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DJ Ant

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Ant is a DJ and producer from London whose career in electronic music began 2 decades ago by regularly DJ’ing at warehouse parties and playing on the underground sound-systems that were so popular in the early to mid 90′s. Producing techno, tech-house and acid records was the logical step forward in establishing himself and he achieved this by becoming the in-house engineer at Kinetec Studios, the noisy room out the back of the infamous Kinetec Records in London’s West-end. It was here that he started his techno based imprint, Powertools, featuring artists such as Lenny Dee, D.A.V.E. The Drummer and Chris Liberator. Over the following years, his discography grew into the 100′s, not only releasing on Powertools but many other flagship labels such as Stay Up Forever, Hydraulix, RAW and Cluster and it was some of these tracks that were being played by artists such as Carl Cox and DJ Rush.

Time was divided up between the studio and traveling the globe many times over, showcasing the latest releases of that time at events ranging from small underground clubs to infamous and prestigious events in venues such as Florida 135 in Fraga, Mother Hall in Osaka, Tuning Hall in Moscow, Lov-e and Clash in Sao Paulo and many more. As the digital revolution crept in, essential replacing vinyl as the preferred format, Ant found it more and more difficult to get good new music on vinyl. The decision to switch to digital was simple and he opted for Native Instrument’s Traktor combined with the S2 and X1 controllers as his preferred DJ set up.

Currently, Ant continues to produce fresh new material in the studio, fully embracing the modern style of techno and tech-house that is around today and still travels the world extensively, flying the flag for new and exciting electronic music. In 2013 Ant revived his old techno moniker, Chicago Loop. Ant uses this alias when representing techno that’s slightly different to what he would normally be known for, whether it’s deeper, darker, slower or just a bit more leftfield.

Aaron Liberator

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Aaron cut his teeth as a DJ alongside his techno brothers Julian and Chris Liberator. Starting out in 1992 The Liberators were the infamous DJ outfit that came out of the North London squat seen and onto the free festival circuit teaming up with Spiral Tribe, Bedlam and Circus Normal for some legendary parties. As their reputation grew, the demand for their DJ sets meant that the Liberators were playing around the UK every weekend at parties, clubs and festivals. Things really took off in 1994 and Aaron’s apprenticeship was earned by playing weekly at Squat parties in London for sound systems such as the mighty Immersion and gaining monthly residencies at the legendary Megadog in London, Plant Alpha in Prague and La Real in Oviedo in the north west of Spain.

The interest in the Stay Up Forever label he owns with Chris and Julian Liberator was also taking off at the time, and was creating a global scene with its unique style of London Acid Techno and a roster of amazing artists. In 1996 Aaron made his first trip of many to South America, where his tough techno sounds struck a chord with Latin people, especially in Brazil and Venezuela. Nearly 2 decades later you will still regularly find Aaron on the decks in a Latin country or some other far flung place across the globe. For all the many countries he has visited and all the squat parties, festivals and club nights, Aaron has never lost sight of what it means to have come from the real underground, always humble, always representing Acid Techno and the Stay Up Forever collective sound and always a vibe DJ.

Aaron does the day to day running of the Stay Up Forever record collective and finds time also to put his hand to music production, being responsible alongside long standing partner The Geezer for some of the great and good of Acid Techno such as “Santa Pod” on SUF, “Lick It” on Highwire and the “Man Bites Belgium” E.P. on Smitten. Aaron has also been working on techno projects with Ganez The Terrible and Sterling Moss and as The Wipeouts, a DJ and production team with Sterling and Chris Liberator.

HAS PLAYED : all over U.K. and Ireland, all over Europe, Japan, U.S.A., Russia, Brazil, Venezuela and many other places and was one of the the first Acid Techno D.J’s to play in Russia and Czech Republic.

Behrang Kianzad aka DJ Bacid has been active as a promotor, DJ and journalist since 1999 in the Malmö area, plus arranging clubs in Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Berlin.

As a journalist Behrang wrote articles in Dagens Nyheter’s culture page about Amsterdam Dance Event, origins of acid house and detroit techno. He also wrote about where to find the decadence in Berlins clubscene for the newspaper Sydsvenskan. He has been interviewing a who-is-who list of leading electronic artists such as Derrick May, A Guy Called Gerald, Kenny Larkin, Thomas Fehlmann (The Orb), Cristian Vogel, Ellen Alien, Jesper Dahlbäck and more. As a DJ, Behrang has been the opening act to many of them.

Some of these legends are now a part of Behrang’s and Alex Esser’s lovechild, We Manage With Love. As a DJ he has giged various summer festivals, Berlin clubs such as Arena and Dice, aside many more in Copenhagen and Malmö. Some of the latest gigs include festival Way Out West festival (together  with Jon da Silva), Fete de la Musique Berlin (together with Ian Pooley), Röda Sten (together with Jesper Dahlbäck) and Inkonst (togehter with Technasia) and also being opening act for A Guy Called Gerald (Röda Sten, Gothenburg).

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Trooper

DJ Trooper is an electric force to be reckoned with. His broad musical expertise spanning three decades comes alive in his mixes, bringing the party vibes alive. Never failing to smash the techno and old skool, it’s rave time when Trooper’s in the house.
Trooper has contributed to the legacy of the London party circuit, playing at club nights such as Smash Techno, Stay Up Forever 100, Stay Up Forever after parties, Philanthropy, Braingravy and Lucid, and alongside DJs such Chris Liberator, Aaron Liberator, Julian Liberator, DDR, Geezer, Steve Mills, Gizelle Rebel Yelle, D.A.V.E the Drummer, Rachel Rackitt, Sterling Moss, Birinight, DJ Ant, Jerome Hill, Thermobee, James Kinetec, Syber Symon, Redmond, Tassid, A.P, OB1, Austin Corrosive, Bad Boy Pete, MAXX and many more.
On to top all of this, Trooper has recently returned to the studio, writing tracks with DDR, Steve Mills and The Geezer. His tracks have been released on the
legendary ‘Hazchem’ label, Abusive 303, Project 303 and Project 909 with more tracks ready to go. Keep your ear to the dance floor and listen out for Trooper’s unique energy and sounds.
Over the past 10 years, Trooper has gone from raver on the dance floor to playing on many sound systems including Freebase, E1S, Malfaiteurs, Manik, Storm, Hub, Krysis, Hackney Sounds and plays regularly for Stinky Pink as a resident DJ storming the dance floor with his own take on Acid Techno, also enjoying pushing the speakers to the limits on various rigs at Frenchtek dropping the beats that captured his heart all those years ago. He played at illusive festival in 2015 dropping a back to the old Skool 92 set that had the whole arena bouncing and smiling hard.
But with Trooper’s personal history of dance music and broad musical knowledge, you can also hear him playing a broad spectrum of sounds such as Old Skool 91/92 Rave, Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass, Progressive House,
Acid House, Breakbeat and Electro.
Trooper’s journey with dance music began in 1991 when he was just 16 years of age and was taken out by some older mates to legendary raves such as Elevation, Dance 91, Raindance, Fantazia, Yikes and Interdance, as well as Spiral Tribal and Bedlam sound system parties on the underground free party scene.
The next year, he was introduced to mixing vinyl on the 1210’s by DJ SDR, owner of Shoebox Records. From that point, there was no turning back.
In 1994, Trooper started getting involved with the local music scene and began working at Ruffhouse Records in Slough, who ran Menace sound system.
Always up for a party, he was given the title nickname ‘Trooper’. He was always the last man standing, shortly establishing his turntable skills as ‘DJ Trooper’ on the underground party circuit, playing Jungle and Drum & Bass at parties in London and the South East.
Music House in Holloway Road, London, played a big part
in Trooper’s life. Top Drum & Bass DJ’s went there regularly to cut their latest tracks onto dub plate fresh for the weekend raves. Trooper got involved distributing the ‘Ravescene’ magazine and writing party reviews for raves such as Telepathy, AWOL, Roast, Innersense and Jungle Fever.
Trooper and fellow music comrade, DJ SDR, started the record label ‘Freestyle Flava’ in 1996, experimenting with different styles and beats in the studio under the guise ‘Point 2’. They produced some rockers including ‘Wait 1 Minute’, which was featured on Tony de Vit’s ‘Live in Tokyo’ album. In the studio, they wrote Trip Hop and Broken Beats inspired by Ninja Tune club nights at the legendary Blue Note in Hoxton, London.
After taking a few years out at the end of the 90’s, Trooper returned to the dance floor in the new millennium and got involved with the Hard House scene. The hard beats and vibes reignited the fire in his rave heart, but something was
definitely missing until he discovered the underground London squat party Techno scene and from that point it was full steam ahead.
Keep your ear to the dance floor and listen out for Trooper’s unique energy and sounds at festivals and raves in the future including Freekuency in Portugal, No Mans Land and Boomtown plus a few others already booked for 2016! Let the good times roll.

OB1 (Olly Berry) is a techno producer, performer and DJ from Bristol, UK.

He has been a regular fixture on the Bristol free party and underground club scene since 1996, entertaining the crowds with his own special blend of banging, warehouse-style techno and acid.

OB1 has been playing live techno since 1998, when he played his first live sets at Bristol’s Freakency club night.

He went on to form the Irritant live p.a. with Dr. Chill (MJ12) in 1999. Together they played many club nights, free parties and warehouse raves all over the UK and in Europe.

He has continued to take his solo live act out to underground clubs, parties and festivals in the UK and Europe, playing techno, acid and hardtechno.

OB1 has focused more on studio production in the last couple of years in addition to playing live acid techno and has enjoyed releases on Isotope Recordings, Sketcha Traxx, Corrosive Records, Coaxial, Braingravy Records, CDJ303 and Soitiz with more forthcoming on Stay Up Forever Projects, Acid Test, Chase Yer Tail and UK Ruff.

2013 promises to be a great year for OB1, with several new releases in the pipeline on all formats, radio appearances on various internet stations and live gigs at festivals, parties and clubs throughout the year.

OB1′ website. You can book him through here