Artists
Artists Listing
Find information (bio, MySpace, website, etc.) on your favourite Catwalk DJ’s, such as:her
Alejandro Vivanco, Alexi Delano, Aril Brikha, André Galluzzi, Andre Crom, jengB-Voice, Bart Skils, Benny Rodrigues, Billy Nasty, Boris Ross, Cess, Chris Liebing, Dapayk, Dave Angel, Daniel Stefanik, Dollkraut, Edwin Oosterwal, Fabienne Soigni, Francisco Allendes, Freshest Kids, Guido Schneider, Hertz & Vibes, Hilbert Stoon, I-F, Ido Aux, Ilario Alicante, 100% Isis, Jack de Marseille, Fairmont, James Nidecker, Jamie Lie A Kwie, Jay Samuel, Joey Daniel, Jeff Moore, Jeng Do, Jessin Neijts, Joachim, Joey Daniel, Joris Voorn, Karotte, Khalil, Len Faki, Loco Dice, Luna City Express, Mathias Tanzmann, Move-D, Marbert Rocel, Mattheis, Mesquitas, Michel de Hey, Monica Electronica, Monotron, Moodymann, Onur Ozer, Perry, Philogresz, Prinz, Raresh, Rauwkost, Remute, Sandeep, Serge, Speedy J, Steelo, Steven P, Taras van de Voorde, Tony Rorh, Warren Fellow, 3 Channels and more to come…
Artists biographies:
Sandeep, NL
Influenced by groovy Rotterdam tech-house and raw french house, Love2party.nl front man Sandeep started spinning in 2003. With monthly nights in Las Palmas, Off Corso, Nighttown and Winkel van Sinkel his dj star rose and soon he was asked to play all around the Netherlands. Since then he played with the likes of Laurent Garnier, Derrick May, Chris Liebing, Kevin Saunderson, Speedy J, Karotte and Loco Dice and played big parties like Free Your Mind Festival, Rockit Open Air, Time Warp NL, Cocoon Clubbing, Solar Weekend to name a few.
Nowadays, next to playing many festivals, (beach)parties and clubnights, Sandeep is the host of the popular dik (every second month on saturday) and Freak! (every first Thursday of the month) parties in de Catwalk in Rotterdam. Also he is the organiser of the Love2party Talent Room, a place where young talented artists show their skills and can win a gig at Free Your Mind festival. Off course he is also the resident for all Love2party events. Recently Sandeep started experimenting with producing, resulting in his first production release, “Into the Deep” EP on Niteworks Recordings.
His style can be described as a suprising and distinct mix between (deep)house, minimal, groove and tech-house. Deep, groovy and atmospheric with an energetic drive.
Jamie Lie A Kwie, NL
Jamie Lie A Kwie (22 years old) has always been interested in music. In his younger years he listened to old funk and breakdance music. Later when he started clubbing he got involved with a new music genre; House music. Ever since his first encounter his passion for house music grew. Not much later, on the age of 17 he bought his first turntables and started playing house music. House is a very broad genre and he started to develop himself inside this genre. He plays a variety of minimal techno with some good (deep)tech-house on the side
At the age of 20 he had already played in all the large venues in Rotterdam, such as Offcorso, Now&Wow/Maassilo and Thalia but he had the feeling he could never really do his own thing. After supporting a friend in the TWSTd dj contest he decided he wanted to compete also, to show people what he could do behind the decks and where his real interests in music lay. This proved to be a very good decision because after playing in twstd a few times he was already asked to play at the Rockit Open Air Festival. Later that year he won the quarterfinals and the semifinals and he was on his way to the Paradiso where the final took place. He played a very good set and won the jury price.
After winning the contest he found the confidence he needed to go on with playing his own style of music, because he felt people accepted it. Later that year he played at several clubs in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where he also had some residencies, and he made his second appearance at the Rockit Open Air Festival. At the moment he is beginning to start producing his own music. Since April this year he attends the Electronic Music Production course at the SAE institute to extend his production techniques. You will definitely see and hear more of this upcoming artist.
Hilbert Stoon, NL
Hilbert is a busy creative person who’s interest in electronic music is reflected in everything he does. After collecting records for quite some years he started to develop his own sound with contemporary electronic house music. Nowadays his groovy and multicolored dj sets are taking the listeners on a deep trip and some unpredictable turns. Influenced by artists like Mathew Dear, Mike Shannon, Frivolous and many other he decided to start producing his own music under his own name and under the name BERG VÖGEL. At the moment he is developing his netlabel PONYBAR with releases of himself en friends. Last years he has been active on all fronts. Besides being a illustrator he started hosting his own platform named “Expectations in Hi-Fi” with monthly sold out nights and featured artists such as Mark Henning and Agnes, Frivolous, Tom Ellis, Dub Taylor, and many more.
Joey Daniel, NL
Joey started listening and making music at a young age. Drums were his first passion, but growing older the love for electronic music took over. On the age of fifteen he heard Michel de Heys record ‘Future’ from the famous Nighttown party’s and from then on Joey was hooked. It became pretty clear to him that a new goal in his life had to be fulfilled. Making the people dance! He’s doing so for over a few years now, spinning a fresh mix of house, minimal and techno.
Joey’s career took off in ‘Off Corso’ where Joey started as resident of ‘Electro Rockers’ and later added the Off Corso / Electronation ‘GlamTech’ night to his list of residencies. After a while, becoming more wise and focused Joey was asked to be one of ‘Now and Wow’s’ residents and programmers. At this point things started to roll and Joey conquers his spot in the Dutch dance scene.
Next to DJ’ing Joey started a new clubnight in September 2008 called ‘Selektor’ in Rotterdam’s Off Corso. Gregor Tresher, Paco Osuna, Paul Kalkbrenner, Johnny D, Chaim and Andomat 3000 are just a few names on the list of dj’s who stood behind the desks and has put Selektor on the map of one of Holland’s finest party’s in Rotterdam.
These days Joey mainly puts his heart and soul into his other techno clubnight, named 300MPH, which is held every 1st Friday of the month. Joey has found the perfect homebase for his 300MPH night Catwalk! Music and architecture turned out to be one hell of a combination.
Jeff Moore, NL
Jessin Neijts, NL
Jessin Neijts, sounds like; deep minimal, technical house and rare sounds. Using extraordinary records, his style developed from early deephouse to ‘minimal’, before it became ‘minimal’. Jessin has a distinct own identity, always in search of new material to add to his style. All together creating a groovy, hypnotising whole. Through refined transitions in his mixes he tries to create new sounds. Some of his strongest influences are a lot of warm deephouse musicians from cold Moscow, such as SCSI-9 and BVoice . Some other influences are: Iron Box, Frivolous, Dial, Jay Samuel and an untold number of beautiful tracks.
Hertz & Vibes, NL
Hertz & Vibes is a formation of two young creative guys whose real names are Patrick Hertgers and Dirk-Jan Wessels. Both grown up in the east of the Netherlands between some cows and sheep. They both played various classical instruments in their childhood like organ, piano, guitar and they even rocked the saucepans in their mother’s kitchen.
Because they both were not interested in the farmer industry they bought two turntables and a simple mixer in 2001. From that moment on their musical trip started and if it depends on Hertz & Vibes it never ends.
During a holiday in Turkey in 2004 they got in contact with an event organizer and played on different events in Alanya (of which The Auditorium). This was a major success and resolved in some bookings during the summer of 2005. They were booked for some events in Zagreb (Croatia) and got to play with names like Marco Carola and Derrick May.
Overwhelmed by the enthusiastic reactions of the crowd, they were determined to go on with it.
In the autumn of 2005 they both moved to Rotterdam to start their study. But it also gave Hertz & Vibes lots of inspiration for the sound they are playing nowadays. The electronic music adventure just started.
Their DJ-sets could not be described as one sound, it’s a solid mix of house, tech-deephouse, minimal and techno driven by groovy basslines and funky percussive rhythms. While playing they always keep in mind what time they are playing, the atmosphere they are playing in and the audience they are playing for.
In 2007 Hertz & Vibes reached the finals of the Amsterdam based TWSTD DJ-contest at the famous dutch club ‘De Melkweg’. Every year, the Dommelsch TWSTd DJ Contest involves 160 promising new DJ’s who go head to head over more than 80 rounds.
Reaching the finals in Hollands biggest and most respected DJ-contest was again a confirmation for Hertz & Vibes to go on with their musical carreer.
In december 2007 they got the opportunity to host their own clubnight at the Catwalk club in Rotterdam. From the beginning it was a huge succes which resolves in a monthly residency at this club untill now.
Nowadays Hertz & Vibes are focusing on their musical productions and starting up their own label: Hertz & Vibes Records.
Jeng Do, NL
Having lived in Alphen ad Rijn (The Netherlands) and Amsterdam, Jeng Do is based in Rotterdam since 2003. Producer for many years with passion for making music and a need to create and to express his emotions through music. Since 2005 he performes live, from chill sets in a restaurant to pounding techno sets in dark basements. In 2005 tracks of his appeared on vinyl for the first time on the album Electronic Generation, So Nasty Records. Halfway 2006 the development of his own label Tuneskin started and he started calling himself Jeng Do. A new time had come and his productions took a leap to depths he had never before expressed this qualitative. NYE ‘06/’07 he did his first Jeng Do live set with his new material for an enthousiastic crowd and from that moment on he got to play live in venues like Off Corso, Doornroosje and Catwalk and on events like Awakenings and ADE.
In 2008 several digital Jeng Do releases appeared, like the earlier on vinyl released Electronic Generation tracks, now on SD Records. February 2009 his well received Nine Five EP was released on Sound Architecture Records and support came from names like Karotte, Josh Wink, Jamie Anderson and many more jocks. July 2009 in cooperation with Club Listig the first Tuneskin showcase was organised at Catwalk in Rotterdam, presenting the artists that joined Tuneskin over time and that represent Tuneskin all the way now. In October a second showcase followed and Saturday November 14th ‘09 the first official label night called Skindip. The future for this artist withholds releases on Tuneskin and performances with the Tuneskin crew on showcases and label nights.
Mesquitas, NL (Aruba)
At the age of 20 Mesquitas decided to move to The Netherlands. Struggling in Eindhoven to get some nice gigs, frustrated Mesquitas together with Tom v/d Woude (Hendrick Woods) came to the idea of starting their very own event organization. Later that year Mproductionz was born, only active in the Minimal and Techno scene since January 2008 it is surprising to see that Mesquitas and Mproductionz are where they are today.
Now being an established DJ with Residencies at: Mproductionz, MONO40, Meer of Minder, Fassade Records in Germany, Sound Architecture Records in Rotterdam, Minimal and Melodies Music in Hungary and Club Catwalk, Mesquitas is looking for new ways to keep you, wanting more of him. Ultimately wanting to perform among the best, is just Mesquitas endless drive and addiction to always step up the boundaries. Spending most of his time working in the studio, and meeting talented new and established artist, only makes Mesquitas more driven and better at what it is he does.
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Jay Samuel, NL
Years ago Jay got acquainted with the funky techno sound played out in the basement of Nighttown Rotterdam. Jay accompanied Michel de Hey on his bookings, and eventually was invited to be warm-up DJ at de Hey’s Friday night at Nighttown. A few months later Jay became resident DJ for the Future and monthly resident at club night ‘On’ at Off Corso Rotterdam. During the last years Jay has been concentrating on producing, solo and with the likes of Angelo Faassen (Biological), Warren Fellow and long time friend Joachim Marijnen (Sound Architecture).
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Steven P, NL
His interest in electronic dance music started to grow at the tender age of ten. As little as two years later he bought his first set of turntables. Nowadays he plays his hypnotising music to crowds throughout the country on a regular basis. Although it’s hard to stick a certain label to his sound, it can be best described as atmospheric deep, and minimal house with a soulful twist. However, depending on the circumstances he is also known to play acid and breakbeat. One of his key features is definitely the way he makes intelligent grooves accessible to his audience.
Warren Fellow, NL
Warren Fellow is an International DJ with a great talent for music.
He has been active as a DJ for several years now and has witnessed the dawning of the house-scene. Since then his drive and passion for house-music and making people dance has been unstoppable.
Warren Fellow has been invited to doing gigs all over Europe in countries like Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Brittain, Spain & Ibiza.
What makes Warren Fellow so special as a DJ is that he has huge creative musical talent along with a “sixth sense” for communicating with his audience. His heart goes out to his audience who just want to dance and have a great experience. Warren Fellow has the ability to make an audience go completely wild, until (so to speak) the roof comes off.
As producer Warren Fellow is constantly exploring the borders of what is possible in house-music.
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Billy Nasty, UK
Nasty is a musical wanderer by nature and became frustrated by the time spent administrating his labels and DJ agency. He withdrew from Theremin and has now begun to wind down all the labels. He’s out there with one foot in the future whilst retaining the lessons of his lively history, playing the most futuristic sounds – but on vinyl.
Joris Voorn, NL
Joris Voorn is a producer and DJ from Rotterdam. Raised in a musical family, music became a big part of his life from an early age. In about 1995, electronic music caught his attention for the first time. Getting deeper into this music as he started DJing in 1997, Joris developed an interest in techno and house. He started thinking about making his own music and bought the versatile MC-303 groovebox to experiment with synth and drumloops.
At the end of 2000, Joris started building a small studio to produce his own output – this led to his first release, muted trax pt. 1, on Keynote. This first EP was quite a success and was played Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier, DJ Rush, Technasia and many more. Since then, Joris has released EPs on various labels such as Keynote, Sound Architecture, Line and Wolfskuil.
In 2003, Lost memories Pt.1 was released on Technasia’s SINO label, and was followed up by Lost memories Pt.2 which featured a track called Incident. It gained success was licensed for several big-name DJ mix CDs.
In October 2004 Joris’ debut CD album called “Future History” was released on Sino, containing 20 diverse tracks that were made over his first few years of making electronic music. The album was very well received by national newspapers and international dance magazines.
Summer 2005, and Joris’ new personal outlet called green saw the light of day. A dedicated mind was released as a first strong EP. He has also been working on his debut DJ mix CD for the Fuse club in Belgium. After Dave Clarke, DJ Hell and Technasia, Fuse now presents Joris Voorn to mix part 4 tracks of timeless techno sic mixed with the help of the Ableton Live for its endless mixing and editing possiblites.
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Michel de Hey, NL
Michel de Hey must be seen as one of the people who took responsibility for dance music and its direction in Rotterdam. With his talent both as a producer and as a DJ, Michel opened the door to techno and tech house for a lot of people. Over the years Michel succeeded to get a solid reputation abroad through his excellent DJ performances at clubs, parties and festival events across the globe.
His DJ career kicked of in 1986 and with his first recording release ‘Break’ he entered the Top 10 of the US Billboard Dance Charts. Since then, Michel de Hey developed his funky techno sound to what it is today. Many times Michel has been nominated for national dance awards such as the LSDA Awards, the TMF Nokia Awards and the Update Dance Awards. Michel de Hey has won the award for Best Techno DJ of the Netherlands for the fourth time!
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Bart Skils, NL
Bart Skils’ career started in 1995 when he started working for the classic label and recordstore Outland Records. First playing in Amsterdam’s legendary Mazzo club he became resident with his weekly VOLTT nights.
Known for his smooth mixing and dynamic sets he steadily developed his own typical deep driving techno style. Nowadays he is considered to be part of the so called 2nd generation of Dutch techno that include artists like 2000 and One, Shinedoe, Joris Voorn/Rejected and Polder. His style ranges from rhythmic deep techno to minimal electronics, always funky and danceable.
He is also one of the founders and host of the highly respected VOLTT, Traffic and Static events, all situated in Amsterdam. Traffic is based at the famous Melkweg venue and focuses on the classic techno sound while his VOLTT and Static events, based in Dutch poptempel Paradiso and Club 11, are more deep and smooth. With regular appearances from artists like Luciano, Richie Hawtin, Marco Carola and Ricardo Villalobos the Traffic, Static and VOLTT nights are seen as one of the leading club nights around with a great fan base and good atmosphere.
On the production level Bart has been active releasing on Pure Plastic (London) and together with his production partner Anton Pieete as District One on 100% Pure (Amsterdam). Both labels have a long history and reached classic status through the years releasing artists like 2000 And One, Deetron, Derrick May, Joris Voorn/Rejected, Polder, Adam Beyer, Shinedoe, Mark Broom Steve Rachmad and Baby Ford. Their typical deep driving production style is charted and played by key players like Guido Schneider, Luciano, Adam Beyer, Deep Dish, Villalobos, Loco Dice, Sven Vath, Mathew Dear, Richie Hawtin and Dominik Eulberg to name a few.
With his residencies in clubs like Paradiso, Club 11 and Melkweg alongside regular gigs at major clubs and dance events like Awakenings, Berghain, Cocoon, Lowlands, Dance Valley, Extrema and 10 Days Off he’s built himself a strong solid reputation for quality music.
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Francisco Allendes, CL
After 8 years of studying violin and performing with chamber orchestras and folkloric bands, Francisco discovered the progressive rock and the sound of the synthesizers at the age of 17. That was his first contact with electronic instruments, which encouraged him to start researching for new sounds and discover electronic music.
On 2001, at the age of 20, Francisco starts mixing records on little parties in Santiago and in a short time, helped in a way by the boom of electronic music in Chile, he became part of the professional circle of Chilean djs. On 2003, he releases his first album, Vacas Locas, an independent CD with 9 tracks that was very well received and triggered the prize of BEST NATIONAL ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN given by Ballantines Pulse on March 2004. 3 months after Vacas Locas, Francisco releases Cyberpunk EP an independent 12” with 4 new tracks, that made him start touring different cities of Chile showing his work. In April 2005, Francisco won for second time the prize BEST NATIONAL ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN given by Ballantines Pulse, and in May he released his third work Edicion Limitada de bajo Presupuesto touring different cities of Chile.
The second half of 2005 Francisco decided to go out of his country and settled down in Zaragoza, Spain, working with the spanish Dj and producer Iñigo Oruezabal. Together, as MONOMACHINE and GARLIC, they released several records during 2006. Francisco is today recognized like one of the best djs and producers of techno of a new era of chilean artists. He has shared stage with artists like Alejandro Vivanco, Miguel Tutera, Marcelo Rosselot, Savas Pascalidis, Luciano, The Penelopes, Marc Ayats, Angel Molina, Iñigo Oruezabal, Alexi Delano, Bando, Miss Dinky and played in big gigs like Techfest, Open Rave, Southfest, Creamfields, Love Parade .
Back in Chile, starting 2007, Francisco associated with his long time friend marcelo Rosselot and started the first Vinyl and Digital Record Label based in Chile, Andes Music.
Philogresz, TR
Philogresz sound is moody, melodic, jazzy and organically composed. Yet it is arrogantly arranged techno with absolutely no boundaries.
Confident enough to experiment on stage with complex beats and percussive lines, he achieves his intention of moving people with his subtle style.
He has so far put out our records on record labels (selected):
WARE, Night Drive Music, 3rd Wave, Perplex, Manual,
Stolen Moments, Magnitude, Sound Architecture,
and his own imprint TEAM records.
Philogresz is currently responsible for label and A&R management of TEAM records started by Dutch techno producer Secret Cinema/Grooveyard.
As an artist he has released “Debut on Blackwarm EP” incl. remixes of Secret Cinema and Qbical, which had numerous overwhelming reviews on International Media, including DJBroadcast, Ibiza Voice, Beatfreax and The Clubbing..
In the past years, he presented himself as a producer of the deeper moods of techno and got attention of:
Dubfire, Luciano, Sasha, Ricardo Villalobos, Martin Eyerer, Joris Voorn, Karotte, Steve Lawler, Rejected,
Rulers of the Deep, Tyler Stadius, Mathias Schaffhäuser, Laurent Garnier and many more.
Luna City Express, DE
Norman grew up with music. In his young years he already accompanied his father on tour, who played in various bands and was making his living as a DJ. His love to music and nightlife grew strong very early. The styles that influenced his music were funk, disco, hip-hop as well as acid-jazz. At the age of 14 he held his first chicago house mix-tape in hands… A fundamental occasion for his future career.
In the beginning of the 90’s, Marco discovered electronic music. He was making his first experiences with synthesizers and drum-computers in the cellar-studio of a friend, rigging up first beats. In the Berlin youth club All1 he was able to get the chance to spinn his first records and to play in front of an audience. He kept on doing ever since and found over acid, trance and techno tunes very quickly to house music.
Marco and Norman got to know each other in Laciano (Italy) on the “Muna Sonnenhaus Millenium” party. Both felt very quickly that their music was surfing the same wave.
When Norman decided to move to Berlin one year later, there were no more obstacles of working together. They performed more and more as a dj team, organized their own parties, presenting until today a style that includes all aspects of house music – from deep to technotic.
In 1999 Marco and other friends decided to start another, own studio project called Audiogain. This soon turned out to fail for everyone went their own way. Marco though held on to the project – or more the studio, made himself independent as a freelancer and worked on several projects. Together with Norman he produced down-beats, trip-hop and deep-house. The contact to Martin Landsky resulted in his first release on Intim Recordings in 2002.
From the first half of 2005 on, Marco and Norman have joined and strengthened the team of Moon Harbour Records. They have launched a full sized first appearance on Moon Harbour and ever since belong to the main crew.
Moodymann, US
Kenny Dixon Jr.’s outspoken views on the state of black techno and his aversion to publicity put him in a league occupied by few Detroit producers other than Underground Resistance supremo “Mad” Mike Banks, though his tech-house productions as Moodymann are soulful in a league few could expect.
Dixon began producing early in the ’90s, and inaugurated his own KDJ Records in 1994 with the Moody Trax EP. Following singles like “The Day We Lost the Soul” and “I Can’t Kick This Feelin When It Hits” proved one of the best fusers of short, soulful disco samples to the harder minimalist Detroit techno.
Further singles for After Midnight, Music Is…, and Carl Craig’s Planet E Records (including the brilliant Dem Young Sconies EP) solidified Dixon’s place in Detroit techno, though his stance on promotion remained firm.
Much of his KDJ output appeared on 1997’s A Silent Introduction, while the following year’s Mahogany Brown brought much new material. Forevernevermore, released in 2000, collected more of his KDJ material and added several new tracks as well.
Rauwkost, NL
In 2006 Floris Regoort & Jasper Löwik meet each other in a small club in Utrecht (Netherlands). They soon realize that they share the same passion, music. They decide to meet in the studio for a jam-session. This jam rocked unimaginably well and they decided to go through with it and to start producing tracks together. After a lot of fine-tuning and experiences they found their own vibe and setting.
Their style is best described as minimal techno, but with a contemporary and stubborn twist. Their music varies from real minimal to heavy emotional and melodic tracks.
Speedy J, NL
Jochem Paap (the Rotterdam artist owes the nickname Speedy J to his DJ skills) is unanimously considered to be one of the first techno producers to come from the Benelux. Together with people like Laurent Garnier, Aphex Twin and Richie Hawtin he helped raising the genre just after it had escaped the Detroit delivery room.
Since the early nineties, Speedy J releases on labels like Plus 8, Warp and Novamute. But while techno develops into a dominating force on many dance floors worldwide, Jochem Paap, after the albums G Spot (1993) and Ginger (1995), turns left and heads for other exciting places. On Public Energy No. 1 (1997) and A Shocking Hobby (2000) the sound wizard exchanges flowing, harmonious techno for a much more complex sound, filled with colliding samples, crackling rhythms and tremendously thrilling turns. After fifteen years of techno Speedy J now has come full circle. But what a wide circle it was, and how fickle the trodden path.
Over the years he has collaborated with video-artists, filmmakers and advertisers, made the pioneering DVD Umfeld, an audio-visual, electronic trip, which sets the standard for many composers who want to compose for six speakers in the coming years – remarkably made available as a free download on the internet. But not only that, Speedy J has continuously been pushing the boundaries of electronic & experimental dance music. Blurring the lines between Live performance and Digital DJing, he fuses subversive electronics and peak time Techno.
Together with his partner in crime Chris Liebing he started using Traktor and other Software technology on 4 laptops with hardware such as Machine Drum and 303’s to create a fully integrated set. Again he is spearheading a way of DJing that is picked up by a lot of other forward thinking electronic artists.
Logically, the releases on his label Electric Deluxe all feature tool versions, introducing the concept of creating unique live sets from parts as a natural evolution of DJing. Not only setting the bar for peak hour Techno madness, Electric Deluxe becomes the platform for his Collabs series that started on Novamute, as well as releases by open minded artists like Chris Liebing, George Issakidis, Tommy Four Seven and Terrence Fixmer to showcase the value of creative synergy using newest technology.
Another strong part of this idea is the introduction of a new series of techno events called Electric Deluxe presents, which in a young history of just a couple of editions brought major artists like Richie Hawtin, Marco Carola, Radio Slave, Matthew Dear, Chris Liebing into play.
Speedy J’s musical vision is genre blurring, creative freedom at the highest level of innovation and quality, it is providing a platform for artists operating within any conceivable genre in the broad spectrum of techno to fully explore and embrace the ever-expanding technological possibilities.
Chris Liebing, DE
Chris Liebing had his first residency as a DJ in a small club called “Red Brick” 1991 in Giessen, near Frankfurt. Already in the beginning of 1995 the club had to close down and Chris began working for Eye-Q Records in Frankfurt. During that period, he met his friend and partner Andre Walter. Together they started to build up a studio and work on music. In November 1995, Chris had a chance to play at the OMEN in Frankfurt and shortly after became resident DJ. About a year later, influenced by his DJ’ing, he created “Fine Audio Recordings” together with Under Cover Music Group. Chris gained his first worldwide recognition with releases like Audio 07 and Audio 11.
He joined the Cocoon Agency in Frankfurt to take care of his growing booking schedule and also in that same year, he moved on with his label work and created his own record company “CLR”. From then on the Labels CLR, Clretry, CLAU, Stigmata and Soap were distributed by Prime in England.
In may 2001 he mixed his double CD and started working on his album for CLR which will hopefully be released within the following year.
In 2002 he left Cocoon Booking to manage the booking schedule by himself. From now CLR is taking care also of his bookings.
In 2003 Chris Liebing won the German Dance Award in the category Best National DJ, also nominated were Paul van Dyk, Sven Väth and Westbam.
Tony Rorh, US
At this point it is difficult for us to sum up the multi-faceted career and personality of Tony Rohr. He is Brooklyn’s bang mixed with Mid-Western politeness, and is easily one of the most original and well-liked artists in the industry. His sought-after Live PA, matched with a discography and release schedule that aspiring artists would kill for, keeps him consistently in high demand. He has turned up the heat in recent years, burning miles across the globe and sharing his enthusiasm for music and life via Macbook, Machinedrum and two Korg’s.
Tony’s lengthy journey from a College scratch DJ in Effingham, IL, to Brooklyn live artist and International superstar has been driven by his love and fascination for innovative musical ideas. His range of inspiration fuels his indefinable sound, gathering ideas through early Hip-Hop, House, Industrial and finally Techno. Channeling these expressions through his performances has earned him center stage at places like I Love Techno, Nature One, Awakenings, Tresor, Berghain, Chris Liebing’s Spinclub, Kozzmozz, Fuse, and even the closing of the famous La Real in Spain.
In 2005 Tony met Tim Xavier and Camea in Brooklyn, and they began releasing together on Clink Recordings. He has contributed to five of their releases as a solo artist, and collaboratively with Tim as the Afternoon Coffee Boys. He ignited the label’s popularity with his biggest record of 2007, Kreuzberg Krunk. Tony also works with Alexi Delano, Dietrich Schoenemann and Dave Shokh (Dirka Dirka) on numerous projects and his work has been featured on top labels such as Cocoon, Weave, Podium and Frankie Records.
2008 is set to be Tony’s biggest year with two releases on Clink, one Techno and a new side of Rohr set for this summer, a House release! With additional plans for work under the Afternoon Coffee Boys moniker, coupled with his numerous collaborative releases on other labels such as Plus 8 with Alexi Delano, Tony is placing himself in the center of the action. With the rising popularity of Live PAs, Tony’s experience, production and performance skills have set him above the rest, and he is considered to be one of the hottest techno acts coming out of America today.
Freshest Kidz, NL
The Freshest Kidz started in 2007 to play at Ted Langenbach’s Semtex party’s. Their love for all kinds of music, their background as b-boys and variety in taste brought them really fast to a next level, and before they knew they were part of a new generation of Dj’s. Now that they got more gigs, the boys perfected their skills on the decks, and their record collection grew bigger and bigger. Always looking out for the next shit in different genres, and diggin the oldies, their style is very wide, but yet their own.
A few party’s they rocked: Electric Ballroom NOW&WOW, Bassline Paradiso, Bacardi B-Live, Project Catwalk Party, Molotov, KingKong, Semtex, GirlsLoveDj’s, Ep Release Level, Laidback Luke Promo Tour, Luidsprekers, Starfucker, BlockBeats NAI, Musica Republica, Disco Dimanche.
100% Isis, NL
Being one of the first female pioneers in electronic dance music, Isis is now considered to be one of the world’s Top Ten female DJ’s in the tech-house area.
Her deejay-sets can be best described as a refreshing adventure through the here and now of modern dance music. Her style is sparkling and unconventional. The industry sometimes categorizes Isis as a so-called tech-house deejay, but Isis herself defines her sets as: “a mixture of mainly electronical, repetitive dance music with a touch of minimal and electro. The harmony within the individual tracks and the whole mix is my guideline”. Also, her sets are characterized by various ethnical influences, for instance African, Eastern, Latin American and Dub.
Besides being a deejay and producer Isis also runs her own booking agency Magma, organises successful events and on top of that she has her own label ‘All is One’ Records.
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Fairmont, CAN
Growing up under the influence of the skateboard and indie rock scene in hometown Toronto, the path to techno stardom was not always an obvious one. He also tried on a number of different project aliases, of which Fairmont was just one. The ‘07 Fairmont sound showcases the true depth and variety of Jake Fairley’s talent, uniting his trademark driving analogue machine-funk with intimate, hypnotic vocals, elasticated rhythms, woozy, warm interludes and drugged out highs, with the iconic dongs of discordance and stretchy synths.
Alejandro Vivanco, CL
Alejandro was born in Viña del Mar, Chile. Since he was a child, he was close to music because his father used to play tenor sax and was the owner of a huge jazz records collection. At the early age of 7 years, he used to spend many hours in front of the stereo.
When he became a teenager, he started playing electric guitar in several school bands, influenced by the music of bands like Sonic Youth, Jesus & Mary chain and Pixies, among others.
In 1993, with 3 friends, he creates the “Pequeñas Particulas” cult band in the underground scene of Valparaiso and participates as bass player for 7 years.
Simultaneously, in 1996 he his interest in audio experimentation gets him closer to machines, creating his solo project Telepong, letting us know his taste for Detroit & Acid House.
Alejandro gets involved and attracted by the emerging electronic Chilean scene and step ahead to the turntables, and didn’t take him to much time to be highly recognized and respected as a great DJ.
Since 2001, he is resident of the club La Feria, in Santiago and has been exposing his music, that walks in between precise rythms and radical sound contrasts, making his grooves reacher in every composition.
Taras van de Voorde, NL
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 imprint Wolfskuil which holds a massive remix made by Laurent Garnier’s ‘ F-Comm’ hero’s: The Youngsters and of course a follow-up EP on Exceptional records.
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 in june. A pretty nice start of 2009 isn’t? But this aint all yet cause there is much more to come soon!
Taras van de Voorde @ 300mph presents James Holden, Catwalk. 05-02-2010_part1_MP3 by Taras van de Voorde
Part 2.5 Taras van de Voorde @300mph presents James Holden, Catwalk 05-02-2010 PART2.5 mp3 by Taras van de Voorde
Monica Electronica, NL
Born and raised in the Netherlands. Begin twenties Emma became more active as a DJ, after a short career as an Art-Director in Advertising. She started playing resident at the Stalker in Haarlem together with her good friend Estelle Decibel as a DJ duo by the name: ‘De Nachtzusters’ (The NightSisters).
Her connection with Electronation took her DJ career a few steps further and the bookings started to roll after playing at Awakenings festival and she was about to play at several famous clubs in Holland and performed at many Dutch festivals like Dancevalley, Noorderslag, Lowlands, and the FFWD Danceparade.
Autumn ‘04 she got her first international gig in Shanghai and from then she started to travel to many countries to spin the wheels with gigs in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, England, Israel, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden,Turkey, Greece, France, China, Dubai, Scotland, Canada, USA and in June ‘05 she started her first tour through Russia for 5 weeks, and traveled from Moscow to Siberia.
In December of 2005, she was selected with 29 other talented musicians, producers and DJ’s from all over the world to join the Redbull Music Academy in Seattle. This was a life-time experience and a learning period where she had the chance to upgrade her producing skills and meet a lot of nice people from around the world who are all into music.
Boris Ross, NL
Born and raised in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Working at Triple Vision Record Store & World wide distribution. Labelowner of Luxaflex Records with releases/remixes from: Davide Squillace, Noisia aka Frizz, Darko Esser, Pig and Dan, Tolga Fidan, Mark Henning, Eidolon, Agaric, Ali Kuru, Mihalis Safras, Rino Cerrone, Joseph Capriati, Mr.G and many more. Luxaflex Records Stands for a platform of serious electronic grooves and funktechnology for the mind.
After his first digital release on Grammafoon was played by Tiefschwarz on BBC One 30 minutes mix and his first 12” release on Luxaflex Records was discovered by Loco Dice and signed on the TDK Timewarp CD of 2007, he proves himself to be a very promising upcoming talent.
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Andrea Cichecki, NL
“ Whenever her parents weren’t at home, Andrea would secretly play their Pink Floyd records.” Being only seven years old, she would try to climb on the record cabinet and fiddle around with the record player. Fortunately those records stayed in one piece and Andrea became infected with the electronic music virus at a very early age. The combination of electronics and music have kept her interest because technology is always evolving and so is the music that comes from it. Based on solid musical training centering on clarinet, Andrea has been working with electronic music for about 11 years now. Meanwhile she also keeps developing her skills on traditional wind- string- and percussion instruments.
She draws inspiration from the likes of Gary Numan, Pink Floyd, Air, Flying Lotus, and genres like jazz, classical music and the warm Moog sound.
A few years ago Chicago house crossed her path. This led to a steamy love affair and Andrea turned Chicago house into the foundation of her DJ set. This sound has now become her signature style. Andrea’s deeply funky, jazzy beats and jackin’ house drive many audiences crazy all over the Netherlands. She enjoys performing both solo and together with live musicians.
Besides her work as a DJ, Andrea feels like an exotic fish in the water of the Dutch underground dance scene. She has hosted and produced a dance radio show on Deep.fm and regularly organizes parties for the Chicago scene. Acting like a spider in the web of the Dutch Chicago scene, both foreign and local artists know where to find her.
Performing and collaborating with artists like Bryan Jones, Jason Hodges, Late Night Society, Ken Christensen, Jamanta Crew and Jan Liefhebber has inspired Andrea to put all her efforts into learning the art of music production. Her dedicated home studio functions as a creative pressure cooker where she is working diligently on realizing her musical visions. The virtually unlimited possibilities and the exchange with like-minded artists worldwide spark musical experiments and innovation.
The first album release, live act and personal label lie waiting just beyond the horizon…
Toine du Froid, NL
Toine du Froid started his music career already on primary school. Exploring his preference for dance music he bought some vinyl players and learned himself to mix his records. In 2007 Toine reached the final of the BNN DJ contest and the Red Bull DJ contest. Now he is focussing on breaking through in the clubs where his music will be really appreciated. He is also busy with his own clubnights starting with ‘Mens erger je niet’ in November 2008 and recently he joined the young and innovative Seratonin label. Expect a lot of energy, basses, electro and repetitive vocals on the 31th of October from the latest DJ talent of Rotterdam!.
James Nidecker, NL
Extravagant DJ, producer and label owner James Nidecker has emerged onto the international electronic music scene surprising the techno scene with his vivid appearance on stage and original musical style as a producer.
Inspired by the legendary club RoXY (Amsterdam) in the 90’s he originally started playing a cross-over of Detroit techno and New York House and produced several records that entered the Dutch top 10 in various dance charts.
Nowadays he releases on his own imprint as well as on high profile labels such as Sander Kleinenberg’s Little Mountain recordings and David Caretta’s Space Factory and his releases and remixes are supported by DJ’s like Toni Rios, Laurent Garnier and Stephan Bodzin.
Behind the decks James definitely has his own way of improvising and combining live vocals and effects to his already pumping techno-minimal groove and with his newly formed techno-electro punk live act together with Mike Seavers he will inject even more turbulence across the dance floors like they are the devil’s prodigal sons.
As label manager of Amsterdam based techno label Strøm recordings he strives to release music that crosses various genres within electronic music without losing track of the dance floor and the label is hugely supported by house, minimal and techno deejays worldwide.
Fabienne Soigni, NL
Born and raised in the suburbs of Rotterdam, the talented youngster Fabienne Soigni got in touch with records and turntabalism at an early age as her sister is also a DJ.
As soon Fabienne started playing herself her talent showed, in mixing technique aswell as in choice of records. Her appearance, her sincerity and her musicality, Fabienne Soigni is a unique DJ that made a name for herself in and around the harbour city in a short period of time.
She played in venues like Catwalk, Club Zonder Concessies, De Unie, Off Corso, Beurs and Euromast in Rotterdam (NL), Capitál in Antwerp (BE) and BG in Amsterdam (NL).
Beside her solo DJing she plays with her sister as Sisters Soigni and Fabienne recently started collaborating with the talented DJ Afra Amba. When Afra and Fabienne get behind the decks together things start to sparkle.
Nevil Rickard, NL
Nevil Rickard (real name: Nevil Hulspas) was born in 1987 in Voorburg and now lives in Rijswijk.
From a young age he is busy with music, playing the piano from about his 6th.
Since a few years he discovered house music, a true revelation.
Also co-founder of party organisation Soulvibes and very active producer. Just doing what he loves most.
His sound could be described as melodic, deep, jazzy, happy, funky, but mainly soulful.
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Mattheis, NL
Born in Holland, to a musical family, Mattheis indulged his passion for music from a young age.
He built a solid foundation with his regular parties “Club von Westen”, “0187-records” and soon became a tireless producer who has been fascinated by studio equipment ever since he began producing. As fresh faced teenager, Mattheis has always found time to conjure some of the most magical tracks around. He won a 5-track release at Juno.com and Beatport.com in the ADE/DJTRX Producer Contest.
Mattheis is currently performing a live-act together with Paul Twin amongst big Dutch names like Darko Esser, Warren Fellow, Edwin Oosterwal etc. As a DJ, Mattheis’ musical journeys never fail to inspire, excite and entertain, blending the most futuristic funky minimal with dashes of ‘heavy’ and deep minimal/techno. With a release on Wide Angle Recordings (June 2008) Mattheis proves himself to be an arist to really keep an eye on!
