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Dedication, commitment, passion . Those elements have been following Nick since he started his journey into the world of electronic music about 15 years ago. 
	Throughout his residency at the iconic club Venue in his hometown Athens, it was Nick’s combination of professionalism & genuine passion to the underground house movement, which enabled him to make his mark as a warm up dj for some of the biggest names in dance music. Regardless he found himself sharing decks with his idols in a fairly young age, he managed to contain his enthusiasm and deliver the dance-floor ready for the main guest to take over. 
	The quality of his selection skills got the attention from some of the heavy weights of the scene like Nick Warren; who named Nick Varon "the most underrated DJ in the world”, in DjMag’s Top 100. But it was Hernán Cattaneo who was mostly captivated by his well compiled forward thinking sets. The South American legend initially invited Nick on his Greek Tours and long behold a partnership of music & talent - that still flourishes today - was created. Their collaboration has taken off with huge success in 3 continents (Europe / America / Asia). Up to now, the duo has accomplished 60 shows together, a number that barely represents the growing musical partnership but mostly a great friendship. 
	His international career keeps growing with shows from Bali to Amsterdam & from New York to Tokyo, while he has been also giving remarkable production signs. 
As a frequent now at the Sudbeat imprint and with an increasing amount of releases, builds an equally promising future on the production side as well. 
	Always loyal to the melodic - atmospheric elements - but with a continuous modernisation along with his ability to blend endless styles of underground house music has created his own signature sound. A unique style, which got him playing with two generations Legends; such as Sasha, John Digweed, Sven Vath, Dubfire, Solomun ... and thats truly a shortlist. 
	With shows in some of the most iconic venues around the world such as Crobar & Pacha in New York City, Mansion in Miami, legendary festivals such as Creamfields in Buenos Aires or the BPM and with a constant presence in Off Sonar events - in his current base in Barcelona - or in ADE, he continues to deliver well structured intriguing sets making his worldwide fan base wider and even more faithful.

Website: https://dauphinaka.com

A futuristic sonic journey, that is what characterizes the music of Dutch artist Dauphin Åka. Inspired by the timeless sci-fi sound of the early techno pioneers and their way of blending hypnotic sounds and rhythms like colors to the mind, light or dark, bright or blurred. Driven by the mystic flow of electronica techno as a dance floor engine to connect all walks of life with the music they love.

Resident of the Techno Tuesday Amsterdam club nights that take place weekly in venue Melkweg. Also played at open air festivals such as Full Moon (NL), Lief (NL), Geheime Liefde (NL) and clubs like Anomalie Art Club (DE), Paradiso (NL), WesterUnie (NL), Patronaat (NL), PIP (NL).

The past decade has been a musical trip that has taken him from detroit techno, tech house to finally return to where it all began, techno. Curious and with the urge to develop further, Dauphin Åka obtained his degree in audio engineering through Sound Education (NL). As a result, he built a hybrid studio which combines best of both worlds, hardware and software.

Analog Effect:

The duo have played and produced as Schaamteloos-DJs for many years.  They have played almost at all quality dance events in the Netherlands, with a unique ability to warm up the night. Slots at festivals such as Mysteryland, Sensation and Lief Festival and residencies at Amsterdam’s Panama club and Club NL have ensured this Dutch duo have played alongside the likes of John Digweed, Deep Dish, Nick Warren, Danny Howells, Jimmy van M, Pete Tong, Dave Seaman, Groove Armada, Faithless, Nic Fanciulli, Sister Bliss, Guy J, Timo Maas and Mark Knight over the years. With tracks released on Boom Tsjak (Flashover), Comport Records, LuPS Records and Why Not the guys solidified their name in the scene.

Having used the Schaamteloos-DJs moniker for many years, it is now time for something new. Analog Effect is the transition from early evening to main set, a new approach to studio and a general overhaul of their sound. Whilst looking to the future, the name Analog Effect is a nod to more traditional methods of (analog) studio production, such as remixing tracks by cutting and pasting actual tape on a Revox tape recorder. This duo’s production roots stem from creating beats and bleeps on an Atari as teenagers, and this is it manifested in a professional capacity.

Today, with their heads firmly down in their new custom-built studio, this hard-working duo are further cementing their name as reliable and solid performers, ready to step up to the next level. The future looks bright with a slew of hot new material to be released.

Analog Effect is the future –a firm production schedule, a higher profile, a live radio show, their own label and the focus on headline slots in clubs, festivals and beach parties, keep an eye on this forward-thinking duo.

Here's an update about the music we are looking for.

History learns people have always seen us as ambassadors of quality electronic music regardless the genres we touch. Over the years music has evolved, so did our musical taste, a combination which is pushing us to think more forward.

In order to focus on what we really want to do and giving artists what they deserve, it's become necessary to discontinue some of our labels. Most of these labels are part of that trance scene which we helped develop in the early 90's. The trance scene of today does not fit our vision, so we will fully focus our 3 remaining trance labels (Subtraxx, Camouflage & Nemesis) on quality progressive trance.

You will wonder now what we really want to focus on, well deep progressive, mini tech, tech house and real progressive house as we have been doing in our own way over the past year on Bonzai Progressive, Bonzai Basiks, ...

We invite you all on this new and exciting journey…

So now you know what kind of music we are looking for! Send it here or contact http://soundcloud.com/fly or http://soundcloud.com/marnikbonzai

greetz,

Bonzai Progressive

https://www.instagram.com/officialprunk

DJ & Producer, House 

- Bookings: nick@meanwhile.nl
- Management: jeroen@spektre.nl
- Released on: PIV, Defected, EWax, King Street Sounds, Nervous, Electronique, Midnight Love Club, Soweso, Nitegrooves, Toolroom, Moulton, Inner City, DHA, Soweso, Double Tree Records.

Prunk is a Dutch DJ/ producer and owner of PIV Records. PIV club nights are organised in venues as Chicago Social Club, Marktkantine and Claire. Prunk is a STRAF_WERK and DGTL regular.

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DJ/producer Prunk is working at his own pace, but this doesn’t mean he’s taking things slow. His label PIV, which he started in 2015, has been steadily releasing EP’s, like his own production ‘Sexy Brasil’ that was released on the imprint in the spring of 2016. Together with his sparring partner Chris Stussy, Prunk released the ‘Material’ EP on EWax in the winter of 2016 and the two also released ‘The Machine’ EP that came out on the notorious Nervous Records and EP’s on Moulton and Innercity Records. These EP’s caught the attention of vocalist Alex Mills, who you can hear on Miguel Campbell’s hit Something Special. Prunk and Mills hooked up in the studio with No Cure as a result. Other labels Prunk has released records on are: Electronique, City Soul and King Street.
Next to producing Prunk is a resident STRAF_WERK and he is a regular at DGTL and Jenja (Bali), has played in Monaco, Barcelona, Zürich, Lille, São Paulo, Ibiza and at Awakenings Festival. His warm and sexy, but always dancefloor orientated and uplifting sound that finds its influences in artists like Kerri Chandler, Djebali, Mark Farina and Mr Ks is definitely attracting attention from promoters.
After editions at Chicago Social Club and De Marktkantine Prunk’s PIV Label night has moved to Amsterdam’s freshest club Claire and already had an impressive first edition in April. Prunk will also host a PIV stage at The Ark, a cruise that will take-off from Barcelona sets sail to Ibiza. In 2018 you can see Prunk play at the following festivals: The Hole Festival Brazil,  Awakenings Festival, Welcome to the Future, Straf_werk Festival, , Amsterdam Open Air and Extrema Festival.

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Bookings (Worldwide)
Ace Agency / Aleks Ljubojevic / aleks@aceagency.com
Ace Agency / Jesper Brunings / jesper@aceagency.com

One person, two sounds

From Deep House tracks that give you that unmistakable feeling of summer with violins, saxophones and deep and rich sounding vocals to Tech House tracks that make you feel like you are floating up in the air. That's what I love to hear and play!

But with Kelvin Celcius, who taught me the tricks of the trade, expect to hear more pumping beats from funky Tech House to mind shattering Techno.

No matter what I do, I love to take people on a journey through sound, building up, telling the story that only music can tell.

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