Duende was formed in 2004 by Gregory Engelhardt, Antonio Moreno and Thorsten Wittig. They are undoubtedly one of the most exciting talents in the global trance scene today. Their genre-defining productions have become an essential tool for the world's leading DJ's.
Since their first production "Amor de dios" - which became "Tune of the week" in Armin van Buuren's Radio show "A State of Trance" they were given more and more credit with each production.
David Newsumstarted DJing in 1997 in London. His on air experience consisted of doing Pirate (Illegal) radio from a crack den in Hackney, London. It had drug induced comatose people inside and police batten marks on the door, as it was regularly raided by the police. He managed to avoid being locked up in prison and in May 2004 he moved to Dubai to take up residency at Tangerine Night Club.
D-Mark Biography. Marcos Ligero was born in Sabadell (Barcelona), in 1984. Since his beginnings he always has had special interest in electronic music, especially in Trance and Progressive branches. However, he is not only known because of his DJ side, but also he shows a lot of talent in the music production field.
Eddie Sender is a Producer and DJ and was born in 1985 in Slovak the town, Senica. His real name is Eduard Palkovsky. His major style is uplifting and progressive Trance. His career started with a remix of the track 'Pilgrim'. Because it was played by Armin Van Buuren, in his show 'A State Of Trance in year 2006'.
M.I.K.E. is Mike Dierickx. Formerly known as Dirk Dierickx, he resides in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2000, he decided to change his real name from Dirk to Mike.
Mike quotes: "When I started to dj at the age of 16, i used the name Dj Mike as my artist name. Later on it changed into my producers name M.I.K.E., and that's why I decided to make it my real name..."
Fast Distance is a project between Belgian producer Franz Hlusek aka 'Arpegia' and Olivier Picart from France. Franz and Olivier have always had a passion for Electronic Dance Music, especially for melodic, euphoric and uplifting Trance.
D-Votion and Peter Dienzen live in Geneva (Switzerland), friends in life and partners in music. D-Votion and Peter have always made music together, (Santiago & Sebastian and Peter D. Vs. D-Votion). Their influences are mainly Trance, Progressive House and Techno.
Karim Khaled a.k.a System K , a fresh sound coming from Egypt . Born in the 26th of july .. a Leo Sign. Karim comes from a musical family .. his inspiration came from listening to some classical music and oldies then he listened to some rock music (as his father was a rock fan) , then it all started when he went with his friends to clubs and liked the style of the music played there .. he knew that this was house music , so he was introduced to the EDM.