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.
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>.
Marco Collini was born on the 9th of March 1983 in Campobasso and he always liked music, he started to love electronic music when he was child, and in 2000 he listened for the first time hardcore music in a compilation of that period (Extreme 2000) and he loved it at the first listening. In 2002 Marco bought his first turntables and started to improve his skills in deejaying, but in his city unfortunately there wasn't hardcore music, and he must go to Rome to buy Vinyls and CD's...
You have artists with that unique special talent, Robert alias Dyprax is one of those artists. The moment Masters of Hardcore received his demo they knew they had encountered something special and they needed to act fast.
Within months the Dyprax productions got played by all major hardcore artists and received the praise of the people on the dancefloor.
With already a release on the worlds biggest hardcore label and an international scheduled agenda this is the new hardcore revelation.
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.
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.
Tha Playah, born as Jim Hermsen in 1982, has developed his own particular style from the very beginning. Few artists had a start that can be compared to the storm this man unleashed in 2002. With enormous hits on the very popular Neophyte label he has proven himself record after record. Being one of the few artists ever to be contracted from the very start of his career to a label as prestigious as Neophyte Records, this dj made it very clear he deserved that chance.
Although Evil Activities nowadays 'officially' consists only out of Kelly van Soest (after Telly Luyks left the group in 2003), two new members have joined this project: - Michael Kramer (alias DJ Dazzler) -> MC
- Niels van Hoeckel (alias Chaosphere) -> Keyboard However, they are only part of the live-act crew (during performance on stage). In the studio, Evil Activities is only Kelly van Soest.
Second Phase were Joey Beltram and Mundo Muzique.
Giorgio Coniglione started to listen to techno/hardcore music in 1991. In 1998 he moved to Rome, bought a PC and began to make music on it. In 2002 he sent a demo cd to Hardcore Blasters, his tracks were good enough to be released on his first E.P Beat Motherfucker EP. To make his tracks he use only a simple PC without any other instuments.