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360

There are multiple artists with the name 360.
1) An underground Australian MC
2) A ska band from Birmingham, England
3) A collaboration of Nuno Dos Santos and Patrice Bäumel 1) When, in January this year, Acclaim magazine asked Australian hip-hop icon and ARIA nominee Phrase who his top five local emcees were, the usual names dropped from his mouth: Obese head honcho Pegz, Triple J favourite Urthboy… no great surprises.

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Substance

Two persons us the nickname Substance 1. Peter Kuschnereit was born in West Berlin 1970. He always lived in Berlin‘s well known district Kreuzberg. He got invited to work at Hard Wax record store in 1991 where the first underground and hard to find import vinyls were found. Pete is still working there. During the years Pete learned to create electronic music himself, inspired by early Chicago/Detroit artists, especially by productions of the well known label Basic Channel. The first releases came on the Berlin label called Chain Reaction as Scion (with René Löwe) and Substance.

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Nadja Lind

Since New Year's eve in 2003, when Nadja Lind started her career, the disarming djane has been touring through the continent with stops in almost every country in Europe, namely the Streetparade in Zurich/Switzerland 2005, Space Ibiza World Tour in Soelden 2007 numerous gigs in Italy (Blue Room Rome, Tuyo Club Torino...), Germany (Sage Club Berlin, Monza Club FFM, Mannheim, Munich, Rostock, Freiburg...), Austria, Spain etc. Her profession even led her to India, where she was doing several gigs in 2004 (Delhi, Hyderabad...) and then again in 2005 (Delhi, Noida, Jaipur...).

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Binary Finary

Matt Laws and Stuart Matheson are the writers in this unique project. Growing up with Tron, Hackers and the explosion in computing – both were destined to use the technology that surrounded them to create the stunning musical soundscapes. Through the creative use of software applications fused with various pieces of hardware they have been able to streamline the musical process into a sublime and emotional play for the listener to enjoy.

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Theo Parrish

Theo Parrish grew up on Chicago house parties. He went to art school in Kansas City, and then moved to Detroit. His eclectic DJ sets in Detroit in the late '90s and early in this millennium are legendary. "Love of the music should be the driving force of any producer, performer or DJ. Everything else stems from that core, that love. With that love, sampling can become a tribute; An expansion on ideas long forgotten, reconstruction, collage.

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Murat Kilic

http://soundcloud.com/murat-kilic
http://www.myspace.com/muratkilic
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/muratkilic Hailing from Sydney, Australia and raised by strict Turkish parents, Murat’s early experience of dance music was strictly from the dancefloor. This club habit soon turned in to an addiction of buying 12 inch records which is now an extensive vinyl library. Since then Murat has come a long way in establishing his career as a serious player on the underground music scene globally...

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Zany

DJ Zany is rightly known as a veteran of the dance scene, with over ten years of experience at the turntables. Raoul van Grinsven, who lives near Eindhoven , the city of lights, is currently a fulltime DJ/producer, after having worked on the side for ten years in a record shop. He started his career in the hardcore world, working between times with techno and trance, and has had many hits in the top 10, under various aliases. For the last few years, he has been concentrating on hardstyle.

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Martyn

Martyn’s unique strand of bass defies easy categorisation - to his fans and admirers, it’s known simply as ‘Martyn Music.’ With a sound that has become emblematic for all that’s forward thinking in dubstep Martyn pushes a defiant out-of-the-box mentality into his every artistic venture, scorning genre convention and relentlessly embracing the new. Informed by a love for Detroit techno, Chicago house and hip-hop, encountering drum & bass in its mid-90’s golden era was the catalyst for him to develop his musical ideas and begin to lay the foundations of his career as a DJ & Producer.

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Wildstylez

Wildstylez (Joram Metekohy) is a hardstyle DJ from the Netherlands. He's signed to The Prophet's Scantraxx label, and currently releases productions with Headhunterz under the Scantraxx sublabel, Scantraxx Reloaded (SCREL). At the time Wildstylez joined Scantraxx, he was a newcomer to the scene. After releasing tracks like Revenge, Pleasure and Muzic Or Noize, his star rose higher and higher. Together with Scantraxx colleague and friend Headhunterz, he released a complete album in 2008 under the name Project One.

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