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DeepzoneEurovision 2008 Bulgaria WINNER Joanna Dark recently was voted Top 10 Sexiest vocals for 2008 and received a Woman of the Year nomination.
Joanna Dark was born on May 23th 1986 in Sofia, Bulgaria in the family of professional musicians. She started playing drums at the age of six and also took piano lessons. Her musical carreer started in 1997 as a vocal and host of the popular kids TV show BonBon. Later, she was part of the teen show Hello (Zdravey) and host of the weekly music show Melo TV Mania. Besides, she studies drums and pop and jazz vocal in National Music Academy.
Joanna's music carreer starts when she becomes a member of Deep Zone, one of Bulgarias favourite pop/dance projects over the last years and for sure the top musical export of the country. Formed by three musicians, DJs and studio engineers, recognised in Eastern Europe for their successful pop/dance hits and classy dancefloor anthems, Deep Zone are also Bulgarias best remix artists, working with various music stars and talents in the country.More info.




Fio is produced by Ronald Fiolet. His fame started in the 90's, being producer as well as the singer of the well known act 'The Shrink'. The songs of 'The Shrink' hit the top in many international charts. The paved the way to global success in the year 2000 with 'Are you ready to Party'. In the meantime Ronald built up world fame with his smokey voice being his trademark and other succesful international acts such as Javah and AurA.

'Gimme your love' was the first record of FIO and is a banging electro/pop/dance hit with uplifting synth riffs and attractive vocals. The single is accompanied by an extremely spectacular 3D (sci-fi) music video. The song was licesend around the whole world, and the us re-edit of the videoclip was for more than 14 months on Rockamerica, Logo/MTV, Screenplay, Videovision and at all the megastores of Nike, American Apparel and McDonalds in the USA. In August 2008 the song was remixed by Klubjumpers from USA.

In May/June 2009 FIO will release his 3th record 'Can't let you go' in great mixes of Dave Ramone, Niels van Gogh, Baggi Begovic, Dima Krasnik and many more. 'Can't let you go' is modern po-dance love song with influences of dance, electro, pop and italo.More info






Overnite Where is the Love? Well, its right here! Veteran producers Addy Van Der Zwan and Koen Groeneveld deliver another massive project and will shake up the charts with this infectious dance single. On Deal Records we find the remix package with versions by Peter Gelderblom, Hi_Tack and Quentin Rodriguez. Supported by no other than Roger Sanchez, this will hit the clubs hard for sure!




Ian Rogers Over the last 15 years, Ian has been performing as a DJ and proved a unique ability to turn his performance to entertain any crowd across a vast spectrum of music genres. Ian has become a popular choice of DJ for many venues across the Midlands and beyond. Ian has also hosted prime time shows on local radio stations and is currently presenting the Saturday mid morning show on Touch FM. Ian's Music interests include funky vocal house, indie, 80's soul, 80's music, RnB & even Rat Pack legend Frank Sinatra. Through his DJ-ing Ian has worked alongside Vernon Kay, Dreem Teem, DJ Spoony, Shola Ama, Damage, Eton Road and many more. Ian also compared & hosted the 5th Annual Solihull Pubwatch Awards Night.More info.


Svenson After meeting Oliver Adams (Lords Of Acid, Praga Khan, ..) and working with him in his studio Svenson made tracks for L.A. Style, Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo and several other successful artist. Then he signed to Antler Subway and teamed up with Johan Gielen. Their first production together "Bodyheat - Gonna make You feel" was a club-hit in Holland. His first solo track under the name Svenson was "Let me take you on a trip". Later that year he produced some tracks for Milk Inc., which scored in France. Svenson then continued making music together with Johan Gielen under the name "Airscape".

Two consecutive releases namely Pacific Melody and l'Esperanza have since become regarded as classics. Around this time they did remixes for Boy George, Chicane, Praga Khan, Dario G, Vanessa Mae, Safri Duo and Tiesto.. The most successful Remix-hit to date is Delerium Feat. Sarah McLachlan - "Silence".Then they made a couple of other tracks for the hit project Alice DJ.

After leaving Antler Subway Svenson decided to work freelance whereupon he contacted Dick De Groot over at ID&T. The first release for this label by Svenson & Gielen was titled "The Beauty of Silence" and later "Twisted" which became hugely successful and earned them both a Golden record.

After years of working with Johan Gielen, Svenson decided to go solo. His first solo release with ID&T was "Sunlight Theory". It became the Theme From Trance Energy 2004 and it was a big top 20 hit in Holland. In 2009 Svenson hits the charts again with "Lover (I Want You)".



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Zsolt Seifert was born in 1975 in Hungary and studied music for 7 years. His style is club music affected by trance with clear vocals and trendy sounding. His first album was released in 2001. He is nominated in Viva Comet Best DJ category. In 2002 he started working with Krash (Peter Krajczar). Krash has been writing songs since he was 12 and is an instrument specialist. Their first single was "Angel Eyes" (2003) and they did 10 successes together since. The latest project is called "Immigrants (American Dreams).

More info: www.myspace.com/djszeifert


DJ Ella’s latest single from her album ‘Welcome To The Club, "DJ Take Me", reached French Club Music Chart Top 40 early this year. The song is a fun, sexy, electro-pop/dance single. It has it's bouncy sexy verses, which leads into an uplifting upbeat chorus. Ella plays around with her vocals making the song even more fun.
The song is sung also and by swedish singer Velvet and it's included on her first album "Finally"

More info: www.myspace.com/elinafurmane

Syndicate of L.A.W. Funk Innovation", the first single of the Belgian band Syndicate of L.A.W. was in 1997 produced by Vincent Rouffet aka Vince Ruff, and Rick Restanques aka Funky Rickstar. Rick, Vince and mc Spike actually started to work together in 1998. "Right on Time" has been released in 1999. Six month later, the remix scores top in many French and European charts. The performance features the two deejays and the MC in a kickin' Ragga- Disco-House session. The follow-up was the Ragga-House track "@ccelerator" and, once again, reached the highest scores in the world charts.

In 2009 they're back with "Citizen Of The Planet".

More info: www.sortmusic.com/_s/syndicate-of-law,len.html





The Tamperer featuring Maya is an Italian-American dance music group consisting of Italian record producers Mario Fargetta and Alex Farolfi, and American singer Maya Days. Later, Giuliano Saglia and GianLuca Mensi would join the project. In 1998 they became famous for their debut single "Feel It", a UK number one hit single taken from their album Fabulous. "Feel it" was written by the American team of Steve Gittelman and Jim Dyke and relied heavily on a sample of the Jackson Five hit "Can You Feel It".

In 2009 the new remake of Feel It is again very high in the charts. The introductory music to "Feel It" is used by Birmingham City Football Club to welcome the players onto the pitch at the start of each half.


Kalwi and Remy are from Poland and already famous there after their hits "Explosion", "Imagination" and "Revolution".

More info here


DJ - Producer Alex Barattini started producing in 1996, after finishing the conservatorium. Radio-deejaying followed and also several tours to the trendy clubs in a.o. Spain. His latest single is "The Cha Cha" and already a hit in France.

More info here





Rimini Project Sarah K. alias Ester Olaide Ajewole was born in Paris in May 1979. In 1988 the whole family moved to West Africa. This change was not easy for Sarah and she decided to write down all her fears, thoughts and visions as poetry, which became a permanent ingredient in her life. She participated in song contests and in 1999 won a competition in a club in Rimini. Scandinavia, alias Anna Louise Molander, was born in 1974 in Hudiksvall in the north of Sweden. Her mother was a singing teacher and played the piano and she encouraged all her children to sing and play. Once she replaced a friend in a Swedish music groupand from that moment she could no longer resist the lure of the stage. It was natural for her to do the choreography. Maybe it was some whim of fate but Scandinavia was in the jury in Rimini. Sammy B, alias Samuel Oladipo Ajewole was born in Paris in December 1997 and yes, he is the older brother of Sara K. His parents thought that with his deep voice he could never become a singer. But singing and dancing still was his biggest hobby. He worked as a dressman all over europe and one day followed his sister Sarah K to a contest in Rimini.

More info: www.riminiproject.com

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Fundo ft. Elena Josepha Fresh from their worldwide success with 'Awesome' Fundo return with their sensational new single 'Girl On Girl' in 2009 !

With Elena Josepha as feature vocalist once again, this catchy slice of pop dance is guaranteed to get the dance-floors pumping.

Featuring mixes from Popsa, Porl Young, the Punky Meow, Crystal Lake and the Glamour Katz, Girl On Girl will be sure to find fans on radio as well.

Elena also stars in the raunchy video together with top model Vanessa upton. This is definitely one track to watch . . .





Wolffman (Jerry Wolff) is one of the top songwriters/producers of the Netherlands. He produced about 200 Top 100-quotations and several Top-10 hits for well-known artists before deciding to step into the footlights himself. Wolffman's innovated DJ-set can be described as Funky Electro with Disco & Urban influences. Well-known productions from his hands are "Somebody's Watching Me" with the Beatfreakz and Rockwellers single "Rock With You". In 2008 his new single "U Get Your Hands Up" is hot in the clubs and storming the charts.





Roy Gates At the start of his successful career as a DJ/producer, Roy Gates immediately had a Dancesmash on Radio 538. This debut single "How Deep" instantly had a high score on the hit lists and was on the play lists of many radio and tv/stations for weeks. After the hitsingles: "On my Way", "We Rock Together" and "Lose myself" it rapidly became obvious that his musical development was unstoppable. Besides many performances in his homeland and abroad, Roy spent many hours in the studios where he worked on many new productions. His music is the ultimate mix between Club Trance and Electro. Armin van Buuren already played the Divini & Warning Mix in his "A State of Trance" and Randy Katana, Ron van den Beuken and DJ Jean also do support the track. Already DJ Jean refers to Roy as "The New Tiesto"!

This winter Roy is filling the dance-floors again with his latest single "One Touch".





Regi is the number 1 Belgian dance producer, known from his projects Milk Inc and Sylver, but lately more known from his hits "I Fail" (with the angelic choir Scala) and his most recent single "AAA Anthem" (with Bart Peeters).
On november 1 the first solo album of Regi was released: "Registrated", and it's already gold in Belgium. On the album Regi works together with lots of artists, like Tom Helsen, Nailpin, Kate Ryan, Danzel and of course Scala and Bart Peeters. The result is 15 great tracks with a wide scala of styles.
Latest single of this album is "What Is Life", together with Danzel.





Favretto Igor was born in the Italian Alpine town of Bolzano in 1977. He started DJ-ing at the age of 16 in Italy and Austria and now regularly plays his sets in Italy's key clubs. He now also works as a DJ-Producer with Off Limits. His first production was a project called Blue Storm. He has produced tracks for Whigfield (a.o. "Was A Time"), DJ Kaos (that made substantial waves in Japan), In-Grid ("Shock" and "Oui") and the singles "Come A Little Closer" (Malomodo feat. Naan, in cooperation with Alex de Gomera) and "Yes U R" (Favretto feat. Naan).
As a DJ, his style is in constant flux in the sphere of house, tec-house and electro.


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