Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
The production team which brought house music back from the brink of commercial mediocrity, Leftfield made it safe for artistic producers to begin working in a new vein termed progressive house. Paul Daley (a former member of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and programmer Neil Barnes combined the classic soul of early Chicago and... [+] Read More
Underworld
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
Underworld became one of the most crucial electronic acts of the 1990s via an intriguing synthesis of old and new. The trio's two-man frontline, vocalist Karl Hyde and guitarist Rick Smith, had been recording together since the early-'80s new wave explosion; after two unsuccessful albums released as Underworld during the late '80s, the pair... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 80s, 90s, 00s
A pioneer of the acid house sound, 808 State formed in Manchester, England in 1988 when Martin Price, the owner of the city's legendary record store Eastern Bloc and the founder of the independent label Creed, first joined forces with local musician and producer Graham Massey. After teaming with collaborator Gerald Simpson, 808 State recorded... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
The trance duo of Rowan Blades and Simon Noble comprise Breeder, one of the first production teams to perfect the epic-feeling style of monster dancefloor anthems, championed, most notably, by Sasha and Digweed in the late '90s. Breeder's first two productions, "The Chain" and "Twilo Thunder," functioned best as peak-hour trance anthems favoring... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
His concept of epic house inspired by the classical training he received from an early age, Brian Transeau revitalized the British dance community in the mid-'90s and provided a point of entry for later dream house merchants like Robert Miles, Sash!, and BBE (though Transeau had, for the most part, left the style behind by the time of its pop... [+] Read More
Clarck C
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Clarck C (Diego Rodrigues) is a Dutch based electronic music artist.
He started producing music at age 17 and got his first (Hardcore/Gabba House) release in 2001.
As his alter ego Deester he released quite a few Hardcore/Industrial/Hard Techno records.
Some tracks came out on his very own industrial hardcore label: Black Belt...
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Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Initially pigeon-holed as deep-house producers though their blueprint for house music sweeps across trance, techno, and sub-basement dub, the Iranian-American duo known as Deep Dish produced a multitude of club staples during the 1990s while harvesting a stellar series of productions for their labels (Deep Dish, Yoshitoshi, Fast Food, and Middle... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
The progressive trance duo Deepsky consists of New Mexico natives J. Scotty G. and Jason Blum. Their mid-'90s singles for Rampant Records include Tempest, which became the theme for MTV's electronica show, AMP, and In My Mind, both of which were featured on the label's Planet Rampant II singles collection. The duo then moved to Fragrant records,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s
Francois Kevorkian was born in Rodez, France, on January 10, 1954. His mother was a dentist, and his father was a sound engineer. Divorce split his family at a young age, so he stayed with his mother until he was 13 and stayed with his father past that. After a year at college, he was expelled for starting a general strike, so he started to make... [+] Read More
Gentlegrin
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Gentlegrin is a solo project of Moscowite electronic musician Grigory Mikheev. He was born in 1983 in Moscow and started his musical experiments since his school age. His music is based on harsh broken beats, beautiful electronic melodies and different sound experiments inspired by such great electronic musicians as Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada,... [+] Read More
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Hastings native John Digweed had been DJing for close to ten years when his DJ remix tape caught the ear of Renaissance promoter Geoff Oakes. He was soon working alongside the likes of another popular Renaissance DJ, Sasha. The new position gave the DJ what he needed for his big breakthrough, and he has continued to prosper ever since. Soon a... [+] Read More
Paul Van Dyk
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
From early Berlin techno and house through to progressive trance, producer/DJ Paul Van Dyk has soundtracked the German electronic dance scene ever since he moved to the city and began mixing in 1988. A native of a German town near Frankfurt, Van Dyk first heard house music on the radio during the mid-'80s. Soon he was experimenting with a... [+] Read More
