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DJ G-I-S Gunter Schneider, better known as DJ G-I-S, has been spinning electronic music since 1992. Early 1995 he started producing his own drum & bass tunes. Five years later he founded his label Intransigent Recordings and released numerous singles since then, on labels such as Position Chrome, Pressure Chamber, Hell's Bassment, Hardline and his own imprint of course.He has worked together with many artists, like Technical Itch, Evol Intent, Counterstrike, The Panacea and DJ Hidden to name a few. As a DJ, G-I-S is known for his intense sets, including many exclusive tracks. He has played out all across Germany and beyond, in cities like Augsburg, Bratislava, Cologne, Dresden, Ghent, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Mannheim, Moscow, Riga, St. Petersburg and many more, on a range of major events, such as Therapy Sessions, Kings Of The Jungle and Pirate Station, the biggest drum & bass festival of the world. www.myspace.com/djgis THE PANACEA Mathis Mootz, the teutonic mastermind and producer behind The Panacea from Wuerzburg, Germany, has developed and perfected his sinister drum & bass mashup style over the years. The Panacea is the digital Napalm Death, fueled by wreck-step beats, he samples and generally throws together elements of hardcore techno, drum & bass, jungle and industrial into his unique explosive sound. As one of the dominant faces of the german Position Chrome label, he has released 23 EP's and 5 albums since 1996. His debut 'Low Profile Darkness' was one of his most influential works to date, and a huge success with over 12,000 copies sold. Others followed like the techno and hardcore influenced 'Twisted Designz', 'Phoenix Metabolism' with its hip hop and booty bass roots, the enormous 'German Engineering' and 'Underground Superstardom', and the experimental and noisy 'Architettura'. His experimental, electro, and neo-industrial beats were produced under the aliases of Squaremeter, Disorder, Warfare, Kate Mosh, Bad Street Boy, Radar, Rich Kid, Warfare and m2. These productions landed on labels like Mille Plateaux, Ant-Zen, Hands Productions, Ambush, Ad Noiseam, Kniteforce, Intransigent and Outbreak to name a few. The rebirth of Position Chrome, and the launch of close friend Raidens' Offkey Recordings, marks the start for awesome collaborations and heavy tunage in the future. The Panacea has recently joined the Anger Management DJ roster, and will be releasing this year on Dylan's mighty Freak Recordings. www.myspace.com/positionchrome CURRENT VALUE Berlin's Tim Eliot represents the top percentile of european drum & bass producers. With substantial training in classical piano, he began dabbling in electronic music in 1992. Several years later he began receiving recognition on local Berlin radio stations and a series of irrefutably classic 12"s ensued. Seminal works on Don Q and Position Chrome catapulted Current Value into a literal phase of underground superstardom. Through proper distribution and excellent exposure the Position Chrome releases like 'Creative Robot', 'Skybreaker', and 'Bass Riot' were very well received particularly in North America. The decidedly dark and often dissonant sound of the techstep revolution resonated with many disenfranchised junglists as well as electronica listeners; spearheaded in part by Current Value. With numerous singles and 4 LPs, Current Value left an indelible impression on the drum & bass and techno genres. With subsequent appearances on renowned labels like DonQ, Ruff-Teck, Klangkrieg, Phantom Noise, No!Breaks and Soothsayer, Current Value has continued to produce quality drum & bass for the dancefloor as well as the living room audience. In 2004, after 1 year of education, he received his diploma at the school of audio engineering SAE - enhancing his production values and abilities even further. In mid 2005 Soothsayer released the first of several Current Value 12"s. Successive releases including a split 12" w/ Kid Kryptic (Soothsayer/Theoretic), and the monumental "The Unspoken" 12" underscore the growing quality and number of Current Value releases. In 2006, Current Value has delivered even bigger and better tunes with his new work for Soothsayer, Intransigent, the ultimate UK labels Obscene and Tech Itch, Counterstrikes label Algorythm and the amazing US based Evol Intent. Current Value has also begun a collaborations with SPL, Limewax, Counterstrike and Raiden and has provided tunes for various of the mentioned finest drum & bass labels. Being part of the "Freak Family", he is booked through Anger Management and plays sets frequently all around the globe. www.myspace.com/currentvalue COUNTERSTRIKE Counterstrike has played an instrumental role in putting South Africa on the world drum & bass map. Justin Scholtemeyer aka Animal Chin and Eaton Crous aka 500 Mills, have been active drum & bass DJs on the club/rave circuit since the mid-nineties playing all over South Africa and recently England, Germany, Norway, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Austria and Switzerland. Counterstrike has been producing drum 'n bass as a collective since 1998. www.myspace.com/counterstrike DJ HIDDEN DJ Hidden has been producing electronic music for as long as he can remember. As a kid, he used to mess around with tape recorders and computers with less memory than your every day cell phone. Releasing his first tracks on vinyl, back in 1996, gave these experiments a sense of direction though. Encouraged by friends and family, he continued on this path and now, 10 years later, his music has been released on an impressive amount of records and CDs. Although his productions are usually classified as hardcore, drum & bass or IDM, he prefers to just call them 'dark music' and leaves it at that. www.myspace.com/dj_hidden NANOTEK Wellington, New Zealand based DJ & producer Nanotek aka Mark Christiansen is one of the fastest rising talents of the drum & bass scene. With a background firmly rooted in metal and industrial music, Nanotek's sound draws inspiration from Public Enemy and Peter Tosh to Ministry and Meshuggah. At home amongst the darker end of the drum & bass spectrum, Nanotek started his musical journey playing guitar and drums in metal bands, before discovering industrial and electronica. Attending his first rave introduced him to jungle / drum & bass and he was instantly inspired by the possibilities of this new sound. Moving to New Zealand's capital city proved a massive turning point for the direction of his music, where he was introduced to artists like Photek, Dom & Roland and Dylan. It was around this time that Nanotek began to realise the power of the dark side. Focussing more on his production, Nanotek's sound progressed in leaps and bounds and before long was attracting a large amount of attention amongst New Zealand's drum & bass heads. An invite from Wellington's Noise Enthusiast crew to headline a local edition of their night 'Descend' progressed to support slots opening for Tech Itch and Limewax. Meeting with these key exponents of dark, brutal drum & bass further inspired Nanotek to push his production harder and invest in some studio monitors. Some might say those monitors are worth their weight in gold as in the end of 2006, Nanotek signed his tune 'Nightwatch' to Germany's Intransigent Digital. Shortly after it was released however, opportunity came knocking in the form of an AIM conversation with Dylan of Freak Recordings, offering him a chance to be part of the Freak family. With 'Acid Burn' and 'Deadly Force' out now on Obscene, 'The Vengeful' on Intransigent, plus more releases forthcoming on Freak and Tech Itch Recordings, Nanotek's future in drum & bass is looking very dark indeed. www.myspace.com/nanotek666 ARSENIC Rising from the depths of hell comes Arsenic, the combination of Indianas Point of Reference and Tek Infektion. Coming forth with a very industrial, often abrasive style, they have acquired the support from the likes of Dylan, Dieselboy, Evol Intent and more. You can be certain their tracks and live sets will be turning heads for a long time. Be on the lookout for such tracks as 'Devil's Rage' (Sinuous), 'Decapitator' (G2), 'Bitch' (Freak), 'Aneurysm' (Evol Intent) and 'Hollowpoint' (AT Recordings) as well as a multitude of collaborations and new offerings. www.myspace.com/arsenicdnb BAD MATTER Bad Matter, also known as Fixed Frequency, born in Berlin, acquired a lot of musical influences over the years in this city. His interest to do something with music increased and he started djing at home in 1992, first steps in sequencing followed 2 years later. Many different kinds of music derived from projects with friends or work for theatres, but he liked broken beats from the very beginning. Jungle / drum & bass was love on first sight and he focused more and more on it. Now, involved in the Audiomassive crew from Berlin, he works as a DJ, producing with them, others and solo. www.myspace.com/badmatter CORESPLITTAZ Coresplittaz started producing with an Amiga 500 in 1991/92. He made many happy breakbeat tracks with it, but really started producing with his first synth in 1996. Until then he never stopped producing. It began with dirty jungle tracks came to a more simple drum & bass style and returned to the old amens with new productions abilities due to new hard- and software. He used to play guitar when he was around 16. He played in a hardcore band and still loves this kind of music. To him his drum & bass tracks and most of the tunes he likes are kind of a new dimension of what they did with their instruments in their band. During the last few years he worked together with artists like DJ G-I-S, Diz:play or Norman Wax and also did a track using the vocal talents of Jenny. His tunes are signed to Pressure Chamber, Virtual Giana Brotherz and Intransigent Recordings. www.myspace.com/coresplittaz NORMAN WAX Norman Wax, born 1978 in Mainz, got infected by electronic music in 1993, going through hardcore over acid to happy breakbeat. Later jungle ruled his musical mind. He spent much of his time in his friends studios, getting in touch with the equipment. So he got into techno & jungle sequencing, which led him to producing his own drum & bass tunes in 1998. Many of them found their way into the clubs, so Norman joined Intransigent Recordings in 2003. His first release, 'Steck Der Zeiten', a collaboration with DJ G-I-S, has been played by countless DJ's all over the nation, and it's a huge crowd favorite. www.myspace.com/normanwax SFS Denis Bezrukov, also known as SFS, was born 1989 in Penza. In 2004 he started to create his own music. 4 years later he signed his first record contracts with Intransigent (GER), Metafiziq (BUL) and Bully (UK). In 2009 he started his own label Brainknocks and has been signed to Dark Asylum (USA), Ammunition (USA), Monstersound (RUS), Mindocracy (USA) and Future 13 (RUS). His tunes are beeing played by DJ G-I-S, Mumblz, Counterstrike, Cooh, Ogonek, Temper D, Eye-D, Proket, Kriotek and many more. www.myspace.com/darksfs THE PRANA Profile soon... www.myspace.com/thepranamusic ARKON Arkon aka Alistair Maxwell is a a dark drum & bass producer coming out of Perth, Western Australia. He started producing in 1995 when he purchased his first synth and has been hooked ever since. Originally playing both guitar and bass in metal bands from the age of 15, he gradually progressed from metal into industrial and hardcore, techno, trance and drum & bass. He started listening to drum & bass in 1996 and by 1998 he was buying records, DJing and producing full time. By 2000 he started to focus strictly on drum & bass production and in 2003 he signed his first tracks to the australian label Hardline Rekordingz. His studio includes mixture of professional hardware based studio equipment and a powerful Windows based audio workstation running Cubase SX. Arkon is here, and he's not going anywhere anytime soon. If you live for hard beats and insane bass, be on the lookout for his tunes. www.myspace.com/thearkon MC DubLN MC DubLN started MCing in 1997, after 8 years of experience as singer, bass-player and drummer in several bands. It's that feeling for music that will always let him add highlights to a dj-set without setting himself into the spotlight too much. As official MC for Intransigent Recordings he's the ideal MC for the dark and ruff styles, but also experienced and safe on all the other sides of drum & bass. DubLN has played many gigs throughout Germany and beyond during the last years, you can find references on his website. www.myspace.com/mcdubln |