What’s 2 m tall, lives Behind the Iron Curtain, has 1605 reasons to run an awesome label, and flies? Meet UMEK, a techno legend from Slovenia.

UMEK is personally responsible for kickstarting the electronic music scene in his home country by first organizing illegal raves and then becoming one of Slovenia’s most wanted export products and the number one music ambassador to the whole world.

And he does fly! Around 100 times per year, visiting almost every continent each year. His gig diary ranges from dark underground clubs in Berlin to massive techno stages at the world’s most renowned festivals. 

Apart from making his name in the DJ booth, he’s also a tireless producer. He mostly releases on his own imprint 1605, and most of his tracks end up on the very top of Beatport’s charts. After more than 25 years as a professional musician, he decided to use his experience and skills in the entrepreneurial world. Together with his managers, he founded a music-tech startup Viberate (www.viberate.com), where they are building the world’s greatest music platform.

Biografie
That the life of Stefan Dabruck is in the instance shaped by music, is demonstrated by the intensity with which he conducts his profession. 

Since working in the music business for over 13 years, he was for almost a decade Germanys leading A& man at the former most successful club label Superstar Recordings. In 2009 he decided to establish the Label WePlay with Elmar Braun and Frank Klein, which was twice (2010 & 2011) awarded Germanys best dance label 'prize'. Signings for artist like Axwell, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Laidback Luke, Laserkraft 3D and the full 'cream' of the international house scene, rewarded him with more than 20 gold records and several international awards. Besides WePlay he is also well-known as the manager of big-ones like Tocadisco, Jean Elan or Laserkraft 3D. 

But also as a producer Stefan is able to look back on more than 100 releases in the last few years. With remixes from international artists like Moby, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, Bob Sinclar, Public Enemy, Dada Life and Armin van Buuren. Through these remixes and a range of unions with quite a few famous guys, Armada and the management around Armin van Buuren had a look at him. In 2011 the debut album “2:48 am” from Dabruck & Klein appeared on WePlay/Armada and was very successful, selling in more than 20 countries. For their success so far, Armada presented them with the honour of releasing the prestige album “Dabruck and Klein´s hands on Armada”. A remix album with his remixes from classics like Binary Finary or Greece 2000.

As a DJ Stefan has travelled across all of the major continents and has completed more than 1000 DJ-Gigs with Dabruck & Klein in the last 10 years. In 2010/2011 alonenhe traveled to more than 20 countries and played from the familiar club to the big festivals always with distinction. In a list of festivals like Armada Night, Netherlands; Loveparade, Germany; Soundtropolis, Germany, a MOS Tour in Australia, Motorockr Festival, China; Day & Night Festival, Austria and clubs like Webstar Hall, New York; Ivy, Sydney; Suzie Wong, Peking; Twighlight, Dubai; Koko, London or the Queens Club, Paris. 

Although he is working simultaneously on the new Dabruck & Klein album, his focus in 2012 will be on solo releases and DJ performances as Stefan Dabruck. 
His first single “Bullet” in conjunction with Christian Burns plus his remix for Lenny Kravitz´s Track “Superlove” will be released shortly. Furthermore there will be a dozen future releases, through which we will hear a lot of things from Stefan Dabruck in the near future.

More information about Stefan Dabruck:

www.we-play.cc
www.facebook.com/StefanDabruckOfficial
www.twitter.com/StefanDabruck
www.soundcloud.com/dabruckandklein

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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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