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TRACKLISTING:

1. Midnight Juggernauts – 'Induco'
2. Azari & III – 'Indigo'
3. Shit Robot – 'Simple Things' (Todd Terje Version)
4. Sect – 'Thieve Scrilla'
5. Lex Loofah – 'Freaky Deaky' (More Bounce To The Ounce Mix)
6. Mystery Jets – 'Dreaming Of Another World' (Prins Thomas Mix)
7. Riva Starr – 'Splendido' (Dub)
8. Pleasurekraft – Tarantula
9. Kid Gloves – 'Brand New Dance'
10. Booka Shade – 'Bad Love' (Cassius Mix)
11. Lil' Mo' Ying Yang – 'Reach' (A Little More Mix)
12. Hot Chip – 'Hand Me Down' (Wild Geese Mix)
13. Blamma! Blamma! (feat Rival Jousters) – 'Clarity'
14. Blamma! Blamma! – 'Beyond 17'

BIOGRAPHY:

Blamma! Blamma! make deep, dirty, daft music for dancefloors.

Blamma! Blamma! work like dogs and play like Gods.

Blamma! Blamma! will. But only if you do too.

UPCOMING GIGS

5 Nov 2010 Stealth, Nottingham.
6 Nov 2010 Junction, Cambridge.
4 Dec 2010 The Nest, London.
12 Feb 2011 Razzmatazz, Barcelona.

LINKS

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TRACKLISTING:

Manare 'Voodoo' (Top Billin)
The Gotan Project 'Panamerica' The Count & Sinden 'Caravan Of Courage' Remix (XL)
Detboi 'Listen And Grind' (Cheap Thrills)
Detboi 'Voices In Heaven' Hervé' s 'Hut' remix
Mark Ronson 'some one to love me' (Hervé's 'very vox' Remix)
Big Boi 'Shutterbug' Jack Beats Remix (Mercury)
Fench Soler 'Lies' Hervé's 'Solar Flare' remix (B Unique)
D1 'Bleeps To broadway' (Dub Police)
Baxta 'Harpoon' (Cheap Thrills)
Mz Bratt 'Selecta' (white)
Joker 'Tron' Vip (Kapsize)
Subscape 'Mr Kipling' (white)
The Count & Sinden 'Addicted To You' Baxta remix (Domino)

BIOGRAPHY:

Hervé has already been described as “the UK’s hottest DJ” (Rolling Stone), and “one of the greatest remixers of all time” (DJ Magazine). Since the release of his The Count & Sinden album project on Domino in 2010 he is now regarded as one of the best dance producers in the game. The lead single from that album ‘After Dark’ (featuring The Mystery Jets) was play listed on the UK’s Radio 1 and was the second most played song on Triple J in Australia. The album also features Bashy and new UK sensation Katy B.

Mark Ronson has personally asked him to remix the first two singles from his latest ‘Record Collection’ album and he has also recently remixed Faithless, Bloc Party, Lily Allen, Wiley, The Prodigy, Depeche Mode and Orbital amongst others.

His Cheap Thrills label has only been going for almost 3 years and has already released a number of modern club classics including Fake Blood’s ‘Mars’ and ‘I Think I Like It’ plus his own ‘Together’ and ‘Rikkalicious’ with Kissy Sell Out. The label is currently releasing 2 EPs per month with new releases from Jack Beats, Reset!, Fake Blood, Trevor Loveys and his own Hervé album project coming soon.

Hervé has recently released his second ‘Ghetto Bass’ mix CD and the second Cheap Thrills label compilation. The Count & Sinden have more great singles to be taken from their debut album so 2011 is going to be an even bigger year for Joshua ‘Hervé’ Harvey.

Hervé is on his way to becoming a generation defining producer!

“London’s hottest DJ” Rolling Stone (Nov 07)

“One of the best dance producers in the world”
Zane Lowe (Radio 1)

“The Count (aka Hervé) remix of “The Fear” is the only remix of my songs I am proud of… it makes me feel cool!” Lily Allen

“Cheap Thrills by Hervé and Plastic Little is completely amazing!” Popjustice (Aug 08)

“One of the greatest remixers of all time.” (DJ Magazine 08)

LINKS

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TRACKLISTING:

Technicolour & Komatic 'Daydreamer' (Technique)
Sato 'Detroit Lies Bleeding' (Ingredients)
Komatic 'Make The Most Of Now' (Technicolour Remix) (CDR)
Technicolour 'Lights' (Komatic Remix) (Bassdrive Tunes)
Mr Joseph 'Back On Earth' (Influence)
Technicolour & Komatic 'No Evil' (CDR)
Random Movement 'Risk' (CDR)
LSB 'Rolling Sideways' (Spearhead)
Need For Mirrors 'Nevada' (Shogun Audio)
Technicolour & Komatic ft. Jayma 'Vermillion' (Technique)
Komatic 'Through The Long Hard Rain' (CDR)
Technicolour 'The New You' (CDR)
Jnr Blue & Clart 'Experiences' (CDR)
Dave Owen & Jaybee 'I Don't See Nothing Wrong' (CDR)
Technicolour & Komatic 'Skyline Boulevard' (Tecnnique)

BIOGRAPHY:

Peter Rogers (Technicolour) and Andy Powell (Komatic) have only been making music together since 2008, but have already turned heads and moved feet with their musically rich take on drum & bass. With solo singles on the likes of Technique Recordings, Critical Music and Spearhead, their partnership, forged through a shared love of liquid funk and red wine has seen further releases on Technique ('Daydreamer', 'Skyline Boulevard'), Worldwide Audio ('Preacher', 'Innervision') and Bassdrive Tunes ('Dickenson's Rocket', 'The Entire City'). DJ support has come from Annie Mac, High Contrast, LTJ Bukem and Fabio, and the duo have a large portfolio of fresh beats waiting in the wings. Technicolour's debut album 'Stolen Hours' is scheduled to drop in early 2010, featuring two collaborations with Komatic, and the original and remixes of 'Now She's Free' and 'Lights' are forthcoming on Bassdrive Tunes this winter. You can catch the freshest beats and exclusives on Komatic's weekly Bassdrive show from 4-6pm GMT (www.bassdrive.com), and Technicolour's monthly broadcast (every 4th Monday of the month, 6-8pm GMT). Don't sleep!

UPCOMING GIGS:

Every Friday from October through December - Timeout, Bedford
Friday 26th November - Rotterdam, Netherlands
Friday 10th December - Ennex @ Gramaphone, London (TBC)
Friday 5th February - Queen Of Hoxton, London (TBC)

LINKS

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TRACKLISTING:

Coming soon

BIOGRAPHY:

Mauro Picotto is an Italian DJ who has released over 600 productions and numerous remixes, and to date has sold over six million copies worldwide. He has played the best clubs with the most famous DJ’s on the globe, as well as having participated in all the major events, from Love Parade to Creamfields, MTV Festival, Winter Olympics in Turin, Ultra, Time Warp and Awakenings. One minute the stallion is spinning to a packed out 45,000-seater football stadium in Amsterdam and the next he’s playing to 18,000 in the middle of the Amazonian jungle at seven in the morning, with parrots flying overhead – Mauro is a man who is keen to break boundaries and isn’t afraid of change as he returns to the fray, bolder and more forward thinking than ever before

Mauro began his career in 1984, at the tender age of eighteen, at a club in Piedmont called Top Sound. A chance meeting there with Daniele Davoli (there to promote his Black Box single Ride On Time) swung open the doors of production to this wide-eyed, upcoming DJ. His first released track ‘We Gonna Get’, produced under the name RAF, became a Top 20 across much of Europe – a young Picotto had well and truly caught the electronic music bug.

Following his studies he devoted himself full time to his passion as a DJ and in 1988 he became a finalist in the Italian DMC, now a world-renowned brand and competition. In 1989 he won the Walky Cup Competition, broadcast on TV, which further cemented his growing reputation as the best thing to come out of Italy since the Lamborghini – but more humble, down to earth and less flashy. Substance over style is the key to Picotto’s work.

1998 saw him make his bid for UK stardom, with the release of the inescapable Gatecrasher anthem ‘Lizard’ a record that, for many, summed up the hegemony of the emerging trance sound. The track ended up being a Top 30 hit and was followed by two further instalments in the reptilian trilogy, namely ‘Iguana’ and ‘Komodo’. Komodo notched Picotto another chart hit, entering at Number 11, as well as a performance on Top Of The Pops. Mauro was the first DJ to ever play live on the show – this coupled with the release of the groundbreaking singles pushed Mauro out as the highest charting Italian DJ’s to enter the DJ magazine top 100 poll and as a beacon for the emerging trance scene.

In 2001 he embarked upon a change of direction, sound and eclecticism, leaving Media records and creating Bakerloo and the label Alchemy. His productions would vary in genres from dance to trance, the most sophisticated techno to an evolution of all that is homemade music. It is this ethos that Mauro prides himself on when producing and mixing – a true, un-altered music fan in its purest sense.

‘I used to play 6-hr sets at Gatecrasher’ Mauro explains ‘but I began to grow up and the generation of people I was playing to was growing up with me. I began to make the transition into techno because it felt right and I loved the music.”

Two artist albums, ‘The Double Album’ and ‘The Others’, came next, in 2000 and 2002 respectively, as well as remixes and productions for the likes Freddie Mercury, Jimmy Sommerville, Pet Shop Boys and U2. Unfortunately it didn’t take long for other producers to start to cash in on the Picotto sound and soon everybody was chowing on his tough, uncompromising style. Having paid his dues, and notching up a string of hits, it was time for Picotto’s metamorphosis from trance star to sub-cultural techno superhero to begin.

In 2003 Mauro Picotto created Meganite – Electronic Music Lifestyle – a successful club party linked to the best DJs at the time. For the Meganite event top artists known today as Chris Liebing, Marco Carola and Adam Beyer all played alongside Mauro as Meganite resident DJs. Since the very beginning, the selection of artists chosen for Meganite has been of the highest quality for an evening mainly based on innovative electronic music, a cocktail of pure energy and emotion. Meganite stormed on its debut at the Winter Music Conference in Miami, further cementing Mauro’s reputation as a world class trance DJ and highly revered dance music figureheads around. ‘My music doesn’t go on the radio” comments Mauro, ‘but it does make people dance and that is what I aim for.”

With Meganite now a fond and close memory, Mauro has moved the idea of the party to the White Isle Clubbing mecca, Space, for a new party in conjunction with the club called ‘Come Together’. As the name suggests, we can expect a mixture of electronic house to techno and everything else in between.

Aside from a responsibility to deliver danceable anthems he also supports a family and three children who he dotes on whole-heartedly; it’s a responsibility that is close to his heart.
“To do what you like, to make you feel good and be better than before is so important to me. My family comes first, and then the rest. My family is most important to me. I love being a DJ, but now I have children I have to balance it all.”

Mauro’s skills at balancing his life seem successful, as he looks to concentrate his efforts on building up the Picotto name and as a producer / artist in his own right by releasing his fifth Solo album in a career that spans 20 years. The new album will see an 80 Minute live mix, with a bonus disc of 8 exclusive and never released productions. Mauro will also lift a single each month off the album, as well as touring and manning new parties in Ibiza and beyond. Watch this space for further details.

LINKS

meganite.co.uk
myspace.com
soundcloud.com
discogs.com

TRACKLISTING:

1. D.O.D - Intro
2. Daft Punk - Derezzed (Original Mix)
3. Burns & Fred Falke - YSLM (Treasure Fingers Remix)
4. Daft Punk - High Life (Original Mix)
5. Tete De Tigre - Pelican Bay (Original Mix)
6. Bizarre Inc. - I’m Gonna Get You (Acapella)
7. Screendeath - Packback (Original Mix)
8. Unknown - ONE.OUR.LT (Original Mix)
9. HiJack VS Santiago & Bushido - Fogo (Zombies For Money & Jony Tevez Remix)
10. Kelis - Milkshake (Acapella)
11. Funkin Matt - You Bring Me Joy - (Original Mix)
12. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Original Mix)
13. Punks Jump Up - Blockhead (Original Mix)
14. Wira - Vloeitjes (Original Mix)
15. Soull II Soul - Back To Life (Original Mix)
16. 187 Lockdown - Gunman (Original Mix)
17. The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (D.O.D Edit)
18. Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Acapella)
19. Foamo - Centavo (Original Mix)
20. Nom De Strip - Klap (Original Mix)
21. Double 99 - Rip Groove (Original Mix)
22. Natural Born Chillers - Rock Da Funky Beat (Acapella)
23. NGUZUNGUZU - El Bebe Ambiente (Them Jeans remix)
24. Drop The Lime - Hot As Hell (Para One Remix)
25. Speaker Junk - We Can Be (Donovans Remix)
26. The Partysquad - Pull Up (Acapella)
27. Samo Sound Boy - Taking It All (Original mix)
28. Sandro Silva - Hands High (Original Mix)
29. Armand Van Helden & Steve Aoki - Brrrat! (Le Petit Belge Et Le Cheval Remix)
30. Faithless - Tweak Your Nipple (Crookers Remix)
31. Detboi ft. Blisscotheque - Listen And Grind (Original Mix)
32. Dooze Jackers - Kizzz (Dynasty Kizzz Jizzz Remix)
33. Redlight & Ms Dynamite - What You Talking About!! (Kissy Klub Version)
34. Shy FX feat. Kano, Donae'o - Raver (MJ Cole Remix)
35. D.O.D - Go Go Go Go (CDR)
36. Katy B - On A Mission (Acapella)
37. Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude (Jakwob Remix)
38. D.O.D - Jingle (Acapella)
39. Shy FX & T Power Feat. Top Cat - Everyday (Original Mix)

BIOGRAPHY:

At only 22years old, D.O.D has achieved things that other aspiring DJs could only imagine. His hardworking, non-stop approach to DJing has finally paid off with D.O.D receiving a huge two page spread in October issue of leading dance magazine MIXMAG. This was following on from being crowned ‘Mixmag / Blackberry / Don’t Stay In - DJ 2010’ which led to becoming Mixmag’s resident for the week in Ibiza conquering the likes of Ibiza Rocks, Pukka Up Boat Parties & and Reclaim The Dancefloor pre parties warming up for Annie Mac as he brought his unique, in your face turntable wizardry performing a mix of House, Techno, Electro, Breaks, Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Hip-Hop, Indie with lots of accapellas thrown in, as he firmly rocked the White Isle.

D.O.D is considered one of the most exciting new talents to come from dance music. His impressively ludicrous style of DJing can only be described as ‘Jump-Up Electro with the Unexpected’ with the talent to showcase his performances using 3-4 CDJ'S, DJM800 an EFX1000/Kaoss Pad 3 to create his unique sounds. His main room edits have been taking clubs by storm, giving a large majority of his tracks that little something different, making every set unique.

D.O.D has recently been signed to one of the country’s hottest new indie labels, ‘Gash Digital’. With various tracks and remixes already released and his debut EP ‘No Smoke’ due for release at the end of December, 2010 has been a very busy year for the rising star. Two of his tracks on the forthcoming EP are being supported and played by house legend, Laurent Garnier. On the production front, like with his style of DJing, D.O.D breaks the rule-book and doesn’t stick to one genre of music. This open-minded attitude allows D.O.D to produce and remix anything from house, to hip-hop, to drum and bass, to dubstep, electro, breaks or even old party tunes.

D.O.D is resident and co-promoter for some of the hottest club nights in the North of England such as ‘FWAP!’ a very diverse monthly club night at 53 Degrees in Preston. ‘Lancaster Loves’ at The Sugarhouse, again a very diverse club night which has a ‘no holds barred’ approach to the acts they book and the musical direction they go with. These residencies enable D.O.D to play alongside the biggest artists in the industry, and just this year alone he has DJ’d with the likes of Annie Mac, Kissy Sell Out, Chase & Status, DJ Yoda, Pendulum, KraftyKuts, Plump DJs, Scratch Perverts, Grooverider, Shy FX, N-Type, Doorly, Benga, Rusko, Faithless, T.C, Example, The Cuban Brothers, The Whip + Many More. D.O.D has gained praise from some of the industry greats such as the Mixmag editors, Mistajam, Kissy Sell Out, Netsky, Freemasons and Grooverider; all of them commenting on his enthusiastic and energetic nature behind the decks along with his precise but inventive use of CDJs. Leading on from Kissy Sell Out's kind comments, D.O.D will be featured on his Radio 1 show on the 18th November. D.O.D will have a ten minute mix on Kissy's show - A massive achievement for such a young artist.

D.O.D’s ability to play so many different styles of music has seen him become one of the most interesting and inventive DJs to hear, and watch for a long time. Whether he’s playing a House warm up set, a pumping House and Techno peak time set, a Dubstep and Drum and Bass set or even and all out student mash-up frenzy.

Witness the turntable wizardry for yourself!D.O.D is a DJ that must be seen first-hand, and not to be missed.

UPCOMING GIGS

13th Nov - FWAP! 4 w/ DJ Yoda (Full AV Show) - 53 Degrees - Preston
18th Nov - Lancaster Loves w/PETE TONG - Sugarhouse - Lancaster
19th Nov - The Big Reunion - In between Example & Tinie Tempah - Pontins - Skegness
26th Nov - The Big Reunion - Main Stage - Pontins - Skegness
27th Nov - Bitch w/ Will Bailey Venus - Manchester
27th Dec - Inside Out - The Arches - Glasgow
31st Dec - NYE w/Pendulum - The Syndicate - Blackpool
1st Jan - Bitch w/Dave Spoon - Venus - Manchester

LINKS

djdod.com
soundcloud.com
fwap.co.uk