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Camo

Camo, AKA Reini Rietsch was born in 1983 and lives in Salzburg, Austria His first real love was skateboarding. He started in 1992 and is still riding today. His second love came in 2002, when he started trying to get some sort of music out of his computer. A lot has happened since 2002 and now he is one of Austria's most up-and-coming Drum And Bass producers. He spends almost every night making music and collaborating with producers all over Europe. No wonder his university career, study of communications, isn’t going as well as his musical one.

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Shy FX

Shy FX is the pseudonym of Andre Williams (born 1977), an English drum and bass musician from London. He is best known for one of his earliest singles, 1994's "Original Nuttah", with UK Apache. Throughout his career he has worked closely with T-Power, both as "Ebony Dubsters" and "Shy-FX and T-Power"; their 2002 track "Shake Your Body" with vocalist Di was a crossover success, appearing in the Top 40 UK Singles Chart. "Shake your Body" had great success through out Europe. In 2005 he founded Digital Soundboy Recordings.

Brooklyn

Several artist appear under the name Brooklyn: 1)
Pod hlavickou Juanita Juarez na sebe tento producent z Prahy upozornil zejmena albem Spa Boy, vydanem r. 2003 na labelu Quazi Delict (v minulosti zde vyslo napr. Andelem ocenene album Floexe, projekt Bratri Orffove nebo aktualne Soil). Album, kombinace drum&bassu, downtempa a experimentalnejsi hudby, bylo nominovane na Cenu Akademie popularni hudby (Andel); nasledovaly oficialni remixy pro kapely Esctasy of St. Theresa, Skyline, slovenske Veneer, The Slots (cesky remix roku podle casopisu Filter) nebo prazskou Khoibu.

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DBridge

When you meet him in daylight D-Bridge is a laidback and calm fellow. But at night he turns out to be the producer of the grittiest and grimiest tunes in drum 'n' bass. Based in London, D-Bridge has literally helped to give birth to to the scene with a couple of seminal jungle classics. At the legendary Metalheadz sessions he learned to appreciate the best of both worlds: energy through bass. As a pioneer who has shaped the course of drum 'n' bass, he lays out his precise views on the up’s and down’s of the scene.

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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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Marcus Intalex

Marcus Intalex is 'pretty fly for a white guy'. Through his production with St Files as M.I.S.T. (Marcus Intalex & ST Files), he has produced incredibly popular remixes for classic tracks such as Just a Vision and Sincere. Marcus is one of the most recognizable names in the increasingly popular genre referred to as liquid funk. Alongside producers such as Calibre, Peshay and High Contrast, Marcus is bringing the Soul back to the Step.

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Blokhe4d

Blokhe4d is the collaborative project between Michael "Vegas" (formerly of Bad Company UK) alongside Swiss-born Jonas "Uman". The project merges drum and bass, dubstep and electro with their own brand of techno, disco and house in an explosive manner. They have already secured several releases on Hospital Records (home of High Contrast, London Elektricity and Netsky), as well as singles on their own Bad Taste imprint and remix work.

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Jakes

Jakes is many things to many people, to some he is the voice of TC’s smash hits ‘Deep’, ‘Drink’ and ‘Mindkiller’, to others he is the Daddy of Bristolian Dubstep crew H.E.N.C.H and to musical historians he is one of the most interesting vocalists that underground British music can lay claim to. Never afraid to break from tradition and roll with his own flow, Jakes’ voice has become one of the most recognisable in the game and his energetic live performances see him travelling across the globe and smacking down raves from Bristol to Boston with his inimitable style.

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Chris.Su

As one of the commanding producers and DJs in the Hungarian scene, Chris.SU among others has put his country on the map of drum and bass. His first international break through was the track "Astro-Sine" with the well-known techno-sample "My house is your house", in 2002 on Trace's label DSCI4. Since then, his tracks enjoy the support of drum and bass' finest, from Klute to Ed Rush, Concord Dawn, Pendulum, Ill.Skillz, BSE, Bailey, Flight, D-Bridge, Matrix, Teebee, Dieselboy and Andy C.

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Ed Rush

Ben Settle, or better known as Ed Rush, is one of the current leaders of the new school drum and bass. One of the originators to bring back the dark sounds of drum and bass and push it to new levels, Ed Rush continues to make waves with each new release. Born in west London, Ed Rush originally started out as a b-boy (breakdancer), but eventually found the growing underground rave scene. Fascinated by the breaks in the hardcore sounds at the time, Ed Rush convinced his neighbor, Nico Sykes, to let him produce tracks with him.