Danny Dior is an international DJ, producer and sound design pioneer. His unique vision of electronic music, combined with his talent, dynamism and experimental projects have acted as a springboard, propelling him to the forefront of electronic Music. It all started in the 90s, Amsterdam, Danny Dior devoted his life to electronic music with his attention to detail and more evident with each new track he played or produced.
He has been playing and producing for more than 20 years. He has extensive production experience in house, tech house and minimal. His style is unique, playing a sophistication of sounds and mixing genres that make the crowds dance with passion and depth. Danny is more than just a DJ; as a producer he also entertains, enthuses and ignites his audiences. Danny has worked with industry such as Hed Kandi, Niteworks Recordings, RTV Productions like The Summer Of MTV, Cineteca National, Kswiss and many more. With more than 13 years of production and entertainment experience in dance clubs, events, radio and TV, Danny has honed his ability to match musical, commercial and vocal talents with any type of given event.
Danny Dior is currently establishing a new label, Naná Records, launched in sept 2010, which will be the instrument that will allow him to explore and push the boundaries of house music in it’s various forms: minimal, deep house and tech house as his form.
Releases on: 38db Tonsportgruppe, 76 Recordings, Blaq Records, BIT Records Mexico, Eintakt, Hed Kandi, Minimo Records, Minimatracx, Mucho Groove Records, Musictracx Recordings, Nana Rec, Niteworks Recordings, OnePush Recordings, Peanut Musik, Sheeva Recordings, Steal My Oil Records, Tall House Digital, Trenton, We Are Here Records, Worldwide Exclusive, Xela Digital, Yellowjax Recordings
Mike grew up playing the keys, and was performing one night a week at Club Roxy in his home town of Amsterdam by the age of 15. He truly entered the underground Club scene in 1996 and quickly evolved himself in the world producing, performing and partying in countries as the Netherlands, Greece, Mexico, Turkey, Belgium, Austria, and New York. In 1998 he started a popular house oriented radio program “Groove Ecstatic” which was supported by guests as Dimitri, Erick-E, Kenny Carpenter and more.
As his interests turned more to producing and composing of house and electronic music with live instruments and vocalists. Mike started Niteworks in 2002. Released a total of 9 vinyl’s and organized a number of truly successful underground party’s such as, Influent, French Kiss and Pulp till 2012. Now Starchamber is the new diamond of Mike’s heart of music project, in a successful cooperation with no one less than Danny Dior.
Velika (Omar Q)was the result after mixing what different artists, such as musicians and graphic designers, met to share their works.
At the beginning, Velika was mainly focused on music, being formed by the music of Om-q, Fidel Hernández, and his first duo-project called Dragonfly project. Both artists worked on ambient & downtempo tracks by their sides, while Dragonfly project was oriented to the tech-trance genre combining a few tracks & loops of their own with extended dj sets while playing on stage.
But long dj sets were not enough, and these artists felt the need to show thier true talents by playing effectively in real time with sophisticate devices, such as they did it in the previously rock & jazz bands where they took part (playing bass or keyboards), and not just making a preprogrammed session. Today Velika..s live act reflects the eagerness for new ways of music production, not forgetting the main spirit in a jam session.
But Velika project is not just music. We want to develope our concept to entangle listening & visual arts. For the beginning, the graphic work showed is supported by the painter & designer Daniel Riveroll, whose freaky style is wonderful & unique.
Johnny Rockwell is a House music Dj / Producer / Remixer and worked under several aliases as an EDM artist. Johnny got influenced by the New York House Sound at an early age but really got hooked on House music when he moved to Amsterdam where Dance Music was ruling the clubsscene.
Next to House music he had a great interest in hip-hop, breakbeat, jungle and drum’n bass, and by playing that music he gained his mixing and scratching skills behind the decks at underground parties way back in the 90's. From that point on he knew he wanted to do more with this musical enjoyment and mainly focused on House music.
From 1998 to 2001 he played more commercial and mainstream dance music but it definitely did not reflect where his soul was at. A collaboration with dj and producer Danii Roxx back in 2002 worked out perfectly for Johnny when they started working as the successful dj formation, House Providers.
Getting back to his roots by playing a mixture of Deep, US, Jackin, ands Soulful House at clubs and venues all over the world, he knew which path to folllow from this point on.
Resulting in many collaborations, resident positions at clubs such as Mansion, Storm Nightclub, Club Home and organizing his own clubnights.
By doing by what he loves and working hard on his career he was fortunate to work together with some of the worlds leading musical talents.
Since 2005 his career took him around the globe and he worked/performed together with some of the best artists such as Fedde le Grand, Roger Sanchez, Afrojack, Axwell, Ryan Marciano & Sunnery James, Tietso, Phonk D'or, Funkerman, Don Diablo, Ryan Delargo, Sebastiaan van Beest, and so on. He performed at clubs such as; Escape, Mansion, Pacha, Supperclub, Sinners, Home, , Zebra, The Ocean Club, and festivals such as Amsterdam Dance Event, Free Festival, Mysteryland, and many others.
Succesfully closing the 25th Aniversary of Chicago's Legendary Trax Records label night at the 2012 Amsterdam Dance Event and gained several new resident positions at events and clubs for 2013, he is ready to bring it on!
Sander Markey got his first taste of non-commercial electronic music when he was about 16 years old. He was then living in Ghent, Belgium, where he started DJing.
Soon his curiosity took him into maklng his own beats.
After 8 years of Ghent, Markey found himself drawn to Berlin, where he started the project ''Robyns & Markey'', with his friend Yannick Robyns.
So far he has released on labels like Colludo Records, Lift your head Up, Riot Riot Technique, and his most Recent EP on Tonkind Records: ''Dawn" , feating Mz Sunday Luv.
In 2011 Markey played around Europe, Australia and New Zealand. 2012 so far has took him to Brasil, Mexico and back to Europe were he's working on some some new Robyns and Markey ep and a new solo release.
His releases you can find in any digital music store
www.beatport.com/artist/markey/126896
www.juno.co.uk/artists/Markey/
Latest release: Markey Dawn EP on Tonkind Records
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