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DJ | Producer | Soul Provider | Matasuna Records | The FunkBro Show

Retro Roland Riso, has over 25 years of club experience behind the decks, with a true passion for all things funky, filled with soul and truly groovy.

As a toddler, he'd spend countless hours enjoying his parents' eclectic record cabinet; listening to artists such as The Beatles, Sergio Mendes, Sly & The Family Stone, The Turtles, Taj Mahal, even The Osmonds and Bay City Rollers.  Little did his folks realize, Roland snagged a few of those gems over the years to add to his impressive collection.  

While fully immersed in listening to music, he began learning piano at 6 years old, which inevitably launched his love to create and produce.

Once considered the "Hardest Working DJ in Philly", Retro Roland was spinning 5-6 residencies on a weekly basis, including a highly regarded internet radio show, "Sounds of The True School".  During his 4 year run, Mr. Riso's guests included Ursula Rucker, The Last Emperor, Rich Medina and Mpozi Tolbert.

He also ran a successful monthly Jazz and Soul Record Show, which was widely popular amongst record collectors, DJ's and producers, including Cash Money, Jazzy Jeff and Quest Love.

Riso also helped engineer Cozmic Cat's legendary Philadelphia party, "Groove Lounge", which brought musicians, vocalists and DJ's a platform to perform in united, rhythmic harmony, which featured a then unknown, Jill Scott.

As an URB Magazine mixtape runner-up, The Soul Provider has shared the bill with incredible performers, including Afrika Bambaataa, Felix Da Housecat, Dubtribe, King Britt, DJ Craze, Vikter Duplaix, house pioneer Robert Owens and the legendary Barbara Tucker.  He recently opened up for Grammy nominated artist, Flo-Rida.

A number of Retro's remixes are in regular rotation on The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show, featured on BBC Radio 6, with funk 45 releases on Matasuna Records.  Plus, Roland hosts a weekly music broadcast, The FunkBro Show, on RadioActiveFM.

Notorious for working the crowd and rocking the dance floor, Riso maximizes every opportunity to drop a funky "Retro Roland Riso" remix, morphing the room into a sweaty, swanky frenzy!

"Got Some Funk, Bro?

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Founded in 2013, Progressive Astronaut is a carefully curated platform, operating at the heart of the electronic underground. Initiated with the intent of musical exploration, we set out to showcase innovative content to our ever growing community. Established globally our loyal following embraces our contemporary vision for cutting edge electronic music, as seen through our premieres, podcasts, interviews, free downloads and more. Progressive Astronaut is a platform for discovery, with a healthy blend of emerging artists, along with the scenes most revered names, operating as a central hub where music aficionados, DJs, artists and label managers unite in a thriving environment bound by a passion for music. The continued evolution of dance culture resonates from the core of our platform as we move forward into the future. Come join us.

www.progressiveastronaut.com

Contact & Promos: progressiveastronaut@gmail.com

Email: enquiries@asinine.co.uk
Asinine is the independent label representing our current projects:  BPD and Gepetto Trio.
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Please contact us if you're interested in publishing this music. If you're an aspiring artist requiring help with distribution or marketing, let's talk.

If you're a scammer posing as an 'agent' for 'Sony' etc.  and you want your account deleted, please feel free to DM me 😘

One hot summer’s day in the early 1980s, a troubled young schoolkid was being supervised alone in the music room for some forgotten misdemeanor. He spent the period playing a drum kit for the first time in his life, and when he was ready to go, the student teacher who had been supervising signed off his report card with the fateful words: “excellent drummer!”

Throughout the ’90s and ’00s, I played drums in “happy-clappy” churches up and down the country, as well as in college, where I toured with a band named Kurios. I’ve always had music in me. I never properly learned to play a “real” instrument — but why would an undiagnosed autistic kid with ADD want to pluck strings or blow through reeds when he can just hit things?!

These days, as I’m getting older (55) and increasingly disabled (I can no longer manage a full drum kit), I’ve finally found ways to get the music out of my head and into yours through the wonders of technology. I record everything in my home studio using a humble Arturia Minilab 3, a PC running Reaper, and a whole range of tools and plugins.

Now, on the use of AI, let me be absolutely clear:

I do not support the swamping of streaming platforms with “AI slop.” However, as an IT professional with fairly extensive knowledge and experience of AI, I also do not support the indiscriminate dismissal and castigation of any and all use of AI in music production — or any of the arts, for that matter. And as a drummer, I suppose I got over it years ago, back when we were being replaced in studios by computers from the late ’80s onward..!

For me, AI is just another tool in the artist’s toolbox — one that helps me massively shorten and simplify my workflows, and one that’s helped to elevate my craft to something much closer to professionally produced work. I don’t sing (very well), but with AI tools such as Ace Studio, Audime, or Suno Studio, I can turn my own voice — or even simple musical notation — into just about any vocal I can imagine.

I don’t play guitar (at all — I’ve got tiny sausage fingers), but with AI I can turn any melody hammered out on my MIDI controller into a lead guitar, bass riff, or just about any other instrument. I’m a musician, but I’m also an engineer, and I hope those skills — along with my hard work and passion — come through in my music and set it apart from the AI slop which is becoming so prevalent . 🙏🙏🙏 (And yes, I did have ChatGPT proof read this Bio, which is why it's full of em-dash symbols 😅)

As for the lyrics in my songs — the stories they tell — those are all me. They come from my life experiences, and from the obsessive scribbling of the angsty autistic teenager who still lives in my head and believes his poetry is so deeply profound. 😅

PLEASE LISTEN TO THE FULL ALBUM RELEASES ON BANDCAMP, LINK BELOW:

Audio One are an influential force in the electronic underground, with a discography spanning decades. A collective founded on the principle of unity and venturing beyond the simple definitions of Techno/Rave music.

Making people happy with music ♫

SA: bookings@omniaproducciones.com
Europe: daniel@biauralis.com
Asia: spectrepakistan@gmail.com

▲ Bio
Influenced by legendary acts like The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk and Groove Armada, Emi Galván evolved from early days as a guitarist and singer in rock bands to become a distinctive DJ and producer in the global electronic music scene.

Releases on renowned labels such as SUDBEAT, The Soundgarden and Balance have established a reputation for crafting emotionally charged, forward-thinking music. The viral remix of Massive Attack’s “Girl I Love You” earned worldwide attention, while the 2024 rework of Underworld – “Dark & Long” became a global hit — championed by Hernan Cattaneo, Jooris Voorn, Guy J, Nick Warren, Sébastien Léger, Guy Mantzur and many more.

With consecutive #1 releases including “Frequency Shift”, “I Want to Believe”, and “Supernova” topping Beatport’s Organic House and Top Releases charts, Emi continues to shape the sound of the scene. In 2024, the music reached listeners in 162 countries and surpassed 1.25 million streams on Spotify, reflecting a growing global impact.

Performances across Brazil, Mexico, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Australia, Netherlands, Spain, Hungary, Albania and the United Kingdom — along with a standout appearance at the Ultra Music Festival in Buenos Aires — have solidified Emi Galván as one of the most distinctive and inspiring artists in contemporary electronic music.

2025
Dec - Salzburg & Passau
Nov - Paris
Oct - Firenze
Sep - Munich, Skopje, Ibiza, Milano
Jul - Tokyo, Singapur
Jun - Berlin / Munich
May - Salzburg
May -Vienna 
May - Passau
May -Milano
May - Antalya
Apr - Reykjavík
Apr - Augsburg
Mar - Munich
Feb - Copenhaven
Jan - Milano




2023 / 2024
Coming Up Next: Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Rio..... & 4 Sure Vienna. Catch Me If You Can.

2022
Sabbatical

2021 
Audi Dome, BMW World, Corleone, Eklektik, Park Cafe, Bahnwärter Thiel, FM4, BBC, Disco Bizarre Beach, Sugar Mountain, Cassiopeia, Baia, Monte Baldo, Les Catacombes, Gucci, Dior, Kitty , Panne, Kunst Block Balve, Easy Tiger, Lucy's Sky, Ess-Zimmer
 
2020
Sisyphos, 3sat BR, BBC6, Kunst Block Balve, Corleone, la boum FM4, Olympia MCH, Senatore,  Bahnwärter Thiel, Disco Bizarre, BMW World, Audi Dome, Park Cafe, Maroto, Easy Tiger, Krake, Bar Tausend, Kitty, Panne Celeste, Heuer, Tod's, Black Market,

Mr. Turner released on Basspatrol, Ninja Tune, Solaris, Gouranga, Disco In Spa, Hator, Slightly Transformed, World Tribe Records, Astroleads Records, JMJ...

For  booking & edit/remix requests pls contact:
info@basspatrol.com

Who Is Mr Turner?
Deejay, Audio Editor, Remixer & Ghost-Producer
https://linktr.ee/petkoturner
He is known to work and perform under several different aliases




Countries Where He Spinned The Wheels:
Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Catalonia, China, Croatia, Czech, England, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Netherlands , Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam.

For the last 12 years, the way that Detroit-based DJ Pontchartrain has approached music, is centered around two things - learning and sharing. The result has been an interesting change up from the status quo of what comes out of the motor city. Heavily funk-infused and sample-laden original productions, edits and reworks that border on brand new versions of the track, and sets that string together a wide array of sounds that all center around the idea that dancing and feeling music are the main goals.
 
What started off as a project for edits and DJ tools has turned into a rediscovery of the roots of dance music. This shift in the last few years has pushed him into the new opportunities with some of the greatest labels in disco and house realm, and interesting achievements across the globe.
 
Currently he serves as A&R for one of the most prominent edits labels in the world, Whiskey Disco, and for the house subsidiary, Lovedancing. In addition to curating these two outlets and putting out his own records on them as well, in the past few years alone he has released on over a dozen labels, including Kolour LTD, Rocksteady Disco, Delusions of Grandeur, Toy-Tonics, Soul-Clap Records, Masterworks Music and more. Output has been nothing short of consistent, hitting #1 chart positions on sites such as Juno, several times.
 
Wen it comes to performances Pontchartrain believes in the overarching goal of making people dance, and think in equal parts. From the time he brought the Detroit Children’s Choir on stage with him at Movement Festival to sing along, to the bold invocations of poetry and messages of love, the dancefloor is a temple when he’s on deck. A place to worship each other and the feeling of letting loose. Whatever sounds get you there; genre is second to the emotion.
 
Like many of the great Detroit artists he looks up to, there’s a humble blue collar aspect to his background as well. Pontch still works as a social worker directly with drug addicts getting back on their feet right here in the motor city. He volunteers with groups such as Give A Beat, LRNG, Girls Rock Detroit, local public libraries, and is now a volunteer and teacher at Spin Inc music production school. Music is truly a way of life, part of the greater idea of lifting each other up. His actions, sounds, and personality encompass this idea.
 
For booking inquiries, e-mail:
dustin@pontchartrain.us
 
Listen: SoundCloud.com/pontchartrain
Like: Facebook.com/pontchartrainmusic

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