Itokim
Takuro Ito, aka Itokim, is a Japan-based producer. He released on exciting labels such as Fine Art Recordings and Logos Recordings.
Influenced by the likes of Detroit techno, IDM or electronica, he has been developing his unique brand of techno and deep house. In early 2008, he released his very first EP "Baby Moon" on Fine Art Recordings and received huge support from the press, such as DJmag and DMC Update.
His productions have found their way into record boxes, charts, mixes, and radio shows of the likes of Laurent Garnier, Ben Watt (Buzzin' Fly), Fabrice Lig, Santiago Salazar, DJ 3000 and many others.
Keith Tucker
Tucker began his career playing cover versions of Juan Atkins’ Electro hits from the 1980s with his childhood friend Tommy Hamilton. The live ensemble achieved local renown for combining break-dancing, and Tucker's mobile DJ-ing while manually playing repetitive, high-speed synthesizer basslines. They later became known as Regime, then RX-7, and finally, in 1994 they became Aux 88. They were joined by BJ Smith (Posatronix) and Lamont Norwood (DJ Dijital).
Tucker's first 12" EP was a collaboration with Juan Atkins and Jesse Anderson, under the name “Frequency” in 1990. Aux 88 released the album "Bass Magnetic" and were the first group to revive Electro in the mid-to-late 1990s. As such they have been credited with eventually inspiring the genre known as Electro-Clash. In the mid-nineteen ninteties they described their own sound as Techno-Bass, a fusion of influences from Detroit Techno, Electro, Miami Bass and Trance.
As co-founder of Puzzlebox recordings in 1996 with Anthony “Shake” Shakir, Tucker also joined the tradition of independent dance music publishing and vinyl record pressing in Detroit. He utilized, along with other artists, the National Sound Company vinyl lathe which was used to produce the records of legendary Detroit Soul labels such as Motown.
Lil Jazz
Lil’ Jazz is Martin Campbell, who hails from Glasgow. With his studio work, inventive production and live vocals with a distinctively New York flavour is what’s on offer from Martin.