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Jono Fernandez remixes for artists like Groove Armada, Cedric Gervais and Morgan Page and his tracks get played by such DJs as David Guetta, Tiësto and Thomas Gold. But in 2014, the Sydney-based producer will do something he hasn’t done before: recording his first artist album. 

While the origins of Jono’s music production can be traced to his bedroom at age 15, he’s spent over a decade now releasing music on some of the world’s top dance labels. The last year alone has seen Jono Fernandez releases on Chris Lake’s Rising Music, Mark Brown’s CR2 Records and Australian dance fixture OneLove. Tracks like “Lights Are Fading” (with Twin Atoms) and “Hear Me” (with Katrina Noorbergen) charted well in his home of Australia, paving the way for him to crack the UK club market with “Let It Out” and the Beatport charts with his Kaz James collaboration, “Stars.”

Anthemic, unapologetic, and custom-made for the big room, Jono’s music has never held back and his new material is no exception. His next single, “March of the Monkeys” is a pulsating peak-hour jam that compromises neither on melody or Jono’s own cheeky sense of humor. 

Jono promises that his album won’t be entirely club bangers; during the recording process he plans to mix things up and draw upon his background as a multi-instrumentalist (Jono plays guitar, piano, bass, violin and flute), mixing electronic instruments with those of the rock and classical variety. 

“I'm aiming to blur the lines between some of these genres and create a blend that comes from the heart and will hopefully result in some truly unique sounds,” Jono says of the album. “Stylistically I want to incorporate orchestral, rock, and modern experimental sounds into what I normally do, which is more traditionally electronic.”

In fact, while Jono’s work sounds at home across global festival stages and nightclubs alike, that Jono himself is not actually a DJ but a live producer sets him apart from many of his peers. A longtime champion of Ableton Live, what you hear in a Jono Fernandez live show is not played from pre-recorded CDJs or mp3s, but from the sounds produced live on a laptop, an APC40, an effects unit and a hell of a lot of trigger pads.

2014 will also see Jono tour the US as the winner of the Budweiser Producer/DJ of the Year at the Australian Independent Music Awards. His tour will include dates at Marquee Las Vegas and Marquee NYC this summer. 

Even as Jono continues to produce and release music at a pace that most would find dizzying, the truth is, we have yet to see the full range of talent this one-of-a-kind producer has to offer. 
 



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Armin van Buuren has been a global ambassador for electronic music for over thirty years, with a Grammy nomination, five #1 spots in the DJ Mag Top 100, and nine full-length artist albums to his name. Through his exemplary productions, groundbreaking live
shows (e.g. his new ‘THE ORB’ world tour) and his weekly A State of Trance radio show (44 million listeners from over 80 different
countries), event series and album series, he cultivates a massive global following.

Armin van Buuren headlines tens to hundreds of shows per year at leading festivals and venues around the world, including Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas, New York), Ultra Music Festival
(Miami), Lollapalooza (Chicago. Berlin) and Tomorrowland (Belgium, Brazil), plus residencies on Ibiza and in Las Vegas, and his own A State of Trance events in Rotterdam, London, Mexico and beyond. 

As a producer, Armin van Buuren has joined forces with the biggest artists in dance music and beyond, from Hardwell, David Guetta and Martin Garrix, to Moby and Jon Bon Jovi. In June 2025, he released his ninth studio album, ‘Breathe’.

Armin van Buuren is also the co-founder of Armada Music, the world’s biggest independent dance music label.

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Sam Poggioli, aka Sampology, is a DJ, producer, recording engineer, visual artist and former Worldwide FM host from Brisbane/Meanjin. Over the last fifteen years, Sam has been a key player in the rise of Australia’s burgeoning hip-hop, deep house, future jazz and broken beat scenes. Since 2017, he’s released records through Soul Has No Tempo, his own Middle Name Records label, and crafted uptempo remixes for Quantic, Kerbside Collection, Winston Surfshirt and Myele Manzanza.

In the early days of his career, Sam made his mark by performing acclaimed audiovisual DJ sets at festivals and nightclubs throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Asia, Europe and North America. In more recent years, however, he’s balanced his considered skills in the DJ booth with his personal evolution as a composer, producer and recording engineer. Revelling in lush, atmospheric soundscapes which draw from the grandiose splendour of the natural landscape that surrounds his hometown, Sam’s music embraces ornate melodic beauty, blending with syncopated rhythms, low-end theory and lush vocals.

Before he took his audiovisual DJ sets to the world, Sam sharpened his musical knowledge and skills while working at the iconic Butter Beats record store and spinning a mixture of hip-hop, breaks and drum and bass at nightclubs across Brisbane. The road he walked to that point began in his mid-teens after he was exposed to New York’s Native Tongues collective and The Avalanches from Melbourne/Naarm. 

Fascinated by the sampledelic production techniques that helped take hip-hop to new levels in the 90s, Sam learned the basics of computer music production from his cousins, who were already performing nationally in a live electronica group. However, for the first act of his career, DJing was where Sam really shined. Soon enough, he was gracing stages alongside underground US and UK hip-hop stars like Blackalicious and Roots Manuva.

After proving himself nationally and overseas, Sam felt compelled to reconnect with Brisbane’s musical community and focus on his own growth as a producer and composer. This time around, as opposed to DJs and beatmakers, he was hanging out with a generation of trained instrumentalists and singers like Laneous and Noah Slee, who were reshaping the sounds of neo-soul, RnB, broken beat and jazz in the city. After learning more about recording equipment, he began collaborating with them on the material that made up his debut EP, Natural Selections (Soul Has No Tempo, 2016).

Sam also began to spend more time in the grandiose natural landscape that surrounds Brisbane and found himself reflecting on the formative musical experiences of his childhood, like being exposed to string music ensembles by his father and aunt, who’ve both spent decades as members of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Sam also thought back to his early teens when he sang in a cathedral choir. As he began to carve out his own composition and production sound, choral music, harmony, and string textures became a crucial counterpoint to the rhythmic sensibilities he’d learned from DJing hip-hop and dance music to audiences across the globe.

By 2018, Sam was recording local choirs and string sections and had built a strong community of like-minded musicians around himself. That year, he established his own independent label and recording studio, Middle Name Records. He inaugurated it with the release of his soulful deep house EP Mt Glorious featuring Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Jordan Rakei, and Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol 1, a collection of broken beat, disco and house tracks he’d recorded with friends as Middle Name Dance Band.

In 2019, the tastemaker Gilles Peterson invited Sam to host a monthly online radio show on Worldwide FM, giving him a platform to share his ever-expanding musical taste with a global audience. Through his shows, emerging soul, jazz, RnB, hip-hop, and club music from Australia and New Zealand stood shoulder to shoulder with the freshest new cuts and reissues from the global underground.

Two years later, Sam released his debut album, Regrowth, through Middle Name Records. Featuring collaborations with Laneous, Allysha Joy (30/70 Collective), Silent Jay, Seven Davis Jr (US) and James Chatburn, the album showed off his hard-won growth as a composer and producer with inimitable style. Through a heady mixture of live instrumentation, synthesisers, machine beats and soaring voices, Regrowth charted a course through hip-hop, dance, ambient and jazz-funk, earning him comparisons to Bonobo, Jamie XX, Kaytranada and Jon Hopkins along the way.

After the release of Regrowth, Sam realised he’d spent the first half of his career chasing the cutting-edge underground sounds of North America and Europe. When he looked around him, he saw that in the wake of Melbourne/Naarm jazz-funk band Hiatus Kaiyote’s international success, the world was looking at Australia. Since then, he’s been working to document the sound of Brisbane’s underground through Middle Name Records. Sam hopes that in the future, the label’s discography may inspire a new generation of music lovers. Maybe in a decade, someone going through the bins in a record store in London or Manchester will become fascinated by the 2020s Brisbane sound.

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In December 2012, Smokin’ Joe Mekhael made national headlines and gained international fame when he set the Guinness World Record for the longest DJ set in history. Smokin’ Joe now carries the title of ‘Marathon DJ Champion of the World’ the first person to DJ for seven days straight. During his 168hr set he showed Australia and the world exactly why he is the most electrifying and entertaining man in dance music today. 

 Dubbed ‘The Champ’ he has perfected his electrifying style whilst performing over 1100 shows in venues throughout Australia and Europe. His positive and unique style goes way beyond that of a typical DJ and has gained him a reputation as a truly unique entertainer. 

 Smokin’ Joe is ranked amongst the top DJs in the county. His infallible track selection, unique ability to lead an audience and his infectious energy always leaves revellers awestruck and wanting more.
 There is no other DJ as animated and crowd pleasing as Smokin’ Joe that’s why he is… 

 THE MOST ELECTRIFYING MAN IN DANCE MUSIC TODAY!

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