UK based artist with releases on Bedrock, Balance, Diviine, Selador & many more. Label director at Keep Thinking Music.

If you’ve been anywhere near an electronic music event in the past few years, the likelihood is that at least one point during the evening you will have been moving to the hypnotic sounds of Marco Lys.

Born and raised in Italy’s legendary Venice, Marco Lys’s reputation has been forged on endless days in the studio perfecting his unique sound of tech tinged house, and demand for his sound has continued to grow with every piece of production that he works his magic on.

Marco Lys’s career is testament to those who feel that things come too easy for the modern day electronic music producer, but to all those in the industry who have been involved with his work, none are surprised at his success.

Twenty years later and he is firmly established as one of the most respected producers in his genre, with an endless flow of superlative productions as 'Your Love', 'Speechless', 'la Tromba', ‘Cross The Line’, 'GO' , 'You Need Some' and remix projects for the industry’s finest imprints.

His work on labels that include Positiva, Rising Music, Nebula, Oxyd, Audio Therapy, Defected, Rise, Strictly Rhythm, Great Stuff and Toolroom have gained support from the cream of the world’s elite, whilst collaborations with Sam Paganini, My Digital Enemy , Michael Gray, Prok & Fitch, Alex Kenji and Chris Lake amongst others show his diversity and ability to bend his sound to suit.

On the remix tip, Marco Lys continues to push the boundaries, and with various original projects now complete and due for release over the coming months, Marco is now firmly back on the remix scene, with projects for some of the biggest labels on the planet.

Last years has seen Marco playing on some of the most important clubs around the world as Ministry Of Sound and Proud2 in London, Set in Miami and Amnesia in Ibiza to name a few.

It’s easy to see why Marco Lys is the name on the lips of label heads and top producers across the globe.

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Weekly radio show broadcast in Ireland, UK, Australia, Germany and North America, supporting the best house and electronic music.

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Armada Music is the biggest independent dance music label in the world. Founded by Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron (CEO) and David Lewis, the label manages an ever-growing catalog of over 40,000 tracks, built up across twenty-plus years of specialized dance music exploitation. 

Representing artists such as Armin van Buuren, ARTY, D.O.D, Eelke Kleijn, Jan Blomqvist, Loud Luxury, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Tensnake, THEMBA and Yulia Niko, Armada Music amasses more than one billion streams per month, airplay on leading radio outlets such as BBC Radio 1 and Sirius XM, and top positions in the world’s most notable charts. The label also takes great pride in major achievements such as Armin van Buuren’s GRAMMY nomination for ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, Loud Luxury and Brando’s ‘Body’ surpassing one billion streams on Spotify and breaking artists such as Lost Frequencies into global stardom.

Across offices in Amsterdam (HQ), New York, London and Laren (NL), Armada Music offers a truly global appeal to its growing roster. The label has its own club, radio studio and multiple production studios, and hosts various live formats. Producer platform Armada University, which offers educational products and opportunities, shows the label’s sustained effort to nurture the next wave of talent. 

In 2023, Armada Music launched BEAT Music Fund, the world’s first dance music investment company, that acquires catalogs with the mission of honoring, representing and reinvigorating them. BEAT’s portfolio will continue to grow; in the first six months following its launch, BEAT acquired the catalogs of, among others, electronic music star ARTY, house and techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson’s KMS Records, legendary NYC-based house label King Street Sounds and chart-topping producers Chocolate Puma.


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Amsterdam-born, Ibiza based producer and DJ Chelina Manuhutu is one of the most foremost, exciting names in the tech house and techno music scene. She is currently included on the ‘Alternative Top 100 DJs’ worldwide list — constructed by two of the biggest companies in the electronic dance music scene, DJ Mag and Beatport. Additionally, Tomorrowland included her as ‘one of the 20 artists not to miss on 2021 ’.

Being surrounded by a family of musicians and artists, Chelina’s up-bringing was continually centered around music. She has been living and breathing music since her childhood, but it wasn’t until 2011 when Chelina and her career in music kick started and became professionally bound to each other.

From that moment, she started to attain important residencies at Blue Marlin Ibiza and Pacha Ibiza, which helped her establish and carve out her own space in the world of tech-house music as a top-notch DJ with an active tour schedule. Since her start, her talent has secured her spot in some of the world’s biggest lineups for festivals such as Electric Daisy Carnival, Elrow, and Ultra — but also performing in world renowned clubs such as The Warehouse Project, Fabrik, Space Miami, Zouk Las Vegas, and more.
When she’s not touring globally, she spends her summers in Ibiza performing at some of the most distin- guished clubs and parties such as ANTS at UshuaTa Ibiza, elrow, HT Ibiza, Paradise & more.

Over the past few years, Chelina has evolved into a distinctive, badass producer within the tech-house scene, who’s taken over the Beatport charts by storm. Her productions have been released on many of the top-tier labels in the tech-house scene. Her music is acclaimed for carrying a specific swagger of cut-throat basslines combined with a trademark high level of grooviness.

She is a talented, strong and exotic feminine force and one of the most exciting artists in the underground music global scene. Top fashion brands such as Armani and KARL LAGERFELD have picked up on that and have recently worked with her on successful worldwide DJ campaigns and collaborations. Chelina is purely self-made and is unstoppable when it comes to reaching the next level.

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Shield is the owner and mastermind of Rebirth Records. With an ethos centered around the foundations of house music, Rebirth rapidly cultivated a reputation, refusing to conform, but creating its own unique sound; building a link between the ‘soul’ of a song and combining it with a contemporary modern sound ! Shield is also one half of NUfrequency, responsible for producing the breathtaking ‘Go That Deep’, featuring the amazing vocals of the legendary Shara Nelson. Signed to NRK in the Uk the single has been hailed as the ‘best soulful house tune of 2008’. And also ‘Fallen Hero’ featuring Ben Onono, which is the most charted tune ever on Resident Advisor. 
Shield has recently re-edited house classics from Frankie Knuckles, Lil’Louis, A Guy Called Gerald, Alison Limerick and Tony Ransom.  His collaborations with Robytek gave life to the singles ‘Pump It’ featuring Foremost Poets in 2009, the strong ‘Dowtntown Soul’ in 2011 and a take on Adeva’s gave classic ‘In and Out of My Life’ for the legendary Easy Street Recordings. In 2012 the release of ‘Way Of Life’ EP on Luciano’s amazing label Cadenza. Shield played gigs in Germany (Tresor and Salon Renate in Berlin), New York (Output), Paris (Djoon and Badaboum), Uk (The Egg, Ministry Of Sound and Turnmills in London), Ibiza (Pacha, Eden, Cafe’ Mambo and Cafe’ Del Mar), Miami (Nikki Beach, Shelbourne, Do Not Sit On The Furniture and Club Sin), Poland (Piekarnia and Utopia in Warsaw), Czech Republic (Radost and Duplex in Prague).


Matthew ‘Bushwacka’ B, a percussionist in the London School Symphony Orchestra who was converted into a member of the infamous Rat Pack after a warehouse party in ’88, has been DJing for over 30 years now. From that first Acid House experience Matthew quickly started playing all over London, holding residencies at four of the most famous clubs in town by the time he was 18 years old. From London the gigs spread countrywide, doing up to 8 shows a weekend, and then into Europe and the USA by 1992.
 
It was via a mutual friend Mr C that Layo & Bushwacka! first met, whilst Matthew was working at his studio, and by the mid 90s the two had started writing music together. Over a decade later, the partnership has yielded three artist albums, three mix albums, internationally renowned club residencies and a superb record label. 

By 1999 they’d already composed their debut album, ‘Low Life’, released on End Recordings, the label spawned by The End. The album announced the arrival of the duo as a force in electronic music, with a record that brought together electro, house and breakbeat fused with blues, dub and downtempo, all underpinned and informed by their collective experience of underground culture. This inclusive and open minded approach to sound became the blueprint for their future work.

Their sophomore album followed in 2002, this time released on the mighty XL Recordings. Entitled ‘Night Works’, the record featured their unforgettable top ten hit ‘Love Story’, and took their sound onto a bigger and broader canvas, charting all over the in the process. The accompanying live show brought further acclaim with stunning shows from Homelands to Sonar, whilst their famous DJ sets had now garnered residencies at some of the world’s finest clubs including Space in Ibiza, Warung in Brasil and of course The End in London. While this explosion was happening, Matthew was also achieving huge solo success with his remixes for Depeche Mode, his bootleg of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, and getting phone calls from Madonna wanting him to work on her music. It was a crazy time. 

Their End residency, known as All Night Long, became one of the capital’s most revered nights with Layo & Bushwacka! taking the club through an edifying tour-de-force of electronic music.
 
When The End closed its doors for the last time in 2009, Layo and Bushwacka! started the Shake It brand and threw amazing warehouse parties all over London, booking Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Laurent Garnier and many other friends, and created dancefloor destruction for 4 years. The parties were legendary, the energy incredible.


Layo & Bushwacka!’s reputation as two of the world’s foremost DJ duos is rock solid. Four artist albums have proven them remarkably talented producers, capable of mixing styles, tempos and genres to create enduring and engaging electronic music. Their trio of mix albums and international club residencies have shown they are masters of the turntables, sonic connoisseurs who can guide a dance floor on an epic journey through the many facets of their sound. Their label Olmeto meanwhile has become a bastion for quality, a label that, much like its figureheads, has become a rubber stamped seal of class, and many of their vinyl only releases have become sought after rarities.
 
In 2013 Bushwacka! took some time out to focus on his solo Just Be project, recording on Crosstown Rebels, Get Physical and Intec, while Layo created a new empire in Soho, of world class restaurants, applying his magic touch to everything he does. Five years later, Bushwacka! started touring and recording again under his original name, only on select shows and keeping it special for the fans, old and new.

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Label Owner @Matchboxlab

Tracks played and supported by: Carl Cox, Joris Voorn, Marco Faraone, Sante, Steve Lawler, Darius Syrossian, Sidney Charles, DJ Sneak, B.Traits, BBC Radio 1, David Moreno, Ibiza Global Radio, wAFF, Ibiza Voice, Robert Owens, Solomun, Defected Residents, Robert Dietz, Flashmob, Loco Dice, Chus, Dave Seaman, Horatio, Rinse FM, Jey Kurmis, Lance Morgan, Vibe Killers, Richy Ahmed, Adam Beyer, Ida Engberg, Solardo, Cera Alba, Green Velvet, Paco Osuna, Maya Jane Coles, Jon Rundell, Danny Tenaglia, Groove Armada, De La Swing, Pirate Copy, Skream

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