- 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. - Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a Welsh-Cornish electronic music artist, credited with developing the genres of techno, ambient, acid and drum and bass. - Laurent Garnier
Laurent Garnier (born February 1, 1966) is a French techno music producer and DJ. A former staffer at the embassy in London, Laurent Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span classic deep house and Detroit techno, the harder side of acid/trance and jazzy tracks as well. He added production work to his schedule in the early 1990s and recorded several LPs. - 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. - Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills (born 18 June 1963 in Detroit, USA) is an influential African American Techno DJ and producer from Detroit. - Ellen Allien
Ellen Allien, born Ellen Fraatz, is a German electronic musician, music producer and founder of BPitch Control music label. She lives in Berlin, Germany, but travels extensively. She sings in both German and English. She has said that one of the main inspirations for her music is the culture of reunified Berlin; her album "Stadtkind" was dedicated to the city. - Dave Clarke
Dave Clarke is a Brighton born Techno Producer and DJ, often given the status "The Baron of Techno". - Chris Liebing
Chris Liebing (born Christopher Liebing) is a techno producer and DJ that releases on music labels such as "CLR", "Clretry", "CLAU", "Stigmata" and "Soap" (distributed by "Prime" in England). His records have a typical pumping sound he calls Schranz. He dances with his music in an eccentric manner. - Derrick May
Derrick May, also known as Mayday and Rhythim is Rhythim, is an electronic musician from Detroit, Michigan U.S.. He was born in Detroit in 1963 and began to explore electronic music early in his life. Along with his Belleville, Michigan high school friends Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as the Belleville Three, May is credited with developing the futuristic variation on house music that would be dubbed "techno" by Atkins. - Adam Beyer
Adam Beyer (born 1976 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish techno producer and DJ. He is the founder of Drumcode Records, Truesoul Records and Mad Eye Recordings. He also signed with Code Red Recordings formed by Dj Spen in 2005, which was bought out by Defected Records in the summer of 2006. He is one of several Swedish techno artists to emerge in the mid 1990's along the likes of Cari Lekebusch, Joel Mull, Jesper Dahlback, Alexi Delano and more. - 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. - Sven Väth
Sven Väth, born October 26, 1964 near Frankfurt, Germany, is a DJ who has produced a large body of work since his career began in 1982. He was also one of the founders of legendary trance music labels Harthouse and the now-defunct Eye Q, as well as being among the very first DJs to play trance records. In 1995 Mixmag rated his album "Accident in Paradise" one of the top 50 dance albums of all time; although the title track is a fast techno piece, … - Lenny Kravitz
Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk, and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, he often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion himself when recording. - Kevin Saunderson
Kevin Saunderson (born in Brooklyn, New York on May 9 1964) is an American electronic music producer. At the age of nine he moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he attended Belleville High School and befriended two students, Derrick May and Juan Atkins. Saunderson, with Atkins and May, is considered to be one of the originators of techno, specifically Detroit techno. Kevin Saunderson started his career as a DJ, and developed new skills that led him into producing music, … - Dj Hell
DJ Hell (real name Helmut Josef Geier, born in Munich on September 6, 1962) is a German House/Techno DJ. He is the label boss of International DeeJay Gigolo Records and has been responsible for many of the big records to come out of the Electroclash or German Squelch scene that emerged in Berlin in the mid-nineties. - 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. - Juan Atkins
Juan Atkins (born December 9, 1962 in Detroit) is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of Techno Music, specifically, Detroit Techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson. The three attended high school together in Belleville, MI, near Detroit. At Washtenaw Community College, Atkins met Rick Davis, with whom he recorded under the name Cybotron. Atkins coined the term Techno to describe their music, … - Dj Rush
DJ Rush (Isaiah Major) is a successful Techno-DJ and music producer from Chicago, USA. He was born in January, 1970. In the blooming house scene of Chicago DJ Rush quickly came to like electronic music. He made his first appearances as a DJ in the "Music Box", the "Powerhouse", the Stammheim, and the legendary Warehouse where he stood behind the turntables for up to ten hours. At the same he began producing his own creations in his bedroom. - Tomcraft
Tomcraft is a German DJ and producer. He is specialized in progressive house and progressive trance and is better known for having created the tracks "Loneliness" and "Prosac", working alongside Eniac. Tomcraft began working as a DJ in Munich in 1994, shifting between techno and the emerging progressive trance style. The following year, he released his first track, "This Is No House". He first met in Eniac in 1996, and the two immediately started producing music together, … - Claude Vonstroke
Claude VonStroke is an American House/Techno/Ghettotech producer based in San Francisco. In July 2006 he released his debut album, "Beware Of The Bird", to excellent reviews further establishing him as an original talent in the world of underground dance music. Claude VonStroke is signed to dirtybird records. His aliases include Barclay Crenshaw, Burnto Bertolucci, Pedro DeLaFaydro. - Meat Katie
Mark Pember, also known as Meat Katie, is a London-based breakbeat producer and DJ. He has gained popularity in recent years in developing his style of tech-funk, combining techno, tribal, electro, breakbeat and house music. He is currently signed to LOT49. Meat Katie was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Breakbeat award at the 2006 Breakspoll awards. - Robert Hood
Robert Hood is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He is best known for producing hard minimal techno. He started his career with Detroit Techno collective Underground Resistance and since then has released records with various labels including Axis, Peacefrog Records, Music Man and his own M-Plant. - Grooverider
Grooverider (born Raymond Bingham) is the stage name of a drum and bass DJ from London. Grooverider began his DJing career at illegal raves and warehouse parties in Britain in the late eighties, and rose to prominence with partner Fabio through his innovative sets at influential club nights such as Rage and Speed. At these nights, Grooverider championed the emerging UK breakbeat culture that would eventually split from house and techno to become hardcore, … - Luke Slater
Luke Slater (Born June 12, 1968 in Reading, England) has produced techno since the beginning of the 1990s. - Nightmares On Wax
Nightmares on Wax is DJ and musician George Evelyn (born c. 1970), also known as DJ EASE (Experimental Sample Expert), from Leeds, UK. The musical style is a combination of electronic sounds and hip hop beats, often regarded as "Chill Out". Nightmares on Wax's music is released on Warp Records. Evelyn got his start in the music industry through an interest in hip hop and on joining a local breakdancing crew, … - Robert Miles
Robert Miles is a Swiss record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music. - Lisa Lashes
Lisa Lashes (born Lisa Dawn Rose-Wyatt in Holbrooks Coventry), is a leading English hard dance DJ. An established and popular DJ in the UK hard dance scene, Lisa Lashes was one of the pioneers of UK hard house, a genre that was developed in the UK during the 1990s. Also known as the "Queen of Hard House," Lashes playing styles including hard house, hard trance, psychedelic trance and techno. Lashes formed The Tidy Girls with fellow female UK DJ Anne Savage. - Dave Angel
Dave Angel, (born David Angelico Nicholas Gooden in Chelsea, London), is an English techno musician. Angel is the son of a London-based jazz musician, and the older brother of rapper Monie Love. He had an unorthodox musical education; his father influenced him deeply, as did his friends and his environment, including the radio. He listened not only to Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, but also to soul music and funk. - Talla 2xlc
Talla 2XLC (b. Andreas Tomalla, Germany) is a producer, musician, and DJ whose work has spanned from industrial music to trance music. Tomalla started as a DJ, founding in 1984 the Technoclub at Frankfurt's "Dorian Gray" club. He was also at the time involved with a band called Moskwa TV. In 1988, he started a new project called Bigod 20, which would go on to be one of Europe's most successful EBM acts of the early 1990s. - Ken Ishii
Ken Ishii is a successful Japanese techno DJ and producer from Tokyo. He has released work under his own name as well as under the pseudonyms: FLR, Flare, UTU, Yoga, and Rising Sun. Strongly influenced by Detroit techno, Ken Ishii had his first release on Richie Hawtin's label Plus 8. He composed the music for the opening ceremonies to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. - Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder (born Giovanni Giorgio Moroder on April 26 1940 in Ortisei, Italy) is an Academy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer, whose groundbreaking work with synthesizers during the 1970s was a significant influence on new wave, techno and electronic music in general. Particularly well known are Donna Summer's disco hits produced by Moroder, including "I Feel Love". - Alexander Kowalski
Alexander Kowalski is a popular German techno (music) artist. He was born in 1978 in Greifswald, Germany. In 1986 he moved with his family to Berlin and produces his music there. The album 'Progress' released in 2002 saw Kowalski launched to the forefront of modern techno. Championed by the likes of the late DJ John Peel (BBC Radio 1), … - Tom Middleton
Tom Middleton is a British recording artist, music producer, remixer and DJ. A classically trained pianist and cellist, Middleton worked in the early 1990s with Richard D. James (with whom he shares a birthday), co-producing "En-Trance To Exit" on the "Analogue Bubblebath" EP for Exeter's influential Mighty Force Records. This was followed by his first solo outing, "My Splendid Idea", under the name Schizophrenia for the same label. - T. Raumschmiere
T.Raumschmiere is Marco Haas, born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1975. He is a techno DJ with a punk attitude. - Big Boy
Gustavo Roy Díaz, known publicly as Big Boy, is a hip hop/reggaeton artist. Díaz, a pioneer of reggaeton music, began his music career at the age of eighteen when he signed with Musical Productions to release his first album "Mr. Big" in 1993. The album sold more than 100,000 copies, and spawned the hit single, "Big Boy Is In Tha House", a video which ironically featured an exclusively homeless cast. - Cari Lekebusch
Cari Lekebusch (born 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an electronic music producer and DJ based in Stockholm. His productions range from techno to hip hop. He owns a record label, H. Productions, founded and managed by himself. The original name of the record label was Hybrid productions, but a legal twist in 1998 with the Japanese label Awex inc's British group Hybrid forced Lekebusch to change his record label name to its present name. - Rennie Pilgrem
Rennie Pilgrem is an electronic music producer from England who is often considered responsible for the creation of the nu skool breaks genre. Before moving into breaks Rennie produced techno and acid house and was part of the influential rave group Rhythm Section along with Ellis Dee. Rennie is also the boss of Thursday Club Recordings aka TCR a label which he founded in 1993. TCR records is major force in the nu skool breaks scene. - Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold ("Jeff") Beck (born June 24, 1944 to Arnold and Ethel Beck in Wallington, Greater London, England) is an English guitar virtuoso and songwriter. Though he played in several influential bands in the 1960s and 1970s (notably in The Yardbirds) Beck has maintained a sporadic solo career over the last 25 years. Despite never attaining the commercial viability of his contemporaries, Beck has gained widespread critical acclaim, … - Claude Young
Claude Young Jr. is one of the most famous techno DJs coming from Detroit. Known for his outstanding mixing style that includes scratches, juggles and cuts, Claude Young has played in clubs all around the world. Claude Young first came in touch with music through his father who was a co-founder of the Detroit radio station WJLB and a moderator/DJ there. Through occupation as a radio/club-DJ Claude Young established himself in the Detroit techno scene. - Vladislav Delay
Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo and Conoco. He has been involved in the ambient music, glitch, house, and techno genres. His method of track production involves a mixture of synthesizing, vocal recording and live reprocessing.
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