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Motor City Drum Ensemble

Danilo Plessow is a hard man to pigeonhole. Since 2003, he's been producing broken beat and jazzier material with Joachim Tobias under the Inverse Cinematics banner. Their debut full-length Passin' Through was released this year, but there's another reason why people have been talking about Plessow in 2008. He's the man that's responsible for the Motor City Drum Ensemble project, producing music which seems to encapsulate the spirit of Detroit despite being made in Stuttgart - a place that - next to Wolfsburg - is considered Germany's own 'motor city'.

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James Curd

James Curd began djing in Chicago in the early nineties. By the time he was 19 he was holding down residencies with Derrick Carter and releasing music on labels around the world.
James wrote a wide array of songs and released "Should I Sing Like This" under the name Greenskeepers. "Should I Sing Like This" became a hit with djs in the city and around the world. Greenskeepers was gaining steam in every direction including press support from Rolling Stone.

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Dave Seaman

MOST DJs fall into club-life by accident due to their love of music. Not Dave Seaman. He decided he wanted to become a DJ when he was eight years old – and Played his first gig at 12. All his DJ dreams have long since come true, but he’s never lost his enthusiasm or his creative drive. Seaman has headlined clubs on every continent – he is one of the UK’s most travelled, most creative, and most celebrated DJs in the world.

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Bingo Players

Bingo Players (Paul Bäumer & Maarten Hoogstraten) have been left gasping for air after a seriously hectic year with bookings in the Netherlands and abroad. Outgrowing local bingo halls to play with the big ballers of the game has been the result of their hard work and devotion. The Bingo Players appear to have been made for each other, the proof of which came in November 2009, when the DJ/producer duo topped the Beatport overall chart for a second time with their remake of the dance floor classic, “Devotion”, which stayed on no. 1 for two weeks and over a month in the top 10!

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Round Table Knights

The Round Table Knights are a DJ / Producer duo consisting of DJ Questionmark and DJ Atomik. If you had to chose one single word to characterise them it could only be diversity. The RTK play all kinds of Electronic/Accoustic/Futuristic/Exciting/Romantic/Intense music. Their musical horizon kept them behind the decks in clubs and at festivals all over Europe. "It's all about the mix" they say. Since 2002 the Knights are throwing parties all over Switzerland and inviting guests from different musical genres.

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Robert Babicz

From Cologne, Germany techno producer has recorded a number of records as Rob Acid, Acid Warrior and Department of Dance for Force Inc in the nineties, now he begins releasing under his name since 2004. He also had records released by acid and techno labels such as Important and Labworks and at some point had launched his own label too, Junkfood. His most recent output is a blend of minimal and deep tunes with a lot of care taken for the detail. His mixes feature melodic constructs set, at times, in a more experimental field of electronic sounds which is considered innovative by many.

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Habersham

Young Habersham has achieved more in 5 years than most hope to achieve in a lifetime: he’s played in over 19 cities worldwide, from Australia to Turkey, Budapest to Amsterdam, throughout the States, Mexico and Central America; he has over 30 releases under his belt on labels such as Audio Therapy, Global Underground, Proton, and his own Blueprint & Lobotomy imprints; his music has been featured on over 10 of the world’s most prestigious compilations & mix CDs such as Renaissance (x3), Global Underground, Bedrock Breaks (x2), Distinctive’s Y4K, Balance, et al.

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Acumen

Acumen relates to 4 artists: 1. French tech-house producer Antoine Garcin. 2. Prog Rock, Glitch, Post Rock, Ambient, Acoustic, Electro, Experimental producer on Benbecula records. 3. The former name of coldwave band <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Acumen+Nation" class="bbcode_artist">Acumen Nation</a>. "Nation" was added due to a legal dispute over the name. 4. Experimental, Indie, Rock, one-man banded vision that began as a vibration. Then became light. Then became matter. Now misses being a vibration. This is what that sadness sounds like.

Frankie & the Heartstrings

Frankie & The Heartstrings are a 5-piece band from Sunderland, Northeast, United Kingdom. Their first single, 'Hunger/Fragile' was released at the beginning of 2010. According to Songfacts, the song title and lyrics of 'Hunger' pay homage to the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun's 1890 semi-autobiographical novel Hunger, which describes a young writer's descent into near madness as a result of famine, poverty and homelessness.

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