Dutch DJ remixer and producer Carlo Resoort aka 4 Strings achieved his first British hit in 1999 with Turn It Around by Alena Formerly known as Taska Topcat Square and Carlos he chose the moniker of 4 Strings before releasing Day Time a clubdance son…

Highly regarded by both DJ Magazine and ultra-loyal fans DJ Tisto due in part to his legendary six-hour energetic live sets has been elevated to mythical status as one of the worlds foremost trance DJs A native of Breda Netherlands born Tijs Verwest …

Bizarrely, Ian Van Dahl is not the name of a person but the name of a project that involves two Belgian producers, Christophe Chantzis and Erik Vanspauwen and a female vocalist Annemie Coenen, who fronts the act and co-writes the songs. The Ian Van D…

Based in Copenhagen Denmark DJ Encore is a Danish producer engineer songwriter and mix master who is known for his partnership with vocalist Engelina who is also Danish Encore who was born Andreas Hemmeth in Copenhagen in 1979 specializes in a high-t…

Producer/programmer Rhys Fulber (b. Canada; keyboards) is acknowledged primarily for industrial hard rock sounds (especially owing to his work with Front Line Assembly and Fear Factory), but he has been known to take the intensity down a notch or two…

Belgian electronica threesome Lasgo emerged in 2001 making their debut with Something a clubdance single simultaneously released in Belgium and Spain Assembled by MC Peter Luts DJ David Vervoort aka Dave McCullen and singer Evi Goffin their self-prod…

Blank Jones deliberately simple dance music dominated the top of Germanys dance charts during the countrys late-90s trance explosion After a chance meeting at the PopKomm music conference one-time record clerk Piet Blank and Ratinger Hofs resident D…

A progressive trance DJ and producer whose cinematic sound is influenced by synth pioneers like Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel Jarre Armin van Buuren enjoys worldwide recognition and a frantic schedule that takes him all over the globe Born on Decembe…

b. Brian Transeau, Maryland, USA. Arguably the most accomplished and recognizable of the largely anonymous trance set, Transeau made a huge mid-90s impact with releases such as "Loving You More" and "Embracing The Sunshine" for Perfecto Records. As w…

Spanish disc jockey and producer DJ Sammy became involved in entertainment while working for a local technohouse radio station After graduating with a degree as a sound technician DJ Sammy recorded Life Is Just a Game in 1996 His track Prince of Love…

DJ, promoter, and recording artist, Paul Oakenfold is one of the most popular and successful DJ's in the history of dance music. As one of the chief purveyors of the late 1980s UK rave culture sound--a mix of techno, trance, and house--Oakenfold was …

Diminutive, bald-headed Richard Melville Hall, better known as Moby, achieved greater mainstream success than any other electronica artist by virtue of his willingness to adapt electronic dance music to a well formed pop sensibility. From the '90s on…

b. Roberto Concina, 3 November 1969, Fluerier, Switzerland. Miles, aka Roberto Milani, was born to Italian parents and later moved to Italy. As a child he learned the piano and began DJing when he was 13. Four years later he took his first job at a l…

French 1990s neo-disco duo Daft Punk found stardom as a discovery of the Chemical Brothers. With an egalitarian approach to making people move, Daft Punk utilized everything from strict club beats to Beach Boys and Roxy Music samples when making its …

A prolific US remixing, recording and producing outfit, Washington, DC-based Deep Dish comprises Iranian-born Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia (b. 1971 Iran), and Sharam Tayebi (b. 1971, Iran). They met in 1991, DJing at the same party. In 1992, they formed …