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Name: Foreign Beggars
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Voted "Best Group" and winners of "Best single" at the Lyric Pad Hip hop awards 2005, Foreign Beggars for London are a 4 man crew comprising of rappers Orifice Vulgatron and Metropolis, Dj NoNames and Producer Dag Nabbit.   The Badman Riddim (Jump) Songfacts reports that Orifice Vulgatron and Dag Nabbit met in Dubai and after making drum and bass for a time they switched to hip hop. DJ Nonames met Metropolis at university in 2000 and the duo joined hip hop and funk band Focused Few and began throwing warehouse parties and touring. Vulgatron was introduced to Nonames through Dj Gizroc, then part of the Mixologists Crew, and by late 2002 the quartet had started performing and recording alongside beatboxer Shlomo. The band released their first album, Asylum Speakers on November 27, 2003. Shlomo subsequently moved on and started doing his own thing with the Beatbox Orchestra and by 2011 Dagnabbit had taken a backseat and was concentrating on the crew's business side.  The crew have released a slew of 12"s and Ep's and really made their mark after independently releasing their critically acclaimed, debut LP 'Asylum Speakers'. Foreign Beggars have collaborated and toured with the cream of UK's hip hop movement, with Shlomo appearing on Björk's album Medulla and NoNames having done cuts for Damon Albarn's Gorillaz project. With forthcoming projects with Dj Sparo, DJ Vadim, Dudley Perkins, Wildchild (Lootpack), Oh No, Dj IQ, Dj Mentat, Scratch Perverts, and Euphrates, the crew see no boundaries with diversifying their sound.  Foreign Beggars are also renowned for their explosive live performances, which recently saw them tear down Glastonbury, Fabric and Hip Hop Kemp in Hradec Kralove. They have supported Public Enemy, Roots Manuva, Beatnuts, Masta Ace, Grand Master Flash, Talib Kweli, Wu-Tang Clan, Asian Dub Foundation, Last Emperor, Mark Ronson, Ja Rule, Blak Twang, and many more.  www.foreignbeggars.com

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Name: Walter Beasley
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Name: Bernard Wright
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Bernard Wright (born November 16, 1963) is an American funk and jazz keyboardist and singer who began his career as a session musician and later released four solo albums. He is the son of singer Roberta Flack.

Biography
Wright was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York. He attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York. Classmates included writer Carl Hancock Rux, gospel recording artist Desiree Coleman Jackson, and rappers Slick Rick and Dana Dane. He was offered a slot touring with Lenny White when he was 13, and he played with Tom Browne at the age of 16.

GRP Records signed him in 1981 and released his debut album 'Nard tracks from which were prominently sampled in hits by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Skee-Lo, and LL Cool J. The album was re-released in 2001. He followed with Funky Beat (1983) on Arista and Mr. Wright (1985) on Manhattan Records. The latter of these albums included his biggest R&B appearance, "Who Do You Love", for which a video was made that is featured in the title sequence of Video Music Box. In 1990 he released the gospel album Fresh Hymns. In 2000 he formed a trio with Alfredo Elias and Damon Banks and released the album Back To Our Roots.

Wright has also appeared on recordings by musicians such as Miami Mike Devine Pennington, Doug E. Fresh, Cameo, Bobby Brown, Pieces of a Dream, Charles Earland, Marcus Miller, and Miles Davis.

Since his recording days, Wright has continued playing keyboards in Dallas, where he mentors younger artists.

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Name: Weldon Irvine
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Weldon Jonathan Irvine, Jr. (October 27, 1943 – April 9, 2002), also known Master Wel, was an American composer, playwright, poet, pianist and organist.
Irvine, an African American, was born in Hampton, Virginia on October 27, 1943. He moved to New York City in 1965. He was involved with various musical genres including Jazz-Funk, jazz, hip hop, funk, rhythm and blues, and gospel. He served as the bandleader for jazz singer Nina Simone and was a mentor to many New York hip-hop artists, including Q-Tip and Mos Def. He wrote over 500 songs, including the lyrics for "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black", performed live for the first time by Nina Simone on the album Black Gold (1970). It has been dubbed the "official" Civil Rights anthems.
In 2000 Irvine provided the vocal intoductions to tracks on the first CD of the album Late Night Blues by UK Drum & Bass producer Big Bud. He co-wrote and performed vocals and played the Fender Rhodes on the first track entitled Return of Spiritman. He also played the Fender Rhodes on closing track Persian Blues.
Irvine's last major project was The Price of Freedom (1999), a compilation of original songs by hip-hop, jazz, funk, and R&B artists to respond to the shooting of Amadou Diallo. Irvine committed suicide outside of EAB Plaza and in front of the Nassau Coliseum located in Uniondale, New York on April 9, 2002.
In 2003, Madlib, Mr. Dibbs and Breakestra produced a tribute to Weldon Irvine, "Suite for Weldon". The following year, Madlib released the full length album A Tribute to Brother Weldon.

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Name: Flight Of The Conchords
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Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Academy Award winner Bret McKenzie and Emmy nominated Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.

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Name: Alex Kenji
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Name: Andy Caldwell
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Overview:
From sunrise to sunset, dusk until dawn; Andy Caldwell carries you on a musical journey through life. An established veteran of dance music, Caldwell exudes a nostalgic glow up from the roots that ground him, while forever pushing forward into new creative territory.

With a consistency that’s hard to match, the accomplished California electronic music impresario time and time again produces dance floor classics that emanate undeniable, invigorating energy. His intoxicating DJ sets have won over fans everywhere from London and Berlin to Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Caldwell continues to blaze new trails with a distinct versatility and virtuosity. His most recent work brandishes a House music spark, while emphasizing his classical training and immersion in club culture. Legends of the genre regularly spin Caldwell's tracks and remixes in their live sets and podcasts. And his forthcoming music will further solidify his position as an innovator within the scene.

The syncopated synths of buzz-worthy single "Superfunkidiculous" officially announced Caldwell’s arrival in 1994. Then, embracing the chilled-out, high-class vibe of San Francisco breakbeat, Caldwell went from that introductory track to forming the down-tempo chill trendsetter band Soulstice. Soulstice made major waves across the scene in the US and beyond seeing two albums released on San Francisco’s venerable Om Records.

Branching out on his own, Caldwell’s work with another San Francisco based label, Naked Music firmly established him as the go-to producer of uncompromising Deep House quality. His singles “I Can’t Wait,” “All I Need” and “Give A Little,” are to this day considered house music standards. In 2006 he released his first full length album Universal Truth, yielding gems such as “Warrior” and “Don’t You Love Me.” In between prolifically crafting his own music, Caldwell became a much sought after writer and remixer. Simultaneously, he founded and oversaw Uno Recordings, continually producing unique electronic music since 2005 with the label. Caldwell’s sophomore album “Obsession” released in 2009 saw collaborations with Gram’ma Funk, Mr. V and others.

Along the way, his productions garnered two Grammy nominations. His work with Kaskade on the single “Sorry” snagged a nomination for Best Remixed Recording in 2008, as did his original track “Funk Nasty” featuring Gramma Funk whose Wolfgang Gartner Remix received a Best Remixed Recording nod in 2011.

Recent collaborations include Caldwell lending his talents to remixes and original productions with Morgan Page, Bass Kleph and Zoo Brazil as well as remixes for Paul Oakenfold, Major Lazer, Delerium, Shiny Toy Guns, Beyonce and The Veronicas. He's also concocted kinetic cuts such as the forthcoming track, 'Can’t Turn Away" with Tamara Keenan.

The past year has seen Caldwell kick off a 24 date residency at Las Vegas mega club, Light Nightclub, several tours in Asia and North America and a very special sunrise set at the legendary Robot Heart at Burning Man. He also produces two monthly podcast series: "Play With Andy Caldwell" and "Heritage"

Caldwell says, "I'm constantly trying to create timeless music. I want to make something that will sound as good today as twenty years from now. I pay attention to trends, but I emphasize big hooks and a solid musical foundation. In the studio, I’m emulating my live sets. I want to take people on a journey with my songs and shows. By the time you get to the end, you’ve been on a ride"

Andy's travels have seen him entrance crowds everywhere from Australia to the Berlin Love Parade to Electric Daisy Carnival. He describes the live experience best. "My show is pretty intimate. I play a lot of my own music and current tunes that I'm feeling as well as some classics. It’s a diverse set. I try to pull from those experiences that I’ve had as a fan of dance music and incorporate those into the show"

Ultimately, versatility and adaptability propel Caldwell at lightening speed alongside the genre’s luminaries.

“You have to evolve,” he concludes. “Change is the only real constant in life so you have to embrace that and ride the wave. You can't fight it. As an artist, I want to be inspired every day. The only way to do that is to listen to new material. To me, it's about exploring. I want fans to hit ‘repeat.’ That's the goal. When I work on a song, I'm in love with it; I will play it over and over again. I would like people to share that experience."

They’ll undoubtedly be dancing endlessly along to Andy Caldwell’s music for a long time to come.

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Name: Gram'ma Funk
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Overview:
Gram’ma Funk (real name Toi Wooten) is a singer best known for her collaboration with Groove Armada on the track "I See You Baby" in 1999.

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Name: Bad Boy Bill
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Name: Creating A Buzz
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Name: Dodge & Fuski
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Name: The Soul Tape
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Name: Kaskade
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Ryan Raddon (born February 25, 1971), better known by his stage name Kaskade, is an American DJ and record producer. On October 20, 2011, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, with Ultra Records, Kaskade placed at No. 30. On September 9, 2011, a DJ Times poll voted Kaskade "America's Best DJ 2011".

Kaskade rose to prominence alongside producers deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner during the revival of American progressive house in late 2008-early 2009.

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Name: Mindy Gledhill
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Since childhood, Mindy has seen the world through curious, determined eyes. The eclectic entourage of musical influences surrounding her only fed her free spirit.
Raised on the north coast of California, Mindy recalls her grade school music hours with Mr. Lindsay, and the marimba, drums, and flute she played in the school band. She was surrounded by the music of Native American pow-wows and blue grass bands, the Jewish fiddle of her fourth-grade teacher, and her mom singing the classics from the 20s and 30s—even the lullabies from her older sister at bedtime. These are the memories Mindy claims to be the essence of the music she creates.
“There was always music,” Mindy says. “But there was little formal training or discipline.”
Mindy and her family moved to Spain when she was 13. This is where she first began to sing and perform. It also offered the introduction to yet another musical influence.
Passion is exactly what drives Mindy’s life. After returning from Spain, she realized she wanted to be serious about music. She dedicated herself to voice lessons and auditioned for every performing opportunity. She always made it to call backs and final heats – but never quite got the part. However, coming so close every time only fed the fire inside.
“A persistent force continued to draw me towards music.” Mindy says. “I learned that my free little spirit had to come down from the clouds for a while and be disciplined in order to handle the competition.”

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Name: MC Flipside
Overview: Real name: Natale Pizzonia
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Name: Switchfoot
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Switchfoot is an American Alternative rock band from San Diego, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Foreman (bass guitar, backing vocals), Chad Butler (drums, percussion), Jerome Fontamillas (guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), and Drew Shirley (guitar, backing vocals). After early successes in the Christian rock scene, Switchfoot first gained mainstream recognition with the inclusion of four of their songs in the 2002 movie A Walk to Remember. This recognition led to their major label debut, The Beautiful Letdown, which was released in 2003 and featured the hits "Meant to Live" and "Dare You to Move". It went on to sell over 2.6 million copies. They have since been noted for their energetic live shows, and their seventh studio album Hello Hurricane received a Grammy award in 2011 for Best Rock Gospel Album.

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Name: Tristan Garner
Overview: Tristan Garner is an electro house DJ / producer. from Paris, France. Sites: Discogs.
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Name: Spank Rock
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Naeem Juwan, better known by his stage name Spank Rock, is an American rapper and songwriter from Baltimore. He rose to fame with his 2006 album YoYoYoYoYo, which was produced by former group member Alex Epton (XXXChange). A harbinger of post-millennial alternative rap, the duo became known for its mixing of disparate hip hop and club genres, including Baltimore club, Miami bass, electro music and rock.

In 2007, Epton left the group to pursue his own production while Juwan went on to release the Bangers & Cash EP (2007) with pop producer Benny Blanco. After a five-year contract struggle with his label Downtown Records, Juwan released his sophomore LP Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a Fucking Liar (2011) with a range of producers including Boys Noize, Le1f, XXXChange, and Squeak E. Clean

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Name: Kano
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Kane Brett Robinson (born 21 May 1985) in East Ham, London, England), better known as Kano and also known as Kane O, is an English rapper and with Caribbean roots from Jamaica. He was formerly a key member of east London’s N.A.S.T.Y. (Natural Artistic Sounds Touching You) Crew.
He attended Langdon Secondary School achieving a diploma in graphic design, having a flair for visual communication and graphic publicity. However In his younger years Kano was a promising footballer, representing Chelsea F.C., West Ham United and Norwich City by the age of thirteen, but in the end he abandoned his sporting ambitions in favour of a musical career. His cousins Jonathan Fortune and Clayton Fortune have played for clubs like Charlton Athletic and Aldershot Town respectively. Kano first became known on the UK grime scene for his work with his original group, N.A.S.T.Y Crew, which included members such as Ghetts. From this springboard he was signed as a solo artist and began work on his debut solo album.
Rap on the underground scene on Flava F.M as a youth after a couple of years he was scooped up by N.A.S.T.Y. Crew (Natural Artistic Sounds Touching You) who were an east London-based Grime crew . N.A.S.T.Y Crew was founded by Marcus Nasty with the original and most popular line up consisting of Kano, Jammer, D Double E, Ghetto, Stormin, Mak 10, Sharky Major & Hyper . N.A.S.T.Y Crew had one of the most popular shows on pirate radio station Deja Vu on Monday nights from 8pm to 10pm, the sets featuring established and up and coming special guests such as Dizzee Rascal, Durrty Goodz, Wiley etc.
Kano used the crews underground popularity as a springboard and left N.A.S.T.Y. His first solo track was "Boys Love Girls", which was produced in 2002, was later taken to a studio and remastered by Dizzee Rascal. Kano is still to this day fondly remembered by his early Grime fans for being a member of N.A.S.T.Y crew. Kano first became known in the UK grime scene for his work with his original group, N.A.S.T.Y. Crew. From this springboard he was signed as a solo artist and began work on his début solo album Home Sweet Home. He went up against Wiley on Lord of the Mics 1 in one of the most recognised grime clashes, despite only being 17 at the time and after being persuaded by Jammer, a well-known grime MC and producer.

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Name: Bloc Party
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Bloc Party are a British indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Russell Lissack (lead guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass guitar, synths, backing vocals, glockenspiel), and Matt Tong (drums, backing vocals). Their brand of music is said to have been drawn from such bands as The Smiths, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Mogwai, Siouxsie and the Banshees and in their more recent work Radiohead.
The band was formed at the 1999 Reading Festival by Okereke and Lissack. They went through a variety of names before settling on Bloc Party in 2003. Moakes joined the band after answering an advert in NME magazine, while Tong was picked via an audition. Bloc Party got their break by giving BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq and Franz Ferdinand's lead singer, Alex Kapranos, a copy of their demo "She's Hearing Voices".
In February 2005, the band released their debut album Silent Alarm. It was critically acclaimed and was named 'Indie Album of the Year' at the 2006 PLUG Awards and NME Album of the year which both honour indie music. That year, the record was also certified platinum in Britain. The band built on this success in 2007 with the release of their second studio album, A Weekend in the City, which reached a peak of number two in the UK Albums Chart and number twelve in the Billboard 200. In August 2008, Bloc Party released their third studio record, Intimacy. The band went on a hiatus in October 2009 to focus on side projects, and reunited in September 2011. In May 2012, the band announced via their website that their fourth album, Four, will be released on August 20, 2012. As of May 2012, Bloc Party have sold two million albums worldwide.

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Name: CSS
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Formed in 2003 in São Paulo by a group of friends with an unquenchable thirst for good times and indulgence in all things pop and art, CSS rose to notoriety with the help of a thriving creative community, underground club scene and a little thing called the internet. Pulling together their numerous talents, the band drew legions of international followers entranced by a universally accessible, albeit original and off the wall, look and style.

The first South American band to be signed to the label, their debut album Cansei de Ser Sexy (Portuguese for “Tired of Being Sexy” – something Beyoncé Knowles once said she was) was released on Sub Pop in July of 2006. Danceable electro/rock songs littered with pop culture and sexual references translated with ease from the virtual online to live audiences, making CSS one of the most in-demand live shows from Europe to Japan. The band found themselves on the road with the likes of Gwen Stefani, Klaxons, Ladytron, and Diplo on an unending world tour.

The constant touring kept the spotlight fixed on the band and their popularity steadily growing. Early on, The New York Times described CSS as, “a gleeful throwback to early-1980s art-school pop,” on whose debut album, “smart, insubordinate fun reigns…” The Guardian pegged them as, “an unlikely, brilliantly wrong fusion of Tom Tom Club, dance culture and the Fall.” Under the Radar commented on Cansei de Ser Sexy, “CSS’s debut is the real deal: eleven cuts of infectiously syncopated, tuneful post-punk that just may be the summer’s perfect soundtrack.” Soon, vocalist Lovefoxx showed up at #3 on NME’s 2007 “Cool List.” And, in late 2007 the band’s “Music is My Hot, Hot Sex” was used in a worldwide iPod Touch ad, driving the song, nearly a year-and-a-half after its release, to become the highest charting single by a Brazilian band in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

In November of 2007, the band began to craft their follow-up album, Donkey, in their São Paulo studio. Produced in Brazil by the band’s own Adriano Cintra and mixed in Los Angeles by Mark “Spike” Stent (whose credits include Madonna, Bjork, Massive Attack, U2, M.I.A., and Arcade Fire), Donkey is tough, street-ready, and recreates the frenetic energy of their live shows. And really, with CSS the live show is the thing. Equal parts dance party, urban circus, and out-and-out chaos, the band’s unaffected, unbridled joy in performance is for real and for you. The new album’s 11 tracks, honed to sharp perfection, shine bright and sacrifice none of the aggressive, unpretentious edge their audiences around the world have come to love. This summer it’s time to ride the Donkey!

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Name: Samim
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Samim is also known as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Born into a Swiss-Iranian family, he was exposed to a wide range of musical influences throughout his life. Soon after discovering his passion for electronic music through hip hop and industrial music, he started to develop and enhance his renowned Syncopated Patterns and Hypnotic Rhythms. Early on Samim joined forces with Michal Ho, producing a wide range of music under the "Samim & Michal" brand. After their first EP "Dini Muater" appeared on the Zürich based label "Stattmusik" the duo was poised for success. They went on to release three successful EPs (F / Angel / Ripop) on Jay Haze's TuningSpork and Textone Imprint, developing their trademark sound even further.  In 2004, due to a serious cancer illness Samim was forced to take a break just to reappear shortly after, more determent then ever and ready to take the next step in his career. In late 2005 he relocated from Zürich to Berlin, opening up a whole new range of musical opportunities. Samim immediately tapped into the Berlin scene, initiating his most productive time so far. He released a series of very successful 12", including collaborations with Jay Haze, Michal Ho, Argenis Brito and Signor Andreonion labels like TuningSpork, Wasnotwas and Freizeitglauben and due to popular demand got remix assignments from labels like Get Physical, Highgrade and Little Big. At the same time he focused more on the Album format, producing two full length releases together with long time musical collaborator Jay Haze under the brands Bearback (Album: Under The Influence / label: T.b.a.) and Fuckpony (Album: Children Of Love / label: Get Physical). His live operations have brought him to numerous clubs and venues all over the world, making him one of the most comprehensive entertainers currently available.

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Name: Hot Chip
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Hot Chip ist eine 2000 gegründete Band aus London. Die Band mischt elektronische Tanzmusik mit Elementen der Independentmusik. Sie sind beim Independent-Label Domino Records unter Vertrag. Nach der Bandgründung im Jahre 2000 durch Alexis Taylor und Joe Goddard wurden zunächst einige EPs im Selbstverlag produziert. 2004 folgte dann das erste Album Coming on Strong beim Londoner Independent-Label Moshi Moshi. 2006 wurde das zweite Album The Warning bei DFA Records veröffentlicht. Es erreichte Platz 34 der UK Album Charts, die Single Over and Over erreichte Platz 32. Das Album wurde für den Mercury Music Prize nominiert und als Mixmag Album Of The Year 2006 ausgezeichnet. Over and Over wurde zudem vom New Musical Express als beste Single des Jahres 2006 ausgezeichnet. Hot Chip haben zudem eine Ausgabe der DJ-Kicks-Serie veröffentlicht.
2008 wurde das Album Made in the Dark veröffentlicht. Die Single Ready for the Floor erreichte Platz 6 der UK-Single-Charts und Platz 22 in Irland.
Im Vergleich mit anderen DFA-Records-Künstlern setzen Hot Chip auf eine relativ entspannte und poppige elektronische Musik ohne explizite Punk- oder Technoelemente.

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Name: Black Lips
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The band formed in 1999 in Dunwoody, Georgia after guitarist Cole Alexander and bassist Jared Swilley left the Renegades, and guitarist Ben Eberbaugh left the Reruns. Alexander and Swilley were known for their crude antics both during shows and at school. They were kicked out of school during their senior year after the Columbine Massacre in 1999 because they were regarded as a "subculture danger." Drummer Joe Bradley, who had been studying in college after graduating high school early, joined a few months later. They released their first 7-inch in 2002 with tracks from their first ever studio LP ~ completed in 2000 with producer/guitarist Eric Gagnon of The El Caminos. The 7-inch featured Juvenile and Ain't Coming Back, both of which were tracked, mixed and mastered by Gagnon, and was released on their own record label, Die Slaughterhaus. Just days before a tour was to begin in December 2002, guitarist Ben Eberbaugh was driving a car that was struck by a drunk driver going the wrong way while he was stopped at a toll booth. He was killed but the band carried on, believing that Eberbaugh would want them to continue.
The band's debut full length album, Black Lips!, was released on Bomp! Records in 2003. Within this tribute album commemorating Ben Eberbaugh's life as a quality musician, they released two more songs from their set with Gagnon (2000): Stone Cold (with gagnon on bass) and Can't Get Me Down were already mixed and mastered by Eric. They were smart enough to remastered Stone Cold with the channels flipped from the original two track mix ~ a clever way to avoid legal trouble from a keen producer. Back in 2000, Jared put himself in rehab during the studio session with Eric, so Cole asked Gagnon to play bass both in the studio and during a live show at The Earl (Atlanta, GA) ~ Eric agreed so long as didn't have to record anymore firecrackers in his studio ("Ain't Coming Back"). Eberbaugh's bluesy guitar takes control of their early work ~ Eric was a perfect match for these youngsters ~ with a knack for the blues, Eric features Ben's guitar. After his untimely death in 2002, Ben's legacy was filled by Jack Hines, a friend of the band members, and they recorded their second studio album, We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow, with him. Hines quit the band in 2004 so he could settle down with his wife. Ian St. Pé, who at the time was enrolled at the University of Memphis as a music major, got a call from the band asking if he wanted to immediately join them on tour. Pé, who spent his early twenties buying alcohol for his then-underage future band-mates, dropped out of school and accepted the band's offer. They slowly built a fanbase that appreciated their rough pastiche of blues, rock, doo-wop, country, and punk. They gained national attention in 2006 with features in Spin and Rolling Stone. The band got exposure in the New York Times during the 2007 South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, in which they played a dozen shows over a three-day period.
Their debut for Vice Records, Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo, was released in February 2007. It is supposed to have been recorded at a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, but fans, musicians, and journalists have expressed doubts about that claim and speculated that some or most of it was recorded in a studio with John Reis. Responding to such allegations, Swilley has stated that Reis recorded the show live with a soundboard, microphones, and a computer placed strategically near the stage. St. Pe said that the band had to use the best twelve out of twenty live cuts from the Tijuana show, which he described as "absolutely nuts."  In September 2007 their second studio album for Vice entitled Good Bad Not Evil was released. The Black Lips made their American national television debut in October 2007 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and played "O Katrina". In May 2008 Black Lips made their UK TV debut performing 'Bad Kids' on BBC3's The Wall. The Black Lips were to star in the film Let It Be, in which they portrayed musicians in a fictitious 1980s era DIY band called The Renegades. The movie was set for production in the summer of 2008; however, in a September 2008 interview, the band admitted they became disenchanted with the project after viewing the trailer and seeing the way they felt they were going to be portrayed in the movie.
In October 2008 a portion of the band's song "Veni Vidi Vici" was played during the season premiere episode of the television show Dirty Sexy Money, shown on the American network ABC. The same song was going to be used in a commercial by British supermaket chain Tesco, but, according to the band, the company decided not to go through with the deal because of concerns with the lyrical content of the song. The group toured India in January 2009. Following some antics at their show in Chennai, the band became worried about being arrested and imprisoned for "homosexual acts" so they fled the city and eventually the country. The band summed up what happened in an interview at the Pitchfork Media musical festival: "they  kissed, some weiners got pulled out..." Vice Records documented the trip. After the band left India, they traveled to Berlin, Germany and recorded a 12-song LP of gospel-influenced songs with King Khan & BBQ. The album was released on September 22, 2009, under the name The Almighty Defenders.
The Black Lips released their fifth studio album, 200 Million Thousand, on February 24, 2009 on Vice Records. The songs were recorded at New Street Studio, a former art gallery in Decatur GA, near Atlanta. The band embarked on a world tour in 2009 to support this album. Over the course of eleven months, the band played 122 shows total between Europe and the United States. The band have a featured role in the documentary We Fun: Atlanta, GA Inside Out. The title was coined by Jared Swilley on the band's blog. The film made its debut at the Atlanta Film Festival in April 2009. A song called "Arboles De La Barrancha" was performed by Black Lips for the film Rudo y Cursi. Volume six of Brendan Canty's Burn To Shine series includes a performance by the Black Lips. There is no release date set for.
The band had began working on their sixth studio record, Arabia Mountain, in November 2009. The band finished recording the album with producer Mark Ronson in New York City in November 2010. The first single off Arabia Mountain was "Modern Art".

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Name: Claude VonStroke
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Barclay Crenshaw, who is known by the stage name Claude VonStroke, is an American house and techno producer based in San Francisco. He owns the Dirtybird and Mothership labels. In July 2006 he released his debut album, Beware of the Bird. He has produced a 'Fabric' mix, which was released in May 2009, and has also appeared on Pete Tong's Essential Mix Radio show. In 2009, he released his second studio album, Bird Brain.
VonStroke grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He was not into techno until later in life but, surprisingly, was a rapper. In the early 2000s, Claude met up with The Martin Brothers. In January of 2005 he formed the dirtybird label.

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Name: Peter, Bjorn, And John
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Peter Bjorn and John (unofficially abbreviated as PB&J) are a Swedish Indie pop band, formed in Stockholm in 1999 and named after the first names of the band's members: Peter Morén (vocals, guitar and harmonica), Björn Yttling (bass guitar, keyboards and vocals) and John Eriksson, known in his solo work as Hortlax Cobra (drums, percussion and vocals). Yttling also worked as producer for the band's first four albums and Seaside Rock.

They are best known for the 2006 single "Young Folks", which featured Victoria Bergsman, formerly of The Concretes, and was a top 20 hit in the UK Singles Chart, as well as being featured in football video game FIFA 08, the singing game Lips, and as the opening track in the Pilot episode of Gossip Girl. It was also named NME's second-best track of 2006, beaten only by "Over and Over" by Hot Chip. In Australia it was voted number 16 in the annual Triple J Hottest 100 for 2006.

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Name: VASSY
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Vassy (Ultra Records | Warner | BMG)  www.YouTube.com/VassyMusic www.Facebook.com/VassyFans www.Twitter.com/VASSY www.MySpace.com/VASSY  This Australian born beauty was raised in the tropics and has been singing since the tender age of 3.  With exotic features stemming from her Mediterranean heritage, this starlet on the rise is anything but predictable.  Vassy's unique sound, style and energy come from a melting pot of influences and experiences as an international recording artist.     Vassy is a singer/songwriter who's written songs for other artists as well as hit television shows and film projects.  Her music has been heard on several major network television episodes, motion pictures and video games such as Grey's Anatomy (ABC), Ugly Betty (ABC), Windfall (NBC), Notes from the Underbelly (Warner Bros.), In The Motherhood (ABC),  Drop Dead Diva (lifetime), When in Rome (Disney Movie Trailer), Last Holiday (Paramount Pictures), Powder Blue (Blue Snow Productions),  Chill Out to the Sounds of Vassy (Sprite Campaign), FIFA (EA Sports Video Game), The Sims (Video Game) and a recent Hilton Hotels ad campaign.  Vassy is currently working on a new album project between Los Angeles, New York and London.  She is collaborating with top producers and remixers who include Richard Vission (U2, Lady GaGa, Radiohead, Weezer), Chico Bennett (Madonna, Hilary Duff), Camara Kambon (Mary J. Blige, Macy Gray, Dr. Dre, Eminem) and Track n Field (Nelly Furtado).  Her new single, "History" is out now on Ultra Records with a national club tour in the works.   Vassy is also recognized for her philanthropy work with various charity groups in Australia. She was the Youth Ambassador for Australia Carers, an organization for  young carers, people under the age of 26 who provide care in a family affected by illness, disability, mental health and/or drug or alcohol issues of one or more family members or friends.  Vassy put together various music/hip hop workshops in remote areas of Australia and New Caledonia including Indigenous communities and detention centers. For more info go to the links section at http://jeepneymusic.com/members/vassy/   News and Highlights  -AOL's PopEater premieres Vassy's music video for "History" with an exclusive interview and first look.   -Clear Channel's Z100 in New York and iHeartRadio.com feature Vassy on their main sites as one to watch!   - Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas is teaming up with Australian singer/songwriter Vassy to highlight various philanthropic organizations and support local Australian communities. http://www.jeepneymusic.com  -Vassy signs on as the headlining act for NOKIA sponsored "Skate Almighty" Summer UK tour.  - Vassy's debut album, "My Affection" is nominated for Australia's Best R&B Album  -Ministry of Sound releases Vassy's "Cover You in Kisses" single on their critically acclaimed, "Chillout Sessions."  -Vassy takes the stage in front of a live audience of 80,000 as part of Channel 10 Australia's "Celebrate Australia Day" concert, which is broadcast to over three million TV viewers!  -Time Know Music includes Vassy's "Wanna Fly" on a CD sampler distributed with Time Magazine in the USA.  -Vassy receives a Professional Writer Development Award from APRA/BMI.

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Name: Richard Vission
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Don't think, don't question, just listen: it's Automatic by Richard Vission, a new mix CD out  October 4th, 2005 via his recently inked deal with Thrive Records. Automatic is the 10th release in Vission's mix CD catalogue, and his first double CD ever. The first disc is an explosive 20 track mix featuring Mylo, Plump DJ's, The Bravery, INXS and Green Velvet. Disc 2 is a collection of Richard Vission productions & remixes including three original Vission songs: "Automatic," "Somebody" and "Freeze" all featuring Stranger Days.  The lead single "Automatic" is a wicked blend of dirty analogue basses, squelchy synths, nasty guitars and a hook that will stick in your head for weeks: "I keep searchin', searchin' for that perfect feelin."  Richard Vission's musical career started when DJ culture was taking flight in Los Angeles. There were no superstar DJs to follow. It was just two turntables, a mixer and hours spent perfecting mixes, buying records, and making mixtapes. Vission's DJing style was so addictive that when he and his friends starting throwing house parties − literally, in someone's backyard − 2,000 kids would show up and be happy to pay $3 to get in. Local club promoters couldn't help but notice, and booked the DJ responsible for them.  As his club DJ career took off, Vission began working at a local radio station. He started at the bottom, working his way up for two years, building his street credibility at local events, always a mixtape ready in his pocket, until the chance came: "They didn't have a DJ to mix so they played my tape. More than 100 people called in asking, 'Who was that mixing?!?'" The response opened the door to hosting and mixing Power 106's POWER TOOLS. Now at fourteen years, it's the longest running underground mix show in America, and it won Vission the 2003 DanceStar Award for Best Radio Show.  Vission didn't leave the clubs behind: he continues to DJ more than 80 shows every year. New Year's Eve 2001 he played at the L.A. Coliseum for more than 35,000 screaming fans - and the polar opposite of the party spectrum, at Madonna's private birthday party at her house for 60 people. That comes close to performing with her at the Grammy's, the same year he received his Grammy Remixer of The Year nomination in 2000.  That Grammy nod kicked his remixing into high-profile gear, with everyone wanting a little Richard Vission twist: recently The Killers, The Bravery, Usher, Sting and Felix da Housecat. Already under his belt are over twenty #1 hits on Billboard's Dance Music Chart. His DJ mix compilations have made him one of the best selling American DJs, with SoundScans exceeding 700,000 units, numbers usually unheard of in electronic music, much less DJ mix compilations.  Sounds like he might be busy, right? How about time for new band? Last year, Richard formed STRANGER DAYS. "I've always wanted to be in a rock band, I was just better at spinning records than playing the guitar." Their sound? Think Berlin vs. The Killers vs. The Knack. "I'm having the time of my life... One day I'm recording live drums with Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, and Devo) for my band, the next day I'm working on a sick breakdown that's gonna drive the dance floor mad. It's kinda like having a mistress live with you and your wife... never a dull moment."   Vission's non-stop touring schedule continues in 2006, with more than 80 dates in North America in support of Automatic.  For a complete tour schedule visit www.richardvission.com


Name: L. Howlett
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Liam Howlett is an English member of the British band The Prodigy, occasional DJ, and a record producer.
He was trained in classical piano from childhood. At the age of 14, he mixed songs recorded from the radio using the pause button on his cassette player. He was first influenced by hip hop music and culture when he began to attend school at Alec Hunter High School in Braintree. He learned breakdancing alongside his crew called The Pure City Breakers, and DJed in his first band Cut 2 Kill. After a fight at a gig of the band, Liam left Cut 2 Kill and started to write his own music.
He became connected to rave music and he reportedly went to his first rave in 1989.
On weekends, he went to all the raves and when the clubs closed down in the early morning those ravers went on to party on the beach while Liam played a compilation of the latest rave tracks out of a van. One day, Keith Flint approached him and asked whether Liam could do some mixes for him. When Liam had done the mixes he would pass it to Keith. One night, when Keith and Leeroy Thornhill were returning from a rave, they flipped Liam’s tape onto side B (which was titled "the prodigy" in reference to the Moog synthesizer used) to find some of Liam's own tracks on it and got completely hooked. They decided to approach Liam and ask him if he wanted to play on stage with Keith and Leeroy dancing at the front of the stage. Liam agreed, and The Prodigy was born. The Prodigy name came from a synthesizer called a Moog Prodigy which Liam used in his tracks. Howlett signed to leading UK rave label XL Recordings on the strength of several tracks played to XL boss Nick Halkes and in 1991 the debut Prodigy single was released.
Liam used to purchase records from a record shop owned by Tim Palmer, although Liam did not know this prior to the XL meeting. The shop was mainly staffed by Tim Palmer's mother. Liam and his friends would travel into London, where the shop was located, and ask for the most underground of dance tracks, the ones only a dedicated specialist dance DJ would know of, simply to test Tim Palmer's mother. Time after time they would be amazed as she acknowledged the track and handed it over for them to listen to
In 1998, Howlett was offered the chance to do a mix for Mary Anne Hobbs' radio show. He dug out some of his old favourite tracks again and this prompted him to release an edited (due to some copyright issues) version of the mix in February, 1999. It was the first material which was recorded in his new home studio "The Dirtchamber", so accordingly the album was to be called Prodigy presents Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1.
In the end of January 2006, a compilation album titled Back to Mine: Liam Prodigy was released. It was a collection of Howlett's favourite tunes, including an exclusive Prodigy track called "Wake the Fuck Up", which is often performed as an intro in The Prodigy's live concerts.
Howlett was a co-producer on the track "Immunize" from Australian drum and bass act Pendulum's third album Immersion, which was released in 2010.

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Name: Chrome Sparks
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Name: 2 Chainz
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Tauheed Epps (born September 12, 1977), better known by his stage name 2 Chainz (formerly Tity Boi), is an American hip hop recording artist from College Park, Georgia. He was first known for being one-half of southern hip hop duo Playaz Circle, along with longtime friend and fellow rapper Earl "Dolla Boy" Conyers. They were best known for being signed to Ludacris' Disturbing tha Peace label as well as their debut single "Duffle Bag Boy". He is currently signed to Def Jam Records, an imprint of Universal Music Group.

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Name: Starkey
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PJ Geissinger aka Starkey has been throwing it down in Philly for a number of years on the live pa and dj fronts. He was the 2005 Mid-Atlantic and North American Laptop Battle Champion, and has released music on the Slit Jockey label stateside and the Werk Discs label in the UK. He has performed with many of the key figures in the idm, breakcore, grime and dubstep scenes around the world.

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Name: Bibio
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Bibio is the moniker that self-taught British musician Stephen James Wilkinson has taken, named after a fishing fly he and his father used way back in the good ol days. He creates a blend of electronica and folk music, using a combination of tape loops, dictaphones, cassette recorders, and hordes of other lo-fi equipment. Bibio's folk-inspired guitar noodling is constantly on the fritz, with swelling drone soundscapes and a multitude of effects in never-ending struggle for dominance. Bibio's first release on Mush records, Fi, was released in 2004, followed up in 2006 by the release of Hand Cranked, also on Mush.

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Name: Ryan Hemsworth
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Name: XXYYXX
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XXYYXX is the electronic project of Orlando, FL's Marcel Everett. Starting purely out of experimentation, Marcel's taste for electronic music has evolved from the low-fidelity of vintage sounds to crisp and clean scenes of serenity. Improvisational jazz and abstract hip-hop serve as worthy emblems of inspiration. His productions take steps across a unique spectrum of bass-heavy sounds with experience in minimalist ambience. Provoking a myriad of images, the music is meditative and emotive. R&B rhythms and soulful melodies are staples that propel the music forward, creating open environments that feed into moments of movement.  Marcel makes BPM's oscillate and breathe, coalescing an experiment of the last 20 years of R&B and electronic music. Between claps, snaps, and claves, broad notes of low end bass balance the way his percussion pulls you in various directions. His overt productions invoke a sense of luxury, being anything but vulnerable.  XXYYXX's releases are available via digital download on Relief in Abstract.   http://www.reliefinabstract.com/artists/xxyyxx

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Name: Altered States
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Name: Still Awake
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Name: No Doubt
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Als No Doubt 1996 vollkommen unerwartet mit ihrem Song "Don't Speak" an der Spitze der US-Charts landen, ist dies bereits das dritte Album, aber - ohne Zweifel - das bislang erfolgreichste der südkalifornischen Band. Kommentar der Sängerin Gwen Stefani zum Mega-Erfolg von "Tragic Kingdom": "Ich kann nicht glauben, dass das alles mit dieser Loser-Band passiert ist ...". Ein typischer Über-Nacht-Erfolg ist dies jedoch nicht: Langsam aber sicher hatten sich Front-Powerfrau Stefani, Bassist Tony Kanal, Gitarrist Tom Dumont und der Drummer Adrian Young eine immer größer werdende Fangemeinde geschaffen.

Nicht zuletzt indem sie als Support der britischen Band Bush durch die großen Stadien der Staaten tourten. Ihre Anfänge datieren zurück bis ins Jahr 1986, als Sänger John Spence die Band in Anaheim gründet. Gwen ist damals noch Backgroundsängerin und darf aufgrund ihrer Liebe zu Madness (und ihres Aussehens?) dabei sein. Der Sound der Anfangszeit hat dementsprechend wenig mit der heutigen No Doubt-Mucke zu tun: Ska steht dick auf No Doubts Fahnen, Offbeat ist die Religion. Tragischerweise nimmt sich Spence im Dezember 1987 das Leben.

Die Band beschließt, dennoch weiter zu machen. Kurzerhand tauscht die erst 17-jährige Gwen ihr bisheriges Schattendasein gegen grelles Rampenlicht ein und gibt der Band nicht nur einen Kopf zurück, sondern auch eine deftige Prise Girl-Power. Mit Support-Shows für die Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ziggy Marley und Mano Negra erspielen sie sich eine riesige Fangemeinde. Ende 1991 landen sie bei Interscope Records ihren ersten Major Deal.

Als Mitte der 90er plötzlich Bands wie Green Day, The Presidents of the United States of America oder Offspring dem leidvollen Grunge-Hype allmählich das Leben aushauchen, treten No Doubt mit besagtem "Tragic Kingdom"-Album auf den Plan. Das Werk klettert nach einigen Anlaufschwierigkeiten bis auf Nummer Eins der Billboard-Charts. Auch Europa kann sich dem Single-Schmachtfetzen "Don't Speak", der Gwens Trennung von No Doubt-Basser Kanal thematisiert, nicht mehr entziehen. Der Hit-Nachfolger "Just A Girl" zeigt den frischgewonnenen Fans, dass die Amis auch auf der schnellen Schiene reiten können. Unzählige TV-Auftritte ("Saturday Night Live", "Letterman") sowie eine über eineinhalb Jahre andauernde Tournee setzt den Bandmitgliedern spürbar zu, was eine längere Kreativpause zur Folge hat.

Ende 1997 hat "Tragic Kingdom" in den USA acht Millionen Einheiten abgesetzt, im Rest der Welt weitere 13 Millionen. Es dauert schließlich bis März 2000, bevor die vier Energiebündel sich zurückmelden: Mit der Vorab-Singelauskopplung "Ex-Girlfriend" rockt Gwen, mittlerweile 30 und mit pinken Zöpfen, über alle Musiksender. Der Song handelt diesmal nicht von der alten Beziehung zu Tony, sondern über Gwens neue Liebe Gavin Rossdale (Bush). Mit dem Album "Return of Saturn" geht die Band erneut auf Welttournee. Vergleichsweise schnell erscheint ein Jahr später das fünfte Studioalbum "Rock Steady", das die Single "Hey Baby" ankündigt. Als Tour-Partner stehen diesmal U2 parat, 2002 eröffnen sie gar für die Rolling Stones.

2003 ist ein eher geruhsames Band-Jahr. Für eine Best Of-Platte nehmen No Doubt zwar eine Coverversion von Talk Talks 80er Hit "It's My Life" auf. Ansonsten kümmert sich Gwen jedoch um ihre frisch erlangten Ehepflichten und ihr neues Modelabel L.A.M.B., während sich Drummer Adrian mit Bow Wow Wow ins Studio verkrümelt. Zur Resteverwertung zählt 2004 auch eine DVD, die sämtliche No Doubt-Videos seit 1992 und reichlich Behind The Scences-Material beinhaltet. Im Spätsommer 2004 arbeitet Stefani verstärkt an ihrem lange erwarteten Solodebüt. Die u.a. in Kollabo mit den Neptunes, Dr. Dre, New Order, Linda Perry oder Andre 3000 entstandene Platte erscheint am 22. November.

Auch in der Folge bemüht sich Gwen eher darum, in die High Society des Show-Business aufzusteigen, als No Doubt zu reaktivieren. Als im Frühjahr 2006 mit "Crash" die sechste Singleauskoüülung an den Start geht, hat sie ihren zweiten Solo-Streich "The Sweet Escape" bereits im Kasten. Musikalisch geht es weiter bergab in Richtung überproduzierter Popsongs. Die gehaltlose Attitüde ihrer Solo-Versuche drückt sich auch im Coverartwork ab, das mehr denn je eine entrückte und überzeichnete Stefani zeigt.

Zuvor veröffentlicht Tom Dumont 2005 sein eigenes Soloprojekt "Invincible Overlord", das er mit Ted Matson umsetzt. Just zu dem Zeitpunkt, als keiner mehr wirklich damit rechnet, dass No Doubt noch einmal zusammen finden würden, heißt, dass die Band tatsächlich an einem neuen Output feilt.

Außer Stefani - die noch auf Tour weilt - gehen alle Bandmitglieder ins Studio, schreiben Songs, feilen an den Arrangements und warten darauf, dass sich Gwen aus dem Olymp wieder auf irdische Ebenen begibt, um ebenfalls ihren Beitrag zu leisten.

Doch erst Ende 2008 gibt es konkrete Anhaltspunkte für eine Reunion: Die Band arbeitet an neuem Songmaterial. Ab 2009 spielen No Doubt auch wieder live. Doch erst im September 2012 steht die Comebackplatte "Push And Shove" in den Läden - elf Jahre nach dem letzten offiziellen Studioalbum (die Single "Settle Down" erscheint bereits im Juli). Langzeitpartner Mark Spent sowie Switch und Diplo aka Major Lazer sitzen hinter den Reglern.

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Name: Rob da Bank
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Name: Hudson Mohawke
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Hudson Mohawke, (b. Ross Birchard), also known as DJ Itchy, Hudson Mo or Hud Mo, is an electronic music producer/DJ from Glasgow, Scotland, affiliated with the LuckyMe collective of musicians and artists. He is signed to Warp Records and G.O.O.D. Music. Hudson released his debut album Butter in October 2009.  At the age of 15 Birchard, under the name DJ Itchy, was the youngest ever UK DMC finalist. His earliest gigs as a club DJ were with Glasgow Uni's Subcity Radio where he was part of the culture city kids show and later other shows including Turntable Science with Pro Vinylist Karim and Cloudo's Happy Hardcore show. Birchard became Hudson Mohawke after seeing the name engraved on a statue in the hallway of his accommodation. He was signed to Warp Records despite a very limited track record of official releases; the bulk of his releases were unofficial tracks and DJ mixes circulated on the Internet. His first official release to get major notice was "Free Mo", a track on the Ubiquity Records various-artists compilation Choices, Vol. 1 (2007); subsequently, he was featured as a remixer on Choices, Vol. 2 (2007). In 2008 his 12" EP Ooops! on LuckyMe/Wireblock became an underground sensation, particularly once word spread of his recording contract with Warp.

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Name: Zeds Dead
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Zeds Dead is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto, Ontario composed of Dylan Mamid, or DC, and Zach Rapp-Rovan, or Hooks. DC and Hooks have been producing music together since 2004, formerly as Mass Productions. In the summer of 2007, they released one Hip-Hop influenced album as Mass Productions, entitled Fresh Beetz, before launching Zeds Dead in 2009.

The duo are currently signed to the record label, Mad Decent, and have released music on several others; much of their music remains bootlegged, unofficially released, or given away as free downloads. Their name "Zeds Dead" is a reference from a scene in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction.

Zeds Dead explores a diverse variety of genres that amalgamate aspects of electro house, hip-hop, glitch, and drum and bass into their largely dubstep platform. Frequent collaborator, rapper Omar Linx, has worked with the duo on several occasions, producing two EPs together as a trio. Zeds Dead tours in extensive fashion and are significant components of the live music and festival circuits. Their Living Dead Tour, which spanned from February to May 2012, included over seventy performances in the United States and Canada alone.

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Name: Ratatat
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Ratatat, from Brooklyn, New York, United States is an electronic music duo: guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer driver and producer Evan Mast (E*vax).

Stroud and Mast originally met as students at Skidmore College, but did not work together musically until 2001, when their project was named Cherry (later the name of the final song on their debut album). Written and recorded in the bedroom of Mast’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment, the band’s debut album Ratatat for XL Recordings was released in 2004. This album is entirely instrumental, except for excerpts of dialogue at the ends of some tracks. Ratatat has toured with bands such as Interpol, Clinic, Junior Boys, The Killers, The Faint, Daft Punk, The Shins and most recently Björk.

Ratatat have been known to remix other artists’ songs, most notably on their limited 2004 release Ratatat Remixes Mixtape Vol 1, which garnered the attention of Rolling Stone. In 2005, the band remixed a track for Swedish band Shout Out Louds and The Knife.

In August 2006, Ratatat released a second album Classics, from which the single Wildcat was taken.

In October 2006, a demo album from Ratatat entitled 9 Beats was leaked online. This set of tracks does not appear on any official discography listings. The tracks consist of short instrumental electronic musical pieces and demos for their next mixtape.
This release was followed by another remix album, Ratatat Remixes Mixtape Vol 2 which was released in 2007. This album featured 14 new remixes featuring: Bun B, Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Slim Thug, Devin the Dude, Young Jeezy, T.I., Beanie Sigel, Pimp C, Ludacris, Young Buck, Saigon, Juvenile, Z-ro, Memphis Bleek, Kanye West and exclusive tracks from Despot and Beans.

A third album, LP3, was released on July 8th, 2008.

In late April 2010, Ratatat’s fourth album, LP4 was leaked online. The originally announced release date was June 8th, 2010.

Both musicians have had experience with other projects, such as Mast’s E*vax and Carpet Musics and Stroud’s stage work with Ben Kweller and Florida’s alternative rock band Dashboard Confessional.

The track Seventeen Years was featured in the 2008 movie Cloverfield.

The track Loud Pipes was featured in MLB 07: The Show for Playstation 2, Playstation 3, and Playstation Portable.

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Name: Classics
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Name: Gossamer
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"Gossamer" was an underground gothic rock band, formed in Columbus, Ohio, USA, which was active from 1995 - 2003, known for music that defied genres as well as an ever changing lineup and sound. They were characterised by blending dance club rhythms with deep male vocals and shoegazing guitars. Known primarily as a Midwest act, although they were also successful as one of the pioneers of the downloadable internet music scene.


Name: Mr OIZO
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Mr. Oizo (French: ; born 14 April 1974) is the stage name of French electronic musician and film director Quentin Dupieux. His pseudonym is a corruption of the French oiseau, meaning "bird". He is currently signed to French electronic music record label Ed Banger Records.

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Name: Amicalement
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Name: Deerhunter
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Deerhunter is an American five-piece indie rock group originating from Atlanta, Georgia. The band, consisting of Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, Frankie Broyles, Josh McKay and Lockett Pundt, have described themselves as "ambient punk," though they incorporate a wide range of genres, including noise rock, art rock, shoegaze, and post-punk, as well as significant pop elements. The band has gone through several line-up changes and the death of a member.

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Name: Jaguar Skills
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Jaguar Skills is a British Disc Jockey (DJ) who has gained notoriety since 2002 for his eclectic multi-genre, cut-n-paste style Djing mixes. The DJ has released hundreds of mixtapes through various outlets, including BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra and has a weekly 10 minute mix on The Trevor Nelson Show.

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Name: Brodinski
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Louis Rogé (born 13 June 1987 in Saint-Brice-Courcelles ), better known by the stage name Brodinski , is a DJ , composer and producer of electronic music French 1 , 2 . The music he produced has very strong Germanic tendencies, close to the Berlin underground. He is with his friend and manager Manu Barron designer label Bromance Records . In addition to the residence Bromance Social Club (Paris), he plays DJ set under the name of The Boogieman to report Tuesday evenings McFly. In 2013, the Bromance label form a partnership with EMI Group to produce albums Gesaffelstein (scheduled for the end of 2013 output), Brodinski himself (early 2014) and Horse Club (Spring 2014)
After 2 years of Communication Studies 4 , Louis Rogé was launched early in his career as a disc jockey and producer, launching its first EP Bad Runner at the age of 20 years 5 . He soon made ​​a name as a techno DJ, especially in this scene french touch , approaching artists such as Busy P , Yuksek and DJ Mehdi 6 .
Very active as a DJ and producer of remixes, Brodinski also multiplies collaborations with artists of his entourage, including Noob (2009) Yuksek (2010) and more recently Gesaffelstein through group / label Bromance , founded in 2011. " I have always enjoyed working with other people, because otherwise I'm bored quickly. When I work as a team, my head was always something to do, ideas that come from all directions. The more I am involved in projects, the better! " 6 .
His reputation has been rising achieve some recognition when it was awarded for the completion of the series mixes Fabric Live and Essential Mix ( BBC Radio 1 ) 7 , 8 . He also participated in many renowned festivals, including the EXIT festival (2010), Rock en Seine (2012) and Pukkelpop (2012). In 2012, he also meets Skrillex with Gesaffelstein Holy Ship Festival (USA), for whom he did a remix of Make It Bun Dem 9 .
In 2013, he co-produced pieces Skinhead Black with Daft Punk and Gesaffelstein and Send it up with Gesaffelstein on the album Yeezus of Kanye West 10 .
On 12 July 2013, he announced the creation of Bromance U.S. that will facilitate the development of American artists and especially the release in August of the Canadian producer of the album Ill Angelo, History of Man 11 .

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Name: The Lumineers
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The Lumineers are an American folk rock band, based in Denver, Colorado. The core band consists of singer Wesley Schultz on guitar, Jeremiah Fraites on drums, and Neyla Pekarek on cello and vocals.
In the spring of 2005, Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites began to collaborate, writing together and playing gigs around New York. Originally based in Ramsey, New Jersey, they later relocated to New York City. After battling the city's cutthroat music scene and high cost of living, the two decided to expand their horizons. They packed everything they owned—nothing more than a couple suitcases of clothes and a trailer full of musical instruments—and headed for Denver, Colorado. It was there they met Neyla Pekarek after posting a Craigslist ad for a cellist. They started to perform shows in small venues like the 100 capacity Meadowlark around Denver, writing songs, and eventually recording several songs in Jer's attic. In the Spring of 2011, they signed a management deal with Onto Entertainment managers Christen Greene and David Meinert, after the two saw a video on YouTube of the band playing their future hit single "Ho Hey" in a small apartment. Onto fronted the band money to record a full length album in Seattle at Bear Creek Studio with producer Ryan Hadlock (mixed in LA by Kevin Augunas at Fairfax Studio).

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Name: The Lumineers
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Name: Flume
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Harley Streten began producing music around the age of eleven or twelve, with a basic production disc that was packaged in a box of cereal. 
Streten was discovered and signed by Future Classic in 2011, after submitting the tracks "Sleepless", "Over You" and "Paper Thin" in an original artists competition managed by the Australian record company. Nathan McLay, an employee of Future Classic and now Flume's manager, assisted with the release of his first EP titled Sleepless, which contained the three original tracks.
Flume's self-titled debut album was released on November 9, 2012 to exceptional critical acclaim. The album's production saw Flume collaborating with vocal artists George Maple, Moon Holiday, Jezzabell Doran, Chet Faker, and New York rapper T.Shirt. The album reached number one on the Australian iTunes charts. It debuted on the ARIA Albums Chart at number 2, behind One Direction's Take Me Home.
On Australia Day 2013, four of Flume's songs (including a remix) were listed on Triple J Hottest 100 for 2012. His album's breakout song "Holdin On" was listed at number four, the highest Australian song charted. Others included were "Sleepless" and his remix of "Hyperparadise" by Hermitude, both at the top 20 (#12 and #18) and "On Top" at #67.
Flume's voted songs boosted higher on the ARIA Singles Chart. "Holdin On" returned to the top 50 to Australia's top spot at 17, its highest peaking. Also debuted on the top 50 is his "Hyperparadise" remix at 38. "Sleepless" and "On Top" debuted at 53 and 75 respectively.
On the same day, Flume's debut album reached number one on the ARIA Albums Chart, the first electronic album to have that achievement since 2 by Sneaky Sound System in 2008.
Flume, with Sydney DJ/producer Chris Emerson (Emoh Instead), combine to make the duo 'What So Not'.
In December 2012, Flume signed with Mom + Pop Music and announced the North American release of his self-titled debut. The album dropped February 21st and received strong support from American critics, averaging a score of 73 out of 100 on review aggregate site, Metacritic.
In February 2013, it was announced exclusively on triple j that Flume would tour nationally around Australia for his first headlining tour, the "Infinity Prism Tour", in April and May 2013.
In March 2013, Flume was named one of Fuse TV's 30 must-see artists at SXSW.

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Name: Bailey
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Name: Pras Michel
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Praskazrel Samuel Michel, known as Pras, (born October 19, 1972) is a two-time Grammy-winning American rapper, best known as one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed hip hop group, the Fugees, which included his cousin Wyclef Jean and recording artist Lauryn Hill.

In 1994, before and during the time that The Fugees were recording their first album Blunted on Reality, under the supervision of Ronald Khalis Bell, Pras attended Rutgers College and Yale University, pursuing a double major in Philosophy and Psychology. In 1996, The Fugees achieved historic crossover success with The Score, which went multi-platinum. Pras has also forged a successful solo career, beginning with an international hit single from his first full-length solo LP, "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)", featuring Mýa and Ol' Dirty Bastard. "Ghetto Superstar" became a top ten single in 1999, and the eighth most played single; it was received with critical acclaim and earned Pras a performance at the World Music Awards. The hit single was included in the soundtrack for the film Bulworth. "Ghetto Supastar" spent eight weeks in the UK Top 5, peaking at No. 2 in July 1998, and reached US No. 15 a month later. "Blue Angels", from the same album, was a UK Top 10 hit, reaching No. 6 in November. Pras also featured on the track "Turn You On" by Swedish artist DeDe which was released in 2007. "Turn You On" was also written and produced by Pras Michel. After nine weeks on Sweden's single chart, it peaked at No. 2. He also featured "Pushin'" from the album Equalize by Swami, which was released in 2007.

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Name: Barry Gibb
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Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, CBE (born 1 September 1946) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as the co-founder of the pop group Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music. With his brothers, Robin and Maurice, he formed a songwriting partnership beginning in 1966. 
Born on the Isle of Man, and raised in Manchester where he became involved in the skiffle craze, forming his first band, the Rattlesnakes, which evolved into the Bee Gees in 1960 when they moved to Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia. They returned to England where they achieved worldwide fame. He was also known for his high-pitched falsetto singing voice. Gibb shares the record with John Lennon and Paul McCartney for consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number ones as a writer with six. Guinness World Records lists Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history behind Sir Paul McCartney. 
Gibb's career has spanned over fifty years. In 1994, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with his brothers. In 1997, as a member of the Bee Gees, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. Barry is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. 
In 2007, Q magazine ranked him number 38 on its list of "100 Greatest Singers". 

Biography:

1946-54: Early years:
See also: Hugh Gibb
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb was born in Jane Crookall Maternity Home at 8:45 AM in Douglas, Isle of Man to Hugh, an English drummer, and Barbara Gibb (née Pass). He has English and Irish ancestry on his mother's side, and Scottish ancestry on his father's side. He has an older sister, Lesley Evans. He was named Barry Alan Crompton Gibb after his father's youngest brother Alan, who died in infancy. According to Hugh, in a mix of fact and fiction, the third name was given to Barry to honor the Gibbs' illustrious ancestor, Isaac Crompton. When Gibb was born, his father was busy with his music working at various hotels in Douglas, while his mother stayed at home looking after the children. Later, the Gibbs moved to Chapel House on Strang Road. When he was almost two years old, he was badly burned. His mother had just made tea which she had put on the table; he climbed up and pulled the tea pot down and got the tea all over him. He was in Nobles Hospital for about two-and-a-half months. Gibb later commented on that incident: 

"Then the gangrene set in. Because in those days, the advancement of medicine simply didn't apply to people with bad scalds, so you didn't have skin grafts, you didn't have things like that. But this was a particularly bad scald, and I think I had 20 minutes to live at some point. The incredible thing for me is that whole two years is wiped from my memory, the whole period of being in hospital. The idea of being burnt is in there somewhere, but I have no knowledge of it. I've got the scars but I have no knowledge". 

In 1949, the Gibb family relocated to 50 St. Catherine's Drive. Later in December 22 that year, his two younger brothers Robin and Maurice were born. When the twins were young, they moved to Smedley Cottage, Spring Valley, also in Douglas. Gibb started school on 4 September 1951, three days after his fifth birthday, attending Braddan school. In 1952, the Gibb family relocated to 43 Snaefell Road, Willaston, which became their home for the next two years. The same year, he went to Tynwald Street Infants School. On his seventh birthday in 1953, he went to Desmesne Road Boys School. 

1955-2012: The Rattlesnakes to the Bee Gees:
Further information: The Rattlesnakes (1955 band), Robert Stigwood, Bee Gees and The Bee Gees' concerts in 1967 and 1968

1955-58: Formation, Australian days and songwriting career:
In 1955, Gibb formed the skiffle group, The Rattlesnakes. Consisted of himself on vocals and guitar, Robin and Maurice on vocals and friends/neighbours Paul Frost and Kenny Horrocks also providing vocals. By 1957, The Rattlesnakes played numbers with songs by Cliff Richard. Paul Anka, Buddy Holly and The Everly Brothers. Gibb himself said that their first song ever played was Paul Anka's "I Love You, Baby", however in 1968, he remembered it as the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie". The Rattlesnakes' first professional gig happened on 28 December 1957 in Gaumont Cinema. Around 1958, Gibb's guitar was accidentally broke by Frost, while Frost himself described the incident as "broken in the middle". By May 1958 when the Gibbs moved in Northern Grove it signalled the departure of Frost and Horrocks. The brothers later changed the name of the group to Wee Johnny Hayes and the Blue Cats. Under that name, they performed regularly in Minor 15, a talent contest for under-fifteens held on Thursday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 PM at Princess Club in Chorlton. 
At the beginning of August 1958, the Gibb family set sail for Australia from Southampton on a ship called Fairsea. Also aboard was Red Symons, future guitarist of Skyhooks as well as Kylie Minogue's mother. They later changed their name to Bee Gees. In 1959, the brothers began singing at the Redcliffe Speedway between races to earn money, their vocal talent brought them to the attention of Bill Gates, a radio deejay. Gates also interested on Gibb's original material including "Let Me Love You" and "(Underneath the) Starlight of Love". After hearing those songs, Gates asked him for more original material for the tape. Gibb quit school in September 1961 and the Gibbs moved to the Surfers Paradise. The brothers spent the summer of 1961 and 1962 performing at hotels and clubs in the Gold Coast area. By September 1962, Gibb managed to audition songs to Col Joye. And the Gibb family finally moved in Sydney at the start of 1963. 
Around the same time, the Bee Gees were signed to Festival but they were assigned to Leedon. Their first single, "The Battle of the Blue and the Grey" was written by Gibb himself. The Bee Gees' original singles from 1963 to 1966 is written by Gibb. While between 1963 and 1966, Gibb's songs were recorded by numerous Australian recording artists including Trevor Gordon, Michelle Rae, Noeleen Batley, Bip Addison, Sandy Summers, Anne Shelton, April Byron, Ronnie Burns, Lori Balmer, Barrington Davis, Jenene and Jon. One of them is his composition "One Road" hit No. 2 in Australia New South Wales Chart and #32 on the Kent Music Report charts for Jimmy Little in 1964. And his another composition "I Just Don't Like to Be Alone" by Bryan Davies hit No. 25 also in New South Wales Chart in 1964. 
In 1966, Gibb has won the annual Radio 5KA award for the best composition of the year, "I Was a Lover, A Leader of Men". 

Returning in England, commercial break-out and worldwide popularity:
The Bee Gees returned in England in early 1967. On 24 February, the group passed a live audition with Robert Stigwood and later signed to Robert Stigwood Organization also the same day that "Spicks and Specks" was released by Polydor as a single in England. Stigwood became the manager of the Bee Gees. Colin Petersen and Vince Melouney later joined the band as drummer and lead guitarist. The result was their first international LP Bee Gees' 1st, the second single from the album "To Love Somebody", on which Gibb provided the lead vocal has become a standard song as covered by hundreds of artists consistently throughout the years since. Around the same time, the Gibb brothers contributed backing vocals on the track "Cowman, Milk Your Cow" a song written by Gibb and Robin sung by singer Adam Faith. 
In a 2014 Rolling Stone interview with Gibb, he was in The Speakeasy Club, a nightclub in London where he was introduced by Pete Townshend to John Lennon. Lennon, who was still wearing his outfit for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band photo shoot earlier that day in 30 March 1967; And after a couple of scotch and cokes, Townshend asked Gibb and said, "Do you want to meet John?" and he led Gibb across to a room where Lennon was holding court and Townshend said, "John. This is Barry Gibb, from the group the Bee Gees" to which Lennon replied, "Howyadoin'"."So i met John Lennon's back", Gibb says with a laugh, "I didn't meet his front". Gibb earlier said in 2010 about the meeting, "It was virtually a closed club and you went downstairs and there was a coffin and if you were someone they knew and you were supposed to go in, the wall would turn around... and in you would go. There would be Rolling Stones lying around all over the place. It was one of those days when I met John Lennon - from the back. It was Pete Townshend who introduced me... Lennon said, 'Pleased to meet you', and he carried on talking to his guest." 

At the end of 1967, fame was taking its toll and the group were at odds with each other. At the start of 1968, the Gibbs were vying for influence in determining the musical direction of the group, creating tension in the studio and on stage. Also in 1968, to promote Horizontal the group made their first appearance on US television on The Smothers Brothers Show as well as The Ed Sullivan Show. The group later filmed a TV special Frankie Howerd Meets the Bee Gees with Frankie Howerd. His 1968 composition "Only One Woman" (UK #5) was the Marbles' most successful single up to date. The Bee Gees were invited by Hollywood manager Lee Hazlewood at his party alongside the members of The Monkees and Honey Ltd.. The photos from that event were leaked, and two of the pictures showing Gibb was talking to actress Angela Cartwright, and the other, is Gibb who was shown playing guitar and the members of Honey Ltd. sing along. 
In 1969, the Bee Gees released "First of May" as the A-side, with the flip side being "Lamplight" on which Robin sang the lead. Robert Stigwood chose "First of May" to be the A-side. No other songs were released from the album Odessa. Shortly after Robin announced his solo plans, the Bee Gees released their first single without him, "Tomorrow Tomorrow". Barry also worked with Samantha Sang, co-writing and producing two songs "The Love of a Woman" and the B-side "Don't Let It Happen Again" released on Parlophone. He also produced songs for P.P. Arnold including "Bury Me Down By the River" (released as a single) which were originally recorded by the Bee Gees for their 1970 album. In the summer of 1969, Petersen left the group which now only featured Barry and Maurice as the Bee Gees. Pentangle drummer Terry Cox replaced Petersen to complete another 12 songs, but only five songs were released in the album. 
The film Cucumber Castle, featuring only two Bee Gees, although the film was originally included Petersen. When the group announced that they had split at the start of December 1969, he spent writing songs in January 1970 to record it on the following month. 

Solo work:
In February 1970, he started to record his first solo album, The Kid's No Good; he released his first solo single, "I'll Kiss Your Memory", but the rest of the songs that were supposed to be on the album were never released and only appeared in bootlegs. "I'll Kiss Your Memory" was not charted in both UK and US but reached #16 in Netherlands in five weeks. Another country ballad "This Time" was chosen as the B-side. Bruce Eder of AllMusic stated that the songs on The Kid's No Good were of country and sentimental numbers. 
In April 1970 the album Cucumber Castle was released four months after the break-up, featuring only Barry and Maurice, as Robin was working on his solo career. For the first time as a solo artist, he appeared on the panel of judges and performed "One Bad Thing" and "The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine" on Miss Teen Princess of the World pageant in Germany in June, his reaction was "I've not appeared on stage for at least a year and three months, and I really miss people". In July 1970, Gibb traveled to Australia to act as compere for Go-Set, and on that occasion, he gave an interview on the magazine which revealed that sixteen months after the Bee Gees' break-up, but he was still not ready to argue with his brothers, "Obviously, we're still brothers, but we are no longer as a group". 
"The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine", which he considered as the second single from his debut album and Atco pressed some copies of it in August 1970 with "One Bad Thing" as the B-side. and was distributed to the radio stations in Canada and elsewhere but was not continued and it was decided to focus on a new Bee Gees release (in favor of the Bee Gees' reunion single "Lonely Days") and was released around August. While Polydor planned to release "One Bad Thing" by October 2. (elsewhere except North America and Canada) Gibb claimed that had not only had he been focusing on writing and recording songs, but he has still hoped to be an actor, "I have already had offers to play different parts but without appearing swell headed, I haven't found the right part yet". "One Bad Thing" was later given by Gibb to his friend Ronnie Burns, a singer from Australia and later release it as a single on Festival Records. 

Rejoining the Bee Gees:

In August, the Bee Gees would reunite and record together again, writing "Lonely Days" and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" at their first reunion session. Two of Gibb's singles were omitted after the group had reunited, "The Day Your Eyes Meet Mine" was withdrawn at the last minute in the US while Polydor planned to release "One Bad Thing" (2 October 1970). 
In 1971, the group released "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" which was their first American #1 hit. In October 1971, Gibb recorded three songs for his fan club called Barry Gibb Fan Club; one of the songs, "King Kathy" was released as a single on Lyntone Records. Gibb had remained a constant creative force for the group and, by 1972, had set aside the idea of a parallel solo career and was ready to devote full attention to the band. Bill Shepherd who had worked with the group since 1964. Also in 1972, Gibb moved to Los Angeles to record in The Record Plant studio. In 1973, the Bee Gees moved to Robert Stigwood's RSO Records and released their first singles for Stigwood, "Saw a New Morning" and Life in a Tin Can. Stigwood was not ready to give up on the group, but he did not believe in the musical direction they were taking. At the suggestion of Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, Stigwood sent them to work with Atlantic producer and arranger Arif Mardin who produced the next Bee Gees album in 1974. After a United States tour early in 1974, the band started to performed at small clubs in England. 

The disco era:

"It came to me in a dream, there was a request by Arif Mardin, who was like an uncle to us, he was a great record producer during the song 'Nights On Broadway,' for the Main Course album, which is previous to the 'Fever' syndrome. And he said, 'Can any of you scream, scream in falsetto.' So, you know, give us an ad lib or a scream at the end. So from screaming, it turned into things like 'blaming it all'." 

--Gibb on discovering his falsetto skills, The Larry King Show, 2002

At the start of 1975, the band moved to Miami at the suggestion of Eric Clapton to work on their new album with R&B producer Arif Mardin in Criteria Studios. The first song featuring Gibb's falsetto was 1975's "Nights on Broadway". In 1976, Gibb wrote "I Just Want to Be Your Everything", Andy Gibb's first US No. 1, and provided backup vocals. 
During the year 1976, Gibb met up with Vince Melouney and wrote two songs, "Let It Ride" and "Morning Rain" that were never recorded. In November 1977, Saturday Night Fever was released, became the best-selling soundtrack of all time. During 1977, Gibb co-wrote "Emotion", a song remains Samantha Sang's best-known hit. Gibb and Galuten wrote "Save Me, Save Me" originally recorded by the group Network and later covered by Frankie Valli,Dusty Springfield,Rare Earth, and Teri DeSario. The film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, featuring Gibb as Mark Henderson was shown in July 1978. Andy's third single, "Shadow Dancing", which was credited to all four Gibb brothers, was also a US No. 1 single. In 1978, Gibb wrote a title song to order for their manager Robert Stigwood's film and stage musical Grease and was later recorded by singer Frankie Valli and reached #1 in the US. The song contains guitar work by Peter Frampton. In February 1978, he provided background vocals for his composition, "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" which Teri DeSario on vocals. 
After the Bee Gees' successful 1979 Spirits Having Flown Tour to promote the album of the same name, he produced and almost wrote all of the songs on Andy Gibb's final LP, After Dark released at the start of 1980. 

Production:
In September 1980, Gibb produced the three new songs on Andy Gibb's first compilation album, Andy Gibb's Greatest Hits. In October 1980, Barbra Streisand's Guilty was released, produced by the Gibb-Galuten-Richardson team. The two songs of which were vocal duets between Streisand and Gibb are "Guilty" a US Top 10, and "What Kind of Fool" also reached the Top 10 in the US and reached #1 on the US Adult contemporary chart. In 1981, the Bee Gees released Living Eyes. Songs from the album were not disco and the album was not a commercial success. In 1982, Clive Davis asked Gibb to write for Dionne Warwick, who was on his Arista label. Barry produced Warwick's Heartbreaker. The songs were all written by Gibb except "Our Day Will Come". In August 1983, after Gibb met Kenny Rogers who asked for some songs, Gibb recorded his first demo for Rogers entitled "Eyes That See in the Dark". At that time, Robin was working on his How Old Are You? album with Maurice playing instruments. The other songs intended for Kenny Rogers were written in late 1982, then at the start of 1983, Barry continued to record the demos until April 1983, while also recording songs with the Bee Gees for the film Staying Alive. In August 1983, he produced Rogers' new album Eyes That See in the Dark, which includes the song "Islands in the Stream" by Rogers and Dolly Parton which became one of the best-selling singles in country music. 

Second solo work:
In August 1983, Irving Azoff signed Gibb to the MCA Records for North America. Gibb was signed for a few million dollars to a multi-album deal. Polydor still had rights to Gibb's songs outside North America. In September 1984, his album Now Voyager was released. Two singles from the album include "Shine, Shine" was a US Top 40 single and reached the Top 10 in their Adult contemporary charts, and "Fine Line" but the song was less successful than its predecessor only reaching #50 on the dance charts. The film Now Voyager starring Gibb was directed by Storm Thorgerson, in which Gibb is the protagonist, with actor Michael Hordern as his guide through a confusing world between life and death. The film includes a music video on most of the songs on Now Voyager. A video for "Fine Line" featuring Gibb without his trademark beard and was filmed in black and white. 
In 1985, Gibb started to record demos for Diana Ross, for her album Eaten Alive. Also in 1985, Gibb co-wrote most of the songs on Robin Gibb's album Walls Have Eyes. 
In late-1985 and early-1986, Gibb wrote new songs for his next album, though his third album Moonlight Madness was not released and most of the songs on that album was later released in 1988. Producer Randy Jackson plays bass on all of the tracks. Gibb co-wrote three songs for Swedish singer Carola on her album Runaway. Also in 1985, Gibb joined the short-lived supergroup the Bunburys with David English. 

Comeback for the Bee Gees:
In early 1987, the Bee Gees started to record their first album in six years. In June and July 1987, Gibb and Maurice produced Andy Gibb's four new songs; one of them is "Arrow Through the Heart" which was later released in 2010. In 1987, Gibb co-wrote "Up the Revolution" by Elton John. And in 1988, Gibb recorded two new songs for the Hawks film. In September 1988, the film soundtrack of the film was released by Polydor only in the UK. The songs were all performed by Gibb except "Chain Reaction" (Diana Ross). The single from the soundtrack, "Childhood Days", reached only No. 60 in Germany. 
Around 1990, the Bee Gees recorded High Civilization. In September 1990, Gibb played guitar and produced "Born to Be Loved by You" by Kelli Wolfe, which was released as an unreleased B-side in August 1993. Around 1992, Gibb played guitar on Lulu's "Let Me Wake Up in Your Arms", released in 1993. In 1993, the Bee Gees recorded and released Size Isn't Everything. In 1994, the Bee Gees and Polydor planned a tour to promote Size Isn't Everything, but it was off in February, due to Gibb's trouble with arthritis in the back, right hand and right knee. Gibb co-wrote "I Will Be There", which was recorded as a demo for Tina Turner and released on Turner's album Twenty Four Seven. In 2001, Gibb co-wrote "I Cannot Give You My Love" with Ashley Gibb, which was intended for Cliff Richard. In September 2001, the Bee Gees re-recorded "Islands in the Stream", which became their last session as a group, as Gibb did not seem to be present on the session in Middle Ear Studios, Miami Beach, Florida. In 2002, Gibb and Michael Jackson recorded "All In Your Name". Also in 2002, Gibb sings background vocals on Michael Bublé's version of the 1971 song "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart". 
In November 2003, ten months after Maurice's death, Gibb produced and contributed background vocals and guitar to two songs performed by Cliff Richard, "I Cannot Give You My Love" and "How Many Sleeps?"; Maurice's keyboard work from a 2001 demo version was included in this 2003 version. On 2 May 2004, Barry and Robin Gibb received the CBE award at Buckingham Palace; their nephew Adam accepted his father Maurice's posthumous award. Also in 2004, Gibb co-wrote and sang background vocals on his son Steve Gibb's solo single "Living in the Rain". In January 2005, along with many artists, Gibb and his brother Robin recorded vocal parts for the charity single "Grief Never Grows Old" on behalf of victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004. In April and May 2005, Barbra Streisand recorded songs for her new album produced by Gibb. In August 2006, two Gibb singles, "Doctor Mann" and "Underworld", were released on iTunes. "Underworld" was featured on the film soundtrack of Arctic Tale but not in the film. On 7 December 2006, Gibb joined 4,500 other musicians in a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times newspaper, calling for the British Government to extend the existing 50-year copyright protection of sound recordings in the United Kingdom. The fair play for musicians advertisement proposed that the copyright be extended to the American standard of 95 years and was a direct response to the Gowers Review (published by the British Government on 6 December 2006), which recommended the retention of the 50 year protection for sound recordings. 
In 2007, "Drown On the River" was released as a single on iTunes. The song later appeared on the soundtrack of Deal. Also in the same year, Gibb sang background vocals on Jamie Jo's song "U Turn Me On" and wrote the theme music for ITV's Grease Is the Word. Also in 2007 Gibb appeared as a mentor in season six of American Idol. On 14 March 2009, Gibb teamed with Olivia Newton-John to present the one-hour finale performance at a star-studded 12-hour live concert at Sydney's Sydney Cricket Ground, part of Sound Relief, a fundraiser to aid victims of the February 2009 Victorian Bushfires that devastated large tracts of heavily wooded and populated south-eastern Australia, where the Gibb family once lived. The concert was televised live nationally across Australia on the Max TV cable network. On 10 July 2009, Gibb was made a Freeman of the Borough of Douglas (Isle of Man). The award was also bestowed upon his brother Robin and posthumously upon his brother Maurice. Also in 2009, Barry and Linda Gibb became US citizens; they retain their British citizenship. In late 2009, Barry and Robin announced plans to record and perform together once again as the Bee Gees. 
In 2010, Gibb withdrew from a planned appearance on the Gorillaz album Plastic Beach which was released in March. In December 2011, his two songs, "Grey Ghost" and "Daddy's Little Girl" were released. On 21 February 2012, Gibb performed his first solo concert in the US at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe in Florida. He sang "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" with Maurice's daughter, Samantha Gibb, who is a singer in her own band. Barry's son Steve was also on stage as lead guitarist and sang a Maurice composition, "On Time". On 20 May 2012, Robin Gibb died, making Barry the sole surviving Gibb brother. 

2012-present: Solo career:
Gibb made his debut performance at the Grand Ole Opry on 27 July 2012, performing three songs with Ricky Skaggs Skaggs later recorded "Soldier's Son" on which Gibb added vocals for Skaggs' album Music to My Ears released in 2012. 
He commenced a world tour in 2013 in Australia called Mythology Tour, featuring the Bee Gees anthology set album of the same name. He was joined on stage by his son Steve and Maurice's daughter Samantha. On that tour, for the first time on stage, Gibb performed "Playdown" (1966), "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You" (1967), "I Started a Joke" (1969) and "With the Sun in My Eyes" (1968). Also, for the first time, the music video of the Bee Gees' 2001 song "Technicolor Dreams", written by Gibb, was shown before the show began. This short tour inspired Festival Records to release a box set of the Bee Gees' three Australian albums, The Festival Albums Collection, 1965-1967, and a 'best of' compilation of the group's Australian era songs titled Morning of My Life. 
On 27 October 2013, Gibb appeared at the Country Music Hall of Fame with Kenny Rogers and Bobby Bare; Gibb performed "Islands in the Stream" with Kelly Lang. In October, Gibb performed at the Grand Ole Opry for the second time with Ricky Skaggs. On 21 December 2013, Barry Gibb made a surprise appearance on the US television show Saturday Night Live at the end of the "Barry Gibb Talk Show" skit with Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake and Madonna. Also appearing that night was Sir Paul McCartney who shared the stage with Gibb during the closing credits where they embraced each other. 
On 27 January 2014, Gibb appeared on the American television show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to announce the start of his first solo tour of the US. He performed "You Should Be Dancing" with help from Fallon's backing band, The Roots. Gibb and Fallon sang some Everly Brothers songs, including "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up Little Susie". Gibb also sang "To Love Somebody" as a bonus online performance. On 28 January, Gibb was interviewed by the CNN about his brothers and, in that same interview, Gibb talks about Justin Bieber, saying he is "heading for a brick wall". In a Mirror interview with Gibb on 11 July 2014 that he was still mourning following the death of Robin and credits his wife Linda and Paul McCartney for helping him to recover. Gibb appeared on a Paul McCartney tribute album The Art of McCartney released in 18 November 2014 performing "When I'm Sixty-Four". Gibb's friend, country singer TG Sheppard said in an interview with Gary James that Gibb was just moved to Nashville and was going to adopt country music to his genre. 
On 8 February 2015 at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, Gibb, along with the group Pentatonix presented the category of Best Pop Vocal Album. On March 26, Gibb is one of the headlining acts on a music festival called the Hard Rock Rising Miami Beach alongside Andrea Bocelli, Gloria Estefan, Flo Rida, Jon Secada and Wyclef Jean. For the first time in public, he performed his new song "The Home Truth Song". 

Personal life:
Gibb's first marriage was to Maureen Bates, whom he married on 22 August 1966, when he was 19 years old. The couple lived together for only a short time and were divorced in July 1970. During the taping of the BBC's Top of the Pops in London, Gibb met the former Miss Edinburgh, Linda Gray. On 1 September 1970 (his 24th birthday), Gibb married Gray. Together, they have five children - Stephen (born 1973), Ashley (born 1977), Travis (born 1981), Michael (born 1984) and Alexandra (born 1991)  - and seven grandchildren. 
After many stresses on their personal and professional lives, both Barry and Robin collapsed from nervous exhaustion on a flight from Australia to Turkey in 1967. On 23 December 1967, Barry and Robin left England for Australia. As Gibb explained: "But due to time difference we arrived on Christmas Day, we missed Christmas Eve altogether!". The pair celebrated Christmas with their manager Robert Stigwood's family as Gibb said: "We went on to Sydney". He also became friends with Michael Jackson, as he mentions him in his 11 July 2014 interview with the Mirror: "He would come to Miami and stay in our house. He'd sit in the kitchen and watch the fans outside his hotel on TV, just giggling - 'Hee hee!' He lived upstairs for a while, right before his child-molestation trial. We never discussed the case. We would just sit around and write and get drunk. Michael liked wine - there were a few nights when he just went to sleep on the floor". Gibb also revealed on that interview that he misses Jackson. 
In January 2006, Gibb purchased the former home of country singers Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in Hendersonville, Tennessee, intending to restore it and turn it into a songwriting retreat. The house was destroyed by fire on 10 April 2007 while under renovation. On 10 July 2009, Gibb was made a Freeman of the Borough of Douglas (Isle of Man). The award was also bestowed upon his brother Robin and posthumously upon his brother Maurice. Also in 2009, Barry and Linda Gibb became US citizens. They have dual citizenship. Barry has homes in Miami, Florida and in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, set in 90 acres of English countryside. 

Influences:
Gibb's influences when he was in the Rattlesnakes were Tommy Steele,The Mills Brothers,The Everly Brothers, Paul Anka and Cliff Richard. The Bee Gees acknowledged that they would sing in the style of the Everlys and then add a third harmony; the result was "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (1967). When Gibb heard Roy Orbison's song "Crying", he said: "That was it. To me that was the voice of God." 
Gibb on praising the vocal skills of Frankie Valli as well as one of his influences, ""Frankie Valli has become one of the hallmark voices of our generation. He created a style that we all still strive to emulate." Gibb was also influenced by country music as his songs on the 1970 unreleased The Kid's No Good were the evidence: "Country music always inspired us. I love Nashville and I love this music. Since my brothers passed, I've been able to be self-indulgent. I've been able to go where I love the music". 

Legacy:
Gibb was ranked by Q magazine at number 38 on their list of "100 Greatest Singers" in 2007. 
Gibb had a highly successful career as a member of the Bee Gees, a group near the top of the all-time top-sellers list. When the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, their citation read "Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees". The trio's contribution to Saturday Night Fever pushed the film's soundtrack past the 40 million mark in sales. It reigned as the top-selling album until Michael Jackson's Thriller. They are the only group in pop history to write, produce and record six straight No.1 hits. They have 16 Grammy nominations and nine Grammy wins. 
The three Gibb brothers were appointed Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002. On 2 May 2004, Barry and Robin received their awards at Buckingham Palace, along with their nephew Adam, who collected the award on behalf of his father Maurice, who had died in January 2003. 
Gibb is also a prolific and successful songwriter and a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. In 1977, Gibb saw five of his songs simultaneously enter the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and, for one week in March, four of the top five songs were written by him. His songs were No. 1 for 27 out of 37 weeks from 24 December 1977 to 2 September 1978. Gibb also holds a very unusual record, in that he is the only songwriter in history to write four successive US number one hits: in 1978, the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" was replaced at number one by Andy Gibb's single, "Love Is Thicker Than Water", followed by the Bee Gees' "Night Fever" for their longest run, seven weeks. This was then replaced by Yvonne Elliman's "If I Can't Have You". 
As a songwriter Gibb has had No. 1 songs in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s 1990s and 2000s, when "Islands in the Stream" became No. 1 in the UK as the comic relief single for 2009. His compositions for the Bee Gees have been recorded by numerous artists, including Jose Feliciano, Celine Dion, Al Green, Wyclef Jean, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Little, Barry Manilow, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Nina Simone, Barbra Streisand, Samantha Sang, Tina Turner, Conway Twitty, Frankie Valli, Luther Vandross, Sarah Vaughn, Jennifer Warnes, Dionne Warwick and Andy Williams. Australian musician David Campbell, on praising Gibb on comparing The Beach Boys and the Bee Gees: ""And like Brian Wilson, Barry Gibb's melodies made the songs timeless". 
While his solo songs have also been recorded by number of artists, including Lou Reizner, Samantha Sang, P.P. Arnold, Ronnie Burns, Jerry Vale and many others. As a record producer, Gibb produced albums for Andy Gibb, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Rogers and Diana Ross.

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Robin Hugh Gibb (CBE; * 22. Dezember 1949 in Douglas, Isle of Man; † 20. Mai 2012 in London) war ein britischer Sänger, Komponist und Texter.

Bekannt wurde er vor allem als Leadsänger der Popgruppe Bee Gees, die mit mehr als 200 Millionen verkauften Tonträgern zu den kommerziell erfolgreichsten Bands der Musikgeschichte gehört. Robin Gibb komponierte den Großteil der Hits, die sich in den britischen Charts platzierten. 1994 wurde er in die Songwriters Hall of Fame aufgenommen. 2004 erhielt er die Ehrendoktorwürde für Musik an der Universität Manchester.

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Bei Maejor (born July 7, 1986 in Southfield, Michigan) is a Grammy award nominated American R&B and pop singer-songwriter and producer signed to Jive Records. He is best known for his work with Ginuwine, Trey Songz, Plies, Sean Kingston and LeToya Luckett, and for producing and appearing on the official remix to Ciara's hit single Ride along with André 3000. He has released three mixtapes, 2010's Upside Down and Upside Down 2, and 2011's Throwback. His new mixtape, maejorMaejor was released in September 2011. He is now looking to release his debut studio album sometime in 2011. He has been working alongside Ne-Yo as a part of The Compound since 2003. He has produced soundtracks for two movies Bratz: The Movie in 2007 and the Disney movie The Princess and the Frog in 2009. He graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2008. After graduation he moved to Atlanta and joined the Compound Entertainment team working with Ne-Yo. Maejor was signed by Jive Records in January 2010 as a recording artist.

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Hailing from Montreal, Canada, this young beat maker and DJ is no stranger to production. Starting to produce in his early teens, and now at only 21 years of age, Kaytranada has the work ethic of a seasoned producer.  His influences come from all sorts of genres; genres ranging between Disco, Hip-Hop, House, and R&B. As of the last year, he has made a name for himself through bootleg remixes from artists such as Janet Jackson, Missy Elliot, TLC, Danny Brown, and Teedra Moses. Combined, these remixes have received millions of plays on Soundcloud and YouTube.

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The Prodigy (engl. ‚das Wunder‘, ‚Wunderkind‘) ist eine englische Band, die Anfang der 1990er-Jahre Breakbeats in der Elektronischen Tanzmusik populär machte. In der Anfangsphase noch stark am Acid House und Techno der frühen 1990er orientiert, entwickelten sie schnell ihren eigenen Stil, der auch neue Stile wie Drum and Bass und Jungle einbezog. Etwa ab 1996 prägten The Prodigy auch aktuelle Sounds wie Big Beat und Trip-Hop, wobei sie Elemente des Alternative und des Punk in ihren Sound einbauten.
Sie benannten die Band nach dem Synthesizer Moog Prodigy.[1]
Musikalischer Kopf der Band ist Liam Howlett (* 21. August 1971) aus Braintree in Essex, England. Sein musikalisches Interesse begann während der Grundschule, als er von seinem Vater gegen seinen Willen zum Klavierunterricht geschickt wurde.
Auf der weiterführenden Schule kam er mit der Hip-Hop-Kultur in Kontakt. Er lernte Breakdance und tanzte viel mit seiner Crew Pure City Breakers. Zu seinen Favoriten gehörte Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. Howlett wollte seine musikalischen Vorstellungen in eigene Songs umsetzen und kaufte sich einen Moog-Prodigy-Synthesizer. Von diesem Gerät leitet sich auch der Name der späteren Band ab, was Howlett als „nicht die ganze Wahrheit“ bezeichnet.[2]
In derselben Zeit gewann er als DJ einen Mix-Wettbewerb bei Capitol Music. Wenig später wurde er von einer Hip-Hop-Band namens Cut to Kill als zweiter DJ aufgenommen und hatte so seine ersten Auftritte. Nach seinem Abschluss bekam er einen Job bei einem Londoner Magazin, dem Metropolitan. Er freundete sich schnell mit dem Besitzer an und erhielt von ihm £ 4000 für die Produktion seines ersten Albums. Da er aber als weißer DJ von den anderen Bandmitgliedern nicht als vollwertig akzeptiert wurde, platzte die Produktion: Die anderen unterzeichneten – mit Hilfe eines von Liam geschriebenen Liedes – hinter seinem Rücken einen Vertrag mit einer Plattenfirma. Howlett trennte sich daraufhin von der Band.
Inzwischen dominierte in England Acid House.[3] Die Rave-Kultur, die sich daraus entwickelte, beeinflusste auch Howlett. Nachdem er 1989 zum ersten Mal auf eine Rave-Party ging, wurde er ein Rave-DJ bei The Barn in Braintree. Hier traf er später auch Keith Flint und Leeroy Thornhill.

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Yellow Claw is the party of the 21th century. The Claws mix up every genre which is within a sense of playing, from the electronic stuff like House and Electro, to Dubstep and all the way back to the Classics with HipHop and R&B. Add some of Bizzey's most catchy lines and hooks and there you have it, one of the most innovating and entertaining club nights known to mankind. Besides our clubtour through the Netherlands we also did some of the biggest Dutch festivals like DirtyDutch Festival, Stereo Sunday Festival, Solar Festival Roermond, Dreamfields Festival, Sneakerz Festival, Zomerkriebels, Salvationz, Latin Village Festival, Solar Festival and Welle Village.   Yellow Claw started as a regular clubnight at one of Amsterdam's most famous clubs, the Jimmy Woo, but has since then grown into something much bigger. Hitting the big-time in 2012 with "Allermooiste Feestje" and "Krokobil," the Yellow Claw boys have established themselves as the next big thing to come out of the Netherlands.

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A lot of bands meet as kids at school. Others come together after an over-enthusiastic conversation about music at some random party. Aluna Francis and George Reid however, met through the internet.

While their online encounter is more MySpace than Match.com, it was in fact through a mutual respect for each other’s work that led them to go on to form AlunaGeorge. Now together for just barely a year, the talented duo have been churning out a series of infectious mixes which fuse Francis’ sweet vocal harmonies with the hushed electronic stylings courtesy of Reid.

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Name: DJ SNAKE
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William Grigahcine, better known by his stage name DJ Snake, is a French DJ and producer mixing hip hop and electronic music.

He is a Grammy-nominated producer and artist who debuted into the international scene with singles "Bird Machine" and "Turn Down For What" in 2013. Bird Machine is a collaboration with fellow French act, Alesia. The single was picked up by Mad Decent, a Los Angeles based record label run by Diplo, and released in February 2013. In June 2013, DJ Snake was invited by Diplo to do a live mix on his radio show, "Diplo & Friends," which airs on BBC Radio 1.

DJ Snake is working on collaborations with Dillon Francis and Diplo, due out in 2014. He and Francis released "Get Low" on DJ Snake's official YouTube page on February 10th, 2014.

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Name: Mala
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Name: Disclosure
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Disclosure are a British electronic band. The duo consists of brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence. The siblings grew up in Reigate, Surrey They supported SBTRKT and Hot Chip on their recent 2012 tours.
Disclosure picked up their first significant national radio support upon the release of the "Tenderly"/"Flow" single in January 2012. The single led to significant interest in the subsequent June 2012 EP The Face, released on Greco-Roman. The EP included the popular remix of "Running" by Jessie Ware, which charted in both the Netherlands and Belgium as well as becoming a fixture of the 2012 Festival Circuit and featuring on the annual edition of Annie Mac presents.
The duo had their first UK hit in October 2012, with "Latch" (with the vocals from Sam Smith) which peaked at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart. The group maintained their momentum into 2013 - they were voted into the BBC Radio 1xtra 'Hot Ten For 2013' and scored two consecutive top 10 hit singles in "White Noise" (#2) (with AlunaGeorge) and "You & Me" (#10) (with Eliza Doolittle). These three singles were collected on an EP, The Singles. They released their full debut album, Settle, on PMR Records on 3 June 2013 and was met with commercial and critical success, debuting at number one on the UK Albums Chart, charting in many countries across Europe and Australia, and receiving four stars from the Guardian and a 9.1 score on Pitchfork. They performed twice at Glastonbury Festival 2013 and appeared on Later… with Jools Holland. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Album.
In 2013, Disclosure embarked on a worldwide tour of more than 40 European, American and Canadian cities including high-profile music festivals such as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago and Sasquatch Festival in Washington State.

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Name: Parachute Youth
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Sam Littlemore, also known as Sam La More, is a Platinum selling,APRA award winning songwriter,record producer and recording artist working in Sydney and Los Angeles. Littlemore is best known for his international number 1 songs "What You Waiting For?" (2004) by Gwen Stefani, "Changes" (2013) by Faul & Wad Ad vs. Pnau and songs with Nellee Hooper, Rick Nowels, Nelly Furtado on 'Loose' (2006), Arthur Baker, Pnau, Tonite Only, The Potbelleez and Peking Duk. 

Biography:
Samuel Littlemore was born 2 February 1975 in Sydney, Australia and raised in Wahroonga, Littlemore attended Barker College Hornsby and the College of Fine Arts, University Of New South Wales where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours, 1st Class) majoring in New Media Art. 
In 1998 Littlemore co-founded Selenium Interactive, a new media design agency. Producing work for Australian and international clients including Coca-Cola, HSBC, TWI / IMG, Indy, Greater Union and Sony PlayStation, the 23 year old creative director ran the design teams in Sydney and London. Within 18 months, they also had offices in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 2000, he sold his share to pursue a career as a recording artist. 
Littlemore's first foray into the music business came through his younger brother Nick's ARIA Award winning band Pnau, one of Australia's most respected electronic music duos. From 2001-present, Littlemore has intermittently acted as co-producer, co-writer and co-performer. He and his brother Nick played together to crowds in excess of 12,000 people (e.g. Big Day Out, Good Vibrations Festival, BBC Radio 1 Miami Winter Music Conference) with Fatboy Slim, Erick Morillo, Derrick Carter and Darren Emerson among others. 
Littlemore then relocated to London where he started producing with Darren Emerson (Underworld) and released his debut single "Takin' Hold" as Sam La More. Topping the Buzz, Cool Cuts and Hype charts, "Takin' Hold" was also Pete Tong's Essential New Tune and single of the week for DMC's Update magazine. Along with label mate Tim Deluxe's "It Just Won't Do" it helped to propel Underwater Records to "Label of The Year 2003" (DJ Magazine). 
In 2004, Littlemore started producing pop music, teaming up with London producer Nellee Hooper, they produced Gwen Stefani's debut solo single "What You Waiting For". In Los Angeles they produced six more songs with her. "What You Waiting For" went on to be the number 1 single in Australia for a number of weeks. 
Littlemore then continued working out of London and Los Angeles, songwriting, producing and remixing artists including Pnau, Kaskade, Freestylers, Sneaky Sound System, Robbie Williams, Gus Gus, TV Rock, The Similou, P. Diddy / Kelis, Empire of the Sun, Cassidy, Ladytron, The Doors, ESG, Mutiny, Random House Project / Robert Owens, Percy Filth, Teenager. 
In 2006 Littlemore co-founded the band Tonite Only. Ministry of Sound licensed their two songs "Danger (The Bomb)" and "Where the Party's At" internationally. They remixed "All This Love" for The Similou, which spent 11 weeks at number one in the ARIA Club Chart, followed up by 18 weeks at number one for the Tonite Only remix of "Pictures", Sneaky Sound System, equaling the record set by Madison Avenue's "Don't call me Baby". In addition to remixes for Princess Superstar, TV Rock and others, they released the Ministry of Sound compilation "Mashed III". 
2007 saw Littlemore re-establish his solo career as Sam La More with a hectic touring schedule taking him around Australia, New Zealand and on to Japan, Europe and North America. He mixed the 2007 Pacha compilation for Europe and Australia. 
Also in 2007, Littlemore co-wrote and produced the third, self-titled Pnau album with his brother Nick and band-mate Peter Mayes. The record was highlighted by Elton John as his favourite new album featuring the singles "Embrace", "With you Forever", "Baby" and "Wild Strawberries". His production and songwriting skills can also be heard on the "Don't Hold Back" and "Are You With Me?" for The Potbelleez. The song spent many weeks in the ARIA top 10 and topped the ARIA club and dance charts for months. 
In 2014 Littlemore all but retired as a DJ and continues to write, remix, produce and mix records for himself and others. 

Personal life:
Littlemore lives and works in Sydney and Los Angeles.

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Name: Florence Welch
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Florence Leontine Mary Welch was born on August 28, 1986 in London in the district of Camberwell. She completed her secondary education at Alleyn's School in Dulwich, London. During this period, the girl plays the guitar in a punk group, The Toxic Cockroaches. She is diagnosed with dyslexia and also suffers from dysmetria, she also suffers from insomnia. She then continued her studies at the Camberwell School of Art, but quickly dropped out to devote herself to music.

As a child, Florence Welch began singing in church before transforming in her words into "a chorister who has gone horribly and desperately wrong". She grew up listening to the White Stripes, her favorite band, as well as Kate Bush. Her teachers often reprimand her for singing all the time. His family then owns a collection of vinyls kept in a huge wooden chest. Young, Florence and her father enjoy riding on it and then dancing to songs from Love, The Incredible String Band, The Smiths and The Velvet Underground. Florence's mom listens to Tom Jones and The Monkees. The musician claims that her way of singing was influenced by these artists. When she turned 13, her mother moved in with her neighbor and her three children. The singer says: “We get along very well now, but it was a nightmare back then. I used to stay in my room to dance ”.

Florence Welch's fascination with terror and gloomy atmospheres intensifies after the death of her grandparents a few years apart. At the age of 10, she witnesses the deterioration of her grandfather's condition, while her grandmother, an art historian, will end her life 4 years later. She writes metaphorical songs, "stories of consequences with strange moral problems". His inspirations are diverse. The song Dog Days Are Over was inspired by an installation, Kiss With A Fist is about "giving as well as you get".

The young woman, who calls herself a real geek, loves to read. Since December 2008, she has lived in Camberwell, a district in south London.

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Name: Big Gigantic
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Big Gigantic is an instrumental livetronica, hip-hop and jazz musical group based out of Boulder, Colorado. They combine electronic beats with live saxophone and drums instrumentation.

hey have played at a wide-range of large-scale music festivals, including Bonnaroo, Firefly Music Festival, Camp Bisco, Wakarusa, Ultra Music Festival, All Good Music Festival, Electric Forest Festival, Mountain Jam, Freakfest, Summer Camp Music Festival, lollapalooza, North Coast Music Festival, SnowBall Music Festival, Shambhala Music Festival, Austin City Limits, Global Dance Festival, Gathering of the Vibes, SummerSet Music Festival, Hangout Festival, Voodoo Festival. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and CounterPoint Music Festival among others.

Their dynamic live performance is enhanced by their constantly evolving lighting, stage design and production for a full audio-sensory experience. Big Gigantic has toured the country numerous times, playing to a majority of sold out crowds across the US. Recently, Big G has played live shows in the UK and Australia, with plans to continue their international expansion in 2014.

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Name: Voodoo
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Name: Raphael Saadiq
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Throwback R&B singer Raphael Saadiq was born in Oakland, CA, in 1966, and started playing music six years later. He played bass at church and school and enjoyed his place on-stage at various local hometown events. After high school, Saadiq won a chance to join Prince and Sheila E. on the Parade tour. Such an experience inspired Saadiq to make music his life, and before the '80s came to an end, he formed Tony! Toni! Tone!.

Saadiq went under his birth name of Wiggins while in Tony! Toni! Tone!, and was joined by his brother, Dwayne Wiggins, and cousin Timothy Christian. Tony! Toni! Tone! made their debut with "Little Walter" in 1988. Two years later, they were mega-stars thanks to the success of their second album, The Revival. The ballad "It Never Rains (In Southern California)" and the club-friendly "Feels Good" were major hits and the band eventually sold six million albums. However, Saadiq left the group at the height of its fame.

A solo career was in the works by the time the mid-'90s rolled around. Two singles for movie soundtracks -- 1995's "Ask of You" from Higher Learning and "Me & You" from Boyz N da Hood -- were Saadiq's proper solo introduction, but not exactly satisfying. He was used to being part of a band, so a solo career made him a bit apprehensive. Saadiq bowed out for some normalcy over the next few years.

Lucy Pearl was Saadiq's next project, where he joined with En Vogue's Dawn Robinson and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest for a short-lived super-group. Saadiq also had his hand in producing material for the likes of Macy Gray, TLC, the Roots, and D'Angelo. In 2000, his song "Untitled" won D'Angelo a Grammy. Inspired by his new "gospedelic" approach, he captured a new sound for himself while recording material between Oakland and Sacramento. The end result was Instant Vintage, which earned five Grammy nominations in 2003. The blaxploitation era-referencing Ray Ray and the '60s-flavored The Way I See It followed, respectively, in 2004 and 2008; the latter was nominated for three Grammys. Stone Rollin' was released in 2011, just after Saadiq and his band of the same name backed Mick Jagger for a Grammy Awards perfomance of Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." The album maintained Saadiq's streak of throwback-oriented releases.

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Name: Flying Lotus
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Steven Ellison, known by the stage name of Flying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer, laptop musician, and rapper from Los Angeles, California. He is the great-nephew of the late jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, and her husband saxophonist John Coltrane. He is also the cousin of musician Ravi Coltrane. Additionally, he is the grandson of singer/songwriter Marilyn McLeod, who is notable for having written Diana Ross's "Love Hangover" and Freda Payne's "I Get High (On Your Memory)".

Flying Lotus has released four studio albums—1983 (2006), Los Angeles (2008), Cosmogramma (2010), and Until the Quiet Comes (2012)—all to increasing critical acclaim. He has produced much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. He also contributed remixes for fellow Plug Research artists including Mia Doi Todd. He is often referred to as FlyLo by fans and critics.

In 2012, Ellison began rapping under the persona Captain Murphy. Ellison kept the fact that he was Captain Murphy a secret for several months, finally revealing it several weeks after the release of his first rap mixtape, Duality.

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Name: KEYS N KRATES
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Keys N Krates (composed of band members Jr Flo, Matisse Francois, and Adam Tune) are an innovative group from Toronto, ON producing distinct and dynamic sets, mixing hip-hop samples with live instrumentals. Their musical style simultaneously represents the raw soul of live instrumentation (drums, bass, keyboard), manipulation of turntablism and the progressive technology of Electronic Music. The result of this combination is surreal soundscapes and innovative melodies, hard hitting rhythms and an unmatched element of soul.  Keys N Krates have received rave reviews from online publications such as the Virgin blog, Urb Magazine, Killahbeez, and Frank 151 to name a few and have toured globally, and opened for artists such as Kid Cudi.  The self proclaimed "Live Remix" artists are something to be both seen and heard.

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Name: Desire
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Name: Sinjin Hawke
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Name: Groove Armada
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Groove Armada are an electronic music duo from London, England comprising Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They are perhaps best known for their singles "I See You Baby" and "Superstylin'". The group has released eight studio albums to date, four of which have charted in the UK Albums Chart top 50.
Groove Armada first formed in the mid-1990s after they had been introduced by Cato's girlfriend and soon started their own club, also called Groove Armada, after a '70s discothèque.
By 1997 they had released a few singles, including "4 Tune Cookie" and the song that first brought them minor fame, "At the River", which sampled "Old Cape Cod" by Patti Page (featured in the film Die Hard 2). The song has gone on to be one of Groove Armada's most well-known tracks and has since been found on numerous chill out compilations.
Their first album, Northern Star, was released in 1998 on Tummy Touch Records, and was followed by their second album, Vertigo, in 1999, which had a more mainstream and more 'polished' sound, thus making the UK Album Chart's upper 20 and being certified silver in the UK. It also included "At the River" which was re-released as a full-fledged single. An album of remixed tracks from Vertigo entitled The Remixes followed in 2000, along with their contribution to the Back to Mine mix album series.
Their next studio album Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) was released in 2001, and as its title suggests marked a move away from chill out to more upbeat music - as demonstrated by the Grammy-nominated single "Superstylin'". Another mix album followed, this time for the Another Late Night series, and in 2002, less than a year after Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub), Groove Armada produced Lovebox, which included a variety of genres including funk. Some tracks had a rock element to them, such as "Madder", while others were closer to Armada's traditional house music roots, such as the title track "Lovebox", and "Remember", which has vocals made up entirely of samples of Sandy Denny's singing for Fairport Convention. An additional bonus track was later released on their website entitled "Fairport".
A greatest hits album, entitled The Best of Groove Armada, appeared in 2004 - the last of their releases with Pepper Records - before their studio album Soundboy Rock was released in 2007. The album marked a notable departure from the multi-genre-influenced previous album, featuring tracks such as "Get Down" and "Groove Extracts", which follow the current UK garage trend, tracks with rock elements, and "Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control)" featuring the vocals of ex-Sugababes singer Mutya Buena, hailed by online music guide Popjustice as one of the best songs of 2007.
Following the successful Soundboy Rock singles, an updated best-of set titled Greatest Hits was released in October 2007. This was accompanied by GA10: 10 Year Story, a 2CD rarities collection released in November 2007 to celebrate their tenth anniversary as a band. The band have talked in-depth about the compilation, and cited it as an "emotional experience", selecting their personal favourite songs and mixes from their history.
Groove Armada also released a collaboration with The Japanese Popstars through Strictly Rhythm, via Beatport, in April 2008.
In the same year, Groove Armada engaged in a deal with Bacardi to distribute their new 4-track EP using a file sharing platform called B-Live Share.
During 2009, both Tom Findlay and Andy Cato repeatedly confirmerd the existence of a pending new album. While on the Bacardi Express tour in Australia, Findlay said it will be called "Black Light" and "is going to be the darker side of Groove Armada, which is finally coming out after 12 years." The first single, released on 23 November 2009, was "I Won't Kneel", featuring Groove Armada's new vocalist, SaintSaviour. The album's second single, "Paper Romance", was released on 22 February 2010, and the album was released in Europe on 28 February.
In October 2010, Groove Armada released a remix album, White Light, which contained recent studio re-recordings of alternative live versions of many songs from Black Light as well as other classic Groove Armada songs. Andy Cato stated on the official Groove Armada blog that "Ideas were flowing. Go, Not Forgotten, Look Me In the Eye Sister, Superstylin got even larger." Groove Armada headlined Uber Cool festival at Jersey Live on 3 September. The duo embarked on a series of secretive "living room" sets, performing intimately across the country for audiences of close friends. Little information surrounds these private performances, but the tour kicked off in Brighton in late January, 2011.
To date, the group has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, including Neneh Cherry, DJ Gram’Ma Funk, Sophie Barker, Nappy Roots, Fudge Dog, Sunshine Anderson, Mutya Buena, Jeru the Damaja, Richie Havens, and Will Young.

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Name: Moon Boots
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Moon Boots entered the world in the mid-1980s via Cape Canaveral. After years of service as the preferred footwear of celebrity astronauts (notably Tom Hanks), Moon Boots came to life during a classified experiment aboard the International Space Station. Little is known of what actually transpired aboard the shuttle, but in short, Moon Boots became a sentient creature, equipped with reason, intuition, and groove. Before long, he grew tired of working for the space-military-industrial complex and found solace in the soothing sounds of underground disco and R&B boogie records. He knew it was only of matter of time before he was hung up like so many boots before him. He abandoned the program and used his savings to build a studio in an unnamed location, where he is currently working.

Soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/moonbootsmusic .

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Name: Childish Gambino
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Donald McKinley Glover (born September 25, 1983) is an American rapper, actor, writer, comedian, and producer. Glover first came to attention for his work with Derrick Comedy and for subsequently being a writer for 30 Rock. Today, he is best known for his role as college student Troy Barnes on the NBC comedy series Community and for his rising career as a stand-up comedian and rapper. In 2011, Glover signed to Glassnote Records under the stage name Childish Gambino, which was obtained through the Wu Tang Clan name generator, after releasing several albums and mixtapes himself; his first album for the label, Camp, was released on November 15, 2011.

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Name: Tinashe
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Tinashe Jorgenson Kachingwe, known professionally as just Tinashe, (born February 6, 1993), is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and former model. She began her entertainment career at the age of 3 when she began modeling and acting. In 2012, Tinashe released two critically acclaimed mixtapes, In Case We Die and Reverie, which she created in her home studio. After the release of the mixtapes, Tinashe signed with RCA Records. She later released her third mixtape, Black Water (2013) and her debut studio album Aquarius (2014). Her debut single, "2 On", reached number one on the Rhythmic chart, and peaked at number 24 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

She made her acting debut in the television film Cora Unashamed in 2000. In 2004, Tinashe appeared in box-office hit The Polar Express alongside actor Tom Hanks, providing the motion capture for the female protagonist. From 2008 to 2009, Tinashe had a recurring role in American sitcom Two and a Half Men as Celeste, Jake's girlfriend.

Tinashe Kachingwe was born on February 6, 1993 in Lexington, Kentucky, the eldest child of Michael and Aimie Kachingwe. Her father is from Zimbabwe, while her mother is of Danish, Norwegian, and Irish descent. Tinashe's name means "We are with God" in the Shona language which she speaks fluently. She has two younger brothers, Thulani and Kudzai. She and her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was eight years old. She attended Crescenta Valley High School for a year before finishing early to pursue a career in music full-time. She began studying ballet, tap, and jazz dancing at the age of 4, and continued to compete in various styles as a part of a dance company until she was 18.

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Name: Machel Montano
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Machel Montano (born 24 November 1974) is a Trinidadian soca singer, record producer and songwriter. 
He is the front-man of the soca band The HD Family, and is noted for his high energy, fast-paced, and often unpredictable on-stage performances. During his career, which spans more than 30 years, he has recorded several songs alongside many of Caribbean music's most popular acts, such as Lerone Guy of St Anthony's College, Alison Hinds, Beenie Man, Calypso Rose, Burning Flames, Drupatee, Wyclef Jean, Canibus, Red Rat, Shaggy, Sparrow, Denise Belfon, Ken Marlon Charles (KMC), Destra, Walker Hornung, Vybz Kartel, Mohombi, G-Unit, Black Stalin, David Rudder, Buju Banton, Mr. Vegas, Doug E. Fresh, Pitbull, Busta Rhymes and many others. In 1987 he was the youngest finalist to ever win the Caribbean Song Festival. He now stands as one of the most well-known soca acts in the world, using his leverage as an artist able to sell out shows. Recently he has moved to the Los Angeles area and furthered his pursuit, saying: "I may not be the one to bring it forth, but in the meantime, I have a lot of work to do in order for something to happen." He is very well known in New York, where he has had sold out concerts in Madison Square Gardens many times over. 

Early career:
Montano was born in Carenage (West Trinidad), and his family moved to Siparia, South Trinidad, when he was very young. He attended Siparia Boys' R.C., then Presentation College, a prestigious secondary school in San Fernando, where he was in the choir led by Mrs Cynthia Lee-Mack. Machel first shot to fame as a nine-year-old boy with the song "Too Young To Soca" while he was still in primary school. In 1984, along with his older brother Marcus and neighbours, the group Pranasonic Express was started and, in 1989, the band became Xtatik. In April, 1986, at the age of 11, Montano appeared on the main stream television show, "Star Search". In 1987, he took part in the,"Trinidad and Tobago National Song Writers Festival", and placed second with his song "Dream Girl". He also won the Caribbean Song Festival in Barbados. Such a win made Machel the first Trinidadian and youngest contestant to win this competition. 

Machel Montano HD - concepts:

The band developed and was re-invented by its leader Montano several times, including as Clamydia, The Xtatik Circus, Xtatik The Road Marching Band and The Band of the Year, as part of his Zen battle to keep his band and his performances fresh. Since 2007 they have been known as Machel Montano HD (High Definition); Montano promotes the concept by saying that he is the first human being to go HD. He claims this is characterises the evolution of his music over the past 25 years and the highly improved style in which his music is presented to his fans in radio format, television, and during live performances. He is part of a campaign in Trinidad and Tobago to promote safe driving - "Arrive Alive". Part of the hype surrounding Montano since 2007 is his HD tour bus, a 20-year-old bus from the Public Transport Service Corporation (PTSC) that was re-done and includes a bedroom, bathroom facilities, flat-screen TVs, Internet access and expensive audio systems. After its debut in 2007, the bus was re-painted for 2008, the new images of Machel matching various photos from the album artwork of his 2008 CD, Flame On. The bus featured heavily in his videos for "Jumbie" (2007) and "Rollin/Blazin d Trail" (2008). In 2012 Montano won the Road March, Power Soca Monarch and the Groovy Soca Monarch. He won the Groovy Soca Monarch with his rendition of "Mr. Fete". In May 2012 he launched the music video to his hit single "Bottle Of Rum". 

Xtatik's music:
The band includes foreign influences such as from its Venezuelan percussionist Ernesto Luis Gutirrez, Shawn Mitchell, bassist from Grenada and musicians from Barbados.Kernal Roberts, son of the late calypsonian Lord Kitchener, has taken up the role of Xtatik's drummer and musical director. 
Montano was instrumental in the promotion of soca music in the United Kingdom on the BBC's black music digital radio station BBC Radio 1Xtra, where he co-presented the International Sounds of Soca show for four years with DJ Slic. He has released many successful singles, with and without Xtatik, during his career, such as "Big Truck" (Xtatik's most successful single, which won the Road March title in 1997), "Outa Space" (with Beenie Man), "Music Farm" (Xtatik), "It's Carnival" (with Destra), and his more recent back-to-back Road March title wins: for 2006, "Band Of The Year" (with Patrice Roberts), and in 2007 "Jumbie". 
His album Flame On, released in February 2008, featured collaborations with some of the most esteemed artistes in calypso, such as David Rudder on "Oil and Music" and the Mighty Sparrow on "Congo Man". These two collaborations were well-received all around, especially "Congo Man". Flame On also includes Clamydia with other well-known artistes from various genres including soca, reggae, rap and reggaeton. Examples of these partnerships can be heard on the following tracks: Patrice Roberts on "Rollin", Shaggy on "Wining Season", Buju Banton on "Make Love" and finally Lil Jon and Pitbull on "Defense (The Anthem)". 
On Flame On Machel Montano's right-hand man Kernal Roberts was involved in the writing of eight out of the 13 tracks. 
In Trinidad's Carnival Road March Competition for Carnival 2008, Montano's song "Blazin d Trail" placed third. 

2013-14 media:
On 20 January 2013 Machel Montano released the official video for the single "The Fog" from his 16th solo album, "Machelements". On 27 January 2013, Machel then released another video for his single "Float". Two days after another visual was released for his song "Happiest Man Alive". Other songs that were followed by immediate visuals are "Epic", taking two months to create and release, and "Ministry of Road", taking less than one month to follow up on. 
Only in recent years has Machel began to take advantage of social media, using social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram (machelmontano), My Space, YouTube and Twitter (@machelmontanohd). Machel has been able to expand and create music outside of his respected field by collaborating with various artists outside of the Soca Genre. One genre of music Machel took interest in most recently (2014) is electric dance music (EDM). Collaborating with well-known EDM artists, Major Lazer and Diplo, the three artists created an original sounding, EDM song with a Soca vibe, called "Sound Bang" (released 9 January 2014). 

International Soca Monarchs:
The International Soca Monarch competition is an annual contest between various competing Soca artists. Within this competition there are two sub-categories which contestants can place in. One of which is the Power Soca Monarch; a competition for upbeat songs while the International Groovy Soca Monarch is for Soca songs of a Slower tempo. In 2011, Machel won his first Soca Monarch competition (from Power Soca Monarchs) for his performance for the song "Advantage". In the years 2012 and 2013, Machel won back to back times in both sub-categories for his performance of his songs "Pump Yuh Flag" and "Mr. Fete", in 2012 and, "Float" and, "The Fog", in 2013, winning TT$2 Million each time. Machel also won the Power Soca Monarch in 2014 for his song "Ministry of Road", however he was dethroned by Kerwin Du Bois and his hit song "Too Real" in the Groovy Soca Monarch category. Machel set a new record by winning the 2014 Power Monarch, becoming the first artist/ performer to win a total of four titles.

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Name: La Roux
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Irgendwo her kennt man das doch: Hübsche Frau räkelt sich dreieinhalb Minuten bei Tempo 180 in ihrem futuristischen Sportwagen. Der Unterschied zwischen den Videoclips zu La Rouxs "In For The Kill" und Kylie Minogues Welthit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" ist in erster Linie ein ästhetischer. Während Kylie einer sexy-bunten Zukunft entgegenbraust, wirkt die junge Britin Elly Jackson am Steuer wie eine undurchschaubare Femme Fatale aus einem düsteren Will Eisner-Comic.

Überhaupt, das Farbenspiel: Hier die blonde Kylie, dort La Roux, die Rothaarige. Gleichwohl hält der Vergleich zwischen den beiden Solokünstlerinnen eben auch stand, weil sich Jackson nicht nur in ihrer Optik, sondern auch in ihrem Sound explizit auf jene Epoche bezieht, in der die Australierin Minogue ihre ersten Welterfolge feiern konnte: die Achtziger.

Denn allein der Verzicht auf prägnante Gitarrenspuren und das Bekenntnis zum Schnurren von Vintage-Synthesizern und des Drumcomputers rückt den Sound des Debütalbums "La Roux" nahe an britische Acts wie Yazoo, Human League, die Eurythmics oder die frühen Depeche Mode heran, zumal auch sie eine charismatische Stimme und unterkühlte Emotionen vor ihren Upbeat-80s-Pop stellen kann.

Hinter La Roux steckt mit Ben Langmaid allerdings noch ein zweiter Kopf, der am Songwriting beteiligt ist, sich aber wie Will Gregory von Goldfrapp im Hintergrund hält und auch nicht der Live-Band angehört. Trotzdem ist Langmaid bei weitem kein unbeschriebenes Blatt: Der Musikproduzent ist eng mit Rollo Armstrong von Faithless verbandelt.

Alle Aufmerksamkeit ist also auf Elly Jackson ausgericht, der nach einer Vinyl-Single auf dem Pariser Hipster-Label Kitsuné bereits diverse Hype-Orakel den ganz großen Durchbruch voraussagen. Die Parameter dafür stimmen: Sie tourt mit Lily Allen, die Klaxons tauchen bei einem Konzert im Publikum auf, britische Frauenzeitschriften erörtern ihre Frisur. Und gegen ein weiteres 80s-Revival hätte sicherlich auch Kylie Minogue nichts einzuwenden.

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Name: Folarin
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Name: Annie Mac
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Annie MacManus (born on 18 July 1978), popularly known as Annie Mac, is an Irish DJ and television presenter. She is perhaps best known as the eponymous host of the electronic dance music show Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, which airs at 7:00 pm on Friday evenings, as well as a Chill-out music show entitled The Musical Hot Water Bottle on Sunday evenings.

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Name: Falcons
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FALCONS (ファルコンズ) Southern born, west coast relocated, with production taking inspiration from each. Staying heavily rooted in the bouncey Southern club tempo, fusing it with melodic r&b and hip-hop elements with sprinkles of world music.

With support from DJ and crew’s like Salva, Clicks & Whistles, DJ Benzi, Mad Decent, WeDidIt, DJ Skeet Skeet, LuckyMe, Djemba Djemba, Boiler Room and many more, Its easy to see why Falcons is on many lists of producers/ dj’s to watch in 2013.

http://soundcloud.com/oaklandfalcons

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Name: Cassius
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Cassius is a French musical duo that records and releases music in the house music, indie dance and synthpop genres. The group consists of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francart, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass. dar and Boom Bass started working together in 1988, producing albums for the French hip-hop artist MC Solaar. In 1991, they created their first project, called "La Funk Mob", and the following year, they started to increasingly experiment with electronic sounds. Zdar's experience with electronic music was influential in his involvement with Étienne de Crécy in the project Motorbass. In 1996, Zdar and Boom Bass then created "Foxxy", their first self-published house music track, under the name Cassius, and the moderate success that followed lead to them remixing tracks for acts such as Air and Daft Punk. In January 1999, they released their first single to become a mainstream hit, "Cassius 1999". It was published by Virgin Records, and entered the UK Singles Chart at #7. This was soon followed by their debut album, 1999, which had two more singles released from it, "Feeling For You" and "La Mouche". The music videos for "Cassius 1999" and "Feeling for You" portrayed the character Deadman, from DC Comics, as a DJ superhero. 2002 saw their second album release, Au Rêve. This featured the "empowered female disco" track "I'm a Woman", with Jocelyn Brown on vocals, as well as the hit single "The Sound of Violence", featuring Steve Edwards on vocals. This album also had collaborations with Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah and Leroy Burgess. Cassius returned to the studio in 2006, for the more experimental single "Toop Toop", but the next album, titled 15 Again, featured more vocal collaborations than the duo had done with Au Rêve. While rehearsing their 15 Again album tour, Cassius provided the community with the a cappella track of their single "Toop Toop" and encouraged fans and friends to start remixing the song. It became an immediate success: the band started the Cassius Workshop project and released more a cappellas for remixing purposes. They claim to have received more than 400 remixes. Cassius's song "I Love You So" was sampled on the track "Why I Love You" on Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 collaboration album Watch the Throne.

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Name: Lana Del Rey
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Lana Del Rey (* 21. Juni 1985 in New York als Elizabeth Woolridge Grant) ist eine US-amerikanische Sängerin. Sie wurde mit dem Song Video Games bekannt, mit dem sie im Dezember 2011 ihren internationalen Durchbruch hatte. Das erste Studioalbum Born to Die konnte sich weltweit mehr als 5 Millionen Mal verkaufen und war auf Platz 5 der bestverkauften Alben von 2012.

Lana Del Rey wurde als Elizabeth Grant in New York geboren und wuchs in Lake Placid im Bundesstaat New York auf. Ab ihrem 18. Lebensjahr war sie als Sozialarbeiterin in New Yorker Obdachlosenheimen und in Rehabilitationszentren für Alkoholiker und Drogensüchtige tätig. Mittlerweile lebt sie überwiegend in London. Sie steht bei der Plattenfirma Universal unter Vertrag.

Von August 2011 bis Juni 2014 hatte sie eine Beziehung mit dem schottischen Sänger Barrie-James O'Neill (Kassidy).

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Name: RAC
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RAC is the solo indie-electronic project of André Allen Anjos. Originally the Remix Artist Collective, RAC was started by Anjos as a group of international members who created re-interpretative rock, electronica, and dance music remixes for various musical artists. The vision of the Remix Artist Collective was to maintain a style of remixing that strays from the "club mix" archetype, creating new incarnations of songs that stem from the original structure, but expand on their genre and musical arrangement. Early RAC mixes typically feature a unique blend of hip-hop and vintage drum machine samples, analog synthesizers, melodic hooks, and original instrumentation performed by the remix artists themselves. "Unlike many electronic remixes, which are commonly technical and precise, RAC mixes embody a unique aesthetic based around emotion and nuance, an almost intangible warmth and innate playfulness." 
Today, RAC has expanded into the production of original music, continuing to collaborate with artists across multiple genres. RAC's debut studio album as Anjos' solo project, Strangers, was released on April 1, 2014. 

History:
The Remix Artist Collective was created in January 2007 by André Allen Anjos with partners Andrew Maury (New York) and Karl Kling (Portland). RAC's first release was "Sleeping Lessons (RAC Mix)" for The Shins, earning the remix a spot as a B-Side on the single release for "Australia." The mix, along with several other projects garnered interest among bands like Tokyo Police Club, Bloc Party, and Ra Ra Riot. Since the end of 2007, RAC has been building an empire of indie remix favorites and a quickly growing, word-of-mouth following. RAC has remixed notable artists such as Kings of Leon, Lana Del Rey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Edward Sharpe, Death Cab For Cutie, Phoenix, Surfer Blood, Foster The People, Two Door Cinema Club, Delorean, and Washed Out. RAC released their first original song "Hollywood" featuring Penguin Prison's Chris Glover via Green Label Sound on May 3, 2012. "Hollywood" is the promotional single to the forthcoming debut RAC original album. RAC released their second original song "Let Go" featuring Bloc Party's Kele and MNDR on August 20, 2013. This is the second single from their EP "Don't Talk To", released October 1, 2013. 

Press:
In addition to the mention and posting of several remixes on high-traffic music blog/news sites such as Pitchfork Media, I Guess I'm Floating, Brooklyn Vegan and The Music Slut, RAC has received more formal recognition in a full length feature article for the St. Louis Riverfront Times, an online interview with Stereo Subversion, and a free-mp3, official release through Stereogum (Stereogum Presents RAC Vol.1). RAC's Sega Vs. Nintendo EP spurred hundred's of blog postings around the world and a hyped headline from the massive gaming site Kotaku. 

Members:

André Allen Anjos - Portland, Oregon, U.S. / Portugal:
André Allen Anjos is a young music artist with multiple years' experience in remixing, producing, and song-writing. Originally from Porto, Portugal, André now resides in the USA. He is the founder and coordinator of the Remix Artist Collective. André is currently RAC's most prolific remix artist, creating a majority of the tracks himself. His signature remixing sound is in large part a result of some of his equipment: Notably, a 1982 Roland Juno-60 and 1973 Univox MiniKorg. André has also been known to manipulate analog tape machines to achieve effects, and primarily works with Ableton Live and Digidesign Pro Tools. Outside of remixing, André has done work creating original music content for HBO's Entourage, and is now an active, principal member of the indie-electronica band, The Pragmatic. 

Former Members:
Andrew Maury - Brooklyn, New York, U.S. 
Karl Kling - Portland, Oregon, U.S. 

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Name: Backstreet Boys
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Die Backstreet Boys sind eine US-amerikanische Boygroup. Die Band wurde am 20. April 1993 in Orlando, Florida von Lou Pearlman gegründet. Bis heute hat die Gruppe weltweit mehr als 130 Millionen Tonträger verkauft, was sie zur erfolgreichsten Boygroup aller Zeiten macht.

Bandgeschichte
Im Jahr 1992 lernten sich Howard Dwaine Dorough und Alexander James McLean bei einem Talentwettbewerb kennen. Nicholas Gene Carter stieß kurze Zeit später dazu. Kevin Scott Richardson war zu dieser Zeit noch als Model und Songwriter tätig. Kevin schlug seinen Cousin Brian Thomas Littrell für die Band vor, der damals im Kirchenchor sang. Johnny Wright, vorheriges Managermitglied von New Kids On The Block, wurde durch Pearlman als ihr Manager angestellt.

Im Herbst 1995 starteten die Backstreet Boys ihre Karriere mit der Single We’ve Got It Going On. In Deutschland erreichte die Single Gold-Status. Ihre zweite Single I’ll Never Break Your Heart erreichte in Österreich sogar Platz 1. Auch für diese Single bekamen die Backstreet Boys Gold. Das Debütalbum Backstreet Boys erschien daraufhin im Frühjahr 1996. Es erreichte 6-fach-Platin-Status. Quit Playin’ Games With My Heart war ihre erste Nummer-1-Single in Deutschland. Auch diese Auskopplung aus dem Debütalbum erreichte Platin.

Im Sommer 1997 erschien das zweite Album mit dem Titel Backstreet’s Back. Die ausgekoppelte Single Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) erreichte Platz 2 in Deutschland. Die Deutschland-Tournee 1997 war komplett ausverkauft. Aus dem gleichen Album wurden 1998 die Singles As Long as You Love Me und All I Have to Give ausgekoppelt. Mit diesen Titeln waren sie erstmals auch in ihrem Heimatland, den USA erfolgreich und erreichten vordere Chartplätze. Daraufhin veröffentlichten sie in den USA ein Album, das Songs von ihrem ersten und zweiten Album enthielt. Diesem folgte Ende des Jahres eine Tour durch die USA und Europa.

Während der darauf folgenden USA-Tour wurde es in Europa ruhig um die Backstreet Boys. Der Tour folgte das dritte Studioalbum mit dem Titel Millennium. Dieses Album wurde nach seiner Veröffentlichung innerhalb von einer Woche etwa 1.300.000 Mal in den USA verkauft. Aus dem Album wurden die Singles Larger than Life, I Want It That Way, Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely und The One ausgekoppelt.

Ende 2000 veröffentlichten die Backstreet Boys ihr Album Black & Blue. Single-Auskopplungen daraus waren The Call, Shape of My Heart und More than That.

Ihr erstes Best-of-Album mit dem Titel Greatest Hits - Chapter One erschien Ende 2001 und wurde bis heute über 7 Millionen Mal verkauft. Im selben Jahr wurde die Alkoholkrankheit des Bandmitglieds AJ bekannt. Es entstanden erste Trennungsgerüchte, doch die Band blieb zusammen. Es wurde jedoch ruhiger und es erschienen vorerst keine weiteren Tonträger.

Im Herbst 2002 startete das jüngste Bandmitglied Nick Carter seine Solokarriere mit dem Album Now or Never. Dieses ist in Deutschland nur minder erfolgreich gewesen und nach der Singleauskopplung Help Me ist auch Nick Carter nicht mehr in den Charts zu finden.

Die Planungen zum Neustart der Band begannen im Jahr 2004. Die Backstreet Boys nahmen das Album Never Gone auf, welches am 13. Juni 2005 erschien. Die erste Single daraus, Incomplete, kam am 30. Mai 2005 in die Läden. Die zweite Single, Just Want You To Know, erschien am 12. September 2005. Am 11. Oktober 2005 veröffentlichte Jive Records den Titel Crawling Back To You als Downloadsingle unter dem Motto „Music for Hurricane Relief“ zugunsten der Wirbelsturmopfer in den Staaten.

Vom 5. Oktober bis zum 5. November 2005 tourten die Backstreet Boys durch ganz Deutschland. Wegen der großen Nachfrage wurde in der Arena Nürnberg ebenso wie in der Kölnarena eine Zusatzshow geboten.

Nach der Veröffentlichung der dritten Europasingle I Still am 25. November 2005, die u. a. in Deutschland sehr erfolgreich war, entstanden erneut Trennungsgerüchte, die durch die Veröffentlichung des ersten Soloalbums Welcome Home von Brian Littrell 2006 noch weiter angeheizt wurden. Am 23. Juni 2006 verließ Kevin Richardson nach 13 Jahren die Gruppe.

Die vier verbliebenen Backstreet Boys veröffentlichten nach einem Jahr Pause am 5. Oktober 2007 die erste Single als Quartett mit dem Titel Inconsolable. Dies war die erste Single aus dem sechsten Studioalbum Unbreakable. Die zweite Single nannte sich Helpless When She Smiles und erschien am 11. Januar 2008. Am 16. Februar 2008 startete die Unbreakable-Welttournee in Tokio und endete am 22. Mai in St. Petersburg (Russland), sieben der Konzerte fanden in Deutschland statt.

Im September 2009 veröffentlichten die Backstreet Boys die Single Straight Through My Heart in Deutschland vorab zu dem Album This Is Us. Diesem folgt Ende des Jahres wieder eine Tour durch die USA und Europa.

Im Rahmen der American Music Awards 2010 präsentierten sich die Backstreet Boys und New Kids On The Block als NKOTBSB erstmals mit einer choreografierten Show, in der ein Teil ihrer jeweiligen Hits miteinander verwoben worden war. Anlässlich der traditionellen Silvesterfeier folgte ein zweiter Auftritt vor etwa einer Million Menschen am New Yorker Times Square. Mit Don’t Turn Out The Lights veröffentlichten NKOTBSB im Dezember 2010 ihre erste gemeinsame Single. Unter dem Titel One night – One stage – Once in a lifetime waren die beiden Gruppen seit Juni 2011 gemeinsam auf Tournee, dabei gastierten sie unter anderem im historischen Fenway Park in Boston.

Am 29. April 2012 wurde während eines NKOTBSB-Konzerts in London (das in über 400 Kinos übertragen wurde) bekanntgegeben, dass Kevin Richardson in die Band zurückkehrt und ein neues Album in Planung sei. Am 6. November 2012 erschien ein neues Lied der Backstreet Boys. Der Song trägt den Namen It’s Christmas Time Again.

Das neueste Album der Band mit dem Namen In a World Like This erschien am 2.8.2013 in Deutschland.

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Name: Chad Valley
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Chad Valley - the alias of Hugo Manuel - is part of the same Oxford collective Jonquil, Blessing Force, that Fixers belong to, and there is a similar feeling of 60s music being given a shimmery modern electronic makeover. But maybe because there's just one of him he is able to give the project greater focus; there is no dilution, or sense of boxes being ticked, with Chad Valley - it's just one idea, gloriously stretched out over four tracks on his sublime self-titled debut EP; one long wave of luxuriant sound after another.

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Name: Fritz Kalkbrenner
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Fritz Kalkbrenner (* 1981 in Ost-Berlin) ist ein deutscher Musikproduzent und Sänger. Er ist der jüngere Bruder des Musikers und Techno-Musikproduzenten Paul Kalkbrenner, mit dem er zusammen den Hit Sky and Sand produzierte. In seinen Soloprojekten verbindet er Technobeats mit melodischen Elementen, zum Beispiel Gitarrensamples, und seiner markanten Stimme sowie selbstgeschriebenen Texten.

Fritz Kalkbrenner wurde 1981 als Sohn der Journalisten Jörn und Carla Kalkbrenner in Ost-Berlin geboren. Sein Großvater war der Maler und Kommunist Fritz Eisel.

Er arbeitet seit 2002 als Kultur- und Musikjournalist für verschiedene Fernsehsender, darunter der MDR, MTV und die Deutsche Welle.

Im Jahr 2003 war er als Gastsänger auf dem ersten Album Brave von Sascha Funke zu hören, mit dem er seit seiner Jugendzeit befreundet ist. Es folgten Aufnahmen mit Zky, Alexander Kowalski und Monika Kruse. 2008 produzierte er gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder den Soundtrack des Spielfilms Berlin Calling, in dem Paul Kalkbrenner als Schauspieler mitwirkte. Kalkbrenners erstes Album Here Today Gone Tomorrow erschien 2010 auf dem Label Suol und wurde mit einer Echo-Nominierung gekrönt.

Anderthalb Jahre später wurde Suol Mates: Fritz Kalkbrenner veröffentlicht, eine Auskoppelung der Mix-Reihe seines Labels, also ohne eigene Songs.

Der Durchbruch gelang Kalkbrenner aber erst mit dem am 19. Oktober 2012 erschienenen zweiten Album Sick Travellin’, ebenfalls auf dem Label Suol. Am 15. Februar 2013 begann die gleichnamige Livetour in der Arena Wien. Diese fand nach 17 Konzerten durch Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz am 4. Mai 2013 im Münchener Kesselhaus ihr Ende.

Im Berliner Club Prince Charles präsentierte Kalkbrenner am 16. Oktober 2014 in einem exklusiven Pre-Release Showcase sein drittes Album Ways Over Water.

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Rhye is an R&B musical duo based in Los Angeles, California. Its members are Canadian singer Milosh and Danish instrumentalist Robin Hannibal. They released singles "Open" and "The Fall" online without much detail that led to speculation about the band. Their debut album, Woman, was released 4 March 2013. In June 2013, the album was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.
Mike Milosh was born in Toronto, Canada and is an electronic musician and vocalist. He was a classically trained cellist from age 3 and had become a jazz aficionado. He later moved to Berlin, Germany to pursue music as a vocalist and a producer. Professionally using the name Milosh, as a Canadian Signed to Plug Research record label, he had released two albums You Make Me Feel (2004) and Meme (2006). He had also contributed the track Then It Happened on the Ghostly International/Williams Street album Ghostly Swim, which was released as an MP3 download in 2008.
Robin Hannibal (birth name Robin Braun) was a member of the Danish duo Quadron alongside Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj on Plug Research, the same label as Milosh. Quadron, an indie pop, electronica, soul, jazz and rap formation, released a self-titled album in July 2009. Quadron members were also part of a Danish electronica collective called Boom Clap Bachelors, who in early 2008 had released the collective album Just Before Your Lips, including contributions from Hannibal. Robin Hannibal had collaborated with other artists like Nobody Beats the Beats, Clemens, Jokeren and L.O.C.. He also launched two projects, Owusu & Hannibal and Parallel Dance Ensemble. He also contributed to Szjerdene's "Lead the Way" and to Leon Ware's "Orchids for the Sun". In 2011, Quadron collaborated with American DJ and record producer Kaskade for the song "Waste Love" off his album Fire & Ice.

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Name: Tokimonsta
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Los Angeles native, TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee) is known for her unique take on indie electronic/r&b/dance music.  Her classical upbringing and eclectic music taste has allows her to create vast textural soundscapes—a reverberation that fuses vintage sensibilities with progressive inclinations.

Her music has been recognized and praised by the very best in tastemaker and mainstream media.  TOKiMONSTA has been featured on various large-scale radio programs such as: BBC Radio1 (UK), NPR (USA), BBC World Service (UK), J Wave (JP), Studio Brussels (BE), Radio Nova (FR), KCRW (LA) to name a few.  Subsequently, DJ Mag, Pitchfork, The Guardian, XLR8R, Paper, LA Times, Dazed and Confused, SPIN, Wax Poetics, MTV, VIBE, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Sound and Recording and more have covered her.  LA Weekly ranked her as 2010’s #1 female DJ in Los Angeles.  Additionally, Resident Adviser did a full feature on her for their “Breaking Through,” an RA series, which focuses on the next big artist.  Not only has she caught ears of many as a different dimension of Los Angeles-based music, TOKiMONSTA is notably the first female to join Flying Lotus’ crew/label BRAINFEEDER, which is on the forefront of LA music scene.

TOKiMONSTA tours the world regularly as a live performer.  Her performance is engaging as well as intricate—using new technology with pieces of musical and multimedia gear.  She participated in the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in London in 2010.  In the summer of 2012, she was apart of the Full Flex Express tour, the first electronic music themed train tour that traveled across Canada with Skrillex, Diplo, Pretty Lights, and Grimes.  She performed on the very first SS Coachella, which is Golden Voices’ first ocean cruise festival.  Some notable past performances were at Coachella, Sonar Barcelona, DEMF, WMC, Electric Zoo, SxSW, Camp Bisco, Decibel Festival, with more scheduled in the future.
She is currently signed to Ultra Records with a full length album to be released Spring ‘13.

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Name: Kim Carnes
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Kim Carnes (* 20. Juli 1945 in Pasadena, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Musikerin und Komponistin.

Kim Carnes war von 1962 bis 1970 Mitglied der Folk-Band New Christy Minstrels, in welcher im Laufe der Zeit auch Musiker wie Kenny Rogers, John Denver, Barry McGuire, Gene Clark (The Byrds) und Larry Ramos (The Association) spielten. Hier lernte sie ihren späteren Ehemann und gelegentlichen Songwriting-Partner Dave Ellingson kennen, den sie am 25. November 1967 heiratete. Im selben Jahr versuchte sich Carnes erfolglos im Filmgeschäft: In C’mon, Let’s Live a Little spielte sie an der Seite von Musikerkollegen wie Bobby Vee und Jackie DeShannon. Vier Jahre später durfte Carnes an dem Soundtrack zum Kino-Hit Vanishing Point (Fluchtpunkt San Francisco) mitwirken: Der Song Sing Out for Jesus, von Carnes geschrieben, wurde für den Soundtrack von Big Mama Thornton eingesungen. Dagegen wurde Nobody Knows, eine Komposition von Mike Settle, mit Dave Ellingson als Duett veröffentlicht. Hier fiel auf Anhieb Carnes' markante, charakteristische „Reibeisenstimme“ auf, die mit jener von Rod Stewart (in späteren Jahren auch mit der von Bonnie Tyler) verglichen wurde.

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Name: Jackie DeShannon
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Date of Birth
21 August 1941, Hazel, Kentucky, USA 
Birth Name : Sharon Lee Myers 

The extremely talented, prolific and versatile Jackie DeShannon was one of the first successful female singer/songwriters to hit the rock and pop music scene back in the 60s. DeShannon has done music in such diverse genres as folk, orchestral pop, gospel, country and rock'n'roll. Jackie was born as Sharon Lee Myers on August 21, 1941 in Hazel, Kentucky to show business parents Sandra Jean and James Erwin Myers. By age six, DeShannon was singing country music on the radio and, at age eleven, she was hosting her own radio show. In 1957, Jackie recorded a rollicking tribute to her musical idol, Buddy Holly, called "Buddy". Jackie befriended rockabilly singer Eddie Cochran, who convinced her to move to California. DeShannon formed a songwriting partnership with Cochran's girlfriend, Sharon Sheeley; they wrote "Dum Dum" for Brenda Lee and "Breakaway" for Irma Thomas. Jackie DeShannon, Soundtrack: Forrest Gump. The extremely talented, prolific and versatile Jackie DeShannon was one of the first successful female .... more on imdb.com/name/nm0221176/‎ .

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Name: Munchi
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Name: Racer X
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Racer X ist eine in den 1980ern von Paul Gilbert gegründete US-amerikanische Speed-Metal-Band. Der Bandname bezieht sich sowohl auf den Musikstil als auch auf einen Charakter aus dem Anime Speed Racer.
Nachdem Paul Gilbert mit Black Sheep das Album Trouble in the Streets aufgenommen hatte, bekam er von Mike Varney (Shrapnel Records) die Offerte, ein Soloalbum aufzunehmen. Zu diesem Zweck suchte er sich mit Juan Alderete (Bass), Harry Gschösser (No Bros) und Sänger Jeff Martin (ex-Surgical Steel und St. Michael) ein Line-up zusammen und startete das Projekt Racer X. 1986 erschien das Debütalbum Street Lethal. Da das Projekt gut ankam, entschloss sich Gilbert es fortzuführen. Nach Versuchen mit Todd DeVito am Schlagzeug stieg Scott Travis später als fester Schlagzeuger ein. Bruce Bouillet, ein Schüler von Gilbert, wurde zweiter Gitarrist. Das zweite Album Second Heat erschien 1987. Auf diesem Album sind der Titel Moonage Daydream, eine Coverversion des David-Bowie-Songs, sowie das bis dato unveröffentlichte Judas-Priest-Lied Heart of a Lion (aus der Turbo-Phase) enthalten. 
Im Jahr 1988 verließ Gilbert Racer X um mit dem bekannten Rockbassisten Billy Sheehan (u. a. Dave Lee Roth) die Hard-Rock-Band Mr. Big ins Leben zu rufen. Racer X wurde ohne Gilbert weitergeführt. Chris Arvan ersetzte den Gitarristen kurzzeitig und mit Jamie Brown stieg ein neuer Sänger ein. Die Veröffentlichung eines Albums blieb zu diesem Zeitpunkt aus. Stattdessen erschien im Jahr 1988 ein Livealbum unter dem Titel Extreme Volume, welches noch in der vorherigen Besetzung eingespielt worden.war Kurz danach brach die Gruppe auseinander.
1999 wurde die Gruppe in der ursprünglichen Besetzung um Gilbert, Alderete, Martin und Travis neu gegründet. Das Album Technical Difficulties erschien im selben Jahr unter dem Major-Label Mascot Records.[2] Bereits ein Jahr später erschien mit Superheroes das nächste Album. Es folgten zwei Livealben und Getting Heavier, das dritte Werk nach der Neugründung.

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Name: Phil Gerus
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Name: Orbit
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There are three groups that share the name Orbit:  Orbit was an alternative rock band from Massachusetts who existed during the 1990's and early 2000's and headed by Jeff Robbins.  After forming in the early 90s, the group began playing shows on the east coast, building enough of a buzz to attract the attention of major label A&M records, who released their 1996 debut LP "Libido Speedway".  The album spawned the single "Medicine", which received modest radio and video play.  The band toured the festival circuit nationally in support of the record, but eventually were dropped by A&M.  The band formed their own independent record label, Lunch Records, and released their sophomore record "XLR8R" on it in 2001, but disbanded shortly thereafter.  www.orbitband.com  Orbit is also a European big beat DJ with several releases during the 1990's.  Orbit is a Czech techno/electro DJ. With his brother DJ Jerry, they are know as Porn Brothers.

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Name: Dam-Funk
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Santi White (born September 25, 1976), better known by her stage name Santigold (formerly Santogold), is an American singer-songwriter and producer. Her debut album Santogold was released to positive reviews in 2008. Her second album Master of My Make-Believe was released in April 2012, also to critical acclaim. She is a mezzo-soprano.

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Name: Jean Baptiste
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Name: Star Slinger
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Star Slinger (Born Darren Williams) is a producer and DJ based in Manchester, UK, taking influences mainly from house and hip hop. Star Slinger first came to the attention after self-releasing a beat tape in the summer of 2010 entitled "Volume 1". From then on, Williams picked up noteworthy press interest from Pitchfork Media, SPIN Magazine, Dazed & Confused Magazine and was interviewed by Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1. He has collaborated with Juicy J, Project Pat, Lil B, Stunnaman, Reggie B & Teki Latex alongside others. He has officially remixed for Jessie Ware, Gold Panda, Hundred Waters (for Skrillex's OWSLA label), Washed Out, Daedelus, The Go! Team and Broken Social Scene.

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Name: Chief Keef
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Keith Cozart (born August 15, 1995), better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He has signed a major record deal with Interscope Records, along with 1017 Brick Squad, and was the CEO of his own record label Glory Boyz Entertainment. His debut album Finally Rich was released on December 18, 2012.
Keith Cozart was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side. He attended Dulles Elementary School and the Banner School, a therapeutic day school. Cozart dropped out of high school at age 15. He began rapping at a very young age, regularly listed as 5, using his mother's karaoke machine and blank tapes to record his music.
While under house arrest for a previous weapons charge, Cozart posted several videos to his YouTube account. The attention he received increased during the short time between the release of several mixtapes and music videos, including "Bang", "3Hunna" and "I Don't Like". After two locally successful mixtapes, "I Don't Like" became a local hit in Chicago. It also caught fellow Chicago rapper Kanye West's attention, and West created a remix of the song with rappers Pusha T, Jadakiss and Big Sean.

In the summer of 2012, Keef was in the middle of a bidding war with many labels to sign him including Young Jeezy's CTE World. He would end up signing with Interscope Records due to them giving him his own label to run in Glory Boyz Entertainment. The deal is worth six million dollars over a three album deal. According to the deal Interscope has the right to pull out of the contract if he doesn't sell 250,000 copies of his debut LP by December 2013. Chief Keef's debut studio album Finally Rich, was released on December 18, 2012. Featured guests on the album included rappers 50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and his fellow Glory Boyz member Lil Reese.

On March 26, 2013, it was announced that Keef would be a part of XXL Magazine's 2013 Freshman Class. On May 8, 2013, Gucci Mane announced via Twitter that Chief Keef was the newest member of 1017 Brick Squad Records. On his 18th birthday, August 15, 2013, Chief Keef celebrated by releasing the mixtape Bang Part 2. Bang Part 2 was highly anticipated as the first project following his debut album, but ended up disappointing quite a few and received mixed critical responses. On October 12, 2013, he released Almighty Sosa another mixtape, however leading up to release he did not do much promotion for it. Following his October 2013 jail term, he began working on his second studio album and a biopic.

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Name: Rustie
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Rustie (born Russell Whyte) is a Scottish musician from Glasgow. Rustie's first instrument was guitar and he bought his first decks at age 15. He is associated with the sub-genre of aquacrunk, a genre described as an experimental offshoot of hip hop that emphasizes slowed down, low-slung beats, with lashings of electronic mutterings and morphing basslines. He believes his work conveys movement and fluidity, and that his creative process is an "immersive world" wrapped up in sound, rhythm, and color. Rustie's long-time interest in videogames has influenced his approach to electronic composition.

Rustie's first singles were released in 2007 and 2008. The producer signed with Warp Records in 2010 for the release of Sunburst EP. In 2011, Rustie released his first album Glass Swords on Warp Records. Brad LaBonte of Dusted Magazine wrote "Glass Swords contains some of the freshest, most exciting electronic dance music I’ve heard this year. Put simply, nothing sounds like this record."

In 2012, "After Light" from Glass Swords was included in an Adidas television advertisement featuring British track and field athlete Jessica Ennis prior to the 2012 Olympic Games. "After Light","Ultra Thizz", and "Surph" songs from "Glass Swords", were used in the soundtrack to the video game Sleeping Dogs.

The same year, Glass Swords won The Guardian's First Album Award.

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Name: Future
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Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn, (born November 20, 1983), better known by his stage name Future, is an American hip hop artist from Atlanta, Georgia. After releasing a series of mixtapes between 2010 and 2011, Future signed a major-label deal with Epic Records and fellow American rapper Rocko's A1 Recordings, which helped launch Future's own label imprint, Freebandz. Future subsequently began working on his debut album Pluto, and in April 2012 released the album to positive reviews. The album spawned five singles, all of which charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album was later re-packaged in November, as Pluto 3D. His second album Honest, was released in April 2014. He unexpectedly released his third album, DS2, in July 2015, which earned him his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Future premiered his fourth studio album EVOL on February 5, 2016 on DJ Khaled's We The Best Radio's debut on Beats 1.

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Name: AHAB
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Ahab ist eine deutsche Funeral-Doom-Metal-Band, die Ende 2004 von den beiden Midnattsol-Gitarristen Christian Hector und Daniel Droste in Mosbach  gegründet wurde.

 Bereits die ersten Aufnahmen wurden von Stephan Adolph durchgeführt, der Ende 2005 fester Bestandteil der Band wurde.

2006 trat die Band dann unter anderem beim Doom Shall Rise auf, bevor im selben Jahr beim Label Napalm Records als erstes Album The Call of the Wretched Sea erschien, ein Konzeptalbum zu Herman Melvilles Roman Moby Dick. Auf diesem Album spielte Cornelius Althammer (zuvor bei der Brutal-Death-Metal-Band Mortified) das Schlagzeug ein. Bei einem Gig in Oslo entschlossen sich Christian Hector und Daniel Droste den Schlagzeuger als festes Bandmitglied zu integrieren.

Im Jahr 2008 spielten sie unter anderem auf dem Summer-Breeze-Festival und trennten sich kurz danach wegen persönlicher Differenzen von Stephan Adolph. Neuer Bassist wurde Stephan Wandernoth von der Tech-Death-Band Dead Eyed Sleeper, in der auch Cornelius Althammer spielt.

Im Sommer 2009 erschien das Album The Divinity of Oceans, das die Geschichte des Walfangsegelschiffes Essex, dessen wahre Geschichte die historische Vorlage für Melvilles Roman Moby Dick war, musikalisch interpretiert. Als Quellen dienten die Bücher von Nathaniel Philbrick (Im Herzen der See: Die letzte Fahrt des Walfängers Essex) und Owen Chase (Der Untergang der Essex).

In den Jahren 2010 und 2011 spielte die Band zwei Touren – unter anderem mit Dornenreich und The Vision Bleak – und war Gast auf diversen Festivals in Europa und Nordamerika.

Ab Mitte 2011 arbeiteten die vier Musiker an ihrem Album The Giant, bei dem es sich einmal mehr um ein Konzeptalbum handelt. Thematisch stützt es sich auf Edgar Allan Poes einzigen Roman Der Bericht des Arthur Gordon Pym, in welchem abermals die Geschichte einer Seefahrt mit Schiffbruch erzählt wird. Aufgenommen wurde das Album Ende Januar 2012. Ahab hatten sich dazu entschlossen, es in einem Analog-Studio live einzuspielen. The Giant wurde schließlich am 25. Mai 2012 über Napalm Records veröffentlicht und mit einer Headliner-Tour durch Mitteleuropa promotet – Support waren Ophis und Esoteric. Im Oktober 2013 folgte die The-Divinity-of-Mountains-Tour durch Deutschland und die Schweiz mit Omega Massif und Valborg.

Am 27. August 2015 erschien dann mit The Boats of the Glen Carrig das vierte Studioalbum der Band, welches auf dem gleichnamigen Horrorroman von William Hope Hodgson basiert und eine unheimliche Seegeschichte erzählt.

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Name: Migos
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Migos () is an American hip hop duo from Lawrenceville, Georgia, founded in 2008. The group was originally composed of Southern rappers Quavo, Takeoff, and Offset. Quavo is from Athens, Georgia; Offset and Takeoff were born and raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia. They are managed by Coach K, the former manager of Gucci Mane and Jeezy, and frequently collaborated with producers such as DJ Durel, Murda Beatz, Zaytoven, and Buddah Bless. Recognized for their contribution to trap music in the 2010s, Billboard stated that the group "influenced pop culture and the entire English language by bringing their North Atlanta roots to the mainstream".

Migos released their commercial debut single "Versace" in 2013, taken from their mixtape Y.R.N. (Young Rich Niggas). They released several more singles, including "Fight Night" (2014), "Look at My Dab" (2015), and their four Billboard Hot 100 top 10 entries "Bad and Boujee" (featuring Lil Uzi Vert) (2016), peaking at number 1, "MotorSport" (with Nicki Minaj and Cardi B) (2017), peaking at number 6, "Stir Fry" (2018), peaking at number 8, and "Walk It Talk It" (featuring Drake) (2018), peaking at number 10, and even “T-Shirt” from their second album called Culture in 2017.

Migos released their debut album Yung Rich Nation in July 2015, through Quality Control Music and 300 Entertainment. In 2016, the group portrayed fictionalized versions of themselves in the first season of the Donald Glover comedy-drama television series Atlanta. Their second album, Culture, was released in January 2017 also through both record labels, and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart. The group signed a deal with Motown and Capitol Records in February 2017, and put out the album Culture II in January 2018, giving the group their second number 1 album in the United States. In 2021, the trio released their long-awaited fourth album Culture III, the final installment in their Culture trilogy.

On November 1, 2022, Takeoff was shot and killed in Houston, Texas.

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Name: Miguel
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Miguel Jontel Pimentel, (born October 23, 1985) who performs under the mononym Miguel, is an American recording artist, songwriter and producer. Signed to Jive Records in 2007, Miguel released his debut album, All I Want Is You, in November 2010. Although it was underpromoted and performed poorly upon its release, the album became a sleeper hit and helped Miguel garner commercial standing. After Jive's dissolution in 2011, he moved to RCA Records and released his second album Kaleidoscope Dream in 2012 to critical acclaim.

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Name: Everything But the Girl
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Everything but the Girl (often shortened EBTG) was a two-person English band, formed in Hull during 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt. The duo's most successful single was a Todd Terry remix of "Missing" charting in several countries in 1994.
They are currently inactive, although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they may perform again someday. They have not performed publicly since 2000.
Watt and Thorn are also a couple; they are very private about their relationship and personal life. For some time, it was not a publicised fact that they were a couple, or that they had married subsequently. The duo have expressed a strong desire to raise their three children with as much privacy as possible.

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Name: Ben Watt
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Born 6 Dec 1962, London. Musician. Songwriter. Producer. DJ. Owner-founder of Buzzin' Fly Records and Strange Feeling Records. Half of alt-pop duo Everything But the Girl (EBTG).  Ben Watt's career began as a singer-songwriter in the early eighties with a clutch of folk-jazz solo recordings on London independent label Cherry Red Records ('North Marine Drive' album, 'Summer Into Winter' EP with Robert Wyatt). In 1982 he formed alt-pop duo Everything But The Girl with singer-writer-partner Tracey Thorn. They recorded nine studio albums (1984-1999) over a fifteen year period, scooping one UK Platinum and six UK Gold disc awards, plus a handful of UK Top 40 hits. Highpoints include the debut album 'Eden' (1984), the multi-platinum global Number 1, 'Missing' (1994-95) and the best-selling interpretations of electronica in the late nineties ('Walking Wounded' album, 'Protection' and 'Better Things' with Massive Attack, 'Temperamental' album).  Encouraged by DJ-producer Howie B to start DJing, Watt was thirty-two when he first started mixing freestyle sets of jazz, drum n bass and deep house in London in 1995. A quick learner, guest sets followed at top London nights such as James Lavelle's Dusted, Fabio's Swerve and Howie B's own west-side Sunday parties.  In 1998, focussing on deep house, he established the seminal London Sunday day-night club and compilation series, Lazy Dog, with Jay Hannan. Moving away from EBTG's mainstream eclecticism and into club-oriented dance music production, he also turned out an accompanying string of acclaimed dance floor remixes for Sade, Sunshine Anderson, Zero 7, Maxwell and Meshell Ndegeocello. Lazy Dog folded at the top in 2003 after five years of sell-out parties around the world and compilation sales of 100,000.  Expanding his new-found role as DJ and promoter, in 2002 he became part-owner-founder of new west London nightclubs Neighbourhood and Cherry Jam orchestrating the music policy and image of both venues, and helping establish their three-year reputation at the forefront of London's club scene. Under his creative direction Cherry Jam's intimate 200-capacity surroundings hosted international DJs as well as rock icons (The Libertines' played their first official debut show there) and the space introduced art exhibitions and the long-running spoken word literary night, Book Slam. At the larger Neighbourhood, Watt brought in big guns like Groove Armada, the Rough Trade Records 25th Anniversary, the inaugural House Music Awards and a string of top DJs to guest at his own in-house nights, before qutting both venues in 2005.  In April 2003 Watt launched his own independent label, Buzzin' Fly focussing on underground house and techno. As well as being a home for his own club-oriented productions (incl 'Lone Cat' (2003), 'Pop A Cap In Yo' Ass' with Estelle (2005), 'Guinea Pig (2008')), the label has fostered new talent, unearthing Justin Martin (Breakthrough DJ nominee at House Music Awards 2004 and 2005), Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia (The Times called their debut album 'a modern classic'), Rodamaal, and new Eastern European talent (BarBQ and Kimouts). It has also drawn defining work from remixers such as Ame, Radio Slave, Charles Webster and John Tejada. The label won Best Breakthrough Label at the House Music Awards 2004 and was runner-up as Best Label at the DJ Magazine Best Of British Awards in both 2007 and 2008. In 2008 the label also secured Best Mix Album Of The Year (Justin Martin's 'Chaos Restored 2') and No. 2 Best Track Of The Year (Stimming's 'Kleine Nachtmusik') in iDJ's Best Of 2008 Round-Up. Meanwhile DJ Magazine put both Watt's own '5 Golden Years In The Wilderness' collection and Justin Martin's 'Chaos Restored 2' in their Top 10 Compilations Of 2008.  In February 2007 Watt launched a sister label called Strange Feeling, a home for alt-indie and electronic pop with acclaimed signings including Denmark's Figurines, Brooklyn's Tigercity and Budapest's The Unbending Trees.  Now a central figure on London's club scene he DJs regularly in the capital as well as all over Europe, Australia and North America with regular sell-out shows. 2005 saw him tour extensively on the festival circuit (Good Vibrations, Homelands, Coachella, Ibiza, Lovebox Weekender, Electric Picnic). In 2008 he opened Sonar 2008, headlined at Exit 2008 and was made resident DJ at We Love Space Sundays in Ibiza. In London Buzzin' Fly was one the major success stories at The End in central London before it announced its closure in January 2009.  2009 sees the launch of a new Buzzin' Fly residency in London plus a series of new Buzzin' Fly events in various European cities. He is resident again at We Love Space Sundays in Ibiza for 2009. Watt continues to edit and present his weekly radio show on KISS in the UK.  Unfinished projects include his long-running 'Outspoken' project, a series of spoken word narratives set to music that he has been writing since 2002 with narrators as diverse as UK R'n'B MC Estelle, art-rock Australian Robert Forster, New York Japanese dancer Miho (wife of film director Hal Hartley) and Grenadan-Brixton poet Malika Booker.  Apart from a life in music, his graphic autobiographical memoir, 'Patient - The True Story Of A Rare Illness' (1996), detailing his extraordinary life and death battle with a rare auto-immune disease in 1992 was published to wide acclaim by Penguin (a Sunday Times Book Of The Year, Esquire Non-Fiction Award Finalist) and Grove Atlantic Press US (a New York Times Notable Book of The Year.) It has subsequently been translated into Spanish and Swedish.  He lives in London with partner Tracey Thorn and their three children.

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Name: Tracey Thorn
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Tracey Anne Thorn (born 26 September 1962) is an English pop singer and songwriter. She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl, who are currently on extended hiatus. Thorn was born in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She grew up in Hatfield and studied English at the University of Hull, where she graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours. She later took an MA degree at Birkbeck College, University of London.
After 28 years as a couple, Thorn and her partner Ben Watt married in 2009 at Chelsea Register Office. They live in Hampstead, North London. The couple have twin daughters born in 1998 and a son born in 2001.
Thorn will release her autobiography in early 2013.

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Name: Drop The Lime
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Everyone comes from somewhere, but some people wear the cities they're from like badges of honour. Drop the Lime is Luca Venezia, one of those people whose identity is intrinsically connected to his hometown - New York City.  And while many have only just heard of the magic of Drop The Lime, Luca has been honing his craft for years. From humble beginnings as a choirboy to a childhood obsession with 50s rock'n'roll, the 25 year old has been experimenting with sound for years via the underground electronic scene of Kid 606's TigerBeat6 label, Mad Decent and French label Institubes (under his alter ego "Curses!").  Drop The Lime's influences range from Brian Eno to rockabilly (he's well known for his 50s doo wop and soul sets) to Sonic Youth to Wu Tang but things don't just stop there. He also runs Trouble & Bass, an influential New York club night and label since 2006. The Trouble & Bass crew are the DJs who are defining a new New York sound.  "Having a crew from NYC behind you, pushing the sound you produce, is essential in creating a movement. We're all producers and DJs so sometimes we'll collaborate on production -- or I'll have one of them help out with one of my basslines - since they understand my sound better than anyone else".

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Name: SAFIA
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SAFIA is an Australian electronica, indie pop band formed in Canberra. They Met at Radford College. They won the Groovin' the Moo competition in 2012 and were featured on Peking Duk's ARIA top 5 single, "Take Me Over".

The band says the name comes from a song they wrote called "Sapphire", but it does not mean anything. The band have since found out that safia means serenity in Arabic.

When it comes to the band's influences, they claim have a very broad range of styles and genres but list artists like Purity Ring, Major Lazer, Feed Me, Chet Faker, Disclosure and James Blake.

The band has also opened for Twenty One Pilots during their 2017 Emotional Roadshow Tour Pacific Leg which started in Wellington, New Zealand

On 30 June 2016, the band announced the title of its debut album, Internal, which was released on 9 September 2016.

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Name: A-Trak
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A-Trak (born Alain Macklovitch on March 30, 1982) is a Canadian DJ, turntablist and owner of the record label Fool's Gold. Born in Montréal, Quebec and based in New York City, New York, A-Trak was the first DJ to win all three major DJ competition titles (DMC, ITF and Vestax), as well as being the first DJ to win five World Championships. He won the DMC World DJ Championship in 1997 at the age of 15, making him the youngest and first Canadian winner of the competition. He was an honorary member of the prestigious, now defunct DJ crew Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and a member of The Allies alongside frequent collaborator DJ Craze.
Macklovitch is the younger brother of David Macklovitch of the Montreal-based band Chromeo, with whom he ran the record label Audio Research from 1997–2007. He, along with Nick Catchdubs then founded the Fool's Gold Records label in 2007.
In the late 90's A-Trak developed a notation system for scratching. He gave a lecture about it at the Skratchcon 2000 conference and published an article in Tablist Magazine. He has also appeared on the cover of multiple magazines including Billboard, URB (twice), BPM and Status. 
In 2004 Kanye West recruited him as his personal tour DJ, and he has worked closely with him ever since, including performances alongside the US rapper at MTV specials, the Grammy Awards, multiple MTV Video Music Awards, and worldwide stadium shows. A-Trak also recorded scratches on Kanye West’s second and third studio albums Late Registration in 2005 and Graduation in 2007, and was an influence on the overall sound of the latter.
Over the years he has endorsed several brands including Serato Scratch Live, Rane DJ equipment, as well as clothing companies; Zoo York, Lifted Research Group and Circa. In addition to endorsing outside brands, A-Trak himself has become a streetwear culture icon, collaborating with Nike, New Era, Kidrobot, and Zoo York. A-Trak also has a collaborative clothing line called “Sunglasses is a Must,” and released his own toy "Grateful Bear" with Kid Robot in 2009.
He is known for merging the sounds of rap and electronic music through his remix work, his 2007 CD Dirty South Dance, his production for Kid Sister and Lupe Fiasco, and his remixes for electronic artists including MSTRKRFT and Boys Noize.[17] The hit single by Kid Cudi, "Day 'n' Night", was released on an EP by A-Trak's label Fool's Gold.
In 2009, A-Trak collaborated with Armand Van Helden to form a disco house production duo under the stage name Duck Sauce. They released "aNYway" in October on Ministry of Sound. Other Duck Sauce tracks include "Grand Steppin", "The Motion", "You're Nasty", "Big Bad Wolf" and "Barbra Streisand". Duck Sauce has achieved massive success worldwide including reaching the top chart position in twelve countries and attaining the coveted #1 spot on the US Dance Billboard charts.
In February 2010, it was announced that A-Trak will perform live shows with Travis Barker who had previously worked with their mutual friend, the late DJ AM.
In October 2010, he released a song entitled "Ray Ban Vision" with G.O.O.D. Music's CyHi Da Prynce. This song has been used in the 2012 movie Project X.
On December 16, 2011, A-Trak performed an hour long opening set at Madison Square Garden in New York City as the opening act for Swedish House Mafia.
In 2012, A-Trak was featured on the cover of Billboard Magazine alongside Diplo and Skrillex.
In April 2012, A-Trak, alongside Kimbra and Mark Foster, collaborated on a song, entitled "Warrior", together for Converse's 3 Artists, 1 song
In February 2013, A-Trak released the video for his "Piss Test" remix off of the Fool's Gold album. The video features Jim Jones, Juicy J, El-P, Flatbush Zombies, Flosstradamus and is directed by Shomi Patwary.

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Name: Cajmere
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For an international audience reawakening to the influence of Chicago house during the 1990s, Curtis A. Jones acted as quite a renaissance leader. Besides donning his straightahead house guise Cajmere and a flamboyant, neon-haired acid-house alter-ego named Green Velvet for several of the most memorable underground house tracks of the decade (including "Preacher Man," "Answering Machine" "Brighter Days" and "Flash"), Jones helmed the two most respected labels in the new school of Chicago house, Cajual and Relief. Though artist-owned labels had become the norm in Detroit, Chicago occurrences were frustratingly rare, despite the fact that the two major house imprints of the 1980s, Trax and DJ International, had continually bilked their artists out of money. Cajmere went a long way towards rectifying that situation, releasing records by a diverse cast of producers old and new: DJ Sneak, Glenn Underground, Paul Johnson, Gemini, Tim Harper and Boo Williams, among others.

The Chicago native began clubbing and buying records while studying at the University of Illinois. He later graduated with a degree in chemical engineering (and even attended several years of grad school at UC-Berkeley), but then returned to his hometown in 1991 with a drive to begin recording and DJing around the area. His first track "Coffee Pot (It's Time for the Percolator)" was released in 1992 as Cajmere on Clubhouse Records. That same year, Cajmere worked on production for "Get With U" by Lidell Townsell, then hooked up with another Chicago vocalist, Dajae. After the pair recorded a breakout single named "Brighter Days," Cajmere decided to form his own Cajual Records to release it. "Brighter Days" ascended to the number two position on the dance charts and became an international smash; it was the perfect remedy to Chicago's quickly deteriorating fortunes, a track which looked back to the '80s boom years but updated the sound with heavier beats, low-end synth and up-to-date programming.

Subsequent Dajae/Cajual collaborations like "U Got Me Up" and "Day by Day" followed, and Cajmere eventually set up his Relief label in 1994. After deciding that the house scene needed a bit more showmanship, he created the alias Green Velvet for live gigs and DJ events. A kind of digital-age Bootsy Collins with impeccable fashion sense, Green Velvet hit the club charts with a trio of anthems from 1995 to 1997: "Flash," "The Stalker" and "Answering Machine." While no full-length appeared from either Cajmere or Green Velvet during those years, Cajual/Relief compilations like The Many Shades of Cajual, A Taste of Cajual and Relief: The Future Sound of Chicago collected all of his best productions.  . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Name: Feral
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Name: FKJ
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Vincent Fenton (born March 26, 1990), known professionally as French Kiwi Juice or the abbreviation FKJ (sometimes stylized Fkj), is a French multi-instrumentalist, singer, and musician from Tours. He is known for his solo live performances, where he does live loopings through Ableton and showcases his multi-instrumentalist skills. His self-titled debut album, French Kiwi Juice, was released on March 3, 2017.

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Name: Souda
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Name: Fleetwood Mac
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1967 gründeten der Gitarrist Peter Green, der Schlagzeuger Mick Fleetwood – beide ehemalige Mitglieder von John Mayalls Bluesbreakers – und der Bass-Gitarrist Bob Brunning die Band Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. Nach einer Live-Einspielung (Live at The Marquee 1967, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Bob Brunning und Jeremy Spencer) und der Studio-Einspielung Long Grey Mare (Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, Bob Brunning) verließ Bob Brunning noch im selben Jahr die Band und wurde durch John McVie ersetzt, der noch als Bass-Gitarrist mit Mick Taylor (später Gitarrist bei The Rolling Stones) als Mitglied der Bluesbreakers bei John Mayall spielte. Kurze Zeit später wurde auch Jeremy Spencer (Gitarre, Gesang, Klavier) festes Mitglied der Band Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.

Fleetwood Mac war von Beginn an eine äußerst erfolgreiche Bluesband. Frühe Hits waren Oh, Well, das Instrumental Albatross und Black Magic Woman (das allerdings erst durch die Adaption von Santana zum Welthit wurde). 1969 verkaufte Fleetwood Mac mit Peter Green mehr Schallplatten als die Beatles und die Rolling Stones.

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Name: CHVRCHES
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Chvrches (ausgesprochen als "churches" (engl. Kirchen) und manchmal stilisiert als CHVRCHES) sind eine 2011 gegründete schottische Elektropop-Band aus Glasgow. Sie besteht aus Lauren Mayberry (Gesang, zusätzliche Synthesizer), Iain Cook (Synthesizer, Gitarre, Bass, Gesang) und Martin Doherty (Synthesizer, Sampler, Gesang). Vor Chvrches war Iain Cook ein Mitglied der Gruppen Aereogramme und The Unwinding Hours. Er schrieb ebenfalls Musik für Film und TV. Martin Doherty war ein Mitglied der Live-Band von The Twilight Sad. Mayberry zufolge besuchten Iain und Martin zusammen die Universität, wodurch sie sich schon eine ganze Weile kannten.

Mayberry hat einen Abschluss in Rechtswissenschaften, gefolgt von einem Master in Journalismus. Dies führte sie zu einer Karriere als freischaffende Journalistin bevor sie zur Musik kam. Seit ihrer Kindheit spielt sie Klavier und seit dem Teenageralter Schlagzeug.Von 15 bis 22 spielte sie Schlagzeug in verschiedenen Bands. Vor Chvrches war Mayberry ein Mitglied zweier örtlicher Bands, Boyfriend/Girlfriend und dann Blue Sky Archives. In letzterer war sie Sängerin, Schlagzeugerin und Keyboarderin.

Cook hatte eine EP für Blue Sky Archives an einem Wochenende im September 2011 produziert.Cook startete ein neues Projekt mit Doherty und bat Mayberry auf einer Reihe von Demoaufnahmen zu singen. Sie komponierten für sieben, acht Monate in einem Kellerstudio in Glasgow. Cook, Mayberry und Doherty entscheiden sich, eine neue Band zu gründen, nachdem sich die Zusammenarbeit als erfolgreich herausgestellt hatte.[2] Sie wählen den Namen Chvrches, mit einem römischen „v“, um Verwechslungen mit echten Kirchen bei Internet-Suchen zu vermeiden.[2] Chvrches gaben ebenfalls an, dass der Bandname „keinen religiösen Hintergrund habe, sondern [sie] fanden, er klinge einfach cool.“

Lauren Mayberry bei einem Auftritt von Chvrches in London (2012)
Im Mai 2012 stellten Chvrches ihren Song Lies vor, welcher als exklusiver Download auf der Seite des Neon Gold-Labels zu finden war Diese Single wurde gefolgt von The Mother We Share im September 2012.

Im Juni 2012 schrieb The Guardian über Chvrches als eine der Neuen Bands des Tages. Die Band belegte 2013 Platz 5 auf der BBC-Liste der vielversprechendsten Nachwuchs-Künstler.

Die BBC beschrieb die Debüt-Single The Mother We Share als „Elektro-Pop, der nur schimmert, wenn die Tränen von den Lautsprechern gewischt worden sind". "The Mother We Share verursacht eine Art innerer Aufregung mit ihren zugänglichen und doch anspruchsvollen Synthesizer-Motiven, gelegen irgendwo zwischen Robyn und The Knife“. Die Single wurde an zwei Tagen geschrieben und aufgenommen. Lies war auf NME's Best Tracks of 2012 auf Platz 28. The Mother We Share war auf Platz 51 der The Huffington Post Top 52 Songs des Jahres 2012.
Am 6. Februar 2013 stellten Chvrches ihre neue Single Recover vor. Diese wurde, gefolgt von der Recover EP, am 25. März 2013 in Großbritannien über das Label Goodbye/Virgin und am 26. März 2013 über das Label Glassnote veröffentlicht. 2013 wurde Chvrches als eine der Bands genannt, die man sich auf dem SXSW unbedingt ansehen müsste.

Am 14. Juni gab die Band ihr Debüt-Studioalbum The Bones of What You Believe offiziell bekannt, welches am 23. September 2013 im Vereinigten Königreich und ansonsten am 24. September 2013 veröffentlicht wurde.
Am 19. Juni 2013 hatten Chvrches ihren ersten TV-Auftritt im US-amerikanischen Fernsehen, bei dem sie The Mother We Share in der Sendung Late Night with Jimmy Fallon spielten. Am 15. Juli 2013 veröffentlichten sie die Single Gun. Das Lied We Sink ist Teil des offiziellen Soundtracks von FIFA 14. The Mother We Share hingegen ist Teil des offiziellen Soundtracks von Forza Horizon 2.

Anfang 2015 kündigten Chvrches ihr zweites Album an. Every Open Eye erschien am 25. September 2015 über Virgin Records. Die Songs Leave a Trace, Never Ending Circles und Clearest Blue wurden im Vorfeld als Singles ausgekoppelt.

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Name: King Krule
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Archie Marshall (born 24 August 1994) more commonly known by his stage name Zoo Kid is a British singer, songwriter and musician. Marshall studied at Forest Hill School and then at the Brit School for three years between 2008 and 2011. In July 2011, Archie began playing under a new moniker, King Krule, at a festival in Hyères, France. It was inspired by the character 'King K. Rool' in Donkey Kong Country.Zoo Kid released his debut single Out Getting Ribs on House Anxiety records in April 2010, recorded and mixed in his bedroom with his friends Francis North and Thelonious McCabe.His music has been likened to Morrissey and Edwyn Collins.Stylistically he has been described as darkwave, New wave and using dubstep techniques and is inspired by disparate influences such as Gene Vincent, Fela Kuti and The Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Archie also makes music under the moniker DJ JD Sports and Edgar The Beatmaker, the styles of which are significantly different than King Krule.

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Name: 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
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Nosaj Thing (born Jason Chung) is an American electronic musician based in Los Angeles, California.He has produced tracks for underground hip hop artists such as Busdriver, Nocando, Flash Bang Grenada,Kendrick Lamar,and Kid Cudi.Nosaj Thing was involved in music at a young age and hip hop has had a profound influence on his music. At the age of 12, he learned the basics of turntables and began to produce on the computer shortly after. Nosaj Thing has since played at various shows and festivals including Sónar Festival and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.He self-released the debut EP, Views/Octopus, in 2006.His first album, Drift, was released on Alpha Pup Records in 2009. The remix album, Drift Remixed, was released in 2010.A full-length sophomore album will be released on January 22, 2013.Nosaj Thing has also founded his own person label titled Timetable to which he has signed a handful of artists.

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Name: Jason Chung
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Nosaj Thing (born Jason Chung) is an American electronic musician based in Los Angeles, California.He has produced tracks for underground hip hop artists such as Busdriver, Nocando, Flash Bang Grenada,Kendrick Lamar,and Kid Cudi.Nosaj Thing was involved in music at a young age and hip hop has had a profound influence on his music. At the age of 12, he learned the basics of turntables and began to produce on the computer shortly after. Nosaj Thing has since played at various shows and festivals including Sónar Festival and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.He self-released the debut EP, Views/Octopus, in 2006.His first album, Drift, was released on Alpha Pup Records in 2009. The remix album, Drift Remixed, was released in 2010.A full-length sophomore album will be released on January 22, 2013.Nosaj Thing has also founded his own person label titled Timetable to which he has signed a handful of artists.

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Name: Sonny Fodera
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Sonny Fodera was born on November 10, 1985 (age 35) in Australia. He started producing music at a young age and has established himself as one of Australia’s premier house dj's and producers.

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Name: Sian Evans
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Sian Evans (born 9 October 1971) is a Welsh singer. Throughout the 2000s, she was front woman and singer-songwriter of the band Kosheen, a trip-hop/drum & bass group that, during that decade, placed two albums within the Top Ten of the UK Albums Chart. She has also joined a list of Welsh artists to have topped the UK singles chart with collaboration on the track 'Louder' with DJ Fresh. Kosheen disbanded in 2016.

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Name: Frank Ocean
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Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Breaux; October 28, 1987), better known by his stage name Frank Ocean, is an American singer-songwriter from New Orleans, Louisiana. Breaux made an early career as a ghost-writer for artists such as Justin Bieber, Bridget Kelly, Aramide Makinde and John Legend. In mid 2010 he became a member of OFWGKTA premiering on Domo Genesis' track, "SteamRoller". In February 2011, he released his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, to critical acclaim. He released two singles; "Novacane" and "Swim Good". Both singles achieved chart success. Ocean went on a 7 show tour through North America and Europe promoting the mixtape. He is currently located in New York City.

The mixtape caught the interest of recording artists such as Kanye West, Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z, and he appeared on Watch the Throne. On January 5, 2012, the BBC announced that he had finished in second place in the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll. Ocean is currently working on his debut studio album, set to be released Summer 2012, while the same year he appeared at Coachella and he is scheduled to appear at Lollapalooza. His debut album, Channel Orange, is reportedly set to be released on July 17, 2012.

Frank Ocean began his career with the producer duo The MIDI Mafia. Ocean joined Los Angeles-based hip hop collective OFWGKTA, whom he met through his connections, at the end of 2009. In late 2009, he met Tricky Stewart, who helped Ocean sign a contract with Def Jam Recordings as a solo artist, however, he was initially unable to build a relationship with the company. In 2010, he changed his name from Christopher Breaux to Christopher Francis William Ocean via a legal website.

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Name: The Very Best Of The Jacksons
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Name: The Blueprint 3
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Name: J. Bhasker
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Name: R. Fenty
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2010 ist Rihanna-Jahr. Mit "Rude Boy", "Love The Way You Lie", "What’s My Name?" und "Only Girl (In The World)" platziert die Sängerin vier Titel an der Spitze der US-amerikanischen Billboard Charts. Damit sichert sie sich ihren zweiten Eintrag ins Guinnesbuch der Rekorde. Niemand anderem gelangen so viele Nummer 1-Hits innerhalb eines Jahres.

Die Ehre wurde ihr schon zuvor in der Kategorie "Best-Selling Download Female Artist in the U.K." für "Umbrella" zuteil. Das Stück von Rihannas drittem Studioalbum "Good Girl Gone Bad" frisst sich 2007 durch alle Äther des Erdballs und markiert den endgültigen Durchbruch der Sängerin. Rihanna ist zu diesem Zeitpunkt 19 Jahre alt.

Ihr Debüt feiert die Schönheit von der Urlaubsinsel Barbados zwei Jahre zuvor. Jay-Z hat gerade erst den Chefsessel der legendären Def Jam Recordings erklommen, als er Rihanna als sein erstes Signing unter Vertrag nimmt. Aufgeregt sei sie gewesen, sie habe arg gezittert, berichtet die Sängerin später von ihrem Vorsingen. Um Jay-Z zu überzeugen, reicht es. In Zusammenarbeit mit Universal baut er Rihanna in den folgenden Jahren zu einem der größten Popstars der Welt auf.

Dahinter steckt eine massive Werbestrategie, die Rihanna über die Jahre als Sexikone stilisiert. Galt sie zu Beginn noch als lebendige und lockere Karibikschönheit, die mit Reggae und Dancehall gespickten, gut gelaunten R&B-Pop produziert, mutiert sie spätestens mit "Good Girl Gone Bad" zum Vamp, das mit viel nackter Haut und sexueller Offenheit alle Verkaufsrekorde bricht. Zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung von "Talk That Talk" hat Rihanna weltweit mehr als 30 Millionen Einheiten verkauft. Die Absatzzahlen ihrer unzähligen Single-Auskopplungen pendeln sich sogar im dreistelligen Millionenbereich ein. Alleine in Deutschland gingen über 1,3 Millionen Alben und mehr als drei Millionen Singles über die Ladentheke und Internetleitungen.

Ein solch durchschlagender Erfolg war kaum abzusehen, als die kleine Robyn Rihanna Fenty vor einem Spiegel in Bridgetown auf Barbados in eine Haarbürste singt. Gemeinsam mit zwei Klassenkameradinnen gründet sie eine Mädchenband, Sängerinnen wie Mariah Carey, Madonna, Janet Jackson und Beyoncé sind die Vorbilder des Trios. Evan Rogers wird während seines Urlaubs zufällig auf die Truppe aufmerksam, besonders Rihanna tut es dem Produzenten an. Wenig später spielen sie in New York erste Demos ein, die Rogers an alle Labels des Landes verschickt. Später nehmen sich klingende Namen wie Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Ne-Yo, Chase & Status und David Guetta ihrer an. Aus dem R&B mit karibischen Einflüssen wird nach und nach tanzbarer Discopop.

Mit steigendem Erfolg und ihrem wachsenden Status als Sexsymbol avanciert Rihanna zum gefragten Werbeträger. So räkelt sich die Sängerin beispielsweise nur mit Dessous bekleidet in einer Limousine – um für Jeans der Designermarke Armani zu werben. Auch andere Firmen wie Nivea, Nike und verschiedene Parfümhersteller greifen auf Rihanna zurück.

Skandale aus ihrem Privatleben steigern das Interesse an Rihanna nur. Im Februar 2009 kursieren Bilder, die Rihanna mit Blessuren und Prellungen im Gesicht zeigen. Ihr damaliger Lebensgefährte Chris Brown hatte sie geschlagen, ein Gericht verurteilt ihn später zu fünf Jahren auf Bewährung. Nach einer mehrmonatigen Auszeit nutzt Rihanna den bedauernswerten Vorfall im Rahmen der Promotion zu ihrem Album "Rated R", auf dem sich die zuvor von Brown Erniedrigte als Domina präsentiert.

Schon vorher schlachtet das Boulevard das Verhältnis der Sängerin zu ihrem Vater aus, von dem sich ihre Mutter kurz vor Rihannas Durchbruch nach 14 Jahren Ehe scheiden lässt. Ronald Fenty war süchtig nach Crack, Alkohol und Marihuana, im Rahmen der Tour zu "Good Girl Gone Bad" tauchte er bei einem ihrer Konzerte betrunken auf und demolierte den Tourbus. Sie hätten die Unstimmigkeiten zwar ausgeräumt, eine Beziehung zwischen Vater und Tochter besteht nach Aussagen Rihannas jedoch nicht.

In der Regel macht die Sängerin jedoch mit konstruierten Skandälchen auf sich aufmerksam. So leckt sich das Boulevard die Finger als sie sich 2011 in einem Sex-Shop in Paris erwischen lässt. Oder als der Bauer, in dessen Feld Teile des Videos zu "We Found Love" entstanden, die Dreharbeiten abbricht, weil sich Rihanna zu offenherzig für den Geschmack des gläubigen Christen gezeigt hat. Für die Verkaufszahlen sind solche Schlagzeilen Gold wert. Nach 2010 dürften noch einige Rihanna-Jahre mehr folgen.

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Name: Jon Lajoie
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Jonathan "Jon" Lajoie (born August 21, 1980) is a Canadian comedian, actor, rapper, singer, musician and Internet celebrity from Montreal, Quebec. He gained fame mostly from his YouTube channel, "jonlajoie," posting comedic original songs.

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Manu Chao is a French singer of Spanish descent. He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages. Chao began his musical career in Paris, busking and playing with groups such as Hot Pants and Los Carayos, which combined a variety of languages and musical styles. With friends and his brother Antoine Chao, he founded the band Mano Negra in 1987, achieving considerable success, particularly in Europe. He became a solo artist after its breakup in 1995, and since then tours regularly with his live band, Radio Bemba. Chao was born to Spanish parents. His mother, Felisa Ortega, is from Bilbao, Basque country and his father, writer and journalist Ramón Chao, is from Vilalba, Galicia. They emigrated to Paris to avoid Francisco Franco's dictatorship—Manu's grandfather had been sentenced to death. Shortly after Manu's birth, the Chao family moved to the outskirts of Paris, and Manu spent most of his childhood in Boulogne-Billancourt and Sèvres. As he grew up he was surrounded by many artists and intellectuals, most of whom were acquaintances of his father. Chao cites much of his childhood experience as inspiration for some songs.

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Name: Ｐｉｎｋ Ｆｌｏｙｄ
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Im Jahr 1965 gründeten die Herren Syd Barrett (Gitarre, Gesang), Bob Close, Rick Wright (Keyboards), Nick Mason (Schlagzeug) und Roger Waters (Bass) eine Band namens Sigma 6. Close steigt schon bald wieder aus, aber die anderen vier bleiben ein Weilchen zusammen. Sie probieren alle möglichen Bandnamen aus, The Screaming Abdabs, T-Set, The Meggadeaths, und The Architectural Abdabs, bis eines Tages Barrett mit dem Vorschlag The Pink Floyd Sound ankommt, der auf den Vornamen der beiden Jazzer Pink Anderson und Floyd Council beruht.

Für ihren Erstling "Piper At The Gates of Dawn" (1968) benutzen sie den Namen The Pink Floyd, mit "A Saucerful Of Secrets" verschwindet auch noch das The in der Versenkung. Inzwischen hat die Band aus Cambridge eine Menge Auftritte im Londoner UFO-Klub und, 1967, auch schon die erste Tournee im Vorprogramm von Jimi Hendrix absolviert.

Zur gleichen Zeit beginnen Pink Floyd, mit farbigen Scheinwerfern, Diaprojektoren und Filmen zu experimentieren, wobei Barrett oft seine reichhaltigen LSD-Erfahrungen einzubringen weiß. LSD ist Ende der 60er noch nicht verboten, aber der Frontmann ist psychisch angeschlagen. Seine Maßlosigkeit und seine Ausfälle führen zunehmend zu Problemen, weshalb die Band ihn im April 1968 durch David Gilmour ersetzt.

Pink Floyd profilierte sich schnell als eine der innovativsten Rockbands: Sie entwickeln bereits 1967 das erste quadrofonische Sound-System, noch bevor Stereogeräte in Serie produziert werden, sie vereinen die Musik mit dem Film, ihre reichlich mit visuellen Reiz ausgestatteten Konzerte nähern sich der Wagnerschen Idee vom Gesamtkunstwerk und sie experimentieren mit Verfremdungseffekten und Realitätszitaten.

Das reicht von einer im Zimmer umherschwirrenden Fliege auf "Ummagumma" bis zum Braten von Schinken und Eiern auf "Atom Heart Mother". 1972 drehen Pink Floyd in der antiken Stadt Pompeji am Fuße des Vesuvs einen Konzertfilm, der Geschichte macht. "Live At Pompeji" ist ein makelloser 90 Minuten-Auftritt während des Sonnenuntergangs nur für die Kameras: Der grandiose Film hat in Edinburgh im September 1972 Premiere, mit den Einnahmen sollen die Ausgrabungen in der Stadt finanziert werden.

"The Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973) markiert den Höhepunkt des Ruhmes, die Platte verkaufte sich bis heute über 35 Millionen mal. Mit "Wish You Where Here" (1975) stoßen Pink Floyd bereits viele ihrer Anhänger vor den Kopf. Zu monströs ist ihnen mittlerweile der Sound geworden, zu flächig die Songs. Diese Tendenz setzt sich auf "The Wall" (1979) fort, dennoch ist das "Spätwerk", das immerhin noch 20 Millionen Käufer findet, wegen seiner erzählerischen Geschlossenheit durchaus beachtenswert. Und Waters' Aufführung von "The Wall" auf dem Potsdamer Platz aus Anlaß des Mauerfalls 1990 geht ebenfalls in die Rockgeschichte ein: Nie wurde für ein Konzert eine größere Bühne errichtet.

Der Rest sind Diadochenkämpfe. Wright hatte Pink Floyd bereits 1981 verlassen, 1986 geben die Anwälte von Waters die endgültige Auflösung der Band bekannt. Dennoch touren Gilmour, Mason und Wright ab 1987 noch einmal unter dem alten Namen und nehmen insgesamt drei Alben auf. Nach einer längeren Unterbrechung geht das verbliebene Trio mit der Unterstützung von fünf Gastmusikern 1994 noch einmal auf eine umjubelte Welttournee. Aus den Aufnahmen entsteht 1995 "Pulse".

Fast 35 Jahre nach der Bandgründung raufen sich Gilmour, Mason, Wright und Waters erneut zusammen, um gemeinsam die Tracklist für ein Jubiläumsalbum auszuknobeln. Die 26 digital nachbearbeiteten Songs erscheinen 2001 auf einer Doppel-CD mit dem Titel "Echoes". 2003 erscheint die DVD "Dark Side Of The Moon". Hier wird das Gesamtwerk von Pink Floyd um eine informative Dokumentation 
über die Entstehung des bahnbrechenden Albums ergänzt.

2005 erklären sich Gilmour, Waters, Mason und Wright bereit, am von Bob Geldof initiierten Londoner Live Aid-Gig teilzunehmen. "Sämtliches Gezänke zwischen Roger und der Band in der Vergangenheit ist in diesem Zusammenhang so unbedeutend", erklärt Gilmour dazu. Die kurzzeitige Reunion gilt als spektakulärstes Event von Live Aid und sorgt für größtes Publikumsinteresse. Eine kurz darauf folgende 150 Mio. Dollar-Offerte für einige weitere gemeinsame Konzerte lehnen Pink Floyd aber ab.

Parallel gerät der immer wieder angekündigte und noch öfter verschobene Release der "Pulse"-DVD zum Running Gag im Pink Floyd-Lager. 2006 erscheint der langersehnte Konzertfilm dann doch auf Doppel-DVD.

Derweil sich die Fanschar über die Pink Floydschen Aktivitäten freut, ist auf der anderen Seite Trauer angesagt. 2006 stirbt das Gründungsmitglied Barrett mit 60 an den Folgen einer schweren Diabetes-Erkrankung. Zwei Jahre später erliegt Wright im Alter von 65 Jahren einem Krebsleiden.

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Im Jahr 1965 gründeten die Herren Syd Barrett (Gitarre, Gesang), Bob Close, Rick Wright (Keyboards), Nick Mason (Schlagzeug) und Roger Waters (Bass) eine Band namens Sigma 6. Close steigt schon bald wieder aus, aber die anderen vier bleiben ein Weilchen zusammen. Sie probieren alle möglichen Bandnamen aus, The Screaming Abdabs, T-Set, The Meggadeaths, und The Architectural Abdabs, bis eines Tages Barrett mit dem Vorschlag The Pink Floyd Sound ankommt, der auf den Vornamen der beiden Jazzer Pink Anderson und Floyd Council beruht.

Für ihren Erstling "Piper At The Gates of Dawn" (1968) benutzen sie den Namen The Pink Floyd, mit "A Saucerful Of Secrets" verschwindet auch noch das The in der Versenkung. Inzwischen hat die Band aus Cambridge eine Menge Auftritte im Londoner UFO-Klub und, 1967, auch schon die erste Tournee im Vorprogramm von Jimi Hendrix absolviert.

Zur gleichen Zeit beginnen Pink Floyd, mit farbigen Scheinwerfern, Diaprojektoren und Filmen zu experimentieren, wobei Barrett oft seine reichhaltigen LSD-Erfahrungen einzubringen weiß. LSD ist Ende der 60er noch nicht verboten, aber der Frontmann ist psychisch angeschlagen. Seine Maßlosigkeit und seine Ausfälle führen zunehmend zu Problemen, weshalb die Band ihn im April 1968 durch David Gilmour ersetzt.

Pink Floyd profilierte sich schnell als eine der innovativsten Rockbands: Sie entwickeln bereits 1967 das erste quadrofonische Sound-System, noch bevor Stereogeräte in Serie produziert werden, sie vereinen die Musik mit dem Film, ihre reichlich mit visuellen Reiz ausgestatteten Konzerte nähern sich der Wagnerschen Idee vom Gesamtkunstwerk und sie experimentieren mit Verfremdungseffekten und Realitätszitaten.

Das reicht von einer im Zimmer umherschwirrenden Fliege auf "Ummagumma" bis zum Braten von Schinken und Eiern auf "Atom Heart Mother". 1972 drehen Pink Floyd in der antiken Stadt Pompeji am Fuße des Vesuvs einen Konzertfilm, der Geschichte macht. "Live At Pompeji" ist ein makelloser 90 Minuten-Auftritt während des Sonnenuntergangs nur für die Kameras: Der grandiose Film hat in Edinburgh im September 1972 Premiere, mit den Einnahmen sollen die Ausgrabungen in der Stadt finanziert werden.

"The Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973) markiert den Höhepunkt des Ruhmes, die Platte verkaufte sich bis heute über 35 Millionen mal. Mit "Wish You Where Here" (1975) stoßen Pink Floyd bereits viele ihrer Anhänger vor den Kopf. Zu monströs ist ihnen mittlerweile der Sound geworden, zu flächig die Songs. Diese Tendenz setzt sich auf "The Wall" (1979) fort, dennoch ist das "Spätwerk", das immerhin noch 20 Millionen Käufer findet, wegen seiner erzählerischen Geschlossenheit durchaus beachtenswert. Und Waters' Aufführung von "The Wall" auf dem Potsdamer Platz aus Anlaß des Mauerfalls 1990 geht ebenfalls in die Rockgeschichte ein: Nie wurde für ein Konzert eine größere Bühne errichtet.

Der Rest sind Diadochenkämpfe. Wright hatte Pink Floyd bereits 1981 verlassen, 1986 geben die Anwälte von Waters die endgültige Auflösung der Band bekannt. Dennoch touren Gilmour, Mason und Wright ab 1987 noch einmal unter dem alten Namen und nehmen insgesamt drei Alben auf. Nach einer längeren Unterbrechung geht das verbliebene Trio mit der Unterstützung von fünf Gastmusikern 1994 noch einmal auf eine umjubelte Welttournee. Aus den Aufnahmen entsteht 1995 "Pulse".

Fast 35 Jahre nach der Bandgründung raufen sich Gilmour, Mason, Wright und Waters erneut zusammen, um gemeinsam die Tracklist für ein Jubiläumsalbum auszuknobeln. Die 26 digital nachbearbeiteten Songs erscheinen 2001 auf einer Doppel-CD mit dem Titel "Echoes". 2003 erscheint die DVD "Dark Side Of The Moon". Hier wird das Gesamtwerk von Pink Floyd um eine informative Dokumentation 
über die Entstehung des bahnbrechenden Albums ergänzt.

2005 erklären sich Gilmour, Waters, Mason und Wright bereit, am von Bob Geldof initiierten Londoner Live Aid-Gig teilzunehmen. "Sämtliches Gezänke zwischen Roger und der Band in der Vergangenheit ist in diesem Zusammenhang so unbedeutend", erklärt Gilmour dazu. Die kurzzeitige Reunion gilt als spektakulärstes Event von Live Aid und sorgt für größtes Publikumsinteresse. Eine kurz darauf folgende 150 Mio. Dollar-Offerte für einige weitere gemeinsame Konzerte lehnen Pink Floyd aber ab.

Parallel gerät der immer wieder angekündigte und noch öfter verschobene Release der "Pulse"-DVD zum Running Gag im Pink Floyd-Lager. 2006 erscheint der langersehnte Konzertfilm dann doch auf Doppel-DVD.

Derweil sich die Fanschar über die Pink Floydschen Aktivitäten freut, ist auf der anderen Seite Trauer angesagt. 2006 stirbt das Gründungsmitglied Barrett mit 60 an den Folgen einer schweren Diabetes-Erkrankung. Zwei Jahre später erliegt Wright im Alter von 65 Jahren einem Krebsleiden.

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Name: J. Rotem
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Jonathan Reuven Rotem (born July 23, 1975) is a South African born Canadian-American record producer, songwriter and music publisher.
Rotem was born in South Africa to Jewish Israeli immigrant parents in 1975. He moved to Toronto at the age of two and finally to Moraga, California at the age of twelve.
Rotem's entry point into music was in receiving classical piano instruction at a young age. When he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston it was initially with the intention of studying film scoring, but he ended up majoring in jazz composition.
As his first major label placement, the Destiny's Child song "Fancy", from their 2001 album Survivor, is cited by Rotem as being his first 'big break', and the song that convinced the young producer that it was worth pursuing this career path. Nevertheless, further success was not forthcoming and for years Rotem struggled to make further headway in the industry.
A significant breakthrough came when, through mutual friend Evan Bogart, he attracted the attention of former manager Zach Katz, a former music attorney who had previously represented rapper Rakim as well as various producers and songwriters in the Aftermath/Shady/G-Unit camp. Rotem says, "One of my biggest goals for years was meeting a manager with a good reputation and with connections to get my music to people." When asked in an interview with HitQuarters what made Katz decide to take the producer on, he said, "This was a time where most of the people were beat makers, they didn't really play instruments. JR on the other hand, had a vast musical background ... So musically there were no limitations as far as what he could bring. Number two J.R he was very, very focused. He really wanted to win. And number three he was humble. If I gave him any suggestions about his tracks he would literally sit there and take notes. Then he would come back the next day with the changes I had suggested."
Rotem's next major cut was 50 Cent's "Position of Power" in 2005. In 2006, together with Katz and his brother Tommy, Rotem started his own record label, Beluga Heights, inking a joint venture partnership with Epic. Sean Kingston, a young Miami-based artist, was the labels first signing. Kingston's self-titled debut album went on to sell over 2 million albums and 10 million singles worldwide. Rotem also started a publishing company under the Beluga Heights umbrella, signing songwriter Evan "Kidd" Bogart. Under a newly formed joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, the label signed pop sensation Jason Derulo, whose debut album went on to sell 14 million singles and over 1 million albums worldwide.
In 2009, Rotem was honored as BMI Producer of the Year. In 2011 he was again honored by BMI as Songwriter of the Year alongside Lady Gaga and Derulo. His trademark is a horn that follows with a stylised "J-J-J-J-J-R" and/or "Beluga Heights" at the start or end of records with which he has been affiliated.
In 2015, Rotem worked alongside Neyo and Timbaland on the music for Season 2 of Fox's Empire. On October 17, 2015, Gwen Stefani premiered "Used to Love You", co-written and produced by Rotem at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City which was Gwen's first single. Rotem has ten songs on Stefani's album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like which was released on March 18, 2016.

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Name: D. Carter
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Born and raised in the western suburbs, Derrick was into music from a young age, but during his teens Chicago´s house scene sucked him in for good. Before long Derrick became a strong presence in Chicago´s underground dance scene. "When I got my driver´s license at 16 my sneak ability was validated," he laughs. "I was a fierce bedroom jock for a long time. After you mix for the love of it for six or seven years, you get it pretty tight and you can take it on the road." Derrick got by working at dance–music specialty stores like Gramaphone and gigging at parties. later Derrick landed regular DJ stints at Shelter, Foxy´s, and Smart Bar.

Though he doesn´t spin much locally anymore, when he does he attracts large crowds. Derrick´s sets are rooted in house, but he freely travels outside club tastes, seamlessly incorporating old–school disco, soul, jazz, and whatever else catches his fancy. Most of the time Derrick works in Europe, where he´s become a major celebrity among dance–music aficionados. And the money´s a hell of a lot better there. "It´s hard not to laugh on the occasions when you´ll make 20 times what you make in Chicago on a Saturday night, but here are also times when you do it just for the fun, like at home. So many people come up to me and say, ´Man, I had the worst day. My girlfriend left me, I locked my keys in my car, but you turned me for two hours, and that made me able to get up in the morning.´ That´s the best thing going."

In 1988 Derrick, fellow DJ Mark Farina, and friend Chris Nazuka released an EP as the group Symbols & Instruments. The record had a strong influence on the burgeoning ambient techno movement in England. While it wasn´t a commercial success, it established Derrick as an international figure in the dance–music underground. Since then he´s been involved with a number of recording projects, firstly his solo project Sound Patrol under whom he released his first album ´Sweetened –No Lemon´ which exuded a soulfulness and low–key grittiness that resonated beyond the infectious grooves and made a departure from the machine–like quality of the dance music fare of the time.

Since then the pioneering, innovative tracks and consequent critical acclaim have marked Derrick out as one of the most important players in dance music. Most notably through his more recent releases on Classic. His first release was as Rednail with ´I Think of You´, followed by N? Pschidt and Hope under his own name. N? Pschidt combined woven scatting with sleepy minimal beats on ´Dreaming Again´ and skilfully cast his own low, sexy drawl over his trademark Carter grooves to form ´Boompty Boomp Theme´, described by Seven magazine as ´without doubt the slinkiest and downright funkiest track I´ve heard for a long time.´ Derrick´s latest Classic release ´Hope´ is again causing a storm amongst DJs and press alike and his Classic album is eagerly awaited and expected for release sometime within the next year.

Derrick Carter is most definitely bringing the Boompty Boomp back to the dance floor!

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Name: C. Bridges
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Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Ludacris has won a Screen Actors Guild, Critic's Choice, MTV, and three Grammy Awards during his career. Along with fellow Atlantans Big Boi and Andre 3000 of OutKast, Ludacris was one of the first and most influential Dirty South artists to achieve mainstream success.
Born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta, Georgia at age nine, where he began rapping. After a brief stint as a disc jockey, he released his debut album Back for the First Time in 2000, which contained the singles "Southern Hospitality" and "What's Your Fantasy". In 2001, he released Word of Mouf, followed by Chicken-n-Beer in 2003. He took a more serious approach with his next three albums, The Red Light District (2004), Release Therapy (2006), and Theater of the Mind (2008). His latest record, Battle of the Sexes, was released in 2010.

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Isley-Jasper-Isley was a splinter group of the Isley Brothers formed in 1984 by brother-in-law Chris Jasper (keyboards), Ernie Isley (lead guitar), and Marvin Isley (bass), due to creative differences that arose among the group.
Jasper, a classically trained musician and composer and the key songwriter, producer, and arranger of Isley Brothers music, became the lead vocalist on most of the trio's recordings, and was also responsible for the majority of the writing and production for the new group. The older Isley Brothers returned to their original vocal trio formation and continued to record, employing a number of musicians, producers, and writers to fill the void left by Chris, Ernie, and Marvin.
Isley-Jasper-Isley released three albums on their CBS Associated Records label, including Caravan of Love, which featured the #1 out-of-the-box title hit, written and sung by Chris and subsequently covered by English recording group, the Housemartins, who made “Caravan” an international #1 pop hit. “Caravan of Love” has also been used in the Dodge Caravan commercials, was recorded by Marvin Sapp on the WOW 2000 gospel album, and has become an anthem sung by numerous groups and individuals throughout the world who have made their unique version of the song available on YouTube.
In 1987, Isley/Jasper/Isley disbanded. The Isley-Jasper-Isley half of the group was inducted with the rest of the Isleys in 1992 to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in January 2014. At various times, younger brothers Marvin and Ernie Isley returned to perform with older brother Ronald Isley. Marvin Isley died from complications of diabetes in 2010 and Ernie Isley continues to perform with older brother Ronald Isley as The Isley Brothers.
After the break-up of Isley-Jasper-Isley, Jasper continued as a solo artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer, forming his own independent record label, Gold City Records. He has since released 14 solo albums, including 4 gospel albums. He released two albums on his CBS-Associated label, Gold City Records, including the #1 R&B hit "Superbad" in 1988, a song which emphasized the importance of education, a theme Jasper continues to emphasize in many of the songs he has written on the 14 solo albums he has released since his days with the Isleys. In January 2013, Jasper released "Inspired: By Love, By Life, By the Spirit," a compilation of love songs as well as socially conscious and spiritual tracks. In May 2014, Jasper released "The One", reminiscent of the soulful R&B and funk music he wrote for the Isleys. In 2016, Jasper released "Share With Me," which included a cover of the Billy Preston hit, "You Are So Beautiful" and a special track called "America," a tribute to the nation and a call to come together. And, in April 2018, Jasper pre-released a double-A single "The Love That You Give/It's a Miracle" from his 15th solo album, "Dance With You," scheduled for a July 2018 release. Jasper, who earned a law degree in 2004, has continued to write, record, and perform all the music on his solo albums and produce artists for his Gold City label, including Liz Hogue, Out Front, and Brothaz By Choice. The most recent addition to the Gold City label is Jasper's son, Michael Jasper, an up-and-coming songwriter, recording artist and screenplay writer, who earned his law degree in 2018. In 1989, Jasper wrote, produced and performed on "Make It Last" for Chaka Khan's CK album. In 2015, in conjunction with Sony Music, Jasper released the "Essential Chris Jasper" which encompasses all of the tracks that Jasper sang lead on during his IJI years and solo career at CBS/Sony Music. In 2015, Chris received the prestigious German Record Critics Lifetime Achievement Award ("Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik"). In 2016, Chris was awarded the National R&B Society Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Name: T. Cottrell
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Tony Cottrell, better known as Hi-Tek, is an American record producer and rapper from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is best known for his work with Talib Kweli on their Reflection Eternal album and on Black Star. His father is singer Willie Cottrell of the Willie Cottrell Band whom Hi-Tek featured on his second release Hi-Teknology 2.

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Name: Jackson
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James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974-February 10, 2006), better known as J Dilla or Jay Dee, was an acclaimed hip-Hop producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground Hip-Hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. He began his career as a member of the group Slum Village, and was also a driving force in the production trio The Ummah. Yancey started his career under the name Jay Dee (based on his initials) but used the name J Dilla from 2001 onward. Many critics believe J Dilla's work to have had a major influence on his peers and that he embodied the neo soul sound, playing a defining yet understated role during the sub-genre's rise (roughly from the mid-90s to the early 2000s). J Dilla was often dubbed "your favorite producer's favorite producer," and was highly regarded by hip hop artists and producers such as Royce Da 5'9", Common, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, Just Blaze, Busta Rhymes, Pharrell Williams, Madlib, The Pharcyde, Slum Village and ?uestlove.

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Warren G (eigentlich Warren Griffin III; * 10. November 1970) ist ein US-amerikanischer Rapper und Musikproduzent. Der Stiefbruder von Dr. Dre begann seine Karriere auf Dres Album The Chronic.

Warren G wuchs in Long Beach, Kalifornien auf und war gut befreundet mit Nate Dogg und Snoop Dogg. Die drei schlossen sich 1991 zu der Rap-Gruppe 213, die damalige Telefonvorwahl (Engl.: Area Code) ihres Herkunftsortes Long Beach, zusammen.

Seine bekannteste Single als Solokünstler ist Regulate feat. Nate Dogg aus dem Album Regulate... G Funk Era (1994), für welche er ein Sample von Michael McDonalds Keep Forgettin’ verwendete.

Für sein Album Take a Look Over Your Shoulder coverte er I Shot The Sheriff von Bob Marley sowie What’s Love Got To Do With It von Tina Turner.

Aktuell ist er beim Plattenlabel Peppermint Jam unter Vertrag. Außerdem ist er im Produktionsteam von Dr. Dres Aftermath Entertainment.

Warren G’s Sohn, Olaijah Griffin, spielte von 2018 bis 2020 College Football für die USC Trojans auf der Position der Cornerbacks. Im April 2021 wurde Olaijah von den Buffalo Bills der National Football League (NFL) als Undrafted Free Agent unter Vertrag genommen.

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Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), better known by his stage name Tyler, The Creator, is an American rapper and record producer . A Los Angeles native, he is best known as the leader and co-founder of the alternative hip hop collective Odd Future, and has rapped on and produced songs for nearly every Odd Future release. Okonma also creates all the artwork for the group's releases and said in an interview with DJ Semtex that he designs all the group's clothing and other merchandise as well. He is currently signed to English independent record label XL Recordings, and his own record label, Odd Future Records.In 2012 he decided to follow Frank Ocean to Def Jam to release his third album, Wolf. The deal will be for four albums and two EP's.

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Tyler Gregory Okonma (born March 6, 1991), better known by his stage name Tyler, The Creator, is an American rapper and record producer . A Los Angeles native, he is best known as the leader and co-founder of the alternative hip hop collective Odd Future, and has rapped on and produced songs for nearly every Odd Future release. Okonma also creates all the artwork for the group's releases and said in an interview with DJ Semtex that he designs all the group's clothing and other merchandise as well. He is currently signed to English independent record label XL Recordings, and his own record label, Odd Future Records.In 2012 he decided to follow Frank Ocean to Def Jam to release his third album, Wolf. The deal will be for four albums and two EP's.

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Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together". In 2005, Rolling Stone named him #66 in their list of the '100 Greatest Artists of All Time'. The nomination stated that "people are born to do certain things, and Al was born to make us smile." The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Green in 1995, referring to him as "one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music." Green has sold more than 20 million records.

Green was born in Forrest City, Arkansas. He was the sixth of ten children born to Robert and Cora Greene. The son of a sharecropper, he started performing at age ten in a Forrest City quartet called the Greene Brothers; he dropped the final "E" from his last name years later as a solo artist. They toured extensively in the mid-1950s in the South until the Greenes moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, when they began to tour around Michigan. His father kicked him out of the group because he caught Green listening to Jackie Wilson.

Green formed a group called Al Greene & the Creations in high school. Curtis Rogers and Palmer James, two members of the Creations, formed an independent label called Hot Line Music Journal. In 1967, under the new name Al Greene & the Soul Mates, the band recorded "Back Up Train" and released it on Hot Line Music; the song was an R&B chart hit. The Soul Mates' subsequent singles did not sell as well. Al Green's debut LP Back Up Train was released on Hot Line in 1967. The album was upbeat and soulful but didn't do well in sales. This was the only album on the Hot Line label. Green came into contact with band leader Willie Mitchell of Memphis' Hi Records in 1969, when Mitchell hired him as a vocalist for a Texas show with Mitchell's band and then asked him to sign with the label.

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Name: Devin the Dude
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Devin Copeland, aka Devin the Dude, was born in St. Petersburg, FL, and moved to Texas while in the fourth grade. As a child he went back and forth from New Boston and Houston and finally settled in the latter after he graduated high school. In the late '80s, Devin met Rob Quest, a blind rapper and producer who was part of a Houston crew called the Coughee Brothas. Later on, the duo formed a group named the Odd Squad and recruited Devin's longtime friend Jugg Mugg and a local DJ named DJ Screw. Screw (who was later replaced by DJ Styles) took the group's demo tape to Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Smith, who quickly signed the group in 1992. Their debut album, Fadanuf fa Erybody!!, was released in 1994 with "I Can't See It" as the lead single and video.
The Other Side of the Law
Although hip-hop fans praised the effort put out by the Odd Squad, their album was not as commercially successful as they hoped. While the group went back to the drawing board, Rap-A-Lot franchise artist Scarface approached Devin to be a part of his new group, Facemob. Facemob released one album in 1996, The Other Side of the Law, and then broke up due to internal problems. At this time, Devin decided to work on his debut solo album, The Dude, with the help of Smith and Scarface.

The Dude was released in 1998 with virtually no video and little radio play. The Dude was a smoothed-out, funk-laden album and an ode to wine, women, and weed. Regardless, the album built a large underground following and even caught the attention of veteran hip-hop producer Dr. Dre. He contacted Devin in 1999 and asked him to be a part of the 2001 album on the track "Fuck You." This single appearance made Devin a hot commodity, earning him appearances on songs with De La Soul, Raphael Saadiq, veteran rap group UGK, and a solo track on the Oz soundtrack.

His anticipated sophomore LP, Just Tryin' ta Live, was released in the summer of 2002 and featured appearances from Nas, Xzibit, and Raphael Saadiq with production from Dre, DJ Premier, and his Coughee Brothas. To tha X-Treme arrived two years later and was followed in 2007 by Waiting to Inhale, his first album to crack the Top 40 on Billboard’s album chart. A year later, Landing Gear became his first album for the Razor & Tie label. Suite #420 followed in 2010 and had the honor of being released on the stoner’s holiday of April 20th (4/20).

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Devin Copeland, aka Devin the Dude, was born in St. Petersburg, FL, and moved to Texas while in the fourth grade. As a child he went back and forth from New Boston and Houston and finally settled in the latter after he graduated high school. In the late '80s, Devin met Rob Quest, a blind rapper and producer who was part of a Houston crew called the Coughee Brothas. Later on, the duo formed a group named the Odd Squad and recruited Devin's longtime friend Jugg Mugg and a local DJ named DJ Screw. Screw (who was later replaced by DJ Styles) took the group's demo tape to Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Smith, who quickly signed the group in 1992. Their debut album, Fadanuf fa Erybody!!, was released in 1994 with "I Can't See It" as the lead single and video.
The Other Side of the Law
Although hip-hop fans praised the effort put out by the Odd Squad, their album was not as commercially successful as they hoped. While the group went back to the drawing board, Rap-A-Lot franchise artist Scarface approached Devin to be a part of his new group, Facemob. Facemob released one album in 1996, The Other Side of the Law, and then broke up due to internal problems. At this time, Devin decided to work on his debut solo album, The Dude, with the help of Smith and Scarface.

The Dude was released in 1998 with virtually no video and little radio play. The Dude was a smoothed-out, funk-laden album and an ode to wine, women, and weed. Regardless, the album built a large underground following and even caught the attention of veteran hip-hop producer Dr. Dre. He contacted Devin in 1999 and asked him to be a part of the 2001 album on the track "Fuck You." This single appearance made Devin a hot commodity, earning him appearances on songs with De La Soul, Raphael Saadiq, veteran rap group UGK, and a solo track on the Oz soundtrack.

His anticipated sophomore LP, Just Tryin' ta Live, was released in the summer of 2002 and featured appearances from Nas, Xzibit, and Raphael Saadiq with production from Dre, DJ Premier, and his Coughee Brothas. To tha X-Treme arrived two years later and was followed in 2007 by Waiting to Inhale, his first album to crack the Top 40 on Billboard’s album chart. A year later, Landing Gear became his first album for the Razor & Tie label. Suite #420 followed in 2010 and had the honor of being released on the stoner’s holiday of April 20th (4/20).

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Michael George Dean (born March 1, 1965) is an American hip hop record producer, audio engineer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Houston, Texas. He is best known for recording and mixing songs and synthesizers for major artists across the American hip hop industry such as Kanye West, Kid Cudi, 2Pac, Scarface, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Desiigner, Drake, Madonna, Selena Gomez, Lana Del Rey, and The Weeknd. He has released four solo studio albums: 4:20 on April 20, 2020, 4:22, on April 22, 2021, Smoke State 42222 on April 22, 2022, and 4:23 on April 29, 2023.

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Devin Copeland, aka Devin the Dude, was born in St. Petersburg, FL, and moved to Texas while in the fourth grade. As a child he went back and forth from New Boston and Houston and finally settled in the latter after he graduated high school. In the late '80s, Devin met Rob Quest, a blind rapper and producer who was part of a Houston crew called the Coughee Brothas. Later on, the duo formed a group named the Odd Squad and recruited Devin's longtime friend Jugg Mugg and a local DJ named DJ Screw. Screw (who was later replaced by DJ Styles) took the group's demo tape to Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Smith, who quickly signed the group in 1992. Their debut album, Fadanuf fa Erybody!!, was released in 1994 with "I Can't See It" as the lead single and video.
The Other Side of the Law
Although hip-hop fans praised the effort put out by the Odd Squad, their album was not as commercially successful as they hoped. While the group went back to the drawing board, Rap-A-Lot franchise artist Scarface approached Devin to be a part of his new group, Facemob. Facemob released one album in 1996, The Other Side of the Law, and then broke up due to internal problems. At this time, Devin decided to work on his debut solo album, The Dude, with the help of Smith and Scarface.

The Dude was released in 1998 with virtually no video and little radio play. The Dude was a smoothed-out, funk-laden album and an ode to wine, women, and weed. Regardless, the album built a large underground following and even caught the attention of veteran hip-hop producer Dr. Dre. He contacted Devin in 1999 and asked him to be a part of the 2001 album on the track "Fuck You." This single appearance made Devin a hot commodity, earning him appearances on songs with De La Soul, Raphael Saadiq, veteran rap group UGK, and a solo track on the Oz soundtrack.

His anticipated sophomore LP, Just Tryin' ta Live, was released in the summer of 2002 and featured appearances from Nas, Xzibit, and Raphael Saadiq with production from Dre, DJ Premier, and his Coughee Brothas. To tha X-Treme arrived two years later and was followed in 2007 by Waiting to Inhale, his first album to crack the Top 40 on Billboard’s album chart. A year later, Landing Gear became his first album for the Razor & Tie label. Suite #420 followed in 2010 and had the honor of being released on the stoner’s holiday of April 20th (4/20).

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Name: Alton Ellis
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Alton Nehemiah Ellis OD (1 September 1938 – 10 October 2008) was a Jamaican vocalist. One of the innovators of rocksteady who was given the informal title "Godfather of Rocksteady". In 2006, he was inducted into the International Reggae And World Music Awards Hall Of Fame.

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Name: Debi Nova
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Debi Nova is a multi-talented female vocalist from Escazu, Costa Rica who calls Los Angeles, California home. A graduate of The Los Angeles Music Academy, Nova has graced her signature voice on various projects from jazz artist Boney James to rapper Q-Tip to Sergio Mendes and Will.I.AM of the Black Eyed Peas. Her single CD, "One Rhythm", has an English version, Spanish version, and six mixes, all in advance of her anticipated 13 song future CD.  She also callaborated with Ricky Martin in his english album "Life", she made the Spanish version of the song "I don't care" ("Que mas da") and the vocals for the songs "I am" and "Drop it on me".  In 2004 she scored a #1 track on Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "One Rhythm."

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Name: Mark Ronson
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Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is an English musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Although his debut album Here Comes the Fuzz failed to make an impact on the charts, his second album Version reached number two in the UK and included three top 10 singles. This success won him a Brit Award for Best British Male Solo Artist in 2008. His third studio album, Record Collection, was released on 27 September 2010, peaking at number two in the UK.
In 2014, Ronson achieved his first UK and US number one single with "Uptown Funk," which featured vocals from Bruno Mars. The song earned Ronson the 2015 Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and the 2016 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. His fourth studio album, Uptown Special, was released in January 2015, and became his first UK number one album.
Ronson produced Adele's first album, 19. He is mostly known for producing Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black, for which he won the Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Best Pop Vocal Album and Record of the Year for the single "Rehab".

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Name: Frauenarzt
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Frauenarzt (* 18. Oktober 1978 in Berlin; bürgerlich Vincente de Teba Költerhoff) ist der Künstlername eines Rappers aus Berlin-Tempelhof.

Vicente de Teba Költerhoff ist außer unter Frauenarzt auch bekannt unter den Pseudonymen DJ Atze, DJ Kologe, MC Digital F, Arzt, Räuber Rob (mit verstellter Stimme), Gyniko und Günther, die sich teilweise von Gynäkologe (die medizinische Bezeichnung für Frauenarzt) ableiten. Musikalisch vertrat er den Miami Bass mit deutschen Texten, später wandelte sich seine Musik eher zu House mit Rap-Texten. Viele seiner Tracks haben einen starken 80er-Jahre-Electro-Charakter mit trockenen TR-808-Beats. Seine Auftritte absolviert er mit außergewöhnlichem Körpereinsatz, meist in Verbindung mit tanzenden, leicht bekleideten Frauen. Er tritt live häufig gemeinsam mit DJ Manny Marc auf. Am 21. November 2006 wurde eine Razzia in den Räumlichkeiten des von Frauenarzt und DJ Manny Marc gegründeten ehemaligem Labels Ghetto Musik durchgeführt, bei der CD-Rs, Laptops, Dokumente und Alben beschlagnahmt wurden.

Am 19. Juni 2007 wurde erstmals ein Videoclip von Frauenarzt in der Hip-Hop-Sendung MTV Urban gezeigt. Das Video zu dem Song Brennt den Club ab, welcher auf dem Album Dr. Sex zu finden ist, stand am selben Tag auch in der Musiksendung Urban TRL zur Wahl und konnte auf Anhieb Platz 1 der TRL Most Wanted belegen.

Am 21. Dezember 2009 wurde Frauenarzt wegen Gewaltdarstellung und pornografischer Gewaltdarstellung auf Grund früherer Werke (betroffene Tonträger sind Porno Mafia und Geschäft ist Geschäft) zu einer Geldstrafe von 8400 Euro verurteilt. Er gilt damit als vorbestraft.

Erste Zusammenarbeit zwischen Frauenarzt und dem damaligen DJ Manny Marc entstand bei der Gründung ihres Labels Bassboxxx 1997. Dieses wurde 2006 in Ghetto Musik und schließlich in Atzenmusik umbenannt.

Immer wieder erschienen Kolloborations-Singles unter dem Titel Frauenarzt & Manny Marc bis sie, seit der ersten erfolgreichen Single Florida Lady, unter dem Titel Die Atzen arbeiten. Diese wurde im September 2008 veröffentlicht.

2009 entwickelte sich das Lied Das geht ab! vom Album Atzen-Musik Vol. 1 zum Sommerhit in den Discos von Palma. Frauenarzt und Manny Marc reisten daher jeden Sonntag in die Disco Riu Palace, um ihren gemeinsamen Hit zu präsentieren. Das Lied erreichte in Deutschland Platz 8 der Single-Charts und konnte sich im gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum Europas hoch in den Top-100 platzieren.[3]

Anfang 2010 erschien die nächste Single Disco Pogo von Frauenarzt und Manny Marc, wobei sie dabei nur noch mit ihrem Namen Die Atzen benannt wurden. Das Stück erreichte in der ersten Woche in den Charts Platz 12, stieg in der folgenden Woche sogar in die Top-Ten auf Platz 6, womit die Single eine bessere Platzierung als Das geht ab! erreichen konnte. In den darauf folgenden Wochen stieg Disco Pogo sogar auf Platz 2.

Seine neuste Single ist im August 2012 erschien. Es war die zweite und letzte Single-Auskopplung aus dem Album. Sie hieß Feiern? Okay! und wurde von den Schweizer DJs DJ Antoine und Mad Mark gemixt. Jedoch konnten sie mit dem Dubstep-Song keine Single-Chart-Platzierungen erreichen.

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Name: Pictures on Silence
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Name: Trinidad James
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Nicholas Williams (born September 23, 1987), better known by his stage name Trinidad James (often stylized as Trinidad Jame$), is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. In 2012, he signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings and subsequently launched his own record label, Gold Gang Records. 

Early life:
Williams was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. His family moved to Canada, Florida, and New York before settling in Atlanta, Georgia. He went to Catholic school as a child. He has stated that he cannot remember any parts of his life before the age of seven because of a head injury. In eighth grade, he moved to South Carolina, where he began playing basketball. He began rapping in November 2011. He has listed Cam'ron, Jay-Z, T.I., and Young Jeezy as influences. 

Musical career:
James' debut single, "All Gold Everything", has charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B/Hip Hop charts. It is taken from his debut mixtape, Don't Be S.A.F.E. (Sensitive As Fuck Everyday), originally released on July 31, 2012, and officially re-released with a music video on October 16, 2012. On December 13, 2012, it was announced that James had signed a joint venture with Def Jam Records for approximately $2 million. In January, Def Jam released Don't Be S.A.F.E to iTunes, which included the official remix of "All Gold Everything" featuring 2 Chainz, T.I, and Young Jeezy. 
On August 6, 2013, he announced he would be releasing his second mixtape, 10 PC Mild, on August 13. After months of not releasing music, James announced that he had been dropped from Def Jam on August 1, 2014. He also stated that the album he planned to release on the label will now be released for free, and that producers and rappers who contributed to the project should not expect any compensation because he has "no money".

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Name: Settle
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Name: Paragon
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Name: George Duke
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George Duke (* 12. Januar 1946 in San Rafael, Kalifornien; † 5. August 2013 in Los Angeles) war ein US-amerikanischer Musiker (Keyboarder, Sänger, Arrangeur) und Produzent des Fusion-Jazz. 

Während seines Bachelorstudiums (Posaune, Komposition, Kontrabass) spielte er mit Al Jarreau in der Hausband des Half Note Club in San Francisco, die Gastsolisten wie Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon oder Letta Mbulu begleitete. Ab 1967 absolvierte er sein Kompositionsstudium an der San Francisco State University. In dieser Zeit leitete er ein Trio, mit dem er die Vokalgruppe Third Wave oder Solisten wie Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hutcherson und Jean-Luc Ponty begleitete und 1969 auf dem Newport Jazz Festival auftrat. 1970 war er Mitglied der Mothers of Invention von Frank Zappa und als Keyboarder auch auf Pontys Album King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa tätig. 1971 und 1972 holte ihn Cannonball Adderley in sein Quintett, in dem er auch auf einigen LPs mitwirkte. Ab 1973 spielte er bis 1975 (mit kurzen Unterbrechungen) wieder bei Frank Zappa; daneben spielte er einige Alben für MPS ein. Dann leitete er gemeinsam mit Billy Cobham eine Fusion-Band. Weiterhin arbeitete er mit Stanley Clarke im Disco-Geschäft.

Er war als Musikproduzent seit der zweiten Hälfte der 1970er Jahre tätig. Seinen Einstieg als Produzent hatte er mit dem 1977 produzierten Album Sweet Lucy von Raul de Souza, auf dem er bei drei Stücken Keyboards unter dem Pseudonym Dawilli Gonga spielt. Unter anderem war er für seine Cousine Dianne Reeves, den Fusion-Schlagzeuger Billy Cobham und den Sänger Al Jarreau tätig. Seit 2004 betrieb er sein eigenes Plattenlabel „BPM Records“. BPM steht für „Big Piano Music“. Duke sah die Aufgabe des Labels darin, die Kontrolle über die Musik dahin zu geben, wohin sie gehöre: Zurück in die Hände der Musiker. Ebenfalls 2004 schrieb er den Soundtrack zu Ernest R. Dickersons Kriminalfilm Never Die Alone.

Zu seinen letzten Produktionstätigkeiten gehört ein Album mit Standards (A Time for Love) für den R&B-Sänger Jeffrey Osborne.

Duke starb mit 67 an Leukämie.
(Wikipedia)

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Name: Barry Manilow
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Barry Manilow (* 17. Juni 1943 in Brooklyn, New York; geboren als Barry Alan Pincus) ist ein US-amerikanischer Sänger. Mit über 80 Millionen verkauften Singles und Alben gehört er vor allem in den Vereinigten Staaten zu den erfolgreichsten Interpreten von Popsongs und -balladen im Bereich der Adult-Contemporary-Musik.

Barry Manilow wurde als Barry Alan Pincus im New Yorker Stadtteil Brooklyn geboren. Als er zwei Jahre alt war, verließ sein Vater die Familie; Barry bekam als neuen Nachnamen den Geburtsnamen seiner Mutter Edna Manilow. Er lernte früh Klavier spielen. 1964 heiratete er Susan Dreixler, mit der er ein Jahr verheiratet war. Später wurde er der Pianist und Arrangeur in der Band von Bette Midler. Gemeinsam hatten Midler und Manilow ihre ersten Erfolge mit Bühnenshows in Nachtclubs in New York. Manilow produzierte 1972 auch das erste Album von Bette Midler.

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Name: Ministry Of Sound Chillout Sessions XV
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Name: Missy Higgins
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Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Her Australian No. 1 albums are The Sound of White (2004), On a Clear Night (2007) and The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (2012), and her most successful singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards in 2004 and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005, she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. Higgins won her seventh ARIA in 2007. Her third album, The Ol' Razzle Dazzle, was released in Australia in June 2012, and in July 2012 in the U.S. Alongside her music career, Higgins pursues interests in animal rights and the environment, endeavouring to make her tours carbon neutral. She is also the patron of One in Five, an Australian mental health charity. In 2007, following years of press speculation about her sexual orientation, she came out as bisexual, saying that she prefers interviewers to focus on her music. In 2010 she made her acting debut in the feature film, Bran Nue Dae, and also performed on its soundtrack.

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Name: Gotye
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Wouter "Wally" De Backer (born 21 May 1980, also known professionally by his stage name Gotye (pronounced /ˈɡɒti.eɪ/), is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. The name "Gotye" is derived from "Gauthier", the French equivalent of "Walter" or "Wouter". His voice has been compared to those of Sting and Peter Gabriel.

Gotye has released three studio albums independently and one album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums. He is a member of the Melbourne indie-pop trio The Basics, who have independently released three studio albums and numerous other titles since 2002. Gotye's 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the fifth Australian artist to do so and the second Belgian (after Soeur Sourire in 1963). He has won five ARIA Awards and received a nomination for an MTV EMA for Best Asia and Pacific Act. Gotye described himself as "less of a musician, more of a tinkerer."

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Name: Jessie Ware
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Jessica Lois "Jessie" Ware (born 15 October 1984) is an English singer-songwriter signed to PMR Records and best known for her 2012 single "Wildest Moments". She has sung vocals for SBTRKT in concert and on their recordings. In its review of her debut album, Devotion, Clash called Jessie "the missing link between Adele, SBTRKT and Sade" and hailed it as "a strong and accomplished debut".
Ware was raised in South London, in a Jewish family. She is the daughter of Helena and John Ware, a BBC Panorama reporter. On 14 October 2011, Jessie released her debut solo single "Strangest Feeling" on limited 10" purple vinyl. The song did not chart in the UK. She then released "Running" on 24 February 2012, as the lead single from her debut studio album Devotion. "110%" was released as the album's second single on 13 April, the song peaked at number 61 in the UK. "Wildest Moments" was released as the album's third single on 29 June, the song peaked at number 46 in the UK. On 20 August 2012, she released her debut album Devotion, which peaked at number 5 on the UK Albums Chart. "Night Light" was released as the fourth single on 24 August. On 11 September, Devotion was announced as a nominee for the prestigious Mercury Prize.

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Name: Amber Coffman
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Amber Dawn Coffman (geboren 15. Juni 1984 in Austin, Texas) ist ein Sänger und Musiker mit Sitz in Los Angeles, Kalifornien früher in Brooklyn, New York gegründet. Ein ehemaliges Mitglied von Sleeping People, Coffman ist bekannt als Gitarrist für die Indie Rock Band Dirty Projectors. Ihr Debüt-Solo-Album, City of No Reply ist für die Veröffentlichung im Jahr 2017 vorgesehen.

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Name: The Bamboos
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"The Bamboos"   are masters of super-heavy, raw and upfront drum-break driven grooves. Led by Guitarist Lance Ferguson (Equatorial Records/Lanu/No Comply), other members include Ben Grayson (Hammond Organ), Danny Farrugia (Drums), Yuri Pavlinov (Bass), Anton Delecca (Sax/Flute) and Ross Irwin (Trumpet). The Bamboos formed in 2001 and released the 7" single 'Eel Oil/Blackfoot', earning them international acclaim from the likes of Snowboy, Mr Scruff, Jazzanova, Patrick Forge and Russ Dewbury. Their next release 'Tighten Up/Voodoo Doll' was picked up by Kenny Dope (Masters At Work) and Keb Darge (Legendary Deep Funk) for their U.S-based imprint Kay-Dee Records. Making their home at Tru Thoughts records (home to Quantic and Alice Russell) in 2005, The Bamboos debut album 'Step it Up' looks set to bolster their reputation as heavy players in the global Funk scene. In 2004 and 2005 The Bamboos toured Australia and New Zealand alongside Quantic and Alice Russell to universal acclaim. The Bamboos live shows have evolved into non-stop mixtape-style throwdowns that draw the links between Hip Hop, Funk and old-school Breaks. The Bamboos have supported international artists including: Keb Darge (UK) Moloko (UK) Mathew Herbert (UK) Dynamo productions (UK) Derrick Carter (USA) Patrick Forge (UK) Snowboy (UK) Jazzanova (GERM) Chris Lum (UK) Alice Russell (UK) Quantic (UK) Nextmen (UK) Russ Dewbury (UK) Steinski (USA) Guru (USA)

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Name: The Presets
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The Presets are an electronic music duo consisting of Australian musicians Julian Hamilton (vocals, keyboards) and Kim Moyes (drums, keyboards). The Presets were the first electronic act to win "Album of The Year" at the ARIA Music Awards for their second album, Apocalypso.

Formed in 2003 and signed to Modular Records, The Presets released two EPs (Blow Up, Girl And The Sea) in advance of their debut album, Beams, released in 2005 to positive critical response.

After two years of relentless touring, including Australian shows as main live support for Daft Punk, the band’s 2008 release, Apocalypso, debuted at number one on the ARIA Albums Chart, and went on to win six awards at ARIA Awards 2008, including "Best Dance Release", "Best Group", and "Album of the Year".

The single, "My People" is the longest charting single in Australian chart history. The band also enjoyed substantial commercial success and airplay with the singles "This Boy’s in Love", "Talk Like That" and "If I Know You".

In 2009, The Presets' Hamilton and Moyes won an APRA Award for "Songwriters of the Year" and another ARIA Award, this time for "Best Dance Release" for "Talk Like That".

The Presets released their third album, Pacifica, in Australia in September 2012. It entered the ARIA Albums Chart at number three and received extensive critical acclaim in Australia, topping many ‘best of’ lists for the end of the year.

The Presets have become world renowned for their dynamic live show, with one reviewer describing their live performance at Coachella 2011 as "unequivocally the best live set I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life." 

Aside from the Presets' extensive performance work, the duo has remixed tracks for several other artists including Kings of Leon, Silverchair and Lenny Kravitz. As individuals, both Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes have written and produced extensively for other artists and projects.

The Presets are recognized as key players in the dance music explosion in Australia in the late 2000s. Their sound is described a successful fusion of dance and techno music with the raw energy of rock’n’roll.

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Name: Florence + The Machine
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Florence + the Machine (gesprochen Florence and the Machine) ist eine englische Band um die Singer-Songwriterin Florence Leontine Mary Welch (* 28. August 1986 in London) in Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Musikern. Das Debütalbum Lungs wurde am 6. Juli 2009 veröffentlicht und erreichte Platz eins im Vereinigten Königreich. Insgesamt wurden bisher weltweit über 6 Millionen Alben verkauft. Die Musik der Band ist eine Mischung aus Indie, Folk, Rock, Pop und Soul.

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Name: Angus Stone
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Brother-half of the folk duo Angus & Julia Stone from Australia. He has previously recorded under the moniker Lady of the Sunshine.  "I feel like it would be my most personal work to date," he ventures on the topic of Broken Brights. "I think I'm constantly introverting to that place, to that pocket I've always wanted to live inside amongst the songs & the tales that I've written. This album holds an essence that I've been searching for, for a long time." That search has taken him to the far-sailed corners of the globe. He's recorded in a rustic dwelling nestled in the Swiss Alps, beneath Australia's bright-lit cherry blue skies along the coastline, to a ramshackle log cabin with a view over the lush Indian countryside.  On one hand, you'll find Angus Stone off in his own world, dreaming away, and on the other, he's energetic, charismatic and quite frank. He's had to be to keep up with the pace of his career -- Stone's quickly becoming one of contemporary music's most acclaimed, yet inherently enigmatic, young artists.  For the past seven years, he's been travelling the world as one half of brother-sister duo Angus & Julia, during which time he's played to spell-bound audiences in sold-out shows at iconic venues like London's Royal Festival Hall and Paris's Le Trianon. Together, the artists have sold close to a million records around the world since the release of their debut EP, Chocolates and Cigarettes, in 2005. Now, Angus Stone is setting out on his own.  "I'm excited to let go of it all," he says of Broken Brights: the first solo album he's released under his own name. "For the people that have listened to Julia and I play for so long, I'm looking forward to handing it over to them so that they can create their own worlds & experiences with the writings. To play live as my own in front of those people, it's going to be a different trail of gravel & gold, but none the less very exciting."  Stone has drawn upon the ideas and experiences that make Angus & Julia's music so endearing, whilst offering a fresh perspective on the world that they've created. His poignant lyrical musings on life, love, and loss are both familiar and fresh, which will no doubt excite old fans and invite new ones into the fold.  In short, what Angus Stone has captured in the recording process is this: memories and imaginings from his pilgrimage around the planet. What he says about going solo could easily sum up the experience of listening to Broken Brights: "It's a whole different trip."

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Name: The Alpine
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Like many other bands the members of The Alpine met in high school and started playing together in different groups. They formed the band Aroma which after a while and a change of line-up became The Alpine as we know it today.    Living in Aalborg in the northern part of Denmark the band created the studio and rehearsal facilities called Quinten together with other young musicians from the city. Here they had their second home and gave birth to numerous recordings of their music.    Some of those recordings ended on producer Kasper Windings lap, who immediately invited the band to Copenhagen for studio sessions. Through the next year the band recorded with both him and English producer Rik Simpson for a forthcoming debut release. However the project stranded and left The Alpine back on their own, without a record deal but much more matured as a band nevertheless.    In the fall of 2002 they released the promo-cd World Record and started booking their own live-shows. Soon the venues in Denmark noticed the band from the north and throughout 2003 The Alpine played many live shows. Danish national radio, P3 playlisted the song Ground Beneath Me in the spring of 2003 after it topped their demo-chart for several weeks.    Around that time The Alpine was, chosen to take part of the project Upcoming.dk initiated by Rytmisk Musik Danmark and Christian Backman from EMI Records. The purpose of this project was to help and guide the band forward in their musical career. The Alpine also signed with Swedish management Promopop and went to Stockholm in April 2003 to do their first Swedish showcase. A month later they performed at the annual SPOT09 festival for the first time. A festival for both the public and for the music industry which is held in the city of Aarhus.    After a gig at Von Hatten in Randers The Alpine was spotted by a booker from Loudness, a young and innovative booking agency, with whom they started working with shortly after. In the summer of 2003 the band went back in the studio to record. The result was the ep entitled Four New Numbers which soon became a follow-up for Ground Beneath Me on P3, this time with the song Too Many Monsters.     With the young director Lars Terp The Alpine also did their first musicvideo for the same song. Though the video was made under extreme low-budget conditions it made it to #1 on 'Nordiska Videolistan', a Finish TV-show featuring a nordic video-chart, very similar to MTV UpNorth.    In late 2003 the band moved to Copenhagen and began a new life in the big city. Despite the lack of a record deal The Alpine continued their excessive touring in Denmark throughout 2004. Futhermore the band was chosen by Danish TV-show 'Boogie' as a semifinalist in their 'Starfighter' competition, while both national and local radio stations in Denmark began playing the song 'High Underground'.    In the fall of 2004 the band went to Sweden to begin recording in the famous Gula Studion together with producer Marco Manieri. 3 new songs were done and in early 2005 the song 'Trigger' from these sessions became the fourth The Alpine tune to be playlisted on P3 radio.    The band became a popular name on MyMusic.dk as well - the biggest website in Denmark for up- and coming music - getting great reviews and a feature as "Band of the week".    After signing a deal with the Danish booking agency Offbeat the band went on their first German tour in late April 2005. A tour arranged by the German agency Polar-Zoo and supported by the Danish rock council, ROSA, which also included the bands first live TV-performance on the music show 'Blend' on TD1.    At the gig at the Magnet Club in Berlin on that very tour The Alpine was spotted by the Berlin-based management agency Exzess Berlin and shortly after a contract between the parties was signed. Having joined forces with a top-tuned management and made the basis for a stronger international chart-attack, the band went off to London in late May 2005.    After being selected among thousands of bands The Alpine were among the 10 European acts invited to take part of the music tv show "MTV A CUT". The 10 bands competed for a support slot for Anastacia and a week of rehearsing, gigging, recording (in Abbey Road) and hanging out in London were filmed for the TV-show and aired all over Europe on MTV in the fall of 2005. Anastacia was among the judges and The Alpine made it to the finals and ended as #2 in the show.    As a result of this the interest for The Alpine among many record companies outside of Denmark increased and combined with the hard work of Exzess Berlin the future for the band suddenly had a whole new perspective. Shortly after the MTV A CUT adventure had ended a showcase was set up in Copenhagen and among the invited were the German-based record label Gun Records - a sub-label to Sony/BMG. The showcase was a success, the chemistry was right and a few weeks later The Alpine landed their first ever record deal.    The work on the forthcoming debut album immediately continued in the favourable Gula Studion in Malmö, Sweden and once again The Alpine teamed up with producer Marco Manieri. In between the recording sessions in Sweden the band spent time in Germany, playing promo gigs, filmed the musicvideo to the first single "Mondays Look The Same" (a song the band wrote while being on the MTV show in London) and warmed-up of Anastacia at the Paradiso in Amsterdam.    By the end of November 2005 the album work was almost done and release territories such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden were confirmed. The single made it as "Track Of The Week" on Danish National Radio P3 and a long German tour was scheduled for the rest of the year. A year like no other in the career of The Alpine and a strong indicator of what 2006 might bring.  On February the 27th 2006 The Alpine released their highly anticipated debut album entitled 'On Feel Trips' in Denmark. An album of 12 songs all produced by Marco Manieri and recorded in Gula Studion (S). The album showed the band at it's best and was the culmination of many years of hard work. While touring intensively in both Denmark and Germany the release date for Germany, Austria and Switzerland was set to April 15 the same year and the follow-up single for 'Mondays Look The Same' became the song 'Trigger'.

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Name: Panama
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Panama is an electronic musical project by songwriter/producer Jarrah McCleary in Sydney, Australia. He has released four extended play albums. When released, the Strange Feeling single received almost 200,000 SoundCloud plays in 7 days. In 2017, he worked with Classixx and Filip Nikolic from Poolside.

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Name: Saint Lou Lou
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Say Lou Lou, formerly known as Saint Lou Lou are twin sisters Elektra and Miranda Kilbey, daughters of The Church's Steve Kilbey. Considered dream pop  or dream wave, they released their first single in 2012 before forming their own record label, à Deux, in 2013. They are releasing their debut album 'Lucid dreaming' on February 23rd in Scandinavia and on April 6th Worldwide. After the album release they will be going on tour.

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Name: Paloma Faith
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Paloma Faith, eigentlich Paloma Faith Blomfield (* 21. Juli 1981 in Hackney, London), ist eine englische Schauspielerin und Sängerin. 

Paloma Faith hat eine Ausbildung als Jazzsängerin und Tänzerin und erwarb einen Master am St. Martins College in Theaterregie. Mit 18 trat sie unter anderem in Cabarets als Sängerin einer Coverband namens Paloma and the Penetrators und als Assistentin eines Zauberers auf, später wirkte sie in einem Burlesque-Theater mit.

In das Musikgeschäft kam sie durch einen Gelegenheitsjob in einem Dessousladen. Eine Kundin dort konnte ihr entsprechende Kontakte vermitteln. Ihr wurde auch angeboten, als Backgroundsängerin für Amy Winehouse zu arbeiten; sie zog jedoch eine eigenständige Karriere vor. Musikalisch reicht ihre Bandbreite vom Jazzpop der 1950er Jahre über den Motown-Soul bis zum Funk-Soul der 1970er. Bekannt wurde die Halbspanierin auch durch ihre extravaganten Bühnenshows, bei denen sie besonderen Wert auf Kostüme und Bühnendekoration legt. Über ihren Gesang urteilte Die Zeit, ihr Stil sei eine Mischung aus Jazz, Soul, Chanson und Glamour-Pop.

Ab 2006 spielte sie auch kleinere Rollen in Fernsehserien, größere Bekanntheit erlangte sie dann durch ihre Mitwirkung in Die Girls von St. Trinian (2007). Seit 2019 ist sie als blondierte Auftragskillerin zu sehen in der Epix-Serie Pennyworth über die Anfangsjahre von Alfred Pennyworth, einer Figur aus dem DC-Comics-Universum, der später Butler von Batman werden wird.

Mit dem Lied Stone Cold Sober hatte Paloma Faith im Sommer 2009 einen ersten Hit in ihrer Heimat, der äußerst erfolgreich im Radio lief und auch im Ausland Interesse fand. Im August und September 2009 wurde es in Australien und verschiedenen europäischen Ländern veröffentlicht. Größere Bekanntheit erlangte sie mit dem Song New York. Nach drei früheren Nominierungen für die Brit Awards wurde Faith 2015 als „Best British Female Solo Artist“ ausgezeichnet.
(Wikipedia)

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Name: Grimes
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Claire Boucher (* 17. März 1988 in Vancouver), besser bekannt unter ihrem Bühnennamen Grimes, ist eine kanadische Sängerin und Musikproduzentin.

Boucher wurde in Vancouver geboren und wuchs dort auf. Mit 18 zog sie nach Montreal, um dort zu studieren. Während des Studiums begann sie, unter dem Namen Grimes aufzutreten und Aufnahmen zu machen.

Ihr Debütalbum Geidi Primes wurde 2010 veröffentlicht. Ebenfalls in 2010 wurde das zweite Album Halfaxa veröffentlicht. Beide sind kostenfrei im Internet verfügbar. 2011 spielte Grimes im Vorprogramm von Lykke Li auf deren Nordamerika-Tour. Im selben Jahr erschien auch das dritte Album Darkbloom, das aus fünf Titeln von Grimes und vier von d’Eon besteht.

Seit 2012 steht Grimes beim unabhängigen britischen Plattenlabel 4AD unter Vertrag. Dort erschien im März 2012 das internationale Debütalbum Visions.

Unter anderem wird ihr Musikstil mit Enya, Aphex Twin, TLC und Madonna verglichen. Das NME Magazin hat Grimes auf Platz 1 der „20 Most Exciting New Bands Of 2012“ gewählt.

Am 06. November 2015 erschien das Album Art Angels, das mit weltweit positiven Kritiken ausgezeichnet wurde.

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Name: Bobby Womack
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Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack (pron.: /ˈwoʊmæk/; born March 4, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 50 years and has spanned a repertoire in the styles of R&B, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, gospel, and country.

Womack wrote and originally recorded The Rolling Stones' first UK No. 1 hit, "It's All Over Now" and New Birth's "I Can Understand It" among other songs. As a singer he is most notable for the hits "Lookin' For a Love", "That's The Way I Feel About Cha", "Woman's Gotta Have It", "Harry Hippie", "Across 110th Street" and his 1980s hit "If You Think You're Lonely Now".

In 2009, Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Name: Hermitude
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Now residing in Sydney, Luke Dubs and Elgusto grew up in the Blue Mountains where they took up musical instruments at a young age. They've played together with Elgusto's sister Aja in a funk/jazz group called Funk Injection since their early teens.  Elgusto has DJ'd and played percussion with Paulmac and The Dissociatives... He's also played with The Bird, Wes Carr, Explanetary, The Herd, Upshot and Paulmac. You can also check his DJing at various events and clubs.  Luke Dubs is a full-time musician working the keyboard craft in many acts including Explanetary, Vassy, Funk Injection and Guache. He graduated from the Australian Institute of Music with an Associate Diploma in contemporary Keyboard.  Players of multi-instruments, Hermitude combine drum programming, sampling and mixing with turntablism, keys, bass and percussion...with a little help from a few vocalists. Vocal tracks are few though, across their two albums.   These include 'Alleys to Valleys' off their album of the same name, released in 2003 (with MC's Urthboy and Ozi Battla of the Herd, and Joelistics), as well as 'Music From the Mind' off their latest album, released in September 2005 (with vocalist; Blu MC)

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Name: The Temper Trap
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"The Temper Trap"   is an Australian rock band that formed in 2005. The core members are Dougy Mandagi on vocals, Jonathon Aherne on bass guitar, Toby Dundas on drums and Joseph Greer on keyboards and guitar. In 2008, the group relocated from Melbourne to London.
Formed as an indie pop band in 2005. Indonesian-born Mandagi, who is originally from Manado, was a busker in Melbourne, Australia, in 1999 when he met Aherne, who wanted to learn to play guitar. Six years later, Mandagi met Dundas while the pair worked in a clothing store. In 2005, the three friends decided to form a band, with Mandagi on vocals and guitars, and Dundas on drums, while Aherne was later convinced to join on bass guitar by Mandagi. The Temper Trap rehearsed with a variety of second guitarists before Dundas recommended his former Geelong Grammar schoolmate, Sillitto, on lead guitar. Joseph Greer later became the fifth band member on keyboards and guitar. Lorenzo Sillitto, departed the band in late 2013, to leave the band with its current four piece line-up.
The group was named "The Temper Trap" after Temper Temper, the trio's first choice, was rejected due to its use by a United States (US) band.

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Name: Flight Facilities
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Flight Facilities are a duo, Hugo Stuart Gruzman and James "Jimmy" Nathan Lyell, which first began mixing various songs by other artists in 2009 in Sydney. They have worked for Bag Raiders, Toecutter and Sneaky Sound System. Their first original song, "Crave You" featuring Giselle Rosselli, received considerable airtime on the Australian radio station, Triple J in 2010. It was co-written by Guzman, Lyell and Rosselli after the duo contacted the vocalist to provide an original track for a compilation album by their label, Bang Gang. In July 2010 Flight Facilities commenced their first tour, Maiden Voyage. They played at various Australian nightclubs: Elsewhere on The Gold Coast, Empire in Brisbane, Limbo in Adelaide, and Adult Disco in Sydney before going to Japan to play at Onzieme in Osaka, and Le Baron in Tokyo. "Crave You" was listed at No. 19 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2010.

In 2011, Foreign Language won a J-Award for Music Video, and appeared as number 72 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2011. In February that year while performing as Hugo & Jimmy in Jakarta, Indonesia, the duo claimed to be from Trinidad and Tobago. They have jokingly told journalists the same thing and that they are Calvin Harris.

In 2012, Clair de Lune appeared as number 17 in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2012.

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Name: Goldroom
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Born out of Los Angeles synthpop trio NightWaves, Goldroom is Josh Legg’s solo effort and production alias. An amalgamation of dreamy synths, emotive vocals, and tropical disco grooves, Goldroom paints the soundscape of summertime in Los Angeles. 

2011 saw Goldroom self releasing his four song Angeles EP as well releasing a slew of remixes for buzzworthy acts like Penguin Prison, Poolside, and Gigamesh. His massive remix for Niki & The Dove has been streamed over 120,000 times on soundcloud and has been a staple of some of the worlds biggest tastemaker DJs such as The Magician, Aeroplane, Alex Metric, and Mylo. As a DJ, Goldroom has shared the stage with Alan Braxe, Classixx, Poolside, Oliver, and The Magician. 

http://goldroomtunes.com

http://www.facebook.com/goldroomtunes

goldroomtunes@gmail.com
Management (Jerry Soer): mgmt@goldroomtunes.com

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Name: Sinead Harnett
Overview: Sinéad Monica Harnett (born 12 October 1990) is an English singer/songwriter and actor.
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Name: Van She
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Van She is an electropop band formed in 2002 in Sydney, Australia, with Matt Van Schie (pronounced Van Ski) on bass guitar/vocals, Tomek Archer on drums/sequencer, Michael Di Francesco on synth/guitar and Nicholas Routledge on vocals/guitar. The band's debut album, V was released on the Australian label Modular Recordings in August 2008, which peaked at #10 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) album charts. Their label introduced them as a "new band from Sydney fresh on ideas, fresher than Flavor Flav, fresh like coriander, fresher than the Fresh Prince, fresher than fresh eggs." Despite these claims, the band began with a sound very much rooted in the 1980s, heavy on synthesizer, although later material reflects a more textured sound. They also do remixes of other artists' work both under their own name and as the offshoot, Van She Technologic.

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Name: Dune
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Dune ist eine deutsche Dance-Formation, die Mitte der 1990er Jahre unter anderem mit Titeln wie Hardcore Vibes, Are You Ready to Fly? und Rainbow to the Stars Erfolge feierte. Der Name ist durch den englischen Originaltitel des Science-Fiction-Films Der Wüstenplanet inspiriert.

Dune wurde 1994 von dem Münsteraner DJ Oliver Froning zusammen mit den Produzenten Jens Oettrich und Bernd Burhoff gegründet. Zu den ersten Liedern, die sich hauptsächlich in die Richtung Happy Hardcore orientierten, gehörten das eher instrumentale und mit nur wenig Gesang versehene Hardcore Vibes, I Can’t Stop Raving sowie die Coverversion des Rozalla-Titels Are You Ready to Fly? mit der Gastsängerin Tina Lagao, die später unter dem Namen Tina Lacebal Frontfrau wurde.

Nachdem sich die Band um die bisher nur als Background-Tänzerin arbeitende Verena von Strenge erweitert hatte, die den Titeln ab sofort ihre Stimme lieh, nahm der Erfolg weiter zu. Noch 1995 erschien eine neue Version des bereits auf dem ersten Album enthaltenen Instrumentalliedes Can’t Stop Raving, diesmal allerdings mit dem per Vocoder stark veränderten Gesang Tina Lacebals. 1996 folgte das zweite Album Expedicion aus dem die Singles Rainbow to the Stars, Hand in Hand oder Million Miles from Home stammen. Letzterer war in Deutschland der offizielle Song zum 30. Geburtstag von Star Trek.

Alle an der Band beteiligten Personen haben sich zwischenzeitlich anderen Projekten zugewandt. Oliver Froning gründete zusammen mit Kai Niggemann das Label rawcanine records. Jens Oettrich schreibt und produziert in seinem Ton-Studio in Berlin Filmmusik und arbeitet mit Berliner Künstlern wie zB. Diane Weigmann oder Nachlader. Bernd Burhoff ist bei Homerecords aktiv. Tina Lagao/Lacebal spielte u. a. als Kala im Musical Tarzan.

Dune tritt seit einigen Jahren wieder in Diskotheken und auf Veranstaltungen auf.

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Name: Storm Queen
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Morgan Geist's project STORM QUEEN (featuring the emotive vocals of Damon C. Scott) marks a return to his roots with an analog approach towards modern house music with a disco pedigree.

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Name: The Other Tribe
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There's something dangerous threatening to come out from Bristol.  It starts with darkness; smoke fills the room, and drums start a hypnotic pulse. By the time you've heard those drums, it's way too late. Six silhouettes emerge from the dim and from then on you're in for the most exhilarating, chaotic session of your life. Thrashing percussion, filthy dub step, throbbing sub-bass, screaming guitars and mechanistic techno are comfortably united within the chant-laden songs of this genre defying and defining band. Their live show, sculptured into the form of an exhilarating DJ set but with the raucous energy of a band, burns into memory your initiation into The Other Tribe.  Don't take it from me. Check it out for yourself. In a short space of time, the legend and hype surrounding The Other Tribe has grown. "It's whispered...It's almost dirty" purred the local student mag, Skint Magazine. "If you see one new band this year, make sure it's the Other Tribe. I dare you not to dance." Survive the Music blog adds: "Their live performances are nothing short of awe-inspiring". When this band are put on in the second room in a club, the main room is mysteriously emptied whilst they go through their rituals; the converts only returning wide-eyed when the last echoed note has disappeared from the exhausted PA.  In their home City of Bristol they have supported touring acts such as Kissy Sellout, Hadouken! Crystal Fighters, The Qemists, DJ Hype, Mystery Jets, and Chew Lips, and have added their tribal energy to Frankmusik, The Milk, and Pony Pony Run Run with their remixes. The guys of The Other Tribe are also no strangers to the DJ booth, providing the "sickest house and techno DJ set I seen to date" (Bass to the Face), whilst running their own night in Bristol, currently bunkered down at The Fleece.  "I witnessed a perfect-for-festival' set from an outfit called The Other Tribe. Cocky, rocky and deserving of the massive yell of the crowd that had thrown themselves around the dance floor." - Artful MTB Rocklands http://soundcloud.com/theothertribe www.facebook.com/theothertribe http://www.myspace.com/wearetheothertribe http://theothertribe.tumblr.com/


Name: Purity Ring
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Purity Ring is a Canadian electronic music duo from Montreal, formed in 2010. The band consists of Megan James on vocals and Corin Roddick (instrumentals); both grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. James uses written work, which she originally did not intend to release to the public, for many of the band's lyrics. During live shows, Roddick uses a custom-built, tree-shaped instrument to drive both live sound and lighting. During live appearances both wear clothes custom designed and sewn by James.

The duo were originally members of the band Born Gold (previously called Gobble Gobble). While on tour with Gobble Gobble, Roddick began experimenting with electronic production and beat-making. James was asked to sing on a track called "Ungirthed," which led to the formation Purity Ring. The song was released in January 2011. On April 3, 2012, Purity Ring was signed by media company 4AD worldwide and Last Gang Records in Canada. Later the same month the band announced their debut album, Shrines, which was subsequently released on July 24, 2012.

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Name: Elizabeth Rose
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Elizabeth Maniscalco, better known by her stage name Elizabeth Rose is an Australian Electronica DJ / producer and singer-songwriter. Her first single, Ready, was released in January 2012 to good reviews, with Radar Music marking her as one of the "20 Aussie Indie Bands to Watch in 2012".

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Name: Free The Universe
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Name: Finally Rich
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Name: Pretty Lights
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Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith. At a time when music lovers from almost all subcultures and genres are finding common ground in the basic form of bangin' beats, Pretty Lights is giving the people what they want: electro organic cutting-edge party rocking beats that fill venues with energy and emotion and send dance floors into frenzies. And the people are responding. Pretty Lights has given away more than three million free album downloads to date.
“The Illumination Tour,” Pretty Lights’ 2012 U.S. run, kicked off with a sold-out, two-night stand at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. Reviews for the 55-date tour were stellar: “Smith wowed the crowd with his Crayola-colored set of lasers and his ever-present grin of pure joy as he danced along to his own tunes,” said SPIN while Rolling Stone called him “wildly unique and talented.” In addition to the headline dates, Pretty Lights played the Electric Zoo, North Coast and CounterPoint festivals and partnered with Skrillex to spearhead the two-day “With Your Friends Festival” in downtown Nashville.
In another innovative partnership, Pretty Lights teamed up with Bassnectar to put on a two-day “BassLights” event in December 2012, marking the first-ever electronic music shows at historic Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA. Pretty Lights closed out 2012 with two intimate shows at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom.
A brand new Pretty Lights album is due out in 2013. “I've completely switched up my process of producing and composing. It is being created from all originally composed samples off of self made vinyl and all analog modular synthesis,” says Smith. “It’s prolific, conceptual, consistent, yet extremely diverse, and a real substantial piece of music you can sink your teeth into.”

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Name: A Color Map of the Sun
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Name: Master P
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Percy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1970), better known by his stage name Master P or his business name P. Miller, is an American rapper, actor, entrepreneur, investor, producer, and former professional minor league Basketball player. He is the founder of the popular label No Limit Records, which went bankrupt and was relaunched as New No Limit Records through Koch Records, followed by Guttar Music Entertainment, and No Limit Forever Records. He is the founder and CEO of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate and Better Black Television.

Miller gained fame in the late 1990s with the success of his group TRU and his fifth album Ice Cream Man, which contained his first single "Mr. Ice Cream Man". In 1997, after the success of one his biggest singles to date, "Make 'Em Say Uhh!," went 2x platinum, Miller grew further in popularity. Then Miller released his second platinum album Ghetto D. Miller also starred in his own street film, mostly based on his life, I'm Bout It which was very successful.

In 1998, P. Miller released his most successful album to date MP Da Last Don. The album was also based on a film that Miller produced, which came out earlier that year with the same name. The album hit #1 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, selling over 400,000 copies in its first week. The album was certified 4x platinum, with over four million copies sold, making it Miller's best-selling album. In 1999, Miller released his eighth album, Only God Can Judge Me. It was not as successful as his previous album, though it still managed to reach a gold certification. Miller also starred in the movie, I Got the Hook Up, with A.J. Johnson which was a huge success. P. Miller also launched a clothing line called No Limit Gear and launched No Limit Sports. In the early 2000's he formed a popular rap group called 504 Boyz which is No limit's biggest selling group with its huge chart single called Wobble Wobble.

In the 2000s, as No Limit Records' popularity was slowly declining until the debut self titled album Lil Romeo made No Limit's popularity as well as Silkk The Shocker and C-Murder's albums. P.Miller re-launched No Limit Records as New No Limit Records and released an album. On November 28, 2000, he released his ninth studio album, Ghetto Postage; with found success but not compared to earlier releases, selling 500,000 copies; critics ravaged the album. In 2003, Miller starred in the film Lockdown. In 2004, Miller released his eleventh album, Good Side, Bad Side it charted number 1 on the Independent Billboards and sold 300,000 copies. The same year Miller released his first independent album Living Legend: Certified D-Boy on his new label Guttar Music, and the album only sold 75,000 copies.

In 2011, Miller and Gucci Mane produced and were featured in a new soundtrack entitled "Get Money" which was produced by Drumma Boy.

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Name: Sting and The Police
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The Police (engl. „die Polizei“) waren eine englische New-Wave-Band, die in den späten 1970er- und frühen 1980er-Jahren die Pop-Rock-Musik entscheidend beeinflusste. Zusammen mit den Talking Heads ist The Police die erfolgreichste Rockformation der Post-Punk- bzw. New Wave-Bewegung. Anfangs vom Reggae und Ska inspiriert, experimentierte das Trio später auch mit Elementen von Weltmusik und Jazz.

Vier von fünf Studioalben belegten Platz 1 der britischen Album-Charts, ebenso erfolgreich waren die Single-Auskopplungen Message in a Bottle (1979), Walking on the Moon (1979), Don’t Stand So Close to Me (1980), Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (1981) und Every Breath You Take (1983).

Anlässlich der Grammy Awards 2007 gab The Police am 12. Februar 2007 ihr Comeback in der Musikbranche bekannt. Am 7. August 2008 gab die Band nach eigenen Angaben endgültig ihr letztes Konzert.
Stewart Copeland war nach zwei kommerziell erfolglosen Jahren mit Curved Air auf der Suche nach einem Konzept für eine neue Band, als in England die Punk-Welle begann. In einem Jazzclub in Newcastle traf er Gordon Matthew (Thomas) Sumner – besser bekannt als Sting („Stachel/Stich“), seines „bienenartig“ gestreiften Pullovers wegen so genannt.

Nach einigen ersten Auftritten als noch namenloses Quartett (mit Stewarts Bruder Ian Copeland) gründeten Sting (Bass, Gesang), Stewart Copeland (Schlagzeug) zusammen mit dem aus Korsika stammenden Henry Padovani (Gitarre) The Police, 'offiziell' im Januar 1977 in London.

Copeland, Padovani und Sting hatten zahlreiche Live-Auftritte, tourten im März/April mit Cherry Vanilla und Wayne County & The Electric Chairs. Bereits im Mai 1977 landeten sie mit der von Miles Copelands unabhängigen Label Illegal Records veröffentlichten Single Fall Out/Nothing Achieving ihren ersten Erfolg. Wie einige andere frühe Lieder und Single-Titel ist Fall Out als 'Studioversion' (CD) erstmals auf Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (28. September 1993) veröffentlicht worden.

Im Mai lud Mike Howlett, vormals Bassist bei Gong, Sting und den mit ihm befreundeten Andy Summers ein, zusammen als Strontium 90 aufzutreten. Stewart Copeland schloss sich ebenfalls an, nachdem Chris Cutler als Drummer verhindert war. Diese kurzlebige Bandformation nahm einige Demotracks auf, gefolgt von einem Auftritt am Comeback-Konzert von Gong am 28. Mai 1977 in Paris (siehe Diskografie) und einem Konzert als The Elevators in einem Londoner Club.

Im Juni 1977 schloss sich Summers endgültig The Police an – im Juli 1977 tourten sie kurzzeitig als Quartett – und Summers ersetzte ab August Padovani als Gitarrist, womit die Besetzung von The Police für die kommenden Erfolgsjahre unverändert blieb. Padovani wurde Gitarrist von Wayne County and The Electric Chairs, blieb mit dem Trio und seinem Manager Miles Copeland III aber freundschaftlich verbunden.

Miles Copeland – Stewarts ältester Bruder – wurde ihr Manager, trug nicht unwesentlich zum späteren Erfolg des Trios bei und verhalf der Band zu ihrem ersten Plattenvertrag mit A&M Records.[1]

Oft unterschätzt war in der Gründungszeit von Police auch die Zusammenarbeit mit dem deutschen Künstler Eberhard Schoener. Bereits im Jahre 1977 spielte Andy Summers als Gastmusiker auf Schoeners LPs "The Book" und Trance-Formation. Im Herbst 1977 fuhren dann auch Sting und Stewart Copeland nach München, um dort zusammen mit Andy Summers als Gastmusiker auf Schoeners LP Flashback mitzuwirken. Auch bei der 1978 erschienenen LP Video Magic Schoener sind noch Sting und Summers dabei. Im Rahmen dieser Zusammenarbeit ging das Trio im Laufe der Jahre 1977 und 1978 mit Schoener auf Tournee.

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