The first vinyl release from my collab with Ortin Cam incl. remixes by Greencross, Petter B and A.Paul on NB Records

Stanny Franssen & Ortin Cam - It Use To Be

Festivibe : Uplifting Techno and House Vibes

Parce que faire la fête est un puuuur bonheur !!
Un collectif d'artistes : musiciens, deejay, graphistes...qui oeuvrent à la réalisation de moments d'exception !!!

An artists collective: musicians, deejays, graphics, ...working on the happening of exceptionnal Fuuuuuuuun moments !!!
Because partying is a real biiiiig fun !!

En créant Festivibe à l'Abbaye d'Aiseau en 2002 élu par les festivaliers belges Best belgian Mass event sur Appletree.be & Dancecommunity.be and We Love Techno.be et ensuite avec Festivibe Clubbin Café dAnvers 2002 élue Best party de l'année dans Outsoon 2003, ces organisateurs de soirées ont placé immédiatement la barre très haut ! Festivibe Heers 2003 finira 3ème Best Mass Event dans la Bible de la musique électronique "Outsoon" 2004; I Love Techno Outdoor et Wechter étant les n° 1 et 2 ;) !
Le Festivibe team est aussi connu des luxos qui venaient en nombre dans les "Fabulous @ Mystery Castle" dans des châteaux et Fermes châteaux de Wallonie et ils c'est aussi l'équipe qui est dérr!ère l'organsiation du Tribes Gathering 2012 & 2013 nominé Best Small Festival Européen.

Creating Festivibe Aiseau Abbey 2002 voted Best belgian Mass event on Appletree.be & Dancecommunity.be and We Love Techno.be and Festivibe Clubbin Café dAnvers 2002 elected Best party of the year in Outsoon 2003, those party creators were immediatly setting standards very high ! Festivibe Heers 2003 ended 3rd best belgian Mass event in the belgian electronic music bible "Outsoon" 2004; I Love Techno and Wechter were n° 1 and n° 2 ;) !
Also well know due to the "Fabulous @ Mystery Castle" parties where lots of luxos techno freaks were coming in amazing castles and farms Festivibe is also behind the Ardennas biggest mass event : Tribes Gathering 2012 & 2013 nominated as Best Small European Festival.

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D-Toxx’s first elektronic music he ever bought on cd was ‘Thunderdome’, followed by 
   ‘Bonzai Rave nation’ and ‘Montini’. His journey started from that moment. When several years have passed, he and his friends started to go out, and they tumbled into the ‘Techno’-scene. Going
   to local partys like ‘Orange Club’ , ‘Technomite’ , ‘Casino Royale’, ‘Soapclub’ and events like 
   ‘Techno Nation’ in the legendary but closed ‘Club Silo’ , memorable ‘Fuse Club’ , ‘Madeinbrussels’ , ‘Kozzmozz’ , ‘Katsu’, and so on. It didn’t took long before he bought his first ‘Technics TTS’s and mixer. In 2004, D-Toxx was asked and got the chance to play for the first time at a local party called ‘Nitrogen’, hosted by one of his bestest friends ‘Dream’. His mixing skills and already huge collection of techno-records gave him more and more bookings from then on. Through the years, the techno-scene started to change; Different styles of music came and lots of his friends found new life in the underground ‘Tekno-’ and ‘Hardcore-scene’. It was a little bit of a black period for him, because lots of that music couldn’t satisfy him like the ‘Old-Skool-Techno’ he once knew.. 
It seems to have gotten lost over the years as people became interested in softer or harder styles like ‘Tekno’ , new ‘Mainstream-Hardcore’. Minimal and Electro stuff has been a turning point for him and he grabbed back to his first love, ’Old-Skool Hardcore’ and ‘Rave’. 

After that, D-Toxx got a booking for an oldskool hardcore set and people went nuts when he hit the decks with an older style of hardcore. It was something the new generation of party peeps didn’t knew but liked very much. Lots of bookings came in, and he played in most of the larger citys in the Belgian area.
  E.g.:  Brussels , Liège , Antwerp , Louvain , Hasselt , Ghent.

 D-Toxx was also a proud resident of the ‘Distortion Cunts-crew’, ‘Kweet ni watt ’, and ‘013 Soundsystem’, who are active in the free party scene. On March 20th 2005, D-Toxx launched his first party concept called “RE-LOAD” and held several parties over the future years.
“RE-LOAD” brings you music like Hardcore, Oldskool Hardcore, Gabber, Rave, Acid and Tekno.
5 years later he and a few friends started the “Bleep Machine” concept which brings music genres like all styles of techno , retro and acid.Few years later he teamed up with some friends and started the Flashback concept that brings music like Retro , Rave classix. and he also created the Mixed Session concept that brings just Techno.  He played alongside several grand international artists.

E.g.: Lenny Dee (USA) , Darkraver (nl) ,  Human Resource (nl) , Acid Junkies (nl) , Hardfloor (nl) , Tieum (fr) , Brian Fury (uk) , Minupren (de) , DJ Mutante (Ca) , Hesed (It) , Progamerz (Fr) , 69Db (UK)
   Roms (Cz) , Empatysm (Fr) , Rinse (Nl) , Stefan ZmK (Nl) , Deathmaker (Fr) , Talasemik (Fr) , Reo (It) , N'ko (Fr) , 
   Pattern J (Fr) , Mat Weasel Busters (Cz) , Kefran (Fr) , Keygen Kaotic (Cz) , Tugie (UK) , Carsten Rechenberger & Recall 8 (De), Autopsy (UK).

Not to forget one of the best Belgian Pioneers: Franky Jones (Be) , G-Force (Be), Yves deruyter (Be), Zolex (Be) , Acid Kirk (Be), Bountyhunter (Be) , Redhead (Be) , Deg (Be) , TC Brain (Be) , Sandy Warez (Be), Q-Ic (Be) , Trish Van Eynde (Be), Franky Kloek (Be), and so on. 

If this sounds interesting to you, don’t hesitate to rate, comment and subscribe to D-Toxx Soundcloud-page.

For further info or booking, you can contact him directly through: D-Toxx@telenet.be

Born in Brussels, Belgium, now living in the Ardennes,
 
Matt Matter starts to produce music in 2009 and plays Live Acts only. 

Some of his peers do call his music "Intellectual & Harmonic Techno". A sensitive, melodic well worked techno, unique and recognizable sound of his. 

Time has seen Matt playing more and more banging Techno and his Live Act has mooved big crowd in:
The Rockerill or Decadance in 2017. 

Matt Matter's international performances have included: 
DDays Summer & Winter Festival (LU), Barbetech festival (CH), Factory12 (LU), Markx Bar (LU), Like Minded Music Kent (UK) & recently entered the Beat2Dance family in NL..
 
He shared stages with major international artists including:
Coyu, Funk D'Void, Space Dj'z, Claus Bachor, Tom Linder, Dj Seoul, Ben Long,...
 
National performances:
 Tribes Gathering Festival, Freak & beat's Festival, Inside Out boat, Rockerill, Decadance... 

An incredibly well-rounded & prolific producer, Matt Matter has been putting feet on the dancefloor & hands in the air since 2009. 

He only started to release in 2016 and never ever stopped since,
(Coincidence Records, Smash'n Grab Records, Monotoon Recordings, Subwoofer Records, To Be Records, Infractive Digital, Climax Label, Fortwin Records, Santa Gemma Unlimited)

Matt Matter is also known as a party organisator since 2001: 

Co-founder of the Festivibe association with his wife Anouk Lahaye, they throw parties & festivals everywhere in Belgium with international artists as:
Claude Young, Ricardo Villalobos, Jeff Mills, Hype & Halo, Mad Professor, Funk D'Void, Steve Bicknell... 

For bookings contact Anouk Lahaye:
by mail: anouklahaye@gmail.com 
by phone: +32495249736

The soundcloud page of Stanny Franssen

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Booking requests:
stanny(at)stannyfranssen.com

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Stanny was born on the first of November 1973 in Tongeren, and grew up in the tranquil countryside nearby. At the age of 12 he moved back to the city of Tongeren. As a single child he quickly learned to be independent, with scale models taking up much of his time and attention, but all that soon changed as music grew to become his biggest love. Thanks to the influence of his friends he became infactuated with electronic body music and new wave, both styles already drawing greatly from Eighties electronica (such as Front 242 and Nitzer EBB). The ‘Krapuul Deluxe’ radio show hosted by Luc Janssen on the Dutch station VPRO provided a further source of inspiration. The early Underground Resistance tracks that were programmed on the show were a revelation, helping him to develop a serious taste for Detroit techno. 

Around the age of 16 Stanny played his first party, mixing mainly acid techno sounds from influential imprints such as UR and +8. Infected by the electronic music virus he started even buying more records and frequently began thinking about making music for himself. In order to start producing his own tracks he took on weekend employment as a waiter in a club. With the money he earned from this job he then bought his first components of studio kit.

Following a period of experimentation and familiarisation with his equipment he sent out a number of demotapes to record companies. Big Time International, a record firm in Ghent, expressed great interest. The tracks needed a finishing touch, encouraging Stanny into the studio with Bart Grinnaert and Laos Mezarros. The project ‘Propionic’ on Reload was born, resulting in three subsequent releases : ‘XY Desolvation’ , ‘Immunochemical Epoxy’ and ‘Back-Feed’. 

Stanny invested further in equipment, driven by a desire to make tracks without the aid of others. A year of immersing himself in his new studio kit resulted in a few fresh tracks he was most satisfied with, and again Reload was happy to release them :  Cronical Re-Form was born.  Stanny was greatly encouraged by the response his music was now receiving, and embarked on a more intense phase of producing. Zzino, the former label manager of Reload, could not release all the tracks, leading to a new alliance with KK, who were more than eager to release Stanny’s material under the name ‘G F’. Under this guise Stanny unleashed two full albums : ‘Electronic Lesson 1’ & ‘EL2’, both receiving critical acclaim both in the international dance press and among his colleagues. Sven Väth took greatly to Stanny’s work, playing his ‘Obsession For The Unknow ep’ during his ultrashort set at the Siegesäule during Love Parade ’98, whilst ‘Electronic Lesson 1’ even reached the number one spot in Sven Väth’s chart.  

After such high exposure many others soon picked up on his unique skills, widening the road for the new contacts and deals followed. ‘Mystic Shape’ became Stanny’s moniker on the UK’s popular Primate imprint, and it was this release that triggered a profusion of international bookings. During one trip abroad he met the much revered Italian producer Marco Carola and the two instantly connected. Marco asked him to do some tracks resulting in ‘The Fifth Galaxy ep’ on both Zenit and Ante Zenit (Ltd).

Gaetano Parisio (aka Gaetek) got on the phone to Stanny soon after hearing his material over at Carola’s house. Subsequently the ‘Between The Lines ep’ came out on Conform at the end of 1998. Another massive release followed on the Intense label. The French imprint Kobayashi showed interest also, arranging the release of the ‘Oxidation ep’ (not forgetting the forthcoming ‘Calibration ep’ in September 2000).  Releases then followed on Zync, Skunkwork, Molecular and Countdown 2000 (May), together with another release on Primate.)

Stanny naturally started thinking about a label project of his own. In August 1999 plans were drawn out for GENETIC RECORDS, This year the label will reach it’s 20th release. People like Umek, Danillo Vigorito, Rino Cerrone, Manu Kenton, Davide Squillace, Boriqa Tribez and Stanny himself made this possible.

Around 2002 Stanny started to work more together with other artists, The first collaboration was together with Patrick Lindsey, resulting in “Bad Pimps”. Signed on Monika Kruse’s label they bring us a good combination between old skool funk and pumping techno beats.
The Second one he started with DJ Lowdown (aka Franssen vs Lowdown) and they got signed on the Intec label from Carl Cox and Dave Angels label Rotation bringing us more filtered techno tracks with housy influences.


Despite such a productive release schedule Stanny still found time to accept some of the numerous remix requests he receives. Henrik B, Danilo Vigorito, Rino Cerrone, Samuel L Session, Chris Liebing, Monika Kruse and Misstress Barbara are among the many distinguished producers who have come knocking on his door with remix requests.


In 2006 Stanny decided to take a step back. Mainly to think about the evolution in the scene and to find a way to recharge. Influenced by his good friend Patrick Lindsey he started to produce again in 2009. Three releases on Giraffe Sauvage were the result. Meanwhile Stanny did some colabs with Sören Aalberg and they are working on a new album. A new project with Ortin Cam will follow in the end of 2014.
Remix duties for labels as Stanch, Phobiq, Loose, Tarvisium electronique, Release, Respekt Recordings and many more. A new solo ep called ‘Multi-Vintages’ was released on De:Tuned  Februari 2014. 
