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Artist: Fantasy
Fantasy were originally a group comprised of two females and two males, assembled and produced by Tony Valor. Their biggest single, "You're Too Late," charted disco for five weeks in 1981. It was taken from the Fantasy album on Pavillion Records, the first of two albums -- the second being 1982's Sex and Material Possessions. Vocally they were... [+] Read More
Artist: A Radar for Karma
In 2006 four ARMY brats raised in weird parts of the world (Ethiopia, Panama, Germany and L.A.) got together in Germany and recorded “Simply Complicated” a demo with 4 songs full of silly melodies, angry guitars, and lots of Punk rebellion. After the songs reached the top of many Indie charts around the world, MTV signed them to a... [+] Read More
Artist: Man Parrish
Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into obscurity almost as quickly as he had emerged from it, Manny Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Helping to lay the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno, as well as the dozens of... [+] Read More
Artist: Lyn Todd
Released on the Vanguard label in 1980, Lyn Todd's only known album sports the auspice of future disco magnate Bobby Orlando, who played most of the instruments and wrote most of the material. The resultant Lyn Todd record showcases excellent '70s rock bolstered by nascent Hi-NRG. The talented Orlando immediately went on to launch his... [+] Read More
Artist: Brain Bashers
This duo featuring Rachel Shock and Graham Eden powered the U.K.-based Shock label with a seemingly countless number of 12"s, two of the more popular being "Feels So Good" and "Do It Now." The duo's sound has been tagged as a number of different styles, all related to the wavering happy hardcore/hi-NRG/U.K. hard house strain of exuberant,... [+] Read More
Artist: Stock, Aitken & Waterman
In the mid- to late '80s and early '90s, the London-based team of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman was to European dance-pop what L.A. & Babyface and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis were to urban contemporary: a slick, well-oiled producing/songwriting team that had a reputation for cranking out one major after another. Back then, many urban... [+] Read More
Artist: House of Freaks
While such groups as the White Stripes, the Black Keys, the Kills, and the Evens made the notion of a guitar-and-drums duo fairly commonplace in the early 21st century, the idea of two guys making music without the help of a bassist was considered unusual indeed when Bryan Harvey and Johnny Hott formed House of Freaks. Fueled by stripped-down... [+] Read More
Artist: The Flying Luttenbachers
A product of the fertile music scene centered around Chicago's Wicker Park area, the free jazz ensemble the Flying Luttenbachers was formed in 1990 by multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter, a veteran of area punk bands whose love of the music of avant-saxophonist Hal Russell inspired him to form a jazz group of his own. Walter soon teamed with... [+] Read More
Artist: MJ Cole
With his accessible urban charm and his talent for matching breakbeat culture's incendiary phobias with the Hi-NRG of pop and acid R&B, MJ Cole was one of U.K. garage's first true stars. Ultimately renting himself out for Mariah Carey and De La Soul remixes, Cole began with drum'n'bass label SOUR, where he worked in the initially unassuming... [+] Read More
Artist: Baccara
Spanish Flamenco artists, Mayte Mateus and Maria Mediolo were already performing together in 1977 for tourists when they were snapped up by RCA exec Leon Deane. Now named Baccara, the duo were partnered with Rolf Soja, who penned their debut, "Yes Sir I Can Boogie". Released in the middle of 1977, the song rocketed up the U.K. charts, scoring... [+] Read More
Artist: Jon Mueller
Drummer Jon Mueller is mostly known for his involvement in the U.S. Midwest post-rock group Pele. He is also a member of Telecognac, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Raccoons (all four groups also include guitarist Chris Rosenau). His music covers a wide ground that stretches from alternative rock and post-rock derivative of Tortoise at one... [+] Read More
Artist: Mijk Van Dijk
One of Germany's most important producers during the '90s, Mijk Van Dijk recorded an abundance of early techno/trance classics under the aliases Microglobe, Mindgear, and Marmion. A bassist for several funk bands during the early '80s, Van Dijk moved to Berlin later in the decade to work as a journalist and began producing house tracks in 1988.... [+] Read More
Artist: Dj Stex
Dj Stex
Stefano Ricci Bologna,26-2-73
www.myspace.com/djstexofficial
djstex@youngnrg.eu
Author, composer, sound engineering, manager, producer.
He works since 1989 organizing tours and productions, collaborating with agencies and different radios: since that year, with “Kiss Kiss Radio”,... [+] Read More
Artist: Tom Wax
As his stage name might suggest, Tom Wax (real name Thomas Wedel) has a predilection for releasing work on vinyl. In fact, a great many of his singles are not available on CD (though you may find them on various European dance compilations). Like so many other German DJs who broke onto the scene during the 1990s, Wax seems most comfortable with... [+] Read More
Artist: The Scissor Girls
In the late 1980s, while growing up in Washington, D.C., bassist/vocalist Azita Youssefi (aka AZ) and Heather Melowic (aka Heather M) discussed assembling a band. The idea was put on hold for a short time when Youssefi moved to Illinois in 1989 to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during her first year at the school that she met... [+] Read More
