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The Prophet

Dov J. Elkabas aka 'The Prophet' was born on 5 November 1968. He started DJing in 1983. He first discovered turntables when he visited a roller disco (Het Nijlpaardenhuis) in Amsterdam.
He was so impressed by the enthusiasm it evoked that he got a job so he could buy a set of SL1200 MK2s and practice with the turntables at home. He spun disco at Het Nijlpaardenhuis for approximately two years until the roller disco was closed down.

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Tommyknocker

Tomasso Marra (Tommyknocker) was born in Italy on january the 20th 1977.
Tommyknocker starts his career in 1994 when he begins performing in some 'illegal' parties which are organized in Rome.
From '95 to '97 he collaborates with the “Virus staff” of Freddy K, and he is Resident Dj of a few discotheques like "06" and after "Oxygen" (the first hardcore club of Rome).
He even takes part to a radio show called "Hardcore Play" where he works as director together with Freddy. From '97 to '99 he plays in the biggest hardcore parties of Rome.

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Noize Suppressor

Noize Suppressor is an Italian Hardcore-Gabber artist and DJ duo.They started in 1996 after sending a demo tape to D-Boy Records, which was received by Ronnie Lee. The Italian team of Noize Suppressor is formed by Alessandro Dilillo, also known as DJ Bike, and Stefano Soprani (DJ Dek).

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Counterfeit

There are 3 artists by this name: 1) Kevin Van Den Brink a hardcore/darkcore producer from Holland. 2) A band from Lyon (France) with a progressive rock influenced by Tool, Isis, Neurosis.
Official website <a href="http://www.counterfeit-band.com" rel="nofollow">www.counterfeit-band.com</a> 3) A British synth pop trio releasing The Good Samaritan / Four Years on Creation Records in 1989. Members : Heath Taylor, Lee McFadden and Glen Wisbey (also of <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Blue+October" class="bbcode_artist">Blue October</a>) 4) A hardcore punk band who made a record with <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Apathemy" class="bbcode_artist">Apathemy</a>.

Juggernaut

There is more than one artist with the name Juggernaut: 1. Juggernaut was a Texas thrash metal band known for their outragous live shows and off stage antics. Two albums were released, both on Metal Blade records: Baptism Under Fire in 1986 and Trouble Within in 1987. Both are available on reissue by High Vaultage records with generous bonus tracks. Juggernuat disbanded in 1993. 2. Juggernaut is a <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/hardcore" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">hardcore</a>/<a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/death%20metal" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">death metal</a> Band from France.
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/juggernauthardcore" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/juggernauthardcore</a> 3. There is also a <a href="http://www.last.fm/tag/hardcore" class="bbcode_tag" rel="tag">hardcore</a> band from Vienna, Austria called Juggernaut. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/juggernautbust" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/juggernautbust</a>

Day-Mar

When DaY-már was 14 years old, she started listening to a lot of music. She liked lots of different styles, but especially dance-music, the styles that had a hard bass. When she turned 16 she also started visiting a lot of party's and she enjoyed watching the DJ's while they were spinning their records very much. DaY-már never could have guessed that she would be doing the same thing some years later…

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Re-Style

Mathijs Maas aka Re-Style was born on 13th March 1986 in Middelburg, Zeeland, Holland. He quickly became a fan of the hardcore scene, but it didnt stop at just listening to the music. At a young age Mathijs started to produce his own music at home which quickly advanced to a high quality level which enabled him to send his demo's to the infamous label Masters Of Hardcore. With the help of Bass-D & Outblast for his mastering & mixing skills, he was able to release his 1st record with Bass-D & King Matthew - Land Of Hardcore at the age 16.

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Amnesys

Dario discovered for the first time hardcore and techno music when he was 11 through the famous radio program VIRUS ran by Freddy K.
From that moment he started to listen constantly the radio program recording a lot of tapes and 1 year later Dario bought the first record (try to make it harder e.p.).
In the same period he discovered to have some softwares to create music and without to think he started to create hardcore and techno tracks for pastime with an old Pc (Pentium 1).

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Endymion

1. Endymion, three hardcore artists from the Netherlands, are rated among the most popular producers, live-acts and DJ-teams in the world. The outfit was founded in 1997 and the combined talents of the three members quickly resulted in their first release on Supreme Intelligence Records in 1998. This jump-started their career, and in addition to a string of successful releases on Supreme Intelligence and its successor Gangsta Audiovisuals, Endymion has also recorded for such top international hardcore labels as D-Boy, The Third Movement, Babyboom and Neophyte Records.

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Promo

Sebastian Hoff a.k.a. Promo was born on the 12th of April 1976, and started mixing soon after ;).
When he was 19 years old, he already had a hit on the compilation album Thunderdome IX - The Revenge Of The Mummy, his alias being Section-8 (together with The Prophet). A second hit was a remix of the song "Don't Speak" by No Doubt, but he mainly produced this track to bully his brother who played in a rockband.

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