In 1999, the artists Igor Tchkotoua and Dan Duncan met by chance on a flight to Spain and recognized that they are on the same wavelength. Soon after that, records and productions were exchanged and slowly, the two determined to rough up the underground techno scene. Their first joint productions immediately made it into the record cases of well-known DJs and Laurent Garnier, Sander Kleinenberg or Deep Dish inquired the tracks for their mix compilations. After more than twenty productions for their own “Submission” label, they started something new with their new label “Sonic Society”, moving more towards minimal productions. However, it wasn’t long until people like Sven VКth, Loco Dice or M.A.N.D.Y. began supporting Pig&Dan productions. The highlight of their corporate career may have been the remix for “Underworld”. Also last year, the Pig&Dan 12”es “On to the Beat” and “After Ibiza” on Cocoon Recordings caused a sensation and wherever the records were played, both the public as well as the DJs freaked out and wanted to know the name of the record. From that point on, it was only a question of time until the duo would do a longplayer on Cocoon Recordings.

After Guy Gerber's longplay debut on Cocoon, it's now Pig&Dan's turn to release the next big thing in the Cocoon Recordings universe. In contrast to Guy Gerber, who, with "Late Bloomers", succeeded in covering the total bandwidth from House via Techno to Trance, Pig&Dan are moving more or less on one track – however they are following their path more consistently. Their electronic House sound – closer to Techno than to Guy Gerber's Deep House as regards content – is a perfect image of what is happening on the planet's dancefloors. Trippy and driving electronic beats which are never flamboyant are combined with filigree basslines, giant spherical spaces and weird sounds in long sophisticated arrangements: modern Minimal House with a good share of Techno. Pig&Dan prove to be masters of their trade, and with their productions, sound and style, remind of the perfection of artists like Guido Schneider or Anders Trentemњller, without ever losing their own handwriting. Despite the stringent concept of Electro House, their productions are applicable in a highly flexible way. Though the tracks suggest, by their driving character, to put them into Techno and House DJ sets, but also the friends of calmer sounds will have a lot of listening fun, because the productions never tend to sound aggressive, they rather manage to set free the really big emotions, sometimes reminding of the high times of Vladislav Delay's Luomo productions. Whereas in the last years, Delay used to be somehow more playful and harmonic, Pig&Dan reduce themselves on "Imagine" more to the essentials of current Techno productions and work more clearly on the elements that a modern dance track should have. The duo is operating on a very high level of production, from the first track to the last one on the record - one highlight chasing the other, and almost each track is succeed in bringing back the atmosphere of the last club night. This is where the sound of the Cocoon floors in Ibiza, Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Rome is transported directly to our iPods, stereos and cars. Pig&Dan seem to have lost their hitherto status as an insider's tip once and for all with that impressing debut album and prove that they are not only fantastic DJs remixers but can also create first-class productions.

Gaetano is no longer unknwon in the electronic music scene. Since over 3 years, he produced tracks for example on his own imprint imperio music and vivid trax, which have a clear statement and identification. In the age of 15 he already owned a small, well-equipped home studio. All his energy flowed into it. His first release "Past Days E.P." was in the playlist of Sven Vaeth for example. His second cat.no. was high rated in the Raveline Magazine 06/2006 and recommendation of the month. A lot has happened since then. Gaetano developed his style with passion and faith and his own touch. In 2008 he founded his new label project Imperanza Recordings. Aim of this imprint is to unite warm emotional techno with kicking groovy beats. 

Gaetano's roots lie in the techno end of the 90s, so his DJ sets have a lot of power and energy to rock a whole club night. Evosonic radio was very inspiring for Gaetano. "Music has its own mystique for me, it must hypnotize me, let's me forget everything around me. Electronic music is a life style. It has all the power to tell you stories and give you emotions. My music is my soul in which all my energy is based. " 

Gaetano follows its aims with precision and passion. 

2009 he starts his own event serie "Club Imperanza" with booking of national and international acts.

www.myspace.com/gaetanogermany
www.imperanza.com/

Uforiq is an electronic based project masterminded by upcoming Dubai based producer and studio engineer Moez Munshi. Having picked up music at a young age, with a diverse musical background, Moez braced the scene from Dubai, to London and Toronto. Having explored many forms of musical formats from DJ'ing and instrumental fusions to his Post-Metal side project 'The Shiyer'. His experience in music is highly threatening, armed with knowledge gained from his time at Toronto's Trebas Institution for Music completes his arsenal of musical knowledge and understanding.

www.myspace.com/uforiq

Turl (Stephen Turley) is an up and coming Producer and DJ from the United Kingdom. He was born in raised in Northern Ireland before relocating to England to further his career in music. His style of production has changed a lot over the past five years, starting with funky Hip-Hop beats, before progressing into more electronic influenced genres such as Progressive House, Tech-House and Techno.

Always in the Studio churning out tracks, Turl is currently working on a new album, due by the spring of 2010. As well as production, Turl also Djs regularly, playing funky Tech-House and Techno, as well as his own beats. He is all ready playing in some of the top clubs in Southampton, such as Junk (alongside Yousef), White House and Rhino and recently won the Bacardi South Coast DJ competition.
The future holds many possibilities for the young Irishman who is determined to unleash his productions and DJ skills to the world.
 

Coming from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ariel first got involved with music at the age of 16. Ten years later, after recording three studio albums with the band "il phantasmo" (Smokinghome Records, 1999, 2001 and 2003), he decided to work as a solo artist producing dance tracks under the alias Nicholas Van Orton. His tunes had a great welcome at the house music scene, and are supported by many international and local djs such as Hernan Cattaneo, Eddie Halliwell, 16bit Lolitas, Andy Moor or Anthony Pappa, to name a few. While working alone, or as a part of production team, his tracks frequently manage to reach the charts from pools, djs and record stores. Ariel has firmly established also as a DJ, playing around America and Europe, performing both DJ gigs and live acts, where he includes his latest works and remixes.
Since 2009, NVO also runs Balkan Connection South America record label, in collaboration with his friend Ogi Gee Cash, getting massive support from mainstream DJ's. He also takes part of side groups and collaborations, such as The Planters, with Luciano Lima or his duo with the argentinian producer Niko Fantin.

Digitalworkx was born in Transylvania and lives in Germany since 1988. He produces electronic music in his studio and did his first remix in 1990 helping to develop the Minimal and Tech House scene in Germany. Since a young age Digitalworkx was confronted with electronic music and in the beginning of 1990 as an 18-year-old he made friends with the Keyboarder of "The Real Milli Vanilli". The Keyboarder recommended Roland about available music technology and introduced him into the world of Cubase, Creator and Notator and gave Digitalworkx some productional skills. Bit by bit the rising music producer gathered an expensive studio at his home. The music and the technology inspired Digitalworkx so much that he studied 2004 at the S.A.E audio engineering. In the studio Digitalworkx primarily uses Cubase for his productions and for his live performance and DJing he specialized on controlling Ableton. Influenced by his models, as for example Hardfloor, Laurent Garnier, Der Dritte Raum and Chris Liebing, Digitalworkx produced several tracks, that were played in many clubs to its fullest. Since 2010 he is signed to the label of Shabu Vibes from "Shabulized" supporting the techhouse channel.