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	Trance music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Notable artists and DJs - Raves - Glowsticking
		Artists like Paul van Dyk, DJ Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Above and Beyond and Armin van Buuren came to the forefront as premier producers and remixers, bringing with them the emotional, "epic" feel of the style.
		Some of the artists that had helped create the trance sound in the early and mid-1990s had, by the end of the decade, abandoned trance completely (artists of particular note here are Pascal F.E.O.S. and Oliver Lieb) in favour of more underground sounds.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Trance_music (2502 words)

	Electronica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the mid-1990s electronica began to be used by MTV and major record labels to describe mainstream electronic dance music made by such artists as The Chemical Brothers (who had previously been described as big beat or chemical breaks) and The Prodigy, although even at this stage it was not a particularly incisive term.
		Artists that would later become commercially successfully under the "electronic" banner such as Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, and Underworld began to record in this early 1990s period.
		By the late 1990s artists like Moby were pop stars in their own right, releasing albums and performing regularly (sometimes in stadium-sized arenas, such had the popularity of electronic dance music grown).
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Electronica (759 words)

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		Notable in this area was producer Adrian Sherwood whose On-U Sound record label in the 1980s was responsible for integrating the industrial and noise aesthetic with tape and dub production with artists such as the industrial-funk outfit Tackhead, vocalist Mark Stewart and others.
		Artists such as Bjork and Moby have further popularized variants of this form of music within the mainstream.
		Commercially successful artists working under the "electronica" rubric such as Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Prodigy, Underworld and Moby continue to release albums and perform regularly (sometimes in stadium-sized arenas, such has the popularity of electronic dance music grown).
	www.dj5150.com /new204393.html (1799 words)

	The Maneater - DJ Cam reinvents himself on Revisited By (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		DJ Cam reinvents himself on Revisited By By Cari Breckenridge, Staff Writer.
		DJ Cam might be the one of the most innovative producers in the music business.
		Although the tracks are credited to DJ Cam, all of the songs have been remixed by a legion of well-respected electronica superstars, including Thievery Corporation and Kid Loco.
	www.themaneater.com /article.php?id=23178 (541 words)

	Motion Fm (Formely Style Network) - Deep & Soulful House Grooves-- DJS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dj and producer, he has been practicing the activity in clubs and some prestigious discos in North Italy area (some of these are Kinky,Ruvido,Vertigo,Bbc) for fifteen years.
		The dj is the “film director” controlling the content and flow of the music plot.”.In the early `90s, after an invitation from a friend, Leon took the position of producer in a German Studio.
		As a DJ he is a Southport veteran - having been in the mix there for the past 15 years, and also appears regularly across the UK and Europe.
	www.stylenetwork.org /djs.htm (4434 words)

	// Digital DJs // Respect Due Discussion Board : General Discussion : Various Artists - Impulsive! - Impulse! Records
		It's a natural choice for producer and DJ Gerardo Frisina, who found the root of his musical voice in the seductive sound of Latin and Brazilian jazz.
		Oliver Nelson was a notable saxophone player whose career extended past recorded music into mentor, songwriter and television and film score producer.
		It was his skill as a jazz composer and arranger, though, that gives his legacy the most weight, especially the jazz classic, "Stolen Moments." A magical quality surrounds the proud, soulful radiance of the original and Chicago outfit Telefon Tel-Aviv had the monumental task of remixing it.
	www.digital-djs.com /talk/thread-view.asp?threadid=10841 (1363 words)

	VH1.com : U-Roy : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		The DJ was then lured away by Coxsone Dodd; however, soon tiring of playing second fiddle to longtime veteran King Stitt, he returned to Sir George.
		But perhaps the DJ was taking on too much between his sound system, labels, and live appearances, for his next album, Love Is Not a Gamble showed a sharp decline in standards.
		In 1983, the DJ was behind the superb King Stur-Gav Hi Fi Lee Unlimited album, a live session recorded at his own sound system that featured a clutch of crucial DJs from Dillinger to the young Beenie Man, his two favorite protégés Charlie Chaplin and Josey Wales, as well as U-Roy himself.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/u_roy/bio.jhtml (1800 words)

	AM Only Online
		Voted the #7 DJ in the World in DJ Magazine’s prestigious ‘Top 100’ poll for 2004 and a recent ‘Best DJ’ winner at the Dancestar US Awards, Christopher Lawrence is recognized worldwide as one of the World's top DJs and producers.
		Dubbed "A Superstar DJ" by the US’s URB and “One Of The Most Popular DJs On The Global Circuit” by DJ Magazine, Christopher Lawrence is one of the biggest, most respected and popular names in dance music today.
		A headliner at the world's biggest clubs and events, Christopher was the only US DJ invited to headline all three of the inaugural Ministry Of Sound, Cream and Gatecrasher tours of America.
	www.amonly.com /artists/ChristopherLawrence (721 words)

	right said fred, claude, justin timberlake, paula abdul, herman's hermits, trance music, stephen gately, the yardbirds, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Charts pop charts, with artists like 50 cent, snoop dogg, puff daddy, nelly, eminem and jay z selling millions of records since the turn of the millenium.
		Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 160 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown.
		Artists resistance roy orbison blind, progressive attack, arpeggiators, union jack, dance 2 trance, battle bootlegs concert jam legal pearl and spoon euro trance euro trance is a hybrid of techno and eurodance music incorporating hardstyle bass drums and trance elements.
	www.claude-bolling.info /Right_said_fred.html (1368 words)

	Beat Factor \| Desyn Masiello
		Desyn is one of the very few djs in recent years that has stood out and caught the ear of some of the worlds largest DJs (Deep Dish, Sander K and Danny Howells nominating him as their 'future DJ Hero' in DJ Magazine's Top 100 poll 2002).
		With many established DJs and nucomer DJs leaning towards a particular style and musical range many are pigeon holed into a 'genre' of music.
		His DJ career all began with 1 mix CD that he took a considerable amount of time and love preparing, he sent it out to 100 random people that requested the CD from a post that Desyn put out onto various internet message boards.
	www.beatfactor.net /djs/desyn_masiello (996 words)

	DJ Minx - Pulsation Guest Mixshows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		DJ Minx, adores the fact that she has chosen a profession that allows her to mingle with Detroit's most talented people.
		A featured DJ for the notable "Deep Space Radio" program, she was also the on-air hostess and engineer for the same.
		She then began working with promoters and DJs all over the country, and plans to go with her DJs on tour.
	www.pulsation.com /mixes/djminx.php (514 words)

	Electronic dance music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the advent of hard disk recording systems, it is possible for any home computer user to become a musician, and hence the rise in the number of "bedroom bands", often consisting of a single person.
		Commercially successful artists working under the "electronica" rubric such as Fatboy Slim, Faithless, Fluke, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, The Crystal Method, Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Orbital, Propellerheads, Underworld, Überzone, Björk and Moby continue to release albums and perform regularly (sometimes in stadium-sized arenas, such has the popularity of electronic dance music grown).
		Some DJs such as Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, and Tijs Verwest (aka Tiësto) have reached true superstar status and can command five-figure salaries for a single performance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electronic_dance_music (920 words)

	all about jazz, balmer, the cranberries, romantica, paulina rubio, contrast, rob dougan, satellite, trance music, marc ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Shortly after her breakup with affleck, lopez was seen out with marc anthony, who had recently separated from his wife, former miss universe, dayanara torres.
		These industrial artists were largely dissociated from rave culture, and their trance albums were generally experiments, not an attempt to start a new genre with an associated culture they remained firmly rooted culturally in industrial and avant garde music.
		Following the success of linger, the cranberries quickly became international stars, as both their 1993 debut album, everybody else is doing it, so why can't we, and its 1994 follow up, no need to argue, sold millions of copies and produced a string of hit singles.
	www.balmer.info /All_Are_One (1644 words)

	Disco Artists, DJs, Producers... \| DiscoMusic.com
		The Disco culture and the music was made possible by the contributions of many talented artists, studio musicans, producers, arraangers, Disco DJs, remixers, lighting engineers and music industry execs.
		One notable category that unfortunately keeps growing is the "In Memory Of" section where we keep a tribute and listing of deceased personalities who had a part in Disco and dance music history.
		With so many artists, DJs and producers it is inevitable that we haven't gotten around to adding all of them.
	www.discomusic.com /people-index (165 words)

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		Rena is an extremely versatile musician, who has worked with dance troupes, award winning video games, for film and theater, and has performed in live settings ranging from beautiful acoustic sets to traditional Eastern music to electronic dance music.
		By the age of sixteen she fronted a five member band as a violinist and singer, backed by two drummers, tape loops, synths, bass and guitar.
		She moved to Austin, Texas at eighteen and spent the next four and a half years performing with many local artists and contributing to at least four albums before moving to San Francisco in 1999.
	www.nativestaterecords.com /Artists/rena.htm (258 words)

	CMT.com : Grandmaster Flash : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		DJ Grandmaster Flash and his group the Furious Five were hip-hop's
		Ness aka Scorpio (Eddie Morris), and Rahiem (Guy Williams); the group quickly became legendary throughout New York City, attracting notice not only for Flash's unrivalled skills as a DJ but also for the Five's masterful rapping, most notable for their signature trading and blending of lyrics.
		Despite their local popularity, they did not record until after the Sugarhill Gang's smash "Rapper's Delight" proved the existence of a market for hip-hop releases; after releasing "We Rap More Mellow" as the Younger Generation, Flash and the Five recorded "Superappin'" for the Enjoy label owned by R&B legend Bobby Robinson.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/grandmaster_flash/bio.jhtml (467 words)

	DANCE MUSIC HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES INDUCTEES
		The evening will include performances and appearences by Chic, Gloria Gaynor and the induction of 15 notable artists, producers, remixers, DJs and individual records.
		Producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards, Quincy Jones, remixer François K (entering as a DJ as well), and DJs Frankie Knuckles and John "Jellybean" Benitez will also be honored.
		Artists and others that helped shape the dance music industry become eligible for induction 25 years after their first contribution or record release.
	remixmag.com /transmissions/dance-hof-081105 (266 words)

	CMT.com : DJ Icey : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		DJ Icey's breakbeat funk helped jump-start the increasingly fertile dance scene in and around Orlando, FL, during the '90s.
		Even while spinning in several cities per week, DJ Icey managed to produce a good dozen singles per year for Zone, usually out of his studio in Orlando.
		Following in the footsteps of notable DJs from Tong to Fatboy Slim, DJ Icey released a volume in the Essential Mix series in 2000.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/dj_icey/bio.jhtml (284 words)

	Electronic music
		In the 1960s, Wendy Carlos popularized early synthesizer music with two notable albums The Well Tempered Synthesiser and Switched On Bach, which took pieces of baroque classical music and reproduced them on Moog synthesizers.
		Artists such as Björk and Moby have further popularized variants of this form of music within the mainstream.
		Commercially successful artists working under the "electronica" rubric such as Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Underworld and Moby continue to release albums and perform regularly (sometimes in stadium-sized arenas, such has the popularity of electronic dance music grown).
	www.mp3.fm /Electronic_music.htm (1930 words)

	Music: That Ain't My Song on the Jukebox (Nashville Scene . 09-02-97)
		Besides Bailey and Pride, some of the best-known African American country artists are Henry Glover, Ray Charles, Ivory Joe Hunter, Ruby Falls, Herb Jeffries, Stoney Edwards, O.B. McClinton, the Pointer Sisters, Big Al Downing, Aaron Neville, and Cleve Francis.
		Yet except for Pride--who among RCA artists was, at one time, second only to Elvis Presley in record sales--the country music achievements of these fl men and women remain largely unrecognized.
		Perhaps the most fundamental irony in the struggle of today's fl country artists is the fact that American music is completely based on the fertile exchanges of ideas between whites and fls.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-02-97/nash_cover.html (4157 words)

	blog.myspace.com/girlyklvj
		This notably included early use of the time stretching effect which was often used on percussion or vocal samples.
		Since the term jungle was so closely related to the raggae influenced sound, DJs and producers who did not incorporate reggae elements began to adopt the term "drum and bass" to differentiate themselves and their musical styles.
		Although many DJs have specialised in distinctive sub-genres within jungle and drum and bass, the majority of artists within the genre were and remain connected via record labels, events and radio shows.
	blog.myspace.com /girlyklvj (5862 words)

	Indie-Music.com
		Artist development in the music industry has evolved over time, leaving most of the early progress to the artists themselves.
		Many artists put in their mission statement, simply that they want a record deal, thinking that is all they need to succeed in their music career.
		Artist development is a huge area overlooked by far too many artists and bands.
	www.indie-music.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3499 (2399 words)

	Electronic music - BlogHoster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Groups and artists such as Ultravox, Gary Numan, The Human League, Landscape, Visage, Daniel Miller, Pete Shelley, Heaven 17, Eurythmics, Severed Heads, John Foxx, Thomas Dolby, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Norman Iceberg, Yazoo, The Art of Noise, Depeche Mode and New Order developed new ways of making popular music by electronic means.
		Some artists, like Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, and Severed Heads, took some of the adventurous innovations of musique concrète and applied them to mechanical dance beats and, later on, metal guitars.
		Some DJs such as Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten and Tijs Verwest (aka Tiësto) have reached true superstar status and can command five-figure salaries for a single performance.
	www.iq-matrix.com /Electronicmusic (2660 words)

	X-ecutioners
		These four New York natives can count themselves among a select handful of DJs (including their West Coast peers the Invisible Skratch Piklz) who spearheaded the turntablist movement by taking the classic Hip-Hop techniques of mixing and cutting into a whole new realm of musical improvisation.
		Sinista was mentored in the art of battling by another long-time member (Dr. Butcher), and Total Eclipse, although long acquainted with various members of the crew through the New York battle circuit, was not officially inducted until he took the ITF world championship in July 1996.
		Individually and as a crew the four have contributed beats and scratches for some of the most notable hiphop artists of their generation, including Common, Organized Konfusion and Pharoah Monch, The Jungle Brothers, and The Beatnuts, in addition to numerous appearances on compilations such as Bill Laswell's Altered Beats.
	www.loud.com /home/loud_artists_xecutioners.html (897 words)

	LI - The DJ List
		Li was one of those kids that got yelled at for breaking the needles on his parents' record player and scratching up his Dad's collection of old 45s.
		This collective dedicated themselves to the seamless melding of audio and visual arts, some of which was featured in the independent movie, "Groove." Viberation's list of successful parties is too long to list, and due to full capacity they have been forced to turn people away from every event since their conception in 1997.
		In September 2002, Li was invited to perform one of his legendary 2x4 sets with AndyW for the SF Raves 10 Year Anniversary party, a celebration of the music and friendships established experienced during that unforgettable decade.
	www.thedjlist.com /djs/LI (662 words)

	An interview with Sound Tribe Sector Nine —STS9 on their fifth album, Artifact
		Also notable about these groups was that they appealed to music fans from multiple genres, not just the dancefloor.
		Although train wrecks are a no-no in DJ culture, they might actually work in the band's favor because those mishaps let people know that something really is happening up onstage.
		Big-name DJs and big beats will always be cool, but STS9 brings the tried-and-true method of improvisation to electronic music, and it works famously.
	remixmag.com /artists/remix_fluid_movements (1687 words)

	Microhouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the Percussions in microhouse used to achieve this effect are unlike any other dance genre, except for glitch, minimal techno, and IDM, replacing the typical house kick drums and hi-hats (which infect virtually all styles of electronic dance) with clicks, microscopic thuds, and small bits of noise.
		Microhouse artists often experiment with different forms of sampling to achieve this effect.
		Vocals in microhouse are often very simplistic, nonsensical, and monotone in nature, although some artists, such as Matthew Herbert, Luomo, and Justus Kohncke, have been releasing microhouse songs with full vocal layers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microhouse (950 words)

	MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - The Easybeats
		A group of labourers who were drinking there began abusing the boys; never scared of defending their honour, the group rose to the challenge and within minutes a fight had erupted.
		Friday was also notable as a 'changing of the guard' in the band - it was the first major A-side release written by Vanda & Young, and from this point on, their development as a songwriting team became the major focus in the group.
		Their fortunes were further hindered by consistently poor timing and choices of material by United Artists, and by lack of direction and support from both label and management.
	www.milesago.com /Artists/easybeats.htm (8738 words)

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