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Deadmau5 (pronounced “Dead mouse”, birth name Joel Zimmerman) is a progressive house and electro house producer and DJ from Toronto, Canada. His extensive discography includes tracks such as “Arguru” and “Not Exactly”, which have been included in compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, MixMag’s Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness (mixed by Deadmau5 himself), and on Armin van Buuren’s A State of Trance radio show. He works alongside numerous other DJs and producers, such as Steve Duda under the BSOD alias. His album, Random Album Title, was released electronically in September 2008 via Ultra Records in the U.S. and Ministry of Sound in the UK and Europe. Physical copies of the album were released in November 2008.^[1]

Joel Zimmerman was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario on January 5th in 1981. In 2008 he was the most-selling artist on Beatport with more than 30,000 digital downloads with his singles “Not Exactly,” “Faxing Berlin,” and “Ghosts N Stuff”^[2]

Deadmau5 received two nominations for the Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2008 for a track with Billy Newton-Davis and Melleefresh. He did not win an award for Melleefresh’s “After Hours” song, but he won the award for Newton-Davis’ “All U Ever Want”.^[3] On May 1, 2008, Deadmau5 became the most awarded DJ/producer/remixer of the Beatport Music Awards. He was named “Most influential, forward-thinking and relevant person” by Beatport.^[4] He was also named “Producer of 2007″ by DJ magazine’s 2007 Top 100 winner Armin van Buuren,^[5] and by runner up Tiësto. ^[6] In 2008, he placed number 11 in the DJ Mag Top 100 poll, tying Infected Mushroom (2006) for the highest new entry in the poll’s history, showing Zimmerman’s fast rise to prominence.

In the United States, Deadmau5’s collaboration with Kaskade, “Move for Me,” reached number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay chart in its September 6, 2008 issue.^[7]. In 2009, he was nominated for Grammy Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (”The Longest Road” (Deadmau5 Remix) by Morgan Page featuring Lissie).

In December 2007 Marcus Schossow and Maor Levi created a project named Deadrat6 as a joke on Deadmau5, claiming his tracks sound alike.^[8] A similar faux project was also created under the name of Sinterklaa5.^[9]. As a counter-move, Deadmau5 created a track under the artist name “Marcus Fatsow”.

The rivalry between Deadmau5 and Schossow escalated at an event in April 2008 in Oslo, where, according to Marcus Schossow, Deadmau5 refused to play at a club if Marcus Schossow was going to play afterwards. This lead to Marcus Schossow being refused entry and made the night a Deadmau5 solo-event.^[10]

In an October 2008 interview with the Irish Daily Star Deadmau5 was quoted as follows:

“It puts me to fucking sleep to be quite honest, I don’t really see the technical merit in playing two songs at the same speed together and it bores me to fucking tears and hopefully with all due respect to the DJ type that will fucking go the way of the dinosaur id like them to dis-a-fucking-pear. It’s so middle man, they’re like fucking lawyers. You need them, but they’re fucking cunts. God bless them they’re my number one customer right so I’m not gonna go diss every fucking DJ. But to say you become this massive up on a podium performer by playing other peoples productions at the same speed as someone else’s productions and fading between the two of them, I don’t get it.”^[11]

::. Article taken from wikipedia

Mike Koglin feat. Tania Laila - Find Me (Khaomeha Dub)

Featured in Armin’s A State of Trance 397 as the tune of the week.

Cosmic Gate feat. Emma Hewitt - Not Enough Time

With their wicked words they’ll try to hold you down
No this is not our fate; the lives in which they are bound
And there is something more we know it has to be found
I know the world won’t wait, the tide is turning around…

And there’s not enough time…

With all their wicked words they’ll never hold you down
No this is not our fate; the tide is turning around

No there’s not enough time…

In the fallout of the wasted, in the halflight
I stand before you in the last dance of an old life…
Now the cool wind’s blowing and we can’t stay, but it’s alright…
When the night is gone I will still be here…

No there’s not enough time…

Ferry Tayle & Static Blue - L’Acrobat (Original Mix) RIP FROM TATW 260.

The Dutch superstar has consistently been voted one of the top 10 DJs in the world (according to DJ magazine’s definitive Top 100 DJ chart) for five years. He’s played for hundreds of thousands of fans – sometimes at once – in amphitheaters, fields and nightclubs from Australia to Russia to white-hot Ibiza. He took the party island’s “Best Trance DJ” prize at the annual DJ Awards ceremony this year and two years ago; got tailed by some road-tripping fans on a Southern Comfort-sponsored, 26-city bus tour of America; and had his life’s work interpreted in music, video and décor at his annual Masquerade event “Full on Ferry”, at 12,000-capacity arena Ahoy in his hometown, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

It’s all in a year’s work for the man who’s been called the “architect, pioneer, and instigator” of trance music’s global dominance.
But within the close-knit international DJ community, Corsten’s regarded as something else too: A studio auteur with a fierce sense of sonic rightness; a real-deal producer who works solo, sans engineer, and creates the most complete, energetic, melodic records in dance music. His style is so singular that synthesizer manufacturer Roland commissioned a Corsten sound bank for their new SP-555 sampling unit. But it’s so broad that it could meld with Public Enemy’s classic cut “Bring The Noise,” on a Corsten remix that Chuck D himself called “the ultimate concoction of space, energy and lyrics.”

The world first experienced Corsten’s dance floor wallop in 1999, when the young and hungry artist created aptly named track “Out Of The Blue” (recorded under his System F moniker). It was the first of his eight Dutch gold records, and 10 U.K. Top 40 hits, the most ever by a trance producer. He released his debut album, “Right Of Way,” in 2003; and the groundbreaking “L.E.F.” – containing Duran Duran collaboration “Fire” – in 2006, which debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes dance chart.

A keen sonic curator, Corsten serves as the head honcho for his record labels, Flashover Recordings, Aleph, Boom tssjak, and Levare.On his new XM Radio show, “Corsten’s Countdown,” he debuts new tracks every week and lets his faithful listeners – on the radio, and online – vote on their favorites for the month’s final chart. The show is the first of its kind to engage fans worldwide, and give them a direct hand in predicting and creating hits.

Corsten has also used his high profile for good, serving as an ambassador for the KidsRights Foundation, which increases awareness of the plight of disadvantaged children worldwide. He boasts his own clothing line, Signature F, via Washington, D.C.-based iKY Clothing.

Is Ferry Corsten a globe-trotting, club-packing, beat-dropping superstar DJ? Most definitely. But that’s just the beginning of the story…one that’s still being written.

::. Taken from Ferry Corsten.com

Arnej - Dust in the Wind
Featured in Armin’s ASOT 394, Track 1 (Tune of the Week)

Artist: Armin Van Buuren
Released: 26/03/2009

Track List

01. Cosmic Gate Feat. Tiff Lacey - Open Your Heart
02. Cosmic Gate - F.A.V.
03. Cosmic Gate - Sign of The times
04. Rex Mundi Feat. Susana - Nothing At All
05. ID - ID
06. Faruk Sabanci & Nurettin Colak - Anatolian Emotions (Myon & Shane 54 Remix)
07. Happy Monkey - King Of The Berry (Piano Slam Dub Mix)
08. Sindre Eide - Essentia
09. Tritonal feat. Cristina Soto - Piercing Quiet
10. Oceanlab - On A Good Day (Daniel Kandi Remix) [Future Favorite]
11. Adam Kancerski - All Day Long
12. Fast Distance - Pacifica
13. Breakfast - Remember14. Ronski Speed - Something Happened On The Way To Heaven (7 Skies Remix)
14. Ronski Speed - Something Happened On The Way To Heaven (7 Skies Remix)
15. Mike Koglin Feat. Tania Laila - Find Me (Khaomeha Dub) [Tune Of The Week]
16. ID - ID
17. Cressida - Onyric (Stoneface & Terminal Remix) [Euphonic]
18. Rene Ablaze - Floating (Dima Krasnik Remix)
19. Re:Locate & Mark Sixma - Piranha [2 Play]
20. Ron Van Den Beuken - Timeless [ASOT Radio Classic]

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Over 10 boundary-pushing years, Nic Chagall and Bossi have evolved Cosmic Gate into one of the most creative and highly-sought-after electronic music acts in the world. Revered uber-producers, their musical acumen has seen them become long-term favourites of the trance’s Big 5 DJs with their 3 hugely-received albums transporting anthems like ‘Body of Conflict’, ‘I Feel Wonderful’, ‘Analog Feel’, or the classics ‘Exploration of Space’ and Fire Wire to the dancefloor. As DJs, their kinetic, blood-pumping live performances are seen by hundreds of thousands of club and festival goers annually. Playing a 100 nights every year, it’s this ever-visible club presence that saw them reach their highest position to-date on the DJ Mag Top 100, landing at No.62 in 2008.

Following a chance meeting at a label office in Cologne in late 1998, the pair collaborated for the first time. It’s a production partnership that has become one of the dance world’s most successful and memorable. In their homeland of Germany, they’ve maintained a consistent level of chart success, with no fewer than 7 Top 40 singles to their name and a Top 10 hit in the UK in 2001, with the quintessential club hit, Fire Wire. Drawing on a broad-range of their individual musical tastes and influences, they’ve continued to advance and enhance the sound… Following up the long-players ‘Rythm & Drums’ and ‘No More Sleep’, in 2006 they released ‘Earth Mover’, which saw a seismic shift towards a more melodic and electronically orientated music. Including the club hits ‘Analog Feel’, ‘Should Have Known’ and ‘I Feel Wonderful’, the long-player was IDMA nominated for Best Album of 2007 and was latterly seen as a new ‘year one’ for Cosmic Gate.

In 2009 Nic and Bossi are set to release their fourth studio album ‘Sign of the Times’, which contains 11 floor-monsters-in-waiting, last year’s vocal anthem ‘Body of Conflict’ and the latest smash single ‘Not Enough Time’, which in the words of Tiësto is “a great and solid vocal trancer that touches all your musical senses!” And in the broader scale on ‘Sign of the Times’ Armin van Buuren says “The new Cosmic Gate album is one of the most anticipated releases of this year. They are on the forefront of the dance music sound of the moment… Bring on 2009!”

Deck-side Nic and Bossi have whipped floors into frenzies all the way around the world. In 2008 they played Tiësto’s now-famous Monday nighter at Privilege in Ibiza, rocked roofs at the Judgement Sunday nights and decisively broke into the US and Australian clubbing scenes through a string of sell-out tours. They appeared in the DJ Magazine’s list of Top 100 spinners for 6 years now and are regular festival attraction, spinning at events like Trance Energy and Mysteryland in The Netherlands, Summadayze in Australia, Germany’s Nature One and Stateside at Nocturnal. In early 2009 they are set to roadblock the Freedom Festival with Tiësto in Malaysia and Sunrise in Poland.

Back2Back, Cosmic Gate’s on-going compilation series was devised as the at-home testament to the pair’s club-rocking exploits. 2007 saw the release of the 3rd volume through Tiësto’s Black Hole label. The compilations bring the evocative mix of trance, progressive and electro and stands apart through their use of numerous at-the-time unreleased productions and unique Cosmic Gate edits.

Over their production lifetime, the Cosmic Gate remixes have become almost as fêted as their productions. Essentially a blow by blow of trance music’s A-list, Nic and Bossi lent their studio know-how to productions by the likes of Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Above & Beyond’s OceanLab project, Rank 1 and Blank & Jones. Most recently they rewired Deadmau5’s ‘Clockwork’ to devastating effect and created two highly-praised remixes of ‘Vincent De Moor - Fly Away’ and ‘Veracocha - Carte Blanche’.

::. Taken from www.cosmicgate-music.de

Marcus Schossow - From My Heart

just love the climax of this track. and also the build up to it. nothing makes u dream better than a perfect peak melody.

notice from 3:00 … enjoy the build up. treasure those goosebumps

Marcus Schossow (born 1985, also known as Marcus Schössow) is a Swedish DJ and electronic music producer living in Helsingborg, Sweden.

He became a well known DJ and producer by the release of the Tiesto Album In Search of Sunrise 6, in which his track Chase My Rabbit was featured.

For the international trance music industry he became interesting after Armin van Buuren presented his track Mr. White in his weekly radioshow A State Of Trance. The track Mr. White quickly became one of the most played tracks in 2007. Furthermore Marcus Schossow has collaborated with another Swedish producer Thomas Sagstad to create “Moog Me”, another progressive trance hit. Other collaborations include “Schossow & Brandlt - Horny” which is a remix of “Mouse T - Horny” and “Marcus Schossow & Thomas Sagstad - Crepuscolo”.

Marcus Schossow has a weekly radio show called Tone Diary, which he presents on the internet radio station “AH.FM”.

In the 330th episode of A State of Trance, Armin van Buuren played the song Deadrat6 - Very Exactly, which is a track made by Marcus Schossow and Maor Levi to joke on Deadmau5’s name. At the beginning of the program Armin said “New tunes coming in the next 2 hours by Deadmau5, and I think he’s got a little brother because we got a tune by Deadrat6 too.” Schossow also wrote “haha, Armin played my Deadrat6 joke” on his MSN Messenger.

In 2009 Marcus became the first Swedish DJ to win the title of Most Popular Nordic DJ of 2008 from Megamin’s annual poll since 2004’s winner Airbase. He is the biggest climber in the poll’s history as well as the only Swedish DJ in the top 5 with 628 votes since in 2007 he only received 5 votes.

::. Taken from wikipedia

Visit his website here