Cedric Gervais at Kandy Bar
No Mana
As the production wizard from Southern California, No Mana has been practising musical alchemy and sculpting a craft that has never seen the light of day. However, with the work let loose in the recent days, his music has gotten to the best of Eric Prydz, Dillon Francis and many more. In just under a year, he begins to release his material under mau5trap and shows the world what he’s all about — voltaic electro house with influences from various four-to-the-floor genres, and styles from different years and stages of electronic music.
DVJ King Arthur
The character of DVJ KING ARTHUR was released in 2009 by a Mechanical Engineer student named Arturo Hernandez Padin. Who also has 11 years of experience in the music business. The name DVJ KING ARTHUR is related to its creator, since the name ‘DVJ’ stands for Disc Video Jockey, ‘King’ stands for a Puerto Rican holiday (The 3 Magic Kings Eve on January 5th which is the date Arturo was born and ‘Arthur’ stands for his name, and the real King Arthur.
DVJ King Arthur’s costume is based on the King Arthur armor back in the days of history but with a creative robotic design. This futuristic character is always ready for a new battle, always ready for a new party, always ready to make an impressive show. The helmet and suit were designed and built by himself, applying his knowledge as a mechanical engineer to add to it special features like night vision, lasers, blue eyes, temperature control, air replacement system. His armor is white and frosted which stands out the reflection of its own suit multicolor lights. All of this design were created with not only the purpose of entertaining people but also to make them wonder and imagine ?? how can he do that? ?? and to promote the fact that we all can do all that we dream of, we just have to try to do it.
DVJ King Arthur has a passion for electronic music but his specialty is electro, house, and dubstep. This choice of gender is because it has more synth sounds with an aggressive beat that always get the crowd going. He believes that electronic music will help make the world a better and happier place. King Arthur is the resident DJ of the weekly television show called Adrenalina Sin Frenos (ASF) every Tuesday night on Univision Puerto Rico since 2009. He is always trying to make the crowd jump to the beat, playing special mixes by adding his own touch of ?the beat? standing out with his unique creativity. A perfect, flawless DJ set is what King Arthur always delivers. He’s personal goal as a DJ it’s to play and be one of the first 100 DJs of the world on ” The List ” and to be a part of the lineup of the Ultra Music Festival in Miami or Electric Daisy Carnival of Las Vegas.
Steve Lawler
Steve Lawler needs no introduction, but he certainly warrants one. You would be hard pushed to find a more in-form, in-demand, exceptionally talented artist, regarded as highly by his industry peers as he is by his huge global base of musically educated fans
Steve Lawler A child of the acid house generation, has been busy with the beats long before genres were but a twinkle in clubland’s eye. An electronic artist who defies generic boundaries, ever since his days organizing the infamous raves back in the early 90’s underneath the M42 motorway in central England.
As an Artists: Steve’s releases & Remixes have been signed by pretty much every record label with any clout. A long list of the world’s most established Recording labels including R&S Records, Hot Creations, Drumcode, Harthouse, Cocoon, Play it Say it, OVUM, Sci+Tec, Knee Deep, 8Bit, Objectivity, Tsuba, Souvenir, Rekids, Be As One, Soma, Siesta, Leftroom, Skint and of course his own recording label VIVa MUSiC.
As a Label Manager: Steve’s label VIVa MUSC (found in 2006), quickly became a platform where many artists launched their careers. It has also released music from the industry’s leading players including Jamie Jones, Davide Squillace, Luca Bacchetti, Bushwacka, Livio & Roby, Simon Baker, Sante, Luke Solomon, Groove Armada, Peace Division, Ripperton amongst many others and of course Lawler himself and receives heavy patronage by many House & Techno luminaries.
Dynamic, driven and drastically obsessed with performing as well as he possibly can. Being the proud owner of many Awards for his craft, Steve’s passion for House, Techno and Electronica is too strong for one simple generic association, and right now his message is louder than ever. 20 years deep and Steve Lawler isn’t just at the top of his game, he’s pushing the boundaries of what a DJ can do — both technically and creatively — as an artist and as a successful label businessman.
Sam Paganini
Not many artists are lucky enough to release a track that defies genre classification and reaches into mainstream culture, with people enthusiastically embracing its melody and adopting it as if it were a football anthem.
Taken from the critically acclaimed LP “Satellite” (out on Drumcode in September 2014), “Rave” has become an instant classic, a timeless piece of music that stayed on the N°1 Beatport Techno spot for more than two months, and for more than a
year and a half in its overall chart, gaining more than five million clicks on Youtube (becoming the most clicked Techno track ever).
Since 1996, a landmark year for him thanks to the worldwide success of his track “Zoe” produced as Paganini Traxx, Sam Paganini’s stylistic experimentations have gone from strength to strength, leading him to collaborate and release his music on several record labels until Techno pioneer Richie Hawtin welcomed him to his Plus8 imprint in 2011 with the “Cobra” EP. With the subsequent releases of the “Body To Body” EP on Cocoon Recordings and the “Prisma”, “Eros” and “Black Leather” EPs on Drumcode, all reaching the highest spots on Beatport’s Techno Chart, his unique musical journey has achieved great success both on the underground circuit as well as on the mainstream channels.
The track “Polyester” (with “Fire In My Arms” one of the smashing hits from the “Body To Body” EP) was featured both on the playlists of many underground DJs and on those of some of biggest names in the industry like Moby, becoming Beatport’s “Techno Track Of 2013”.
To this day, Sam proudly stands out as the only Italian artist to release under his own name on Plus8, Cocoon, and Drumcode. Besides his studio work and production time, Sam’s DJ appearances are among the most requested by promoters worldwide: his sets are characterized by powerful grooves and have been described as “Sexy Groovy Dark Techno”, which speaks volumes, literally, on what to expect from his performances.
He has taken the stage at legendary clubs such as Berghain (Berlin), Output and Cielo (New York), Rex (Paris), Crobar (Buenos Aires), Exchange (Los Angeles), Fuse (Bruxelles), Stereo (Montreal), Club4 (Barcelona) Toffler (Rotterdam), Gashouder (Amsterdam) and Cocoricò (Riccione) just to name a few, and at Festivals like Awakenings, Nature One, Mayday, Metropolis, Love Family Park, Ultra Music Festival, Hyperspace and Tomorrowland.
2016 will see him tour internationally all over the globe including 3 shows at Music On (Amnesia Ibiza) and Materia (Privilege Ibiza), and at Festivals like Sziget (Hungary), Sonus (Pag Island) and KAPPA FuturFestival (Italy).
