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Christian Smith (born March 2, 1997), known professionally as Crankdat, is an American DJ and electronic dance music producer. Smith grew up desiring to be an athlete, but ultimately turned down a full-ride track-and-field scholarship to Kent State University to pursue music, producing energetic and melodically vibrant electronic dance music as Crankdat. Smith began making music while still in high school. Smith originally gained recognition for remixing other artists' tracks, including Fetty Wap's breakout single, "Trap Queen." Eventually these remixes racked up millions of plays and Smith, barely out of his teens, was getting attention from bigger names in electronic dance music such as Skrillex and The Chainsmokers. Crankdat released original tracks as he toured, including the Jauz collaboration "I Hold Still" as well as the triumphant "Dollars," both in 2017.[5][6] In 2019, Crankdat embarked on his ambitious, "Gearworld", tour. He even designed his own artwork and animations for his live show visuals.

William Black is a electronic music producer from Denver, USA, William Black got his start in the late 2010s making hard-edged dubstep for labels like Dim Mak, but his sound gradually mellowed into a rich, emotional strain of melodic bass at its most uplifting. William Black’s songs touch on important topics including depression, addiction, love and loss. These songs feature his signature soundscape of beautiful uplifting melodies with passionate singers. These qualities allowed his 2018 debut EP, “Universe”, to climb the iTunes Dance Charts to #1. In 2019, William Black continued to push the boundaries of dance music by creating nostalgia through sound on his album “Pages” which charted on iTunes and Billboard Dance.

Martin Joseph Léonard Bresso, better known by his stage name Tchami, is a French record producer and DJ from Paris. A founding member of the Pardon My French collective, he is best known for his solo work and regarded as a pioneer of the future house genre – a term he coined – alongside Dutch DJs Oliver Heldens and Don Diablo.

DJ_Dave is an NYC-based experimental electronic-pop artist, DJ, and producer, who creates & performs her music using code – a style called algorave – and is one of the first to do so in a pop-sensible context. She is also the first to combine live coding and DJ mixing simultaneously in her shows. She gracefully dances across the newfound fluidity of the industry, balancing both the music and tech worlds in the palm of her hands, and bringing the concept of live coding to the masses. From djdave.xyz

Growing up in small-town New Zealand, electronic producer Jack Laven, aka 33 Below, started playing around with music software, as a new creative outlet. Fast forward a couple of years and 33 Below is quickly becoming a familiar name in the vocabulary of electronic music fans around the world. From DnB to emotional UKG, 33 Below has been pushing the envelope and developing his sound over the past couple of years, which has been presented in the form of his debut EP ‘Motions’. The project was released on Th3rd Brain Records, accompanied by a plethora of visual content. The project featured singles including the liquid DnB ‘Keep You As A Memory’, hooky UKG ‘Next to Me’ and emotional garage track ‘Cycles’. 2023 see's 33 Below evolving his sound and pushing his mixed-genre sound to the front. His first release of 2023 was his garage remix of Odd Mob’s club hit ‘LEFT TO RIGHT’, which has already caught the attention of Disclosure, What So Not, DJ EZ, and AC Slater. This was quickly followed by a collaboration with San Francisco based producer demotapes on the lush 'sedatives', as well as an official remix of SILK's breakout single 'Quiver'. 33 has been expanding his audience through unique and hard hitting live shows including playing festivals, supporting Fred Again.. on his only NZ show, and selling out headline shows. There are no signs of slowing down for the rest of the year, with his sophomore EP to be expected before the year is out.

(Tribal Monterrey) is a trio from Monterrey, Mexico. They consist of Erick Rincon, Sheeqo Beat and DJ Otto. Their style of music is generally referred to as tribal guarachero, which is prevalent in Mexico City and Monterrey. The name tribal guarachero references a Cuban rhythm called guaracha. Colombia's musical style of cumbia also plays an influence in tribal guarachero. The music is marked by its distinctive triplet rhythm, which gives the music an unusual and deceptively slow, loping feel, even as the songs hum along over a 4/4 beat at 133 beats per minute. Their album Inténtalo, was released in late 2011.

Danny Masseling, better known by his stage name Angerfist, is a Dutch hardcore producer and DJ. He has maintained popularity in the hardcore genre for an extended duration, and is often referred to as the "King of Hardcore". Many claim that his music, featuring distorted kicks and aggressive vocals, has defined the modern hardcore sound.