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Name: Boy in da Corner
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Name: Dylan Mills
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Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a UK and US-based rapper, songwriter and record producer of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles. Best known for his number-one hits "Dance wiv Me," "Bonkers," "Holiday," "Dirtee Disco" & "Shout," his debut album, Boy in da Corner, won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English and Tongue n' Cheek have all been critically acclaimed and certified gold, the last going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units.

Mills's Nigerian father died when he was young, and he was raised in Bow, in the East End of London in a single-parent family by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says: "I had issues as a kid. I was violent and disruptive. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out, always fighting to keep me in the school system" he attended St Pauls Way Community School.

He attended a series of schools in East London, and was expelled from four of them - it was a teacher who first called him "Rascal." Cagey about exactly what Mills's youthful "madnesses" entailed, in early interviews he mentioned fighting with teachers, stealing cars and robbing pizza delivery men. In the fifth school he was excluded from all classes except music. He also used to attend YATI (Young Actors Theatre Islington).

He began making music on the school's computer, encouraged by a music teacher, Mr Smith, and during the summer holidays attended a music workshop organised by Tower Hamlets Summer University of which he is now a patron. His mother bought him his first turntables.

He was a childhood friend of Nigerian footballer Danny Shittu, whom Mills described as 'like a big brother.

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Name: DJ Falcon
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DJ Falcon (born Stéphane Quême) is a French DJ and record producer.

Before producing on Roulé he worked in the A&R department at Virgin. In 1999 he released his first EP (on Roulé) and produced a remix of Cassius's "La Mouche" which became an all-time classic song. One year later, he started working with Thomas Bangalter from the electronic music duo Daft Punk, with whom he formed the group Together, releasing just two songs "So Much Love to Give" and "Together". He is the brother of Delphine Quême (Quartet) and a cousin of Alan Braxe (Alain Quême).

In 2013, he was featured on Daft Punk's fourth studio album, Random Access Memories on the final track "Contact".

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Name: Duck Sauce
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Duck Sauce is an American/Canadian DJ duo consisting of Armand Van Helden and A-Trak. The duo is signed to Casablanca Records & Republic Records. The pair aims to produce disco house tracks that will appeal to club DJs.
Their first tracks are "aNYway" and "You're Nasty". The track "aNYway" capitalizes "NY" to signify their origins in New York. The song is sampled from "I Can Do It" by Final Edition. Their debut EP, Greatest Hits was released on July 15, 2010.
In the summer of 2010, Duck Sauce released a track called "Barbra Streisand", named after the singer of the same name. The track heavily samples the 1979 song "Gotta Go Home" by Boney M, which itself is based upon the original tune "Hallo Bimmelbahn" by the German band Nighttrain. The famous hookline is written by Heinz Huth. "Barbra Streisand" was first played at Miami Winter Music Conference in 2010, and gained heavy DJ and radio support in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Austria, Poland (Polskie Radio 4), France, Finland, Romania, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka. In Australia, "Barbra Streisand" was first heard on the radio station Triple J, while in New Zealand it made its debut on Auckland student radio station 95bFM. The song has since also moved to various commercial radio stations and has increased in popularity. In the UK the song peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart and reached #1 on the Australian ARIA Club Chart as of 12 September 2010. For Billboard magazine week ending December 18, 2010, the song reached the #1 position on the Dance/Club Play Songs chart. On April 26, 2011, the song was featured in Glee's 18th episode in their second season entitled "Born This Way". The song is also featured in the Vitamin Water Revive commercial. The "Barbra Streisand" music video has over 67 million views.
"Big Bad Wolf" was released by Duck Sauce in 2011 on BBC radio and samples wolves howling. The music video features genitalia replaced by human heads. A-Trak notes "When Keith came up with this idea of 'crotchfaces,' we just thought it was hilarious."
On June 6, 2013, announced via Facebook, a preview of the song "It's You" was shown, with the full song released on June 25, 2013. The music video features in a barber shop transformed into a surreal dance party which comes to life with the beat of the song. The music video earned them a nomination at the MTV Video Music Awards hosted on August 25, 2013 held in Brooklyn, New York.

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Name: Together
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There are several artists and bands called as TOGETHER:  1. A french house project of DJ Falcon and Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk, who recorded for Bangalter's label Roulé and whose most notable songs are 'So Much Love To Give' and 'Together'.  The song "Together" begins with a short segment of speech from the film Pleasantville. The line "A time has come to make a decision: are we in this thing alone, or are we in it together?" appears in the bowling scene of the film. The main vocals in the song are sampled from Sweet Sensation's "Sincerely Yours". The background vocals were sampled from Slave's "Because of You".  Musical elements of "Together" later appeared during the encore performance of Daft Punk's 2007 live sets. A recording of the encore is included in the two-disc edition of the live album Alive 2007. Both the sets and the album renewed interest in the song.  Together also made the original version of Call On Me, which Eric Prydz made a remix of. Sadly, Together never got official clearance to use the sample. Prydz, however, did manage to get clearance for his mix, which led to most people crediting his version as the original.  2. Together were a three piece British dance act from the acid house era, who released 'Hardcore Uproar' in 1990 on ffrr. This can be seen performed live at a Blackburn warehouse party here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2689610496113385307  3. Is diy hardcore band from Lisbon, PT, formed in 2009. Grew up together in the political and activist hardcore environment, which affected our daily basic choices such as what we eat,what we wear, what we think and how we act. Together supports an anti-racist, anti-capitalist, drug free and 100% vegetarian lifestyle. Together we stand. www.myspace.com/togetherhxc  4. Together was a dutch heavy metal band from Apeldoorn, and was active between 1978 and 1985.  5. Together is a 5-piece band from Germany, formed in 2007. Their eclectic style includes hardcore punk with elements from classic rock, rock & roll, stoner rock and blues rock.

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Name: Estelle
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Estelle Fanta Swaray (* 18. Januar 1980 in London), Künstlername Estelle, ist eine britische Hip-Hop-Sängerin.

Estelle wurde 1980 in West London geboren. Sie ist eines von acht Kindern einer senegalesischen Mutter und eines Vaters aus Grenada.

Estelle gründete ihr eigenes Label, Stellar Ents, und veröffentlichte die Mixtapes Da Heat Part 1 und Da Heat Part 2. Nachdem diese in der Szene erfolgreich waren, folgte 2004 das erste Studioalbum The 18th Day mit den Single-Auskopplungen 1980, Free und Go Gone, die alle die Top 40 der britischen Charts erreichten. Im selben Jahr war sie auch Teil des Benefizprojekts Band Aid 20.

2008 erschien ihr zweites Album Shine, auf dem die Künstler will.i.am, Wyclef Jean, Mark Ronson, Cee-Lo Green, Swizz Beatz und John Legend Gastauftritte haben. Bei der ersten Singleauskopplung American Boy, welche denselben Beat wie will.i.ams Impatient von dessen Album Songs About Girls benutzt, wird sie von Kanye West unterstützt. In Großbritannien eroberte sie Platz 1 der Hitparade. Im Oktober 2008 veröffentlicht sie eine weitere Single, Come Over, ein Duett mit Sean Paul.

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Name: Shine
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Name: Estelle Swaray
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Estelle Fanta Swaray (* 18. Januar 1980 in London), Künstlername Estelle, ist eine britische Hip-Hop-Sängerin.

Estelle wurde 1980 in West London geboren. Sie ist eines von acht Kindern einer senegalesischen Mutter und eines Vaters aus Grenada.

Estelle gründete ihr eigenes Label, Stellar Ents, und veröffentlichte die Mixtapes Da Heat Part 1 und Da Heat Part 2. Nachdem diese in der Szene erfolgreich waren, folgte 2004 das erste Studioalbum The 18th Day mit den Single-Auskopplungen 1980, Free und Go Gone, die alle die Top 40 der britischen Charts erreichten. Im selben Jahr war sie auch Teil des Benefizprojekts Band Aid 20.

2008 erschien ihr zweites Album Shine, auf dem die Künstler will.i.am, Wyclef Jean, Mark Ronson, Cee-Lo Green, Swizz Beatz und John Legend Gastauftritte haben. Bei der ersten Singleauskopplung American Boy, welche denselben Beat wie will.i.ams Impatient von dessen Album Songs About Girls benutzt, wird sie von Kanye West unterstützt. In Großbritannien eroberte sie Platz 1 der Hitparade. Im Oktober 2008 veröffentlicht sie eine weitere Single, Come Over, ein Duett mit Sean Paul.

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Name: The Neptunes
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The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with contributing the sound for many successful hip hop, R&B and pop artists in the late-1990s and 2000s. The Neptunes' sound is a distinctive brand of off-kilter, stripped-down electronic funk with sounds from Middle Eastern and Asian music including percussion and woodwind. Pharrell sings and (later) raps on records and appears in videos, unlike his production partner Chad, and sometimes vocal partner Shay Haley, who tends to stay behind the scenes.
 
The Neptunes are estimated to have a net worth of $155 million and are considered one of the most successful producers in music history, noted by twenty-four Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits during the late 1990s and 2000s. In 2009 Billboard ranked The Neptunes No. 1 on their list of Top 10 producers of the decade. Readers of Vibe Magazine named The Neptunes as the 3rd greatest hip-hop producers of all time behind Dr. Dre and DJ Premier.

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Name: Pharrell Williams
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Stil-Ikone in T-Shirt, Trucker-Cap und Camo-Short? Gestatten, Pharrell Williams. Der erste selbsternannten Nerd auf dem GQ-Cover und wahrscheinlich die coolste Sau der Welt.

Am 05. April 1973 in Virginia Beach beginnt die eindrucksvolle Geschichte vom durchschnittlichen Mittelklassekind, das dank kompromisslosem Style zu einem der einflussreichsten Musikschaffenden des 21. Jahrhunderts avanciert. Den Grundstein für seine musikalische Karriere, an die sich der Werdegang zum Superstar und zur Stil-Ikone anschließt, legt das Zusammentreffen mit dem aus den Philippinen stammenden Chad Hugo in einem Workshop für hochbegabte Jugendliche an der High School von Virginia. Eigentlich die ganz klassische Story: Zwei Musikverrückte treffen sich und bugsieren sich gegenseitig in neue Dimensionen. Wo die einen jedoch Grenzen erkennen müssen, beginnt bei Chad und Pharrell die gegenseitige musikalische Befruchtung erst.

In der High School zimmern Pharrell und Chad ihre ersten Beats. Pharrell rappt außerdem und kann sich schon in jungen Jahren über eine akzeptable Singstimme freuen. Was in rückblickender Betrachtung dem schieren Wahnsinn gleicht, soll Pharrell sogar eine zeitlang mit Produzentengott Timbaland und dem Rapper Magoo ein und derselben Band angehört haben. Unter dem Namen Surrounded by Idiots treiben die Jungs für kurze Zeit in Virginia ihr Unwesen. Wer einmal in den Genuss dieser raren Tracks kommt, sollte sich jedoch nicht über fehlende Synthesizer wundern. Pharrell hatte sich Anfang/Mitte der Neunziger voll und ganz den Tönen von A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul und Rakim verschrieben. Dementsprechend klingt auch der Sound der heutigen Meisterriege des elektronischen Hip Hops. Surrounded by Idiots trennen sich jedoch, und Pharrell widmet fortan seine gesamte Zeit der Teamarbeit mit Chad Hugo.

Trotz des schwierigen Standortes Virginia Beach - die Neptunes-Rapper Clipse sprechen einmal von "not low enough to be Dirty South and not high enough to be East Coast" - bekommen Pharrell und Chad den Fuß in die Business-Tür. Tatkräftige Unterstützung leistet hierbei der New Jack Swing-Pionier Teddy Riley, der die Neptunes unter seine Fittiche nimmt. Nach der gemeinsamen Arbeit für die R'n'B-Truppe SWV kommt es zum Kontakt mit Sean "Diddy" Combs, der die Jungs auf der Stelle für die Produktion von Total und Ma$e verpflichten will.

Dem zuvor kommt jedoch der Track "Superthug" von Noreaga - die ersten Neptunes'schen Synthiewalzen rollen über die Hip Hop-Welt hinweg. Begeisterung macht sich breit, die Übernahme erst des Genres, dann der ganzen Musikwelt kann beginnen. Es folgen Produktionen für so ziemlich jeden Artist, der sich im Laufe der Zeit einen Namen machte. Ein kleiner Auszug: LL Cool J, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Babyface, Busta Rhymes, Kid Rock, Ludacris, Mary J. Blige, Mystikal, Nas, Jay-Z, Ja Rule, Common, Guru, Prince, Snoop Dogg, Nelly und so weiter und so fort.

Damit nicht genug. Die Produktion der Single "Girlfriend" für die Boygroup *N Sync eröffnet den Neptunes das Tor zur weiten - und vor allem goldenen - Welt des Pops. Und dort warten schon die hungrigen Sängerinnen und Sänger auf eine Produktion. Der Grund liegt nahe: Sie haben sich zum sicheren Hitgaranten gemausert. Am eigenen Leib dürfen das Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani, Destiny's Child und viele andere mehr spüren. Weichei-Pop heißt das aber noch lange nicht für das Duo. Als Gegengewicht für die Pop-Produktionsarbeit gründen Pharrell und Chad mit Shay am Mikro das Trio N.E.R.D. Und hier werden musikalisch gar keine Gefangenen gemacht. Auf der ersten Scheibe "In Search Of ... ", 2001, schlackern den Hörern vor lauter Synthie-Geballer nur noch so die Ohren. Auf der Zweitauflage "In Search Of ... (New Version)" spielen die Jungs das komplette Album mit Live-Instrumenten nach und ziehen schließlich sogar die Riege der Gitarrenfreunde auf ihre Seite.

Der Rummel um die Neptunes steigt ins Unermessliche, verbeißt sich aber zum größten Teil an der Person von Pharrell Williams. Der lässt sich davon jedoch nicht verunsichern und hält sich überzeugt weiterhin für nicht viel mehr als einen Nerd. Seine außergewöhnliche Stimme, die er größtenteils im Falsett-Style zum Besten gibt, spricht dahingehend jedoch eine ganz andere Sprache. Nach zahlreichen Hooklines gönnt sich Pharrell auf der Label-Compilation des eigenen Labels Star Trak Music, die 2003 erscheint, schließlich seinen ersten eigenen Song. Und prompt stolziert auch "Frontin'" mit 16 Zeilen vom Jiggaman in vorderen Chartsregionen.

Spätestens jetzt setzt die Öffentlichkeit das Produzententeam Neptunes mit 
Pharrell Williams gleich und lastet dem Styler vor dem Herren - zugegebenermaßen meistens zu Recht - jede Synthieline an, die sich in den oberen Regionen der Charts tummelt. Nachahmer gibt es viele, aber keiner lässt es so krachen, wie die Neptunes. Der Erfolg steigert weiterhin das öffentliche Interesse, 2005 adelt das Modemagazin Esquire den selbsternannten Nerd schließlich zum "best dressed man in the world".

Und Pharrell? Der macht weiterhin in Camo-Short, T-Shirt und selbstdesignten Sneakers Musik und veröffentlicht Ende 2005 die Single "Can I Have It Like That" als Teaser für sein Solo-Debüt "In My Mind". Die Single funktioniert. Nicht zuletzt wegen der Zusammenarbeit mit Gwen Stefani, mit der Pharrell zu Beginn des Jahres ja schon mit "Hollaback Girl" einen der Hits des Jahres hatte. Was vielmehr verwundert ist, dass sich Pharrell auch als respektabler Rapper behaupten kann. Sein Album besteht nämlich zu 50 Prozent aus Rap-Tracks und zur anderen Hälfte aus R'n'B-Stücken. Das reimende Alter Ego Lil' Skateboard P wechselt sich also mit Falsett-Pharrell ab und zaubert einen gelobten Einstand für die Solo-Karriere. Was als nächstes kommt, ist genauso unabsehbar wie der Einfluss, den Pharrell mit seinem Partner Chad Hugo für die kontemporäre Musikentwicklung tatsächlich geleistet hat.

Fakt ist: Pharrell hat sich, von seiner teils umstrittenen musikalischen Genialität einmal abgesehen, als Stil-Ikone etabliert. Designeraufträge für Louis Vuitton, Jacob The Jeweler, etliche eigene Klamottenmarken (Billionaire Boys Club, Ice Cream) und Fotoshoots in edelstem Zwirn für die Hochglanzmagazine der Welt sind dafür Beweis genug.

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Name: Famalam Jam
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Name: The Big Bang
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Name: Laurent Wery
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Laurent was born in Aalst, Belgium, in 1975 and ever since he was a child, he has a passion for music.  Fascinated by the technology at the time and by records, he becoming DJ was rather inevitable.  At the age of 5 he even caused uproar in a department store just to get his very first record player.  He dedicated all his pocket money to records, every birthday present absolutely had to be some kind of audio equipment. "I was truly possessed by music and the phenomenon radio.  I definitely needed to know more about it."  At the age of 14 he got the opportunity to edit commercials on a local radio stations and to mix non-stop programmes.  That allowed him to gain an insight into the technique and the story behind the radio.  But a small party where he first took place behind the turntable was the true eye-opener. "The audience that is listening, dancing and having fun on the music you play, really gives you an intense feeling of happiness." Soon afterwards he was playing every Saturday in a student bar where he could eat his heart out experimenting.  When he was 17, he entered a large disco for the first time in his life. "An unforgettable experience, which really turned my world upside down.  I kept watching the DJ who was playing and perfectly controlling the crowd, full of admiration."  Soon afterwards Laurent received all kinds of offers : company parties, student parties, clubs,.... Every night was different and therefore he also had to broaden his knowledge of the most diverse music genres. "I've always intended to play for an audience, to ensure the success of every single party."  Laurent masters nearly every music style and as no other he knows how to make the crowd dance.  In the meanwhile he has built up an impressive record of leading club residences.  Since 2005 Laurent Wery is also involved in the production of mix cd's.  At the end of 2008 Eleven saw the day light, his first single. Now with My Sound he kicks in overdrive . . .  You can find Laurent Wéry every Thursday in Café Local (Antwerp, Belgium) and every Saturday in Carré (Willebroek, Belgium). Hear his sound. . .


Name: Ms. Dynamite
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Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley and popularly known as Ms. Dynamite is a double Brit Award and three time MOBO Awards winning R&B, UK garage, and hip hop singer and rapper.

Ms. Dynamite was born and raised in Archway, London, England, to a Scottish mother and a Jamaican father. She grew up listening to reggae and hip hop music. Though she wanted to become a schoolteacher or social worker, her biggest aspiration was to be a musician. She is the eldest of eleven siblings, one of whom is a grime artist known as Akala. 

While working at the radio station RAW FM, Ms. Dynamite was discovered by Richard Forbes at a West End club. After working briefly with the garage act So Solid Crew, she released her debut album, A Little Deeper, in 2002, which won Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize for Album of the Year for 2002.
2001

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Name: A Little Deeper
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Name: Ms Dynamite
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Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley and popularly known as Ms. Dynamite is a double Brit Award and three time MOBO Awards winning R&B, UK garage, and hip hop singer and rapper.

Ms. Dynamite was born and raised in Archway, London, England, to a Scottish mother and a Jamaican father. She grew up listening to reggae and hip hop music. Though she wanted to become a schoolteacher or social worker, her biggest aspiration was to be a musician. She is the eldest of eleven siblings, one of whom is a grime artist known as Akala. 

While working at the radio station RAW FM, Ms. Dynamite was discovered by Richard Forbes at a West End club. After working briefly with the garage act So Solid Crew, she released her debut album, A Little Deeper, in 2002, which won Britain’s prestigious Mercury Prize for Album of the Year for 2002.
2001

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Name: Lennie Hibbert
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Name: Major Lazer
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Major Lazer is a musical project by DJ/producer Diplo. Formerly a collaboration along with DJ/producer Switch, they parted ways in late 2011. Diplo has since enlisted producers/DJs Jillionaire and Walshy Fire (of Black Chiney) to help with the production and live shows. Formerly made up of DJ Diplo and Switch, the two were introduced after working with M.I.A.. The duo's first album Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do was released on June 16, 2009, on Downtown Records. It was recorded in Jamaica at Tuff Gong Studios. Vocalists such as Santigold, Vybz Kartel, Ward 21, Busy Signal, Nina Sky, Amanda Blank, Mr. Vegas, Turbulence, Mapei, T.O.K, Prince Zimboo, Leftside and others contribute guest vocals to the album, as well as additional production from Afrojack and Crookers. This is the first release to come out of the label partnership between Downtown Records and Diplo's label Mad Decent. Major Lazer ended a US tour last summer. The album's first single was "Hold the Line", the video for which, directed by Ferry Gouw, was nominated for a MTV Video Award in the Breakthrough Video category. "Hold the Line" was also featured in the video game FIFA 10. The track "Zumbie" has a music video that features comedian Andy Milonakis. Music videos for the songs "Pon de Floor" and "Keep It Going Louder" were both directed by Eric Wareheim. Major Lazer performed at the Falls Music & Arts Festival (Lorne, Victoria, Australia) on the December 30, 2009, the Coachella Music Festival in April 2010 they also performed at the Pitchfork Music Festival in July 2010 and the Sasquatch Music Festival on Monday May 30, 2011. Live visuals were created by Pomp&Clout. Major Lazer performed at the 2011 Outside Lands festival in San Francisco. From February 2013 he is with the song "Get Free" in the Vodafone Germany TV advertisement.
A mixtape with La Roux entitled "Lazerproof" was made available for free download on May 26. Diplo posted cover art on his Twitpic. It is the character Major Lazer in War Machine's silver suit, Elly Jackson of La Roux in the signature Iron Man suit, and Whiplash, the villain in the Iron Man 2 movie. On June 20, 2010, the group released an EP titled "Lazers Never Die". It contained two new songs and three remixes, by Thom Yorke and others. Switch provided production for Beyoncé's "Run the World (Girls)", which heavily sampled "Pon de Floor".
Major Lazer's live shows previously included hype man Skerrit Bwoy although Skerrit Bwoy left the group in 2012 to pursue religion. In 2012, Major Lazer began working with Snoop Dogg to produce some tracks that are to be included on his new reggae project. Along with the project came his new alter ego persona known as "Snoop Lion". Switch has left the collaborative effort due to "creative differences" as claimed by Diplo. He departed in late 2011 and was replaced with DJ/Producer Jillionaire and Walshy Fire.
In September 2012, Major Lazer announced that its upcoming album, Free the Universe, would be released on March 12, 2013 on Mad Decent, but was postponed to April 15, 2013. They also announced Fall 2012 tour dates.
Major Lazer partly produced UK singer Rita Ora's debut album, Ora. Major Lazer worked with No Doubt for their sixth studio album, Push and Shove. The album's title track features producers Major Lazer and Jamaican reggae artist Busy Signal, and was released as a promotional single in August 2012.
Major Lazer launched their Fall Tour 2012 in October, with shows in Oakland, Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York City, amongst others.
In February 2013, Major Lazer signed with indie record label Secretly Canadian. At the same time, they announced the new release date, April 16, for their album Free the Universe. They also announced the Free the Universe 2013 World Tour, which will run all spring.

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Name: Skrillex & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
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Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley (born July 21, 1978) is a three-time Grammy Award winning Jamaican reggae artist. Damian is the youngest son of Bob Marley. Damian was two years old when his father, Bob Marley, died; he is the only child born to Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976. Damian's nickname Junior Gong is derived from his father's nickname of Tuff Gong. Marley has been performing since the age of 13. He cultivates, along with most of his family, a full-time career in music. Marley has described his music as "dancehall and reggae. I've noticed...people trying to separate the two of them," he continues. "It's Jamaican culture in general. I don't try to classify or separate." At age 13, he formed a musical group by the name of the Shephards, which included the daughter of Freddie McGregor and son of Third World's Cat Core. The group opened the 1992 Reggae Sunsplash festival. The band fell apart in the early 1990s and Damian started his solo career. With the backing of his father’s label, Tuff Gong, he released his 1996 debut album Mr. Marley which surprised many who were unaccustomed to hearing a Marley deejaying rather than singing. Damian’s brother, Stephen Marley, was a producer and co-author for this album.

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Name: The Jacksons
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The Jackson Five (auch The Jackson 5) und später The Jacksons war eine US-amerikanische Soul-Band, die in den 1970er Jahren ihre größten Erfolge feierte.

Die Band wurde 1964 als „The Jackson Brothers“ vom Vater Joseph Jackson gegründet und bestand zuerst aus den Brüdern Jackie, Tito und Jermaine Jackson. Marlon und Michael Jackson stießen 1966 hinzu, woraufhin die Band in „The Jackson Five“ umbenannt wurde. Der anfangs siebenjährige Michael wurde der Leadsänger.

Schnell konnten die Jackson Five erste kleine Erfolge feiern, darunter auch den Gewinn mehrerer Talentwettbewerbe. Kurze Zeit später erhielten sie einen ersten Plattenvertrag bei dem kleinen Label Steeltown Records. Radiostationen spielten aber erste Songs wie Big Boy kaum, so dass ihre erste Platte 1968 bei Steeltown auch die letzte blieb.

1969 folgte ein Plattenvertrag mit dem neben Stax Records damals wichtigsten US-amerikanischen Soul-Label Motown und ein Auftritt in der Ed-Sullivan-Show am 14. Dezember 1969, der den Jacksons den nationalen Durchbruch brachte. Gleich der erste Hit I Want You Back, mit insgesamt zwei Millionen verkauften Platten, ging auf Platz 1 der US-Billboard-Charts, wie auch die drei folgenden Songs ABC, The Love You Save und I’ll Be There.

Anfang der 1970er gingen die Jackson Five erstmals auf Welttournee. Insgesamt veröffentlichten sie bis Mitte 1975 13 Alben bei Motown.

Nach der Trennung von Motown Records erhielten sie im Frühjahr 1976 bei Epic Records einen neuen Plattenvertrag und nannten sich von da an „The Jacksons“, da die alten Namensrechte noch bei Motown lagen. Jermaine blieb bei Motown und wurde durch Randy ersetzt. Motown war dafür bekannt, Songs ausschließlich von professionellen Songwritern schreiben zu lassen. Die Brüder hatten bei Epic die Möglichkeit, selbst kreativ zu sein.

Mit Show You the Way to Go hatten sie allerdings ihren einzigen Nummer-eins-Hit bei Epic, dafür waren die Welttourneen Ende der 1970er und Anfang der 1980er Jahre bahnbrechend. Die Lieder der Jacksons waren zwar nicht mehr die Chartstürmer wie früher, aber dennoch weltweit erfolgreich.

1980 kehrte Jermaine zu den Jacksons zurück. Von Juli bis Dezember 1984 unternahm die Gruppe nochmals eine Tour zum Album Victory (Victory Tour) durch die USA. Kurz nach dem Ende dieser Tour erklärte Michael, der seine Toureinnahmen Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen spendete, seinen Rücktritt von den Jacksons, was auch den eigentlichen Anfang vom Ende der Jacksons einläutete.

Randy, Jermaine, Jackie und Tito veröffentlichten im Mai 1989 mit 2300 Jackson Street ein letztes gemeinsames Album der Jacksons.[1]

Im September 2001 feierte Michael Jackson sein 30-jähriges Bühnenjubiläum als Solokünstler mit zwei Shows im New Yorker Madison Square Garden. Hierbei fand ein vielbeachteter Auftritt von The Jacksons statt, u. a. mit einer Performance mit *NSYNC zu dem Song Dancing Machine.

2011 nahmen The Jacksons, nur noch zu dritt, eine Single mit der japanischen Künstlerin AI auf. Der Song Letter in the Sky erschien am 14. Dezember 2011 auf der Single Happiness/Letter in the Sky.
Insgesamt verkauften sie zwischen 1969 und 1989 über 100 Millionen Platten. 1997 erfolgte die Aufnahme in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[2]

Bis heute verdienen The Jackson Five bzw. The Jacksons jährlich rund 50 Millionen Dollar mit ihren Songs, mit Covertiteln, Kompilationen und sonstigen Vermarktungsrechten. Es gibt keine erfolgreichere Black-Music-Group, titelte die Fachzeitschrift Rolling Stone im Jahr 2002.

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Name: The Jackson 5
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The Jackson Five (auch The Jackson 5) und später The Jacksons war eine US-amerikanische Soul-Band, die in den 1970er Jahren ihre größten Erfolge feierte.

Die Band wurde 1964 als „The Jackson Brothers“ vom Vater Joseph Jackson gegründet und bestand zuerst aus den Brüdern Jackie, Tito und Jermaine Jackson. Marlon und Michael Jackson stießen 1966 hinzu, woraufhin die Band in „The Jackson Five“ umbenannt wurde. Der anfangs siebenjährige Michael wurde der Leadsänger.

Schnell konnten die Jackson Five erste kleine Erfolge feiern, darunter auch den Gewinn mehrerer Talentwettbewerbe. Kurze Zeit später erhielten sie einen ersten Plattenvertrag bei dem kleinen Label Steeltown Records. Radiostationen spielten aber erste Songs wie Big Boy kaum, so dass ihre erste Platte 1968 bei Steeltown auch die letzte blieb.

1969 folgte ein Plattenvertrag mit dem neben Stax Records damals wichtigsten US-amerikanischen Soul-Label Motown und ein Auftritt in der Ed-Sullivan-Show am 14. Dezember 1969, der den Jacksons den nationalen Durchbruch brachte. Gleich der erste Hit I Want You Back, mit insgesamt zwei Millionen verkauften Platten, ging auf Platz 1 der US-Billboard-Charts, wie auch die drei folgenden Songs ABC, The Love You Save und I’ll Be There.

Anfang der 1970er gingen die Jackson Five erstmals auf Welttournee. Insgesamt veröffentlichten sie bis Mitte 1975 13 Alben bei Motown.

Nach der Trennung von Motown Records erhielten sie im Frühjahr 1976 bei Epic Records einen neuen Plattenvertrag und nannten sich von da an „The Jacksons“, da die alten Namensrechte noch bei Motown lagen. Jermaine blieb bei Motown und wurde durch Randy ersetzt. Motown war dafür bekannt, Songs ausschließlich von professionellen Songwritern schreiben zu lassen. Die Brüder hatten bei Epic die Möglichkeit, selbst kreativ zu sein.

Mit Show You the Way to Go hatten sie allerdings ihren einzigen Nummer-eins-Hit bei Epic, dafür waren die Welttourneen Ende der 1970er und Anfang der 1980er Jahre bahnbrechend. Die Lieder der Jacksons waren zwar nicht mehr die Chartstürmer wie früher, aber dennoch weltweit erfolgreich.

1980 kehrte Jermaine zu den Jacksons zurück. Von Juli bis Dezember 1984 unternahm die Gruppe nochmals eine Tour zum Album Victory (Victory Tour) durch die USA. Kurz nach dem Ende dieser Tour erklärte Michael, der seine Toureinnahmen Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen spendete, seinen Rücktritt von den Jacksons, was auch den eigentlichen Anfang vom Ende der Jacksons einläutete.

Randy, Jermaine, Jackie und Tito veröffentlichten im Mai 1989 mit 2300 Jackson Street ein letztes gemeinsames Album der Jacksons.[1]

Im September 2001 feierte Michael Jackson sein 30-jähriges Bühnenjubiläum als Solokünstler mit zwei Shows im New Yorker Madison Square Garden. Hierbei fand ein vielbeachteter Auftritt von The Jacksons statt, u. a. mit einer Performance mit *NSYNC zu dem Song Dancing Machine.

2011 nahmen The Jacksons, nur noch zu dritt, eine Single mit der japanischen Künstlerin AI auf. Der Song Letter in the Sky erschien am 14. Dezember 2011 auf der Single Happiness/Letter in the Sky.
Insgesamt verkauften sie zwischen 1969 und 1989 über 100 Millionen Platten. 1997 erfolgte die Aufnahme in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[2]

Bis heute verdienen The Jackson Five bzw. The Jacksons jährlich rund 50 Millionen Dollar mit ihren Songs, mit Covertiteln, Kompilationen und sonstigen Vermarktungsrechten. Es gibt keine erfolgreichere Black-Music-Group, titelte die Fachzeitschrift Rolling Stone im Jahr 2002.

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Name: D.D. Jackson
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D.D. Jackson is an award-winning jazz pianist/composer whose work spans 12 CD's as leader or co-leader (including two for the major label RCA Victor/BMG) featuring almost entirely original material. His most recent CDs are Serenity Song (2006 Justin Time), and Suite for New York (2003 Justin Time), a meditation on the events of 9/11. His theatre work includes an upcoming opera entitled Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path on the former Canadian Prime Minister and the musical-comedy "Depressed, Depressed" written with Chicago City Limits veteran Carl Kissin. Jackson performs all over the world with his groups and has also appeared and recorded with some of the most distinguished names in jazz including saxophonists David Murray and drummer Jack Dejohnette. He is also an accomplished classical pianist and recently released a recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on Summit Records. Jackson also writes a regular column for Downbeat magazine entitled "Living Jazz" and maintains  the related "D.D. Jackson Living Jazz Podcast".

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Name: Jagged Little Thrill
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Name: King Fantastic
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King Fantastic is a concise study in Westcoastsynthesizerbeachbumgangstermusic, as interpreted by Killer Reese One and Troublemaker.

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Name: Avicii
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Avicii begann seine Karriere, indem er einen Remix zur Titelmusik des C64-Spiels Lazy Jones erstellte. Daraufhin gab er dem Track den neuen Titel Lazy Lace, der kurze Zeit später über Strike Recordings veröffentlicht wurde. Seine Musik ist inspiriert u.a. von Laidback Luke, Steve Angello, Tocadisco, Daft Punk, Eric Prydz und Axwell.
2008 gewann er den Josip Kopic Preis mit 70% der Stimmen. Kurz nach dem Wettbewerb erhielt Avicii verschiedene Angebote von unterschiedlichen Plattenlabels. Im April 2008 erschien dann über Pete Tongs Label Bedroom Bedlam der Track Manman. Im Mai 2008 unterschrieb er schließlich einen Vertrag beim At Night Management und unterzeichnete zudem im gleichen Monat einen Vertrag mit Vicious Grooves.
Im Sommer 2011 veröffentlichte die britische Sängerin Leona Lewis ihre Comeback-Single Collide. Als Instrumental diente Aviciis Stück Penguin, das bereits aus dem Jahre 2010 stammt. Avicii behauptete später, dass Lewis' Plattenfirma Syco den Track "gestohlen" hätte. Avicii ließ Leona Lewis schließlich vor Gericht kommen und als Ergebnis wurde sein Name auf der Single abgebildet. Im Juli 2011 erschien dann eine weitere Vocal-Version zu Penguin. Gesungen wurde die Version vom schwedischen Sänger Andreas Moe, der zuvor eine Akustik-Version auf YouTube veröffentlichte und daraufhin von Avicii ins Studio eingeladen wurde. Den Text schrieben Simon Jeffes, John Martin und Michel Zitron. Die Plattenfirma von Avicii ging daraufhin gerichtlich gegen die Veröffentlichung der Single vor. Fade Into Darkness erschien trotzdem in ausgewählten Ländern und erreichte unter anderem Platzierungen in den schwedischen, rumänischen und niederländischen Single-Charts. Das Lied sollte ursprünglich auch im Vereinigten Königreich erscheinen, wurde aber durch Leona Lewis' Collide schließlich doch nicht veröffentlicht.
Im Herbst 2011 konnte Avicii mit Levels einen internationalen Hit mit mittlerweile über einer Million Verkäufen landen, der es in Großbritannien, Österreich und Deutschland in die Top 10 schaffte und in seinem Heimatland Schweden sein erster Nummer-1-Hit wurde. Der Track bildet auch die Grundlage von Flo Ridas Hit Good Feeling, der zeitgleich große Popularität erlangte und weltweit Spitzenplätze in den Musikcharts belegte. Beide Songs basieren auf dem Lied Something’s Got a Hold on Me von Etta James.
Im Dezember 2012 veröffentlichte er gemeinsam mit dem DJ Nicky Romero und der Sängerin Noonie Bao den Song I Could Be the One. Er erreichte hohe Chartplatzierungen in vielen Ländern. Mitte Februar 2013 gelang Ihnen dann der Sprung auf Platz 1 der britischen- und später auch der polnischen Single-Charts. Die Instrumental-Version erschien bereits im Winter 2011 unter den Namen Nicktim und Fuck School im Internet.
In der DJ-Mag-Liste der weltweiten Top-100 der DJs stand er im Dezember 2011 auf Platz sechs. Ein Jahr später stieg er auf den dritten Platz. Bei den International Dance Music Awards 2012 wurde sein Track Levels als Best Electro/Tech House Track ausgezeichnet. Daneben gewann er auch in der Kategorie Best European DJ.
Am 9. Januar wurde das Avicii X You mit Ericsson und Universal Music ins Leben gerufen. Daraus wird ein neues Musikprojekt gestartet. Die erste Single ist der gleichnamige Titel X You. Sie wurde am 22. Februar 2013 veröffentlicht. Sie konnte direkt in Großbritannien und Schweden in die Charts einsteigen.
Im Frühjahr 2013 komponierte Avicii zusammen mit den ehemaligen ABBA-Mitgliedern Benny Andersson und Björn Ulvaeus die Hymne We Write the Story, welche als Titelsong des Eurovision Song Contest am 18. Mai 2013 verwendet wurde. Er konnte bis auf Platz 73 der Niederländischen Charts steigen.
Des Weiteren ist Avicii als Model der Marke Ralph Lauren tätig 
Das erste Studioalbum True soll am 13. September 2013 in Deutschland erscheinen. Die erste Single-Auskopplung war Wake Me Up, in Zusammenarbeit mit Aloe Blacc. Diese erschien am 17. Juni 2013. Sie konnte direkt in die Single-Charts von über 30 Ländern einsteigen. Davon belegte Wake Me Up Platz 1 von über 22 Ländern. Der Track übertraf den Erfolg von Levels bei weitem. Bereits nach wenigen Monaten erreichte die Single 6x Platin-Status und 2x Gold-Status.

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Name: Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
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Smith took the stage name Lil Jon and formed musical group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz with hype men/rappers Big Sam (born Sam Norris) and Lil' Bo (Wendell Neal). The group signed to the Atlanta-based Mirror Image Records and were distributed by Ichiban Records. In 1997, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz debuted with Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album. It included singles "Who U Wit?" and "Shawty Freak a Lil' Sumthin'", the latter of which came out in 1998. Both singles charted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at No. 70 and No. 62 respectively. In 2000 Jon took part in starting up his own label BME Recordings and signed a distribution agreement with Norcross, Georgia based Southern Music Distribution. There he released his break through album titled We Still Crunk. Among the tracks on that project was the hit single "I Like Those Girls," which reached No. 55 on the R&B chart and No. 3 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart.
After hearing feedback that Lil Jon was "the new guy" from street team people in the markets where he was attracting his biggest audiences – namely Atlanta, St. Louis, Memphis and Dallas – A&R at TVT, Bryan Leach, went to one of his Atlanta shows and was blown away by the immense energy of the experience. Leach told HitQuarters: "It was like early Beastie Boys, when they had the energy of a rock group but they were rapping, and ... that energy is what crunk music is all about." Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz signed to TVT Records in 2001 and debuted there with Put Yo Hood Up, which combined previously released tracks with new ones. The group's first nationally played single was "Bia' Bia'", which featured rappers Ludacris, Too Short, Big Kapp, and Chyna Whyte. "Bia' Bia'" peaked at No. 97 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 47 on the Billboard R&B chart.
In 2002, the group released Kings of Crunk. "I Don't Give A..." was its first single; it featured Mystikal and Krayzie Bone and peaked at No. 50 on the R&B chart. The group's next single, a collaboration with fellow Atlanta hip hop group Ying Yang Twins titled "Get Low", became popular in nightclubs nationwide and reached the top ten of the Hot 100.Crunk Juice followed in 2004, led by "What U Gon' Do" featuring Lil' Scrappy. "What U Gon' Do" peaked at No. 22 on the Hot 100, No. 13 on the R&B chart, and No. 5 on the rap chart; its follow-up, "Lovers & Friends" featuring Usher and Ludacris, peaked at No. 3 (Hot 100), No. 2 (R&B), and No. 1 (rap).

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Name: Crunk Juice
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Name: 10 Years And Gunnin (Greatest
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Name: Mac Miller
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Malcolm James McCormick (born January 19, 1992), known by his stage name Mac Miller (previously Easy Mac), is an American rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is signed to Rostrum Records and released his debut album, Blue Slide Park, on November 8, 2011.
Malcolm James McCormick was born on January 19, 1992, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Karen Meyers, a photographer, and Mark McCormick, an architect. His father is Christian and his mother is Jewish; Miller was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah. He was raised in the Point Breeze part of Pittsburgh. Miller attended Winchester Thurston School and Taylor Allderdice High School. In high school, Miller decided to focus on his hip hop career, later noting, "Once I hit 15, I got real serious about it and it changed my life completely ... I used to be into sports, play all the sports, go to all the high school parties. But once I found out hip-hop is almost like a job, that's all I did." Miller, a self-taught musician, plays piano, guitar, drums, and bass.
Miller first started rapping at the age of fourteen. Before that, he wanted to be a singer-songwriter. Prior to changing his name to Mac Miller, he was known as EZ Mac and released the mixtape But My Mackin' Ain't Easy in 2007 at the age of fifteen. Miller was also part of rap group The Ill Spoken together with fellow Pittsburgh rapper, Beedie. The Ill Spoken released the mixtape How High in 2008. In 2009 Mac Miller released two mixtapes The Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown and The High Life before getting signed to Rostrum Records. In 2009 at age 17, he made it to the final four in Rhyme Calisthenics, the MC competition at Shadow Lounge.
In early 2010, Miller signed with Rostrum Records. Rostrum president Benjy Grinberg met Miller while recording with Wiz Khalifa at ID Labs. Although Grinberg started giving Miller advice, he didn't show any interest in getting involved with his career until the artist began work on the K.I.D.S. mixtape, when, as he later told HitQuarters, Grinberg "noticed a maturation in his sound and approach to his music." By that point Miller had started attracting interest from different record companies but chose Rostrum due to its location in his hometown and association with Wiz Khalifa. K.I.D.S. was released by the label in August 2010. The mixtape was inspired by the movie Kids. A significant breakthrough came in late 2010 when Miller embarked on his first tour, the Incredibly Dope Tour, selling out every location. In 2010, he won two awards at the Pittsburgh hip hop awards.

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Name: Big Boi and Dre Present...Outkast
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Name: Electric Gospel
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Name: Akinyele
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Akinyele (born Akinyele Adams and pronounced ah-kin-yea-LAY) is an American MC who recorded in the 1990s and early 2000s, known for his sexually explicit lyrics, including his 1996 underground radio hit "Put it in Your Mouth". He also made an appearance on "Live at the Barbeque" off Main Source's 1991 album Breaking Atoms, alongside Nas, Joe Fatal and Large Professor. (from Wikipedia)

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Name: Akinyele Adams
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Akinyele (born Akinyele Adams and pronounced ah-kin-yea-LAY) is an American MC who recorded in the 1990s and early 2000s, known for his sexually explicit lyrics, including his 1996 underground radio hit "Put it in Your Mouth". He also made an appearance on "Live at the Barbeque" off Main Source's 1991 album Breaking Atoms, alongside Nas, Joe Fatal and Large Professor. (from Wikipedia)

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Name: Rusko
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Christopher Mercer, more commonly known as Rusko, is an English dubstep record producer and DJ who was born on 26 January 1985 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Name: Songs
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Name: Sean Paul
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Name: The Clash
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The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of Joe Strummer (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Mick Jones (lead guitar, vocals), Paul Simonon (bass guitar, vocals) and Nicky "Topper" Headon (drums, percussion). Headon left the group in 1982, and internal friction led to Jones's departure the following year. The group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986.

The Clash achieved commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album, The Clash, in 1977. Their third album, London Calling, released in the UK in December 1979, brought them popularity in the United States when it came out there the following month. It was declared the best album of the 1980s a decade later by Rolling Stone magazine.

The Clash's politicised lyrics, musical experimentation and rebellious attitude had a far-reaching influence on rock, alternative rock in particular. They became widely referred to as "The Only Band That Matters", originally a promotional slogan introduced by the group's record label, CBS. In January 2003, the band-including original drummer Terry Chimes-were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Clash number 28 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

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Name: Theophilus London
Overview: Theophilus London ist ein amerikanischer Rapper aus Brooklyn, New York City.
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Name: Careless World: Rise of the Last King
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Name: YG
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Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson (born March 9, 1990), is an American rapper better known by the stage name YG (acronym for Young Gangsta). In 2009, he released his debut single, "Toot It and Boot It", featuring Ty Dolla Sign, which peaked at number 67 on the Billboard Hot 100. The singles success resulted in him signing to Def Jam Recordings. In the following years, YG released various mixtapes such as The Real 4Fingaz and Just Re Up'd 2 among others. In June 2013, YG signed to Young Jeezy's CTE World. His 2013 single "My Nigga" featuring Jeezy and Rich Homie Quan has peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the highest charting song of his career. He then released the singles "Left, Right" and "Who Do You Love?" featuring Drake leading up to the release of his debut studio album. That album, My Krazy Life is scheduled to be released on March 18, 2014, by Pu$haz Ink, CTE World and Def Jam.

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Name: Diplo
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Wes Pentz aka Diplo was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Most of his childhood was spent in Florida, where his father still owns and runs a bait shop. His youth was spent discussing 'gators with his uncle, working in pop's store and dreaming of dinosaurs living hidden out in the swamp. As he grew up he began to channel these obsessions into music (Miami Bass being a touchstone, of course) and film.

After a brief stint at film school and a season out on the shrimp boats, the need to escape from America for a while led to some time in Japan, from where he sent the beat doodles he had been working on to Big Dada in the UK and was promptly signed. He returned to the US and moved to Philly where he and another DJ, Low Budget, began their now-legendary Hollertronix sessions. The Hollertronix mix cd, 'Never Scared' followed and later in the year the lost classic 'Epistemology Suite' EP became his first release for Big Dada.

'Florida' followed soon after, the debut album which he described as "based loosely on Wiliam Faulkner's 'Go Down Moses' with a definite red clay shrimp and manatee dirty south feel." Featuring vocals from Martina Topley-Bird, Vybz Cartel, PEACE, Pantera Os Danadinhos and Sandra Melody, it showed the breadth of Diplo's imagination and the depth of his influences. It was welcomed ecstatically by those who found it but is still to reach the audience it deserved. 

Since the record was released, Diplo has become a major star. Starting with the critically-acclaimed and hard-to-find mix cds 'Favela On Blast', 'AEIOU' Vols 1 & 2, M.I.A.'s 'Piracy Funds Terrorism' and 'Hollertronix 2', Pentz built up a reputation as a go-to producer which culminated in his Grammy nomination for MIA's "Paper Planes." Alongside Switch he also started the Major Lazer project and produced for artists including Beyonce, No Doubt, Usher and Justin Bieber. In 2009, Big Dada released "Decent Work For Decent Pay," a compilation of Diplo's productions and remixes.

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Name: Florida
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Name: Kid N Play
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Kid 'n Play is an American hip-hop and comedy duo from New York City that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The duo was composed of Christopher "Kid" Reid and Christopher "Play" Martin working alongside their DJ, Mark "DJ Wiz" Eastmond. Besides their successful musical careers, they are also notable for branching out into acting.

The pair met while performing in rival high school groups The Turnout Brothers and The Super Lovers, and initially formed their duo under the name The Fresh Force Crew. In 1986 She's a Skeezer and Rock Me were recorded. By 1987 they had changed their name to Kid 'n Play.  Kid 'n Play recorded three albums together between 1988 and 1991: 2 Hype (1988), Kid 'n Play's Funhouse (1990), and Face the Nation (1991). Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor, the producer for Salt-n-Pepa (who had been a member of the The Super Lovers with Play) served as Kid 'n Play's manager and producer during the early portion of their career. All three albums focused upon positive lyrics backed by pop-friendly instrumental tracks. Among the group's most successful singles were 1989's "Rollin' with Kid 'n Play" (#11 on the Billboard R&B singles chart), 1990s "Funhouse" (#1 on the Billboard rap singles chart), and "Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody" (another #1 rap hit). The group's stage show highlighted their teen-friendly personalities, and dances such as their trademark, the Kick Step. Kid's visual trademark was his hi-top fade haircut, which stood ten inches high at its peak. Martin regularly wore eight-ball jackets.

Kid 'n Play were also notable for their dance known as the Funky Charleston, first seen in their video "Gittin Funky". Also affectionately known as the Kid and Play Kickstep, it was influenced by the 1920s era dance the Charleston. The Funky Charleston featured the New Jack Swing-aerobic dance moves typical of late 1980s urban street dancing. Unlike the original Charleston, The Funky Charleston requires two participants instead of one. This dance also was made quite popular in Kid 'n Play's feature film House Party, in which Kid and Play have a dance competition with Tisha Campbell and A.J. Johnson.

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Name: De La Soul
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De La Soul ist eine US-amerikanische Hip-Hop-Gruppe, bestehend aus den Rappern Kelvin Mercer (* 1969) und Vincent Mason (* 1970), die 1987 in Amityville, New York, gegründet wurde. Zur Gruppe gehörte bis zu seinem Tod im Februar 2023 auch David J. Jolicoeur (1968–2023).

Zusammen mit Bands wie A Tribe Called Quest und den Jungle Brothers bildete De La Soul Ende der 1980er und Anfang der 1990er Jahre die Gruppe der Native Tongue Family, einer Bewegung, die sich statt der damals üblichen Gangsta- und Ghettolyrics mit sozialen Themen beschäftigte und auf ein freundlicheres Image setzte. Es wurde No School und/oder Next School genannt.

Die drei Mitglieder haben sich mehrere Aliasse zugelegt: Kelvin Mercer trägt die Pseudonyme Posdnuos, Mercenary, Plug Wonder Why und Plug One, David Jude Jolicoeur Trugoy the Dove, Dave und Plug Two, und Vincent Mason Pasemaster Mase, Maseo und Plug Three.

Die Musik ihres von Prince Paul produzierten Debütalbums Three Feet High and Rising war geprägt von Samples aus Jazz (Jazz-Rap), Rock und sogar Country, dem Spiel mit einer hippiesken Ästhetik und einem teilweise recht eigentümlichen Humor. So wurde beispielsweise der Titel der Platte einem Song von Johnny Cash entlehnt. Die ausgekoppelte Single Me, Myself and I wurde weltweit ein Hit.

Später trennte sich die Band von Prince Paul und produzierte entweder selbst oder arbeitete mit wechselnden Produzenten (unter anderem J Dilla) zusammen, was sich in den deutlich gewöhnlicheren Instrumentals niederschlug. Trotzdem war jedes Album ein kommerzieller Erfolg mit Einfluss auf die Szene des alternativen Hip-Hops.

Das 2016 erschienene Album and the Anonymous Nobody... finanzierte die Band über die Crowdfunding-Plattform Kickstarter. 2019 verkündeten Kelvin Mercer, David J. Jolicoeur und Vincent Mason, dass sie nach einem langen Streit mit ihrem Label nun rechtlich in der Lage seien, ihre Aufnahmen auf Streaming-Plattformen anzubieten. De La Soul geben dabei an, dass sie sich vom Label nicht gut vertreten gefühlt hätten.

Im Februar 2023 starb David J. Jolicoeur alias Trugoy an einer seit längerem bekannten Herzinsuffizienz.

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Name: Snow
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Snow, mit bürgerlichem Namen Darrin Kenneth O'Brien, wurde am 30. Oktober 1969 in Toronto, Kanada, geboren. Er wuchs in einer Gegend auf, die als Allenbury Gardens bekannt ist, einem Sozialwohnungskomplex im Norden von Toronto. Snows Kindheit und Jugend waren geprägt von der multikulturellen Umgebung seiner Heimatstadt, insbesondere von der jamaikanischen Kultur und Musik, die einen tiefen Einfluss auf seine musikalische Entwicklung hatten. In den späten 1980er Jahren begann Snow, sich ernsthaft mit der Musik zu beschäftigen, inspiriert von Reggae und Dancehall. Seine Karriere nahm eine entscheidende Wendung, als er den jamaikanischen DJ und Produzenten MC Shan kennenlernte, der ihn unter seine Fittiche nahm und ihm half, seinen einzigartigen Stil zu entwickeln, der Reggae mit Rap und Hip-Hop verband. 1992 veröffentlichte Snow sein Debütalbum "12 Inches of Snow", das durch den Hit "Informer" international bekannt wurde. Der Song, bekannt für Snows schnellen Gesangsstil und den einprägsamen Refrain, erreichte die Spitze der Billboard Hot 100 und machte ihn weltweit berühmt. Trotz des anfänglichen Erfolges musste Snow jedoch mit Herausforderungen kämpfen, einschließlich rechtlicher Probleme und der Kritik, dass er als weißer Künstler in einem von schwarzen Künstlern dominierten Genre nicht authentisch sei. In den folgenden Jahren setzte Snow seine musikalische Karriere fort, obwohl er nie wieder den gleichen kommerziellen Erfolg wie mit "Informer" erreichte. Er veröffentlichte mehrere Alben, darunter "Murder Love" (1995) und "Two Hands Clapping" (2002), die beide von Kritikern positiv aufgenommen wurden. Seine Musik entwickelte sich weiter, blieb aber seinen reggae- und dancehallwurzeln treu. Neben seiner musikalischen Laufbahn ist Snow auch für sein soziales Engagement bekannt. Er ist in verschiedenen wohltätigen Aktivitäten und Projekten involviert, insbesondere in solchen, die sich auf Jugend und Musik in unterprivilegierten Gemeinschaften konzentrieren. Heute wird Snow oft als eine wichtige Figur in der Geschichte der Reggae- und Dancehall-Musik anerkannt, insbesondere für seine Rolle bei der Einführung dieser Genres in ein breiteres, internationales Publikum in den frühen 1990er Jahren. Trotz der Höhen und Tiefen seiner Karriere bleibt Snow eine einzigartige und unvergessliche Stimme in der Welt der Musik.

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Name: Neneh Cherry
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Neneh Cherry (* 10. März 1964 in Stockholm als Neneh Marianne Karlsson) ist eine schwedische Hip-Hop-Künstlerin, Jazz-Sängerin und Songwriterin. Sie ist Stieftochter von Don Cherry. Zu ihren größten kommerziellen Erfolgen gehören Buffalo Stance (1988), Manchild (1989), I’ve Got You Under My Skin (1990), 7 Seconds (1994, mit Youssou N’Dour) und Woman (1996).

Ihr Hip-Hop ist immer wieder auch von anderen Stilen beeinflusst, zum Beispiel Soul (Inna City Mamma, 1989), Rock (Trout, 1992, mit Michael Stipe von R.E.M.) oder Weltmusik (7 Seconds). 
(Wikipedia)

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Name: Bell Biv Devoe
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Bell Biv DeVoe is an American R&B musical group that branched off from New Edition. It consists of three of New Edition's previous members, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe.
After closing the doors for 1980's R&B act New Edition, Bell, Bivins, and DeVoe went on to form Bell Biv Devoe, at the suggestion of producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. Upon accepting the idea, MCA records wrote down the name Bell Bivins Devoe, but Bivins suggested they remove the ins from his name and just call the group Bell Biv Devoe. With help from Public Enemy producers Eric Sadler, Hank and Keith Shocklee, and several others, Bell Biv Devoe released its debut album Poison in 1990, on MCA Records. The album was credited as pioneering the "New Jack Swing" sound of the early 1990s, combining hip-hop, funk, soul, and pop music. This fusion of styles helped to expose them to a fan base who prefer a harder edge sound, while at the same time helped pave the way for future R&B acts. Poison reached number 1 on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and its title track, along with its second single, "Do Me!", both reached number 3 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Shortly thereafter, Richard Wolf and Epic Mazur were responsible for the remix of "Do Me!" (which hit Number One on the dance charts). Poison also spawned other significant hits which include "B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?" "When Will I See You Smile Again?" and "She's Dope!" Poison sold over three million copies, and was followed up by a remix album titled WBBD-Bootcity. Richard Wolf and Epic Mazur helped create BBD's premiere album, blending rhythm, blues, pop, and rock, and Poison achieve triple Platinum success.

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Name: Vanilla Ice
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Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Van Winkle released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 through Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group which released a reformatted version of the album under the title To the Extreme. Van Winkle's single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts.

Although Van Winkle was successful, he later regretted his business arrangements with SBK, which had paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance to appeal to a mass audience and published fabricated biographical information without his knowledge. After surviving a suicide attempt, Van Winkle was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle. While later albums by Van Winkle haven't charted or featured much radio airplay because of their less mainstream, rock-oriented sound, Vanilla Ice has had a loyal underground following. In 2009, Van Winkle began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network. His latest album WTF – Wisdom, Tenacity & Focus was released in August 2011. Van Winkle is currently signed to Psychopathic Records.

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Name: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were an American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1976. Composed of one DJ (Grandmaster Flash) and five rappers (Melle Mel, The Kidd Creole, Keith Cowboy, Mr. Ness/Scorpio, and Rahiem), the group's use of turntablism, break-beat deejaying, and conscious lyricism were significant in the early development of hip hop music.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five initially built their reputation performing at parties and live shows in the mid-1970s and achieved local success. By the time the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was released, the group realized the potential of cutting records and signed with various labels until staying with Sugar Hill Records. Under Sugar Hill Records, the group rose to prominence in the early 1980s with their first hit "Freedom" (1980), but it wasn't until the release of "The Message" (1982) and the album of the same name that they achieved mainstream success. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five would eventually break up into two separate groups due to differences until a brief reunion in 1987 led to the release of the original line-up's second album On the Strength. Afterward, they disbanded permanently. Today the group's legacy continues on as Grandmaster's Furious Five with only Melle Mel and Scorpio as remaining members.

The group is widely regarded as among the most influential hip hop acts. Their biggest single and acknowledged masterpiece "The Message" (1982) is often cited as one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time. In 2007, Jay-Z inducted them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, making them the first hip hop group ever to be inducted.

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Name: Rob Base & DJ Easy Rock
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Their first U.S. single and release was “DJ Interview,” appeared on World to World, which later got them a recording contract with Profile Records in 1987.

Based upon a 4 beat drum loop from Lyn Collins’ 1972 song “Think (About It)” which contained the now infamous “Wooo. Yeah.” vocal sample, the track first became a regional hit and then slowly climbed the Hot 100, eventually peaking at #36 and picking up a platinum single certification. The song also peaked at #3 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

An album, also called It Takes Two, was quickly put together and it produced a significant follow-up hit, “Joy and Pain,” which sampled a song of the same name by Maze featuring Frankie Beverly. It also hit the Top 10 on the dance chart and climbed to #58 on the Hot 100. However, vicious rumors started to circulate that Rob Base had legal problems for using samples from Maze’s Frankie Beverly for the hit “Joy and Pain”. Moreover Rob began to have some personal problems at the same time. He responded in 1989 with The Incredible Base.

“Get On the Dance Floor,” a track released to clubs in between the two singles, hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1989. One additional song hit the dance chart in late 1989: “Turn It Out (Go Base),” credited only to Rob Base.

By the end of 1989 Rob Base went on his own; DJ E-Z Rock was nowhere on the scene because of his personal issues.

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Name: Maestro Fresh Wes
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Wesley Williams (born March 31, 1968), better known as Maestro or Maestro Fresh-Wes, is a Canadian rapper, record producer, actor, and author. One of the earliest Canadian rappers to achieve mainstream success, he is credited as the "Godfather of Canadian hip hop". His debut album, Symphony in Effect (1989), was the first certified platinum album by a Black Canadian artist.

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Name: Krs One
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KRS-One (born Lawrence Parker on August 20, 1965 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York) is an American hip-hop MC. Over his career he has been known by several pseudonyms, including Kris Parker, KRS One, KRS-ONE (as given at his site), The Blastmaster and The Teacha. KRS-One is an acronym for “Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody”. KRS-One is a significant figure in the hip hop community and is often referenced in works by other hip hop artists and critics as being the ‘essence’ of an MC and one of the greatest to ever hold the mic.

KRS-One, originally a member of the hip hop crew Boogie Down Productions, is known for setting the path for both hardcore rap and socially conscious political rap.

Youth and early career

Born Lawrence Parker in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1965, the future KRS-One grew up with his brother Kenny and their single mother in assorted inner city neighborhoods of Brooklyn and the Bronx. According to interviews with The Source Magazine, one fateful day when he was 12 years old, he and his brother Kenny prepared a pan of flavored rice, which was to be the family’s dinner for the evening. The hungry pair ate the whole thing, and when their mother came home from work, she kicked them out of the apartment in a fit of anger. They stayed away for two days before younger Kenny decided to go back home, while Lawrence opted not to return. He spent the better part of the next seven years homeless, much of it at local libraries.

In his late teen years, Lawrence Parker fell in with some illegal drug dealers and became a courier. Using a bread delivery truck as a cover, Parker and his partner drove around town to make drops. During one of their trips, a police car pulled up behind them with flashing lights. Parker’s partner panicked, and led the cops on a chase for several miles which ended with the truck crashing and the two being apprehended. At the trial, the judge made the commentary that the only reason the police had initially tried to pull them over was because they had private plates on a commercial vehicle, there was no original intent to search for drugs.

Parker, still a minor, claimed he was a ward of the state, and got sent to a juvenile home for his sentencing, after which he was moved to a Covenant House youth homeless shelter. It was there that he met Scott Sterling, a recent college graduate who just started working at the shelter as a social worker. Parker discovered that Sterling moonlighted as a hip hop DJ under the name Scott La Rock. By this time, Parker had earned the nickname “Kris” from the relationship he had developed with local Hare Krishnas that evangelized near the shelter. Heavily influenced by Eastern philosophies, he was also an aspiring rapper, and practiced routines in verbal spars with the other shelter residents.

Parker and Sterling, along with two other fellows, decided to form a rap group together, initially calling themselves “Scott La Rock and the Celebrity Three”. That was short-lived, however, as the two peripheral members quit, leaving Parker (now calling himself KRS-One) and Sterling. They then decided to call themselves “Boogie Down Productions”. Success is the Word, a 12-inch single release on indie Fresh/Sleeping Bag Records (under the group name “12:41”) did not enjoy commercial success. Soon after, the pair approached another NY indie, Rock Candy Productions, for a deal. As it turns out, the entertainment company was allegedly a front for a pornography operation, but Parker and Sterling convinced the boss to front them the money to record an album, under the newly created subsidiary label, B-Boy Records. After a few 12-inch single releases, the Criminal Minded album finally surfaced in 1987.

Criminal Minded featured many dis tracks that attacked other hip hop emcees and tracks about street crime (“wa da da deng wa da da da deng, listen to my nine millimeter go bang”). KRS One and La Rock appeared on the cover of the album holding firearms, a controversial precedent that would be followed by many rap artists in the years to follow. Musically, the album was based around James Brown samples and reggae influences. They also sampled hard-rock band AC/DC on “Dope Beat”. During these years, KRS-One was also famously involved in a hip hop battle with MC Shan, of Queensbridge. KRS objected to MC Shan calling Queensbridge the home of hip hop, and attacked him viciously on a seminal battle rap, The Bridge Is Over.

Later career and emphasis on political issues

Following the fatal shooting of Scott La Rock in 1987, Boogie Down Productions (BDP) became increasingly political. KRS One was the primary motivation behind the HEAL compilation and the Stop the Violence Movement. KRS One attracted many prominent emcees to appear on the 12-inch single “Self Destruction.” As Parker adopted this more conscientious, less violent approach, he stopped calling himself “The Blastmaster” (his battle rap nickname), and instead began calling himself “The Teacha”, turning the nickname KRS-ONE into the backronym “Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone”.

On his first solo album, 1993’s Return of the Boombap, KRS worked together with producers DJ Premier (Gang Starr), Showbiz and Kid Capri. The catchy yet very hardcore track “Sound of da Police” is featured on this album. His second album, KRS One featured Channel Live on the track “Free Mumia”, a political protest song about Mumia Abu-Jamal, an imprisoned African-American and Black Panther member who a vocal group of activists on the political Left claim is innocent of the crime of which he was convicted. Other prominent guest artists on KRS One included Mad Lion, Busta Rhymes, Das EFX and Fat Joe.

In 1997, Parker surprised many with his release of the album I Got Next. The record included a remix of the single “Step into a World” which featured a sample from the 1970s rock group Blondie by commercial rap icon Puff Daddy. “Heartbeat”, featuring Angie Martinez and Redman, was based on the old school classic “Feel the Heartbeat” by the Treacherous Three. These collaborations with notably mainstream artists took many fans and observers of the vehemently anti-mainstream KRS One by surprise. However, in August 1997 KRS One appeared on Tim Westwood’s BBC Radio 1 show and vociferously denounced the DJ and the radio station more generally, accusing them of ignoring his style of hip-hop in favour of commercial artists such as Puff Daddy.

In 1999, there were tentative plans to release an album called “Maximum Strength”; a lead single, “5 Boroughs”, was released on The Corruptor movie soundtrack. However, KRS apparently decided to abort the album’s planned release, just as he had secured a position as a Vice-President of A&R at Reprise Records. KRS moved to southern California, and stayed there for two years, finally ending his relationship with Jive Records with A Retrospective in 2000. The next year, he resigned his position at Reprise and in 2001 The Sneak Attack was released on Koch Records. In 2002, he released a gospel-rap album, Spiritual Minded, surprising many longtime fans. Parker had once denounced Christianity as a “slavemaster religion” which African-Americans should not follow. He founded the Temple of Hiphop, and released a new album, Kristyles, in mid- 2003, which was preceded by KRS-One: The Mixtape. In the summer of 2004 he released Keep Right.

KRS One’s latest CD Life, was released in June 2006, and another CD, Adventures in Emceein on Koch Records is slated for later in the year. KRS has also confirmed for his next album of new material, expected to be out in 2007, he will be working with Marley Marl.

September 11 comments and ensuing controversy

In 2004, KRS engendered a controversy when he was quoted in a panel discussion hosted by New Yorker Magazine as saying that Blacks “cheered when 911 happened”. The comment drew criticism from many sources, including a pointed barb by the New York Daily News that called Parker an “anarchist” and said that “If Osama bin Laden ever buys a rap album, he’ll probably start with a CD by KRS-One.”

Parker responded to the furor surrounding his comments with an editorial written for AllHipHop.com. In it, Parker said “I was asked about why hiphop has not engaged the current situation more (meaning 911), my response was ‘because it does not affect us, or at least we don’t perceive that it affects us, 911 happened to them’. I went on to say that ‘I am speaking for the culture now; I am not speaking my personal opinion.’ I continued to say; ‘911 affected them down the block; the rich, the powerful those that are oppressing us as a culture. Sony, RCA or BMG, Universal, the radio stations, Clear Channel, Viacom with BET and MTV, those are our oppressors those are the people that we’re trying to overcome in hiphop everyday, this is a daily thing. We cheered when 911 happened in New York and say that proudly here. Because when we were down at the trade center we were getting hit over the head by cops, told that we can’t come in this building, hustled down to the train station because of the way we dressed and talked, and so on, we were racially profiled. So, when the planes hit the building we were like, ‘mmmm, justice’. And just as I began to say ‘now of course a lot of our friends and family were lost there as well’ but I was interrupted…”

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Name: Slick Rick
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Richard Walters (born 14 January 1965), better known by his stage name Slick Rick, is a Grammy-nominated British- American rapper. He has also been known as MC Ricky D and Rick the Ruler. He began his career in late 1983, in the hip hop genre, where he recorded a series of acclaimed recordings such as "La Di Da Di" and "Children's Story". Walters is best known for his storytelling innovations in this genre. His music has been frequently sampled and interpolated by other artists such as TLC, Black Star, The Notorious B.I.G. and Snoop Dogg, with many of these songs later becoming hit singles. Slick Rick rose to stardom in an era known to fans as the Golden age of hip hop.
About.com ranked him #12 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time, while The Source ranked him #15 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.

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Name: Ice T
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Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper and actor. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and moved to the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles when he was in the 7th grade. After graduating from high school, he served in the United States Army for four years. He began his career as a rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays, the first hip-hop album to carry an explicit content sticker. The next year, he founded the record label Rhyme Syndicate Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the Rhyme Syndicate) and released another album, Power.

He co-founded the heavy metal band Body Count, which he introduced in his 1991 album O.G.: Original Gangster. Body Count released its self-titled debut album in 1992. Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", which was perceived to glamorize killing police officers. Ice-T asked to be released from his contract with Warner Bros. Records, and his next solo album, Home Invasion, was released later in February of 1993 through Priority Records. Body Count's next album was released in 1994, and Ice-T released two more albums in the late 1990s. Since 2000, he has portrayed NYPD Detective Odafin Tutuola on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

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Name: NWA
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N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was an American hip hop group whose members were among the earliest and most significant popularizers and controversial figures of the gangsta rap subgenre, and the group is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential groups in the history of hip hop music.

Active from 1987 to 1991, the rap group endured controversy owing to its music's explicit lyrics, which many viewed as being misogynistic, as well as to its glorification of drugs and crime. The group was subsequently banned from many mainstream American radio stations. In spite of this, the group has sold over 10 million units in the United States alone. Drawing on its members' own experiences of racism and excessive policing, the group made inherently political music. The group's members were known for their deep hatred of the police system, which has sparked much controversy over the years.

The original lineup, formed in early 1987, consisted of Arabian Prince, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, and Ice Cube, with DJ Yella and MC Ren joining later that year. They released their first compilation album as a group in 1987 called N.W.A. and the Posse, which peaked at No. 39 on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Arabian Prince left shortly after the release of N.W.A's debut studio album, Straight Outta Compton, in 1988, with Ice Cube following suit in December 1989. Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and Dr. Dre later became platinum-selling solo artists in their own right in the 1990s. The group's debut album marked the beginning of the new gangsta rap era as the production and social commentary in their lyrics were revolutionary within the genre. N.W.A's second studio album, Niggaz4Life, was the first hardcore rap album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 sales charts.

Rolling Stone ranked N.W.A at number 83 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2016, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following three previous nominations.

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Name: Run Dmc
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Run-D.M.C. was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens, New York, founded in 1981 by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, and Jason "Jam-Master Jay" Mizell. The group is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture.
Run-D.M.C. were one of the most well-known hip hop acts in the 1980s who, along with LL Cool J, signified the advent of the new school of hip hop music. They were the first group in the genre to have a gold album (Run-D.M.C., 1984) and be nominated for a Grammy Award. They were the first to earn a platinum record (King of Rock, 1985), the first to earn a multi-platinum certification (Raising Hell, 1986) the first to have videos on MTV, the first to appear on American Bandstand and the cover of Rolling Stone. The group was among the first to highlight the importance of the MC and DJ relationship. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them number 48 in their list of the greatest musical artists of all time.
In 2007, Run-D.M.C. was named "The Greatest Hip Hop Group of All Time" by MTV.com and "Greatest Hip Hop Artist of All Time" by VH1. On April 4, 2009, rapper Eminem inducted them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In doing so, Run-D.M.C. became only the second hip hop group in history to be inducted, after Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
The initials "D.M.C." are widely accepted to refer to Darryl McDaniels' initials. In the 1985 album King of Rock's title track, McDaniels says the initials have two meanings: "Devastating Mic Control" and "D for never dirty, MC for mostly clean." He also makes a third reference "The 'D's for Doing it all of the time, the 'M's for the rhymes that all are Mine, The 'C's for Cool - cool as can be."

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Name: JJ Fad
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J. J. Fad (Just Jammin' Fresh and Def) is an LA-based trio of female rappers: MC J.B. (Juana Burns), Baby-D (Dania Birks) and Sassy C. (Michelle Franklin). Signed to Ruthless Records, and produced by NWA's Dr. Dre and Yella, their 1988 debut Supersonic spawned the titular chart hit (Billboard Hot 100: peaked at #31), and was the first Grammy nominated record by a female hip-hop group. Their sophomore album,  Not Just a Fad, was released in 1991, but didn't fare well on the charts; the group disbanded the following year.   In 2009, the group reunited and plans are under way for a 20th Anniversary tour. A re-release of Supersonic is also planned.

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Name: Whodini
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Whodini is a hip hop group that was formed in 1981. The Brooklyn, New York-based trio consisted of vocalist and main lyricist Jalil Hutchins; co-vocalist John Fletcher, aka Ecstasy (who wore a Zorro-style hat as his trademark); and turntable artist DJ Drew Carter, aka Grandmaster Dee.
Whodini was among the first hip hop groups to cultivate a high-profile national following for hip hop music and made significant inroads on urban radio. As they were contemporaries of other hip hop groups such as the Fat Boys, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaataa, the group was managed by Russell Simmons, brother of Joseph “Run” Simmons of Run-D.M.C. The group signed with London-based independent record label Jive Records in 1982; they enjoyed a string of hits for several years, mostly charting on urban and R&B radio stations. The bulk of production on their releases was done by Larry Smith, a bass player who also handled much of Run-D.M.C.’s early work.

In 1983, the group recorded the self titled album Whodini, and its first single "Haunted House of Rock" was a Halloween-themed number that even today is still played in some clubs. Synthpop pioneer Thomas Dolby helped produce another of its singles, "Magic’s Wand", which was originally conceived as an advertisement for prominent radio jock Mr. Magic, who worked for New York’s WBLS radio. "Magic's Wand" also has the distinction of being one of Whodini's most-sampled songs.
In 1984, the group released Escape, which included "Five Minutes of Funk", "The Freaks Come Out at Night", the instrumental "Featuring Grand Master Dee", "Big Mouth", and the relationship-driven "Friends". Many of these songs were also groundbreaking in hip hop culture, as each one of the songs told a unique story from the urban perspective. The album ended up being certified for platinum-level sales by the R.I.A.A., selling over one million albums upon its release.
The instrumental version of "Five Minutes of Funk" was used as the theme music for WNYC TV show Video Music Box, an influential early hip hop music video show.

The vinyl album is long out of print and the CD (only released twice, once in 1992 and again in 2002) is also out of print and any copies of either of them are extremely valuable to collectors.

On May 17, 2011, Escape was released on CD with nine bonus tracks.
In 1986, the group released Back in Black and a number of songs from the album received heavy local New York airplay, such as "Funky Beat" and the controversial “I’m a Ho”. “Fugitive” was guitar-driven funk and "Last Night (I Had a Long Talk With...)" was introspective.
From 1982 to 1986, the group was at its most productive; they toured with the more successful bands such as Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, the Fat Boys, and other prominent hip hop, R&B and funk bands. The group was involved in the first Fresh Fest tour, which was the first hip hop tour to play large coliseums nationwide. In July 1986 they appeared at Philadelphia's Spectrum Stadium in front of an audience of 18,000. They were the first Rap Act and Break Dance troop to Tour in the UK and Europe, with U.T.F.O also appearing with themas there break dance act. Played all over Europe to full venues as no one had seen this kind of music before. Andy Franks
By 1987, the group had earned its share of gold singles and albums. With Open Sesame, its final release of the 1980s, the group had turned away from their once-playful simple beats and catchy rhymes of the old school and instead became vocally more harder and more instrument-driven, with guitars and horns and bells. They even began to sample, as a snippet of Cheryl Lynn's "Got to be Real" is heard on the song "Now That Whodini's Inside the Joint".

This new school style had been similarly done almost a year previously on the multi-million selling debut albums by L.L. Cool J and the Beastie Boys, as many groups had already turned to the kind of rap and rock music that crossed over easily, and Open Sesame failed to produce any real hits.

Although the group was still obligated to Jive Records, for the next few years the band eked out its tenure by occasionally only releasing singles, including “Anyway I Gotta Swing It” for the A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child movie soundtrack.
By 1987, the group had earned its share of gold singles and albums. With Open Sesame, its final release of the 1980s, the group had turned away from their once-playful simple beats and catchy rhymes of the old school and instead became vocally more harder and more instrument-driven, with guitars and horns and bells. They even began to sample, as a snippet of Cheryl Lynn's "Got to be Real" is heard on the song "Now That Whodini's Inside the Joint".

This new school style had been similarly done almost a year previously on the multi-million selling debut albums by L.L. Cool J and the Beastie Boys, as many groups had already turned to the kind of rap and rock music that crossed over easily, and Open Sesame failed to produce any real hits.

Although the group was still obligated to Jive Records, for the next few years the band eked out its tenure by occasionally only releasing singles, including “Anyway I Gotta Swing It” for the A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child movie soundtrack.

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Name: Heavy D & The Boyz
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Dwight Errington Myers (May 24, 1967 - November 8, 2011), better known as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-born American rapper, record producer, singer, actor, and former leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a hip hop group which included dancers/background vocalists G-Whiz (Glen Parrish), "Trouble" T. Roy (Troy Dixon), and Eddie F (born Edward Ferrell). The group maintained a sizable audience in the United States through most of the 1990s. The five albums the group released were produced by Teddy Riley, Marley Marl, DJ Premier, his cousin Pete Rock and Eddie F. 

Biography:
Myers was born on May 24, 1967 in Mandeville, Jamaica, the son of Eulahlee Lee, a nurse, and Clifford Vincent Myers, a machine technician. In the early 1970s his family moved to Mount Vernon, New York, where he was raised. 
Heavy D & the Boyz were the first group signed to Uptown Records, with Heavy D as the frontman and only rapper. Eddie F was his business partner in the group, DJ, and one of the producers. The other two members, T-Roy and G-Wiz were the dancers. Their debut, Living Large, was released in 1987. The album was a commercial success; Big Tyme was a breakthrough that included four hits. 
Dancer Troy "Trouble T. Roy" Dixon died at age 22 in a fall on July 15, 1990, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dixon's death led to a tribute on the follow-up platinum album, Peaceful Journey. Pete Rock & CL Smooth created a tribute to Trouble T. Roy called "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" which is regarded as a hip hop classic. 
Heavy D performed a guest rap on Janet Jackson's hit single "Alright". It was notably the first pop single to feature a rapper, setting the trend for future hip-hop and pop collaborations. It was also his highest peaking song on the Billboard Hot 100. A year later, he appeared on Michael Jackson's single "Jam". He gained even more fame by singing the theme song for the television program In Living Color and also MADtv. Heavy D then began focusing on his acting, appearing in various television shows before returning to the music charts with Nuttin' But Love. After appearing in the off-Broadway play Riff Raff at Circle Repertory Company, Heavy D returned to recording with the hit Waterbed Hev. In 1997, Heavy D collaborated with B.B. King on his duets album Deuces Wild, rapping in the song "Keep It Coming." Heavy D was referred to in the song "Juicy" by the Notorious B.I.G., and appeared in his music video for "One More Chance." 
While still an artist at Uptown Records, Myers was instrumental in convincing Andre Harrell to originally hire Sean "Diddy" Combs for his first music business gig as an intern. Then, also to his credit, in the mid-1990s, Myers became the first rapper to head a major music label when he became the president of Uptown Records. During this time, Myers also developed the Rhythm and Blues boy band Soul for Real, and was the executive producer and principal writer of several songs on the group's breakout album, Candy Rain. He later became senior vice president at Universal Music. 
He fathered a daughter in 2000 during a relationship with chef Antonia Lofaso, a contestant on Top Chef. 

Death:
Heavy D and Eddie F performed at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards on October 11, 2011. It was their first televised live performance in 15 years and would be his final live performance. Myers died on November 8, 2011, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 44. He collapsed outside his Beverly Hills home and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Heavy D's death was initially thought to be connected to pneumonia. 
An autopsy report, released on December 27, 2011, stated that the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism (PE). The coroner's office found that Myers died of a PE that had broken off from a deep vein thrombosis in the leg. He also suffered from heart disease. The blood clot that resulted in the PE was "most likely formed during an extended airplane ride," said Craig Harvey, chief of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner. The rapper had recently returned from a trip to Cardiff, Wales where he performed at a tribute to Michael Jackson. 
Shortly after his death, MC Hammer and others led tributes for Heavy D on Twitter. Hammer Tweeted: We had a lot of great times touring together. He had a heart of gold. He was a part of what's good about the world.

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Name: Skee-Lo
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Antoine Roundtree (born March 27, 1975), better known as Skee-Lo, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 1995 song, "I Wish", which became a Top 40 hit in several countries. Skee-Lo moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s when he began producing his own music. His first hit single was titled "I Wish." The "I Wish" single became a hit on radio and TV during the summer of 1995 with a number one MTV video, and his debut album of the same title was released shortly thereafter, earning him two Grammy nominations for both the album and single. In 1996, Skee-Lo became a VJ for both MTV's The Beach House and The Grind.

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Name: Kriss Kross
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Atlanta natives Kelly (born August 11, 1978) and Smith (born January 10, 1979) were discovered in 1990 by 18-year-old Jermaine Dupri at an Atlanta shopping mall. Along with Dupri they signed a deal with Ruffhouse Records, and recorded their debut album Totally Krossed Out. Entirely produced by Dupri, Totally Krossed Out, was released March 31, 1992 and sold four million copies in the U.S. It included the hit single "Jump", which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks.
The duo landed a spot on Michael Jackson's 1992 Dangerous World Tour, as well as a cameo appearance on Jackson's "Jam" music video. The music videos from their own album also experienced major success. The video for "Jump", directed by filmmaker Rich Murray went to No. 1 on MTV and sold over 100,000 copies as a VHS 'video single' and the video for their followup single "Warm It Up", also directed by Murray won a Billboard video award for "Best New Artist". In addition to this, they also made appearances in the music videos for Run-D.M.C.'s "Down with the King" and TLC's "Hat 2 Da Back". They were also featured in an episode of A Different World, and the closing musical act on May 29, 1992 episode of In Living Color.
In 1992, a video game was released starring the pair titled Kris Kross: Make My Video. It was released on the Sega CD system, and consisted of the player editing together the group's music videos to a few of their hit songs-using portions of the original music videos, stock footage, and general video animation effects. Players were prompted before each edit session to make sure to have certain footage compiled into the video. The game was released only in the United States to poor sales figures and dismal reviews. It was ranked 18th on Electronic Gaming Monthly's list of the "20 Worst Games of All Time".
Kris Kross recorded the Rugrats Rap for Rugrats ( A Nickelodeon cartoon) for Nickelodeon in 1993. The song is available on the Rugrats Chuckie the Brave VHS and The Best of Nicktoons CD which is a compilation album of theme songs and other material from several Nicktoons that was released by Nickelodeon and Rhino Records in 1998.
Kris Kross made a cameo appearance in Ted Demme's 1993 film Who's the Man?, which starred Ed Lover and Doctor Dré of Yo! MTV Raps fame.
Their second album, Da Bomb (1993), was certified platinum, and spawned the hit "Alright", although it failed to match their earlier success. Most of their songs had been directed at rivals Da Youngstas, Illegal and Another Bad Creation. A third album, Young, Rich & Dangerous, was released in early 1996 and was certified gold. It spawned the two hits "Tonite's tha Night" and "Live and Die for Hip Hop".

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Name: Fat Boys
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Originally the group was known as The Disco Three. However, the name was changed after their manager, Charles Stettler, complained about how much the trio ate during an early European tour. Charles Stettler and Art Kass were listed as the executive record producers on the 1984 Fat Boys album.

Unlike many of the streetwise images of the genre, the Fat Boys were known for their offbeat and friendly style. Much of their material involved the pleasures of food and drink, as well as partying and sexual escapades. Buffy, the Human Beatbox, was a pioneer in beatboxing (using his mouth to portray the typical hip hop percussion “scratch ‘n mix” sounds). His distinctive talent was influential to the genre as well as a noticeable hook to get the Fat Boys noticed. Buffy and another contemporary Doug E. Fresh popularized beatboxing, inspiring other artists to innovate, including Biz Markie and later, others such as Rahzel. Attempting to capitalize on the appearance-oriented name of the Fat Boys, another hip hop group dubbed themselves the Skinny Boys, and yet another, the Fat Girls. Their popularity was mild in comparison, however.

For their 1987 album, Crushin’, the Fat Boys made a cover version of The Surfaris’ hit, “Wipe Out”, with The Beach Boys singing back-up vocals. The single made it to #12 on the Billboard chart, and #10 on the corresponding R&B listing. The Fat Boys also recorded a version of “The Twist” with the original recording artist, Chubby Checker.

Capitalizing on their good humored personalities, the trio starred in the 1985 Run DMC film Krush Groove and in the Hollywood feature film, Disorderlies (1987), which also featured Ralph Bellamy as a millionaire invalid who receives bumbling care by his good-natured orderlies (played by the Fat Boys). They were later approached to record the theme song for A Nightmare of Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988), called “Ready for Freddy”.

The group’s popularity waned by the ’90s, and Prince Markie Dee left the group to pursue solo interests. In 1991, the remaining two members (Kool Rock Ski & Buffy, The Human Beat Box) carried on as a duo and released Mack Daddy (1991); but soon disbanded the group. Regardless, the Fat Boys are fondly regarded as a seminal part of early rap music recording history.

Although there was talk of a Fat Boys reunion, nothing materialised. By December 10, 1995, it became an impossibility when Buffy, the Human Beat Box died of a heart attack in Rosedale, Queens, New York. He was 28 years old and reportedly 450 lbs.

Prince Markie Dee is currently a host for WMIB’s morning drive-time show.

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Name: EPMD
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On the surface, the sample-reliant productions and monotone rapping styles of Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith had little to recommend them, but the duo's recordings as EPMD were among the best in hip-hop's underground during the late '80s and early '90s. Over the course of four albums (from the 1988 classic Strictly Business to 1992's Business Never Personal), the group rarely varied from two themes: dissing sucker MCs and recounting sexual exploits. A closer look, however, revealed that the duo's rhymes were nothing less than incredible, simply undervalued due to their lack of intonation during delivery. EPMD also had a feel for a good groove, and created numerous hip-hop classics, including "It's My Thing," "You Gots to Chill," "Get the Bozack," "Strictly Business," and "Rampage."
Business Never Personal
Though EPMD's hardcore style influenced the urban-oriented gangsta '90s, Erick Sermon (aka E Double E; b. Nov. 25, 1968) and Parrish Smith (aka Pee MD; b. May 13, 1968) were both raised in the Long Island suburb of Brentwood. They moved into rap separately, with Smith DJing for Rock Squad on a single for the Tommy Boy label. After coming together in 1987 -- at which time they named themselves EPMD, short for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars" -- they recorded their debut, "It's My Thing," in three hours. The single was later licensed to Chrysalis, and EPMD signed to Sleeping Bag/Fresh Records for the debut album Strictly Business. Propelled by several strong singles (including "You Gots to Chill" and the title track), the album eventually went gold, as did 1989's follow-up, Unfinished Business. Signed to Def Jam by the beginning of the '90s, EPMD returned in 1990 with Business as Usual and Business Never Personal two years later.
No Pressure
By 1992, they presided over an extended family dubbed the Hit Squad, including Redman, K-Solo, and Das EFX. The duo split later that year, however, prompting solo careers for each member; Sermon debuted in 1993 with No Pressure, and Smith made his statement on 1994's Shade Business. The duo then re-formed EPMD in 1997, recording a strong comeback LP named Back in Business. Out of Business followed in 1999, but the rappers continued pursuing their own projects through the late '90s and early 2000s. Both released solo albums, and Sermon partnered with Redman and Keith Murray as part of the Def Squad supergroup. Nevertheless, they also found time to continue performing together as EPMD, and 2008 saw them returning to the studio for We Mean Business.

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Name: Pete Rock & CL Smooth
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As a producer, DJ Pete Rock (Peter Phillips) tended to prefer obscure soul and jazz sides for sample sources, frequently making use of horn-driven hooks. Lead vocalist CL Smooth (Corey Penn) tended to be philosophical in his raps, and he mostly avoided profanity. Their signature hit was "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)", a dirge for fallen friends—namely Troy "Trouble T-Roy" Dixon, a member of Heavy D & The Boyz, who died in 1990. They were first signed to Elektra Records, managed, and Executive Produced by Eddie F of Heavy D and The Boyz and Untouchables Entertainment who also then managed Pete Rock as a producer. Pete Rock was one of the original three "Untouchables" producers along with Eddie F himself and Nevelle Hodge.

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Name: Big Daddy Kane
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Antonio Hardy (born September 10, 1968) better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MCs in hip hop.Regarding the name Big Daddy Kane, he said: "The Big Daddy part and the Kane part came from two different things. The Kane part came from my fascination with the martial arts flicks when I was young." The Big Daddy part came from the name of a character Vincent Price played in the film Beach Party.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked his song "Ain't No Half Steppin'" #25 on its list of The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, calling him "a master wordsmith of rap's late-golden age and a huge influence on a generation of MCs." They added, "Legend has it that even the Eighties' greatest rapper, Rakim, turned down a challenge to go mic-to-mic with Kane."

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Name: Eric B & Rakim
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Eric B. & Rakim are a hip-hop duo composed of DJ Eric Barrier (born November 8, 1963) and MC Rakim (born William Michael Griffin Jr. on January 28, 1967). Hailing from Long Island, New York, the pair are generally considered by hip hop enthusiasts to be one of the most influential and innovative groups in the genre. During hip hop's "golden age" of the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the duo was almost universally regarded as the premier MC/DJ combo in hip hop. The two had a potent chemistry; the duo's beats built on the hard-hitting sound of Run-D.M.C. by adding James Brown samples and Eric B's scratching, setting the stage for hip hop's late-1980s/early-1990s infatuation with samples from Brown. Notable journalist Tom Terrell of NPR referred to the duo as "the most influential DJ/MC combo in contemporary pop music period," while the editors of About.com ranked them as #3 on their list of the 10 Greatest Hip-Hop Duos of All-Time. They were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011

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Name: Smiff N Wessun
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Smif-n-Wessun (aka Cocoa Brovaz) is a hip hop duo consisting of members Tek (Tekomin Williams) and Steele (Darrell Yates). Smif-n-Wessun comprise two-eighths of the Brownsville, Brooklyn supergroup Boot Camp Clik, with Buckshot, Heltah Skeltah and O.G.C. Both members are known for their Jamaican Patois during their raps, which was more evident during the earlier stages of their career. The duo debuted on Black Moon's 1993 album Enta da Stage, appearing on the tracks "Black Smif-N-Wessun" and "U Da Man". They released their first single "Bucktown" b/w "Let's Git It On" in early 1994. "Bucktown" became an underground smash, and gave the group considerable hype for their debut album, Dah Shinin', released in January 1995. The album debuted in the top 5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and went on to sell over 300,000 copies in the United States. Along with "Bucktown," the album featured the singles "Wrekonize" b/w "Sound Bwoy Bureill" and "Wontime" b/w "Stand Strong." Dah Shinin became an influential album in the hardcore New York hip hop scene of the mid-1990s, and is considered a rap classic. Soon after the release of their debut, Smif-N-Wessun were sued with a cease and desist order over their group name by the Smith & Wesson firearms company. To avoid the lawsuit, they decided to change their name to the Cocoa Brovaz in 1996. In 1996, Smif-n-Wessun and the Boot Camp Clik flew to Los Angeles to record an album with Death Row Records artist, 2Pac. The album was titled "One Nation." 2Pac planned to release it with two discs, one titled "WestCoast" and the other titled "EastCoast." Fat Joe was supposed to fly to L.A. but never turned up. Snoop Dogg, Outlawz and others were also going to be featured on the album.
In 1997, the Cocoa B'z joined up with the entire Boot Camp Clik for their first group album For the People. The album was seen as a disappointment, and led to the eventual decline of the Camp's popularity. In early 1998, they dropped their second album The Rude Awakening. The release was met with mixed reviews and moderate sales. The album's lead single, the Raekwon-assisted "Black Trump", was not able to reach any Billboard charts. In 1999, the Clik was dropped from Priority Records, leaving the duo temporarily unsigned. Soon after, the Cocoa Brovaz released an underground single, "Super Brooklyn," which heavily sampled the Super Mario Bros. theme. Because of the illegal use of the sample, the duo was not able to officially release the track, but the single landed them a deal with leading underground rap label Rawkus Records.
They appeared on a number of compilation albums over the next few years, including Soundbombing 2, Lyricist Lounge 2, Game Over and Soundbombing III and Frankie Cutlass "Politic's & Bullshit" Album. They were never able to release the album they recorded for Rawkus in 2002, though it has circulated as a bootleg. They rejoined Duck Down Records for the release of the Boot Camp Clik's second group album The Chosen Few in the same year. In September 2005, they returned as Smif-N-Wessun for the album Smif 'n' Wessun: Reloaded. The album received good reviews, and sold around 35,000-40,000 copies in the United States. In 2006, the Boot Camp Clik released their third group album, The Last Stand, to strong reviews and Smif-N-Wessun appeared on a special edition of Ich, the second album of the German rapper Sido. Smif-N-Wessun's fourth album, Smif-N-Wessun: The Album, was released on October 23, 2007. The album is produced by Ken Ring, Tommy Tee and more, and features appearances from Rock of Heltah Skeltah, Joell Ortiz and Norwegian supergroup the Loudmouf Choir.
In 2008, they participated as guests in one track on one of the most skilled Czech hip hop band PIO SQUAD on their album called Interview. There were plans for a new Smif-n-Wessun album to be released in 2009. The duo has confirmed that legendary producer Pete Rock would be producing a majority, if not all of the album. The album is entitled Monumental and was released on June 28, 2011. The album's guests include Raekwon, Bun B, Styles P, Heltah Skeltah, Top Dogg, Buckshot from Boot Camp Clik, Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Black Rob & Hurricane G.
In September 2013, the duo announced the release of a reggae inspired EP entitled Born and Raised entirely produced by Beatnick & K-Salaam. The EP was released on December 3, 2013 and includes guest features from Junior Reid, Jr. Kelly, Jahdan Blakkamoore, and DJ Full Factor. The EP's release was supported by one single – "Solid Ground" featuring Junior Reid.

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Name: Redman
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Reginald "Reggie" Noble (born April 17, 1970), better known by his stage name Redman, is an American MC, rapper, DJ, record producer and actor. He came to fame in the early 1990s as an artist on the Def Jam label. He is also well known for his collaborations with Method Man, including their starring roles in films and sitcoms. He was also a member of the Def Squad in the late 1990s. Redman is one-half of the rap duo Method Man & Redman and has been unofficially referred to as the "11th member" of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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Name: Akwaaba
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Name: Friction
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Friction (real name Ed Keeley) is a drum and bass artist hailing from Brighton, United Kingdom. In 1998 Friction released his debut single Critical Mass under the name 'Kinnetix', attracting the attention of major labels. Soon he was releasing tracks on renowned labels such as Valve, Tru Playaz, Trouble On Vinyl, 31 Records, Hospital Records, Charge and Renegade Hardware alongside his own Shogun Audio imprint.  DJ Friction is regarded as one of the biggest DJs in the drum and bass scene, with an extremely fast rise to success in the last 5 years. Highly regarded for his various mix CDs and releases on labels like Hospital, Tru Playaz and Renegade Hardware. One of his biggest tracks was the "Back To Your Roots Remix" on Shogun Audio in 2007.

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J. Taylor, A. Young, Calvin Broadus, K. Rahman, S. Jordan, D. Tannenbaum, S. Benton, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, E. Hayes & B. Honeycutt

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Name: J-Kwon
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J-Kwon (born Jarrell Jones in March 28, 1986) is a rapper from St. Louis, currently signed to Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings. He is currently wrapping up his second album, Louisville Slugger.  2004-2005: Musical Beginnings  J-Kwon first got signed in a very odd and amusing way. He would continually mock who would be his main producer, Jermaine Dupri, who produced a majority of his first album, Hood Hop. Regardless, according to Dupri, J-Kwon was also signed because of his rapping skills.  J-Kwon first rose to stardom with his single "Tipsy" and his 2004 album Hood hop. J-Kwon's debut peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200. It has reached gold status, selling approximentaly 650,000 copies to date. "Tipsy" peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #4 in the UK, becoming a success and making it his biggest single to date. A music video was filmed for the single, which was an obvious remake of Gin & Juice by Snoop Dogg. Strangely on the set of this music video, a shot was fired from a passing vehicle. The shot hit a window of a van, but no one was hurt.  After "Tipsy" has done its fair share on the radio, Jive parted with "You & Me", featuring Sadiyyah, as the second single. J-Kwon wanted "Parking Lot" or "Hood Hop" to be a second single, but Jive decided "You & Me" with the fall and holiday theme in mind. While nowhere near as successful as the earlier smash, the song did chart to #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and landed a spot on the 17th edition of Now That's What I Call Music! Afterwards, third single "Hood Hop" had little success, not charting on The Hot 100 and only getting to #52 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Tracks.  J-Kwon rose back to stardom in 2005 when he was given the opportunity to make the priority song on the XXX: State of the Union soundtrack. The song, "Get XXX'd", featuring Petey Pablo and Ebony Eyez, was completed soon enough and was featured on the normal soundtrack and in the credits. Also in 2005, he promoted another part of media, this time in television, when he collabrated with comedian Andy Milonakis in "Like Dis", to promote The Andy Milonakis Show.  His record company, Gracie Entertainment, announced in March 2010 that he had been missing for a month. Later, he had gotten in touch with his record label, saying he is alive and well and "just taking some time out." J-Kwon released his fourth studio album on March 23, 2010, entitled J-Kwon.

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Name: Hood Hop
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Name: J.R. & PH7
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Name: Watch the Throne
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Name: Jessica Mauboy
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Jessica Hilda Mauboy is an Australian R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and actress. In 2006, Mauboy was the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol, she had auditioned for the talent show in Alice Springs, Northern Territory to pursue a recording career. Mauboy subsequently signed a contract with Sony Music Australia.
In February 2007, she released her debut live album, The Journey, which debuted at number four on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Later that year, she briefly became a member of the all-girl pop group Young Divas, before resuming her solo career early in 2008. Mauboy released her debut studio album, Been Waiting, in November 2008, which spawned her first number-one single, "Burn", as well as the top ten hits, "Running Back" and "Because". Been Waiting became the second highest-selling Australian album of 2009, and was certified double platinum. Her second studio album, Get 'Em Girls (2010), included the hit singles, "Saturday Night" and "Inescapable".
Mauboy has received twelve ARIA Music Awards nominations, of which she has won one for 'Highest Selling Single' for "Running Back". With a combined album and single sales of 980,000, Mauboy is the third highest-selling Australian Idol contestant. In April 2013, she was ranked at number sixteen on Herald Sun's list of the "100 Greatest Australian Singers of All Time". Aside from her music career, Mauboy has also ventured into acting. She made her acting debut in the film adaptation of the 1990 Aboriginal musical, Bran Nue Dae, in 2010, and appeared in a guest role on the TV mini-series, Underbelly: Razor, the following year. In 2012, Mauboy starred in the critically acclaimed film, The Sapphires, which earned her the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

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Name: John Dahlbäck
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John Dahlbäck is further testament to the theory that when it comes to overly talented musical homelands, there could indeed be something in Sweden’s water. Born in 1985 in a small village near Stockholm, he landed his first record deal aged just 15 while most of his peers were just discovering clubs. Just a few years later he was already the proud owner of a worldwide respected label, had a string of well-known productions to his name and a reputation for quietly turning out some of the best house melodies you could hope to hear.

With a family background boasting more music than the Von Trapps it’s no surprise he was instantly hooked – his mum sings in a jazz band, his dad drummed in a prog rock band, and various aunts and uncles played piano, guitar and more, so he was hardly stuck for inspiration or opinions to help him get started. Learning the basics on his dad’s Atari computer he soon established his own style, and his second demo, a jazz-influenced, deep house number called Night Flash, earned him a record deal with Route 33. 

After five successful years running his Pickadoll label, John started his own label "Mutants", “I had a real vision about the label,” says John Dahlbäck. “I can hear within a couple of seconds whether a track will fit, and I love doing this kind of organised work – sending out promos and looking for licenses – otherwise I’m just a slave to the studio!” 

Although primarily an outlet for John's more experimental tracks from the studio, about 20% of Mutants' output is made up of other artists signed by John. "I like to combine sounds and styles and I still want that emotional twist, but I love the playful and sometimes experimental vibe of house."

His last album called “Winners And Fools” came out in September 2008, and described by John as “the one I’m most proud of. I’ve done a lot in the past and there have been some amazing moments. When the single “Blink” started to get big in France and I was making the video it was a huge moment, but every time I do a track now I feel I’m improving. For John Dahlbäck, his agenda for making and playing music is simple. “I’m quite calm when I DJ, I don’t want to be ‘showy’ - I love to play for dancing people, to really see them loving the tunes. And I love to make the tunes that get them dancing…” 

Now, in 2011, John Dahlbäck has several songs on Toolroom, Spinnin’, Defected, Versuz, Big Beat/Atlantic NEWS, Universal GAS, Universal Nordic, Ministry Of Sound Australia and One Love/Sony Australia. His latest single featuring Erik Hassle "One Last Ride" (with remixes by Tommy Trash & Felix Cartal among others) has already been added to National Radio in Sweden and played by the Swedish House Mafia on their Pete Tong Radio1 show. 

This year he has also remixed Lady Gaga, Nicole Featuring 50 Cent, Skylar Gray, David Morales and Sneaky Soundsystem among others. 

Already for 2012 John will be releasing a Mix Cd for Tool Room Records in January with several other releases coming out every month.

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Name: Jon Connor
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Name: Bonde do Role
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Bonde do Rolê is a Funk Carioca-influenced electropop group from Curitiba, Brazil and consists of MC's Pedro D'Eyrot, Laura Taylor and DJ/MC Rodrigo Gorky. In 2006, Rolling Stone magazine described the group as "Brazilian Party Starters" and one of the "Top 10 Bands to Watch."
Bonde do Rolê started in Curitiba in the south of Brazil, mixing riffs (ranging from the Scorpions' “Rock You Like a Hurricane” to Alice in Chains' “Man in the Box”) with Funk Carioca (also known as Brazilian Funk). The trio did its first major tour in 2006, with CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) and in 2007 released their debut album, With Lasers. Bonde do Rolê released their third album "Tropical/Bacanal" on July 31, 2012.
Producer Diplo first found out about the band through their MySpace account and pushed them using his label, Mad Decent. Prior to Diplo, the band was signed to Domino in 2006. "We just started making music out of fun—we didn't have any intentions to work professionally with music," said Rodrigo Gorky. In March 2006, Rolling Stone magazine picked the band as one of the "10 Bands to Watch", where they were described as "Brazilian party starters.” The following month The New York Times praised the band's work as well.

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Name: With BLasers
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Name: Alphaville
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1981 gründeten Marian Gold und Bernhard Lloyd zusammen mit anderen Musikbegeisterten in der westfälischen Stadt Münster das Künstlerkollektiv Nelson Community, mit dem sie im Dezember 1981 ihren ersten Liveaufritt hatten. Ein Jahr später gründeten Gold und Lloyd zusammen mit Frank Mertens das Pop-Trio Forever Young und absolvierten Ende 1982 ihren ersten gemeinsamen und – für ein künftiges Studioprojekt typisch – zugleich letzten Liveauftritt für die nächsten zehn Jahre.
1983 entnahmen die drei den Namen Alphaville dem gleichnamigen Film von Jean-Luc Godard und verwendeten ihn als ihren neuen Bandnamen, unter dem sie im selben Jahr einen Plattenvertrag unterschrieben.
Im Januar 1984 wurde ihre erste Single Big in Japan veröffentlicht, die weltweit zu einem Hit wurde (unter anderem erster Platz in den U.S.-Dance-Charts). Im Mai und September desselben Jahres folgten die Singles Sounds Like a Melody und Forever Young vom gleichnamigen Debütalbum.
Nach den Erfolgen 1984 verließ Frank Mertens die Band und wurde durch den Keyboarder und Gitarristen Ricky Echolette ersetzt. Im Frühjahr 1985 veröffentlichte die Formation mit Jet Set die letzte Single aus Forever Young, auf der auch Golden Feeling war, die Filmmusik zum deutschen Kinofilm Der Bulle und das Mädchen, an der Echolette bereits mitwirkte. Zudem beteiligte sich die Band an dem Benefiz-Projekt Band für Afrika im Januar 1985.
Nach knapp zwei Jahren folgte im Mai 1986 Alphavilles zweites Studioalbum Afternoons In Utopia, das jedoch nicht an den Erfolg von Forever Young anschließen konnte. Einzig die Single-Auskopplung Dance With Me brachte es zu nennenswerten Chart-Platzierungen in Deutschland und anderen Ländern.
Nach der Wiederveröffentlichung von Forever Young in den USA arbeitete Alphaville weiter am Ausbau ihres musikalischen Stils, der mit der Veröffentlichung von The Breathtaking Blue im April 1989 um Musikströmungen aus Rock, Klassik, Blues und Jazz erweitert wurde. An der Entstehung dieses Albums wirkte der Pionier der elektronischen Musik Klaus Schulze mit.
Ein Projekt war die daraus resultierende Songlines, in dem neun Regisseure aus sechs Ländern die Lieder des Albums in kleinen Kurzfilmen interpretieren, darunter auch der oscarprämierte Kurzfilm Balance von Christoph und Wolfgang Lauenstein sowie ein Beitrag der 2007 für den Oscar nominierten dänischen Regisseurin Susanne Bier.
Nachdem im März 1992 das erste Best-of-Album, First Harvest 1984–92, veröffentlicht wurde, gab Alphaville im Sommer 1993 (auf Einladung der deutschen Botschaft des Libanons hin) in Beirut ihr erstes Konzert seit zehn Jahren. Es war zugleich das erste Konzert einer westlichen Band im Libanon nach dem dortigen Bürgerkrieg.
Knapp fünf Jahre nach dem letzten Studioalbum erschien 1994 mit Prostitute das bis dahin ambitionierteste Werk der Band, welches den stilistischen Rahmen von Alphaville nochmals erweiterte. Hier trat zum ersten Mal der Komponist und Arrangeur Rainer Bloss als Co-Autor der neuen Alphaville-Stücke auf und wurde sozusagen „ständiges inoffizielles viertes Bandmitglied“. 1995 begannen nach über zehn Jahren reiner Studiotätigkeit die ersten Touraktivitäten, begonnen mit der Peace-On-Earth-Tournee, bei der sich der Brite Martin Lister als zusätzlicher Keyboarder Alphavilles etablierte.
Alphaville auf dem Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentag 2005 in Hannover
1997 kam das fünfte Studioalbum Salvation heraus, welches eine Rückbesinnung auf den (synthie-lastigen) Ursprung der Band ist und zugleich die letzte Veröffentlichung der Besetzung Gold, Lloyd, Echolette war.
Im Januar 1999 folgte Dreamscapes, eine auf 5000 Stück limitierte Box mit 8 CDs, welche die musikalische Entwicklung der Band von ihren frühesten Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart umfassend widerspiegelt.
Die weltweiten Tourneen fanden im Jahr 2000 ihren ersten Ausdruck in dem Album Stark Naked And Absolutely Live, das drei Wochen auf Platz 1 der deutschen Alternative Charts stand. Weiterhin gab Alphaville vom 15. bis 17. Juli 1999 ihre ersten Konzerte auf amerikanischem Boden in Salt Lake City. Der Auftritt vom 17. Juli wurde 2001 unter dem Titel Little America auf DVD veröffentlicht.
Nach der Veröffentlichung des Remix-Albums Forever Pop 2001 verlegte Alphaville die gesamte Produktion ihres neuen Werks ins Internet, wo ein Online-Publikum die Entstehung der Lieder verfolgen, kommentieren und kostenlos herunterladen konnte. Das Ergebnis dieses Unternehmens wurde 2003 in einer 4-CD-Box dokumentiert und unter dem Titel CrazyShow veröffentlicht. Bernhard Lloyd gab einige Monate vor der Veröffentlichung seinen Ausstieg bei Alphaville bekannt. Kurz vor der Veröffentlichung dieses Box-Sets war Marian Gold zu Gast bei der Nokia Night of the Proms (2002).
Im Jahr 2007 wurde das Theaterstück Alice im Wunderland von Lewis Carroll uraufgeführt, zu dessen Bearbeitung Marian Gold den Autor und Regisseur des Satire-Musicals Leuchtturm der Leidenschaft, Nikolaus Buchholz, mit an Bord holte. Buchholz leitete eine Reihe von Promotion-Videos und die Live-Aufzeichnung des Konzerts in Salt Lake City.
Die Veröffentlichung des für 2007 angekündigten neuen Studioalbum Catching Rays on Giant musste unter anderem durch die erneute Kündigung des Vertrags mit der WEA verschoben werden.
Im Jahr 2009 gaben Alphaville im Rahmen des Eurocityfests in Münster, ihrer Gründungsstadt, ein kostenloses Konzert.
Ihr 25-jähriges Bandjubiläum feierte Alphaville am 4. Dezember 2009 mit einem Konzert im Zofin-Palast in Prag.
Am 19. November 2010 erschien das bereits für 2007 angekündigte Studioalbum Catching Rays on Giant. Die erste Single I Die For You Today wurde vorab am 8. Oktober 2010 ausgekoppelt.

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Name: Arrested Development
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Arrested Development ist eine progressive Hip-Hop-Gruppe aus den USA, die sich 1989 mit dem Ziel zusammentat, eine positive, afrozentrische Alternative zum damals populären Gangsta Rap zu bieten. Gründungsmitglieder waren Speech und DJ Headliner.

Nach über dreijähriger Arbeit erhielten Arrested Development einen Plattenvertrag. Nach diesem Zeitraum benannte die Gruppe auch ihr erstes Album, nämlich 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of…. Mehrere Titel dieses Albums, nämlich Tennessee, People Everyday und Mr. Wendal, wurden zu Top-Ten-Hits. Arrested Development erhielten für 3 Years den Grammy für das beste Rap-Album und die Auszeichnung als beste neue Künstler. Die US-amerikanische Musikzeitschrift Rolling Stone kürte sie im selben Jahr zur Band des Jahres.

Der Nachfolger Zingalamaduni erschien 1994 und konnte nicht an den Erfolg des Erstlings anknüpfen. Die Kritikermeinungen waren gespalten und der Verkauf lief nur schleppend.

Nach der Auflösung 1996 brachte Speech ein Soloalbum heraus, dem ebenfalls nur geringer Erfolg beschieden war. Ein weiteres Mitglied von Arrested Development, Dionne Farris, brachte 1994 das Soloalbum Wild Seed - Wild Flower heraus, welches die Hitsingle I Know enthielt und sich gut verkaufte.

1999 hat sich die Gruppe wieder zusammengefunden, es folgten 5 weitere Alben und eine EP.

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Name: Big Ali
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Artist, producer, writer, DJ and engineer; Big Ali is lighting the world of music on fire. Born and raised in the hip-hop capital of the world, Big Ali has taken that New York City sound from Queens to the rest of the globe.Big Ali's passion for music is evident in everything he produces including collaborative projects with artists such as Bob Sinclair, Kat Deluna, Beenie Man, Magic System, Kool Shen ( of NTM ) to name a few. Resident M.C.of the Cannes Film Festival, Big Ali has also opened for some of music's biggest and brightest stars including Usher and Nelly Furtado.

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Name: Cahill
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Cahill are a house/dance trio from Liverpool that consists of members Tim Condran, Anton Powers & Scott Rosser, and are named after the Everton Footballer ‘Tim Cahill’ the team Anton Powers supports.

In 2007 the 3 producers recorded the track ‘Trippin On You’. The song became a club smash hit. After the song’s popularity grew, a music video was filmed ready for the full release of the single. ‘Trippin On You’ was playlisted by Radio 1, Galaxy, Kiss, MTV Dance and many more radio & TV channels.

Trippin On You have been played in excess of 10,000 times on UK radio. It reached number 21 in the UK national chart and also went on to chart success around the world in USA, Australia, South Africa, Holland and Russia.

Cahill are even hotter property remix wise and have mixed such artists as Cheryl Cole, Mariah Carey, The Black Eyed Peas, Robbie Williams, Alesha Dixon, Miley Cyrus & N-Dubz .

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Name: Caro Emerald
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Caro Emerald (* 26. April 1981 in Amsterdam; eigentlich Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw) ist eine niederländische Pop- und Jazzsängerin. 

Emerald studierte am Musikkonservatorium von Amsterdam Jazzgesang und machte 2005 ihren Abschluss. 2007 sprang sie als Ersatz für Demoaufnahmen des Songs Back It Up der Produzenten David Schreurs und Jan van Vieringen und des kanadischen Songwriters Vince Degiorgio ein. Später verwendete Emerald das Lied auch bei ihren eigenen Auftritten.

Ein Auftritt bei einem Regionalsender brachte ihr 2008 dann größere Bekanntheit ein, und sie stellte daraufhin ein selbst gedrehtes Video bei YouTube ein, das ihre Popularität weiter steigerte. Schließlich gründeten Schreurs und van Vieringen ein eigenes Label und nahmen zusammen mit Emerald unter Mitarbeit von Degiorgio ein Album auf, das sich musikalisch am Swing-Jazz mit Tango- und Mambo-Rhythmen aus den 1940er und 1950er Jahren orientierte.

Im Sommer 2009 erschien ihre Debütsingle Back It Up, die ihr einen ersten Charthit in ihrer Heimat bescherte. Zum Jahresende folgte die zweite Single A Night Like This. Bis zum Erscheinen ihres Debütalbums stieg das Lied in die Top 10 und erreichte schließlich Platz 2 der Nederlandse Top 40. Das Album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor stieg in den Niederlanden auf Platz 1 der Albumcharts ein. Mit Unterbrechungen hielt es sich 30 Wochen an der Chartspitze und damit länger als irgendein Album zuvor in den Niederlanden. Es wurde mit Sechsfach-Platin für mehr als 300.000 verkaufte Exemplare ausgezeichnet. Im September 2009 erschienen Debütsingle und Album in Belgien, im Oktober 2010 in Deutschland, wo sie sich jeweils ebenfalls in den Charts platzieren konnte.

Bei den MTV Europe Music Awards 2010 gewann sie die Zuschauerwahl zum besten Künstler des Jahres in den Niederlanden und Belgien. Mit ihrer Single A Night Like This konnte sie im April 2011 in Österreich einen Nummer-eins-Hit landen. In Deutschland stieg der Song bis auf Platz vier in der Hitparade.

2012 wurde sie mit der Goldenen Kamera in der Kategorie Beste Musik International ausgezeichnet.

Im Frühjahr 2013 erschien ihr Album The Shocking Miss Emerald. Im September desselben Jahres teilte Emerald mit, dass die Konzerte, die im März in Großbritannien geplant waren, verschoben werden, da sie schwanger sei. Im März 2014 wurde sie Mutter einer Tochter. 2017 folgte eine weitere Tochter.
(Wikipedia)

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Name: Cher Lloyd
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Cher Lloyd (born 28 July 1993) is an English singer and rapper. Lloyd rose to fame when she finished fourth in the seventh series of The X Factor. Shortly afterwards, Lloyd was signed by Simon Cowell to Sony Music subsidiary Syco Music.

Cher Lloyd's debut single "Swagger Jagger" was released in June 2011. Despite receiving negative reviews, the single entered at number one on the UK Singles Chart and number two on the Irish Singles Chart. Her second single "With Ur Love" was released on 31 October, featuring Mike Posner, and peaked at number four in the UK, and number five in Ireland, preceding her debut album Sticks + Stones, which peaked at number four in the UK Albums Chart and number seven on the Irish Albums Chart.

Cher Lloyd used to live in Malvern with her parents Darren and Dina, and three younger siblings brother Josh, and sisters Sophie and Rosie. Lloyd attended Dyson Perrins CE Sports College, where she studied performing arts. She also attended theatre arts school Stagecoach.

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Name: Datsik
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Datsik (sometimes stylized as DatsiK) is the alias of Troy K. Beetles, a dubstep DJ and producer from British Columbia, Canada, and a prominent figure in the increasingly popular dubstep community. Beetles is known for his frequent collaborations with his friend and colleague Excision and has been producing music since 2008.

Beetles has described his sound as “dark and robotic,” while trying to remain “funky and gangster” and “dirty,” and has mentioned the significant influence hip-hop has had on his music. He has cited a wide range of musical inspirations, including Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and Method Man.

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Name: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
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Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs is a pseudonym of Orlando Higginbottom (b. 7 Mar 1986 in Oxford, UK) and débuted with "All In One Sixty Dancehalls EP" (2009, Greco-Roman).  Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs swings between overt musicality and scarily on-point dance floor intuition, ripping up gigs around the globe with his live show of bizarre instruments, glitter cannons and of course... dancing dinosaurs. Having completed successful tours across America, Europe and a recent sold-out run of headline dates across the UK, as well as featuring at every notable summer festival for the past two years, TEED will release his début album this June 2012.   His second EP, "All In Two Sixty Dancehalls EP" (2010, Greco-Roman), brought notoriety, in particular the lead track, Garden. 'Garden' was revisited last October via Polydor with support from Radio 1, both day and night, and a global sync for the Nokia Lumia ad campaign. It's one of the most instantly recognizable electronic-pop records of recent years, having clocked up over 2.5million views on YouTube and counting.  Early releases from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs have been compiled on two EP's - 'Prehistory I' and 'Prehistory II' (both 2011 , Greco-Roman).  TEED's long remix discography includes: Lady Gaga, Friendly Fires, Professor Green to name just a few.   His biggest adventure to date took him to the Congo in Africa, working with local musicians as one of the personally invited producers to collaborate on Damon Albarn and Oxfam's DRC LP project.  Debut album 'Trouble' is released on the 11th June 2012.   Sites: SoundCloud, YouTube, Facebook and http://gigs.gigatools.com/user/TEED (forthcoming live shows).

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Name: Skream
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Skream is a British electronic record producer based in Croydon. One of dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development. His debut album Skream! was released in 2006, and was followed up by Outside the Box in 2010. Skream is also a member of the Dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man, along with fellow producers Benga and Artwork. The group released their self-titled debut album on 8 October 2010.
Jones was born in West Wickham, Bromley, London. As a teenager, he worked at Big Apple Records, a Croydon-based record store that was at the centre of the early dubstep scene; even prior to this, Jones had become acquainted with Hatcha, another dubstep pioneer, because Jones' brother worked on an adjacent floor in Big Apple Records. As a result of this encounter, Hatcha was the first DJ to play Skream dubplates.
Skream began producing music at the age of 15 (using FruityLoops) and claims to now have roughly 800 songs in varying stages of development, including a number of early disco and funk-inspired records. Jones would regularly 'bunk' school and spend the day at Big Apple Records through his teenage years. On various occasions he would also go to FWD, an "underground-sound" club night which was originally held in the Velvet Rooms but later moved to Plastic People in Shoreditch. DJs such as Hatcha would do live shows here. Skream's early productions were often with another alumnus of Big Apple, Benga, and are of a decidedly darker and less melodic nature than later releases.As Dubstep gained notice from conventional media such as The Guardian and Pitchfork Media, Jones' music started to take on a more melodic sound: less overtly influenced by the darker, UK garage influenced sounds of early dubstep artists such as Horsepower Productions, with dub, house, and even jazz influences instead. The 2005 Skream track "Midnight Request Line" has been described as "dubstep's most recognizable crossover hit", and has been praised by producers as diverse as Grime producer Wiley, and Minimal Techno producer Ricardo Villalobos. The key change in the chorus, which The Wire has described as "an epic change of key and tempo that recall the classicist mannerisms of Derrick May," has been credited as being a key factor in the evolution of a more melodic sound in the Dubstep genre.
Skream has released records on a variety of UK record labels, such as Tempa, Tectonic, and Big Apple Records, including a self-titled album on the Tempa label. He has done a number of tracks with Niall Henshaw, also known as Spectrum. He has performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan, as well as the UK. From 2006, he hosted a weekly Rinse FM show called Stella Sessions. In 2010, Benga joined the broadcast, which was renamed The Skream and Benga Show.
In 2007, "Angry" and "Colourful" from Skream!, as well as an exclusive mix, were featured in the E4 teen drama Skins. This marked the first instance dubstep was featured on television. Skream was also featured on BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix that same year.
On 15 September 2008, Harmless released Watch The Ride, an album mixed by Skream, following on from artists like Scratch Perverts, Zinc and Goldie. On 2 October 2008 Skream featured in a fly-on-the-wall German TV show 'Durch die Nacht mit...' alongside Drum and bass artist Goldie. In this, Skream stated that he currently had writer's block, but he was working on music in other genres, also mentioning a possible Skream & Goldie collaboration.

In 2009, he rose to further prominence when his remix of "In for the Kill" by La Roux helped propel the record to number two in the UK charts. Also in 2009, Skream completed further remixes for Bat For Lashes and Toddla T.

In 2010, Skream's popular remix of "In for the Kill" by La Roux was featured in an episode titled "Hair" on the hit HBO series Entourage and "In the club" on the hit E4 series Misfits.

In the summer of 2010, Skream released his second full-length album 'Outside the Box', which was also released on the seminal dubstep label, Tempa Records. The record earned a score of 7 out of 10 from SPIN magazine. Jones has seen commercial success as part of Magnetic Man, a live electronic music project with fellow dubstep pioneers Benga and Artwork. Their debut album peaked at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart and its lead single, "I Need Air" reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart.
In January 2011, he and Benga left Rinse to replace Alex Metric in his 'In New DJs We Trust' slot on BBC Radio 1. The duo was eventually given a weekly slot on Radio 1, which began in April 2012.

Jones has worked with many prominent pop artists. In addition to La Roux, he has produced for and collaborated with the likes of Kelis, Miles Kane, and Chromeo, as well as Katy B and John Legend as part of Magnetic Man.

In response to his success, Jones launched his Skreamizm tour to offer himself a change of pace from arena and festival performances, opting to play three-hour sets in small clubs. These shows saw a greater incorporation of disco, house, and techno in his sets. His recent productions have increasingly veered away from dubstep into these various genres, seen in tracks such as songs such as "Sticky," "Bang That" and "Kreepin'". He has addressed the change in direction on his Twitter and in interviews, noting that he was inspired to do more varied sets by the likes of Jackmaster. In March 2013, he contributed a house mix Pete Tong's All Gone Miami 2013 on Defected Records, a leading house label that releases yearly compilations dedicated to Miami and Ibiza. Resident Advisor wrote that with the release, he gained "entry to one of the most established institutions in house music."

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Name: Stella Mwangi
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Stella Nyambura Mwangi (also known by the stage name STL) (born 1 September 1986 in Nairobi) is a Norwegian-Kenyan singer, songwriter and rapper. Mwangi writes a lot of her music about the situation in her home country Kenya, also about discrimination both Stella and her family had to go through after moving to Norway in 1991. Her work has been used in films such as American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Save the Last Dance 2, and also in TV-series such as CSI: NY and Scrubs. She has won several awards including; the Kisima Awards, Clops Awards and Jeermaan Awards, she is one of the most popular singers in Norway after winning the Melodi Grand Prix 2011. She started to practice playing music when she was just eight years old. She also plays the piano.

Mwangi represented Norway at The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Dusseldorf, Germany, one year after her country hosted the event, and was eliminated in the first semi-final.

Mwangi has had hits in Kenya, Senegal, and Gambia.

Mwangi's father was killed in a hit-and-run accident in February 2012.

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Name: Tinie Tempah
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Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu (born 7 November 1988), better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is an English rapper. He made his first mixtape in 2007; his first album, Disc-Overy, debuted at number one in October 2010 and was preceded by two number-one singles.
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu was born in London, England on 7 November 1988, and is of Ibusa, Delta State, Nigerian origin.  He lived on the Aylesbury Estate in South East London until he was 12 with his parents and three younger siblings Kelly, Kelvin and Marian. He attended St. Paul's Catholic School in Abbey Wood, London SE2, (now known as St. Paul's Academy). He went on to study A Levels at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, SW12. Of his London upbringing, Tempah states: â€œLondon is one of the only places in the world where you can live in a council block and see a beautiful semi-detached house across the street. Growing up around that was inspirational, it kept me motivated".

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Name: Ellie Goulding
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Ellie Goulding (* 30. Dezember 1986 in Hereford, England als Elena Jane Goulding[1]) ist eine britische Singer-Songwriterin.
Ellie Goulding wurde im englischen Hereford geboren und wuchs in Herefordshire auf.[2] Nach ihrem Schulabschluss besuchte sie die Universität in Kent, brach ihr Studium jedoch nach zwei Jahren ab. Von Ende 2011[3] bis Oktober 2012[4] war sie mit dem amerikanischen DJ und Musikproduzenten Skrillex zusammen. Ab Januar 2013 war Goulding für einige Monate mit dem Schauspieler Jeremy Irvine und kurzzeitig mit dem One-Direction-Sänger Niall Horan liiert.[5][6][7]

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Name: Dinka
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Waving the global flag, Dinka relishes a pure house anthem. The last five years has seen the Swiss born and bred musical genius spread her wings and uplift house and progressive enthusiasts everywhere with culturally diverse sounds she knows well. 
Lying true to her name, Dinka shadows the South Sudanese tribe that it hails from basking her talent in the hands of people from all over the land.

Inspired by a map of icons from Enigma to the ambient sounds of classical music, Tamara the mastermind behind Dinka well rounds her profile bringing nothing but a universal mix of electronic beats. Taken by house music and its progressive tip early on, this Swiss pioneer has fellow producers from Lucerne to Los Angeles amazed, befriending music on all levels with her ear of knowledge.

With imprints on Unreleased Digital, Pinkstar Records and Anjuna Deep, uplifting progressive house fans get a golden pot of happiness every time her tunes hit release. Taking over the industry with massive tracks Dinka can kick-start a broken heart sending fans on a musical journey unlike any other buzzing global charts. Supported by iconic Tiesto to begin with, Dinka has smashed it out with recent EP’s on Unreleased Digital sharing the ideal summer beach soundtrack for one and all. The Swiss extraordinaire wallops them out collaborating with vocalists on mind blowing tunes, seeing releases with Julie Thompson, Hadley & Danny Inzerillo where remixes have too been explored by her collaborative project Helvetic Nerds.

Up on stage or in the underground corner club, Dinka hits the decks from Zurich’s Club Hiltl to the festivals across the map like Winterfresh, Magic Island, and Kikoy culture, creating rumbles on dance floors-always! Its no surprise playing alongside the likes of Above & Beyond and friends at festivals like Blue For Dance is a regular occurrence for Dinka. Her appearances in the DJ booth are highly sought after following her monthly Helvetic Nerds radio show that fans have tuned into religiously for four years, stamping her sign of approval on the world’s dance music.

Keeping it cool, this female phenomenon stands tall bringing together the fusion of the world’s cultures and sounds that can only be drawn from the world of Dinka.

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Name: The xx
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The xx sind eine im Jahr 2005 gegründete Indie-Poprock-Band aus dem Südwesten Londons. Die Bandmitglieder, alle um 1990 geboren, stammen aus dem Londoner Stadtteil Putney und gingen gemeinsam zur Schule. Bereits im Alter von 15 Jahren übten sie zusammen im Probenraum der Elliott School und traten vor Publikum auf. Aus der Musikschule sind bereits Künstler wie Hot Chip, Burial und Four Tet hervorgegangen.[1] Mit der Gitarristin Romy Croft und dem Bassisten Oliver Sim verfügte die Band über zwei Leadsänger, dazu kamen noch Baria Qureshi als Keyboarderin und Gitarristin und Jamie Smith an der Drum Machine.
Drei Jahre später hatten sie einen Plattenvertrag und wurden vom New Musical Express als Konzerttipp genannt. Mit ihrem Debütsong Crystalised machten sie Anfang 2009 auch im Internet auf sich aufmerksam. Im selben Jahr stellten sie auch ihr Debütalbum xx fertig, das sie größtenteils selbst produzierten und abmischten. Kurz vor Erscheinen des Albums wurden sie vom NME in die Newcomer-Liste The Future 50 aufgenommen.[2] Zwar verfehlte die vorab veröffentlichte Single Basic Space die Charts, das Album jedoch war in Großbritannien, vielen anderen europäischen Ländern und in den USA erfolgreich.
Danach gingen The xx auf eine Tour durch Europa und Nordamerika. Ende Oktober 2009 fiel Baria Qureshi bei einem Auftritt in London wegen Erschöpfung aus; die folgenden Veranstaltungen auf dem Kontinent wurden abgesagt.[3] Mitte November 2009 erklärte sie dann wegen „persönlicher Differenzen“ ihren Austritt aus der Band, die die Tournee daraufhin zu dritt fortsetzte.[4]
Im September 2010 gewann die Band den renommierten Barclaycard Mercury Prize und setzte sich damit unter anderem gegen Villagers, Foals, Mumford & Sons und Dizzee Rascal durch.
Am 16. Juli 2012 veröffentlichte die Band die erste Single Angels des zweiten Albums auf ihrer Facebookseite. Am 7. September 2012 erschien das neue Album Coexist.

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Name: Beastie Boys
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Die Beastie Boys waren eine der ersten und erfolgreichsten Hip-Hop-Bands und stammten aus New York City, USA.

Die Beastie Boys fingen 1979 als Hardcore-Punk-Band an. Die damalige Besetzung bestand aus Michael Diamond (Mike D), Adam Yauch (MCA), John Berry und Kate Schellenbach. Ihre musikalischen Vorbilder waren Bands wie Black Flag und Bad Brains. 1982 veröffentlichten sie eine EP mit dem Titel Polly Wog Stew und gaben im Großraum New York einige Konzerte. Im selben Jahr verließ Gitarrist John Berry die Band. Er wurde durch Adam Horovitz (Ad Rock) ersetzt. 1983 hatte die Gruppe wieder die Gelegenheit ein Album aufzunehmen, doch das Ergebnis war kein Hardcore-Album, sondern die obskure Single Cooky Puss. Sie bestand aus einem Scherz-Telefonanruf mit daruntergelegten Beats und zeigte damit den ersten Schritt in Richtung Hip-Hop an. Kate Schellenbach verließ kurz darauf die Band. Die dadurch entstandene Dreierbesetzung war die bis zum Tod von Adam Yauch bestehende Formation. Kate Schellenbach spielte danach bei Luscious Jackson. Die beiden ersten EPs wurden später unter dem Namen Some old bullshit wiederveröffentlicht.

Die drei Jungs zeigten danach immer mehr Interesse für Hip-Hop. Die Hinwendung zum Rap wird auch mit den jüdischen Wurzeln der Bandmitglieder erklärt.

1985 traten die Beastie Boys bei einem Band-Contest im Film Krush Groove an. Im selben Jahr hatten sie als Vorgruppe bei Madonnas „Virgin Tour“ erste Auftritte vor größerem Publikum. Mit der Veröffentlichung ihres Debütalbums Licensed to Ill (1986) und der darauffolgenden Tournee mit der Hip-Hop-Band Run DMC gelang den drei Jungs der große Durchbruch. Das Album enthielt u.a. die Erfolgssingle Fight For Your Right (To Party). 1989 folgte mit Paul’s Boutique ein Hip-Hop-Meilenstein, der vom Magazin Rolling Stone zu den 500 besten Alben gezählt wurde. Auf dem Album Check Your Head (1992) ging die Band verstärkt zu ihren Punk-Rock-Wurzeln zurück. Das Album von 1994, Ill Communication, brachte mit Sabotage einen großen Hit hervor.

Musiker, die oft mit den Beastie Boys zusammenarbeiteten, sind Michael Schwartz alias Mix Master Mike (DJ) – er war bei Hello Nasty (1998) erstmals auf einem offiziellen Album zu hören –, Mark Ramos-Nishita alias Money Mark (Keyboards, Gesang, Carpentry), Wendell Fite alias DJ Hurricane (DJ), Eric Bobo (Percussion), Amery Smith alias AWOL (Drums) und Alfredo Ortiz (Percussion) und die Produzenten Mario Caldato Junior alias Mario C, Rick Rubin, John King und Mike Simpson alias The Dust Brothers.

Zwischenzeitlich betrieben die Beastie Boys ein eigenes Label, Grand Royal.

2002 verklagte der amerikanische Jazzflötist James Newton die Beastie Boys: Teile seiner Komposition Choir waren für den Hit Pass the Mic gesampelt worden. Die Klage Newtons vor dem US-Bundesgericht wurde abgewiesen, weil das Label ECM (das als Verlag für seine Aufnahme fungierte) die Rechte ohne Wissen des Flötisten für ein einmaliges Honorar von 1.000 Dollar abgetreten hatte.

2004 veröffentlichten sie im Rahmen des Projekts Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. des Wired-Magazins ihr Lied Now Get Busy unter der Creative Commons-Lizenz Noncommercial Sampling+.

Im Juli 2009 gab Adam Yauch bekannt, an Ohrspeicheldrüsenkrebs erkrankt zu sein. Die für den Herbst 2009 geplante Veröffentlichung des achten Studioalbums der Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1, musste aufgrund seines Gesundheitszustandes verschoben werden. Entsprechend einer vorherigen Bekanntgabe der Band auf ihrer Website erschien das Album am 3. Mai 2011 unter dem Titel Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Mit dem Album ist auch ein 30 minütiger Film mit dem Titel Fight for Your Right Revisited erschienen, in dem u.a. Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Elijah Wood, Seth Rogen und Stanley Tucci mitspielten.

Am 14. April 2012 wurden die Beastie Boys in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Am 4. Mai 2012 verstarb Adam Yauch an den Folgen seiner Krebserkrankung. Kurz darauf verkündeten Horovitz und Diamond, dass sie nicht mehr unter den Namen Beastie Boys auftreten werden. Zu dieser Zeit schlossen sie eine zukünftige musikalische Zusammenarbeit jedoch nicht aus. 2013 kündigten sie eine Bandbiografie an, die 2015 erscheinen soll.

Am 3. Juni 2014 gaben die beiden verbleibenden Mitglieder bekannt, dass sie weder neue Stücke aufnehmen, noch Konzerte geben werden.

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Name: Take Care
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Name: portal
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Portal is an Australian experimental death metal band known for its unorthodox fusion of death metal with black metal. The band's hybrid musical style is characterised by heavily distorted guitar riffs, down-tuned rhythms, and vocals ranging from "menacing, echoing" sound effects to guttural grunts. Writing for Popmatters, Adrien Begrand noted that "death metal always pretends to be scary, but [...] it's all rather harmless. That said, however, I make no mistake in saying that the death metal peddled by Australia’s Portal is truly friggin' terrifying". Lead guitarist Horror Illogium has described Portal's intent as "to capture a cinematic horror scope".

The band members keep their identities obscured and use stage names. Their costumes are composed of "suits and executioners' masks save for vocalist The Curator, who wears a huge, tattered wizard's hat that obscures his face".

The band cites as inspiration for its lyrical themes the entities mentioned in Lovecraft Mythos, such as Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, and Cthulhu.

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Name: The Egg
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Im Mai und Juni 1968 trat die Urbesetzung von Egg unter dem Namen Uriel in London und Woodford auf; nach der Aufnahme der ersten Demokassette verließ Gitarrist Steve Hillage die Band im August desselben Jahres zu Gunsten seines Studiums.

Auf Drängen des Managements des Londoner Clubs Middle Earth, das ab Dezember 1968 auch die Band selbst führte, änderten Uriel im Januar 1969 ihren Namen in The Egg, was bereits wenig später zu Egg gekürzt wurde. Unter diesem Namen erschien im August 1969 die Debütsingle Seven Is A Jolly Good Time auf dem Label Nova, ein Tochterunternehmen von Decca Records, unter dessen Logo im folgenden Jahr auch das erste reguläre Album Egg erschien.

Im Juli 1972 lösten sich Egg offiziell auf, fanden sich aber im Jahr 1974 für die Aufnahmen zum Album The Civil Surface wieder zusammen. Nach der Veröffentlichung dieses Albums trennten sich die Wege der Gruppe endgültig.

Mitglieder

Mitglieder von Egg waren Dave Stewart (Orgel/Keyboards), Mont Campbell (Gesang und Bassgitarre) sowie Clive Brooks (Schlagzeug). Während Uriel noch vorrangig Coverversionen gespielt hatten, gingen Egg dazu über, eigene Lieder zum Besten zu geben; vor allem Campbell schrieb viele der Stücke.

Arzachel

1969, ein Jahr nach der Gründung, unterzeichneten Egg den Plattenvertrag mit Decca Records. Etwa zur selben Zeit unterbreitete das Label Roulette Dave Stewart das Angebot, eine LP mit zu dieser Zeit sehr gefragter psychedelischer Musik aufzunehmen. Weil sowohl Egg als auch Uriel jedoch vertraglich an Decca gebunden waren, entschied sich die Gruppe, unter dem Namen Arzachel und mit Steve Hillage an der Gitarre, also in der ursprünglichen Uriel-Besetzung, dem Angebot nachzukommen. Nach der Aufnahme des selbstbetitelten Albums Arzachel löste sich die Gruppe noch im selben Jahr wieder auf.

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Name: GTA
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GTA (acronym of Good Times Ahead) are an electronic music duo from Miami consisting of house, electro house, trap and hip hop producers Julio Mejia (born December 8, 1990) and Matt Toth (born August 22, 1990). After releasing music with the support of Laidback Luke in 2011, the duo caught the attention of Diplo, who featured them on his 2012 "Express Yourself" which was written by their cousin Joel Santillan. GTA has released music on labels such as Warner Bros., A-Trak's Fool's Gold, Laidback Luke's MixMash, Steve Angello's SIZE, Diplo's Mad Decent and more. They've toured the globe with Rihanna on her 2013 Diamonds World Tour, with Calvin Harris and Tiësto on their Greater Than World Tour, and have headlined their own Death To Genres Tour and Goons Take America Tours.
Beyond their partnership as GTA, Julio and Matt have each produced music individually. Under solo aliases known as JWLS and Van Toth, respectively, both have released original productions and remixes. Julio's individual work as JWLS, includes remixes for A-Trak, Danny Brown and others. Matt's solo work as Van Toth includes remixes for Gina Turner.

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Name: J. Cole
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Jermaine Lamarr Cole (* 28. Januar 1985 in Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland), bekannt unter seinem Künstlernamen J. Cole oder auch J.Cole, ist ein US-amerikanischer Rapper und Produzent. Er war der erste Künstler, der von Jay-Zs Plattenlabel, Roc Nation, unter Vertrag genommen wurde. 
J. Cole wurde in Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland geboren.[1] Im Alter von acht Monaten zog er nach Fayetteville, North Carolina, wo er von seiner Mutter und Tante aufgezogen wurde. Cole besuchte die Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville und machte seinen Abschluss im Jahr 2003. Er entschied, dass seine Chancen einer Karriere in New York City besser sind, so besuchte er die St. Johns University, wo er als Hauptfach „Kommunikation“ und als Nebenfach „Wirtschaft“ studierte. Sein Diplom schloss er mit der Gesamtbewertung Magna cum laude ab.

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Name: James Blake
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James Blake (* 1988 in Deptford, London) ist ein englischer Musiker. Er macht als Singer-Songwriter elektronische Popmusik. In vielen seiner Werke verarbeitet er Stilmittel des Dubstep.[2] Er ist auch bekannt unter dem Pseudonym Harmonimix und Gründungsmitglied des Musiklabels 1-800 Dinosaur. Blake ist Sohn des britischen Gitarristen James Litherland und ging in Winchmore Hill zur Grundschule, besuchte dann die weiterführende The Latymer School in Edmonton. Er studierte popular music an der Goldsmiths, University of London, wo er Kurse zusammen mit der Sängerin Katy B besuchte. Im Juli 2009 erschien seine erste EP Air & Lack Thereof. 2010 erschienen weitere drei EPs, wobei das Lied CMYK als erste Single veröffentlicht wurde und in der BBC gespielt wurde.[3]
Sein im Februar 2011 auf R&S Records erschienenes Debütalbum James Blake erhielt positives Feedback.[4][5] Die NZZ nannte seinen Liveauftritt im April 2011 in Zürich "trendweisend".[6]

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Name: Katy B
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Kathleen Anne "Katy" Brien (born 8 May 1989 in Peckham, South London), better known as Katy B, is an English singer-songwriter and a graduate of the BRIT School. She is a dubstep, R&B, funky, house and UK garage singer and has also performed under the name Baby Katy. She released her first single with the label Rinse in 2010. The same year, she completed a degree in Popular Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was nominated for the 2011 Mercury Prize.

Katy was born in Peckham, South London in 1989, and attended Lyndhurst Primary school, Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College and the BRIT School.

Katy featured on many tracks before and during the release of her album, DJ NG's song "Tell Me", on which she featured as Baby Katy, was released on a white label and later signed to Ministry of Sound. Katy B has collaborated with Geeneus to cover the Kevin Saunderson produced "Good Life" and the track "As I". She also provides vocals on the track "Hold Me" for The Count & Sinden's debut album Mega Mega Mega and features on Magnetic Man's tracks "Perfect Stranger" and "Crossover"

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Name: Kelly Rowland
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Kelly Rowland (born Kelendria Trene Rowland; February 11, 1981) is an American recording artist, songwriter, dancer, actress and television personality. Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Houston, Texas, Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Rowland released her debut solo album Simply Deep in 2002, which contained influences of alternative-R&B and rock music. It included her joint worldwide number-one single "Dilemma" with rapper Nelly, and the international top-ten hit "Stole". Following the group's disbandment in 2005, Rowland released her second solo effort Ms. Kelly in 2007 and despite being less successful than its predecessor, it included the international hit singles "Like This" and "Work". In 2009, Rowland scored her second worldwide number-one hit with French DJ David Guetta, on his single "When Love Takes Over". Her third solo album Here I Am was released in 2011 and included the UK top-ten hits "Commander" and "Down for Whatever", as well as the US R&B number-one "Motivation".
As a solo artist, Rowland has amassed estimated sales of four million albums and 18 million lead/featured singles worldwide. Her work has earned her several achievements, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with Destiny's Child, four Grammy Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, and a Soul Train Music Award. Rowland has been honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Essence magazine for her contributions to music.
Apart from her work in music, Rowland has also launched a career in film and television. In 2002, she made her acting debut with guest appearances on sitcom series The Hughleys and Taina, prior to appearing in various films, including Freddy vs. Jason (2003), The Seat Filler (2004) and Think Like a Man (2012). In 2007, Rowland appeared as a choirmaster on the reality show Clash of the Choirs, and in 2009 she served as the host on Bravo's reality competition series The Fashion Show alongside Isaac Mizrahi. In 2011, Rowland joined the judging panel on the eighth series of The X Factor (UK), but left after one season.

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Name: LMFAO
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LMFAO is an American electropop duo consisting of Redfoo (Stefan Kendal Gordy, born September 3, 1975) and SkyBlu  (Skyler Austen Gordy, born August 23, 1986). Redfoo is SkyBlu's uncle, meaning that Redfoo's father, music mogul Berry Gordy, is also SkyBlu's grandfather. RedFoo and SkyBlu both grew up in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood Pacific Palisades, where they formed the group LMFAO in 2006.
The duo has said its original name was Sexe Dude (read as Sexy Dudes) and the two subsequently changed it at the advice of their grandmother. The group's name is an Internet slang abbreviation for "Laughing My Fucking Ass Off", but according to the duo themselves, LMFAO stands for "Loving My Friends And Others".

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Name: Natalia Kills
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Natalia Keery-Fisher (born 15 August 1986) also known as Natalia Cappuccini, is an English singer-songwriter, actress, and director who performs under the stage name Natalia Kills. She released her debut album, Perfectionist, in 2011.

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Name: Diversos
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Eine Kompilation (englisch compilation [ˌkɒmpɪˈleɪʃn̩], Verb: „compile“, deutsch: „zusammentragen“, „sammeln“) ist in der Musikindustrie die Zusammenstellung von Musikstücken in Zweitverwertung auf Tonträger.

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Name: Marcos Valle
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Wikipedia

Marcos Kostenbader Valle (* 14. September 1943 in Rio de Janeiro) ist ein brasilianischer Komponist, Sänger, Gitarrist und Pianist, der zunächst der so genannten zweiten Generation des Bossa Nova angehörte. Im späteren Verlauf seiner Karriere wandte sich Valle Stilen wie Soul, Funk, MPB (Música Popular do Brasil) und Brazilectro zu.

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Name: M83
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M83 is a French electronic/shoegaze band from Antibes, formed in 2001 by Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau. The band is named after the spiral galaxy Messier 83, and its musical aesthetic is influenced by shoegaze in its extensive use of reverb effects and lyrics spoken softly over loud instrumentals, although M83's songs employ considerably less guitar than most shoegaze bands.
Gonzalez and Fromageau parted ways shortly after touring for their second album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, with Gonzalez now recording primarily on his own, often with the help of his brother Yann Gonzalez, vocalist/keyboardist Morgan Kibby, and drummer Loïc Maurin. In 2011, Gonzalez posted an open audition on the M83 website for a multi-instrumentalist who could join the band. 19 year-old Jordan Lawlor won the audition.

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Name: Maksim
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Maksim Mrvica (Croatian pronunciation: [mâksim mr̩̂ʋitsa]; born May 3, 1975) is a Croatian pianist. He plays classical crossover music.

Mrvica was born in Šibenik, Croatia. He took up piano lessons from the age of nine from Marija Sekso and gave his first public performance in the same year. Just three years later he gave his first concert performance of Haydn’s Piano Concerto in C major. When war broke out in 1991, both Mrvica and his professor were determined that this would not disrupt his music studies. In spite of the war and surrounding turbulence, Mrvica entered in, and won, his first major competition in Zagreb in 1993.
Mrvica went on to study at the Music Academy in Zagreb where he spent five years under Professor Vladimir Krpan, who himself was a pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. He then spent a year at the Franz Liszt Conservatoire in Budapest and during this year he won first prize at the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition. In 2000, he moved to Paris to study with Igor Lazko and gained first prize in the Pontoise Piano Competition in 2001.
When he returned to Croatia he found himself to be the focus of intense media interest and he made frequent television appearances as well as giving a great number of interviews. He soon found himself recording his first CD, Gestures, an album of contemporary Croatian piano pieces. Gestures became one of the fastest-selling classical recordings to be released in Croatia, and Mrvica was even invited to officiate the Porin award ceremony, an honour not usually granted to a classical artist.

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Name: Rebecca & Fiona
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The break through smash hit LUMINARY ONES was released in 2010. Followed by BULLETS. A dance floor knock out and big radio tune. BULLETS displays Rebecca Scheja 23, and Fiona Fitzpatrick 26, music well. Irresistibly catchy, heavily beat oriented with lovable vocals, it’s dance pop at it’s most superlative. Perhaps Robyn is their lone contender in the arena. However. The Swedish Grammy Award for best electronic/dance 2011 went to R & F…

Their debut album I LOVE YOU, MAN! (2011) received a warm welcome by critics. With its’ irresistible pop melodies, electronic beats and epic style it pushed them further into people’s minds.

Scandinavian radio programmers, critics and DJs are convinced. DJ Tiësto and Kaskade, two of the biggest DJs in the world, have saluted the duo and incorporated the girls in their work. Yes, Rebecca & Fiona will surely enter Billboard sooner than later. Noteworthy though are the dedicated fans. In terms of crossover undertakings it is no other force than fan love that has led the way. The amount of dedicated fans required the music establishment to consider the girls genuinely and seriously.

2011 Rebecca & Fiona have been impressively productive. They’ve managed to put 5 hit singles in the charts and an album in stores. Rebecca & Fiona have been playing almost nonstop in 2011. Touring Sweden, Europe, Japan and the U.S.

Behind Scheja’s and Fitzpatrick’s seemingly wild and zany personalities lies a great sense of sharp humor and sympathetic self distance. However conscious of their public manifestation Rebecca & Fiona are by nature picky pickers. Like truly talented performers being very much aware of what make masses tick, they too will direct the crowd in the direction of their desire. The charming duo manages to use their group dynamic to sustain drama and intensity during the performance. To witness Rebecca & Fiona transcend creativity and musical explosiveness as a team is fascinating! Pushing their energies and the crowd to heights of mere ecstasy.

In order to sustain their DJ set they are obliged to listen to excessive amounts of music. It puts them in an intense relationship with contemporary nightclub sounds. With this said, knowing what’s on the general music menu open up for an ability to arrange ingredients and set up recipes to make an awesome dance music stew.

Reckless, loud, fun and not dwelling too much on life’s sufferings. Rebecca & Fiona’s open mind and absence of prestige make them a welcome contribution to the scene. But it’s not all sun and blue skies. Breaking grounds in a male dominated field has caused Rebecca & Fiona to asset the political power of role models. Not voiced explicitly by the artists themselves but simply as qualities of their beings and doings, Rebecca & Fiona carry with them a set of modern standards. Women and men are inspired to join and celebrate a new world order where 2 young, good looking girls dictate the rules of the dance floor.

Pop icons come in many different shapes. The legends often as utterly fresh inventions. Like we embraced underground artists such as M.I.A, Peaches, Björk and even Madonna in her very early days, and watched them grow and evolve. Two amazing artists have arrived. As an original twosome for us to absorb and digest Rebecca & Fiona are not to be overlooked! Watch them mature into full size stardom and bright musical personalities. It’s still early days. Stay put. The show has just begun.

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Name: Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Bis die Red Hot Chili Peppers 1991 mit ihrem "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"-Album den Siegeszug um die Welt antreten sollten, hatten sie in acht Bandjahren bereits mehr erlebt, als andere Combos in ihrer ganzen Karriere. Ständige Personalwechsel, üppiger Drogenkonsum und nicht zuletzt der Tod eines Bandmitglieds; all das konnte die Chili Peppers nicht am Weitermachen hindern.

1983 gründen die Schulfreunde Michael "Flea" Balzary (b), Hillel Slovak (g) und Jack Irons (dr) in L.A. die Red Hot Chili Peppers und überzeugen ihren Kumpel Anthony Kiedis, seine Gedichte mit in den Proberaum zu bringen. Mit gehörig Acid im Schädel bestreitet der Vierer unter dem Namen Tony Flow and the Miraculously Majestic Masters of Mayhem den ersten Gig. Die wirre Mischung aus Hip Hop-, Funk- und Rockelementen kombiniert mit durchgehend absurden Bühnenshows spricht sich schnell herum. Als die Peppers eines Abends beim Hendrix-Cover "Fire" nur mit Socken am Gehänge bekleidet die Bühne stürmen, ist der Party-Ruf perfekt.

Gerade als sich auch der Plattenkonzern EMI angetan zeigt, verlassen Slovak und Irons die Band, da die Peppers für sie zu dem Zeitpunkt nur noch als Zweitband fungieren. Doch kaum ist das Debüt mit den Ersatzmännern Cliff Martinez (dr) und Jack Sherman (g) eingespielt, fliegt letzterer auch schon wieder raus, da Slovak erneut Interesse an der Peppers-Gitarre bekundet. Kam Flea schon früher mit Heroin in Berührung, zeigen sich auf der '84er Tour nun Kiedis und Slovak nicht mehr abgeneigt. Für "Freaky Styley" ergattert die Band ein Jahr darauf ihr Funk-Idol George Clinton als Produzenten, der den Bühnen-Crossover aus Punk, Funk und Metal der Liveshows erstmals zu aller Zufriedenheit abmischt. Trotz eines vielbeachteten Auftritts beim Loreley-Festival und einem UK-Gig bleiben die Plattenverkäufe außerhalb Kaliforniens gering.

Auf der anschließenden US-Tour steht mit der Rückkehr von Drummer Irons zwar wieder die Originalbesetzung, Gitarrist Slovak rutscht aber immer tiefer in die Drogenspirale hinab und vergisst live auch mal seine Noten. Die Aufmerksamkeit wächst dennoch: "The Uplift Mofo Party Plan" verkauft sich 1987 besser als alle Vorgängeralben zusammen und die Band erregt weiter Aufsehen mit Nacktauftritten. (Drummer Irons wird zu der Zeit auf dem Londoner Flughafen Heathrow mit einem Plastiktitten-Hut gesichtet) Mit dem Erfolg steigt auch die Größe der Peppers-Spielorte, wo nun Bands wie die Beastie Boys und Faith No More für die Red Hots einheizen.

1988 fliegt die Band nach England, um für das Cover der "Abbey Road"-EP den berühmten Beatles-Zebrastreifen in Socken-Montur zu überqueren. Slovak ist mittlerweile so fertig, dass seine Kumpels ernsthaft einen Rauswurf in Erwägung ziehen, von dem sie jedoch ablassen. (Kiedis selbst flog 1986 einen Monat aus der Band wegen seiner Abhängigkeit) Kurz danach erliegt Gitarrist Slovak nicht unbedingt unerwartet seiner ungezügelten Heroinsucht. Die Band ist geschockt, Kiedis entsagt dem Stoff und Drummer Irons bezichtigt seine Kumpels der Mitverantwortung am Tod Slovaks und verlässt verbittert die Band (ein paar Jahre später steigt er bei Pearl Jam ein).

Flea und Kiedis dagegen wollen zum Gedenken an ihren Freund weitermachen. Gitarrist Blackbyrd McKnight bleibt nur ein Lückenfüller. Der erst 18 Jahre alte Gitarrist John Frusciante erweist sich als Glücksfall: der RHCP-Fan bewegt sich nicht nur identisch zu seinem Idol, er imitiert auch Slovaks Gitarrenspiel perfekt. Als schließlich noch Drummer Chad Smith über eine Anzeige zum Vorspielen erscheint und er sein obszönes Gebrüll mit einem wahnsinnigen Groove unterlegt, ist auch er dabei. Das Gold-Album "Mother's Milk" lässt erstmals Europa aufhorchen, der Song "Show Me Your Soul" gelangt gar auf den Soundtrack zum Schmachtfetzen "Pretty Woman".

Dennoch sollte es bis 1991 dauern, dass die tätowierte Band unter der Ägide des Def Jam-Chefs Rick Rubin die vorhandene Magie ihres teuflischen Funk-Crossovers richtig kanalisiert. "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" gerät zum Meilenstein, der sich mit Hilfe der Hitsingle "Under The Bridge", in der Kiedis seine Drogenerlebnisse in Downtown L.A. im Jahr 1986 thematisiert, und dem preisgekrönten Video zu "Give It Away" zwei Millionen Mal verkauft. Der Gipfel des Rock-Olymps ist gerade erklommen, da verlässt der junge Frusciante während einer Asien-Tour urplötzlich die Band, um sich ausgiebig seiner Drogenkarriere zu widmen. Seine Kollegen reagieren geschockt. Auf eine Zeitungsannonce melden sich kurze Zeit später bereits am ersten Tag 5000 Interessierte zum Vorspiel. Nach den Live-Gitarristen Arik Marshall (später bei Macy Gray) und Jesse Tobias findet man erst 1994 mit Ex-Janes Addiction-Gitarrist Dave Navarro einen geeigneten Nachfolger für Frusciante.

Das '95er Werk "One Hot Minute" verkauft sich zwar ordentlich, lässt im Vergleich zum Multiseller von 1991 aber Federn. Navarros 70er Rock-Faible und seine Liebe zum Wah Wah-Pedal verbannen den Funkspirit aus dem Bandsound. Nach einer erfolgreichen Welttour verlässt Navarro 1998 schließlich als siebter Gitarrist Pepper-Land. Zu dieser Zeit fällt Kiedis kurzzeitig zurück in alte Heroin-Abhängigkeiten.

Frusciante, zu dem nur noch Flea über die Jahre Kontakt hielt, nahm unterdessen zwei unbeachtete Soloalben auf. 1998 ist Frusciante nur noch von Yoga abhängig, einem RHCP-Comeback steht nichts mehr im Weg. So unerwartet wie sein damaliger Ausstieg, finden die alten Kumpels plötzlich wieder zusammen und begraben alte 
Kriegsbeile. Der bahnbrechende Erfolg, den das Album "Californication" nach sich zieht, konnte niemand erahnen. Die Verkaufszahlen ihres '91er Sellers werden übertroffen und auch eine umjubelte Welttour treibt den gereiften Frusciante nicht mehr zum Ausstieg. Parallel zu den Peppers treibt er ab 2001 seine Solokarriere voran.

Im Herbst 2001, die Band arbeitet bereits am kommenden Album, macht Bassist Flea von sich reden. In L.A. eröffnet er seine eigene Schule. In angemieteten Studioräumen gibt er mit rund 20 weiteren ausgesuchten Lehrkörpern die hohe Kunst des Musizierens an den Nachwuchs weiter. Zum Sound der Platte "By The Way", die Mitte 2002 erscheint, sagt Gitarrist Frusciante: "Sie unterscheidet sich sehr von "Californication", wobei die Seele der Platte noch immer wir vier Typen sind, die in einem Raum zusammen spielen. Aber wir haben diesmal einen riesigen Haufen Sounds verwendet, viele unterschiedliche Stile ausprobiert und mit Gesangsharmonien gearbeitet."

Als 2006 das Doppelalbum "Stadium Arcadium" erscheint, ahnt noch niemand, dass es die letzte RHCP-Arbeit mit John Frusciante sein würde. Zwar fasste er den Entschluss bereits nach der Welttournee 2007, an die Öffentlichkeit gelangt die Nachricht jedoch erst Ende 2009. Die Band arbeitet fortan mit Josh Klinghoffer als festem Gitarristen, der Kiedis und Co. schon live unterstützte. Außerdem trat er auf Songs von Beck, PJ Harvey und seinem engen Freund John Frusciante in Erscheinung. Das erste Album in neuer Besetzung ist "I'm With You", das im August 2011 erscheint.

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Reptar is an American band from Athens, Georgia founded by members Graham Ulicny (guitar, vocals), Ryan Engelberger (bass), William Kennedy (keyboards) and Andrew McFarland (drums).

Reptar's first release, Oblangle Fizz Y'all, came out on August 2, 2011 through Vagrant Records and Make Records not Bombs. Jace Bartlet (guitar) joined in 2012, playing his first show at the Georgia Theater for New Year's Eve 2011-2012. That same year, Reptar released their debut album Body Faucet through Vagrant Records on May 1 and reached #7 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

The band's name is taken from the Rugrats character Reptar, which singer/guitarist Graham Ulicny explained "I first tried to name the band Invisible Boyfriend, and everybody goes, 'that is the stupidest name I have ever heard in my life.'" Said Ulicny: "Reptar is the second stupidest band name we have ever heard."

On January 14, 2015 Reptar announced that they'd signed to Joyful Noise Recordings and made a limited edition, non-album single available for pre-order Reptar announced the release date for their second album Lurid Glow and premiered a single from the album, "Ice Black Sand" on February 4, 2015.

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Dubstep duo consisting of Christian Srigley & Leighton James.

The duo formed while attending high school in Montreal as a hardcore pop-punk band, but later decided to move onto the more electronic sound of dubstep after simply getting bored with the pop-punk sound.
The first song to put the duo on the map was their remix of the song “Daisy” from the studio album Daisy (2009) by the American alternative-rock band Brand New, which was put on The Hype Machine, an MP3 blog aggregator website.

Some of the major influences to their sound include Tiesto, Flux Pavilion, Greeley Estates, Bring Me the Horizon and Skrillex. The duo’s signature sound includes high-pitched female vocals with electronic sounds and heavy drops. Through online social network sites, the duo were able to reach new levels of exposure and got their first music video on the UKF Dubstep’s YouTube channel. As of November 2012, the remix of “Everything to Me” by Lips had over 1.5 million views.

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Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook on 16 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English DJ, musician, rapper, and record producer. As a solo electronic act, he has won ten MTV Video Music Awards and two Brit Awards. His records as Fatboy Slim also helped to popularise the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s. 
Cook first rose to fame in the 1980s as the bassist of the indie rock band The Housemartins who scored a UK number-one single with their a capella cover of Isley-Jasper-Isley's "Caravan of Love". After the band split, Cook formed Beats International whose début album spawned their signature hit, "Dub Be Good to Me" which was another UK number-one as well as going on to become the seventh best-selling single of 1990 in the UK. Cook then went on to join numerous other acts including Freak Power, Pizzaman and The Mighty Dub Katz to moderate success. 
Cook adopted the Fatboy Slim moniker in 1996 and released Better Living Through Chemistry to critical acclaim. Follow ups You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, as well as their associated singles including "The Rockafeller Skank", "Praise You", "Right Here Right Now" and "Weapon of Choice" were also met with positive reviews and commercial success. 
In 2008, Cook founded a project called The Brighton Port Authority. Cook has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest and Wildchild. 

Early life and education:

Quentin Leo Cook was born in Bromley, and raised in Reigate, Surrey, England, and was educated at Reigate Grammar School. He played drums in Disque Attack, a British new wave-influenced rock band. When frontman Charlie Alcock was told by his parents that he had to give up the band to concentrate on his O levels, Cook took over as lead vocalist. At Reigate College, Cook met Paul Heaton with whom he formed the Stomping Pondfrogs. 
At 18, Cook went to the University of Brighton to read a B.A. in English, politics, and sociology, where he achieved a 2(I) in the British Studies honours course. Although he had begun DJing some years before, it was at this time that he began to develop his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene, regularly appearing at the Brighton Belle and the students' favourite The Basement, where known as DJ Quentox he began laying the base for Brighton's hip hop scene. 

Career:

1985-1995: The Housemartins to The Mighty Dub Katz:
In 1985, Cook's friend Paul Heaton had formed a guitar band called The Housemartins. Their bassist left on the eve of their first national tour, so Cook agreed to move to Hull to join them. The band soon had a hit single with "Happy Hour", and their two albums, London 0 Hull 4 and The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death, peaked in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. They also reached number one just before Christmas 1986 with a version of "Caravan of Love", originally a hit the year before for Isley-Jasper-Isley. However, by 1988 they had split up. Heaton and the band's drummer Dave Hemingway went on to form The Beautiful South, while Cook moved back to Brighton to pursue his interest in the style of music he preferred. It was at this time that he first started working with young studio engineer Simon Thornton, with whom he continues to make records. All of Cook's records released from that point onwards have involved both of them to varying degrees (Thornton is credited in 2004 as "Executive Producer", for example). 
Cook achieved his first solo hit in 1989, featuring his future Beats International member MC Wildski, called "Blame It on the Bassline". Credited to "Norman Cook feat. MC Wildski", the song followed the basic template of what was to come in the style of the music of Beats International. It became a modest hit in the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 29. 
Cook formed Beats International, a loose confederation of studio musicians including vocalists Lindy Layton, Lester Noel, D.J. Baptiste, rapper MC Wildski, and keyboardist Andy Boucher. Their first album, Let Them Eat Bingo, included the number one single "Dub Be Good to Me", which caused a legal dispute revolving around allegations of infringement of copyright through the liberal use of unauthorised samples: the bassline was a note-for-note lift from "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash and the lyrics borrowed heavily from "Just Be Good to Me" by The S.O.S. Band. This bankrupted Cook as he lost the case and was forced to pay back twice the royalties made on the record. The 1991 follow-up album Excursion on the Version, an exploration of dub and reggae music, failed to repeat the success of its predecessor, as it did not chart. 
Cook then formed Freak Power with horn player Ashley Slater and singer Jesse Graham. They released their debut album Drive Thru Booty in 1994, which contained the single "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out". The cut was picked up by the Levi's company for use in a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign. In 1996, Cook re-joined Freak Power for their second album, More of Everything for Everybody. 
Cook enlisted help from producer friends Tim Jeffery and JC Reid to create a house music album under the name Pizzaman. The 1995 Pizzamania album spawned three UK Top 40 hits: "Trippin' on Sunshine", "Sex on the Streets", and "Happiness". "Happiness" was picked up by the Del Monte Foods corporation for use in a UK fruit juice ad. The music videos for the three singles were all directed by Michael Dominic. 
Cook also formed the group The Mighty Dub Katz along with Gareth Hansome (aka GMoney), Cook's former flatmate. Together they started the Boutique Nightclub in Brighton, formerly known as the Big Beat Boutique. Their biggest song together was "Magic Carpet Ride". 

1996-2008: Fatboy Slim:
Cook adopted the new pseudonym Fatboy Slim in 1996. The Fatboy Slim album and Cook's second solo album Better Living Through Chemistry (released through Skint Records) contained the Top 40 UK hit, "Everybody Needs a 303". 
Fatboy Slim's next work was the single "The Rockafeller Skank", released prior to the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby, both of which were released in 1998. "Praise You", also from this album, was Cook's first UK solo number one. Its music video, starring Spike Jonze, won numerous awards. On 9 September 1999, he performed "Praise You" at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in New York City, and won three awards, including the award for Breakthrough Video. 
In 2000, Fatboy Slim released his third studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, and featured two collaborations with Macy Gray and "Weapon of Choice", which also was made into an award-winning video starring Christopher Walken. At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, Fatboy Slim won 6 awards for "Weapon of Choice", the most awards at the ceremony. 
In 2003, he produced Crazy Beat and Gene by Gene from the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years. 
Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album Why Try Harder was released on 19 June 2006. It comprises eighteen tracks, including ten Top 40 singles, a couple of Number Ones and two exclusive new tracks - "Champion Sound" and "That Old Pair of Jeans". 
In 2006, Cook travelled to Cuba, and wrote and produced two original Cuban crossover tracks for the album The Revolution Presents: Revolution, which was released by Studio ! K7 and Rapster Records in 2009. The tracks were called "Shelter" (which featured long term collaborator Lateef); and "Siente Mi Ritmo", featuring Cuba's top female vocal group Sexto Sentido. The recordings took place in Cuba's legendary EGREM Studios, home of the Buena Vista Social Club, and featured a band made up of Cuba's top young musicians, including Harold Lopez Nussa. Another track recorded during these sessions entitled "Guaguanco" was released separately under the Mighty Dub Katz moniker in 2006. 

2008-2012: The Brighton Port Authority:
The Brighton Port Authority debuted in 2008 with a collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal titled "Toe Jam", along with a music video featuring nude dancers with censor bars on them, making pictures and words with them. 
The soundtrack album for the TV series Heroes also includes the BPA's track "He's Frank (Slight Return)" (a cover of a song by The Monochrome Set), with Iggy Pop as vocalist. The video for this track features a near life size puppet of Iggy Pop. An alternative club version was released under the "He's Frank (Washing Up)" title with the video featuring some footage of Iggy Pop acting and saying lyrics. 
The band's first album, I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, is the first to be co-produced by Cook's longtime engineer Simon Thornton, who also sings on one track. The album was released 6 January 2009 exclusively at Amazon.com on CD, with downloadable format and other stores scheduled for a month later on 3 February. 
Cook released a mix album in 2010 titled The Legend Returns as a covermount album in the June 2010 issue of Mixmag. Cook returned as Fatboy Slim when performing at Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March 2012. 
On 12 August 2012 he performed at the 2012 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony. 
On 1 September Cook performed at Brighton Pride. 

Other work:
Cook produced the single "Mama Do the Hump" by fellow Brighton band Rizzle Kicks released in December 2011 which peaked at 2 in the charts. 
Cook has been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, and Wildchild. In 2008, he did a remix of the track "Amazonas" for the charity Bottletop. 
Cook has also achieved a Number 3 hit with "Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat", in October 2013. It was aided by a remix from Calvin Harris, and Beardyman provides the vocals. 

Performances:

On 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim performed the second of his free, open air concerts on Brighton Beach, Brighton (U.K.) named The Big Beach Boutique II, Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60,000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250,000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers. Local police forced the event to end early amid safety concerns, overcrowding, and one death. 
After the music had finished and the crowd began to dissipate, traffic ensued throughout the Brighton area with many caught in traffic jams until the morning. 
In June 2005, Fatboy Slim filled the Friday night headline slot on the "Other Stage" at the Glastonbury Festival. In 2006, Fatboy Slim filled the Saturday headline slot at the Global Gathering festival, Long Marston Airfield in the English Midlands. He played a two-hour set, appearing in front of a visual stage set comprising video screens and 3D lighting. A firework display rounded off the show. Having been banned by police from playing in Brighton since 2002, Fatboy Slim was given permission in 2006 to play again in his home town. On 1 January 2007, he played to an audience of more than 20,000 fans along Brighton's seafront. Tickets to the event, titled "Fatboy Slim's Big Beach Boutique 3", were made available only to Brighton residents. The concert was deemed a stunning success by Sussex Police, Fatboy Slim, and the crowd. The Cuban Brothers and David Guetta opened the concert. The next similar event, 'Big Beach Boutique 4', was held on 27 September 2008. 
In 2008, Fatboy Slim played at the Glastonbury Festival again, and headlined the O2 Wireless Festival and Rockness Festival. According to an NME interview, this may have been one of the last times he performed as Fatboy Slim, as he may now focus on his new album, The Brighton Port Authority (BPA). Also in 2008, Fatboy Slim closed out the famed "Sahara" tent on Friday of the Coachella Valley Music Festival. His introduction included a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opening, that has been called by many one of the most memorable Sahara performances ever. 
In 2009, he toured Australia in the Good Vibrations Festival. Also in 2009, he played in Marlay Park, Dublin alongside David Guetta, Dizzee Rascal, and Calvin Harris, as well as one huge performance at the Sziget Festival in Budapest. He also performed at V Festival 2009. 
At Glastonbury 2009, he played an unadvertised concert in the "pinball-machine" stage at trash city. 
In 2010, Fatboy Slim headlined the east dance at Glastonbury Festival. On 18 June 2010, he performed in Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Cool Britannia FIFA World Cup music festival at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. He also performed in Napoli on 15 July, at Neapolis Festival. On 30 May 2011, he performed as the headliner for Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit, Michigan, USA. 25 September 2011, Fatboy Slim headlined the Terrace at Ibiza's famed Space nightclub's We Love Sundays closing party. On 29 October 2011, Fatboy Slim opened at the San Francisco Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, following up on the 30th, closing out the Red Bulletin/Le PLUR Stage at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. On Saturday, 24 March 2012, Fatboy Slim performed a live DJ set on the main stage at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida. In addition to his 2011 performances, Fatboy Slim also played a headline gig at the Bestival in the Isle of Wight on Sunday 11 September. 
In March 2012, Cook hosted a one hour radio programme, titled On The Road To Big Beach Bootique 5, on XFM. It consisted of 10 shows. 
He performed his famous remix of The Rockafeller Skank, dubbed the 'Funk Soul Brother' at the closing ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics, on top of a giant inflatable octopus which emerged from the top of a party bus. 
In 2013 Fatboy Slim played at Ultra Music Festival, Wavefront Music Festival, Exit Festival, Bestival and Glastonbury Festival (as a special guest on the Wow! and Arcadia stages). 
On 6 March 2013 Fatboy Slim played at the House of Commons in Westminster, London. This was the first time that a DJ had ever performed there, and was in aid of the Last Night A DJ Saved My Life Foundation, which is aimed at encouraging 16-25-year-olds to get more involved in their communities through grassroot initiatives and to raise awareness for community music projects. 
May 2014 Fatboy Slim played in Essex at the We Are FSTVL and was the biggest act on the bill playing for near on two hours 

Legacy:
Known as DJ Quentox (The OX that Rocks), Cook and DJ Baptiste started putting on youth club hip hop jams in Brighton, sowing the seeds of the city's flourishing hip hop scene today. These primitive 1980s block parties are recalled in the music documentary South Coast, which documents Brighton's cult hip hop scene from its grass roots to the present day. 

Personal life:
Cook was awarded a star on the city of Brighton's Walk of Fame, next to that of Winston Churchill. 
He married TV personality Zoë Ball in 1999 at Babington House in Somerset; in January 2003, Cook broke up with Ball, but three months later they reconciled. They have a son named Woody Fred Cook (born 15 December 2000) and a daughter named Nelly May Lois (born 14 January 2010), and live in Western Esplanade, Hove. Cook is a 12% shareholder of Brighton & Hove Albion, the football club he has supported since moving to Brighton in the late 1980s. 
Q magazine named Fatboy Slim in their 50 Bands to See Before You Die list. 
On 4 March 2009, Cook checked into a rehabilitation centre in Bournemouth to fight a "booze addiction" that he has been battling "for some time". Due to an extended stay in rehab, his performance at Snowbombing, a week-long winter sports and music festival held in the Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen, was cancelled - with the slot being filled by 2ManyDJs. Cook then left the clinic at the end of March. 
Cook completed the inaugural Brighton Marathon on 18 April 2010 in a time of 4:53:10. 

Bands and pseudonyms:
Norman Cook (name by deed poll), 
Beats International (1989-1992), 
The Brighton Port Authority (2008-present), 
Cheeky Boy, 
Chemistry, 
Disque Attack, 
DJ Delite (used in DJ Tools e.g. acapellas, for Fatboy Slim singles), 
DJ Quentox (The Ox that Rocks), 
Drunk Soul Brother (Glastonbury 2004), 
Fatboy Slim (1996-present), 
The Feelgood Factor, 
Freak Power (1993-1996), 
Fried Funk Food, 
The Housemartins (Bassist from 1985 to 1988), 
Mighty Dub Katz ("Magic Carpet Ride" dance song, 1996), 
Pizzaman (1993-1997), 
Rockaway 3, 
Sensataria, 
Son of a Cheeky Boy, 
Son of Wilmot, 
Stomping Pondfrogs, 
Sunny Side Up, 
Yum Yum Head Food, 
Quinton Fortune (1996-2006), 
Arthur Chubb, 
Margret Scratcher, 
Grime Minister, 
Asher D. Slim (2002), 
Hot Since 63, 
Leo Sayer, 
Mighty Gus Poyetz, 
Biggie Slims, 
Cook Da Bass, 
Pierre Burner Down, 
Slimboy Fat

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Knud Torben Christensen better known by his stage name Sebastian was born as on December 19, 1949. He is a Danish singer, guitarist and composer. Starting as a musician in the late 1960s he is still active and very popular. So far his career has spanned four decades. Having worked in the folk genre, he has become one of the most prominent pop/rock musicians in Denmark and has scored numerous films and plays. Since the 1990s he has primarily worked with Danish musicals, with great success.

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Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), better known by his stage name Skrillex, is an American electronic music producer and singer-songwriter. Raised in Northeast Los Angeles and in Northern California, Moore joined the American post-hardcore band From First to Last as the lead singer in 2004, and recorded two studio albums with the band (Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count, 2004, and Heroine, 2006) before leaving to pursue a solo career in 2007. He began his first tour as a solo artist in late 2007. After recruiting a new band lineup, Moore joined the Alternative Press Tour to support bands such as All Time Low and The Rocket Summer, and appeared on the cover of Alternative Press' annual "100 Bands You Need to Know" issue.
After releasing the Gypsyhook EP in 2009, Moore was scheduled to record his debut studio album, Bells, with producer Noah Shain. However, he ceased production of the album and began performing under the name Skrillex. After releasing the My Name is Skrillex EP for free download on his official MySpace page, he released the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP in late-2010 and More Monsters and Sprites EP in mid-2011. Both have since become moderate commercial successes. On November 30, 2011, he was nominated for a total of five Grammy Awards at the 54th Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist and won three: "Best Dance/Electronica Album," "Best Dance Recording," and "Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical". On December 5, 2011, the BBC announced that he had been nominated for their Sound of 2012 poll. On December 12, 2011, he was also named MTV's Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year.

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Name: Sleigh Bells
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Sleigh Bells is an American musical duo based in Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2008 and consisting of vocalist Alexis Krauss and guitarist/producer Derek E. Miller. They became known for their overdriven style of noise pop, which incorporates elements from various genres including pop, hip hop, metal, and punk.

After signing to M.I.A.'s N.E.E.T. Recordings and the independent label Mom + Pop Music, Sleigh Bells released their debut album Treats (2010) to critical acclaim. They followed with Reign of Terror (2012), Bitter Rivals (2013), and Jessica Rabbit (2016). Their fifth album, Texis, was released in September 2021.

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Name: SuperVision
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Name: Steve Angello
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Steve Angello (* 22. November 1982 in Athen; eigentlicher Name Steve Josefsson Fragogiannis) ist ein griechisch-schwedischer House-DJ und Musikproduzent. Zusammen mit Axwell und Sebastian Ingrosso bildete er die Swedish House Mafia, die sich im März 2013 jedoch auflöste. Er ist der Bruder des DJs An21.
Fragogiannis startete anfangs als HipHop DJ bevor er durch seinen späteren Swedish House Mafia Kollegen Sebastian Ingrosso in die House-Szene gezogen wurde. Seine ersten Veröffentlichungen erschienen auf dem Stockholmer Label Size Records, das er selbst im Jahr 2002 gründete. Zusammen mit Eric Prydz nahm er als A&P Project diverse Musikstücke auf. Die aus der Zusammenarbeit entstandene Single Woz Not Woz wurde zu einem Clubhit und im Anschluss auf weiteren Labels veröffentlicht. Nach der kommerziellen Veröffentlichung erreichte die Single die internationalen Charts.

Im Jahr 2006 veröffentlichte Angello mit seinem DJ-Kollegen Axwell unter dem Namen „Supermode“ die Single Tell Me Why, die im Wesentlichen auf Samples von Smalltown Boy von Bronski Beat aus dem Jahr 1984 basierte. Die Single entwickelte sich zu einem der Clubhits des Jahres 2006 und wurde in fast 30 verschiedenen Singleversionen mit immer neuen Remixen veröffentlicht. In Deutschland erschien die Single auf Superstar Recordings.

Außerdem fertigte Steve Angello Remixe für Moby, Justin Timberlake und die Eurythmics an.

Sein Lied Open Your Eyes, das er gemeinsam mit Alex Metric aufnahm, ist auf der Trackliste von FIFA 12 enthalten. Gemeinsam stellten sie es beim Musikfestival Tomorrowland vor.

Seine Single Payback mit den Newcomern Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman, die im April 2014 veröffentlicht wurde, war eine sehr erfolgreiche Single, die auf jedem größeren House-Festival gespielt wurde.

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Name: Steve Winwood
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Stephen Lawrence Winwood, genannt Steve Winwood, auch Stevie Winwood (* 12. Mai 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham, England), ist ein britischer Multiinstrumentalist und Sänger. Seine bekanntesten Erfolge als Solokünstler sind Valerie (1982) und Higher Love (1986). 
(Wikipedia)

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Name: Chronicles
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Name: GRiZ
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A true pioneer and master of musical expression, GriZ (Grant Kwiecinski) stands head-and-shoulders above the competition in terms of the sheer variety of his ever-evolving technical prowess. A tremendously passionate and soulful producer, GriZ has a peerless knack for creating profoundly engaging melodies to offset the presence of his phenomenally designed bass. Where many artists become mired in a over-simplified and standardized method of production for the sake of creative efficiency; GriZ has no qualms sacrificing speed for the sake of quality, technical diversity, and an unrelenting devotion to progress and dynamism.

Beginning his saga as a producer at the young age of fourteen, it is immediately evident that his talent and devotion will lead him on a journey of exceptional musical diversity and exploration. From funky rhythms to jazzy melodic embellishment, GriZ effortlessly incorporates his instrumental zeal for the saxophone with his lifelong dedication to soulful, laser-infused beat-making. This is only the beginning for Grant, and already the stylistic range of his material is both inspirational and utterly awe-inspiring

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Name: Kill Paris
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Name: Toddla T
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Toddla T is the stage name of Thomas Mackenzie Bell – a DJ, record producer, re-mixer and composer from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. 
Toddla T's first album, for 1965 Records, encompasses hip-hop, electro, garage, dancehall and house and was released in May 2009. The major collaborators were Serocee and Mr Versatile. The album also features further collaborations with Matt Helders from the Arctic Monkeys, Benjamin Zephaniah, Roots Manuva, Tinchy Stryder, Joe Goddard and Hervé. He has created a mix album for the London nightclub Fabric. Toddla T is currently DJing throughout the UK, Europe and North America and he is a resident DJ at Fabric. He has had a regular slot on BBC Radio 1 in the "In New DJs We Trust" slot. He is involved in recording and producing various artists such as Jammer, Trojan Sound System, Lady Chann and Tinchy Stryder. In 2010 he signed to the record label Ninja Tune and is currently working on his next album. In December 2011, the BBC announced that he will have a permanent weekly slot on Radio 1.

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Name: Atlas Genius
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Atlas Genius are three Australians Keith (vocals, guitar), Steven (bass), Michael (drums) and Englishman, Darren (Keyboards).

The first Atlas Genius single, “Trojans”, was released on May 4, 2011.

Andrew Hwang reviewed the single on Neon Gold Records (New York) and posted the following review, June 4, 2011.

“Like an invitation you weren’t expecting to get, Atlas Genius knocks on your door and creeps into your peripheries in stealth mode. Fair warning: “Trojans” will invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff that easily approaches Phoenix-esque levels of infectiousness. And then there’s that driving bassline gliding over a frenetic bridge with athletic ease, the kind of thing cruise control dreams are made of. It pulls up outside your window, blasting from a fully functional boombox, shouldered by some dude in a trenchcoat holding the weight of the world. It won’t leave. And then you realize you never want it to. If you need protection from generic brand “party indie”, try this one on for size.”

Within hours of Andrew’s review, the Atlas Genius inbox started filling with mail from, record companies, music lawyers and radio promoters, as well a whole new community of bloggers and tweeters.

In the 24hr period following the review, “Trojans” had in excess of 2000 downloads.

The band is committed to releasing individual tracks as soon as they are recorded, and playing the songs live.

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Name: Fake Blood
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Theo Keating, also known as Touché and Fake Blood, is a British DJ, musician and music producer who made his name as one half of The Wiseguys, a British hip hop/big beat band, together with Paul Eve. Some of their best-known songs are "Start the Commotion" and "Ooh La La" (not to be confused with the Goldfrapp song of the same name), which were used in commercials for Mitsubishi and Budweiser. Keating's current project is a duo called The Black Ghosts where Keating performs with Simon William Lord, formerly a founding member of rock band Simian.
Keating is also a popular house and electro DJ and producer, under the name Fake Blood. He has released several successful productions and remixes as Fake Blood, including his 2009 release "I Think I Like It". In 2009, Fake Blood featured on an episode of BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix. 
In May 2012, Fake Blood announced plans in his Facebook for a new 3-track EP, coming later in 2012, also he's working on the album, that will be released after EP. Later, in July 2012, he stated, that album "Cells" will be released this autumn. The album will feature brand new tracks and the first single, "Yes/No" will be released in August as an EP, followed up by a second single "All in the Blink" later in the year. 
The full length album "Cells" was officially released in September of 2012, receiving mixed reviews from critics.

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Name: Zedd
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Anton Zaslavski (born September 2, 1989) known primarily by his stage name Zedd is a German electronic dance music producer and DJ from Kaiserslautern, Germany. He primarily produces in the electro house genre, but has branched out, drawing influences from progressive house, complextro and dubstep.
Anton is a classically trained musician, born from two musicians, who began playing the piano and drums at the age of four. In 2002 he began playing for the German band, Dioramic, signed by Lifeforce Records. Anton's interest in producing electronic music was piqued after hearing 'â€ ' by French electronic duo Justice. He began producing electronic music in 2009.
Under the name 'Zedd', Anton has produced a wide variety of remixes and originals. He first made waves in the scene when he won two different Beatport remix contests; his first original release, 'The Anthem', broke into the Beatport Electro house Top 20. His remix of Skrillex's "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" broke into the Beatport Electro House Top Ten charts, coming to rest at #2. He has since produced remixes of well-known artists of the likes of The Black Eyed Peas, Fatboy Slim, Skrillex, and more. Anton creates his music using the Cubase suite of music production applications, and takes advantage of different plug-ins including the Sylenth1, Nexus and Omnisphere synthesizers.
In 2011, Zedd's remixes of Lady Gaga's tracks "Born This Way" and "Marry the Night" would appear on the Born This Way Deluxe Edition releases. In September, Zedd's single "Shave It" was premiered as a thirty second teaser on Skrillex's YouTube page, this being Zedd's first release on OWSLA records.
In 2012, Zedd signed with Interscope Records and released his debut single from the label, Spectrum, with vocals by Matthew Koma. He then produced the Eva Simons song, I Don't Like You, which was also released on Interscope. He also co-produced the track "Beauty and a Beat" with Max Martin and for Justin Bieber's third studio album, Believe.

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Name: Portugal. The Man
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Portugal. The Man is an American rock band based in Portland, Oregon. The group consists of John Gourley, Zach Carothers, Kyle O'Quin, and Kane Ritchotte. Gourley and Carothers met and began playing music together in high school in Wasilla, Alaska. Since the formation of Portugal. The Man in 2005, the band has released eight studio albums and three EPs. Their first two albums were released on Fearless Records. They also released material on their own imprint Approaching AIRballoons through indie label Equal Vision Records. On April 2, 2010, the band signed to Atlantic Records. Evil Friends marks their seventh full length studio album and the first collaboration between Portugal. The Man and producer Danger Mouse. It was released on June 4, 2013.

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Name: 12th Planet
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Born John Christopher Dadzie, he grew up in South Los Angeles, the youngest of four children. He was first introduced to the electronic music scene in high school. After forming Imperial Recordings with DJ Lith, he launched his production skills on his own terms, originally producing drum and bass under the alias Infiltrata. In 2006, he decided that he was going to make dubstep. It was then that his new alias 12th Planet was created, in reference to Zecharia Sitchin's book, 12th Planet. All production under the name 12th Planet is original. As one of the first individuals to bring the dubstep culture to America (in one of the USA's electronic meccas, Los Angeles) 12th Planet has frequently been cited as the General of the Riddim Gang.

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Name: The End Is Near!
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Name: The M Machine
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The M Machine is an electronic music trio hailing from San Francisco, CA. Formed in 2011 by Ben Swardlick AKA Swardy, Eric Luttrell, and Andy Coenen, the group has quickly risen to prominence on the strength of their wholly original and forward-thinking sound.

Transcending genre, the group effortlessly bounds between hard-hitting dance tracks and thoughtful, indie-styled vocal songs, tying it all together with a distinctly cinematic presentation. The group also designed, built, and performs its own live visuals in the form of a massive LED version of their iconic "M". It is this eclectic and all-encompassing approach towards their craft that has distinguished The M Machine as something very unique in the world of electronic music.

The group achieved initial viral success with a teaser video for their two-part album Metropolis. The group's debut EP, Metropolis Pt. I, was released in April 2012 on Skrillex's OWSLA label. Inspired by Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 film Metropolis, the group created an entire mythology for the release, each song telling part of the story of the dystopian city of Metropolis. After an extensive run of official remixes for Bruno Mars, Passion Pit, Datsik/Kill The Noise, and Madeon, The M Machine returned to original production, elevating their craft to the rave reviews of their peers (read Skrillex, Porter Robinson, and Madeon). The second installment of their album, Metropolis Pt. II, released by OWSLA in February 2013, marked a new high water point in terms of the group's creativity and production. The Metropolis saga was completed with the release of Metropolis Remixed, a revamped retrospective of the previous two EPs that featured remixes from Kill The Noise, Digitalism, Robotaki, and more. Most recently the group remixed Dog Blood and Empire Of The Sun; both remixes were released to much fanfare. 

The M Machine has performed at high-profile festivals including Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas & NYC), Tomorrowland, Outside Lands, South by Southwest, Nocturnal Wonderland, Electric Forest, Electric Zoo, and Camp Bisco. Other highlights include a support slot for the entire "Language Tour" with Porter Robinson, and a support slot for Skrillex at Red Rocks in Denver. With support from many of the world's most notable DJs, including Tiesto, Skrillex, Porter Robinson, Madeon, Markus Schulz, Benny Benassi, Zane Lowe, and Pete Tong, The M Machine continue to carve themselves a distinct niche in the ever-changing landscape of electronic music.

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Name: Foster the People
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"All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run, outrun my gun." Damit beginnt alles. Der Sommersound des Jahres 2011 ist geboren und trägt einen Namen: Foster The People.

"Pumped Up Kicks" heißt der Song, der von der Blogosphäre ins Radio gelangt und dort rauf und runter gedudelt wird. Es benötigt nicht mehr als einen locker-flockigen, eingängigen Refrain, damit schon im Februar 2010 das amerikanische Magazin "BlackBook" vermeldet, Foster The People hätten "den Song zum nächsten Sommer" geschrieben. Dass es sich im Text um die genaue Beschreibung eines Amoklaufs handelt, wird bei so viel fröhlicher Atmosphäre verdrängt.

Bandkopf Mark Foster hat bis dahin einen langen Weg hinter sich. Nach dem Abschluss der High School in Cleveland, Ohio, ist er 18 und völlig orientierungslos. Die Idee, sein Geld als Musiker zu verdienen, liegt ihm fern. 
Sein Vater aber erkennt die Leidenschaft seines Sohnes und gibt ihm einen Stups: Er solle nach Los Angeles gehen und es ein Jahr lang einfach versuchen. Foster hört auf seinen altern Herren und schlägt sich viereinhalb Jahre lang mehr schlecht als recht durch, bis er 2009 auf Cubbie Fink und Mark Pontius trifft. Fink übernimmt an der Bassgitarre, Pontius schwingt die Drumsticks: Foster The People ist geboren.

Nur wenige Monate nach dem Zusammenschluss im Oktober 2009 lädt das Trio eben jenes "Pumped Up Kicks" auf die Bandhomepage, der Rest ist bekannt. Im Februar 2010 folgt die erste EP, benannt nach ihrem viel versprechenden Hit. Foster The People schwappen damit über den großen Teich, haben laut Guardian eine "alternative Hymne" geschaffen und werden sogar von den Hypeschmieden des NME ins Auge gefasst. Klar, dass da auch das Majorlabel nicht lange zuckt: Die Jungs signen bei Sony Music.

Im Juni 2011 erscheint dann in Europa ihr erster Langspieler "Torches". Das Releasedatum im Frühsommer ist ob ihres leichten Sommersynthiepop denkbar gut gewählt. "Wenn Brian Wilson und Aphex Twin einen erwachsenen Sohn hätten", dann wäre das laut Mark Foster Foster The People. Sie wollen gar nicht die angesagteste Band von allen sein, sondern einfach nur irgendjemandes Lieblingsband. Denn für Foster The People (einerseits ein Wortspiel mit Fosters Namen, andererseits übersetzt: "Pflege die Leute") steht, wie es der Name eben schon suggeriert, das Glück der Hörer an erster Stelle.

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Aventura was a bachata music group from New York, United States. Aventura was formed in 1994 by Anthony "Romeo" Santos, Henry Santos, Lenny Santos, and Max Santos, three of whom are natives of The Bronx but families are from Dominican Republic and one born in the Dominican Republic. Aventura made their big break in 1999, with the hopes of breaking bachata music out from its traditional base and fuse it with modern popular sounds like hip hop and R&B. After their separation in 2011, Romeo Santos and Henry Santos embarked on respective solo careers while Lenny Santos and Max Santos joined Steve Styles from the Bachata group Xtreme to form Vena. According to Romeo Santos, the group is "on pause to do individual projects," but will reunite in a couple of years.

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Anthony Santos (born July 21, 1981) known professionally as Romeo Santos is an American singer, featured composer and former lead singer of the Bachata group Aventura. As a member of Aventura, Santos has been a key figure in popularizing Bachata, with hits reaching near the top of the Billboard Latin charts and the top of charts in Europe. In 2002, the band's song "Obsesión" was number one in Italy for sixteen consecutive weeks.

Santos was born in The Bronx, New York City, United States to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother. At twelve years of age, he became a member of the church choir. While the group performs in both English and Spanish, their work was widely ignored by the English-language media during the early part of their career.On May 9, 2011, Santos released his first single, "You", from his solo debut album, Formula, Vol. 1. The song became a number-one debut on the Hot Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. The second single revealed from his album was "Promise" which features a duet with Usher.The single has peaked at number #1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart and number one on the Tropical Songs chart

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Azari & III (pronounced "Azari and Third") are a Canadian music group formed in 2008, performing house, electronic and dance music.
Dinamo Azari and Alixander III had been DJing for several years, before they decided to work together. Fritz Helder and Starving Yet Full met at a karaoke bar while "dancing to Donna Summer". By 2008, all four had formed Azari & III, but it wasn't until 2009 that their first single Hungry for the Power was released, followed by Reckless (With Your Love), which drew the attention of Canadian DJ-producer-musician Tiga. The music video accompanying Hungry for the Power was considered controversial by YouTube and taken off the website for several weeks. In 2010 they collaborated with Friendly Fires on a track "Stay Here".
In 2011, the band re-released two of their first singles and shot a music video for Manic. In August, their debut album Azari & III was released, being described as a throwback to 1980s house music. The band have appeared on a number of festivals, including Glastonbury and Lovebox. In February 2012 their debut album was re-released in Europe.

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Name: Burns
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Matthew James Burns (born 31 October 1985), better known mononymously as Burns (stylised BURNS), is an English record producer, songwriter, and DJ. His recent writing and production credits include Britney Spears, Liam Payne, Little Mix, Louis Tomlinson, Pitbull, Ellie Goulding, Kacy Hill and others.
His mother was an artist and painter. His father was a professional heavyweight boxer. Burns began making music at the age of twelve, playing guitar and keyboards before discovering sampling as a teenager. At the age of 15, Burns started producing his own tracks, combining sound hardware from the seventies and eighties with modern music software and samples.
In 2010, BURNS released "Y.S.L.M (You Stopped Loving Me)" with French artist Fred Falke, also releasing his So Many Nights EP. In 2011, Burns released a track with NT89 entitled "Traffic" and went on to release "Iced Out" on Calvin Harris' Fly Eye label. In 2012, Burns secured a residency at The Wynn Hotel, Las Vegas while playing shows across America. He released "Lies" in September with remixes from Skream, Tiga, Acrobat and Otto Knows. The single entered the BBC Radio 1 playlist at C moving to B one week later and then on to A for 7 consecutive weeks. The track peaked at number 32 in the UK Singles Chart and at number 36 in the Netherlands.
BURNS began his solo residency at OMNIA nightclub in Las Vegas in 2016. In 2017, BURNS was signed by RCA Records. His first release on the label, "Far Gone feat. Johnny Yukon" was released in summer of that year. He followed with a second single "Angel" in April 2018, and also "Hands On Me" which featured Maluma and Rae Sremmurd. "Hands On Me" was the first English-speaking feature for Latin artist Maluma.

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Name: Statik Selektah
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Chase & Status sind ein in London lebendes Electronica-Duo, das Musik aus den Kategorien Drum and Bass und Dubstep produziert. Mit bürgerlichem Namen heißen die beiden Musiker Saul Milton und Will Kennard. Anfängliche Erfolge feierten sie mit den 12" Veröffentlichungen Iron Fist/Zulu King, Love's Theme/Wise Up (Remix), Dumpling Riddim/Disco und der 2006 erschienenen Single The Druids. Darauf war das Lied Come Back enthalten, in dem der Rapper Top Cat den Gesang übernimmt und beim englischen Sender Radio 1 oft gespielt wurde.
Milton und Kennard konnten insgesamt drei Nummer-1-Chart-Platzierungen in den UK Dance Charts erzielen. Zuerst im Jahr 2007 mit der Single Hurt You/Sell Me Your Soul, gefolgt von Take Me Away/Judgement (Informer) 2008. Am 5. Oktober desselben Jahres erreichte Pieces, das zusammen mit Plan B aufgenommen wurde, ebenfalls den ersten Platz und Nummer 70 in den nationalen Singlecharts. Die Single End Credits, ebenfalls mit Plan B produziert, wurde ein Teil des Soundtracks für den Film Harry Brown.
Chase & Status waren zu weiten Teilen an der Produktion von Rihannas viertem Studioalbum Rated R (2009) beteiligt.[4]

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Poolside is an American "daytime disco" band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010 by Jeffrey Paradise and Filip Nikolic. Following Nikolic's departure in 2017, the band currently consists of Jeffrey Paradise with additional members for live shows Vito Roccoforte, Mattie Safer, Brijean Murphy and Casey Butler.

There is other band ith the ame name:

2) Poolside is an electropop/synthrock band consisting of composer Josh Whelchel and singer/songwriter Melinda Hershey.  Poolside formed in 2005 with former member Marshall Reinhart.   Poolside was formed in its entirety in Cincinnati, OH.  Free tracks and other information can be obtained from their official site at www.poolsideband.com. 

Their tracks, "Let it Live" and "Dance Tonight" were featured on the hit web-series "Dorm Life" episode #211: "The Frat Party" in May 2009.

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Name: St. Lucia
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Even in the urban wilds of Brooklyn, there may be no one else like Jean-Philip Grobler, aka St. Lucia. Originally from Johannesberg, St. Lucia grew up performing with the Drakensberg Boys Choir School. When the choir wasn't traveling - they toured Japan, Australia, Europe and more - they stayed in an enclave tucked in the South African mountains, learning everything from Bach to minimalist opera.  A young musician could hardly find better training. But musically, St Lucia's heart lay elsewhere, and South Africa was full of other rhythms. "My mom says I used to sing along to Michael Jackson," he says - an ordinary anecdote, until he adds, "when I was an infant." As a young teenager, he started to feel that he'd had his fill of classical, and it felt like an epiphany when he discovered the direct emotionality of pop. Eventually, he left the creative "small pond" of South Africa for England, where he spent three years studying music in Liverpool.  St. Lucia's journey ended - as so many journeys do - in New York City, where he started working on the tracks that would ultimately turn into his self titled debut release on Neon Gold. The atmospheric quality of St. Lucia's electronic pop is powerful, with the musician's global travels and history of secret hideaways effortlessly passed onto the audience through his dreamy, shimmering synths.  Neon Gold will release St Lucia's debut album later this year. Formerly a singles-only label that launched releases Passion Pit, Ellie Goulding, The Naked & Famous and helped launch the careers of countless others.  Website - http://www.stlucianewyork.com Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/st-lucia Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/stlucianewyork  Twitter - https://twitter.com/stlucianewyork

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Sia [siːə] (* 18. Dezember 1975 in Adelaide als Sia Kate Isobelle Furler) ist eine australische Sängerin und Songschreiberin. Sie wurde international durch ihre Arbeit mit Zero 7 und ihre Zusammenarbeit mit David Guetta bekannt.
Sia war Teil der australischen Acid-Jazz-Formation Crisp, welche die beiden Alben Word and the Deal (1996) und Delirium (1997) veröffentlichte. 1997 verließ Sia die Band. Sie widmete sich dem Trip-Hop und veröffentlichte auf dem inzwischen nicht mehr existierenden Independent-Label Flavoured Records mit OnlySee ihr erstes Solo-Album. Ihr ehemaliger Crisp-Bandkollege Jesse Flavell produzierte das Album und schrieb die meisten der Tracks.[1]

Sia wanderte nach Großbritannien aus, um ihre Solokarriere weiter zu verfolgen. Im Jahr 2000 unterschrieb sie einen Vertrag beim Sony Music unterstellten Label DancePool und veröffentlichte dort ihr Album Healing Is Difficult. Die Musik bestand aus einer Mischung aus Rhythm and Blues und Jazz und wurde ein kommerzieller Erfolg. Das Album enthält die beiden Tracks Drink to Get Drunk (Remixed by Different Gear) und Little Man, die im Underground Bekanntheit erlangten, und den Track Taken for Granted, der es sogar in die Top 10 der britischen Charts schaffte. Das Album erhielt positive Kritiken und Sia wurde schon als die nächste Lauryn Hill oder Nelly Furtado gehandelt.

2003 veröffentlichte Sia auf dem Label Go! Beat Records (UMG) die EP Don’t Bring Me Down (das gleichnamige Lied ist auch in dem französischen Spielfilm 36 tödliche Rivalen zu hören). 2004 folgte das Album Colour the Small One. Die Platte ist im Vergleich zum Debüt eher ruhig mit akustischen Instrumenten und elektronischen Komponenten, was zu Vergleichen mit Dido und Sarah McLachlan führte. Die Tracks Breathe Me und Where I Belong wurden als Singles ausgekoppelt. Breathe Me erlangte größere Bekanntheit, da der Track während der langen Schlussszene der letzten Folge von Six Feet Under – Gestorben wird immer zu hören ist. Der US-amerikanische Musiker Beck schrieb mit am Track The Bully und an zwei weiteren, bisher unveröffentlichten Tracks, Killing Kindness und Silence Them. Anfang des Jahres 2006 wurde der Vertrag mit Go! Beat Records wieder aufgelöst, da Sia von der Promotion enttäuscht war.

Neben ihrer Solokarriere sang Sia für die Band Zero 7 deren Songs Destiny und Distractions auf dem Debütalbum Simple Things, sowie die beiden Tracks Somersault und Speed Dial No. 2 auf dem zweiten Album When It Falls. Auch auf dem dritten Album von Zero 7, The Garden, sind wiederum sechs Tracks mit Sias Stimme zu hören. Zudem nahm sie eine Coverversion des Songs Paranoid Android von Radiohead auf, welcher auf einem Tribute-Album für Radiohead zu hören ist. Am 16. April 2007 erschien ihr Live-Album Lady Croissant, auf dem auch ein neuer Studiotrack enthalten ist (Pictures). Der Titel Breathe Me wurde im Jahr 2009 der Titelsong des Kinofilms Phantomschmerz mit Til Schweiger. Bereits 2005 war der Song in der Serie Six Feet Under – Gestorben wird immer im Serienfinale verwendet und auf dem Soundtrackalbum Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends veröffentlicht worden. 2010 erschienen die Singles Under the Milky Way, Clap Your Hands und My Love, das auch auf dem Soundtrack des Kinofilms Eclipse – Biss zum Abendrot aus der Twilight-Reihe vertreten ist.

Sia Furler schrieb zusammen mit Samuel Dixon und Christina Aguilera die Songs All I Need, Stronger Than Ever, I Am und You Lost Me, die auf Aguileras Album Bionic im Juni 2010 erschienen sind.[2] Ihr Album We Are Born erschien am 18. Juni 2010 beim Label Monkey Puzzle. Im August 2011 erschien die Single Titanium, die sie zusammen mit dem DJ David Guetta aufgenommen hatte. Im Dezember 2011 erschien eine weitere Single namens Wild Ones, bei der sie mit dem Rapper Flo Rida zusammenarbeitete. Im September 2012 kam die Single She Wolf (Falling to Pieces) heraus, die sie wieder zusammen mit David Guetta aufgenommen hatte. Sie schrieb unter anderem auch einige Songs für Rihannas Album Unapologetic, darunter auch die Hitsingle Diamonds, die sie in nur 14 Minuten schrieb.

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The latest signee to Ajax' record label, Sweat it Out, Dcup has already drawn comparisons with Treasure Fingers, Miami Horror, and Shazam, from influential names in the industry. He's funk fuelled disco for right now.  Signed in May, this year, he's the seventh artist to join the cutting edge roster of Sweat it Out members. Others include Gameboy/Gamegirl, Act Yo Age, KillaQueenz, Yoland Be Cool, and Pablo Calamari. When Sweat it Out received his EP, four originals, there was no question whether or not to sign him. Snapped up instantly for pioneering the nu-disco sound, he's booked his ticket to the top. June 2009 saw the release of Style, his debut EP, picked up by DJs around the world including Italian (and now UK-based) talent Phonat. Signed to East London label, MofoHifi, Phonat loved Style so much he remixed it for the Style remix EP. With remixes expected out from label mates Pablo Calamari, Yoland Be Cool and Act Yo Age, shortly, he's the DJ/producer to watch this year. No doubt! Already climbing the ropes, his music combines keyboards, old drum machines, and records from the 80s, as well as his own Dcup special touch.   Already being played on the national party circuit his remixes have also been picked internationally in the UK, Europe and Asia. His distinct sound has been perfected over the years - he pushes boundaries, plays venues because he wants to, not because he has to. He's created "his own kinda style, not like the rest" - watch out Australia Dcup's about to change the way you move.  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Edward Christopher „Ed“ Sheeran (* 17. Februar 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) ist ein britischer Singer-Songwriter.
Sheeran wurde in Halifax geboren. Später zog die Familie nach Framlingham (Suffolk), wo er die Thomas Mills High School besuchte. Bereits in jungen Jahren lernte er Gitarrespielen, und in seiner Schulzeit entstanden erste selbstgeschriebene Songs, die von der Musik Van Morrisons beeinflusst waren. 2005 erschien unter dem Titel The Orange Room EP seine erste EP. Es folgten zwei Alben 2006 und 2007. 2008 siedelte er nach London über und spielte dort in kleinen Clubs. Im selben Jahr nahm er erfolglos am Casting für die ITV-Sendung Britannia High teil.
Nach Veröffentlichung einer weiteren EP, You Need Me, ging er mit der Band Just Jack auf Tournee. Im Februar 2010 lud ihn der Rapper Example ein, ihn auf seiner Tour zu begleiten. Ebenfalls im Februar 2010 erschien seine EP Loose Change. Im Januar 2011 veröffentlichte er die EP No. 5 Collaborations Project, auf der Gastmusiker wie Wiley, JME, Devlin und Ghetts zu hören sind. Über iTunes verkaufte sie sich in der ersten Woche über 7000 Mal. Daraufhin erhielt er einen Plattenvertrag bei Atlantic Records. Seine Debütsingle The A Team erschien im Juni 2011 in seiner Heimat Großbritannien und am 25. November in Deutschland,[1] das Debütalbum + erschien im September 2011 in Großbritannien und am 10. Februar 2012 in Deutschland.[2] Nach einem Auftritt in der Castingshow The Voice of Germany am 10. Februar 2012 erreichte die Single The A Team Platz 9 der deutschen Single-Charts, das Album stieg gleichzeitig auf Platz 12 der Album-Charts ein.
Bei der Schlussfeier der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2012 in London interpretierte Sheeran am 12. August 2012 zusammen mit Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Richard Jones (The Feeling) und Mike Rutherford (Genesis) vor einem Millionenpublikum den Pink-Floyd-Song Wish You Were Here.[3] 2012 erschien Everything Has Changed, das Ed Sheeran zusammen mit Taylor Swift geschrieben und als Duett aufgenommen hat. Der Song wurde auf Swifts Album Red veröffentlicht.

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Name: J.J. Jackson
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Jerome Louis "J.J." Jackson, born in Bronx, New York, is a soul/R&B singer, songwriter, and arranger. His singing style is as a belter.

Jackson started out as a songwriter and arranger for Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy Witherspoon, and the Shangri-Las, among others. He also composed the Pretty Things' 1960s hit single "Come See Me."

Jackson had his own 1966 hit with "But It's Alright," which he wrote with Pierre Tubbs. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The single was recorded in the United Kingdom, featuring some of Britain's top jazz musicians of the day, including Terry Smith on guitar, Dick Morrissey on tenor sax and John Marshall on drums. He currently lives in Palmdale, CA.

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Name: Grouplove
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Standing firmly on the middle ground between the quirky staccato attack of Modest Mouse and the spirited arena-ready roar of Arcade Fire, Los Angeles-based indie rock outfit Grouplove came to fruition in the late 2000s around the talents of Hannah Hooper, Christian Zucconi, Sean Gadd, Ryan Rabin, and Andrew Wessen. New Yorkers Hooper and Zucconi, through sheer kismet, forged a friendship with the latter three members while attending an art residency in Greece on the island of Crete. Before returning to their myriad homelands, the future quintet members began hashing out plans to meet up again and put some of the music they had been working on to tape, resulting in whirlwind trips to Rabin's Los Angeles studio, where the five friends decided to make their relationship official.

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Name: Yelawolf
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Michael Wayne Atha (born December 30, 1979), better known by his stage name Yelawolf, is an American rapper. Born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee and Alabama, he embarked on his career independently in 2005, releasing one extended play (EP) and four mixtapes until 2010. It was not until 2010's Trunk Muzik EP that Yelawolf started to gain mainstream attention, culminating with Yelawolf signing a deal with Interscope Records. His first release on a major label was a reworking of Trunk Muzik, titled Trunk Muzik 0-60 (2010).

In January 2011, Yelawolf signed a recording deal with Eminem's record label Shady Records, and released his second studio album, Radioactive in November 2011. The album debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200. Yelawolf released a sequel to his breakthrough mixtape Trunk Muzik, titled Trunk Muzik Returns, in March 2013. His third album, Love Story, was released in April 2015. His fourth album, Trial by Fire, was released in October 2017. His fifth album, his last under Shady Records, Trunk Muzik III, was released in March 2019. His sixth studio album, Ghetto Cowboy, and first independent studio album since signing to Eminem's imprint, was released in October 2019.

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Name: Louis La Roche
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Louis La Roche (aka Brett Ewels) is a French House producer from Norwich, UK. His style is French house/house. On Valentines Day 2008, a song named "Love" was published many blogs and websites, saying that Thomas Bangalter made the song. However, Louis La Roche is the real artist behind this song.  Soon after the release of "Love", Louis released a five track EP called 'The Peach EP' in April 2008.  Louis began writing an album in the summer of 2008. The album he was working on "I Delete Myself" was, ironically, scrapped, said by Louis, as he was not happy with the album.  He released an EP titled; "Me & Her" which is a 4 track EP that includes the hit song "Be Brave". It was released under the new label "Ever After Records", Louis is their first signed artist. The EP was released the 6th of April 2009.  His Super Soaker EP was released in advanced at Beatport.com on December 14th, 2009. The EP was released elsewhere on January 18th, 2010.  In 2011 LLR announced that he would be working on an album called "Hello You" however this album never came to be for unknown reasons.  After the release of the Super Soaker EP, Louis La Roche released  Untrue in 2012. The following year he released Say I'm Your No. 1, the Composure EP and Funk Trunk Skunk / Kaboom. His most recent work is the Dusty Cassette EP which he released via his Bandcamp in 2014.  On September 23rd 2014, Louis La Roche announced that he's already working on a new project, the length of the project is still not decided.  http://www.facebook.com/louislarochemusic https://twitter.com/iamlouislaroche http://iamlouislaroche.bandcamp.com/ http://www.louislaroche.com

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Name: Gimme Gimme & The Wall
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Name: Maceo Plex
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Located deep within the circuitry of a mechanical alien host known as Maetrik you will find a complex web of synaptic dispersements resembling what could be called a soul. And this soul which drives it's host and manipulates it's every move is finally beginning to emerge. Its name is Maceo Plex. The emergence of such an entity has been the result of a need for feeling, a need for interplanetary funk. We as humans consider this need a feeling, a feeling rooted in emotion, and emotion being the very basis of humanity.   Maceo Plex is on a quest to fullfil his need to inject feeling and funk into the world, and he's already proving to be quite productive. With deep and funky works of audible engineering for the label Crosstown Rebels in the form of a full length album titled "Life Index", a night with Maceo Plex will be one of galactic proportions.   To explain the evolutionary process behind Maceo's existance we must travel back to 1993, to the beginning of his creativity. At the start...Maceo was intrigued by a pair of circular shaped objects designed for holding discs created from vinyl that produced vibrations resulting in sound and music. Soon he began conjuring up mixxes of techno, electro, and house music that quickly gained him popularity within the early 90s rave culture. But in 1997, while Heavily influenced by the sounds of other modern funk theorists such as Model 500, Kenny Larkin, Idjut Boyz, Convextion, etc... Maceo began experimenting with hardware modules containing knobs and keys to form his early musical compositions. Seduced by the sounds of techno & electro, Maceo grew into a technologically advanced being later to be known by various names such as Mariel Ito or Maetrik.   After many years of prolific works on such labels as Treibstoff, Dumb Unit, Cocoon, Audiomatique, Modern Love, Mothership, to name a few...Maceo aka Maetrik travelled the world playing in some of the best clubs such as Rex, Cocoon, Fabric, Womb, etc... Now in 2010 Maceo has begun to strip back some of his robotic body armor known as Maetrik in order to expose a more musical and groove based side the world has not seen yet.   The profound change has taken Maceo Plex from the complex and dark life in America to his current homebase of Valencia, Spain. The sunny and relaxed atmosphere has been quite useful to Maceo in his lengthy inward journey that is very apparent in his music. After a much needed retreat into the funky sounds of Parliament Funkadelic, Moodymann, Atjazz, Isolee, and Luomo, Maceo has finally completed his transormation and is shining brighter than the star Sirius...and his newest musical output reflects his radiation in a variety of beautiful colors. In late 2010, Maceo's single "Vibe Your Love" will finally be released on the very foward thinking label Crosstown Rebels and will include a hefty funk remix treatment by Zev of the Wolf & Lamb clang. Soon following will be the full length debut album aptly titled "Life Index" which chronicles Maceo's life long transformation into the soulful ball of energy he is today.   Once experienced, the album will make it abundantly clear the level of versatility Maceo Plex posesses among his many auditory shells. And the world will understand Maceo's pristine vision of house music from beyond.

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Name: Nero
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Nero is a British electronic music act originating from London, England consisting of Daniel Stephens and Joseph Ray with Alana Watson, a vocalist, who are best known for producing drum and bass, dubstep and house. On 6 December 2010, Nero were announced as nominees for the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll.
Daniel and Joe were both born in 1984 and spent their childhood together in Northwood, London. Ray played classical guitar and Stephens, encouraged by his free-jazz musican father, played cello. By the time a mutual friend introduced them at the age of 15, Stephens was attending the specialist music school at Pimlico. Outside school both were making electronic music on home computers. They began working together at 17, setting up a studio in Stephens' bedroom. The latter has been already a fan of jungle music after seeing M-Beat featuring General Levy on Top of the Pops in 1994. Ray’s epiphany (according to Q), happened in the London club Fabric where the duo's ideas about DJing got cemented.
Nero's debut release was "Space 2001" as part of the "Straight Outta Leicester" three piece vinyl LP on Reformed Recordings in 2004. Nero's debut dubstep release was "This Way."
Sasha Frere-Jones, journalist for the New Yorker Magazine, listed Nero's remix of The Streets, "Blinded by the Lights" in his top songs of 2009. The track had radio airplay in the UK as well as being played by DJs including Chase & Status, Skream, Tiësto and Diplo.

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Name: PJ Morton
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PJ Morton (born as Paul Morton, Jr.; March 29, 1981) is an American R&B singer, musician, producer and one of the keyboardists in the pop rock band Maroon 5. On March 27, 2012, Morton released his first solo recording, the free EP Following My First Mind, on Lil Wayne's Young Money label. Adam Levine was featured on the lead single, “Heavy”; other musicians on the EP include Lil Wayne, Jazmine Sullivan and Chantae Cann. On May 14, 2013, Morton released his first major-label debut album, New Orleans.

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Name: Jazmine Sullivan
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Jazmine Marie Sullivan (born April 9, 1987) is an American recording artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is also the protégé of rapper Missy Elliott.

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Name: Roots Manuva
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Rodney Hylton Smith (born 1972), better known by his stage name Roots Manuva, is a British rapper from Stockwell, South London. He is currently signed to Big Dada.
Smith grew up around Stockwell in South London. His parents were from a small village in Jamaica called Banana Hole where his father was a preacher and tailor. Spending much of his early years in poverty, this and his strict Pentecostal upbringing clearly had an influence on his music as can be seen in many of his tracks such as "Sinny Sin Sins" and "Colossal Insight".
A quote from Smith himself sums up his early discovery of music:
“	It was as a kid. Before I even knew what a soundsystem was. I was walking past Stockwell skateboard park and there was this sound being set up. They were probably just trying out their speakers. I was with my mum, holding my mum's hand. And I remember my mum being quite intimidated by the whole affair. Such a barrage of bass coming from it! And these dodgy-looking blokes standing beside it just admiring the sound of their bass. It's just a bass thing. A volume thing. I don't know if I rose-tint the memories, but I remember it sounded so good, so rich. It's not like today when we go to clubs and it hurts. It was more of a life-giving bass.	”
Smith made his recorded debut in 1994 as part of IQ Procedure through Suburban Base's short-lived hip hop imprint Bluntly Speaking Vinyl. He debuted as Roots Manuva the same year on Blak Twang's "Queen's Head" single, before releasing his own single, "Next Type of Motion" the following year through the same label, the hugely influential Sound of Money. 1996 saw the release of his collaborations with Skitz ("Where My Mind Is At"/"Blessed Be The Manner") on 23 Skidoo's Ronin label. The release of "Feva" on Tony Vegas' Wayward imprint followed in 1997. This was also the year that saw the first releases from Big Dada, a collaboration between Coldcut's Ninja Tune label and hip hop journalist Will Ashon.
Releasing for Coldcut's renowned experimental/hip hop label Ninja Tune in 1998, some of his music may be seen as a predecessor of grime. The following year he released his groundbreaking debut album, Brand New Second Hand. A reference to his family's modest lifestyle, the title refers to a phrase his mother used for presents he often got as a youngster that were pre-used. The single 'Witness (1 Hope)' with its brilliant lyrical flow and heavy shuffling squelch bass (allegedly a result of Rodney trying to copy the Dr Who theme) is a UK rap anthem. He had such an impact on the UK rap scene that The Times declared that "his is the voice of urban Britain, encompassing dub, ragga, funk and hip hop as it sweeps from crumbling street corners to ganja-filled dancehalls, setting gritty narratives against all manner of warped beats." Manuva was rewarded for his breakthrough with a MOBO as Best Hip Hop Act that year.
The lyrics of his songs are usually known to take a distinctly British edge, with many critics highlighting his references of eating cheese on toast and drinking bitter as examples of this. His warm and easily recognizable voice can be heard on many songs he performed with other artists such as Chali 2na (and Ozomatli), DJ Shadow, Mr Scruff, U.N.K.L.E., Nightmares on Wax, The Cinematic Orchestra, Beth Orton, The Herbaliser, Leftfield, Saian Supa Crew and most recently Coldcut. He also made an appearance on the Gorillaz album, Demon Days, on the track "All Alone".
Roots Manuva headlined the Lounge On The Farm Festival 11 July 2009

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Name: Rye Rye
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Rye Rye (b. Ryeisha Berrain aka ryerye), is a rapper from Baltimore, MD, USA. She met Blaqstarr, a friend of her sister's, and worked with him on her early material. She met M.I.A. in a studio after M.I.A. overheard one of Rye Rye's songs. She then worked with Diplo to make Wassup Wassup and other songs including: "Gangsta Girl", "Hardcore Girls" (with The Count & Sinden), and "Reasons". She is also working with Zakee. "Hardcore Girls" appears on the Hardcore Girls EP by The Count and Sinden via Domino Records. The Boom Boom Songfacts reports that In 2008 Rye Rye became the first artist signed to M.I.A.'s record label N.E.E.T., imprint of Interscope Records. Her debut album, Go! Pop! Bang!, was originally scheduled for release in 2009, but when Rye Rye became pregnant it set in motion a series of delays which prevented the album's release for nearly three years. It's currently due to be dropped on May 15, 2012. She has described her sound as "unique, hard-hitting, anything thrown I can handle it."   Rye Rye began performing at the age of 16. She toured with M.I.A. during the fall and winter of 2007 and early 2008 and briefly with Afrikan Boy. She is featured on a remix of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" with Afrikan Boy, which appears on the Paper Planes - Homeland Security Remixes EP by M.I.A. and is available on her MySpace. Her song "Shake It To The Ground" was made available for download on iTunes.[1] She has also made a music video for the song.  Rye Rye is the first artist signed to M.I.A.'s new music label N.E.E.T., and her album is set to be released in 2009. They both appear on M.I.A.'s remix of Busy Signal's "Tic Toc," an unfinished version of which M.I.A. showcased on Gilles Peterson's Radio 1 show.


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Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), better known by her stage name Robyn, is a Swedish recording artist. Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hit "Do You Know (What It Takes)" from her debut album Robyn Is Here (1997). The popularity of her number-one hit "With Every Heartbeat" and subsequent album release Robyn (2005) brought her mainstream success worldwide. In January 2009 Robyn won a Swedish Grammis award for Best Live Act 2008. As of 2012 Robyn has sold over 50 million albums worldwide.
Robyn released the first of a trilogy of albums to be released over the course of 2010 titled Body Talk Pt. 1, in June of that year, peaking at number one. It was her first album since Robyn. The album's lead single "Dancing on My Own" was released a few weeks prior to the album's release; it became a hit single worldwide and brought her a Grammy Award nomination for the category of Best Dance Recording in 2011. A follow-up album, Body Talk Pt. 2, was released on 6 September, entering straight at number one on the Swedish chart, and the final album of the trilogy, Body Talk, was released on 22 November 2010 with lead single "Indestructible". "Call Your Girlfriend" was the second single to be released from Body Talk. Robyn possesses the vocal range of a soprano.

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Name: Röyksopp
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Röyksopp (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈɾøʏksɔp]) is a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland.
Berge and Brundtland were introduced to each other through a mutual friend in Tromsø, Norway. They both enjoyed the same films, music and both shared an interest in electronics. The two experimented with various forms of electronic music, and bought a drum machine together during the Tromsø techno scene before going their separate ways. Several years later, the two met up again and formed Röyksopp during the Bergen Wave. After experimenting with different genres of electronic music, the band solidified their place in the electronica scene with their 2001 debut album, Melody A.M., released on the Wall of Sound record label.
Röyksopp has consistently experimented with various genres pertaining to electronica. Stylistically, the band makes use of various genres, including ambient, house music, synthpop and African-American sounds. The band is also known for its elaborate concert performances, which often feature eccentric outfits.
Since their 1998 debut, the duo has gained critical acclaim and popular success around the world. To date, Röyksopp has been nominated for one Grammy Award, won seven Spellemannprisen awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums which have topped the charts in several countries, including four consecutive number-one albums in their native Norway.

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Name: Super Flu
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Tinitus Pärt (Feliks Thielemann) & Mathias Schwarz - that´s Super Flu!!!
 
Electronic lifestyle contains more than just music - it´s the beginning of a new fusion! The ambition of Super Flu is to connect tradition and modern electronic music in terms of vitality and joy of life. Thereby, it always remains elementary to satisfy the user´s claim in quality. Pulsative machine songs, generally beyond all words, are already a steady part in omnipresence.

Super Flu´s acoustic art takes musically a step forward - and still it remains techno with more than just one level! Details, breaks, structures, substance, background. Music for a journey between two scenes on earth - and four speakers in a club. Or possibly just for the trip amongst cupboard and window? This new trend impersonates all demands in instinctiveness, tradition and musical emotion. It´s electronic lifestyle...

Halle, Germany
2006
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Name: The Weeknd
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Abel Tesfaye (* 16. Februar 1990 in Toronto, Ontario) ist ein unter seinem Künstlernamen The Weeknd bekannter kanadischer R&B-Singer-Songwriter. Tesfaye wurde in Scarborough geboren und ist äthiopischer Abstammung.[1] Er wuchs nach eigenen Angaben verschiedene musikalische Genres hörend auf, u. a. Soul, Hip-Hop, Funk, Indie Rock und Post Punk. Da er ohne Vater aufgewachsen ist und die Mutter nur am arbeiten war, zog ihn seine Großmutter bis zum Alter von fünf Jahren auf. Somit spricht der Sänger fließend amharisch – es war die erste Sprache die er erlernte.
Nachdem er im Alter von 17 Jahren, gemeinsam mit einem heutigen Mitglied seiner Crew, die High School abgebrochen hat, kam er schließlich auf seinen Künstlernamen; „an einem Wochenende verlassen und nie wieder erschienen“ ( „left one weekend and never came home.“). Da jedoch eine kanadische Band bereits den Namen The Weekend trägt, hat er die Buchstabierweise modifiziert (‚The Weeknd‘).[3]
Bekannt wurde er durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit dem ebenfalls aus Toronto stammenden Rapper Drake und seine Veröffentlichungen auf der Video-Plattform YouTube. Am 21. März 2011 veröffentlichte Tesfaye sein Mixtape House of Balloons auf seiner Website zum kostenlosen Download. Am 18. August 2011 erschien das Mixtape Album Thursday, am 21. Dezember folgte das dritte, betitelt Echoes of Silence. Alle drei Alben erhielten überwiegend positive Kritiken.

Am 13. November 2012 erschien die Kompilation Trilogy, welches die drei ersten Alben und einige neue Lieder enthält.

Sein Debütalbum Kiss Land erschien am 10. September 2013. In den USA konnte es in der ersten Woche 96.000 Exemplare absetzen und sich auf #2 der Billboard 200 platzieren.[4]

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Name: Tommy Trash
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Thomas Olsen, better known by his stage name Tommy Trash, is an Australian DJ, record producer, and remixer. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California and signed to Ministry of Sound Australia.
Thomas Olsen (aka Tommy Trash) was born in the small town of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. He attended Walkervale State Primary School and Later Kepnock State high School. From an early age Thomas was proficient at Piano and Trumpet and was classically trained in both, he excelled at music in general and could play almost anything with a little practice.
The ARIA Music Awards of 2009 nomination of artist Tommy Trash, one of the EDM scene's biggest promises, is considered as one of the highlights of 2011. Ever since he appeared on the scene in 2006, Tommy has been rocking the charts and the dance floors, and with over 50 productions (originals and remixes), and also he has quickly been recognised as one of Australia's biggest talents.
His peak era would begin in mid-2011, thanks to one of his most recognisable tunes, titled "The End". This has been one of his largest hits to date. This made him quickly noticed by high-profile DJs such as Tiësto, David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Afrojack, and Laidback Luke. "The End" pushed Tommy further into international fame.
Before "The End", he launched "All My Friends" in 2010, collaborating with Tom Piper and Mr. Wilson on the vocals, who has already lent his voice in Tommy's song, "Need Me To Stay", a song nominated by the ARIA Awards as a "Best Dance Record" in 2009. "All My Friends" managed to peak 6 weeks straight on the ARIA Club Charts. Due to its success, it was re-edited and remastered by Ministry of Sound on the United Kingdom and Germany, and peaked at 11 in the UK Cool Cuts chart.
Tommy also launched his music on worldwide labels, such as Spinnin, Refune, SIZE, Axtone, mau5trap, OWSLA, Boys Noize, Musical Freedom and Fool's Gold. He has collaborated with other producers such as A-Trak. Digitalism, Sebastian Ingrosso and Wolfgang Gartner, and he has made remixes for artists like Deadmau5, Empire of the Sun, Swedish House Mafia, Sub Focus, Zedd, Steve Aoki, plus many more.
In 2012, the 55th Annual Grammy Awards nominated Tommy for his remix of Deadmau5' song "The Veldt".

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Name: Umek
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Uroš Umek (Slovene) born May 16, 1976 in Ljubljana, Slovenia), better known as DJ Umek or simply Umek, is a Slovenian dance music composer and DJ. Musically active since 1993, he is the owner of several techno record labels. In 1999 he founded Consumer Recreation and Recycled Loops, the former of which he co-runs with Valentino Kanzyani. Recycled Loops formed the sublabel Earresistible Musick in 2001, and in 2007 Umek founded the large techno label 1605.

In 2010 he won Best Techno Artist at the Beatport Music Awards, and in 2013 he was named Best Techno DJ at the EMPO Awards. In 2013, he won Best Techno Track at the International Dance Music Awards, and the following year he won Best Techno/Tech House Artist. He has released singles and remixes on Spinnin' Records and Ultra Records, working with artists such as Groovebox and Waka Flocka.

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Name: ishawna
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Ishawna Natalie Smith (Born on 1986 September 29) is a Jamaican singer and Dj.  Ishawna wrote her first song at the age of six and recording her first track at the age of eight. She become famous has part of the formable dancehall crew Alliance which is spread headed by one of the worlds greatest dancehall artist Bounty Killa.  She release her collaboration with Demarco ‘For You’ (2008), two big hits with dancehall energy god Elephant man ‘Take It’ and ‘Give It To Me’ (2009).

Follow her sting with the Alliance she sign a new sponsorship deal with Lime, the Caribbean’s leading telecommunications company (2011) and later signed a recording deal with DownSound Records (DSR) CEO, Joe Bogdanovich, (2012). 

Her latest singles “Vroom Vroom” , “Oola La la” and “Cheerful Giver” have been receiving airplay up until to-date, while her videos, “Cheerful Giver” and “Restraining Order” are being featured on MTV.com , with “Cheerful Giver” also in the top ten on the Tempo Network Cross Caribbean Countdown.

She has collaborated with Grammy Award winner Wyclef Jean as well as Peetah Morgan from outstanding reggae group Morgan Heritage, just to name a few.

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Name: raine seville
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Loraine Seville (born July 25, 1986), better known by her stage names Raine Seville, is a Jamaican dancehall and reggae artist.

She was born and raised In Kingston, Jamaica.

She started singing while she was still young and in 2004 she joined the first Digicel Rising Stars in Mandeville to pursue music and she only made it to the top 100, at the same time she was a part-time student at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts until the year 2006

From 2006–2007, she continued voice classes with the distinguished voice trainer Georgia Schlifer.

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Name: Bounty Killer
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Known as the Warlord, the Ghetto Gladiator, the Poor Peoples' Governor, and the Five Star General, Bounty Killer is one of dancehall reggae's most enduring artists and influences throughout the industry, known for his intricate, war-like lyrics, sound system dubplates, and stable of artists which has changed over the years but never lessened in popularity.  Bounty Killer, aka Rodney Basil Price, was born 12.06.1972 in the Trenchtown area of downtown Kingston, Jamaica, with his family moving to a next ghetto area of Riverton City (formerly known as Dungle), and finally Seaview Gardens, Kingston, as a young child. One of nine children to his mother "Miss Ivy" and father, owner of a small sound system, Rodney first picked up the mic as a deejay at nine years old. He nearly lost his life to gun violence at 14, but thankfully fully recovered from the bystander assault and soon began his music career as Bounty Hunter. He joined neighborhood friends Nitty Kutchie and Boom Dandemite in seeking out opportunities in country as well as town, performing for Metromedia and Bodyguard, as well as other local area sound systems. It was during a chance meeting with brother of King Jammy, Uncle T, which would change his career forever.  Bounty's initial recordings were done by Uncle T, after Jammy himself was skeptical due to the violent nature of the tracks. Jammy eventually relented upon witnessing the rising popularity of the deejay. His first hit record on the sound system circuit was Dub Fi Dub and other recordings with the King Jammys label were compiled into 1993's Jamaica's Most Wanted, later released as Roots, Reality and Culture. By 1993, now known internationally as Bounty Killer, Rodney was quickly becoming regarded as one of the fiercest and most lyrically gifted of the next generation of deejays. Hits such as Coppershot, Lodge, and Spy Fi Die quickly propelled Bounty to an upper-echelon deejay, and sound system dubplate favorite. "Coppershot" was actually a hit in New York before Jamaica, which left Bounty as personally indebted to the American city as much as his native Kingston. 1993 also brought the beginning of a long, on-and-off rivalry with Beenie Man, which culminated in a battle at Sting 1993, extended through the mid-90s and flared up again in the latter half of the following decade.  Bounty won the war at Sting 1993 and his legacy as dancehall superstar was cemented as a result. The mid-1990s brought hit after hit, such as Cellular Phone, Not Another Word, and Mama. The heated war-of-words with Beenie Man gave the world many popular tunes from each side, including Ask Fi War, Suspense, and War Beyond The Stars.   The mid-90s era culminated in the release of My Xperience in 1996. The most comercially successful album of Bounty's career, and widely considered one of the best dancehall albums of the decade, it mixed popular dancehall tracks, such as Living Dangerously featuring Barrington Levy and Fed Up, with hip-hop crossover duets featuring Jeru the Damaja, Raekwon and, most popularly, The Fugees. The decade closed out with two more albums, Next Millenium, which featued more hip-hop guest combinations, and 5th Element, which returned to a more hardcore-dancehall style.  By the year 2000, Bounty Killer, along with Capleton, was still considered the top deejay in the business, particularly with the waning popularity (at the time) of Beenie Man, and refocused career path of Buju Banton. This was due as much to being the most in-demand artist for dubplate recordings by sound systems as to actual studio material. In 2001, he was featured with No Doubt on their international hit Hey Baby, and appeared with the band for a pre-game performance at the 2002 NFL Super Bowl. In 2002, Bounty released his most ambitious project since My Xperience, a double CD (released seperately), titled Ghetto Dictionary: The Mystery and Ghetto Dictionary: The Art Of War. While not nearly the commercial success of My Xperience, underground sales were strong, and it featured the smash dancehall hit Sufferah.  Since the Ghetto Dictionary project, Bounty Killer's influence has mostly been behind-the-scenes, working with young talent and bringing new dancehall reggae stars to the forefront. He has been credited with bolstering the careers of, among others, Elephant Man, Busy Signal, Wayne Marshall, Baby Cham, and Vybz Kartel. He currently oversees a stable of artists known alternately as The Alliance and Gully, which includes Mavado and Aidonia.

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Name: Tony Curtis
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Tony Curtis (* 3. Juni 1925 in New York City; † 29. September 2010 in Henderson, Nevada), bürgerlich Bernard Schwartz, war ein US-amerikanischer Filmschauspieler, Maler, Autor und Künstler. Seine Frisur, der „Curtis Cut“ – das als Schmalztolle mit viel Pomade „gebändigte“ Haar –, war in den 1950er Jahren stilgebend für eine ganze Generation und wurde unter anderem von Elvis Presley kopiert. Curtis zählte zu den großen Hollywood-Stars. Filmgeschichte schrieb er unter anderem an der Seite von Marilyn Monroe und Jack Lemmon in dem Komödienklassiker Manche mögen’s heiß von Billy Wilder.

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Name: Coco Tea
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Cocoa Tea was popular in Jamaica from 1985, but has become successful worldwide only since the 1990s. One of his most famous songs is "Rikers Island", which was later put into a dub version by Nardo Ranks entitled "Me No Like Rikers Island" (featured on Dancehall Reggaespanol) which was released the same year as the original "Rikers Island". He also gained fame with the song "Young Lover". He gained notoriety in March 2008 after releasing a song titled "Barack Obama" in support of the US Presidential candidate by the same name. Cocoa Tea's song "Jah Made Them That Way" from his 1984 album Rocking Dolly interpolates "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson and "Answer Mi Question" by Dillinger.

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Name: Tony Rebel
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Tony Rebel (born Patrick George Anthony Barrett, 15 January 1962, Manchester Parish, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae deejay. He was initially a singer, appearing as Papa Tony or Tony Ranking in local talent contests and on sound systems including Sugar Minott's 'Youth Promotion'. His first release was the single "Casino" that appeared in 1988 on the MGB record label, although his career took off when he worked with Donovan Germain's Penthouse setup in the early 1990s. He had a big hit in 1990 with "Fresh Vegetable", and established a singjay style of delivery. He is notable as one of the few dreadlocked 'cultural' deejays of the ragga era. In 1992 he signed a deal with Columbia Records who released Vibes of the Times, a predominantly reggae fusion album, the following year. It spawned some of his more well known international singles such as the title track "Vibes of the Times" and "Nazerite Vow" both of which had accompanying music videos. In 1994 he founded his record label, 'Flames'. That same year, he held a reggae festival named Rebel Salute in Mandeville, Jamaica. It has developed into an annual event through his production company, Flames Productions, and is held every year on his birthday.


Name: Marcia Griffiths
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Marcia Llyneth Griffiths (born 23 November 1949) is a Jamaican singer. One reviewer described her by noting "she is known primarily for her strong, smooth-as-mousse love songs and captivating live performances".

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Name: Frankie Paul
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Paul Blake (19 October 1965 – 18 May 2017), better known as Frankie Paul, was a Jamaican dancehall reggae artist. Born blind, he has been dubbed by some 'The Jamaican Stevie Wonder'.
Born in Jamaica in 1965, Blake was born blind but as a child had his sight partially restored by an operation on a hospital ship. He sang for, and impressed Stevie Wonder when Wonder visited the school that Blake attended, prompting him to pursue a singing career.
Adopting the stage name Frankie Paul, he first found fame in the early 1980s, and he recorded prolifically throughout the decade. He recorded for virtually every producer/studio in Jamaica at some time, and was known to release several albums a year.
Notable works of Frankie Paul include the popular "Sara" and "Worries in the Dance".
Paul resided in The Gambia from 1994. In January 2016 he underwent surgery to amputate a foot and part of his leg. Frankie Paul died on 18 May 2017 at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Name: Mad Cobra
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Ewart Everton Brown (born 31 March 1968), better known by his stage name of Mad Cobra or simply Cobra is a Jamaican reggae musician.
He was born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in the parish of St. Mary and relocated back to the place of his birth during his teenage years. He began performing under his stage name, taken from a character in the G.I. Joe comic books, while still in his teens. He honed his talents on several local sound systems before entering the studio.
His first single, 1989's "Respect Woman", was produced by his uncle, Tuff Gong engineer Delroy "Spiderman" Thompson. His next single, "Na Go Work", featured Tricia McKay, giving him his first hit, and bringing him to the attention of producers Captain Sinbad and Carl Nelson. Together they released a string of hit dancehall singles, including "Shoot to Kill", "Merciless Bad Boy", and "Ze Taurus", which featured tough, gangsta rap-style lyrics in keeping with the current trends of that time.
In 1990, Cobra began working with producer Donovan Germain and songwriter Dave Kelly on the Penthouse Records label. This partnership spawned a series of major hits in Jamaica, including "Yush", "Gundelero", "Bad Boy Talk", and "Feeling Lonely" (with Beres Hammond). He released his first full-length album in 1991, entitled Bad Boy Talk, and over the next year worked with several different producers on yet more hit tracks ("O.P.P" with King Jammy, "Tek Him" with Bobby Digital, "Be Patient" with Sly & Robbie). In 1991 and 1992, Mad Cobra broke into the UK Reggae charts with five number one hits, bringing with it a backlash over concerns about the anti-gay sentiments of tracks such as "Crucifixion".
In the wake of his British success, Mad Cobra signed a deal in America with Columbia Records. His next LP was entitled Hard to Wet, Easy to Dry, and featured "Flex", a single which interpolated elements of The Temptations' "Just My Imagination". It was a smash hit, topping the US Rap Singles chart, hitting #7 on the R&B chart, and peaking at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The success of the single propelled the album to #125 on the Billboard Top 200, but the follow-up, "Legacy", failed to chart, and for the next several years Cobra's hitmaking remained primarily in Jamaica with songs such as 1993's "Mek Noise" and "Matti Haffie Move". Around this time, Cobra became involved in rivalries with fellow reggae artists Ninjaman and Buju Banton. He also made a guest appearance on rap group Run-D.M.C.'s "What's Next" on their album Down with the King.
In 1994, Cobra returned with Venom, again recording with King Jammy. Jamaican hit singles from the 1994-1995 period included "Length and Bend", "Fat and Buff", and "Selassie I Rules", now adopting "conscious" lyrics. In 1996, Columbia Records released Milkman in the US market. The album peaked at #12 on Billboard's Top Reggae Albums chart and featured a minor hit, "Big Long John", which charted briefly on the US Dance and R&B Singles charts. In 1998, a track with Mr. Vegas entitled "Guns High" charted in some countries in Europe, and a number of re-releases of his Jamaican material were issued on VP. Further albums were issued in 2001 (Cobra) and 2004 (Words of Warning). Most recently, Cobra was heard on "Cobrastyle", from Teddybears' 2004 album, Fresh and reissued in 2006 on their album Soft Machine.
On the night of 11 May 2010, Mad Cobra was shot three times in the upper body near his home in Braeton, only a day after another dancehall artist, Oneil Edwards of the group Voice Mail, was also shot in Duhaney Park. He was carried to the Spanish Town Hospital for treatment.
It was later ascertained that the vehicle Mad Cobra was traveling in had shone its light on a group of men and this had angered them. When Mad Cobra came out to appease the men, he was shot. He was released from hospital later that week. On the following Monday night, his house was shot up by unknown assailants but no one was injured during the incident.

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Name: Johnny Osbourne
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Johnny Osbourne (born Errol Osbourne, 1948) is one of the most popular Jamaican reggae and dancehall singers of all time, who rose to success in the late 1970s and mid-1980s. His album Truths and Rights was a roots reggae success, and featured "Jah Promise" and the album's title track, "Truths and Rights".
Johnny also enjoyed big hits with covers of U.S. soul tunes like Ready Or Not and Earth Wind and Fire's Reasons. In addition, he's had many songs with the phrase Rub A Dub in the title, the most acclaimed of these is To The Rub A Dub Session. Osbourne is also the most in-demand vocalist for dubplates due to the amount of dancehall classics he's had. This has resulted in the nickname Dancehall Godfather.
He is probably best known for his mid-1980s dancehall reggae hits "Buddy Bye" (based on King Jammy's Sleng Teng riddim), "Ice Cream Love" and "Water Pumping".
Johnny Osbourne attended the Alpha Boys School, an orphanage in Kingston, Jamaica that also was home to Yellowman, founding members of the Skatalites, Leroy Smart and Leroy Horsemouth Wallace as well as Jazz men Dizzy Reece and Joe Harriott.
During 1967 Osbourne became lead vocalist of The Wildcats, and recorded for producer Winston Riley, although nothing was issued. The Wildcats' manager then financed a session at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One, from which his debut single, "All I Have Is Love", was released. In 1969 he recorded an album, Come Back Darling, again for Riley. On the day that he completed the album, Osbourne emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to join his family. After singing with various soul and reggae groups, he became lead vocalist for Ishan People, and recorded two albums with them. The group broke up in 1979, and Osbourne decided to return to Jamaica.
Shortly after returning, he recorded "Forgive Them" and "Jealousy, Heartache And Pain" for the Studio One label. Through late 1979 and early 1980 he recorded extensively for Dodd, with these sessions culminating in Truths And Rights. In 1979 he also had a hit for King Jammy (then Prince Jammy) with "Folly Ranking", and an album of the same name followed in 1980. The success of these recordings made him one of the most in-demand vocalists on the island, and a glut of material was released, including Fally Lover, Warrior, Innah Disco Style and Never Stop Fighting, between 1980 and 1982. In 1983, he began the year with two big hits, "Yo Yo" and "Lend Me A Chopper", and later in the year enjoyed further success with "Water Pumping", an adaptation of Hopeton Lewis' "Take It Easy", which had also served as the basis for Johnny Clarke's 1976 hit "Rockers Time Now".
The hits continued with "Get Cracking", "Check For You", "Rewind" (1984), "Buddy Bye", "No Sound Like We" and "In The Area" (1985). In the late 1980s he was particularly successful when recording for Bobby Digital, and had hits with "Good Time Rock" (1988) and "Rude Boy Skank" (1988), both of which are included on his 1989 album, Rougher Than Them. Throughout the 1980s he continued to record for Coxsone Dodd, and singles included "Keep That Light", "Unity" and "A We Run Things", but a long-promised second album from Dodd has not materialized.
In 2012, his track "Mr. Marshall" was sampled in Major Lazer's single "Jah No Partial".

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Name: Body Talk Pt. 2
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Name: Kleerup
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Andreas Kleerup, known professionally by his last name, is a Swedish record producer, drummer, and member of the Swedish group The Meat Boys, from Stockholm, Sweden. His first mainstream collaboration was as the producer of fellow Swedish artist Robyn's #1 UK single, "With Every Heartbeat", also included on Kleerup's self titled debut album. He is currently in his own band called Me and my army which in 2011 released their debut album "Thank God for sending me demons".

He wrote and produced the song "Lay Me Down" with Cyndi Lauper for her 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink. An instrumental version of the song appears on Kleerup's album under the title "Thank You for Nothing". The title was believed to be inspired by Kleerup's anger with Cyndi Lauper for not allowing her version to appear on his album, but this was later confirmed as a false rumor in an interview. Turns out the song was originally made before he gave it to Cyndi Lauper, and he decided to use the original version on his album instead.

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Name: Robyn
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Name: El Baile Diabluma
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Name: Richard Hell and the Voidoids
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Richard Hell and the Voidoids (A.K.A. The Voidoids) were an American punk band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell (born Richard Meyers), a former member of The Neon Boys, Television and The Heartbreakers. Formed in New York City, at various times the band included influential guitarist Robert Quine, Ivan Julian, Naux Maciel, former Contortions and The Raybeats guitarist Jody Harris, Golden Palominos leader Anton Fier, and future Ramones member Marc Bell (Marky Ramone). The group is best known for Hell’s nihilistic worldview, reflected in songs like “Who Says?”. Their song “Blank Generation” served as an anthem for the punk movement in New York.

The Voidoids were started in 1976 when Richard Hell left The Heartbreakers. The first lineup consisted of Hell, Quine, Julian and Bell. The band released what has been considered their best album, Blank Generation, in 1977. This lineup dissolved around 1979.

A new lineup in 1982, this time with Hell, Quine and new members Naux (Juan Maciel) on guitar and Fred Maher on drums, was featured on The Voidoids second album Destiny Street. According to Hell, Destiny Street suffered due to Hell’s being distracted during the recording process, especially by the use of narcotics. This second lineup dissolved around 1985.

1990 saw the release of the live album Funhunt (Live at the CBGB’s & Max’s), which was compiled from a series of audience tapes recorded between 1978 and 1985. 1990 also featured a reformation for a Japanese tour.

In 2009 Destiny Street Repaired, a remake and “repair” of Destiny Street, was released. Destiny Street Repaired featured guitarists Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Ivan Julian playing along to the original rhythm tracks.

Their best known songs were “Blank Generation”, “Love Comes in Spurts”, “The Kid With the Replaceable Head” and “Time”.

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Name: Blank Generation
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Name: Original Killa / Take You Back
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Name: Camo & Krooked
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Camo & Krooked are an electronic music producer/artist duo from Vienna, Austria with their musical roots embedded in drum and bass, consisting of Reinhard "Camo" Rietsch (born 12 November 1983 in Salzburg) and Markus "Krooked" Wagner (born 31 July 1989 in Lilienfeld).

Both Rietsch and Wagner have been producing music since 2002. They met at one of Rietsch's gigs and collaborated to form Camo & Krooked in 2007. Their first collaboration was the track "Play It" from Camo's 2007 single Drop It.

The duo has been releasing songs on various labels throughout 2008 to 2010, including Future Prophecies's Berzerk and Body & Soul's Nasca. More frequently, they've released multiple singles through fellow Austrian drum and bass producer and promoter DisasZt's label Mainframe Recordings. On 12 February 2010, the duo had released their debut studio album Above & Beyond through the label. The fourteen-track album includes a Mainframe Recordings compilation mix composed by DJ DisasZt himself. Camo & Krooked had then released the Edge of Mind EP on John B's label Beta Recordings ten days later. It had received DJ support from many of the biggest names in drum and bass, including Pendulum, Grooverider, DJ Fresh, Adam F, London Elektricity, Matrix & Futurebound, Shimon, Concord Dawn, and DJ SS.

Due to Camo & Krooked's success with Above & Beyond, they won Best Newcomer DJs at the 2010 Drum & Bass Arena Awards, and put out two mixes for BBC Radio 1's Annie Nightingale, Fabio & Grooverider. Grooverider later quoted that Camo & Krooked are "one of the biggest talents in Drum & Bass". Both of these mixes bring to the table Camo & Krooked's usual varying subgenres of drum and bass. They have released successful remixes of drum and bass tracks such as Future Prophecies's "September", John B's "Numbers" and DJ Fresh's "Talkbox". They have also produced remixes for songs by English rapper Professor Green twice: one for "Just Be Good to Green" and another for "Monster". The latter remix was their first venture into the realms of dubstep, a new genre for them.

On April 2010, Camo & Krooked released "Turn Up (The Music)", featuring the vocals of Pat Fulgoni, through Hospital Records as part of the compilation album Sick Music 2. The song contains lyrics based on the song "Turn on the Music" by Roger Sanchez. The track was originally released on a double A-side joint single backed with Netsky's "Memory Lane". Their first individual single release on Hospital was "Climax", released on 28 June 2010. On the October of 2010, drum and bass producer and Shogun Audio owner DJ Friction had teamed up with Camo & Krooked to create the collaborative effort of "Stand Up!", featuring added vocals from Dynamite MC. Friction had also made a drum and bass remix of the Doctor P track "Sweet Shop" alongside the two.

Camo & Krooked were eventually signed to Hospital Records on 4 December 2010 to join the likes of Netsky, High Contrast and Danny Byrd. By the end of 2010, they've made a huge impact on the world of drum and bass in a short period of time with releases on labels including Viper Recordings, Technique, Breakbeat Kaos, Audio Porn, Renegade Hardware, Urban Takeover and Uprising Records.

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Name: Doctor P
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To make music is one thing - but to change the course of a genre is another! Doctor P is definitely the leader of the new wave of wobbles and whomps in Dubstep and goes against the normal ingredients needed. Sweet Shop set the benchmark for others to follow as this doctor's surgical dissection of Dubstep music leaves people wanting more than just the doctor's diagnosis! Doctor P is the stage name of the English dubstep record producer and DJ, Shaun Brockhurst. Shaun also produces drum and bass under the aliases Sounds Destructive, Slum Dogz and DJ Picto. He is the co-founder of Circus Records, along with Flux Pavilion, DJ Swan-E and Earl Falconer.

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Name: Tetris
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Name: Hyper Crush
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Hyper Crush is an electro-hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. It consists of a rapper, Donny Fontaine, a vocalist, Holly Valentine, and a DJ/keytarist, Preston Moronie, with a British ghost DJ that attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Name: Inna
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Inna (* 16. Oktober 1986 in Mangalia; bürgerlich Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu) ist eine rumänische Sängerin. Ihre Musik hat Stilelemente von Electropop, Dance-Pop und House. Inna wuchs im Schwarzmeer-Küstenort Neptun auf. Im benachbarten Mangalia besuchte sie das Wirtschaftsgymnasium. Nach Abschluss begann sie ein Studium der Politikwissenschaften an der Universität der Kreishauptstadt Constanța,[1] bevor 2008 ihre musikalische Karriere begann. Bereits in ihrer Jugend nahm Inna Gesangsunterricht. Im Februar 2011 übertraf sie als erste europäische Sängerin mit ihren YouTube Videos den Rekord von über 1 Milliarde Aufrufen.

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Name: London Elektricity
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For those that know him and those that don’t, Tony Colman (no ‘e’!) cuts a formidable figure. The co-founder and CEO of Hospital Records, mastermind behind the multi award-winning Hospital podcast, producer and vinyl-only DJ, has been instrumental in the development of D+B as we know it today.

Responsible for some of Hospital’s biggest anthems, such as “Round The Corner”, “Different Drum” and “Just One Second”, London Elektricity has cultivated a first class reputation as both a producer and DJ and continues to push the genre he fell in love with in the mid 1990s to this day.

With an impressive back catalogue of singles, EPs, remixes and no less than five artist albums under his belt, London Elektricity is an undisputed legend in the D+B scene with legions of fans and a global following. His debut album “Pull The Plug” was released on Hospital in 1999, with the follow up “Billion Dollar Gravy” in 2003 and “Power Ballads” in 2005.

Between 2003 and 2005 Tony fronted London Elektricity Live with jazz/soul legend Liane Caroll, vocalist MC Wrec and co-producer/drummer Landslide. Touring everywhere from Birmingham to Brazil, they released two DVDs – “Live Gravy” (2005) and “Live At The Scala” (2007).

Returning to production, the next London Elektricity album was “Syncopated City” (2008) and most recently, his fifth studio album “Yikes!” which features the vocal talents of Swedish vocalist Elsa Esmeralda and was launched at the iconic Hospitality Brixton in April 2011. This was followed up by a “Yikes! Remixes!!” album later in 2011.

There are few people who can balance running what is arguably the most successful D+B label in the business with the demands of DJ-ing, producing and being an artist, but London Elektricity is one such person.

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Name: Mord Fustang
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Arpeggios, wobbles, 1-up mushrooms and disco bassline Genre: Electro House, Dubstep Hometown: Tallinn, Estonia  BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Beatport Music Awards, 2012

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Name: Program / Regurgitate
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Name: Patrick Stump
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Patrick Vaughn Stump (born Patrick Martin Stumph on April 27, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, actor and music critic, best known as the lead singer/guitarist/composer of Fall Out Boy, an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois. Since the band's hiatus, Stump has embarked on a solo career. Stump has been credited for being a soulful vocalist suitable for R&B, as well as one of the best voices in pop punk, according to Billboard. With Fall Out Boy he placed singles in the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and their 2007 album Infinity on High reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with two more albums peaking in the top 10. The band toured extensively since their early days and have performed over 1300 shows since their inception in 2001. He has collaborated with an extensive list of artists and has produced albums for other artists including Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes.

Since Fall Out Boy's late 2009 hiatus he embarked on a solo project and released his debut solo album, Soul Punk, on October 18, 2011; on which he wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, as well as handling production and self-funding it. It served as an outlet for the music that he could not make with Fall Out Boy; he intends for the band to make more music in the future, but without set parameters. A remix of "This City" was released as the first single to iTunes and a music video has been created, featuring Lupe Fiasco. Soul Punk garnered a generally positive critical reception, with critics praising Stump's musical direction, musicianship and creativity, but failed to gain significant commercial success.

Stump released his debut 6-song EP titled Truant Wave on 22 February 2011. His solo work is a major musical departure from the pop punk sound of Fall Out Boy. His influence by Michael Jackson and Prince among many other artists is evident through his soulful electronic sound, which he coined as "soul punk". He has toured in the US and played some dates in Europe in support of Soul Punk and Truant Wave. He supported Panic! at the Disco on their month-long US fall tour that began on October 9, 2011.

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Name: Simian Mobile Disco
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Simian Mobile Disco are an English electronic music duo and production team from London, formed in 2005 by James Ford and Jas Shaw of the band Simian. Musically, they are known for their analogue production. In addition to his work with Simian Mobile Disco, Ford is a producer and has worked with artists such as Florence and the Machine, Peaches, Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons.

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Name: Example
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Elliot John Gleave (20 June 1982) better known by his stage name Example, is a British singer and rapper signed to Data Records. His name arose due to his initials being E.G., which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "exempli gratia", which means "for example".
Example first found success with the release of his second album, Won't Go Quietly, which peaked at number 4 on the UK Albums Chart. The album had two top 10 singles, Won't Go Quietly and Kickstarts.
His third album Playing in the Shadows was released on 4 September 2011. The album debuted at number 1 on the UK Album Charts with two number 1 singles, Changed the Way You Kiss Me and Stay Awake.

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Name: Waka Flocka Flame
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Juaquin James Malphurs (born May 31, 1986), known professionally as Waka Flocka Flame, is an American rapper. Signing to 1017 Brick Squad and Warner Bros. Records in 2009, he became a mainstream artist with the release of his singles "O Let's Do It", "Hard in da Paint", and "No Hands" (featuring Roscoe Dash and Wale), with the latter peaking at number 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. His debut studio album Flockaveli was released in 2010. His second studio album Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family was released in 2012 and was preceded by the lead single "Round of Applause" (featuring Drake).

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Name: Ginuwine
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Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (born October 15, 1970), better known by his stage name Ginuwine is an American singer-songwriter dancer and actor. Signed to Epic Records since the mid-1990s, Ginuwine had released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums and singles, becoming one of R&B's top artists during the late 1990s and early 2000s .

Leon Youngblood, manager of one of the vocalists featured on the album, told George Varga in an interview with the Union Tribune Newspaper that the album "was supposed to be billed as a 'Ginuwine Presents' album" " Youngblood stated "the album did very well, it's the first time I worked with anyone who cracked #50 on the billboard charts, I'm very proud of that fact."

Ginuwine can be spotted in one of Jodeci's videos. He, later, sang the chorus on Danny Boy's "Slip N Slide". There, he met rapper Melissa "Missy" Elliott and producer Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley, who became his main collaborators through the 1990s. Ginuwine's first single, (written by Static Major) the 1996 "Pony" from Ginuwine...The Bachelor, showcased his smooth vocals and Timbaland's innovative production style, and the two became a hit-making duo. The song "Pony" was used in a "karaoke" scene from the film Wild Hogs in 2007 and again used in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008. Mike Patton and Rahzel together perform a cover of "Pony" during their concerts. Ginuwine covered Prince's "When Doves Cry" single from the movie soundtrack to Purple Rain.

After his second album, 100% Ginuwine, was released in 1999, Ginuwine and Timbaland grew apart. Producers such as R. Kelly have crafted hits for him since then. In 2001, Ginuwine had a number-four hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "Differences", which also peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.

Within a year, Ginuwine lost both of his parents. He later wrote a song which is featured on his album The Life entitled "Two Reasons I Cry". In 2002, Ginuwine was a feature artist on P. Diddy's number-one hit "I Need a Girl (Part II)". Later that year, Ginuwine started his own label, Bag Entertainment. The label would feature artists such as Jose Cenquentez (who appeared on The Senior) and Knight.

Ginuwine's fifth album, Back II Da Basics, was released on November 15, 2005. The album debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200, selling close to 100,000 copies. Ginuwine stated on BET's Top 100 countdown that the album went Gold with sales of 500,000 copies.

In May 2007, an album entitled I Apologize was released in stores. Although attributed to Ginuwine, the release was an unauthorized album and included only three Ginuwine songs - apparently from stolen masters - and ten songs by other artists. Ginuwine spoke against the unofficial release on both his MySpace page and through YouTube. In 2007, Ginuwine collaborated with Canadian hip-hop artist Belly in the latter's debut solo song "Pressure", which was featured in Belly's debut album the Revolution, released in June 2007.

Ginuwine's sixth album entitled A Man's Thoughts, was released on June 23, 2009. The album was produced by The Underdogs, B Cox, Timbaland, The Runners, Johnta Austin, Oak and Polow Da Don. The album includes guests appearances from Brandy, Missy Elliott, Bun B and Timbaland.[17] Ginuwine formed a group with Tank and Tyrese named TGT. Their first single was a remix of Tank's "Please Don't Go". They were supposed to tour but plans fell apart due to conflicting schedules.[18]

Ginuwine announced on his Myspace Blog on August 21, 2008 that due to label and legal issues, they will not be able to release an official TGT album.[19] Ginuwine is the founder and CEO of LoveSong Incorporated, after completing his contract with 550 Music/Epic. Ginuwine announced on his Myspace blog on August 21, 2008 that he signed a major label deal with Notifi Records/Warner Brothers.[19]

Ginuwine introduced producer MELROG and rapper Young Knight a.k.a. Knightron on the Back 2 Da Basics album. Currently Knightron is working on his own album under Ginuwine's label BAG ENT. Elgin will be released on Valentine's Day 2011.

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Name: Kito & Reija Lee
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Hailing from Perth in Australia, and now residing in South London, Kito & Reija Lee are a musical duo with many achievements under their girl power belt. Beginning their careers as solo artists, the girls saw success originally releasing music via Skream’s Disfigured Dubz, and Diplo’s Mad Decent, with whom they are still closely affiliated with today. In the past we have seen their track ‘Sweet Talk’ used on the Victorias’ Secret Spring/Summer 2013 commercial and on Trinidad James’ Island Def Jam hit ‘Female$ Welcomed’, along with a remix that saw Juicy J rapping over it. Recently, Big Boi’s #MashUpMondays series featured the girls’ Mad Decent release ‘Run For Cover’, and was titled ‘King Sh!t’. This saw the OutKast member rhyming with T.I. and Ludacris over a Kito & Reija Lee track, something that while un-expected, served as an incredible co-sign from one of music’s heavy weights.

Kito & Reija Lee have known each other since the age of thirteen. The pair came from different musical backgrounds; however, they found a mutual love in electronic music, with Reija Lee bringing herself away from years of singing in rock and metal bands, and Kito adding a vocalist to a steadily rising solo career as a producer and DJ.  As a pair, Kito and Reija Lee are unique, releasing music that speaks volumes in creative license; standing out from the crowd.

With influences ranging far and wide from Kate Bush, M83 and Drake to MIA and J Dilla, the girl’s catalogue of sound is extensive. Using their varying backgrounds they have been creating phenomenal music that has taken the online world by storm; featuring on the likes of Hypetrak, Wonderland, Hunger, Noisey, Thump, Vibe, In The Mix, XXL and more. Radio support has been strong, with plays from Skream, B-Traits, Annie Mac, Mista Jam and full playlisting on Triple J in Australia.

The girls are moving into bigger territory, with the recent release of their EP ‘II’ on Payday/Ultra Records (Sony) which was premiered on Hypetrak. Having already released the sensational ‘Starting Line’, ‘Word$’ ft. Zebra Katz and their low-end reinterpretation of Cassie’s ‘Me & U’ the girls have well and truly made their mark as a duo.

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Name: Band of Horses
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Band of Horses, originally briefly known as Horses, is an American rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle by Ben Bridwell. They have released three studio albums, the most recent and most successful of which is 2010's Grammy nominated Infinite Arms. The band's line up, which included Mat Brooke for their debut album, has undergone several changes, although the current members, Bridwell, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey, Bill Reynolds, and Creighton Barrett have all been with the band for several years.

Ben Bridwell (vocals, guitar) formed Band of Horses in 2004 after the break-up of his previous band, Carissa's Wierd, along with bassist Chris Early and drummer Tim Meinig. They were soon joined by former Carissa's Wierd bandleader Mat Brooke (guitar, vocals). The band initially received attention from Sub Pop after opening for Iron & Wine during Seattle area shows. In 2005, the band released the Tour EP, which was sold at shows and on Sub Pop's website.

Their first full-length album, Everything All the Time, was recorded in 2005 with producer Phil Ek and released by Sub Pop on March 21, 2006. It features the band's original four-piece lineup, although both Tim Meinig and Sera Cahoone receive drumming credits. The album included new versions of five of the six songs from the Tour EP along with five brand new songs. It was a minor hit in Scandinavia, entering the lower reaches of the Sweden and Norway album charts. Ben Bridwell explained the sound of the album, "I thought before recording that I really wanted an ELO-sounding record, with strings and keyboards and synths, but then, as we got closer to it, we wanted to take a more raw approach."

Bridwell found that there was a personality clash between himself and Meinig and Early and the two left soon after the recording of the album. Ben explained his side of the story, "All of a sudden I was...with two guys I didn’t really even know...they were nice guys, there just wasn’t a personality match." For the subsequent tour, Joe Arnone (guitar and keyboards), Rob Hampton (bass and guitar) and Creighton Barrett (drums) were brought in to play with Bridwell and Brooke.

Everything All the Time's first single was "The Funeral", which has been used in numerous television series, films, video games, and advertisements. On July 13, 2006, the band performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman without Brooke, who had left the band. He subsequently formed Grand Archives, who have since signed to Sub Pop and released two albums. Brooke explained how he joined Band of Horses, "So they ended up getting a show opening up for Iron and Wine in Seattle and Ben asked if I would just come up and do a couple songs, just 'cause we're friends. So...I did that. It was fun and then a couple of Iron and Wine tours came up...and then next thing I knew, we were in the studio making a record for Sub Pop." On why he left, he said, "I'd never really given the commitment to be a formal member. It was just a spur of the moment...and Everything All the Time took off really fast...I still didn't feel quite committed. It was still 100 percent Ben's project and I kinda wanted to see what else I could do."

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Name: Dillon Francis
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Dillon Hart Francis (born October 5, 1987) is an American electronic music producer, known for being one of the pioneers of moombahton and moombahcore. Francis was born in Los Angeles, California.
Dillon Francis: “I was born and raised in Los Angeles. My father is an alternative medicines doctor, so I guess he’s upper middle-class. But I came from the lower middle-class. When I was younger, my family lived in an apartment but now my dad has worked [his way up].
“I grew up in a really sheltered family. I didn't know the F-word until I was like 13. [Growing up sheltered] helps with… I don’t know what it helps with but I know it helps with something. I feel like my work ethic is amazing because of my parents.
“Growing up, I couldn't watch TV unless I watched two hours of Sesame Street a day to learn stuff. And then I had to go to study. I had hooked on phonics just so I could be ahead of the game. It’s weird. I’m happy with what my parents did for me and the type of work ethic I have.
“I don’t go out that often. When I’m at home, I’m constantly working on music. I've tried to have two relationships but I can’t even handle relationships.

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Name: tony matterhorn
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Tony Matterhorn (born March 9, 1972) is a dancehall reggae deejay and sound system selector from Kingston, Jamaica.
Matterhorn got his start in the sound system arena in the early 1990s, on Inner City Sound System first, then landing on King Addies in Brooklyn, New York alongside selector Babyface. After leaving Addies in 1998 to form his own sound, he went on to win several international clashes, including World Clash Jamaica and the UK Cup Clash.
Tony Matterhorn eventually crossed over into deejaying, and his Dutty Wine became both a hit single and a controversial dance craze in 2006. Matterhorn continues to record and tour, as both a deejay and soundman.
The nickname "Tony Matterhorn" comes from Matterhorn, a brand of cigarettes sold in Jamaica.

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Name: Chiddy Bang
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Chiddy Bang is an American pop-rap group consisting of Chidera "Chiddy" Anamege and Noah "Xaphoon Jones" Beresin. The duo was introduced through former band member Zachary Sewall in late 2008 during their freshman year at Drexel University, in Noah's hometown of Philadelphia, PA. Their sound is based on the fusion of hip hop and alternative using samples from artists such as Ellie Goulding, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, Passion Pit, MGMT, and Yelle.

In late February 2009, the popular music blog Pretty Much Amazing showcased five songs by Chiddy Bang that were on their Myspace account. Because of this, the group gained some following in the underground among music blogs and local colleges playing a notably packed show at Swarthmore College in April 2009. Pretty Much Amazing continued to occasionally release new Chiddy Bang songs, and in November 2009, debuted the group's first free mixtape entitled "The Swelly Express." During Thursday night’s first-ever MTV O Music Awards, Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege of Chiddy Bang broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap as well as the Longest Marathon Rapping Record. Chiddy stole the throne from M-Eighty, who originally broke the record in 2009 by rapping for 9 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds, by freestyling for 9 hours, 18 minutes, and 22 seconds. He also beat out D.O. (a.k.a. Duane Gibson, Canada) for Longest Marathon Rapping session. D.O. rapped for eight hours and 45 minutes. They had an appearance in the hit video game NBA 2K12 with their song "Here We Go" featuring Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, and also made an appearance in Madden 12 with their song "Mind Your Manners" featuring Icona Pop. The hit song "Opposite of Adults" was also featured in the Need for Speed games when it was included in "Need For Speed:Hot Pursuit"

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Name: Peanut Butter And Swelly
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Name: Flux Pavilion
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Joshua Steele, known professionally as Flux Pavilion, is an English dubstep producer and DJ. He is the co-founder of Circus Records, along with Doctor P, DJ Swan-E. He is best known for his 2011 single "Bass Cannon", which peaked at number 56 on the UK Singles Chart, and was placed on the Radio 1 A-List. Along with Doctor P, Flux Pavilion presented the 2011 compilation album Circus One, to which he contributed four tracks. In August 2011 his track "I Can't Stop" was sampled by producer Shama “Sak Pase” Joseph for hip-hop album, Watch the Throne by Jay-Z and Kanye West. In December 2011, Flux Pavilion was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll, as one of only two independent artists on the longlist. On 5 March 2012, his track "I Can't Stop" was used in the viral Kony 2012 campaign, and was previously featured in SSX.

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Name: ASD
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ASD ist eine deutsche Hip-Hop-Kollaboration. Sie entstand durch Zusammenarbeit der deutschen Rapper Afrob und Samy Deluxe. Der Name ASD setzt sich aus den Anfangsbuchstaben der Namen der Künstler (Afrob, Samy Deluxe) zusammen. Die befreundeten Rapper kannten sich bereits vorher von Projekten wie Brothers Keepers und weiteren Kollaborationen. Somit ergab sich 2001 der Titel So Soll's Sein, der auf dem Album Samy Deluxe, dem ersten Soloalbum von Samy Deluxe, landete. 2003 erschien das gemeinsame Album Wer hätte das gedacht? auf dem Markt. Mittlerweile gehen beide wieder getrennte Wege, featuren sich aber regelmäßig auf Ihren Soloalben und Mixtapes.

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Name: Wer Hätte das Gedacht
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Name: Noisia
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Overview:
Noisia (who took their name from the word VISION inverted on an upside down VHS tape) are Nik Roos, Thijs de Vlieger and Martijn van Sonderen, hailing from Groningen, The Netherlands. Influenced by an eclectic range of artists, from The Prodigy to James Brown, Miles Davis to Konflict, Tipper to Fatboy Slim, Noisia make music for DJs and dance-floors that is interesting enough to cross over from the clubs to your MP3 player.

Releasing their first record in 2003 on SLR and releasing on every major drum and bass label in the following years, 2005 saw Noisia establish their own label, Vision Recordings to put out their drum and bass productions and collaborations and retain creative control of their music. Nik designs almost all of the artwork for the releases on their labels, and the guys love the challenges and rewards that come with running a label. In 2007 they established Division Recordings, a label for electro, house, breaks and dubstep. They then went on to establish Invisible Recordings in 2010, catering for the deeper and more experimental side of drum and bass.

Over the past few years, accolades for Noisia have included Best Tech DJ in the UK National D&B Awards in 2009 and 2010, Best Producers at the 2010 D&BArena Awards and Best Drum&Bass Artist on Beatport in both 2009 and 2010.

The guys have worked with, and remixed a number of diverse artists, with notable tracks including, ‘Alice’ by Moby, ‘Omen’ by The Prodigy, ‘E.T.’ by Katy Perry, ‘Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’ by Skrillex, ‘Raise Your Weapon’ by deadmau5, and Hadouken!, whose entire second album ‘For The Masses’ was produced by Noisia. They have collaborated on a number of tracks with Foreign Beggars, the most successful being ‘Contact’, which has garnered over 3 million views on YouTube and become an influential underground hit. Another Noisia video that has been a big hit on YouTube is ‘Exodus’ which took 3 years to make and features KRS-One.

Noisia have been Dj’ing every weekend since 2004. They have played in major cities all over the world, from Sydney to Moscow, Tokyo to Berlin, Los Angeles to Johannesburg and have DJ’ed in some of the world’s biggest clubs. They have reduced their DJ’ing commitments recently in order to focus on production.

Noisia’s music lends itself perfectly to videogames; their track ‘Groundhog’ is the hardest track to beat in the first DJ Hero, ‘Machine Gun’ and ‘Seven Stitches’ feature in three editions of the game WipeOut, and ‘Stigma’ and ‘Yellow Brick’ were picked up by Playstation to be featured on GranTurismo. They were commissioned to make 8 remixes especially for Motorstorm Apocalypse, a triple-A racing game that was released in March 2011.

2011 will see the release of a Special Edition of their successful debut album ‘Split the Atom’. The original was released in April 2010 and showcases a wide variety of styles; from electro to drum and bass to dubstep. Having signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation publishing company, working on new videogame soundtracks and producing for a number of artists, Noisia are expanding into exciting new areas whilst continuing to make the ‘bangers’ they are known and loved for!
Official Site: http://www.noisia.nl
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