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The productions of deep home expert and Chicago historian-of-sorts Chris Grey tug at the same compelling heartstrings as classic producers like Larry Noticed and Marshall Jefferson. Motivated by Heard aswell as Blaze, Ron Trent as well as the Wamdue Task, Gray was raised in Mississippi totally unaware of advancements in …

Electro-pop group Sneaky AUDIO SYSTEM surfaced among the leading Australian club functions of its era using its self-titled 2006 discovery LP. Songwriter/maker “Dark Angus” McDonald and MC Daimon “Two times D” Downey 1st fulfilled at a Sydney outfit party in the springtime of 2000, immediately after hatching programs to co-headline …

With Kraftwerk, AC/DC, and Farley Jackmaster Funk as influences and a brief history which includes raves, celebrations thrown by Björk, and electroclash festivals, it must not be a surprise that maker/songwriter/DJ Tommie Sunshine landed a deal in 2005 with DJ Hell’s genre-mashing label International DeeJay Gigolos. After learning to be …

Princess Superstar (given birth to Concetta Kirschner) emerged from NY City’s underground music picture having a provocative mixture of hip-hop, punk, and saucy attitude. Given birth to in NY in 1971, Kirschner spent period developing up in Pa, but was back NEW YORK by the past due ’80s. She was …

A genre- and gender-defying mixture of rock and roll, pop, and dance inspired by burlesque, move queens, and glam rock and roll, New York’s Scissor Sisters produced a splash in later 2003/early 2004 using their neon-bright reimagining of Green Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” the B-side towards the band’s initial solo, “Electrobix.” …

Among the pinnacles of Chicago home music’s ’90s influx, Derrick Carter began DJing in age nine, content spinning disco records in family members reunions. His debut solitary “Like Me Best” made an appearance in 1987, soon after he graduated from university. Another solitary (“Icons and Devices” as Feeling) made an …

Though Gene Farris is one in the brand new college of Chicago DJ/producers, his sound looks back again to disco and funk a lot more than the essential house sound from the Windy Town. He documented singles for Cajmere’s Cajual/Alleviation and European brands Push Inc. and Soma before his debut …

The fashionable, fun, and sometimes freaky sound of Milan-born DJ/producer Benny Benassi first hit the charts under that name in 2002 using the electro-meets-house single “Fulfillment.” Made in collaboration along with his cousin Alle — within a group that could become referred to as the Benassi Bros. — it had …

Heavily influenced from the electro and fresh wave music from the ’80s, French producer the Hacker (Michel Amato) jumped towards the forefront from the electro-clash and neo-electro scene when he teamed with Miss Kittin for the 2001 hit “Frank Sinatra.” He started his profession in the middle-’90s using the Futurist …

The Ballistic Brothers are something of the quintessential London post-acid house outfit. Merging the production skills of a few of the most well-known figures within the intensifying house and acidity jazz moments (Ashley Beedle of Dark Technology Orchestra, Dave Hill of Nuphonic Information, and house-tech duo Rocky and Diesel), the …