Artist Reviews

Jason Nevins
Unless you’ve been living on Pluto for the last decade, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Jason Nevins. A talented Producer, Remixer and DJ, Jason’s name became ubiquitous with the release of his remix of Run DMC’s “It’s Like That” in 1998. Way before his impressive hit, Jason had been enjoying a long and illustrious relationship with music – not just making it, but being passionate about his love for it too. “I’ve always been into various types of music” he explains. “Not just dance music but everything from 70′s mellow tunes to 80′s pop, tons of classic rock… and everything in between.”

Thomas Gold
The changing pace at which Thomas Gold’s year has taken shape has been literally breathtaking for the Berlin based artist. Not surprising then that Thomas was quickly snapped up by mammoth recording imprint Toolroom Records, who invited him to join their thoroughbred team of talent; as both a recording artist and resident DJ for their infamous ‘Toolroom Knights’ events alongside the likes of Fedde le Grand and Mark Knight. This strong start hasn’t gone unnoticed on the dancefloor either. 24 months on from breaking through into the international spotlight Thomas has nestled himself into the CD wallets of such luminaries as Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, Tiësto, David Guetta, Chuckie, John Dahlbäck and Sander van Doorn, whilst discovering equal support at club level by regularly chalking headlining slots at prestigious venues like Pacha, Privilege and Ministry of Sound.

Sean Tyas
In the UK and Ireland Sean Tyas has built up a solid fan base at major events such as Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, Ministry Of Sound, The Gallery and Inside Out, while elsewhere in Europe he’s also made his mark on many famous stages, ranging from the Trance Energy, Dance Valley and Mystery Land festivals in Holland, the Monday Bar cruises in Sweden, Judgement Sundays at Eden in Ibiza, east European shows at the Gaudi Arena in Moscow and Beach Party in Poland. In 2008 Sean Tyas has also performed as international resident on all the Godskitchen Global Gathering events worldwide in the main trance arena, and his DJ schedule is further impressive in every continent, with tours of Australia, South America and USA & Canada.

Kamui
The Germany based duo Kamui aka Dominik Felsmann and Patrick Scheidt can look back on their remarkable success with over 30 releases on several renowned record labels over the past six years. As a result of their sweat, blood, and hard work in the studio, they are now regular guests at clubs and festivals all over Europe, the UK, Asia, Australia and North America. With their club smasher and BBC Radio 1 favourite ‘Electro Slut’, the Beatport award winning “Toolbox E.P.”, the recently released ‘Exceed’ which has gained the DJ support from the likes of Sander van Doorn and Markus Schulz.

The Thrillseekers
For well over a decade, The Thrillseekers have been at the forefront of the world’s dance scene. From his first single ‘Synaesthesia’, through to the club anthems ‘Dreaming of You’, ‘NewLife’ and ‘By Your Side’, Steve Helstrip has been behind some of the most emotive, evocative electronic music, ever released. He’s worked with pioneers like Trevor Horn, shared co-production credits with Chicane and co-wrote on Ferry Corsten’s Grammy award winning ‘Right of Way’ album. He’s remixed Tiesto and Armin, amongst many others, and reworked Sonique’s ‘Feels So Good’ into a worldwide, No. 1 record.

Cutline
Cutline’s capacity to drive crowds crazy is unparalleled. Their music combines beautiful melodies and classical musicianship with intensely powerful production and speaker-busting basslines. If you’ve ever witnessed Cutline playing live, or heard one of their incredible mixtapes, then you’ll know that their jaw-dropping blends of dubstep, drum & bass, electro and every bass music genre in-between are guaranteed to destroy big room raves every time.

A*S*Y*S*
A*S*Y*S* aka Frank Ellrich has been an icon of the hard edged music scene, however it is his ability to evolve and remain at the very cutting edge that has seen him rise above many of his contemporaries – Frank is unquestionably hard dance royalty. Although cutting his teeth alongside Kai Tracid as part of the Tracid Traxxx mafia, Frank has spread his wings aligning himself with the Straight On Black crew from Holland. Across his countless productions, Frank has assumed a war chest full of guises including Plasmatics, Riddler & Headcrusher, Naiche & Steve K, X-frame plus of course the hugely successful Future Tribes. Since late 2007, a next major step was made by with establishing a new label called “Fe Records”. Mainly as a new platform for A*S*Y*S productions, the label claims to give the harder genres new & fresh impulses!

Dominik De Leon
This man needs no introduction – Dominik de Leon, part of the worldwide-known projects “DuMonde” & “JamX & DeLeon”. Cooperations with Talla2XLC, Sash and Cosmic Gate. Gum Me, CZR, Cyrus, Jay Frog, Markus Kaes and Manuel Schleis. One of the founders of the respected “F8T Recordings” label. Teaching regularly on audio-workshops.com. Any questions?

Tom Colontonio
Recently being dubbed as “the man of the moment” by Armin Van Buuren proves Tom Colontonio’s music once more unforgettable. Tom has released a number of tracks on Discover, Vandit, Conspiracy and Armada. He regularly appears on major radio shows such as PVD’s VONYC Sessions, Tiesto’s Club Life, Armin’s A State of Trance and others. As releases, remixes, collaborations and support from some of the biggest names in the electronic music industry continue to mount up, Tom Colontonio is beginning to see the world through the eyes of an international DJ. Make sure to catch Tom every month on his exclusive “Omega” show on Afterhours.FM once a month which can also be subscribed via Itunes.

Tai Jason
Tai Jason was born in London in 1979, but has spent his early childhood on Koh Samui in Thailand. At the age of 14 he moved to South Germany’s capital Munich, where he later started to study sound engineering. In 1998 he went on a mission to become the first Hip Hop Producer in Germany to produce dirtysouth crunk beats, even though he dosen’t really look like the typical dirty south rap producer. His first track to enter the sales charts accompanied by a high budget music video was “AggroBerlinZeit”, taken from the AGGRO Berlin “Ansage No. 5″ Album, which was mainly produced by Tai Jason and became a huge success. The Album reached gold status within 3 weeks and was Tai’s first successful milestone on his mission. Tai Jason was Germany’s most successful Hip Hop Producer in 2007 (most record sales), having not only the most releases, but also three Top 10 Albums – two of them already went gold, one of them is a heading for platinum status at the moment.

Airbase
Since he started his career, he’s been signed to labels such as Black Hole, Platipus, Armada, Gesture Music, Fundamental, Intuition, Alphabet City, Afterglow and many more. He’s released over 20 records and made over 50 remixes and has had great success with constant support from the absolute elite of todays trance Djs. He co-wrote the Sensation Anthem Belgium 2004 together with his brother André (First & Andre – Widescreen). He’s had the pleasure of playing in places like America, England, Israel, Ibiza, Finland, Poland, Holland, Scotland, Rumania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Switzerland and many other places. He’s been playing great venues and parties like Trance Energy, Mysteryland, Privilege Ibiza, Passion UK and O2 Arena London among others and many more to come – pooled, definitely one of the most-known trance-artists.

Lenny Dee
Producer / DJ / Label Owner / Big Shot Magazine Singles Reviewer Lenny Dee is one of NYC’s earliest techno and house pioneers. He produced classic UK chart-hitting techno with Frankie Bones (as Looney Tunes), Victor Simonelli (for Nu Groove and Def Mix) and Tommy Musto – including their ‘Fallout’ track – now heard on the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’.