Infection of the hardest, Vol.3
Hiroshima FLOOR:
....::::....MATT M. MADDOX....::::....
...MARCO B (Vendetta Sonore Records)
LEXIS (Cardiac Arrest rec., Audiocode, Trivial musik)
NUMAREX (Hard Noize)
MIHA B (Freelance)
LOBGO (Freelance)
Nagasaki FLOOR:
....::::....ALIEN T (Traxtorm / Italy)....::::....
MICHAEL VAN DEMON (HDM) & VIRUS (HDM)
PAYMON (HDM)
MIC-E (Hard Hammer)
KRISTIANO PRIME (HDM) Vs. ROOKBEAT
BOMBEAR (SHC DJ Team)
MATT M. MADDOX (Croatia, Germany)
Holiday area of Mali Losinj, Croatia. From his earliest childhood he favorized electronic music. From the beginig he played Techno Music, mostly on small Gig`s in local clubs. But than,in the age of 16 he found his true love in hard techno . Beacuse of poor distribution of Hard Techno music in Croatia at that time, in year 2004. he moved into Germany and made his first release on the german label Bitshift "Critical Demonstration". In the same year he also had his first international Gig in Sardinia, Italy. With his releases on Labels such as Bitshift, Jackstar, Tool Terror, Inflicted Compressed and many more Matt belongs to the top Producers of Hard Techno.
In 2005 Matt has his premier on the radio show “Trakstor mix mission 2005” on the dance radio channel Sunshine live..
One of the largest success in his carrier was Psycho 2005 on Robert Natus´ Label – Bitshift where he showed his great passion for hard techno. The record was sold all over the world with and it was a great turning point in Matt´s career. With that release Matt M. Maddox became famous in the world wide scene . That gave him a chance to develop a particulary intense and recognizable sound . The record Psycho 2005 appearead many compilations and mixes.
His great success is also performance at “ Nature One” 2007. , one of the biggest festival in Germany.
Since then , he belongs to the top producers of the hard Techno Scene. With releases on Labels such as Bitshift, Inflicted, Jackstar, Tool Terror, Compressed and many more, he had chance to create his own sounds and his typical Maddox Style. His production can also be found on charts of the biggest hard techno names like : Fj Rush, Amok, Frank Kvitta, Robert Natus,Pet Duo, Mario Ranieri, Dj Lukas, Viper XXL, Leo Laker aka Switchblade and many more...
As a DJ, Matt M. Maddox appearead in many countries all over the world, like Brasil, Colombia, Venezuela, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Ukraine, Belgium, Holland and many more... In the
year 2007 Matt published his first CD Compilations, „The Ultimate Compression „ ,he mixed with his colleque Tobias Lücke for the label Compressed.Not long afthher that he also mixed the„Schranz Total 17“ Compilation, wich is a part of the famous “Schranz Total” Compilation series . A big success was also the Releas on Combat Skill Records together with Pet Duo. EP name was „Hammer Sweet Hammer“ .
Wishing to spread techno sound in Germany, this year he started The Escalate : the new Techno/Hardtechno concept, with another Hard Techno DJ and his good friend Feedi.
Since them Matt M. Maddox belongs the top producers of the hard Techno Scene. With releases on Labels such as Bitshift, Jackstar, Tool Terror, Compressed and many more he had chance to create his own sounds and his typical Maddox Style. No question that Matt participate actively in the scene and provides for long and great party nights all over the globe.
As a DJ, Matt M. Maddox appeared in over 16 countries, e.g. Brasil, Colombia, Venezuela, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Ukraine and many more…. In 2005 Matt has his premier on the radio show “Trakstor mix mission 2005” on the dance radio channel Sunshine-Live. In the year 2007 Matt has his premiere on the Abstract floor at “ Nature One”, one of the biggest festival in Germany. In the same year two Compilations, mixed by Matt, were released too. The Ultimate Compression he mixed with his colleque Tobias Lücke for the label Compressed.
The second compilation is a part of the famous “Schranz Total” collection, which Matt was allowed to mix the number 17 with Linda Pearl.
One of the largest success in Matt´s carrier was Psycho 2005 on Robert Natus´ Label – Bitshift. The record was sold all over the world with large success and was a turning point in Matt´s career. With that Releas Matt become famous in the Scene world wide and had the chance to develop his sound. The record Psycho 2005 appaerd many Compilations and mixes. Two years after Psycho 2005, the second part will follow now - Psycho 2007 EP. The Vinyl will be released on the label of Sven Wittekind-Inflicted.
ALIEN T (Italy)
Marco Collini was born on the 9th of March 1983 in Campobasso and he always liked music, he started to love electronic music when he was child, and in 2000 he listened for the first time hardcore music in a compilation of that period (Extreme 2000) and he loved it at the first listening.
In 2002 Marco bought his first turntables and started to improve his skills in deejaying, but in his city unfortunately there wasn't hardcore music, and he must go to Rome to buy Vinyls and CD's, and at Virus Records and Deejay Mix (2 Romans Vinyl Shops) he met 2 important hardcore artists: Hellsystem and Amnesys. Marco and Amnesys became big friends, and Marco understood a lot about hardcore music in his conversations with Dario, and decided to start to make his own productions. From 2004 to 2005 Marco played in some medium and big parties in Switzerland, and he was one of the winners of the Megarave's newtalent dj contest. In the same time Marco thanks to his big passion and the advices of his big friend Amnesys became good in his productions and, at the end of 2006, he decided to send a demo to G-Net Records (Sublabel of Traxtorm Records) and The Stunned Guys decided to release his first records "I'll be tha hardest E.P." in 2007, then Alien T was born.
Thanks to his first record, Alien T in the same year played for the first time at Florida (the most important italian hardcore club) at parties like Sunbeat 2007 and The Nightmare in Italy. In 2008 he played for the fist time in the main floor of a really big italian party, United Hardcore Forces, and in the same year he played also @ Masters of Hardcore in Italy and Sunbeat 2008. At the end of 2008 Alien T undestood that if he want to develop his dj career, he must move himself to Brescia, where there are the most important italian parties, so he went to live in Adro (BS), and luckly in the same town there are the Studios of Claudio Lancinhouse, that decided to give to Alien T one of his two studios to make music.
Marco's choice was right, and thanks to the helps of his label too, his gigs improved a lot and on 2009 he played at about all the most important italian hardcore events like: United Hardcore Forces 09, Masters Of Hardcore Italian Freakz, E-Mission, Fusion-E, Conflict 01, History Of Hardcore, Kick.It, Sunbeat 09, and in the same year he played also at Hardcore Italia Stage @ Dominator Festival (NL) and one of his tracks "Wartime" was selected for the official compilation of this party!
Alien T kept on working on his music, improving a lot his skills also thanks to the professional studio. He produced 2 new tracks "Bullets in their heads" and "Ghetto mentality" and Maxx (The Stunned Guys) really liked that, so he decided to release the Marco's dream: to became a Traxtorm Records artist!!!
MARCO B (Austria)
Marco was interesed in music since he was a little child. With age of 17 he get his driver license and went to clubs & festivals of electronic dance music in whole austria and to neighbouring countries. Since than he knew he wanted to become a Dj and bought his first equitment and started to play at home. He quickly got the connections with Dj´s from clubs. He started to play Techno Music, but in the time music wasn't hare enough. That´s why he started to play Hardtechno and began to produce his own Tracks. He released on Jason Little´s Labels: JLI, JMASK & Fatalic Resignation Records. Also he have a vs. release with the famous france Dj GREG NOTILL at Vendetta Sonore Records.
LEXIS (Slovenia)
A young enthusiast from Slovenia started his journey when he first came in touch with electronic music at the break of the millennium. At the beginning of his DJ career things went slowly for Lexis until he started with his own music production. This experience brought new sense and vision into his evolution as an artist. After his first tries he came in touch with another Slovenian artist Daniel Gloomy, who has given Lexis a chance to present his music on labels such as Cardiac Arrest Recs. and Beast Music. Soon after his debut on Daniel’s labels releases followed on various techno labels. Many top selling EPs propelled Lexis’ DJ career as well, bookings all over Europe and also South America followed soon after. Lexis teamed up with Daniel Gloomy once again to co-run the label Cardiac Arrest Recs. in 2007. His unique style of combining hard and dark sound with groovy and funky elements have made him one of the top hard techno artists at the moment.
MIC-E (Slovenia)
Mic-E's first incounter with turntables was at the age of 13. In 1997 he started to play dance music on a regular basis in a local pub in Postojna, his home town. Throug his days and nights behind the turntables, he got inlove with the harder side of dance music, at that time called progressiva. Mostly consisted with italian productions and german hard trance, in the year 2000 he stopped playing dance music, and focused on the hard side of club music. He founded Analogica Productions with the help of his friend DJ Etnic. They started producing parties in a club in Postojna called E.K.. Preforming on a regular basis at his parties, made him interesting for other events through Slovenia. Since than he played in almost every important club in Slovenia, and in countries as UK, Croatia, Austria....
MICHAEL VAN DEMON vs. VIRUS (Slovenia)
In the year 2003 they got in contact with electronic music. Soon after they discovered hardcore and fell in love with it. Not much later, they started to spin hardcore/mainstream/gabber/industrial. Behind the decks they meet with: Tieum, Hellsystem, Dione, Alien-T, Activator, Darkcontroller, Noughty Guy, Wortex, Mic-e, Mr.Madness, Krokz, Paymon, T-Rex, Beatsmasherz,... (They played all over Slovenia in places like: Inbox, Močilnik, Impulz, Channel 0, Ostriga, Space Club, Taverna...) In 2008 they got their first vinyl release in Substance Abuse Records. Now they are a part of group called Hard Destruction Movement (HDM), which is the group for bookings, production and organization of harder style party's. They always want to bring the hardest and rawest rhythms - beats to their perfomance. So let the banging begin.
PAYMON (Slovenia)
Paymon had his first contact with electronic music when he was only 12 years old. He grow up with sounds of Thunderdrome and dj's like Carl Cox and Marusha. Three years later he spinned for the first time comercial music with cd-players, at the time he decied to buy his first turntables. He learned the art of spinning in the rhytms of techno, which he later replaced with hardtechno and schranz. With the producers like Tieum, Stormtrooper, Angerfist, Neophyte, Satronica, Delta9, Industrial Terror Squad, Lenny Dee and Terrorfakt he finally found his style – a unique mix of industrial and hardcore. He is also one of active promoters of harder music in Slovenia.
KRISTIANO PRIME (Slovenia)
Kristjan Kavčič also known as Kristiano Prime was born in 1984 in Šempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia. Since he was young he likes music, especially electronic music. Soon he started to take part of big events – partys in the disco club Cream in Nova Gorica, Ambasada Gavioli, TNT – Kamasutra (Italy) etc. and on after a few of this events he started to like the DJ`s work. The first time he watched the DVD Qlimax 2006 he realized that his style is Hardstyle. The next step was the decision to make his dreams come true and starts a DJ career. In 2008 he started to go to DJ`s school at the Club Bollywood in Metlika, which was organized by the TMD Team. The leaders of the school were DJ Matto and Spinne, they inspired Kristiano Prime for mixing so much…in few months there was a new Hardstyke and Trance DJ rising in Slovenia. One year later Kristiano Prime and DJ Calixta started to go to another DJ school, this time in Ljubljana, organized by the Atelje 2050 team. It was time to buy some DJ equipment, and he bought an mixing table Pioneer DJM-600, two CD players Pioneer CDJ-1000MK3, Technics headphones and an Technics turntable. The first partys he took part as a DJ was F*** ME IT'S MY BIRTHDAY 2009 (and 2010) and HALLOWEEN PARTY 2009 at the disco club Marco Polo in Nova Gorica. The next partys he take part were the HDM teams (Hard Destruction Movement) like RAGE IN HELL 2, REMATCH, UNITED DESTRUCTION 2010, ALLES KAPOT and MEET US – MERGE OF GENERATIONS, where Kristiano prime have shown his talent and his passion for Hardstyle music. His work is mostly inspired by DJ Calixta, Michael van Demon, Paymon, Virus, Headhunterz and others…..TO BE CONTINUED!!! F*** ME I PLAY HARDSTYLE!
BOMBEAR (Slovenia)
Bombear had his first contact with electronic music at the age of 16, soon he knew. He bought basic equipment and start mixing. At first he played dance and house music, later he got into techno, but he found true inspiration in hardstyle. In 2010 he had a breakthrough. Quickly he became recognizable for his sets, which consists of early hardstyle and new »reverse bass« hardstyle. He also brings hard trance into his sets. He played in well known clubs in Slovenia, like Pržan, Močilnik and Inbox with known DJs. He is a part of a group called SHC DJ Team.
