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UPCOMING EVENTS
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We are proud to anounce the 8 headliners for Terminal Groove 2, the full flyer will be posted soon, featuring over 90 different artists, over a 36 hour period! But for now.......
Elite Force (UK)
SHack aka Elite Force has been involved in making music in some capacity for as long as he can remember. He began his DJ career towards the end of the acid house boom, and was inspired by the promise of a future combination of Weatherall and the Chemicals' DJ sets, no-wave noiseniks such as Big Black, Young Gods and Sonic Youth, the robotic flair of Kraftwerk and Front 242 and the repetitive bliss of arch minimalists such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley. After a lengthy dalliance with various projects (including some early experiments with college friend Thom Yorke), sHack founded the Fused and Bruised label (initially as home to his own aliases...see above), and also launched a successful career as one half of Lunatic Calm, who were to score heavily in America and on a number of movie soundtracks, including the Matrix/Charlie's Angels etc...
Both the Fused and Bruised empire and Lunatic Calm enjoyed five successful years, during which time Elite Force was rapidly coming to the fore as a highly sought after producer and remixer, and in 2001 sHack decided to concentrate his energies in recording and DJaying as Elite Force. There followed a series of four singles (and a debut artist album) on Whole 9 Yards, two 12"s on Moonshine in the US and a number on other labels such as TCR and Thrust, not to mention numerous remixes for the likes of Crystal Method, Grandmaster Flash and UNKLE. Joining Kingsize in 2003, he has become a mainstay of the label and for all of the right reasons! As a DJ he is recognized as one of the top 10 proponents of breaks in the world (breakspoll 2005), but as any listeners to his hugely popular fortnightly Strongarm Sessions webcasts will testify, his is a tech-funk style that refuses to be straight-jacketed.
Dylan Rhymes (UK)
With the exception of Paul Weller, Dylan Rhymes may well be Woking’s favourite son. Dance music has been the biggest part of Rhymes’ (otherwise known as Marvin Beaver – and yes, he’s heard all of the jokes) life from a young age. Inspired by early hip hop and electro a la Kraftwerk and Doug E. Fresh, Marvin purchased his first set of decks at 15 and caught the bug in a bad way.
While working for British Airways after leaving school, a chance meeting with a nu-beat-writing co-worker who was selling his equipment to go traveling led to Marvin’s first “studioâ€. Supplemented with the now legendary Roland TR808 and TR909 drum machines Beaver started, as most people did in dance music in the late eighties, by putting out a few acid house white labels. Before long the talent was noticed by owners of the seminal Wax Factory imprint, Ron Wells and Chris Simmons, who began to release more of his material. Dave Pearce’s Reachin’ Records also bought into the young producer’s skills, fuelling the fire and enabling Beaver to set up a commercial studio with his mate Justin Drake in the early 1990s.
Rhythm Design Studios in Uxbridge became the birthplace of Outsiders, Drake and Beaver’s much-lauded project for Junior Boy’s Own Chicago influenced Jus Trax label. Friend, DJ and London mainstay Clive Henry then joined the team and the trio became Peace Division, a project that gained props from every corner of dance music without exception.
Leaving Peace Division to focus on his own material, Beaver invented the Dylan Rhymes moniker (a reference to Bob Dylan) and set about working on a breakbeat track for Junior Boys Own. The result was 1996s “Naked & Ashamed†which, due to a Smirnoff ad campaign, became one the label’s biggest tracks (no mean feat considering JBO’s pedigree). Since then he has cemented his reputation as one of the leaders of the breakbeat and tech house scenes through his output through Kingsize Records, Meat Katie’s Whole9Yards and Lot49 labels and his own Blue Black imprint.
Besides original work, Beaver has also remixed the likes of Deep Dish, Infusion, Dave Gahan, Overseer, Unkle and Puretone while he has collaborated with Meat Katie, Christian J, Force Mass Motion (as Silencer) and Anthony J Gorry (on his 2004 album, Dead Famous).
DIeselboy & MC Messinian ( Brooklyn,NY U.S.A.)
The most recognized face and sound in American drum & bass belong to Dieselboy. An icon for American d&b for over a decade, he has become an international symbol of this volatile underground dance music movement. America’s best-selling d&b artist by far, Dieselboy was the first American to be voted into the UK-based Drum & Bass Arena Top 10 DJs 2004 online poll. Early in 2007, Dieselboy tag-teamed with d&b’s best-known superstar Goldie in Russia where they co-headlined a festival attended by over 25,000 junglists, and they shared headliner status again soon after at SXSW 2007 in Austin, Texas.
As a DJ, Dieselboy, born Damian Higgins, was an original pioneer in the early ‘90s spreading d&b in North America, first in Pittsburgh, then from Philadelphia, growing in popularity until he was criss-crossing the continent virtually nonstop. His popular mix-tapes and mix-CDs have been the gateway for countless fans to the high energy, futuristic, science fiction sound of d&b. Dieselboy’s style is characterized by flawless execution, meticulous pulse-quickening programming that not only excels at showcasing individual tracks but also creates an intense and epic cinematic atmosphere.
Based now in Brooklyn, Dieselboy is the most in-demand American d&b DJ on the international club, rave and festival circuits including the United Kingdom (home of d&b), Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South Americas. Beyond the scene, Dieselboy, sponsored by DC Shoes, has played rock festivals and X-treme sports exhibitions. Few d&b artists can claim as hardcore a global cult following as Dieselboy’s.
As a producer, Dieselboy was the first d&b artist to chart a single on Billboard’s dance chart with “Invid†in 2000. In 2002, Dieselboy founded HUMAN, the d&b imprint of respected dynamic electronic dance music label System Recordings which launched in 2000, boasting Dieselboy as its first artist, and where he is still its best-selling artist. In 2003, Dieselboy was honored to be asked by highly respected, globally distributed DJ Magazine to create a mix showcasing American d&b entitled DJ World Series: D & B From The United States. In 2006 Dieselboy presented the first HUMAN IMPRINT compilation, a 2XCD set with a mix by producer/DJ crew Evol Intent of Atlanta and a CD of singles called The HUMAN Resource which debuted at #14 on the Billboard electronic album chart only behind non-dance competition such as Gorillaz, Madonna, Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, and a Disney remix CD.
Born in Florida in 1972 and raised in Colorado with his two sisters by a single mom, young Damian Higgins played drums in his school marching band, and his hobbies included breakdancing, skateboarding, videogames, reading, films and role-playing games. In his senior year of high school he DJ’ed a few dances fading between CDs, tape cassettes and a turntable.
As a student at the University of Pittsburgh, Higgins threw house parties where he met two Carnegie Mellon University radio DJs who offered to teach him how to beat-match records at the station. Higgins was soon was playing on their weekly 6 hour-long radio show.
In 1994, on borrowed turntables, Higgins made a mix-tape calledThe Future Sound of Hardcore and offered it for $5 on rave-related Internet listservs. "Through that, people heard about me and I started getting bookings on the East Coast. It was a very slow process that eventually snowballed into my getting flown various places," which now extend to the six continents with d&b venues. In 1997, Nigel Richards, DJ and owner of 611 Records in Philadelphia, was looking for a roommate, so Higgins moved to Philly, became the d&b buyer for the store, and designed T-shirts and logos for 611.
From 1998 to 2004 Dieselboy hosted “Platinum,†a weekly Thursday night event at Philadelphia club Fluid, which gained renown as North America’s premier d&b club night.
In 1998, Dieselboy tied with atmospheric d&b legend LTJ Bukem as “Best Drum & Bass DJ†at the Global DJ Mix Awards, also marking the first time an American had been nominated for the award. In 2000, Dieselboy’s track Invid became the first American track ever played at Goldie’s legendary London club, Metalheadz.
Each of Dieselboy’s albums has raised the bar for the mix-CD art form. He had the distinction of being the first American invited by British d&b label Suburban Base to make a mix cd of a compilation, Drum & Bass Selection USA (1996). Suburban Base had him follow up with 97 Octane (1997), this time allowing him to submit track suggestions, resulting in a more varied selection. In 1998, Nigel Richards gave Dieselboy full artistic control for his next mix-CD, 611 DJ Mix-Series Vol. One (1998), for which he even did the graphics.
Always striving to create something different, in 1998 Dieselboy made a mix-tape called Director’s Cut which he had packaged in film cans, his first experiment in presenting a dance mix in a quasi-cinematic framework.
In 1999, on legendary dance music label Moonshine, Dieselboy’s A Soldier's Story was a comment on junglists' (who often called themselves "soldiers") second-class status in the scene, relegated to substandard rooms and sound systems, while house and trance DJs took center stage. It opened with his first original cd “intro†and marked his debut as a producer with Atlantic State, co-produced with Technical Itch (Mark Caro) of Bristol, England. On his next Moonshine mix, System Upgrade (2000), his intro featured a clever sample from the Ghost in the Shell movie. His mix prominently featured emerging American producers Hive and E-Sassin.
Later in 2000, Palm Pictures released Dieselboy’s The 6ixth Session, a cyborg-themed mix described by the Washington Post as “hard-edged hyperdriven dance music,†which marked the beginning of Dieselboy’s VIP remix phase. Also for the first time he bundled a second unmixed CD with original tracks.
For projectHUMAN (2002), Dieselboy presented a mix framed as a movie trailer, hiring movie trailer voice extraordinaire Don LaFontaine for his intro and outro. projectHUMAN was also Dieselboy’s first foray into massive remix commissioning, most of the tracks featuring American producers remixing UK and other international producers, and vice versa.
For his next mix-CD, The Dungeonmaster’s Guide (2004), Dieselboy asked Peter Cullen, well-known for his work as the cartoon voice of the Transformers’ Optimus Prime, to be the voice of the Dungeonmaster who introduces the d&b fantasy and appears throughout the mix to narrate phases of the journey. Again Dieselboy commissioned remixes, this time asking d&b producers from around the world to remix tracks by non-d&b dance music luminaries including Tiesto, Sasha, BT and Josh Wink.
Dieselboy has played metal concerts with Orgy and Disturbed, and was the only d&b artist invited by rock superstar Moby for his Area2 national tour that also included David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, Blue Man Group, Tiesto, and Digweed. Dieselboy has been booked for the second U.S. Virgin Festival at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland in the fall of 2007, where he shares the bill with Smashing Pumpkins, the Police, Beastie Boys, Wu-Tang Clan, Interpol, and Velvet Revolver.
Always seeking innovative ways to build bridges within the d&b community, Dieselboy has toured with other DJs such as Technical Itch & Decoder, DJ Rap, DJ Fresh, Bad Company UK, and Hive, expanding exposure for their respective fans as well as creating interesting bills for promoters.
In 2000 Dieselboy united with two other North American d&b legends, AK1200 (Dave Minner, Orlando, FL) and Irish ex-pat DJ Dara (Darragh Guilfoyle, New York, NY), to create an annual super-tour, the Planet of the Drums. Dieselboy brings his trademark hard edgy pyrotechnics, Dara a mellower dub/reggae flavored vibe, with AK1200’s arsenal tearing up the space between, but when these three forces of nature tag-team, with MC Messinian (James Fiorella, Philadelphia, PA) hyping the crowd, the combined effect is magical mayhem. 2007 marks POTD’s 8th North American tour, making it the longest running annual electronic dance music tour of any subgenre. The Planet of the Drums proudly claims credit for moving d&b out of the siderooms and onto the main stage.
Undeniably one of the world’s great ambassadors of drum & bass, continuously pushing the genre beyond its boundaries, Dieselboy is currently at work on his next highly anticipated cross-genre remix extravaganza mix CD, his ninth, entitled Substance D, due out in fall 2007, in conjunction with a HUMAN IMPRINT tour with rotating label artists.
SUPERSTARS OF LOVE (All Time High Experience)
www.superstarsoflove.com International Deejay Gigolos San Francisco USA
Legendary early 90's midwest rave promoters Superstars of Love bring one of the most stunning and controversial live stage shows known to underground dance culture to Springfield. The late Disco D described their performance as "the craziest thing I've ever seen at a party." This electro porno freakshow is billed as "The All Time High Experience" having performed from coast to coast including Berlin Germany's "Love Parade" in 2001 for famed label boss Dj Hell's International Deejay Gigolos. Their video appears on the Freakshow DVD. The revolving cast of characters include Rev. Dr. Davidian, GGJim of Forcedentryrecords.com, Paris Hitler, and Dirty Dick Jones. This show is not to be missed!!!
Atomic Babies (Brooklyn,NY U.S.)
Atomic Babies started out when Joey Jupiter started cranking out hard acid tracks in the early 90s in his parent's basement. Since those days Atomic Babies has toured the world headlining the live PA sounds he developed in that same basement at everything from dirty warehouse parties with secrete map points to mega one off events with 5,000 plus, to the pretentious New York, LA and Chicago night clubs. In 2006 Joey Jupiter & The Germ joined forced to bring this legendary Live Act back on it's feet with their passion for hardware and devotion to the scene, this duo will stop at nothing to bring the vacant dance floors back from the dead.
Spree (Burlington,VT U.S.)
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M.C. ADB (lincoln,NE U.S.)
Spree&ADB are a throwback to the original style hardcore live DJ/MC double-act. The duo are acknowledged worldwide for their dynamic high energy live sets and can be found terrorizing stages on any given weekend. For the past 9 years the boys have been inseparable and formed a bond that sets them apart from any other live acts in America. Bring those whistles and horns and buckle up cause it's Spree&ADB Time!
Matt Rissi a.k.a. DJ Sonar (Cedar Rapids,IA U.S.)
www.mattrissi.com
Zuvuya Recordings, Solar Cathedral Recordings, Giant Squid Recordings
Matt Rissi (known to the midwestern rave circuit as DJ Sonar) was born in Tucson AZ in 1980 and transplanted to the Midwest in 1996. With 10 years of mixing under his belt Matt has proven to be a serious DJ, earning decktime all over the United States alongside global stars like Chris Liebing, Derrick Carter, Richie Hawtin, Dieselboy, Frankie Bones, Tommie Sunshine, Terry Mullan, Donald Glaude, DJ Monk, DJ Dan, Mike Huckaby, Radio Slave, The Atomic Babies, Christopher Lawrence, Rabbit In The Moon, Grooverider and many, many more.
Eventually, Matt got to working in the studio with partner Mustafa Avdic and has now hit the scene with techno tracks aimed for the dancefloor. Their 'Yugoslavia EP' is out now on Zuvuya Recordings and is currently receiving support from the world famous Dave Clarke after he debuted one of thier tracks on his world renown 'WhiteNoiseRadio' show. Dave Clarke also licensed the Woody McBride Remix of thier hit 'Oktave Jumper' for his 'I Love Techno 2007' mix compilation that will be released globally November of '07. In support of this release Matt has been performing all over the country and has plans to keep on driving. With a new release out on Giant Squid Recordings and multiple releases coming out on his own imprint, Solar Cathedral Recordings, expect to be hearing his sounds on the regular.
When schedule permits, Matt puts on and performs at some of the biggest Techno events that Iowa has to offer. Performing for thousands of local supporters at annual events like '515 Alive', 'Solar Sessions', 'A Pornstar's Ball' & 'Inferno' have gained him a cult like following that few in Iowa can compete with. With national support and hometown love, he plans to take his act overseas for the summer of '08. Be on the lookout for the Solar Cathedral Recordings tour.
Nolo ( Springfield,MO U.S.)
NoLo's blend of pounding electronic rhythms, energy shifting atmospherics and abstract experimental textures intends to keep listeners at the edge of their attention. The unexpected is striving to be real, the unknown behind every sound is there waiting to be plucked.
NoLo's focus is energy. His mixes push beyond the mundane. His endless search for the newest, most cutting edge sounds available drives him the farthest reaches of the internet and to the ends of sanity.
PAST SHOWS
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