Name: David Guetta

David Guetta - the pioneer of French house with Up & Way, a garage-style track with vocals by Robert Owens launched in 1992 - made a reputation for themself within the mid-90s among the key causes of Parisian night life by marketing nights at such famous Paris locations as Folies Pigalle, Full, Bataclan, Structure and L'ensemble des Bains, where he asked DJ stories like Little Louie Vega, David Morales, DJ Pierre and Roger Sanchez to become listed on him around the decks. In 2001, however, he returned to his first love: making music.

Released through the single Somewhat More Love, an electro-funk-house cocktail featuring Chris Willis from the band Nashville on vocals, David Guetta’s first album was launched by Virgin in June 2002 and continued to market 250,000 copies. This resounding success transported through within the album’s second, much more devastating single, Love Don't Allow Me Go, a track similar to Moroder‘s techno-disco style entered with Depeche Mode’s new-wave seem.

Like fellow Frenchman Laurent Garnier, David began off his career within the gay clubs around Paris’ L'ensemble des Halles district within the mid-80s, going onto create a reputation for themself in acidity-house and stylish-hop. His first album heralded the start of a brand new DJ career - this time around on the global level. Named following the parties he hosts on Ibiza, the fabled isle of techno, David’s F*** ME I am FAMOUS: IBIZA DJ MIX, which featured his remix of David Bowie’s Heroes, went gold: no small task for any compilation Compact disc. Going back 3 years, David continues to be asked to combine throughout Europe regularly and, increasingly more frequently, within the U . s . States, Australia, Japan, Singapore and Israel too. He's also resident DJ in the Mix working in london, Barcelona ‘s Discoteca and also the Lausanne club Mad.

Powered through the rock guitars from the single Money, David’s second album, GUETTA BLASTER, is even gutsier. David and Joachim Garraud (the very first album’s co-composer and co-producer) applied themselves to making real tunes patterned on electro-pop classics from the 80s by similar masters as Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Dead Or Alive and New Order, to title probably the most prominent influences. All of the tracks about this second album are original arrangements. The gospel sounds of Chris Willis and also the stylings of guest vocalists JD Davis (lead singer of Sinema), James Perry (alias Jimmy Polo, famous singer/producer around the Chicago scene) and Britain’s Stereo system MCs provide the tracks a distinctive luster, as the production abilities of Guetta and Garraud lift the album to new - and try to spectacular - levels.

From GUETTA BLASTER’s opening salvos, Money and remain, we obtain beats which are started up a notch past the hard-dance formula of Somewhat More Love. With no ounce of hesitation, David Guetta's album launched itself in the experimental roots of house music and cold-wave, exhibiting an unpredicted stylistic flexibility, then oscillates between effective blends of hot & cold and black & whitened. It makes sense 100% addictive. Was Once The Main One, with vocals by Willis, owes a debt to both Yazoo’s Don't Go and garage music. Similarly, the counterpoint of your time brings up Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, mixing the very best of British pop and dance culture - something David has mastered like nobody else. Open Your Vision, a track tailor-designed for the Stereo system MCs, is made on the rubbery break beat as well as an acidity sequence, having a rap which brings their classic Attached to mind. The abrasive AC/Electricity, clearly the next hit around the subterranean/rave circuit, is much like the missing outcomes of Shaun Mills and Secretary Of State For Seem.

Two velvet-smooth cuts nicely crown the album: Deeply In Love With Myself, a track that may hold its very own against Moroder & Oakey’s Electric Dreams every day, is then Greater, which Chris Willis pays homage towards the type of phrasing and decoration made popular by Stevie Question, a strategy which has grown popular both in R&B and garage/house music à la Nj duo Blaze. GUETTA BLASTER drives its point home using the metronomic Movement Girl, featuring James Perry, and also the killer Wake Up, which macho riffs, the hysterical falsetto of Chris Willis and a screaming guitar swirl around a punchy beat.

On GUETTA BLASTER, David Guetta hasn't only effectively prevented the issues of second albums - he's truly released themself right into a new dimension.

Name: Marco Benassi Geneser Other Names: KMC, Benassi Bros

Benny Benassi was bornin Milan on July 13th, in 1967. He worked just like a producer along with his cousin Alle Benassi, who's a music artist and arranger at Off Limits, in Reggio Emilia, Italia, the world effective production unit run by Ray Pignagnoli.

The initial club hit was “I feel so fine” by KMC featuring Dhany (Number 1 club charts Uk) in 2001. Which was followed by BENNY BENASSI presents the BIZ project, a truly revolutionary mixture of techno, electro, and house dosed with minimalist flair.

The initial single SATISFACTION, produced in 2002, made its presence felt inside the primary charts throughout Europe in 2003. Some results included:

- number #2 inside the Official Singles Sales Chart in Uk
- around the month inside the number #1 inside the Official Dance Chart in FRANCE
- top 20 Official Singles Sales Chart in FRANCE
- number #2: Official Dance Chart in GERMANY
- top 40 Official Singles Sales Chart in GERMANY

Official European Dance Chart:

ABLE TO LOVE and SATISFACTION both went top 5 inside the Official European Dance Chart.

Benny and Alle then produced Benassi Bros, a project designed to shine the spotlight round the two Biz vocalists, Paul French and Violeta together with other guest entertainers.

The track by Benassi Bros. task. Sandy, "Illusion" and "Hit my heart" featuring Dhany were both monster top 20 sales charts hits in France as well as the album, PUMPHONIA, went gold in France.

Other hit singles acquired from HYPNOTICA are "No matter what you ought to doInch and "Love is gonna save us"

Benny mixed SUBLIMINAL Periods Mire, for your famous New You'll be able to label and, for your occasion, produced a track referred to as "I wish for you within the futureInch beneath the psuedonym BAT67. Using this title more youthful crowd remixed "Hot Container Groove" by Rava and "Warman Whoreman" by Digitally Stoned People. He's the initial European dj to own mixed a Subliminal Periods compilation.

In 2003, Benny won a good deal recognition

- # 1 inside the Best Gamers dance tracks round the Secretary of condition for Appear Internet radio
- DJ MAG tune of year in Uk
- Thought of year - Italian Dance Music Honours
- Dance thought of year - Danish Music Award
- Nominated for worldwide thought of year - NRJ Honours, France

In 2004,

- three nominations at Dancestar, Miami and won the most effective video award
- DjMag favourite DJ Poll Best Gamers: Benny is number 18, the finest new entry
- European Border Breakers Award for Hypnotica, an italian guy , album that offered most in Europe outdoors Italia

When Benny isn’t inside the studio, he tours the earth rocking clubs and occasions along with his easy energy.

His DeeJay style is straightforward to describe…. it’s kinda electro, type of house-tec, dirty and awesome, sweaty and smooth….

Names: Jono Grant, Paavo Siljamäki. Tony McGuinness Other Names: OceanLab, Tranquility Base

You will find DJs who are able to rock an event, a golf club, a festival. And you will find groups that may write tunes which will "bring out the goose bumps" on your skin. But there is just one group that may do both: Above & Beyond. This three person group have remixed Madonna, won Essential Mix of the season, and performed to over one million people in Rio de Janeiro. More to the point they’ve written tunes using the energy to en-trance million-strong crowds, a lot of which have been sung along, sentence after sentence.

Above & Beyond make great music, pure and straightforward. That music is actually electronic. Also it connects. “We’re an organization,” states Above & Beyond founder Tony McGuinness. “And what we’re attempting to do is precisely do this, interact with people. You attempt and describe something in your existence, but in ways which will resonate with others. If you notice people singing along as passionately because they do, I suppose you’re setting it up right.” This will make Above & Beyond unique, not only in trance, however in popular music too. “We prefer to think about ourselves as songwriters first,” states Paavo Siljamaki, whom with Jono Grant comprises the trio. “That’s our method of music. Probably the most challenging factor would be to write an audio lesson that actually touches the listener.”

Above & Beyond aren't individuals who enjoy things by halves. You can witness their latest release, ‘Anjunabeats 100’ - an accumulation of the most effective tracks using their globally respected Anjunabeats label. The album includes a DVD documentary, which captures the 2 shows this guitar rock band performed over Christmas and Year 2007. Firstly, the group travelled to Goa, India, which is the spiritual home of trance as well as their label Anjunabeats, to experience an memorable sunset set in an open-air beach festival. Days later they travelled to Rio p Janeiro, South america, another stronghold from the worldwide trance seem, to headline a brand new Year’s Eve show on Barra p Tijuca beach - before a million people. Outfitted within the traditional whitened of Brazilian Year, Above & Beyond fascinated Rio having a set which was truly magical. A lot of that crowd were fans who had travelled all over South america.

“It was existence-altering,” states Tony. “It was amazing to appear out and find out that lots of people. Somewhat it had been too large to understand!” From club gigs, in Eastern Europe, to major festivals, such as Coachella in California, Above & Beyond be capable of entrance audiences. Their music has grandeur and tune, but it’s edged with steel too. You will find dark shadows but sweet moments too. And it is larger than any genre. Trance is simply too small a thing for the things they're doing.

The 3 are experienced music artists who know their way around a studio without resorting to engineers. Tony McGuinness was marketing director for Warner Siblings Records - however for years formerly was the guitarist/songwriter of cult indie band Sad Enthusiasts & Titans. Requested to arrange a remix of Chakra’s ‘Home’ in 2000, he became a member of along with Jono Grant and Paavo Siljamaki - and then Above & Beyond was created. “By coincidence we wound up putting three people with complimentary and various talents in to the mix,” states Tony. Pete Tong rapidly locked onto their talents: that debut remix for Chakra rapidly arrived at Number 1 around the club charts. It has been a rollercoaster ride since.

Jono Grant first found dance music when he lent his brother James’s cassette of Paul Oakenfold’s classic Goa mix - and fell deeply in love with the music's sweeping melodrama. He had been training like a classical pianist and performed guitar. But that mix inspired him to begin building their own studio, dealing with part-time jobs to purchase odds and ends of apparatus. “I handled to conserve enough money from mowing and trimming the lawn to purchase a drum machine,” he laughs. When he showed up at London’s College of Westminster, he'd a little, yet cozy studio, which completely filled his tiny 4 x 2 metre college room. His first production would be a remix of Strike’s Top 5 hit ‘U Sure Do’.

Paavo had showed up in the same college from his native Finland, where he'd already fallen deeply in love with electronic music and composed music for theatre. Also typically trained on cello and piano, he was studying music business. The 2 met one beery evening in college halls and Jono proceeded to experience his latest productions. “I love this type of music,” Paavo told Jono. “Let's write a track together.” Jono loved the concept. They put their studio assets in a single mad taxi dash, and Anjunabeats was created. It's now probably the most famous labels around the world stage.

In 2001, Above & Beyond had remixed Madonna’s ‘What It Feels As Though For Any Girl’ after Tony spoken his distance to her manager’s office - and right into a remix. “We were pitching for that stars at that time,” smiles Paavo. Tony’s charm compensated off when Madonna used their mix on her questionable hotrod rampage video, directed by her husband Guy Ritchie. When she called, asking for some minor changes, Tony is at flagrante together with his girlfriend. He required the phone call though. Well, if Madonna telephoned… Other remixes have incorporated Dido’s ‘Sand During My Shoes’ and Britney Spears’s ‘Everytime’.

The group's first single, 2002’s ‘Far From In Love’ with Kate Cameron, rapidly grew to become a dance anthem. In 2006 Above & Beyond launched their first artist album ‘Tri-State’ that was welcomed with rave reviews. “Brilliant,” stated DJ Magazine. “The ultimate fulfillment associated with a dance act’s ambition.” The sheer excellence of the songwriting about this album shone through because it taken from euphoric tunes to atmospheric lower-tempo moments. Above & Beyond had most definitely showed up. “Tri-Condition was our first attempt for writing an album,” states Paavo. “We felt an ideal album wouldn’t be twelve club tracks but an accumulation of tunes that get you on the journey. It required more than a year to get it done. There have been moments where we weren’t really sure. But ultimately we're feeling we made something we're able to are proud of.”

Among the album’s many standouts is ‘Alone Tonight’ - an audio lesson Tony authored following a relationship break-up. Its otherworldly tunes and sincere vocal performance from Richard Bedford resonate with audiences around the globe. “’Alone Tonight’ does indeed interact with people,” states Jono. “A lot of people that visit clubs are single, which song is all about finding yourself in rapport but feeling alone. Therefore it resonates with both categories of people.” Under their Oceanlab alias, used dealing with singer/songwriter Justine Suissa, additionally they created the memorable ‘Satellite’. Again, there is a lyric with universal appeal - which Tony authored about Paavo and the Japanese wife, when both were on opposite sides around the globe - combined with tunes to help you shiver along with a vocal drenched in emotion. It too has turned into a vocal trance classic and live favourite.

Yet Above & Beyond aren’t just consummate music artists and songwriters, they're also first class DJs. Their Trance All Over The World show on the radio airs on over 120 FM, Internet and Satellite stations worldwide and reaches 20 million audience. They started their DJing career in grand style in 2002, before 8,000 people in Tokyo, japan. Since that time they've become globetrotting DJ celebrities. In 2004 they got first prize in theEssential Mix of the season, showing precisely how deftly they navigate the entire spectrum of melodic dance music, with sets that mix genres effortlessly which encompass the trancier side of house, progressive and techno. And every year they rise inexorably greater within the exclusive DJ Magazine poll: from 39, to 19, then lower to nine, then six, before reaching their current placing at four. “To be among such great DJs is indeed a honor,” states Paavo, having a humbleness usual for this guitar rock band. “There are people above and below which i really, truly respect.”

What audiences all over the world also react to may be the professionalism, reliability , enthusiasm that Above & Beyond provide their art. There's a warmth concerning the trio that individuals love. Tony is the one that provides it with all on stage. “Tony is usually the rock n’ roll star from the whole crew. He’s the man most abundant in experience, in existence, in lots of things,” states Paavo, “and he still handles to become the little one from the group.” Tony covers his band people with equal enthusiasm. “Jono is ambivalent concerning the incredible talent he's. He provides extensive energy, he's courageous when he’s DJing and it is forever in a great mood.” If Jono’s contribution is definitely an easy sound, states Tony, Paavo adds life blood. “What he brings in this way is how you can enhance the emotion inside a track.”

The continuing Above & Beyond world tour continues. And also the band have just came back from Ibiza, where, prolific as always, they've been recording an Oceanlab album with singer Justine Suissa that's much more widescreen in the vision, states Jono, than ‘Tri-State’. They work intuitively together, constantly striving to obtain better. “You have more from existence by working together,” notes Tony. “We’re always attempting to grow, we’re always learning and we’re always looking to get better at what we should do.” And the things they're doing is make music with tune, movement - and meaning. Music, in a nutshell, that means something to individuals around the world. “You can perform stuff that's popular without selling out,” states Jono. “If you need to do something of excellent quality, people react to that.” And that's why even when they're half a global away, audiences always make Above & Beyond feel in your own home.