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From his sound factory in the northern German city of Hanover, it seems as though, Christoph Döhne never rests.
In his youth he was a drummer for numerous German guitar bands. Having outgrown that, he retains the drummer's customary good nature, rhythm, and endless tap-tap-tapping that we hear in Le Rok. Apart from various parallel projects (Zweiineins with Tobias Reimer and the trio Risque de Choc Electrique), this sculptor of syncopated electronica and delicate finishes has already released two albums as Le Rok, since his first release, "Hausarbeiten") the tapping has progressed across roughly twelve keys on his keyboard, and shows no signs of letting up with his other release "Approx Twelve". The tracks take shape as a construction of digital bits and cuts, the songs never lose themselves inside the technical devices from which they derive. In between all the tight textures remains a slight sense of melancholy which is not hiding itself but needs to be found. All the while the beats may stay up front but they are not consuming what is definitely there to be listened to. An interesting approach to digital cut and paste that manages to build serene ambiences while remains faithful to the rhythm. Well known in the scene, constantly innovating, Le Rok was already invited to present his genuine style at Sonar on 2008.

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Scott

Cologne/Mainz – Germany
-Doppelschall, Bagpak, Fluid Ounce, MBF ltd, Klamauk, THE GYM, 30porumalinha-

www.scottjazz.com
www.myspace.com/minimalswing
www.discogs.com/artist/Scott+(28)
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/scott

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Scott was founded in the summer of 2006 by Jan Brauer and Daniel Brandt with the aim to play soulful minimal music with real instruments.
For recording their music they use real drums, a fender rhodes and some analogue synthesizers. They also use everything they can find which makes any noise and turn that into percussive patterns. Sometimes they get joined by different singers and guest-musicians. Watch out for their live-performances with electronic drums, keyboards and some more gear. They also get occasional visual-support by the visual artist julian schleef with his special Scott live video show.
Their music has already been recognized by many Djs worldwide including Hans Nieswandt, Patrick Pulsinger, Benji B, Michael Ruetten and many more. When they play live they don't just come along with a laptop. They bring their electronic drumset, their keyboards, somehouse/techno/jazz experience.
In 2008 they toured intensively playing about 30 gigs in different countries including: sonar festival (barcelona), zouk (singapore), uebel & gefaehrlich (hamburg), loop (tokyo), nt areal (basel), watergate (berlin), nachtdigital festival, triangle (osaka), fusion festival, migz festival (moscow), gewoelbe (cologne), kassablanca (jena), c/o pop festival (cologne), becool (barcelona), glamset (salerno), luxor (arnheim) and many more.

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Paul Frick

Berlin – Germany
-Kalk Pets, Spontan, Mothership, Klamauk, Tartelet, THE GYM, 30porumalinha-

www.myspace.com/povlacek
www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/lwe-podcast-13-paul-frick/
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/paulfrick
www.lastfm.com.br/music/Paul+Frick
www.play.fm/artist/paulfrick
www.discogs.com/artist/Paul+Frick
www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Frick/622880078

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Paul Frick was born in Berlin. He started to play the piano at the age of seven and took composition classes since the age of twelve. From 2000 to 2008 he studied composition with Friedrich Goldmann at Universität der Künste Berlin.
Paul Frick has written and performed music in various contexts and styles: pieces for orchestra, chamber music (including one short opera), theatre music, music for radio plays (Deutschlandradio Kultur), experimental improvisation. On his way to house music, he played guitar in a heavy metal band, tried to be a rapper, played the keys in jazz, r'n'b, hiphop and salsa bands and produced two hiphop albums. A big influence were his bandmates from Konsens who made him enthusiastic about 4/4-bassdrums.
Lately his EPs on Kalk Pets, THE GYM, Klamauk and 30porumalinha + RMXs on MBF, Mothership and Spontan have gained him attention for achieving complex musical textures and high dancefloor functionality at the same time.
Paul Frick plays live with a groovebox, a sampler and sometimes a keyboard, NO computer.
Also check his acoustic techno and house project "Brandt Brauer Frick"! Do something. Knock on wood.

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Le K

Perpignan – France
-Circus Company, Floppy Funk, Thema, MBF ltd, Klamauk, 30porumalinha-

www.le-k.org
www.discogs.com/artist/Le+K+(2)
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/lek
www.lastfm.com/music/Le+K
www.play.fm/artist/lek
www.facebook.com/lekfromfrance
www.youtube.com/user/lekfromfrance
www.twitter.com/lekfromfrance

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Saturday night; Somewhere in an European Club.... French producer Sylvain Garcia aka Le K is playing live on stage surrounded by the crowd : He's banging is head, shaking is ass, controlling is gear and sending out a furious blend of groovy, twisted, energic and heady dance music. People are getting insane. One more time...
Le K reps the holy trinity of today’s club landscape: instrumentalist/producer/DJ. Learning to play the guitar seemed to be a good way to fight the atrocities of puberty and listening to the recordings of zany Zappa, arsonist Hendrix, and the LSD-inspired cadence of Pink Floyd and George Clinton helped a bit, too. His distinct sound is turning heads across the house and techno landscape these days.
Packing a barrel load of twisted ideas, monster groove, tongue-in-cheek humour and oodles of funk, the Le K style is akin to being trapped in a sequencer with Parliament, Hendrix and 808 State while being tickled mercilessly. In other words he’s bloody good fun to listen and dance to. Dance producers tend to release their music in a continuous flow. With LE K, it is different ; everything can be visited. Cause the French touch 3.0, doesn't have sonic limits, like the artists who has influenced him: Herbert, Robag Whrume, Ark, Derrick Carter, LFO, Matthew Dear, Squarepusher, Akufen, Jeff Mills, John Tejada, Pepe Bradock...
Le K has released club tracks on few estimable labels over the last years, including Circus Company (his parent label), Mineral Musica, Force INC, Feinwerk, Floppy Funk and most recently Thema, MBFltd, Klamauk, ... But stage seems to be definitely his home. Armed with a laptop and various midi controllers, but also mic, sometimes guitar, synth, every live set makes room for improvisation where his music is redefined, often with surprising outcomes. Swaggering into view with a wealth of originality and party-starting ammunition, the sharp ascent of Le K is going to be a crazy ride to keep up with, but ultimately a rewarding one. His live set only confirms all this, with as much physical energy thrown into his laptop as aural energy being expelled from the speakers.
It’s rare to see someone have so much interaction with a computer. And clubs have been figured out : He's been djing around the world in great clubs and festivals such as the rex (Paris), moog club (Barcelona), Propaganda (Moscow), Lost bagages (Sydney), Miss Libertine (Melbourne), Less (New-York), Zukunft (Zurich), Kassablanca (Jena), Villa (Oslo), Sonar festival (Barcelona), Overground festival (Geneve), Paysages Electroniques (Lille)... and more than 100 gigs in the last 2 years into 20 countries around the world (Australia, USA, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, UK, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Dominican republic) by the side of djs such as Thomas Melchior, Bruno Pronsato, Sammy dee, Ark, Agoria, Nôze, Efdemin, Modeselektor...
Beside of his dance music carrier, He also works as Creative director for the new European Agency.*** "Monotone"

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Lars Wickinger

Berlin - Germany
-Traum, LiebeDetail, Tanzbar, Killa Beat, Dimmer, Bondage Music, 040Rec, 30porumalinha-

www.discogs.com/artist/Lars+Wickinger
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/larswickinger
www.last.fm/music/Lars+Wickinger
www.myspace.com/larswickinger
www.play.fm/artist/larswickinger
www.soundcloud.com/larswickinger
www.twitter.com/larswickinger
www.beatportal.com/artists/lars-wickinger/
www.facebook.com/lars.wickinger
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At the beginning of the 90s he made his first contact with the Techno Sound. He got hold of his first electronic equipment and so, while still playing in bands, he did more and more programming of his own.
In Berlin he starts with a project called Vanilla Krepp featured a woman singing to be heard on Freizeitglauben03 and on the second „Notaufnahme“ Sampler of the Popagenten.
2003 he met the ingenious songwriter Michael Skelton from Hamburg and a highly productive phase began, out of which two projects emerged: The Hip hop-Elektro Band Citizens International and later the Elektro-Techno Duo C.I.T. (www.myspace.com/citmusic).
Numerous releases of C.I.T. followed on Electric Avenue Rec. (the label of Monika Kruse), Spoiler Music, Lebensfreude Rec. and Killa Beat.
Since 2006 he also produces minimal style techno with Dj Markus Schatz under the name of Schatz & Wickinger. Releases on EK-Records and Opossum Rec. from Berlin come out.
As the next obvious thing to do, Lars Wickinger started producing solo-tracks.
In 2006, there were two successful releases on Opossum Rec. and Traumschallplatten/Cologne.
2007/08 coming releases as Lars Wickinger on labels such as Liebe*Detail, Dimmer Rec., Suchtreflex, Killa Beat Rec., Living Records, Tanzbar Rec., Curle Rec. and Flash Rec. etc. will strengthen his reputation as a producer and succesful live act and Dj. 2009 other Releases on Haseland Schallplatten, Kachelfunk Musik, Living Records, Killa Beat, Tanzbar etc.
Lars Wickinger planned his first Album for 2010.
Similarly publications on Frequenza Rec. (Italy), Kreisverkehr "Vinyl Only!" (Germany) and also starting his own Vinyl labels called “We are all prostitutes!” together with the guys from Aroma Music and Kachelfunk Music.

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H30H

Guarda - Portugal
-30porumalinha-

www.30porumalinha.org
www.myspace.com/h30h
www.play.fm/artist/h30h
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/h30h

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H30H always had a strong relation with music, his uncle has a huge collection of records from Jazz classics to modern Jazz and Latin, some Hip-Hop, some Punk, some everything, so every time he could he would go for his records!! Around 1996 he started to listen to Techno music beginning an increasing record collection, starting dijing in 2000. Around 2004 together with some friends H30H formed an association called 30porumalinha to promote electronic dance floor oriented events. Also a regular radio show transmitted directly by several radio stations in Portugal and Spain at Saturday night was hosted by him.
Continuously establishing himself has a respected underground dj, providing high quality music, H30H dj set is eclectic and for the dance floor, choices from Minimal to Nu-Disco, from Techno to Electronic melted with sparkles of Jazz and Funk with a present groove, lead the way through the dancing meeting no borders, providing the groove and the (to)night shake!! His objective is for people when they leave the club may do it smiling and happy, Djing is like a reward of Music to him, and it’s one of his goals, to be able to show people good music, promoting the ones that do it :) Artists!
30porumalinha is now developed into a record label managed by him in which quality production meets cutting edge dance floor music!

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Big Peter

Curently living in Barcelona (Guarda /PT)
-30porumalinha-

www.myspace.com/bigpetter30dj
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190152401
www.play.fm/artist/bigpeter
www.residentadvisor.net/profile/bigpetter

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Big Peter is Antonio Pedro, with 21 years old he’s been perfecting the last 5 years with 30porumalinha in Guarda his home city and trough the events made by 30, in Portugal and abroad. He as become a curious and sensible dj. With 21 years old and a nice ear, the music that you listen when he plays is translating your movements and vibes around the dance floor. Good feelings, imagination, the simple yet structured and a good mix between.
Warming up for dOP, Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts, Zentex, Frivolous, Le K and Paul Frick’s Live sets this guy promises to be a great entertainer, as he did in Music Box and Kubik in Lisbon and also at Sun Factory and Fellini in Barcelona. He is curently living and partying in Barcelona!

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Afonso Macedo

Coimbra – Portugal
-Put Some… /30porumalinha-

www.myspace.com/afonsomacedo
www.discoazul.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/afonso.macedo
www.play.fm/artist/afonsomacedo
www.blog.flur.pt/tag/afonso-macedo/

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Afonso Macedo is a Dj and a Promoter for his [Put Some...] label. His love for music took him to the radio in early 1989 and he hosted several shows in Radio Nova and Rádio Jornal do Centro, nowadays he continues in Rádio Universidade Coimbra where every Tuesday he broadcasts all kinds of new music in the show "O meu Disco Azul". ,,He started is career as a dj in Coimbra in 1995 as a resident in "A Noite Tem Mil Olhos", since then he played all over Portugal. As a member of Journeys (1997-2001) and Cosa Nostra (2001-2007) he produced and took part of plenty of events all around the country.
,,Now he develops his work trough [Put Some...] as promoter of events in Via Club (Coimbra) and is responsible for the line-up of the electronic festival "Senses". Also promotes several different shows in his hometown, Coimbra.
As a dj he manages to balance a dynamic mix of techno-electro-house-breakbeat with loads of energy keeping the dance floor always near to the riot. In smaller clubs/bars presents a fine selection of groovy beats.

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Daniel Brandt
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