After two decades, the wheels are very much still turning for Osaka Monaurail, Japan's premiere funk orchestra, which has grown from a university combo to one of the world’s leading groups in the genre. Nine musicians on stage in sharp uniforms inspired by 60s fashion; trumpets are spinning in the air; leader Nakata dancing “Mashed Potato”; from James Brown funky dancers to jumpin’ be-bop instrumentals.

In 2012, Osaka Monaurail celebrated their 20th anniversary by touring many cities in Japan, Europe, Canada and Australia, appearing at top venues, nightclubs and festivals including the Montreal International Jazz Festival in July. In 2013, the group is performing in seven European countries, Australia and of course Japan. 

Formed in 1992, all the member were students at Osaka University and were members of the same jazz society where they had fun playing and learning jazz, especially the music of Count Basie. "Our team then was known as one of the best university/college bands when it comes to playing Count Basie tunes. I was playing the forth trumpet part in the big band. However, after I had dropped out as trumpet player - I couldn't hit higher notes, I decided to do what I'd wanted to do ever since I was sixteen, which was to have my own funk band." The group was named after the 1975 funk classic, "It's The J.B.’s Monaurail" by the J.B.'s (misspelling intentional.) It originally held more than twenty people including many horn players, two guitarists and a percussion player, but soon after, the band was cut down to a 13 piece group. After a couple of university gigs, they had played in local bars and nightclubs in Osaka around 1994-1995.
Signed to RD Records in 1999, OM released its first album entitled “What it is – What it was” in 2000, followed by nine albums: three more albums on RD Records; four albums on P-Vine Records (signed 2006-2009); and the latest "State Of The World" on King Records (2011–present). In Europe, the last three albums are available on Unique Records (Dusseldorf, Germany).

Since the summer of 2006 Osaka Monaurail had toured with a soul/funk legend, Marva Whitney, known as one of the James Brown's original Funky Divas. Her hits include many Funk classics such as “It's My Thing,” “Unwind Yourself” and “Sunny” (duet with Mr. JB). The partnership became arguably one of the most exciting collaborations in funk in modern era and left two albums “I Am What I Am” and "Live In Japan," three European tours and two Japanese tours. (Sadly, Marva Whitney passed on in December, 2012.)

In November 2012, Osaka Monaurail played a show with Fred Wesley, the world's funkiest trombonist, whose carrier expand from James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic to the Count Basie Orchestra. It was one-night special show - OM played as a backing band to the man, and performed more than a dozen of funky classics by Mr. 'Friendly Fred' Wesley.

Nakata runs his Shout! Productions label and continues to contribute to soul/funk in Japan. His company has been responsible for: reissuing a string of Soul/Funk albums and movies such as "Superfly" (1972), "Coffy" (1973) and a few more movies; subtitling “Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song” (1971), “Badasssss” (2004) and “Soul Power” (2009); most recently releasing “Edification of Weldon Irvine” (1976) on DVD.

The group has experienced many member changes. However the most of the current line-up have been in the group for more than ten years. Osaka Monaurail as of 2013 are Ryo Nakata (vocals and keyboards); Kentaro Yamagata; Shimon Mukai (tenor saxophone); Dan Hayami & Yuichi Ikeda (guitars); Dai Nakamura (bass); Soki Kimura (drums). 

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Father Funk is on a mission to reinvent funk for the bass generation. His genre-bending, boundary-breaking style fuses the soul of live music with the power of modern bass, taking him from underground bootlegs to festival main stages across the globe. With his self-produced, self-released album Funk The System on the horizon, he’s proving you don’t need a label or a formula to make music that truly moves people.

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Δ THE COUSINS Δ

Emotionen erzeugen und die Crowd in Euphorie baden lassen, das sind The Cousins. Gespickt mit guter Laune und dem Ziel die Menge zum Ausrasten zu bringen sprechen ihre Livesets eine eindeutige Sprache. 
In Ihren Sets vereinen sie kickenden Future House und Bass House. Hinzu kommen noch eigene Produktionen, die die Menge beben lassen. 
Hinter dem Familienprojekt stehen seit 2015 Robert und Christian. Zwei coole Jungs, die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht haben ihre Liebe zur Musik auf die Tanzfläche zu feuern. Bei unzähligen Events rocken sie Woche für Woche die Clubs und Festivals der Nation. Stetig wachsende Followerzahlen in den bekannten Social Networks, geben Feedback zum aktuellen Stand der beiden. 
Besonders stolz sind die Jungs auf ihre zahlreichen selbst produzierten Tracks, welche den Auftritten einen eigenen unverkennbaren Stempel aufdrücken.
Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen sind unter anderem, die Tracks ''Breakout'' und ''Keep Going''. Weitere, sich großer Beliebtheit erfreuende Tracks sind unter anderem die Remixe zu Zedd - The Middle und zu Mike Williams - You & I.
Dank solcher Bomben stehen die Zwei bereits seit 2016 bei der Booking Agentur „Moon-Circus“ und seit 2017 auch bei dem Plattenlabel „Future House Cloud“ unter Vertrag. Angetrieben vom Erfolg der Veröffentlichungen, stecken weitere Tunes in der Pipeline der Nachwuchsproduzenten.
Die beiden Youngster, wissen genau welchen Weg sie zukünftig gehen wollen. Immer bodenständig bleiben und das Projekt mit viel Herzblut in die Zukunft steuern.

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Booking Norway: 
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Launched in 2010, THE REFLEX is a project from producer / DJ Nicolas Laugier, a French national based in the UK since 1998. Following on the footsteps of remix / DJ edit pioneers Larry Levan, Shep Pettibone, François Kevorkian or John Luongo, The Reflex somewhat redefined the remix rules book by using stems and multitracks to craft fresh, innovative versions (dubbed ’revisions’) from classics tracks and artists, genre-hopping through the decades and styles with ease, combining creativity and functionality with often spectacular results.
With constant support from superstar DJs, tastemakers, A-list artists and creatives to high profile brands / events through to bedroom DJ’s, The Reflex revisions are now part of the musical landscape.

Clocking over 100M+ streams, The Reflex is a multi-faceted artist that has lent his skills to ads for Louis Vuitton, Karl Lagerfeld, to remixes for the biggest names in pop and dance music, to extensive catalogue revisits for the likes of London Records, Salsoul/Westend and Zagora/Because, to a long standing collaboration with Noel Gallagher and to legendary artists like Joe Walsh (Eagles), Cerrone, Kathy Sledge, Blondie, Michel Polnareff, Nile Rodgers, Rita Lee, Kid Creole and more.
Boasting a strong online following and a loyal fanbase, including 322,000+ fans on YouTube, The Reflex is now ready to move into original productions; his first artist track “Weekend” has been snapped up by Glitterbox for release in May, with Ibiza / Malta gigs and a Defected Basement mix lined up to support the arrival of this first single.
On his own vinyl label Discolidays, The Reflex has collaborated with Because Music in Paris re-imagining the catalogue from (Daft Punk) Thomas Bangalter’s father, Daniel Vangarde, and his label Zagora while showcasing his remix work for Cerrone, Patrice Rushen, D.C. LaRue, Nile Rodgers ft Nubiyan Twist, Bruise and others to commercial and critical acclaim.

As a DJ, The Reflex sets are energy-packed workouts firmly rooted into disco / house / balearic territory somewhere between trainspotters’ paradise and revision anthems, with an ability to adapt to audiences and venues through his 20+ years DJ experience.

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Only show my face in raves…

From Belfast via East London GHSTGHSTGHST just wants to make you dance.  Originally a bass music DJ/Producer they wouldn’t know how to keep the chin strokers happy even if they wanted to.  
GHSTGHSTGHST’S unique brand of rave, jungle and trance influenced Party Techno has seen his dubs pop up in sets globally.

Whilst new to the scene GHSTGHSTGHST’s music has seen strong radio support from Jaguar (BBC Radio 1 Dance) Sarah Story (BBC Radio 1) Danny Howard (BBC Radio 1), Ben Malone (Kiss FM), key tastemaker support at Rinse FM (Emerald), Heldeep radio (Oliver Heldens ) and internationally from 5FM (South Africa), Triple J (Australia), Kiosk Radio (Belgium).  With spins from the likes of Hannah Laing, Airwolf Paradise, Emerald, Mincy, Viviana Casanova, James Hype, Matt Guy and Solomun GHSTGHSTGHST’S dub club is growing strong.

With GHSTGHSTGHST’s last release Sound Of My Beat (Stereohype) breaking into the top 30 of Beatport’s main techno chart and current release Spread Love receiving strong Radio One support they have attracted label interest with music to come on Hardcore Energy, Vassnova Music, Stereohype and Another Rhythm to name but a few

But remember they only show their face in raves…

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