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[scottmcallss]

On my protest grind tomorrow. #ICantBreathe

[iandillon]

here's an interview and exclusive 2 hour progressive mix provided courtesy of this is progressive magazine. hope you all enjoy.

[goodguysamko]

Our Daz Pearson caught up with the pair recently for a chat… Hi guys. First of all I’d like to thank you for taking time out to chat to us. For any newcomers who are not familiar, can you explain the MiniCoolBoyz experience in one sentence? Hi and first of all thanks to you for the opportunity of this interview. MiniCoolBoyz is a project which comprises two Italian guys from Milan, Mike and Raffy, coming from the same town and with the same huge passion for underground music and clubbing. We are established producer and DJs since 2009 and this our most important thing in life. How did you both meet and what made you decide on being a production/DJ duo? We met each other many years ago when we were still young, than around eighteen years old we started to attend some of the underground parties that at that time were taking place in our area. It was a very important period for the scene, an amazing movement was just starting to develop across Europe. From there it didn’t take much time for us to start travelling all around some of the most important festivals to follow our idols. We became so passionate about the feeling between DJ and crowd that we decided to buy our first records….the game was started! How did you decide on the name MiniCoolBoyz? To be honest it was the only name to do so well for a duo haha! Also at the time, minimal was very important in the underground music scene and it influenced our sound a lot …So the Mini part was a must! Your career started playing in various clubs on the Italian scene. Is there a specific one that holds fond memories or was vital in the making of your success? It could sound strange but we started to play more in small clubs in Germany and only after we managed to become known, in our country. Can you tell us a little bit about the scene in Italy? The Italian scene has been growing a lot in the past years after being one of the most important places for Techno and rave parties during the last part of the 1990’s . The good health of our underground movement is clearly defined by the large number of parties organised all around the country and that usually host some of the biggest DJs worldwide. We maybe miss some huge festivals like in Germany or Holland, but we also gave birth to so many important artists in the techno scene, so we can’t really complain! Your chosen DJ set up is a combination of drum machine, FX and Traktor Scratch. What versatility does this give you to enhance your performance? Yes you are completely right about our setup, but I want to underline how important vinyl are still for us. We really love to play records and try to fuse them with the rest of our machines and devices. Having a complex but hybrid setup surely asks for some particular test in studio and it’s not always fast to sound check, but gives us a flexibility that would be otherwise impossible to achieve. And you can be sure that when you DJ for important crowd you always want to be ready for any kind of situation, and this setup really helps us to satisfy any dance floor we find in front of us. And in the studio……. We mainly use Ableton 9 as main sequencer, plus plenty of hardware (like the Virus) and some classic vst bundles, like Arturia and Komplete from NI. Our new partner NHB are both professional sound engineers and we are always implementing our workflow with the latest techniques both regarding the sound design and the mixing and mastering. We felt in love with the new Apollo device from UAD and their amazing plug ins. We are really working at eight hands since NHB joined us and we are sure our followers can clearly feel it in the huge amount of releases we’ve been putting out since last summer. We think that never like today the production and studio work plays a vital role. The label ‘Amazing Records’ has served as a platform for your own music, but how important has it been in kick starting the careers of new producers? It must be a special feeling helping aspiring new artists release their music? Yes you are right, the main aim we had with Amazing was to create a platform to express our sounds and to develop new artists. The Italian and European scene is full of talents and we managed to help some of them to find a way in the competitive marketplace. We are really proud of that! I understand a sister label called ‘Over’ was launched the beginning of the year with a 3 track EP from yourself and NHB? What are some of the challenges faced with launching a new label and what direction will it be taken? We launched now our new label with NHB, which has started with an EP featuring three tracks that perfectly express the line of OVER: finest techno. We are all really very motivated about this new project because the label immediately got huge support from top DJs worldwide and it’s already rocking the Beatport techno chart. This is a very ambitious project, because in the overcrowded scene that we live now is not easy to create a new reality, but we are sure that the only way of doing that will be working on quality releases. We and NHB started to develop this idea in the last year and we worked hard for twelve months to make it happen. The biggest challenge is maybe delivering quality music with a hard schedule, because is not easy to find always new ideas and format them properly; also matching it with all the other work we have to do make the job even more tough. But we are used to this type of effort and we built an amazing team with our partner NHB. Do you have any tips for artists sending promos? Regarding promotional releases we think that the important thing is to send the proper music for the proper DJ. We don’t like to receive progressive house because we play techno! And all other DJs think the same… You would not like to receive bread if you looking for fish, would you? hahaha! If you refer instead to DEMOS for labels, than I would suggest to send only quality stuff, it doesn’t make any sense to send projects which don’t deliver at least the average quality of the market… And also to introduce yourselves professionally, unfortunately the first impact really makes a huge difference for big labels that maybe receive hundreds of demos every week. What do you think the biggest challenges are for new producers breaking through? Can you tell us about some of your own you have overcome? Every story is particular and of course we had our problems, we still have them every day, so we think the best thing to tell here is how we approach to overcome them. As we just said the most important thing today is focus on delivering quality music and also try to be innovative. The market is full of producers and the only way to emerge in such a competitive market is to make something different and to make it at the best quality possible. It is important to take some artists as inspiration, but then we really suggest to move from there, to create something with a proper and particular soul. And of course behave professionally, with labels, artists and eventual promoters, manager etc. Today’s industry needs more than ever people who really love what they do, they are passionate, motivated but most of all serious, we all are tired of fake DJs and producers… Your previous releases were mainly minimal influenced, but now your sound is more solid techno. In your own opinion what’s been your best work you are most proud of and why? As you said we started our career as minimal DJs and producers, it was the time of MINUS and we had the honour to be part of this important moment, one of our first successes was a remix for Richie’s label that has reached the 2th place on Beatport techno chart. For the last 18 months we moved back to our techno roots and we think that we’ll stuck on that for ever! Also our partner NHB are really amazing techno producers and we all together make a really underground team. For sure one of the releases we are most proud of is the last release on Carl Cox’s INTEC, which reached first place on the Beatport techno chart last year. What do you want to be remembered for most in life? Our music. Finally is there anything you can tell us about that you have planned for 2014? 2014 is going be really an important year for us and it will be a really tough studio year because we have lots of stuff going on with our new label OVER and also we have a new sound library project which will see the light soon under Victor Calderone’s WAVEFORM Recordings. It will be called NHB & MiniCoolBoyz Techno Library. Then we plan to release two albums, one MiniCoolBoyz on our Amazing Records, and one joint project with NHB on OVER. So you can imagine the nights which we will spend out of the bed! And of course Gigging, that’s what makes us really loving our job, feeling the crowd enjoying at our rhythms! Among our plans there is the developing of a new massive Live Set of 8 hands with NHB, something really cool and unusual ….so.. Expect the Unexpected ! Track list 01// Shifted – Chrome, Canopy & Bursting Hearth 02// Luigi Madonna – Hypnotizek 03// MiniCoolBoyz, NHB – Placebo 04// Harvey McKay – Slip 05// Sam Paganini – Shade (MiniCoolBoyz Remix) 06// The Advent, A. Paul – A.Theory 07// MiniCoolBoyz, NHB – Knowless 08// Sasha Carassi , Mikael Jonasson – Void (Macromism Remix) 09// Richie G – This Again 10// Tony Rohr, Layton Giordan – After Sun Off 11// Thomas P. Heckmann – Leid & Seele 12// Alan Fitzpatrick – We Are Forever Young 13// Pascal Nuzzo – Going Nuts

[drumnbass]

LSB LSB is Luke Beavon, a Drum n Bass DJ and producer from London, UK. LSB began to make a name for himself in the DnB scene as promoter and resident of the infamous ‘Bounce’ events in Norwich. LSB (and promotion partner N3gus) ran Bounce for three years bringing a huge array of diverse artists to the events. Legend has it that the Bounce 3rd birthday party was so loud, the ceiling collapsed at the bowling alley underneath the club! A formidable DJ, LSB likes to champion the sounds of new artists as well as delving deep in to the record box for select classics. Since 2006, LSB has focussed his attentions to his own music and has been steadily making a name for himself as an artist. LSB signed his first tune to Zinc’s Bingo label in 2007 and has released on Deep Soul Music and Demand Records. Whilst LSB has gained the attention of many with bootlegs of Sade & Little Dragon it was his debut single on Spearhead Records ‘All of My Love/Rolling Sideways’ which really got people noticing his sound in 2011. LSB established himself with his first EP on Spearhead which sat the upper end of DnB Charts and the collaboration with Technimatic gracing the playlists of DJ's such as Friction. S.P.Y. Logistics, Lenzman, AI and many others. 2014 will see LSB release on labels such as Soul:r, Hospital Records and continue his progress with Spearhead Records with a follow EP and talks of a debut album on the agenda. Tracklist: LTJ Bukem - Music (technicolour remix) Lynx - How you move me (paradox remix) LSB - All of my Love ( Technimatik remix) Technimatik - Bristol Calibre - Cold Halo Calibre - Blue Top Paul SG - The Last Ceremony (Big Bud Remix) Duke Robinson & The spiralling prism - It's all Fine Anile - Custom Dancer Frederic Robinson - Particles Cursa - CRNR Lung - Curosity Cove Tokyo Prose - Goodbye Hands Zero T - Refusal (Calibre Remix) Hybrid Minds - Music Talks FD - So Real Blu Mar Ten - Thin Air Penny Giles - Stories Untold Scuba - Cognetive Dissonance

[sabai4indoritch]

Some people in all quarters of the music industry have recently approached us to what This Is Progressive is all about? Is it just progressive house, is it parties, is it just mixes, what is it? To put it into a nutshell, it is a music media and event s agency that supports, nurtures and develops new and established artists in house music, progressive, techno, deep house and even more leftfield sounds. It is about being a platform to be heard within all the whitenoise created by PR machines. It is to develop or create new avenues in ones career, by giving them a professional base to showcase themselves. It is controlled, it filters out the mainstream and delivers intelligent music, not only to the underground, but accessible to everyone. We are not RA, we are not Mixmag, we are a collective of passionate artists from around the world who are pushing back against the hype. It is a labour of love for us, it is a passion that runs deep, a feeling of taking back control of an industry we love and so heavily invest in with our own personal lives. We are not grandstanding, we are not thinking we are going to change the world overnight, but we do hope that we can slowly be a game changer in what people listen to, explore or experience. Follow us at www.thisisprogressive.com www.facebook.com/Thisisprogressive twitter.com/Thisisprog MUSIC IS MY d-feens [ aka Keyser Soze ] ... Hours spent listening to underground music made by icons such as Sasha, Digweed etc. and broadcast on RMF-TMM , Proton Xtc as well as watching the unforgettable Berlin House, Housefrau or transmissions of the Mayday, oriented him to draw inspiration from electronic music - which was so little known in Poland those years. Today you can hear him from time to time on the niche stage in Tri-City (Poland), which unfortunately has shrunk incredibly, supplanted by popular trends and commercial projects. He extended his knowledge and gained experience by playing in many clubs with many famous DJ `s. He likes to experiment and go beyond the framework of genre. From a few of years he also conducted a series of radio broadcasts, ranging from Minimaliny in Asradio, Nightsessions: train from deep to progressive stations in Houseradio.pl, Hybrid’s on One Underground Radio , to still current Morning Coffee as Keyser Soze in Houseradio.pl . In autumn 2012 he started a new show on Insomnia FM Radio called Solar System and Quieting Strom: Kraft. Stay Tuned. Tracklist 01. Scsi 9 - Ellsworth Land [Klik records] 02. Jimmy Hill - Latenitesleaze [VIVa MUSiC] 03. Anthony Yarranton - Camels (Original Mix) [Dopamine Music] 04. Spitsyn - Sky Diver [Electronic Tree] 05. Cut Knob - Lights Out [OLD SQL Recordings] 06. Kobana & Yane3dots - BN2 1TW (David Granha Remix) [Particles] 07. 16 Bit Lolitas & Glowfield - Calling New York (DAVI Remix) [Bits And Pieces Records] 08. Neptun 505 - Cinnamon (Agrande Remix) [Electronic Tree] 09. Derek Howell - Dark Horse (Faskil & Alkama Remix) [microCastle] 10. Sjoerd Mats - Sly Me [Callote] 11. Bastards Of Funk & Sonic Union - Electron (Cid Inc Remix) [Nueva Digital] 12. Vinayak A - Sands Of Goa (Hernán Cattáneo & Soundexile Remix) [Mesmeric] 13. Guy J - Azimuth [Bedrock Records] 14. Circulation - Turquoise ( Guy J Remix ) [Mesmeric] 15. Giorgos Gatzigristos - Natural Selection ( Yoram Remix ) [Outside The Box Music] 16. Agoria - Panta Rei (Remix By Max Cooper) [InFine] 17. Michael & Levan And Stiven Rivic - Connection [Mistique Music] 18. Tuxedo - Encanta [Liquid Grooves] 19. Sound Of Violence (Yvel & Tristan Remix)

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