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Anna Maria Murphy is a Swiss musician, singer, songwriter and audio engineer. She is best known as the female lead vocalist of Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie from 2006 until 2016, in which she also played hurdy-gurdy and flute. Since her departure from Eluveitie, she has been the lead vocalist of Swiss progressive metal band Cellar Darling.

Vivie-ann Bakos, born October 16 1988, known professionally as BLOND:ISH, is a Canadian DJ, producer, and environmental activist. Known for high-energy music, she is an whose work focuses on inspiring change, with a stated mission to help one billion people live their best lives. She founded the nonprofit charity Bye Bye Plastic to eliminate single-use plastics from music venues and events. She is the founder of the Abracadabra event series and record label, headline resident at Pacha Ibiza, and co-founder of the nonprofit Bye Bye Plastic Foundation.

Boys Noize is the stage name of Berlin-based DJ and producer Alex Ridha. Ridha (born in 1982, Hamburg) started producing and DJing at early age to find himself supporting the likes of Felix Da Housecat and DJ Hell in a matter of time. Nowadays Ridha himself is known as a one of the most valued electronic artists, awarded with the Independent Music Award in 2010 as well as 3 years in a row Best Electronic Artist on Beatport. Has a refreshing approach: not afraid to break new grounds, beaming a myriad of influences from his hip-hop and disco roots to create an innovative sound. His DJ-sets are equally uplifting and he's regarded by many as one of the worlds' best DJs, not only technically but also as a showman. Seamlessly mixing and remixing on the spot, Ridha never fails to deliver high-powered and gripping sets: unforgettable experiences for the witnesses. Alex released his early work on labels such as International Deejay Gigolos Records, Kitsuné and Turbo Recordings.In order to retain full artistic freedom however, he established his imprint Boysnoize Records in 2005. His highly anticipated long players "Oi Oi Oi" and its successor "Power", the two long players that included contemporary anthems such as "Don't Believe The Hype", "&Down" and "Jeffer". He remixed: David Lynch, N.E.R.D, Depeche Mode, Snoop Dogg and The Chemical Brothers, amongst many other great artists and became a producer of note, highly sought after having worked with Kelis, UK rapper Kano and Black Eyed Peas to name a few. Chilly Gonzales' "Ivory Tower" is his first fully produced and co-written album which was released in august 2010. He has further collaborated with his friend and fellow Erol Alkan: The first record "Death Suite"/"Waves" was released on Ridhas imprint BNR, follow up "Lemonade" / "Avalanche" came out on Erol's label Phantasy Sound. An "Avalanche" re-release, a new version featuring Brit-God Jarvis Cocker, is due for early 2011. Ridha is currently working on the forthcoming Spank Rock album and as well as with New York's finest Scissor Sisters. His recent release of original Boys Noize tracks in September 2010 celebrated the 50th release on Boysnoize Rec as well as the launch of the first sublabel BNR Trax which presented its first release in October 2010.

Tiga James Sontag, known simply as Tiga, is a Canadian musician, DJ, record producer, and music programmer. He has released four albums: Sexor (2006), Ciao! (2009), No Fantasy Required (2016), and Hotlife (2026). The former won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year. Tiga released a selection of compilations in the early 2000s, featuring mixes such as American Gigolo, DJ-Kicks: Tiga and, Mixed Emotions. His compilation mix, Tiga Non-Stop, was released in November 2012, and premiered Tiga's latest single "Plush". The mix also features tracks from artists such as Kindness, Duke Dumont and Blawan.

A DJ, producer and label boss firmly in the ascendency, Chris Stussy emerged onto the scene double quick time with a string of head turning house tracks, but what is important is that he has continued to back up that early promise years later. Now very much a key part of today’s house scene with a sound that is all his own, Stussy’s rise has taken him firmly into the spotlight as one of the scene’s most exciting names, and the Dutch wonderkid is only just getting started… A long-standing love of early house music, but also raw production aesthetics and an understanding of jazz, disco and Chicago styles feed into his own unique take on the genre. As such, his sublime late-night cuts via the likes of Djebali, Moscow, Eastenderz, LOCUS, and PIV, where he is also charged with spotting new talent as the in-house A&R, often come with bumping drums and a bassline that is superbly slick and supple, whilst remixes for artists including the one and only Kerri Chandler welcome smart vocal samples and lush synth colours which add to the allure of his most seductive and warm house grooves. As a DJ, Stussy is just as widely informed and draws on styles to suit the many different settings in which he plays. Main stages at Awakenings through to cult underground clubs such as Watergate (Berlin), fabric (London), Fuse (Brussels) and Elrow (Barcelona) all come under his spell in equally memorable ways, with tours of Australia, New Zealand, Asia and South America already in the books, plus regular appearances across Amsterdam’s finest venues. From long, slow, deep and tension building mixes to more high impact, quick chops and high energy cuts, he is a versatile selector who is always on the move. And yet, after countless #1’s Stussy still continues to serve up heat at an alarming rate. Add to the mix the highly-anticipated launch of his own label ‘Up The Stuss’ - a vinyl-driven outlet for both Stussy and close friends and colleagues to release forward thinking, timeless club-driven productions from across the electronic sphere - and you begin to gain an understanding of just how well-rounded he is not only as an artist, but also as an A&R and a label owner. Yet despite being so prolific, the quality levels remain high, and while each new production shows a subtle evolution, they continue to feed into the singular Stussy sound that DJs and dancers have come to know and love.

Flowdan (also spelled Flow Dan, real name Mark Viera) is an MC from East London. He is one of the founding and longest serving members of the Roll Deep crew, after joining from UK garage collective Pay As You Go, and is also a part of the collective Cemetary Warriors. Flow Dan started as a jungle MC in the late nineties before starting Roll Deep with Wiley. While at Roll Deep he has featured on all the main singles and featured on all three major CD releases: Rules & Regulations, In At The Deep End which has sold 85,000 copies to date and Return of The Big Money Sound. His first chart success came from the appearance on the UK Top 20 smash FWD Riddim. Flow Dan is probably best known for his collaboration with The Bug on the albums London Zoo (2008) and Angels & Devils (2014) and various singles. In particular the track "Skeng" has become somewhat of an anthem in the Dubstep scene. In 2009 he released the album Original Dan. Flowdan tours regularly around the globe in countries such as Canada, Sweden, Belgium, France and Japan. Flow Dan also has consistently featured on mixtapes from other Grime artists including Wiley, Frisco, Killa P, Slew Dem, D Power & J2K. In recent times Flow Dan has formed his own collective Cemetery Warriors with Riko, Gods Gift, & Killa P which represents the four showcasing their skills in a Caribbean dialect. EPs: Big Mic Man (2002) Sky Diver (2003) Serious Business (2014)

Dehaney Nia Lishahn Hunt, known professionally as Nia Archives, is an English record producer, DJ, singer and songwriter. Born in Bradford in West Yorkshire, she moved to Leeds aged seven, out of the family home aged sixteen, and then to Greater Manchester, during which time she was inspired by jungle documentaries and their women participants. After finding herself messed about by local producers, she began producing her own jungle and drum and bass works; after moving to Hackney Wick for university and finding that no record labels would release them, she released them herself, attracting attention for the EPs Headz Gone West and Forbidden Feelingz. After featuring on numerous 'best of' lists, she released a third EP, Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against the Wall, in 2023, which topped the UK Dance Albums Chart, followed by an album, Silence Is Loud, which peaked at No. 16 on the UK Albums Chart. Hunt is generally regarded as being at the forefront of the post-2020 drum and bass revival, and has been cited as an inspiration by Piri.

Portland, Maine-based producer Of The Trees is no stranger to electronic music. Tyler Coombs is the artist behind the organic bass music project taking the scene by storm, known for his affinity for creating full sensory audio-visual journeys. While he has been making music for over a decade, 2015 was the year he first turned heads in the electronic world. Ranging in speeds from dubstep to glitch hop, his catalog integrates spacious chords with vast synth stabs and a heavy dose of 808 percussion. His new astonishing audiovisual sets push the boundaries of live electronic music performance. Each and every element is meticulously planned with intention, precision, and expertise to curate an experience that seduces the senses. - Gravitas Recordings

There are multiple music projects under this name: 1) Tech house producer OMNOM, aka Cody Lee. 2) Metal/rock group OMNOM, short for Of Man-Not Of Machine. The group consists of Elliot Coleman, Misha Mansoor and Mark Holcomb. "Project started by Bulb and his good buddy Elliot for fun! We will be adding and rotating songs as soon as they are complete, so keep checking back and please help spread the word! Add us to your top plzplz! [email protected] Enjoy the music!"

Reared among the three cultures of Brazil, Mexico and the U.S., Poranguí was steeped in various traditional forms of music, healing and ceremony since birth. Weaving ancestral songs & indigenous rhythms from around the world as a one-man orchestra, Poranguí bridges the healing properties of sound and movement to foster our individual and collective well being.

Felix Angyumanu Nyajo is an Austrian DJ and record producer based in England, who is currently signed to English independent record label, Ninja Tune. They initially gained attention for their remixes of Aaliyah's "Rock the Boat" and Sam Smith's "Money on My Mind" in the early 2010s, produced and released during their adolescence around the age of 16.

Scott Elliott Jenkins, professionally known as Skepsis, is an English musician from Beckenham. He is best known for his 2023 single, "Rave Out", with Turno and Charlotte Plank, which charted at No. 37 on the UK Singles Chart; his 2024 follow-up with Plank, "Green & Gold" with Rudimental and Riko Dan, charted at No. 29. He has also released the collaborative album Pure Bassline 2 with DJ Q and Jamie Duggan, which charted at No. 2 on the UK Dance Albums Chart, and the 2021 studio album Faith in Chaos, which charted at No. 79 on the UK Album Downloads Chart.

Recognized by his multicolored animal mask, Slow Magic is an enigmatic DJ and producer known for his otherworldly, yet still pop-savvy, synth and electronic sound. He first emerged with 2012's Triangle and gained even wider attention with 2014's How To Run Away and 2017's Float. His most recent album, it's the end of the world, but it's ok was released in 2020. Arriving in the spirit of other masked artists like Deadmau5, MF Doom, and Daft Punk, Slow Magic released his debut album, Triangle, in 2012 on the LebensStrasse label. In keeping with his mysterious vibe, the LP didn't include the word "Triangle" on the cover, only the shape. Following the album's release, Slow Magic toured alongside Gold Panda and Xxyyxx -- he also remixed several Gold Panda tracks along with the Spanish indie dance band Delorean. A split single with Sun Glitters appeared on LebensStrasse in 2014, while that same year Slow Magic released the album How to Run Away on the Sony-distributed imprint Downtown. Around this time, Downtown was acquired by Interscope, and subsequent label issues resulted in the delay of Slow Magic's third album, Float, which arrived in 2017. Along with guest appearances by MNDR and Tropics, the record also included the song "Mind" featuring vocals by Kate Boy. The Away EP came out a year later and included the song "Go" featuring Toulouse. Slow Magic eventually signed a management deal with Milk & Honey and returned with the Dreams EP, which featured collaborations with Julianne Hope and Evalyn. A stand-alone track, "Home," appeared in March 2020. http://slowmagic.bandcamp.com/

Sofia Kourtesis is a Peruvian producer, vocalist, and DJ living in Berlin. In Fresia Magdalene EP, the Berlin-based artist pays tribute to her native Lima, Peru - in bittersweet house music that wears its spiritual yearning on its sleeve. Sometimes, particularly these days, those in search of grace find they must create it themselves. In the Callao district of Lima, Peru, for instance, crowds of outcasts including transgender individuals and people surviving homelessness and poverty gather to worship a DIY saint at a concrete-block shrine. Sarita Colonia was a devout domestic in the 1930s who cared tirelessly for her troubled family and then died at 26, her body tossed in an anonymous mass grave. Since then, Colonia has become a cult figure for people in Lima who deserve the mercy their Catholic church denies them, just as it denies Colonia a sanctioned sainthood. Miracles persist: A drag queen told the L.A. Times that Colonia saved him from murderous homophobes, bending the bullets around him Matrix-style. Over the decades, the shrine has become a party, a kind of rave for the faithful who can’t get past the Catholic church’s velvet ropes. Colonia has appeared on the cover of each release by Lima-born, Berlin-based Sofia Kourtesis; her visage hovers in the clouds or emerges through thick coats of paint on the producer’s two excellent 2019 EPs for Stockholm’s reliable bliss experts Studio Barnhus, as if 12" sleeves could be Shrouds of Turin for a new kind of savior. Kourtesis titled the first one after herself and the second for the should-be-saint. She’s there on the cover of Kourtesis’s new EP, whose design by Sofia Lucarelli joins illustrations of plants and photos of the Callao cemetery as if to emphasize the nature of life and death. The music within throws its hands in the air as prayers to house deities like Moodymann, whose powers of anticipation and release are echoed in Kourtesis’ extended sighs; DJ Koze, the Loki of post-Balearic tricky disco, whose style is here rendered a bit more low-key and beatific; and fellow bell-ringer evangelicals Pantha du Prince and Four Tet, schooled in the holy trinity of crown, sound bow, and clapper. But Kourtesis has a sound of her own: unfailingly warm, thoughtful in form, risking a certain conservatism for the sake of welcome comfort. Like the shrines to Colonia, Kourtesis’ beats reward belief. “Fresia Magdalena” expands the pantheon of those Kourtesis finds venerable, including her mother, Fresia, and the people of Magdalena del Mar, the district of Lima where, as a teenager, she surfed the waves and got banished from convent school. Opener “La Perla” puts its faith in ripples of synths and briny percussion, breaking around foamy bits of field recordings and her own vocals; it’s an aching tribute to afternoons spent staring at the sea and trying to make peace with her father’s death. His voice intermingles with samples of disco diva riffing and other, younger voices on “Nicolas,” which takes the pleasure principles of French-touch house à la Roulé and builds a casa de playa beneath an ocean of stars. “By Your Side” is a bit more ooh-la-la, decked out in samples of snazzy horn sections and someone tickling ivories that will tickle the fancy of party people whenever the parties resume. “Juntos” swings like prime-era Herbert, but its vibe is more morning-after than afterparty, closer to her current Berlin than the Peru of her past. A melancholy violin cuts through the gloom, a crisp beat fidgets, a bit of melody jumps an octave, variously an earworm and alarm. The track embodies doubt but won’t mope; it peers into the vastness of what’s just below sadness and turns away, both clear-eyed and teary. And then arrives “Dakotas,” shimmering and dawn-y, tranced like Octo Octa and Eris Drew have been lately but with shakers and open hi-hats serving as the Amen. Pads, deep and wide in the mix, offer softness. Voices form choruses; some say “hi.” (Or, ahem, “high.”) It’s a modest kind of heartfelt anthem. If you need it, it’s a miracle.

Welcome to WonkyWilla’s strange and colorful bass factory — a creative mecca where tasty wubs and wild party bangers come to life. His music is like candy for wooks, and fans can’t get enough. 22-year-old, Florida-based Nicholas Olivieri, the mad scientist behind WonkyWilla’s definitive, bass-driven sound, has been building his savory style of club bangers and dizzying sound experiments for anyone with a sweet tooth for wubs, dubs and everything wonky. His intricate soundscapes have been showcased by bass music’s biggest stars including Cannabliss, TVBOO, Ahee, Zingara, A Hundred Drums, Maddy O’Neal and many more. With tracks like “Orgasmic” surpassing 300k streams and “Wook Dancer” approaching 200k on Soundcloud, plus explosive dubstep remixes of iconic tracks like Fergee’s “London Bridge” surpassing 150k streams, WonkyWilla has garnered a dedicated fanbase over the last two years. His music is like a good Jawbreaker — the more you savor it, the more it evolves. But it always sticks with you long after that first taste. WonkyWilla fanbase is quickly gaining massive notoriety, and his tour history is stacking up fast. In 2023 alone, he’s shared bills with TvBoo, Ahee, Champagne Drip, Super Future, Zingara, Manic Focus and LYNY, with many more announcements coming soon. Whatever flavor you prefer, WonkyWilla has you covered. His music is as sweet as jolly ranchers and as savory as chocolate — and WonkyWilla just robbed the whole candy store.