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.

For bookings contact: bookings@strictrecordings.com

On the forefront of the electronic music scene, Louie Cut blends old school influences with original and futuristic sound design and composition, drenching it in funk.

Nominated for track of the year in 2011 and 2012 at the Beatport Music Awards. Peaked 4th place at the Billboard Electronic/Dance chart. The only artist to have had a record 14+ tracks in the Beatport Minimal chart at the same time. Louie is snatching the world’s attention and turning some of the biggest international dance floors upside down with his unique take on minimal techno and house.

2011 was a milestone year in Louie’s career, with several singles hitting number 1 in the Beatport Minimal Charts and the birth year of his label Strict Recordings, the home to his many hits, including “Drop That” that has clocked over 1.25 million plays on Soundcloud.

Strict hostes his three full length albums, collaborations with Alex Stein (“Let Go”), Avrosse (too many to name) and more, as well as acting as his avenue to globally expose up and coming or established talents from around the world; focusing on unique, dark and funky minimal techno.

In 2018 he started is new imprint “Rare Youth”. A platform on which Louie’s creativity flourishes. The collective works with House Music x Underground Events x Clothing Design.

Currently touring around the world, Louie is constantly featuring at festivals and revered clubs in countries including Brazil, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Finland, UK, Portugal, United States, France, Australia, South Korea, Hungary, Ireland, Switzerland and more.

Visit the official website - https://www.louiecut.com

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Worldwide bookings to oscar@cumacbookings.com

Promos: miguelbastida@beonerecords.com

Miguel Bastida’s (1984, Granada, Spain) career has been steadily going up since he started DJing with only 14 years old, in the local radio station of his hometown, Alhama de Granada.
Nowadays living in Barcelona, Miguel has become one of the most in-demand Spanish artists worldwide, due to his versatility, great musical selection and charisma dominating the dancefloor.

Miguel’s influences initially came from bands as The Prodigy or The Chemical Brothers, and also from harder styles, like hardtechno and breakbeats. Besides, he had one of South Spain’s electronic music strongholds close to home: Industrial Copera. There, DJs as Ben Sims or Cristian Varela left a huge impression on Bastida, who also looked up to artists such as Nathan Fake, James Holden or Alex Under, during the golden years of minimal techno.

Miguel already dominated the mixing craft when he turned 16. After his first nights out, the idea of music production started to come to his mind. Picturing sounds with each song he listened to, Bastida started gathering with friends with the same ideas and taste for music, setting up his first live sets, which finally led to the foundation of his first group: the electronic music band Raíz Electrónica (Electronic Roots). After that, and thanks to his self-taught practice, he managed to dominate his first production software, Reason, changing to Logic afterwards. Today, being his weapon of choice when creating beats. His love for machines is also well known, especially for Moog’s creations and MIDI controllers.

With his family support as mainstay, helping at the family’s business in the morning and focusing on the studio sessions during the afternoon, Miguel was able to dedicate himself to his great passion: the creation of tunes. Music production has been, without a question, what has taken Miguel Bastida where he is today. After years and years of being locked up in the studio, he managed to create his own, exclusive and uncompromised sound, whose turning point came in 2015, with the release of ‘Moudness’, a track that managed to stay up in the Top charts of platforms such as Beatport. Before that, he already managed to knock on the doors of heavyweights as Umek and his 1605 platform. Then Sébastien Leger’s Mistakes Music came, followed by Mark Knight’s Toolroom; Deeperfect; Trapez, elrow Music; Marc Marzenit’s Paradigma Music; Dubfire’s Sci-Tec; and most recently, Suara, demonstrating all the styles he dominates. Today his productions can be found in the selections of artists such as Richie Hawtin, Paco Osuna, Luciano, John Acquaviva or Leger, Dubfire or Umek themselves.

As DJ, Miguel Bastida belongs to the exclusive group of Spanish DJs that has had the chance of touring around the world, presenting his repertoire in almost every country in the planet, from Australia and New Zealand to electronic music strongholds as New York and Chicago. His name can also be found on the line-ups of the world’s best clubs and festivals, managing to convince even the most demanding dancefloors of the scene.

Self-taught and entrepreneur, Bastida’s projects ended up naturally in the creation of his own label, Be One Records, that he manages along two of his childhood friends. Bastida is in charge of the A&R, while his buddies in Berlin and Granada manage design and social networks duties. Recently they created a sub-label, dedicated to support and give a chance to young and upcoming talents of the electronic music scene.

Be it as groove creator, selector or supporter of new talents with his label, Miguel Bastida is a safe bet for any record label, festival or venue that seeks to tear up their dancefloors.

Marc DePulse (JEAHMON! / Diynamic/ Mobilee / Exe Audio)

► my imprint: @jeahmon
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TenGrams are brothers Alessandro and Davide, who collectively have a deep and long understanding of dance music. Davide is a co-founder of N.O.I.A, one of Italy's first electronic live acts to perform and record with drum machines and synthesizers as early as 1978. He was also behind seminal Italo outfit Klein + M.B.O and proto house hit 'Dirty Talk.' Since then they have released under an array of aliases, have clocked up many hits on Beatport and this new project brings them back to their electronic roots, with influences like sci-fi movies and old school techno looming large.

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Involved in the industry since the late 80's, the Minas Gerais native is one of the most responsible for shaping and growing the country's electronic music, earning the respect of many national and international names, including the recognition of the legend Carl Cox. Noise has performed in more than 30 countries around the world, taking his extreme skill and sensitivity with him into the construction of his sets, as well as helping put Brazil on the Techno world map.

As an artist with a career spanning over 30 years and an extensive catalog of releases by several labels, reaching stratospheric numbers, and of course, also on his own label, Noise Music, the first Brazilian Techno label, which turned 23 years old in April 2022.

Noise has developed major collaborations with João Carlos Martins, Milton Nascimento, Daniela Mercury, Lulu Santos and many others, in addition to maintaining the Nie Myer project with band members Skank, Henrique Portugal and Lelo Zanetti.

In his entire career he has received dozens of awards, has been elected the best DJ for two consecutive years by DJ Mag Brasil, and for three years his name was included in the Top 100 list of DJ Mag UK, reaching the position of number 26 in the world in 2008.

Noise has been a producer for memorable parties throughout the 90s and during the 2000s, in unusual places in Belo Horizonte. He is also responsible for creating the first online electronic music radio station in Brazil, Radio Noise.

With an energy rare to be found, common only among the most talented artists, Anderson Noise, is that type of professional who looks at difficulties with responsibility, but doesn't feel intimidated. These are some of his abilities that you will be able to read about in his Biography “O Barulho da Lua” written by journalist Claudia Assef.

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International DJ and peaktime club producer, DJ Madskillz aka Gertjan Schonewille has been stoking up the dancefloor ovens for  decades now, fuelling the party crowds with his relentless energy for dynamic tech-house sets and dedicated dance releases and remixes.    

It was in 1998 that Madskillz and club turntables first met – igniting a connection that has sent him spinning around the globe since.  Mashing techno and techhouse, his sets bring the Amsterdam heat, blistering clubfloors and leaving the dance tribes feverish in party hotspots such as Tokyo’s Womb, Manchester’s Sankeys, Berlin’s Watergate, Vienna’s Pratersauna, Leed’s Mint Club and Munich’s Harry Klein.  Closer to home you’ll find him powering the dance action across The Netherlands as well as at festival greats such as Dance Valley, Welcome to the Future and Mysteryland.

New technologies have given a sonic thrust to Madskillz’s sets,  he’s continuously pioneering fresh audio treats and breaking conventional sound barriers, taking the party vibe from the regular tunes tour to a Madskillz sound sensation. 
Where ever he performs, his sets captivate the crowds and send them soaring on a hard-hitting sound adventure with dance mayhem as the final destination.   

Whereas his own dance music journey began in 1991 when he joined production forces with 2000 and One to form ‘Edge of Motion’ and release ‘Set up 707’. That ultimate acid house classic marked the beginning of an impressive discography of more than 100 releases, highlights including his 2009 EP dance slammer ‘Surface’ on Bitten as well as his 2010 remix of ‘Air Miles’ with 2000 and One that flew them up the Beatport charts to claim the number one spot with Amsterdam’s new school sound.

Although living in the Dutch capital, some of the hottest techno and techhouse labels that have become his 2nd home include 100% Pure, Remote Area, Bitten, Noir Music, Mobilee Records, Great Stuff Recordings …… And with remixes for a whole bunch of iconic friends such as Axwell, Christian Smith, Roger Sanchez, 2000 and One, Rainer Weichhold, Gregor Tresher, Underworld and Bob Sinclar – there’s clearly a lot of justified hype for Madskillz tunes and treatments. 

With a fiercely loyal international following for his ‘beat with balls’ music, Madskillz’s infectiously energetic tech house performances always turn up the heat.

 …… and as Frank Sinatra once said “Don’t get even, Get Mad”

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