ABIGAIL PRESS [United States]

Abigail Press is a young singer / songwriter from the United States. Composing music since the age of ten, she has been actively engaged in the art as a passionate hobby. Falling somewhere within the grey matter of genres, her music is a burst of expression, connecting a variety of styles like soul / indie / electronica / progressive / emotional / ambient / melodica ////. Since taking an electronic music class with Jeffrey Leonard at Lewis & Clark College, she has fallen in love with the art electronic art of composing and recording. After joining the online Soundcloud.com community in 2010, Abigail has been involved in several online collaborations, exploring new sounds and stylistic possibilities within each piece. Abigail strives for vocal variation and depth in her music, searching for creative sound and innovation. SOUNDCLOUND

ABNORMAL [Slovakia]

Maroš Sabo aka Abnormal is a young music producer, Dj and live performer from Slovakia. He started with Djing in 2006, with the music production in 2007 and with his live performance in 2009. For the music production and live performance he works with the Novation Launchpad and Ableton. The music of his production is typical for a variety of different experimental styles from melancholic songs through glitch and electronic melodies to minimal. The main characteristic is the preciseness of individual sounds. The production of Abnormal is dedicated mainly to more musically mature audience which can appreciate and enjoy the experimental feature of the songs in combination with simplicity. His music production has been appreciated in clubs and in the podcast of a local alternative radio´s program Wilsonic_FM. MYSPACE

ATOMIC [Slovakia]

Atomic aka Tomas Balaz is coming from Ziar nad Hronom (Slovakia), but he lives and works in Prague (Czech repblic). He plays dj and live. In 1997 he started to make music with hardware trackers-yamahas and korgs. He compose music for movies and theatres too,so he is involved in emotional ambient, pastoral and traditional music. He establish a small ELECTRO LAB - band of three musical producers ATOMIC, PHOBIC and SASSO native middle Slovakia (Ziar nad Hronom). Main sight of ELECTRO LAB is performance music and presentation in live performance form. ELECTRO LAB produced and released 12 albums in styles like electro, trance, house, minimal house, break-beat, techno. His pure own releases you can find on first Slovak netlabel - Sologroove. Actually in the year 2011 he had contracts on 3 new releases with Austrian, Italian and French recording companies. FACEBOOK

BLUE MOTION [Slovakia-Belgium]

Since forming Blue Motion in 2009, Slovakia's Dirrrty B and Belgian's Influenza Media founder Eros have set out across the airwaves, unleashing a relentless amount of deep and soul-moving musical allure to the masses. Lashing out like an unexpected storm, the duo has left its imprint on many well known labels, including Fokuz, Phunkfiction, Spearhead, Good Looking, Blu Saphir, Citrus, Telluric, Peer Pressure, Point 9 Audio, Temper D Productions, Future Thinkin, and Influenza Media, and has collaborated with the likes of Sconeboy, The Square, Atmospherix, Brandon Miles, Paul SG, Mutt, Stanza, Wreckage Machinery, and SoulTec. Vocalists Grimm and MC Fava have also been heard as their vocal stylings creep through the depths of this emotional sound mosaic. SOUNDCLOUND

CHIK [Czech Republic]

Karel Průcha aka Chik is a young dubstep producer from the Czech Republic.He started his production in 2007, his debut album 'Different Sounds' was released in 2010 on Bullet Time label and you could hear some of his tracks from this album at Rinse.fm. You can follow his work on such Czech labels as Elemental,Owntempo or io.lab and you can find your work on MC Smack?s album called Bullet Time.Chik still works on his current projects and he also became a DJ couple months ago. SOUNDCLOUND

CRAQUETONE [Slovakia]

Craquetone (a.k.a. Tetsuo) is a producer and DJ based in Slovakia. He started djing in mid 90s and his own music production began in 2006. From that time the music has specified itself into deephouse with few background minimal characters. Craquetone has released digital eps or tracks on Tanztone Records, Zenith Recordings, Seta Label and Leporelo. Netlabel releases are listed on Insectorama, Melodica Netlabel, Sologroove, Wazzotic Rec., 4mg or Stroboskop. His releases supported: LAURENT GARNIER, NEUROTRON, SEPH, JEFF MILLIGAN and many more. MYSPACE

DAMOLH33 [Slovakia]

Gabriel Bernath aka Damolh33 was born in Orechova Poton, Slovakia. From a young age he showed a passion for music and this passion started to materialize during 1999. He started playing in local clubs and after a few years began to produce tracks with his brother Mikulas. In the beginning they were into techno, but currently they mix deep, minimal grooves and tunes. Their music you can find on labels LFB, Seta label, Paria, Piso music, Zenith, Leporelo, Bavaria and more. And his track "Truffle" played RICHIE HAWTIN and also their tracks was in Richie's charts and demos. MYSPACE

DNC / DUNCO / DINYL [Slovakia]

Marek Zubko has been trying to create musical patterns since his young years literally. The role of primal impulse to act so, was probably played by the Vermona transistor organ. Later he started to play accordion and mastered the basics of the Art of Chords and Improvisaton. His the most important production platform is the hardware sequencer Yamaha RM1X. His live setup is then completed with Akai MPC1000 and the Korg KaossPad KP3. Except net-releases dnc appeared on various vinyl EPs of LFB label, which he is also member of. MYSPACE

DOUBLE DYKE SLAVE ARIA [Slovakia - Czech Republic]

Double Dyke Slave Aria is a common project of three czech/slovak musicians - Addy, Ekral and Obe Uši Ľavé - based in Moravian town Zlín. Their production is unpredictable thanks to their different musical taste and wide musical interests. Addy: He started playing violin when he was 5 years old, after 12 years with violin he started playing electric guitar 20. December 2009. Since that time, he composed many riffs and melodies. He started the project Rising hope by his first composition.Ekral: Only release is album "Svatky prachu/Days of dust". Song rePhob done by Erik Kral and Ladproject was used as Barum Rally 2007 noncommercial video soundtrack. Obe Uši Ľavé: Released album Retrosexual Bedlover, made remix of track African Fyah on debut CD of the band Zion Squad. SOUNDCLOUND

DRAXTER [Slovakia]

In 1998 started Djing in local pubs and clubs, having the best electronic music collection around. In 2001 he got to music production and finding his own style. Currently, while building his home studio and tryin to develop proper quality sound, he is releasing his first EP - In my dreams. He is also Controlerist (Dj - Liveact) and performing his LIVE MASHUP SETUP, compilled from breakbeat, bassline, dubstep, drum&bass and mixin with vodka and several other styles. Thanx to Ableton Live and Draxters Midi Controlers he's able to mix anything with everything and remix tunes on the go! At the moment he created a first slovakian dubstep podcast show called SUBLAB. MYSPACE

EMD [Slovakia]

Matúš Meščan aka EMD is producer from north-east slovakia, historic and beautiful Bardejov town.. At the beginning of the new millenium matus had met the electronica. first he produced techno and drum'n bass. Later, influenced by Hawtin, Villalobos & Akufen, he moved to minimal & deep house using software sequencer. Even EMD is glued to his homemade studio, he makes music lovers moove at chillout clubs, local shows, as well as at international music festival Wilsonic with his first Live act in 2009. Follow EMD and his releases, including remixes, on Sajgon records & Sologroove netlabel. SOUNDCLOUND

ERASER [Slovakia]

This young, emerging producer and DJ started his production jurney in early 2007. After many musical attempts, Eraser finally found his trademark sound in early 2011, just after publishing warmly received "2142" (which has also been awarded on RadioRAllye 2011 contest). Eraser's sound can be described as atmospheric & deep, with attention to detail, no matter if it's soft-chilled, or a banging dancefloor stuff. While constantly experimenting and developing his sounds. SOUNDCLOUND

FOMA [Czech Republic]

The sound alchemy of music project Foma is based on delicate layering of analog and digital sounds – often coloured to the darker tones. Name of the project is reflexing demonstrative inspiration by the famous photographic materials company which influenced 20th century people's seeing of the world. Project Foma was established in Hradec Kralove by Jiri Tilgner and David Rambousek (also behind other projects katsa.theo and Selectone which represent an indie label Ressonus Records). MYSPACE

FUNKATRON [Slovakia]

Funkatron was born in 1982 in Bratislava (Slovakia). Visiting clubs in his hometown and around the Slovak republic, he started to be more and more interested in techno music and later in minimal. In 2007 he started to release his tracks on various netlabels and digital labels like We Love: Minimal (GER), Insectorama (GER), Sweet Smelling Surfaces (FRA) , which were followed in 2008 by releases on labels like Superbia Rec.(ITA), BCR Rec(UK), Soundworks (ESP) or Miniatura (Arg). n 2008 he started his own minimal/techno label called Seta Label and started his minimal webcast show on dancemusic portal housemusic.sk. MYSPACE

THE FUNK JUNKIEZ [Slovakia]

Once upon a time, after some seventh (?) beer, Covo & Wabbit figured that doing their music thing by themselves is boring, so they decided to team up & connect Covo's electronic music insanity with Wabbit's musical / instrumental talent to come up with something new & fresh, something (probably) unseen. Then something like a good ballance between the two came, impersonated by MatuSh. And so The Funk Junkiez were born & good to go. The guys are constantly working on new (mainly liquid drum and bass) tracks and they also do live gigs, where CoVo stands behind the turntables, Matush plays the bassguitar and keys and sometimes even Wabbit makes an appearance and plays guitar. SOUNDCLOUND

GOOD NATURED THREAT [Canada]

We are Mark and Lara Hjorthoy, a couple from Vancouver, Canada, this project was born out of a need for exploration. Wanting to learn more, to see more, to feel more, to do more, to experiment with more, through music, art in whatever form, and through constant adaptation, we've opted to merge and share our crafts and aim to create without boundaries. To inspire the world to explore the same! Eventually building an army of happy, relaxed, personally satisfied individuals with an incredible desire to make pie or whatever - this is our Threat. Our Good Natured Threat. MYSPACE

GR-OY [Belgium]

Grégory Calay aka 'Gr-oy', born in Belgium and partly raised in Germany, is motivated by music and greatly interested in computer programs. In early 2000's Grégory started producing electronic music using Reason and Fruity Loops but then life intervened. After a very long break, he seriously restarted his own productions in 2009 and this time using Ableton Live, VSTs, Plug-ins and many others. His style can be defined as a mix between deep techno/house and dark down tempo. 2010 has been a good year for 'Gr-oy' as his productions have been released on Indigo rec., Incense rec., RBL rec. or Aenaria rec.. MYSPACE

HYRICZ [Slovakia]

He has been a dj since his 17 years and since that time he has come through a wide variety of dance styles. At present he feels ‘at home' along minimal, electro, tech and progressive house. His sets are characterized by originality, actuality, interesting and seasonable track selection, accurate mixing and right feeling. From February 2008 his radioshow Minimatica is regularly broadcasted at well-known American dance radio Digitally Imported (www.di.fm). Besides playing he produces his own tracks in minimal and tech-house styles on labels like Seta, Sumo, Another chance rec and more. MYSPACE

JOCK THE LOCK [Czech Republic]

Jarda Bednar (Jock The Lock) has been producing electronic music for a few years now. There is a wide range spectrum of music genres which he is influenced by – from jazz, 80's rock to various types of contemporary electronica, recently mainly dubstep and its new sub-styles which are being formed now. Originally comes from Opava but lives in Prague. His other projects are collaboration with Gary Rostock (Atomise) and Sara Vondraskova (Labua X). MYSPACE

KEOSZ [Slovakia]

Young, Slovak producer Erik Osvald a.k.a. KeOSz comes from Dubnica nad Váhom. He has produced music since 2008. Not Even Erik is one of those we can put in the box. In his music we can feel dubstep, electronica, deep, or breakbeat and DnB. His experimental work has been influenced by producers like Alix Perez, Naib, Blu Mar Ten, 16bit, Noisa and others.
Keosz's production can be found on Czech label Owntempo and Elemental music, or as a music support for festival of the adventure movies, HoryZonty for the year 2008 and 2009. MYSPACE

LOOSE END [Russia]

Loose end & Alexander Boyko - a project of two musicians from Russia. Despite the fact that they are in different cities - it does not prevent them to create techno music together. Loose end is more focused on deep and dub sounds, Alexander Boyko like to experiment with the creation of minimal techno. Trying to bring together these two ideological lines - they tend to receive their interesting sound. SOUNDCLOUND

NIBURU [Holland]

Niburu is a electronic musician from the Netherlands. From a young age, Niburu was always interested in everything between earth, heaven and beyond.Inspired by the writings of Zecharia Sitchin he started developing his own sound. His unique style is best described as deep, experimental and disturbing, influenced by artists as Goldie, Depeche Mode, tricky and soundtracks from horror and science-fiction flicks. SOUNDCLOUND

PEGO [Slovakia]

Pego aka Matus Pecho is a young producer from small city Partizanske. He has produced music with Ableton since 2008. Release „Fragments Of Life“ in our catalog is debut in his music carrier. He prefers melodic drum and bass with sexi vocals and acoustic instruments. But his work often slips into a different genre like downtempo or chill-out tunes – everything so melodic.His work has been influenced by producers like Goldie , Doc scott , Ed rush , Staka & Skynet and many more. MYSPACE

PHOTOPHOB [Austria]

For more than 10 years, photophobic Austrian Herwig Holzmann (aka Photophob) has been producing electronic music, hovering somewhere between Ambient, Breakbeats, Electronica and Dubstep. Two CDs on Hive Records and more than ten albums on different netlabels pave his way through the last decade. Being one of the founding members of the netlabel laridae.at, Herwig Holzmann is not just producing his own music, but also helps to make experimental, non-commercial electronic music available for a broader audience via the internet. HOME PAGE

PURPLE EVE [Rusia]

Sextet with musicians from Moscow, Sweden and Israel, and singer with synesthesia. Purple Eve performs songs about the perverse inclinations, murder, sexual minorities and religion. Band plays in genres ranging from rock with elements of jazz to electronica. HOME PAGE

REDFACE [Slovakia]

His name is Martin and he is from Trnava, which is a city in Slovakia. Since 2008, he is doing DJ-ing on professional way, playing mainly on vinyls and serato scratch live. He is known and recognised with the name Redface. Mostly, he prefers to play Drum n bass and minimal deep house, however he is familiar with the other type of electronic music as well. In 2010 he has come across with production at first time and in 2011 he released music experiments with free labes in Czech and Slovakia. He is building up his home studio, where he is start producing electronic music, therefore we will surely hear about him soon.SOUNDCLOUND

RTG [Slovakia]

RTG was born in Modra. Six years he attended an hour of piano and 3 years lessons of trumpet. When he was 14 years, he started producing music, it was the first dream house, trance, gabber, until he met with the first jungle records and began to know the breakbeat world. Slowly follow the style of music, which it is closest to the heart = liquid funk. To date, he published his one track called "Around Us" in "Join Da Beat Records". SOUNDCLOUND

SENSOREAL [Slovakia]

Kece & Chris Florio aka Sensoreal is dj/producer duo coming from slovak city of Poprad. In 1995 they have launched the regional radio show called "understand the dancefloor",which was the very first radio session presenting pure dance music in the Slovakia. Sensoreal are the resident djs of "supergroove" event,which visits slovak and abroad clubs as well. Both love vinyl and turntables,work hard in the studio, participate and won remix competitions. Check Seta Label ,Soma, Treibstoff, Stil vor talent or Underscore labels for Sensoreal releases. MYSPACE

SOUNDnBEATS [Slovakia]

SoundNbeats, also know as Mario and Jakub are from Martin, Slovakia. They are producing dnb music since 2009. For their production they are using Ableton Live software and some plugins. They prefer deep bases, extensive percussions and dark atmospheres, however their sets contains also more energetical tunes. Their favourite producers are: Triad, Spectrasoul, Seba, Rockwell, Alix Perez, Octane, DLR, Skeptical and many more. SOUNDCLOUND

SOUTHBOY [Slovakia]

SouTHboy is a DJ and producer from the city of Trencin. His first attempts to make his own music date back to 1999 when he produced mainly acid techno. But it took ten more years of constant evolving and many more finished tracks for him to be able to say: „Now, this is the sound I am satisfied with. This is the sound I can share with the world.“ And what is that particular trademark sound of his? Some may call it progressive house, some call it tech house, many more say there 's some trance-like feeling to it. Nevertheless, whatever pigeon hole suits you personally – be assured that every single track tells a story of melody, emotion and some strange-but-pleasant melancholy. MYSPACE

STATIQ CRADLE [Russia]

Statiq cradle, real name Alexey Tsarev, Russian experimental composer from Samara city. His journey through sound waves began in 2006. First he was a techno & hardtechno musician and dj. But music as life – never stand still, and in 2008 his stuff changed from hard techno beats on easy sound. Love of avant-garde and abstract art is defining the name of the project and leading genres in his sound. These are: ambient, idm, dubstep, glitch and noise. Melancholic atmosphere and glitch sound the most common attribute of tracks. Main idea of his work is that sound should speak with listener, it must carry a sense, because music is not just a sound waves in headphones or in speakers, music is life, and life cannot be meaningless. SOUNDCLOUND

STRANGELET [Czech Republic]

Strangelet is one-man laptop project of Filip Skubal (b. 1983) from Brno, Czech republic. It's fusion of ambient drones, soundscapes and modern glitch electronica. Project was born in the middle of year 2007 with First artefacts release on his co-founded netlabel Cryoworks. After successful public acceptance started to live it's own life in (cyber)space MYSPACE

STROON [Slovakia]

The Slovak music producer stroon has never found anything more inspiring and relieving than music in his life. His omnivore musical inner-self is reflected in his wide range of audio activities. Experimental and improvised muse-influenced creations on vibraphone (in a duet with his soulmate pjoni or improvisation orchestra Musica Falsa et Ficta) or a dubsteppish and inward oriented electronic confessions (as stroon or in collaborative quartet polyjoy) cover most of his musical activities. In his track for the Slovak netlabel MELODICA he chose the latter option. WEB PAGE

SONORITY [Czech Republic]

Musician from Czech town called Židlochovice, last year won the prize of Discovery of the year in Xmag magazine. His production (is presenting in Radio 1, Radio Wave etc.) is affected by Boards Of Canada, Clark, Daedelus, Akufen, Funkstörung, etc. There are elements of IDM, microsampling, techno, house, breakbeat, ambient and drill & bass.
In his Live performance are melodic areas with protracted shouts, unexpected sequences of stir, tones and unusual sounds. Sonority had already opportunity to play live beside Telefon Tel Aviv, Jon Hopkins, Murcof, Bonobo, Roni Size, Rober Owens, Josh Wink, Scan X, Luke Vibert, Daedelus, Deadbeat, etc. MYSPACE

SYMPHONX [Slovakia]

SymphonX [symfonyx] (Martin Petro) is a producer who comes from the middle of Slovakia, exactly from Martin. He actively started taking an interest in producing electronic music in 2008, but his contact with music/musical instruments came much earlier. From an early age to the present, influenced by Slovak legends like Dežo Ursiny or Jaro Filip, he found the magic of quality alternative music by which he`s still affected now, even in the current electronic music, which in time attracted him with its efficiency. Influenced by today`s more and more popular style Drum and Bass in the electronic sphere, he tries to make a compromise and not to be a "producer to order". WEB SITE

DJANE TRACY [Slovakia]

Tracy is djane, producer and singer from Slovakia. As djane she plays
house and breakbeat, as producer is signed to VIM Records and Melodica Netlabel. After high school she has performed with the band in Slovakia and Austria. She also won T-mobile Remix Competition in Slovakia. Currently she is working on new tracks and vocals and also will be moderator of new Breaks.sk podcast. FACEBOOK

UNCLESS [Czech Republic]

Uncless is an open project of free-minded people based on electonic music roots. Favourite influences came from breakbeat, drum and bass, progressive, hip-hop, electro, minimal and others. One of the main protagonist is Richard Tauchman from project Real Transported Man and Josef Sedloň. MYSPACE

ZKA4T [Czech Republic]

Born in 1979, grew up, listened a lot of hard and dark stuff in my teens in order to become "smooth-music-with-a-bit-of-jazz-in-there-somewhere" man. When I make music, I'm trying to make something neutral and peaceful... deep bass and interesting ambient textures in loops. There is certain attachment to sound of piano (and rhodes piano) inside of me, so I use it a lot. SOUNDCLOUND

ZZZZRA [France]

Alexandre Lehmann aka Zzzzra comes from France. He has produced electronic music since late 80′s. At this time he was working in his adolescent bedroom, using a brand new Roland D-20, creating stupid love songs without lyrics. And now, in his music we can feel dub-tech sound, moody melodies and deep atmosphere. Zzzzra's production can be found on netlabels like Deep In Dub, Schall and digital labels Echospace rec., Ornithopter rec, Cold Tear rec., Elefant or Intrusion. MYSPACE