification, he at least had an early window to the capitalist world via the cross-border airwaves.
“We were able to see Westside - TV and listen to western radio stations. We recorded the music and replayed it at [...]
Jul
16
Tiesto
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Tiesto’s career is punctuated by landmark achievements ‘ the first DJ in the world to sell out a solo stadium event for over 25,000 people, he scored a number one hit with his single Traffic, the first instrumental track to reach the top spot in his homeland of Holland in 23 years. His remix of [...]