- Bun B
Bun B (born Bernard Freeman March 19, 1973) is an African American rapper, one half (with Pimp C) of Southern hip hop act UGK from Port Arthur, Texas. He now resides in Houston where he is a member of Rap-A-Lot Records, an underground hip hop record label. He is also co-owner of Trill Entertainment with Pimp C. Bun B is short for Bun Beater, or Big Bun B-Da. With Houston's emergence as a hip hop hotbed in 2005, … - Carl Cox
Carl Cox is a popular international techno and house DJ. He began as a hardcore and acid house DJ in the mid 1980s, making a name for himself as the "Three Deck Wizard" in 1988, when, during the Second Summer of Love, he began to play on three turntables at once. He has played at such famous clubs as Shelly's, Sterns Nightclub, Heaven, Angels and The Haçienda, as well as huge raves for Fantazia, Dreamscape, Amensia House. - Richie Hawtin
Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his haunting, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid-2000s. - Minotaur Shock
Minotaur Shock is the nom de plume of David Edwards, a Bristol-based electronica musician. His critically lauded 2005 album "Maritime" was his first on the 4AD Records record label, having previously released his work on the Manchester based Melodic. He also plays drums in Bronze Age Fox a band from the Hanham area of Bristol. - David Banner
David Banner (born Levell Crump in Jackson, Mississippi in c. 1973) is a rapper, occasional actor, hip hop music record producer, record label executive, and philantropist. He takes his name from the lead character of the 1980s CBS television series "The Incredible Hulk". - Suge Knight
Marion Knight, Jr., a.k.a Sugar Bear, Suge Knight (Pronounced:) (born April 19, 1965 in Compton, California), is a controversial entrepreneur in the hip hop music industry and co-founder of Death Row Records. He is the CEO of Death Row Records. The record label rose to dominate the charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough success "The Chronic" in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, … - Spot
SPOT, (born Glen Lockett in 1951), was the house producer and engineer for the influential indie/punk record label SST Records. He recorded, mixed, produced or co-produced for most of SST's pivotal acts between 1979 and 1985. He is credited on albums by such notable bands as Black Flag, The Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, Saint Vitus, The Descendents, Minor Threat, The Misfits, Big Boys and The Dicks. - Carl Craig
Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music, and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs. Carl Craig has approached techno using inspiration from a wide range of musical genres, including jazz and soul. Carl Craig has released many successful albums under a large number of aliases, such as BFC, Psyche, Paperclip People, 69, Designer Music and Innerzone Orchestra. - John Digweed
John Digweed (born January 1, 1967 in Hastings, England) is a British DJ and record producer. He began DJing at around age 13. His first breakthrough was getting a gig at the club Renaissance in Mansfield after fellow DJ Alexander Coe (aka Sasha) heard his demo. John Digweed, along with Sasha, as Sasha and Digweed, is known for promoting a progressive trance/house sound that became popular in Europe and North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. - Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for making experimental electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures. He is a prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels. - John B
John B (born John Bryn Williams, 1977 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England) is a drum and bass DJ and producer from the UK. He is widely recognised for his very wild hair and his talent at producing cutting edge drum and bass tracks. While his trademark sound has evolved through the years, it generally involves catchy female vocals and trance-like synths (a style which has been dubbed "trance and bass", "trancestep" and "futurestep" by listeners). - Fresh
Fresh (real name Dan Stein) is a UK-based drum and bass artist, and one of the principal members of Bad Company. He is widely known for his talents as both a DJ and producer, and considered among the most popular and influential British junglists. Along with the three other members of Bad Company, he founded a record label, BC Recordings, as well as the website Dogs on Acid. - Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner. He is married to Ethiopian singer Gigi. Laswell ranks among the most prolific of musicians, being involved in hundreds of recordings with many musicians from all over the world. Laswell's music draws upon many different genres, most notably funk, various world musics, jazz, dub and ambient, … - Mr. Lif
Mr. Lif (born Jeffrey Haynes, 1977) is an American hip hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts, signed to Definitive Jux. Mr. Lif is also a member of the hip hop group The Perceptionists with long-time friends and collaborators Akrobatik and DJ Fakts One. - Mannie Fresh
Mannie Fresh (born Byron O. Thomas on March 20, 1974 In New Orleans, Louisiana) is the former in-house producer for the successful New Orleans-based record label Cash Money Records. Among his biggest hit productions are "Back That Azz Up" by Juvenile, "Tha Block is Hot" by Lil' Wayne, and "Bling Bling" by B.G., and most recently T.I.'s "Big Things Poppin' (Do It)." He is seen as one of the pioneers of Bounce music. - Jello Biafra
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. He first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band the Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he became more directly involved with political activism and took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, founded in 1979 by him and East Bay Ray. - Josh Wink
Josh Wink (born Joshua Winkelman in 1970) is an electronic music DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, and artist. He is a native of Philadelphia, United States. A pioneering DJ in the American rave scene during the early 1990s, Wink was the most prominent exponent of the tribal forms of techno and house in the U.S. Wink's current style is a mixture of techno, acid, house, drum and bass, and experimental music. - Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow (born Curtis Walker, 9 August 1959, Harlem, New York) is one of the first commercially successful rappers and the first to sign with a major label. "The Breaks", a single from his 1980 debut album, is an early hip hop classic. - Tony Wilson
Anthony (Tony) Howard Wilson is an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC. - Gregory Isaacs
Gregory Anthony Isaacs (born 15 July, 1950) is a Jamaican reggae musician. Isaacs was born in Fletchers Land, Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1970s, he emerged as one of the most prolific and popular recording artists in Jamaica. He released a number of self-produced singles on his African Museum (JA) record label, formed in 1973 with Errol Dunkley. Much of Isaacs' output reflected the 'conscious' themes of roots reggae, … - Sander Kleinenberg
Sander Kleinenberg is a Dutch disc jockey and record producer. He founded and runs Little Mountain Recordings. Kleinenberg is well known for his use of digital video in concerts and for his "Everybody" brand of club nights and albums. His 2000 single "My Lexicon" is often considered a progressive house standard. - Herb Alpert
Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short - a now-defunct brass band of which he was the leader. - Masta Ace
Masta Ace (born Duval Clear on December 4, 1966) is a rapper from Brooklyn, New York. Appearing on classic 1988 posse cut, "The Symphony", he garnered notoriety as an unsung asset to the Juice Crew posse, where he released a number of well-respected albums that were nonetheless little-heard outside purist circles. The single that has earned him the most attention has been "Born to Roll" (a remix to the track "Jeep Ass Niguh", … - Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy, Jr. (b. November 28 1929, Detroit, Michigan) is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label and its many subsidiaries. - Koko Taylor
Koko Taylor sometimes called 'KoKo Taylor' (born Cora Walton, 28 September 1935, in Shelby County, Tennessee) is an American blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She is known primarily for her rough and powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings. Taylor left Memphis for Chicago, Illinois in 1954 with her husband, truck driver Robert "Pops" Taylor and in the late 1950s began singing in Chicago blues clubs. She was spotted by Willie Dixon in 1962, … - Baby D
Underground Atlanta rapper, Baby D (born as David B. on November 5,1983) was only 16 when his first album, "Off Da Chain", was released in 2000 on Big Oomp Records. Two years later his follow up, "Lil' Chopper Toy" was released to much underground acclaim. A major label bidding war ensued, garnering the young MC a multi-million dollar deal with Epic Records. - Erick Morillo
Erick Morillo is an American DJ, music producer and record label owner. Having produced under a number of pseudonyms, including Ministers De la Funk, The Dronez, RAW, Smooth Touch, RBM, Deep Soul, Club Ultimate and Li'l Mo Ying Yang, Morillo is best known for his international work in house music, … - Stat Quo
Stanley Benton (born July 24, 1979), better known as Stat Quo, is an Atlanta-based African-American rapper signed to Eminem's Shady Records and Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment. He has been generating mixtape buzz since 2002. He is also a part of Grown Man Music, a record label he founded with LT Moe. Benton attended University of Florida, where he majored in economics, before pursuing a musical career. - Jamie T
Jamie Treays, known by his stage name Jamie T, is a 22-year-old English singer/songwriter from Wimbledon, South London. He went to Reed's School in Cobham, Surrey until he was 16 and is currently signed to Virgin Records, but released his "Betty and the Selfish Sons" EP on his own Pacemaker Records label. - Katie Melua
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer and musician, who was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003. She is, as of 2006, the United Kingdom's biggest-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist. - Copywrite
Copywrite (born Peter James Nelson) is an underground hip-hop artist from Columbus, Ohio. A member of the Columbus crew MHz (or MegaHertz), Nelson emerged from the underground scene in 2002 with his collaboration with producer RJD2 on the track "Holier Than Thou". His debut album "The High Exhaulted" was released on the Eastern Conference label to some praise, although some felt that RJD2's beats were too dark for Copywrite's persona. - Camu Tao
Camu Tao (b. T. Smith, June 6, 1977) is an American rapper and producer currently signed to the Definitive Jux label. He is one half of the duo S.A. Smash with fellow rapper Metro, one-seventh of the rap group Weathermen, and part of the Central Services production team with El-P. He was also part of Columbus, Ohio's MHz crew with Copywrite, RJD2, Jakki Tha MotaMouth & Tage Proto, and with Cage, half of The Nighthawks, … - Danny Howells
Danny Howells is a producer / DJ / remixer, who has released numerous singles and mix albums on record labels such as Yoshitoshi Records and Boxed. He has released two mix albums including "Global Underground 027" and "Nubreed 002". Howells began his career warming up for John Digweed at Bedrock in Hastings on the South Coast of England. - Augustus Pablo
Horace Swaby (June 21, 1954 - May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He was perhaps the first person to use the melodica as a viable musical instrument. He was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica and learned to play the organ in Kingston College School. It was at that point an unnamed girl lent him the melodica. - Princess Superstar
Princess Superstar (born Concetta Kirschner, 1971) is an American rapper. Her musical style -a mixture of hip hop, rock and electronica- is "flip flop", as she describes it. Her parents were psychologists, and they moved the family to Philadelphia, sending Kirschner to a private school named Germantown Academy. Kirschner was socially awkward, and claims her time in school was "from hell." She was a member of the Singing Club, … - Horace Andy
Horace Andy (born Horace Hinds, 19 February 1951, Kingston, Jamaica), is a roots reggae singer, known for hits such as "Government Land", "You Are My Angel", "Skylarking" and a cover version of "Ain't No Sunshine". Andy made his earliest recordings in the late 1960s, at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One. Known for his distinctive falsetto vocal style, he sang on many classic productions for reggae producers, including Phil Pratt, King Tubby and Prince Jammy. - Adam F
Adam F (born Adam Fenton) is one of the world's premiere jungle/drum and bass DJs, and son to Alvin Stardust and stepson of Liza Goddard. His breakthrough hit was the techstep classic "Metropolis/Mother Earth", released in 1997 on the Metalheadz record label. What is considered to be his greatest early work is his Drum & Bass/Jazz fusion 'Circles', with its unique structure and build, and famous bassline. Even today it is still played by numerous DJs. - Dave Seaman
Dave Seaman (born Apr 29 1968) is a British dance music DJ and record producer. He was formerly a member of the DMC Publishing, and editor of music magazine Mixmag. He formed one half of Brothers In Rhythm with Steve Anderson, doing production work for (amongst others) Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue. He has since founded Audio Therapy - part-dance collective, part-record label. He is also well-known for his three releases in the famed Global Underground series. - Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28 1981) is an American actor. Acting since the age of nine, Wood is best known for the role of Frodo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy. Making his film debut with a minor part in "Back to the Future Part II" (1989), Wood landed a succession of subsequent larger roles, and became a critically acclaimed child actor. After his role as Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings", … - Westbam
WestBam, also known as Maximillian Lenz is one of the most successful and popular rave techno DJs in Germany. His brother is Fabian Lenz, also known as DJ Dick. The origin of his moniker is an homage to Afrika Bambaataa, thus "West"phalia "Bam"baataa". He started his career as a DJ in 1983 in his birthcity Münster.
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