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Marcel Woods

Even though his star is rising exponentially, Dutch ‘bon vivant’ Marcel Woods really knows what it’s like to stay down to earth. With a respectable list of banging floor fillers to his credit Woods refuses repetition and is on a constant quest for new innovations. It is because of this attitude that he is in the same league as the greatest trance oriented DJs in the Netherlands. However, hating the confinement of being tagged, Woods therefore always thinks outside the box, leaving the techno and trance label far behind him.

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Sied van Riel

The Riel Deal: From the prolific electronic dance breeding ground that is The Netherlands, with close to overnight speed, in 2008 he landed. In that year alone he was tipped by Tiësto as “the hottest producer around”, by DJ Magazine as “the next big thing to hit trance” and took home Trackitdown.net’s Trance Award for the scene’s ‘Best New Face’. 12 lightning-fast months later he’d qualified all those early markers through a fleet of equatorially hot track releases, club-hypnotizing DJ performances and a ‘next-level’ remix ethic.

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Orjan Nilsen

Ørjan Nilsen, born the 14th of June 1982 in Kirkenes in Norway, started his interest in music at an early age. He started banging on drum sets at the age of 1 and was thoroughly instructed by his father and brother for the first 9 years of his life. At the age of 7, Ørjan got his first keyboard, and started to practice on it every single day for the next couple of years, but started to think this little keyboard lacked what he was looking for... And then it began...

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Jochen Miller

Jochen van der Steijn, better known as Jochen Miller, is a trance DJ/Producer from the dutch city of Mill. He started his career in 2001 with various singles under the name of DJ Jochen before changing to Jochen Miller in 2003, along with a shift in style from uplifting trance/hard trance to tech trance that found him a place on High Contrast Recordings where he remains to this day. 2008 saw the first of many collaborations with Benno De Goeij of Rank 1 with the single "And Then...", leading to a co-production partnership on Jochen's own productions.

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John Askew

John Askew is a tech/trance producer/dj From The UK. After the huge success of his debut single "Vellum" in 2001, he has delivered release after release of consistently high quality club music - either through his own Discover label or via one of his many remixes for high profile labels such as Duty Free, Ministry of Sound, Euphonic and Paul van Dyk's legendary Vandit. See discography below: From guest appearances on BBC Radio One, to hosting his own show on London's prestigious Kiss 100, from exclusive residencies at 3 of the World's most influential clubs (The Gallery...

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Jonas Stenberg

Trance producer from Uppsala, Sweden. Jonas Stenberg started out with music at an early age, with drum lessons as a 7-year old and picking up the clarinet at the age of 9. After years of playing in orchestras and groups he developed an interest for various kinds of music. Inspired by UK, german and dutch dance hits he discovered EDM in the late 90’s and started experimenting with his own sounds.

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