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NINA KRAVIZ (RU, Rekids)

Nina Kraviz is currently the name on everyone's lips in the house and techno community. Very rarely does a DJ/Producer shoot to stardom so quickly - and when they do, they seldom have the talent to back it up. Nina is the exception to the rule.

After spending her childhood in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Nina moved to Moscow and gradually found herself more involved in the local scene. She began producing music in 2008, and before long had her first release 'Voices' on the Underground Quality imprint in 2009. Around the same time, Nina began making a name for herself as a DJ, spinning in Moscow's bars and clubs. This led to a 2-year stint running a very well known Friday night party at one of the most respected clubs in Russia, Propaganda.

Her second release on UQ 'First Time EP' had great support from DJs and press alike, receiving 4.5/5 from Resident Advisor. In the same year she had her 'breakthrough' hit on Rekids, 'Pain In The Ass', featuring the arguably more successful 'I'm Gonna Get You' on the B Side – which Nina still gets asked to play. She also collaborated with Efdemin for their release 'Hotter Than July / Sun' on his Naif label. The gigs started to come thick and fast, and by the end of 2010, Nina could claim to have played the major clubs across the globe – mixing her unique raw blend of House, Techno, Acid and rare goodies, much to the punters' delight.

www.facebook.com/pages/Nina-Kraviz/192110944137172

www.residentadvisor.net/dj/ninakraviz/

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DEETRON (CH, Music Man)

Swiss-born deetron aka sam geiser unveils his debut album ‘twisted’ on belgium’s esteemed music man imprint. as proven by his constantly expanding catalogue of productions, deetron is capable of creating tracks that sit happily within the context of a dj set (something he understands very well), whilst avoiding landing in the often throwaway category of ‘dj tools’.

As with many of the more dynamic turntablist-styled techno and house djs, deetron took his early cues from hip-hop, before being won-over by the early sounds of chicago and detroit. his djing – then still in its infancy – followed this influence, steering his ‘career’ in a more 4/4 direction – eventually landing him a resident spot at reputed zurich club, trax. deetron’s production career developed in tandem, as is often the case. early work for labels such as phont and intec through the late nineties and 2000, saw deetron finding his audience (including a string of international club jocks) and developing his own sound. in the last few years, sam’s production touch has graced labels including cosmic (as karakter), ongaku (the ‘lorraine ep’), sls and the classic detroit styled ‘miss suave’ on intec which has become a dancefloor anthem all over the world.

Born in bern, switzerland, music was a constant in the geiser family home. sam’s father’s activities as a jazz musician ensured that he was surrounded by music from a very early age, sewing the seeds of his own musical interests. but it was hip-hop that encouraged this to flourish into an active involvement in music, during his teens. sam soaked-up the music of gangstarr, a tribe called quest and prince paul like a sponge and was quick to realise the role of the turntable within this context, taking up djing in 1992. early hip-house producers, such as todd terry, also captured his attention and sam began to make the transition to more 4/4 orientated sounds – picking up on the now classic output of chicago and detroit based electronic musicians and introducing this into the sets he was, by now, playing around his home town, and further a field in switzerland. a meeting with stefan riesen, head of the fledgling phont music, led to the release of deetron’s first single – as soulmate, in 1997 but possibly the most fruitful partnership of his career so far is that with belgium’s music man label. beginning with the ‘dolls for a diva’ 12” in 2001, and including several more 12”s and a superb mix cd that acts as ample testament to sam’s skills behind the turntables, deetron now releases his first artist full length album.

www.residentadvisor.net/dj/deetron

www.deetron.com

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LUCAS CAROSO (BE, MikroZoo)

Lucas Caroso is a name that sounds like an oldskool Italian maffiaboss. Nothing could be further from the truth. He’s a cheerful young man who is born and raised with the skyline from Brussels at the horizon and loves nothing more than a good solid party.

Lucas Caroso started a solo career in 2008, but the big breakthrough came in the summer of 2010 when he and two others were elected by Fuse as winners of the Fuse Young Talent Competition. He got to play a set in one of Europe's most renowned techno-clubs : FUSE.

Almost instantly after the contest he caught the eye of some promotors who gave him the chance to prove himself at some exclusive parties.

He shared the decks with the best of Belgium and some international artists.

Since then he played several times in Belgium’s biggest clubs like Café d’Anvers and Decadance. He has done the warming up or the overheating before or after artists like ,Sascha Funke, Marc Romboy, Heartthrob, Seuil, Mark Broom, Simina Gregoriu, and many more.

www.facebook.com/LucasCarosoDj

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JUJU & JORDASH live (NL, Dekmantel)

Juju & Jordash met over a decade ago in Haifa. They each had their own lives going on at the time, but found one another through weekly be-bop jams, with Juju AKA Gal Aner on guitar and Jordash AKA Jordan Czamanski on piano. Throughout the 1990s, each played in and composed for various jazz and experimental combos by day and, by cover of night, dancing in clubs and experimented with electronic dance music.

J&J have released numerous EP, LPs and remixes since 2004 on record labels such as Dekmantel, Golf Channel Recordings, and on Workshop as Magic Mountain High, together with David Moufang (aka Move D), as well as several ambient, film soundtracks and multimedia projects.

They are based in Amsterdam at the moment.

www.facebook.com/pages/Juju-Jordash/88024840603

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FLOATING POINTS (UK, Eglo)

Putting some organic funk back into dubstep and techno as if he were the child of Luke Vibert and Flying Lotus, London’s Sam Shepherd is better known to dancefloors and tasteful U.K. radio programs as Floating Points. Shepherd launched the project in 2008 by releasing some white-label 12”s plus a bootleg remix of avant jazz legend Sun Ra’s “I’ll Wait for You.” Gilles Peterson picked up on both and featured the two tracks on his Worldwide radio program. Even though he spent his days finishing his Ph.D. in neuroscience, Shepherd still found time in 2009 to partner with Rinse FM’s leftfield DJ Alexander Nut and form the Eglo label. Floating Points’ “For You” single came out on the label that same year, as did Vacuum, an EP named after his parent’s Hoover, which Shepherd had sampled for the A-side. A guest mix on Mary Anne Hobbs’ radio program also aired in 2009, and Floating Points would make an appearance on the BBC DJ’s Wild Angels compilation. Shepherd kicked off 2010 by playing London’s Fabric nightclub alongside Four Tet and James Holden.

www.residentadvisor.net/dj/floatingpoints

www.eglorecords.com

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WALRUS (BE, Bepotel)

Walrus, heading from brussels and serving music with enough thought, reason and soul to keep your head and feet floating above the thrill waves of his antarctic biotope. slowly melting sunbeams on an ice mountain make you find yourself in a warm bath of sounds, grooves and spaces.

Running bepotel records together with sagat and &apos.

Half of brussels synth-pop band bright entity.

www.bepotel.be

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