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Birkenmeier was born in France in 1987 Since his childhood he has been lulled by music thanks to his musical family. In 2000 he discovered the arrival of Minimal Techno in Europe and then in France, which for him, was a real revelation.

So he obtained basic production software and began to created his first tracks having fun with samples. The rapid progression of the Minimal Techno movement incited him to master his musical technique and invest in efficient material.

Today his home studio in Nimes in the south of France is well equipped with an Ableton Suite 8 , an APC80, a Kaossilator Pro, and multiple controllers which enables him to create quality tracks and to sign with many labels around the world such as:

-Truth Underground Recordings (Hollywood)

-Stellar Phonics Recordings (Liban)

-Bonzai Records (Belgique)

-Beat Tech Records (Colombie)

-Phäntom Records (France)

-Beat Control Records (Brasil)

Winner of the Remix Contest organized by Phantom Records (a growing label of Avignon France) he know producing just as well as remixing artists such as

- Alvaro Bacchi - Que cara esta la cebolla

- Patrice W. - Stop Talking

-Tom Almex - Monodeck

- Liv Stone - Kill you DJ

He is currently preparing a live Minimal Techno with which he intends to make a lasting impression and kick-start his DJ career.

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Rogerio Romao presents his first original work at Monog Records, Tarola EP! Rogerio Romao, with his several aliases, has been releasing music for about 10 years with a broad range of influences, from downtempo to electro, to club vocal house, to techy and progressive. He already appeared on Monog Records with a sucessful remix on Noret EP under the name of DJ Groovy. He’s also one half of the duo Across Digital, and owner of the GroovePacks company that produces sample packs and sound design.

This time, he presents us two incredible original tracks, “Tarola” and “Feedback”, with a very deep and hypnotic atmosphere! Just close your eyes and listen, the music speak for it self!

Don’t forget, we are together til dance tear us apart!

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End of the year compilation, including all the best tracks released in Bonzai Basiks in 2011. Includes original tracks and remixes from Kentaro Kaji, MiniTech Project, Lucio Grandi, Kernel Key, Daily Dose, Project KF, Ecco, Sa.Du, Kevin Cheung, Markus Ilgner, The French Connection, A. Mochi, Jimmy Galle, Forbes & Ilgner, Luke Fire, Cause & Effekt, Mike Young & Savi Leon, Ignacio Demaria & Steve Prior, Jamez, Dee Brown, Fred Tames, Adam Nics , Michael Paterson & Warner Powers, Dean Newton and Di Beatmaker.

At the launch the style on this label was a bit more tuff to describe in a few words. You’ll just have to grab some releases and judge them for yourself. We like to call it the more intelligent progressive approach with the first release with some tech, house and electro influences and yet playable for the more advanced deejays out there. However recently (summer 2010) we decided to go full focus on Techno and Tech-House.

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MiniTech Project is Faroukh Hasham, a DJ/producer fueled with inspiration from all over the world. A believer in constant evolution, he likes using a hypnotic sexy blend of groovy Tech-house, Minimal, and Futuristic Progressive beats and rhythms to communicate thoughts and emotions with people through original compositions, remixes, and technology enhanced DJ sets.

With a constantly evolving style, this sound crosses musical boundaries with influences of minimal, progressive house, progressive trance, techno, and tech house with a groovy drive, strong focus on minimal percussion elements and buildups which drop like a bomb of bliss on the dancefloor. A sound accurately described as “Bouncy, trancy, minimal, groovy. dance music.”

Groove Revolution is its first full-length artist album.

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Gerardo Cinquegrana was born in 1976 in Singen, Germany and moved to Italy with his family at the age of six. He grew up influenced by his father’s music knowledge and from the age of nine studied the piano for 4 years. In 1992, aged 16 he started DJ’ing in a small club in Capri, the start of his DJ career.
He started producing music with his own equipment in 1994 and then after a few years he was offered to go to work for a record company in Naples, Bustin Loose Records, now known as Planet Funk. Gerardo has worked with people such as Don Carlos, Adam Freeland, Alex Neri, Phunk Investigation, Gaudi, Angelino (Sueno Latino), Simon “Looplad” Duffy (Planet Funk).

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New single release for Bonzai Basiks from Forbes & Ilgner. Oracle comes with the original track plus four remixes by Melanie Di Tria, Luke Fire, Janzon and Prompter.

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KAGO DO - an electronic LIVE-project bearing the masses kind of house and techno sound. The founders and participants in the project are two DJ’s and sound-producer: Dr.Varicap & Oleginsky. Their performances are based on sampling, which includes catchy tunes, and also partially used musical creations of other musicians and producers. The plans of the duo holds the union not only MIDI controller with software and other digital technologies, but also with players vinyl for sampling and scratches, and live instruments.

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Raising talent from Belfast, UK, Dee Brown gets is debut release on Bonzai Basiks with this Switch EP. The release comes with three original tracks, Switch, The Mentor, and Pressed, plus a remix to The Mentor provided by Dee himself.

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Kentaro Kaji was raised in Tokyo, Japan. In teenage life Grungemusic caught his attention for the first time. He got deeper into this music as he started playing the bass on a band in public.

In 1996 he was experienced a traumatic event at a club: Electronic Music hit him deep in his mind. It completely changed his music taste and soon he developed an interest in techno and house. He began DJing and organizing an event called -Circuit Breaker- in Tokyo.

In 2001, he started thinking about making his own music and bought -Acid- to experiment with synth and drumloops. His first release -Raiden-appeared on a compilation from Kobayashi Recordings in 2002. The first EP was small success.

From 2004 to 2006 he studied sound engineering to understand technical aspects of audio in Melbourne, Australia. In the following years, he worked in audio editing for multimedia. These experiences helped him to understand music production technically and practically. He re-built a bedroom studio to create his own output. This led to his second release -3R- which he sent to the legendary label Bonzai.

2011 and Kentaro keeps releasing music bombs and here is another atomic release from him on Bonzai Basiks!

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A.Mochi is one of the most prolific producers, Live performers and DJs in Tokyo’s rich Techno scene. As a producer he released his music with labels like Len Faki’s Figure, Luke Slater’s Mote-Evolver or Francois K’s WaveTec.

Initially Rock music captured his attentions as a younger man, however, the impact of the heavy, fat bass and beats of electro music changed his musical life forever, which became the basis of his career today. It was the continuous groove consisting of inorganic and dark electronic sounds that drove him further… obsessed and completely absorbed.

Gradually with the use of computer, his interest and skills in production grew. Simultaneously, his performance as a Live act and DJ at Maniac Love (which is known as one of the legendary clubs in Tokyo) kicked off which made the dance-floor erupt, people started to notice the great talent he was offering. Since then he has been booked as a guest artist at world-renowned clubs in Tokyo.

In 2007, after releases on labels like ‘Highland’, ‘Hardsignal’ and ‘Tremors’ gathered him some respect, he signed a release with ‘Mote-Evolver’ owned by the UK’s legendary techno pioneer Luke Slater.

In 2008 he released two 12 inches for the ‘Kumo’ label, which also features artists such as Alex Bau from ‘DBH-Music’ in their core roster. Furthermore he brings out ‘Orion EP’ for the label ‘WaveTec’ owned by it’s founder, the legendary house music DJ and purveyor of the the deep space, Francois K. In October of that year, ‘Battery EP’ which was released on Figure, the label owned by resident of one of the world’s most famous clubs (Berlin’s Berghain / Panoramabar), Len Faki. In 2009, his work as a Remixer of Shin Nishimura in May for the label ‘SCI+TEC Digital Audio’, the label of Dubfire aka Deep Dish. Figure which was released on ‘Figure19/Black Out EP’ turned into massive club hits in that year.

2009 saw another release, his work as a Remixer of Len Faki’s ‘Death By House’ i for the label ‘Cocoon Recordings’, the label of Sven Vath. His trademark intense bass energy and sub-sonic trickery profound work, finds wide acceptance by popular artists like Len Faki,Luke Slater,Francois K.,Richie Hawtin,Adam Beyer,Dubfire,Mauro Picotto,Slam,Rejected,Chris Liebing,Dave Clarke,Len Faki,Deetron,Speedy J,Paul Van Dyk,Anja Schneider,Mark Broom,Alex Bau,Brendon Moeller,Jerome Sydenham,Josh Wink,Joel Mull,Samuel L Session,Julian Jeweil,TomCraft,Umek,Felix Krocher and more. As a producer and artist, A.Mochi will certainly bring even more sophisticated, powerful music to his audience in the years to come.

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Everyday Music is a new artist album from Peker in Creamminal Records. Peker also know as Ugur Yurt has always been a fascinated by music, even to the extent that he started his “music career” at age 11 by playing tapes for the kids in his local school. His love for music kept on growing ever since.

Ugur Yurt went to Marmaris-Turkey, at the age of 15, where he took his first steps as an assistant DJ. People from all over the whole world came together to become one at the dance floor of the club he was playing at. Peker saw the gathering of different people who liked different kinds of music. And loved it!

5 years later, he took off to Europe. Germany was his next stop. Peker decided to broaden his horizon and spent the next 3 years by taking up a music education. He missed the mixture of sun, sea and beats. So he went to Bodrum-Turkey where he became the resident DJ of the biggest club in Europe: Halikarnas disco. For a couple of years he played at different events and festivals around Turkey.

Recently Peker moved to Belgium. Settled in his studio, he is still spending time with his pal for life: Music.

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3rd Anniversary compilation in Troia Recordings.

Featuring tracks and remixes from Dollar Mambo, Pedro Goya, Chris Simmonds, Calapez, Ka§par, Alkalino, Meuser, Hernandez, Pedro Zoy and Mark & Stevens.

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Marko Nikolic was born on October 24th,1987 in very small town of Pozega, Serbia. He started playing the piano at the age of 6.Having attended the music school in Uzice for three years, he acquired the basic theoretical knowledge and developed an ear for music.

While growing up, he listened to a host of music genres: funk,rock,punk,reggae…. but at the age of 15, electronic music had a huge impact on him. Attending parties, listening and absorbing the global Dance scene for three years, he found himself in deep and progressive sound.Soon after that, he brought his wishes to fruition and tried himself out as a DJ.

In 2005 he has his first preformance and that..s were everything start. During next three year he work with some big names of the Serbian club scene and sharing the deck with all of them was a vast experience for him and big boost to his DJing competence. .. In the year 2008 he became a part of ”iFACE Agency”, together with his friends and collegues DJ Alexandar, Federico Epis, Kintar & Rex, Danny Way, Ascaloon, N-tchbl etc. Marko Nikolic is definitely one of the youngest and newest names in Serbian DJ scene. Now he live and work in Belgrade.

Currently working on its production. His releases you can find allready on beatport,junodownload, etc. He also start with his exclusive montly show “SWITCH ON” on danceradio.gr. For five years, as DJ, he shared the decks with every well-know names of Serbian DJ scene and as well with European and world famous DJ (Adam Freeland, Ramon Tapia, DJ Tarkan, Federico Epis, Poli, etc.) He work in most of the clubs in Belgrade (Andergraund, Mamolo, Energija, Dom Omladine…) Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro.His mixes were the guest mixes featured on many radio shows (Pure.fm, Danceradio.gr,Insomnia.fm, EILO.org …).He creates dynamic sets with progressive house,tech and deep house sound.

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