Label and Artist Page by AKA AKA from Berlin, Germany.

Hailing from provincial Italy, world class DJ & producer Benny Benassi is a name needing little introduction but always deserving of wide admiration and acclaim.  Indulging in a career spanning fifteen plus years, Benassi is renown as a humble, authentic and charming character who has grown from club DJ to festival king to multi-million selling record producer taking success in his stride. Trademarking his unique infusion of house and electro with his global smash “Satisfaction” Benny has continued to create music which is a clear evolution of this signature sound but never deviating too far. 

There is no better place to start delving into the rich history of the Benassi career than with his international blockbuster, “Satisfaction” and its game-changing music video became his launch pad into stardom. Created with his cousin and producer, Alle Benassi, and inspired by the car horns outside an open street facing window, this single catapulted into the charts with a #1 in France, #2 in the UK and Germany. Followed by his debut album Hypnotica, which reached top 20 across nearly all parts of Europe within the first month of release. 

The next few years for Benny were a culmination of successes, whether it be the major festivals he went on the play (Coachella, EDC, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland to name a few) or his next artist album, Rock N Rave in 2008. The same year he won a Grammy Award for his ground breaking remix of Public Enemy “Bring The Noise” further catapulting the Benassi name into stardom. 

In 2011, Benny teamed up with a star-studded album cast for his album Electroman which featured T-Pain, Kelis, Jean-Baptsiste and Apl.de.ap amongst others and most famously Gary Go with his chart-topping single “Cinema”.  The Skrillex remix of “Cinema” not only went Gold in the US and platinum in Australia and Canada but won the Benassi’s another Grammy whilst holding firm in the iTunes top 10 dance chart for over 6 months. 

Still on this exceptional career high, Benny Benassi combined talents with Chris Brown to create one of the biggest cross-over dance records of its time with “Beautiful People”. The following years have been a measure of incredible world tours and releases, most notably his record “Dance The Pain Away” with John Legend, which premiered live on stage at Coachella with John himself. 

2016 saw Benny released his first album in five years Danceaholic, an unexpected, stunning cocktail of already released tracks, two unreleased reworks of older singles and brand new songs, led by the hit summer anthem “Paradise”, once again with Chris Brown. “Paradise” stayed in the Top 50 UK charts for 10 weeks and boasts more than 65 million video views and close to 47 million Spotify streams. 

In recent years, Benny's main releases include “Everybody Needs A Kiss” featured US duo Sofi Tukker racking up over 10 millions streams online and was featured as the sound of gay pride for Musica.ly, "Lonely Nights" featuring Lil Yachty, interspersed with two great house-oriented tracks, "Inside" with Chris Nasty, performing well in clubs and on streaming platforms and "Everybody Hates Monday Mornings" with his own production outfit, BB Team, and featuring the eccentric and charismatic YouTuber, Canguro English.

Beyond his own productions he brought his sound to a wider musical audience with a flurry of high-profile remixes with the likes of Bob Marley & The Wailers, Giorgio Moroder, Madonna, Sean Paul and the Rolling Stones, to name but a few; whilst maintaining a weekly radio show on the US heavy-weight iHeart Radio broadcasting to a staggering quarter of a billion listeners monthly.

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     Arkasia began playing violin at age 5. By age 10 he play with an orhestra and by 12 was collaborating on the creation of mini-operas. A self-taught drummer in a metal band by 2000 he began to compose electronic music founding the ADAPTEK's collective with two friends. This collab led to the creation of the band ANTROPOD and the live performance infoumasly known as Polakatek. He left the collective in 2008 to pursue his own projects.

      His influences include classical, speedcore, breakcore, dnb, trip hop metal and more. Some of the biggest influences are Venetian Snares, Aphex Twin, Meshuggah, Bjork, Autechre etc... Those influences can be felt a lot in his compositions, trying to mix a maximum of those style into one direction. 

     In 2011 he began approaching Dubstep trying to create something new and personal with heavy distorted basses, gabber-like synths melodies with the very melodic foundation.



DJ. Producer. Artist. David Guetta is a musical trailblazer, an international icon and the most cherished electronic artist of our generation. He has over 75 million monthly listeners, 50 billion streams, 40 million albums sold worldwide, 14 Grammy nominations and 2 Grammy Awards plus 110m followers across his social channels. He has been voted the world’s best DJ in the DJ Mag ‘Top 100’ four times and has won the accolade for best electronic artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards six times. 

Guetta is the #1 streamed DJ on Spotify and steadily in the Top 10, with a peak at #4 of the most listened to artists in the world on the platform. Guetta has collaborated with the world's biggest stars including Sia, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, OneRepublic, Kid Cudi, J Balvin, Becky Hill, Raye, among many others. Such work has resulted in numerous hit singles both in the dance/electronic space as well as in the pop world, with 12 tracks achieving over 1 billion streams including “Hey Mama” (3.4 billion), “I’m Good (Blue)” (3.5 billion) and “Titanium” (2.8 billion). 7 of Guetta’s singles have also reached the #1 spot on the UK singles chart.

A master creative across genres, Guetta has also gone from strength to strength with his underground-focused Future Rave project and he is additionally working on new music for his underground alias Jack Back. 

As he continues to dominate the global charts and play some of the most exciting sets of his career, all while expanding his creative vision, exploring new sounds and evolving as an artist, David Guetta demonstrates time and time again why he is the most cherished electronic artist of our generation.

Ein Kind machte sich bereit für die Welt. 
Der 1. Ton (DAS Lebenszeichen) erklang am 31. Januar 1979.
Meine Wenigkeit stellte sich nun der großen weiten Welt vor.
 
MUSIK…GEFÜHL…ERINNERUNG…

Die ersten Berührungen & Einblicke in die unbekannte Welt elektronisch geschaffener Melodien, wurden damals durch den Sender DT64 aufgegriffen und für gut befunden.
Die ersten „Scratch“-Versuche mit 9 Jahren. 
Dutzende Nadeln musste der alte DDR-Plattenspieler einbüßen. Und die Nerven meine Eltern hatte ich dadurch auf meinem Gewissen. 
Mit 11 Jahren erkannten wohl Musikpädagogen ein ausbaufähiges Talent an mir. Die Trompete wurde nun für 3 Jahre mein geschätzter Begleiter.

Experiment in eigener Sache mit 13 Jahren:                                                                                                                
Man nehme 1 Kassettenrecorder (mit funktionierenden Kassettendeck) & 1 CD-Player.
Nun versucht man stundenlang 2 Lieder  ineinander zu mischen, bis sich dann  für ca. 5 Sekunden die Bässe übereinanderlegen. 
FREUDE kommt auf…

Im 15. Lebensjahr wurde investiert. 
Billige „Omnitronic“-Plattenspieler wurden vom eigenen Geld erworben:
Der Dachboden –  Die Turntable-Unterkunft. 
Glänzendes Vinyl – geliebtes Werkstück. 
Die MELODIE – das LEBEN!

1 Jahr ging ins Land: Musikalische Verbündete wurden meine Bereicherung. 
So folgte der Ausbau eines Raumes für unsere melodischen Experimente. 
Über 2 Jahre dauerte unsere Lehre über das Plattenhandwerk  – Selbstaneignung war dabei unser Lehrmeister.  
Es folgten private organisierte Veranstaltungen für Klangversteher -  Musikalische Philosophie war mein ständiger Begleiter.

Als ich 18 Jahre alt war konnte ich mein Können endlich in einem Club  unter Beweis stellen. 
Mein  Prämiere war in Dresden - Straße E. Mein Fazit: Bitte mehr davon!
Dies war der Beginn meines damaligen musikalischen Erfolges. 
Anfangs geprägt mit technolastigen Beats (bis 2001), folgte die Ablösung durch Housemusic.
Durch berufliche Verpflichtungen in München musste ich eine Auszeit (2001-2002) von der elektronischen Tanzmusik nehmen. 
2003 wurde die Heimreise angetreten. 

Mit Musik im Herzen hatte mich Sachsen wieder. 
So denn gelang mir ein freudiger Einstieg  mit der Systemfeind-Crew ins Präzisionswerk Espenhain als Resident DJ (2003-2006).
Devise: Positive Erinnerungen – Musikalisch der Höhepunkt meiner damaligen Laufbahn.
Anschließend - private Zwangspause.
Nach 1 ½  Jahren musikalischer Todesstille wurde mein Sinn des Lebens  wieder erweckt. 
Belebende Klänge hallten wieder durch vereinzelte Clubs und verschönerten  einige Veranstaltungen.

Etwas größere Präsenz wurde mir 2007-2008 zuteil. Grundmühle Grimma lud zum Tiefblau ein.
Als Resident DJ versorgte ich das treibende Volk:
Stimmige House-Beats, mit dem Gefühl für das gewisse Etwas, durchfluteten die Masse
– Unbeschreiblicher Anblick -  GLÜCKSELIGKEIT durchflutete wieder meinen Körper –
Doch diese Tore wurden aus baurechtlicher Sicht geschlossen. 
Meine Plattenteller drehten sich die danach folgende Zeit eher für einige kleinere Veranstaltungen.
–  Meine LEIDENSCHAFT blieb – MUSIK GEMIXT fürs HERZ–

Im privaten Bereich kündigte sich 2010 eine prägende Veränderung an:
– Neue Kreativität umschwirrte mich – Mein Genre erfuhr einen neuen Umschwung.
Einige Besuche BERLINer Clubs Ende 2010
 –  emotionale Empfindung: Ich bin ZU HAUSE angekommen -  Melodien die einen umgarnen, fein abgestimmt mit klaren Bässen. 
Klänge die deine Seele berühren & alles um dich vergessen lassen.

Das war mein 1. Schritt in eine neue Richtung – Tech-House hat mein Herz neu geordnet & mein Lebensgefühl  wertvoller gemacht.
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die MUSIK ist körperliches Gefühl...
die MELODIE offenbart geistiges Verständnis...
der TON erzeugt seelische Verbundenheit...

Klangverliebtheit ist unser emotionaler FEIND gegen ein blinde-taubes SYSTEM.


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