Born in 1980, DJ, house addict, producer, but most of all, just a guy that loves good music.

Jaap always tries to mix his music with high technical skills, a good build-up and a harmonic feel, from minimal to progressive to house to techno. Constantly evolving his style, he keeps things interesting for a wide audience. On this website you can download a whole lot of mixes.

Playing at numerous events across Holland (from big ass outdoor dance festivals to nice intimate club nights), the number of parties Jaap plays at, is growing bigger and bigger. (Check the gig history here)

Producing solo and as the Outrageous Okona’s, together with friend and ex colleague Steven Klaver (aka Dr Dev / King of Clubs), a lot of tracks are signed and going to get a release the coming time.

He also did a ’15 minutes of fame’ mix for Tiesto’s club life on radio 538, the number 1 radio station in Holland (listen to it here) and got responses from all over the globe. Jaap also played on several other radio shows (on Digitally Imported, Deep FM, Planet House radio) and played a couple of sets on Frisky Radio, which is the most important progressive radiostation worldwide, well known in the international scene.

The bootleg remixes / tracks Jaap made the last couple of years, fell into the hands of the world’s biggest dj’s such as Tiësto, Sasha, John Digweed, Nick Warren, Jody Wisternoff and so on (and got played by them numerous times at gigs and radioshows).

Expect a whole lot more of Jaap the coming years, both tracks, remixes and bootlegs but also the number of parties he’s gonna play at.

Okay, and now for some namedropping. Jaap played before or after Don Diablo, Erick E, Marco V, Benny Rodrigues, Marcella, De Man Zonder Schaduw, Mason, Marnix, Ricky Rivaro, Cor Fijneman and ‘Schaamteloos DJs’ Jan and Branko!

And here are some Dj’s / Producers that supported Jaap Ligthart tracks, remixes and / or bootlegs: Sasha (UK), John Digweed (UK), Tiësto (NL), Nick Warren (UK), Eelke Kleijn (NL), Jody Wisternoff (UK), Roell Saphire (NL), Block and Crown (NL), Moussa Clarke (UK), Miss Nine (NL), Andy Newland (UK), Jules W (NL), Stefan Anion (USA), Sasha le Monnier (UK), DJ Marcus (USA), Kira (UK), Yura Popov (RU), Dingle (Northern Ireland), Jim Star (Canada), and the list goes on and on…

www.jaapligthart.com

Ivan Bustamante aka RedLoft was born in Mexico city in 1980. Coming from a family with a big musical background, he grew up surrounded by Jazz, Rock and Roll and many other styles that influenced him deeply. Everyday his love for music grew and lead him to start playing drums and piano. At the age of 16, he attended for the first time to an electronic music event (Union Fest) which marked him forever. Two years later, Ivan started djing and become resident in a bar showing clearly in his sound his main influence, progressive sound from Global Underground, Northen Exposure, Sasha and Digweed. In 2003, he travelled to Europe where he got a better look of what dance scene was realy about, attending to some massive electronic music events. Nowadays, RedLoft is starting to take his dj carreer to the next level by getting more promotion and had already been invited to important radio shows such as D-PHRAG’s Immersed, Proton Radio, Dance Radio and many more; recently he is also producing and has signed tracks on Ascension Records, Ocean Drive, Soundtribe and Progressive Grooves, Swordtail Recs and recently signed with Toes In Sand and Polytechnics Records, Nowadays Ivan is working in a collab with some artist like Isaak Escamilla formed Eyecorp, Matias Chilano, Native and Silence O Phobia.

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featuring mixsets from (in order of appearance) (times are estimated)

and AN EXCLUSIVE 12 HOURS MIXSET FROM D-PHRAG & PLAMEN K!!!

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Maxim Ryzhkov – bright and ambitious guy who got behind his shoulders for about ten years of successful career on one of the biggest radio stations in Russia – Europa Plus, in one of hundreds of spots of its broadcasting. With this rather big experience with music, today he is the creator of dozens of conceptual parties and multistyle show “Free Ends”, which already has numerous followers.

http://privatelife.promodj.ru/

Cryogenesis-007 delivers a brand new 2 hour edition of his Bi-Weekly Radio Show Tell Me A Story . The show itself will primarily focus on the Progressive side of things with an emphasis on a wider selection of Progressive House tracks. If you are a fan of the Progressive House sub-genre then this is a show that you wouldn’t want to miss.

Tell Me A Story airs on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday Of Each Month starting at 12:00PM CST | 1:00PM EST | 18:00 GMT | 19:00 CET. If you are unsure about the timezone or what time the show will begin in your local timezone please feel free to check with the local station clock which you can find on the front page of our website (right-hand side).

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Erich von Kollar aka. Kollár Erik Gábor was born in Hungary (Debrecen) in 1990.05.13. His life is the music and he decided that the music will be his life on the future, too. Because of this ambition he changed his ‘conduct’. Erich’s started to deal with DJ activities on summer 2006. However, in the beginning he made mixes for his friends but nowadays him sets are heard at different radio stations around the world like Proton Radio, Frisky Radio, Digitally Imported, Justmusic FM, Pure FM, GlobalBeats FM and more. His first release has appeared by Proton Mixed record label on April 30. This is a compilation: Erich von Kollar – Relations. This work was a big succes and result of this Erich will start a new radio show soon on Proton, called ‘Relations’. The sounds – what we can hear from him – are really atmospheric and meditative. It’s true that he like clear melodies and pleasant grooves but he has a dynamic side, too in music.

More info: myspace.com/erichvonkollar

The successfull Ticon grooves comes from Filip Mårdberg of vintage year 1979 and Fredrik Gilenholt of an equivalent 1977. The story of their musical involvement dates long back as they in 1991 found the mutual interest for underground dance music and became friends. Fredrik had already been listening to hardtrance and acid techno for a while and introduced Filip who, probably due to the size of their hometown Malmoe – Sweden (and maybe his age), had never heard anything like it but was immediately addicted. It didn`t take long before they both started to dream about making this music themselves and with an Amiga 500 they where on the go.

Ok!!… the first tracks sounded more like a cat stuck in a car engine than what was intended to come out of the speakers (to quote Filip in an inteview for Australian magazine Techno Renegade) but after some practice they started to learn the basics so a newly bought PC and an old rock module became the base for their first project, Sector. During this time both of them frequently went to techno and trance parties where they got a lot of inspiration which led them to start buying records and dj’ing at underground psytrance parties. Sector went on for a while without any more progression than when they got the chance to play the track out as djs.

Around 1995, as the homestudio was growing with the salary from a hotel where they both worked, the new moniker Tripticon was born. This was the new step and they sent a lot of demos to different labels but other than some vague promises of release they mainly built a network with people all over the world, swapping dat tapes to get new stuff for their dj sets. But then in 1997 (korrigera artalet) light was at the end of the tunnel when they through a local contact were offered to release an album on Stockholm based Tsunami records (hence not the one of New York). Tracks were gathered and approved, artwork was made and so in ??? 1999 (korrigera manad o artal) Tripticon – ‘the seventh portal’ was released and they had finally released something!!

The time after the release became a hard period for them musically cause they were getting tired with the Tripticon sound and there was no obvious path to take. A lot of new stuff was tried but it wasn’t until Malmoe based label Digital Structures in the summer of 1999 contacted them and proposed that they try to make trance of a more groovy nature, that things started to get clear. They got in for a heavy studio session and out of it came the track ‘mona bone’, later to be released on Digital Structures together with ‘deep fried cricket’ as a 12”, which is today a classic Ticon track but more important, they had found the path they were looking for.

After successfull realases of now classic tracks like ‘ass-tronaut’, ‘monkey business’, ‘rattlesnake lollipop’, ‘lo mi hi’ and ‘input, output, kaput’ on lables like TIP World, Hadshot Haheizar, Transient rec, Dragonfly rec, Surround Sounds and of course Digital Structures, they had earnt a spot in the growing group of respected tranceproducers.

By mid 2000 an obvious need for a debut album had risen and the boys started the work of what was to become the full length ‘rewind’. Released in april 2001 it received waves of acknowledgement from all over the world with rave reviews and important djs calling it one of the most important trance albums. With no concept of how the album was to be received, Fredrik and Filip were more than pleased to see tracks like ‘we are the mammoth hunters’ enter the history of trance music.

Along with these productions they had gotten more and more equipment and the bedroom studio in Fredrik’s appartment (which he by the way shares with his father) was on the verge of making him homeless with consoles, synths, cables and effects covering every surface but the bed. Needless to say, a studio was needed to solve the space and the angry old lady upstairs. After a lot of ads reading and many phone calls they finally found the good place and at the beginning of 2002, Noze Noize Studio moved in and will hopefully stay, happily forever-after.

Today they have both quit their dayjobs and although not always easy, they manage to live of their music. In addition to Ticon there is a lot of other music made in the studio; with New Disco Science Alliance they try to bridge over to a clubbier style of tech house; with Qlap, which is a project with Son Kite, main idea is to fuse the two groups to get something new. Then there is also a downbeat project without a name so far (although 2 tracks have been released under the Ticon name) and at last a new experiment which in lack of other definition must be called a pop project with a songwriter and a vocalist.

Last but not at all least for Ticon comes the unforgettable experience of playing live. After their first release in may 2000, requests soon came and they had to come up with a solution to meet their own demands on how a good live act should sound like. The definition of what is a real techno livset is almost impossible since the music is made/recorded on a computer and it is not very easy to bring the whole studio with you on an airplane, just imagine the excess luggage cost!! Not to speak about the work involved with disconnecting the whole studio once a week. Well not wanting to just press play on a dat or laptop and then drink beer during the live act, they came up with the set up of a Fostex 16 channel harddisc recorder, a Novation Nova, a midi keyboard, a microphone (!?), a cd player and a dj mixer. The tracks to be played live are recorded to the Fostex on 16 different channels with for example the kick on channel 1, bass on channel 2, drumloop on channel 3 and so on. The process is then that every other track is played from the hard disc recorder and the rest from cd and it is all beat mixed by Filip to give the dancing crowd an impression of a flowing journey. The Fostex has a built in mixer for a live arrangement so the live tracks can take new forms every time played and together with Filip’s talking through the mic & vocoder makes every performance unique.

Happy faces have been shining back at them from Australia to Mexico, Japan to numerous festivals like VOOV, Samothraki, Fusion and to play live is what they really love to do, “working in the studio is wonderful but playing at a nice party beats everything” says both Fredrik & Filip

to book them or check where they are playing next …. have a look at www.mpdqx.com/booking

On my birthday, as a small token of appreciation to all my friends and fans, I recorded this short mixset for you guys. I want to personally thank everyone who has been supporting me, had trust in me and followed me. Thank you for being who you are and I love you – you know ho you are.

Wael B – Bleeding Out
Karim Haas Feat. Claudia Kennaugh – Read My Mind (SKAM Remix)
Genetik, Benny Royal – Stereo Typed (Thomas Penton Remix)
Jamie Fisher – Hexagon (Lissat & Voltaxx Remix)
Michael Woods & Ant Brooks – Wobble
Prok & Fitch – The Heat feat. Max’C (NICe7 Remix)
Blas Marin & Mijail – Kharma
Exacta, Pirupa – Get Down (Exacta & Pirupa Original Version)
Rob Mirage & DJ Chus – Back 2 NY (Robbie Taylor & Benny Royal Mix)
Oscar L & Sr. Markus – Thirty
Jay C – Souk ( Mastered Mix)
My Digital Enemy & Prok & Fitch – Reach Out
Nicky Romero – My Friend
Planet Funk Vs. Deadmau5 – Chase The Mouse (Jaap Ligthart Mash Up)

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Here is also the mixset for download:

d-phrag – Live AMAGAMA Ukraine (May 1, 2010)

Russell has been DJ’ing since 2001 after covering many miles attending many nights listening to DJ’s such as Tall Paul, Seb Fontaine and Sasha.

In 2004 Russell’s style evolved to a house sound, a move which has seen him appear at Godskitchen, The Gallery @ Turnmills, The Honey Club in Brighton and more, he has appeared on line-ups including Mark Knight, Funkagenda, 2008 & 2009 has seen Russell become a regular at superclub Godskitchen where he has featured on line-ups including legends Sasha & Digweed, Armin Van Buuren, Carl Cox and Above & Beyond.

Apart from gracing the decks at many a night on British shores Russell has played regularly in Europe including playing for Godskitchen in Sweden on NYE 2008, other countries Russell has visited include the Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia & Egypt.

It’s not just the DJ’ing that has seen Russell earn acclaim but also his productions which have found themselves in the tracklist’s and CD Wallets of a wide spectrum of DJ’s from Tiesto, Armin, Eric Prydz right through to Veerus + Maxie Devine, Thomas Gold, Patric Le Funk and many more.

Russell’s productions and DJ sets have also been heard on various media outlets including Radio 1, Galaxy & Kiss FM whereas Russell has also featured on the “15 mins..” segment on DJ Tiesto’s Clublife Radio show where he provided a mix that was heard by over 100,000 people.

With more remixes and original material due for release, 2009 looks to be a strong year for this DJ and producer from B’ham.

See you on the ‘floor…

Astronivo an electronic phenomenon created by Guy Astrogano and Niv Konforty.

After a random meeting in Tel Aviv and within the space of 6 months these two musical talents have been inseparable, exploring and creating progressive minimal trance music. The 29 year olds have both been dedication to music from a young age. Make sure you tune in to friskyradio.com on March 12, 2010 : 09:00AM PST

http://www.myspace.com/astronivo
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AstroNivo/240516415612

At the begining of march 09 he signed with Baroque Records from U.K and he released his first vinyl and cd single.This ep also supported and played by many big names and reached 1st place at best vinyl sellers chart on juno. Sezer knows that a career in dance music doesn’t come down by itself but requires a blend of talent, a good heart, a good pair of ears and the will to keep on going on for the love of music. How it is known if you have a talent that doesn’t mean you will rise up like a star, you should work for getting your dream come true, so that’s why he is going on his projects and you will see soon his name in good places for sure.

Now he is playing weekly on Dinamo FM which is the best electronic radio station in Turkey.(www.dinamo.fm)

http://www.facebook.com/justianos

Part 1: Monochronic

Part 2: d-phrag

Part 3: Plamen K

Tune in to these radio stations on corresponding days and times.

08 Feb 2010, 20:00 – Progressive Playground w/ Hyline @ETN.fm

Progressive Playground hosted by Hyline every 2nd Wednesday from 8PM – 10 PM on ETN.fm Progressive Channel

15 Feb 2010, 16:00 – Progressive Playground @Globalbeats.fm

Progressive Playground hosted by Hyline every third Monday on www.globalbeats.fm (Blue Channel)

19 Feb 2010, 20:00 – Progressive Playground @Danceradio.gr

Progressive Playground hosted by Hyline every 3rd Friday from 4pm CET – 6PM CET Danceradio.gr

It has been a while since my last Exfinity compilation and lots of people are asking me when the subliminal 30-th issue will be out. After 5 months of careful selection of tunes that made a lasting impression on me, here it is

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