Estetique
Russian DJ and Producer ‘Estetique’ is a relatively fresh face on the electronic scene, having made his first forays at the end of 2008, however, the cold, grey climate of his St. Petersburg home, with its constant, pounding rain and lack of sun have had a massive impact on his musical outings. His tracks are [...]
Eightbitrate
Originating from Naples, the three piece multi-media outfit Eightbitrate, broke onto the dance music circuit running interactive parties in Italy, based around nights of 8BIT videogames, electronic music and their own musical productions and visual wizardry. Comprising DJs Alfa, Beta and the VJ, Gamma, Eightbitrate moved over to London in 2003, taking up DJ residencies [...]
Spieltape
Our Russian friend Alexander ‘Spieltape’ Malyutin has gained notoriety quickly in the ever-fickle world of electronic music, down in no small part to a consistent output of quality, deep, melancholic music. He combines elements of minimal, tech, prog and deep house for a warm, modern sound that has wide-ranging club appeal. UK giant Global Underground [...]
The Smoke
The Smoke is the collective studio output from UK stalwarts and all round scenesters, Terry Farley, Dave Jarvis and Uschi Classen. Known individually for their respective Farley and Heller, Original Soulboy and Blackscience Orchestra releases, Terry and Dave are of course founding members of the London based ‘Faith Fanzine’ collective, a series of stellar underground [...]
Holmes & Watz
Hailing from Leeds, the North of England’s House epicentre, Jacob ‘Holmes’ Kelly and Paul ‘Watz’ Hardy, are the two loveable pipe-smoking rogues behind both the respected UK House label ‘Baker Street Recordings’ (elementary my dears), and a slew of boompty dancefloor productions on quality imprints like 20:20 Vision, .dotbleep, Minority Music, Music For Freaks, Zeros [...]
Pepe Navarino
Artizan Music’s Art Director Pepe Navarino lives in a fantastical kitchen cupboard populated by strange little men with magical faces and balloons for feet. He painstakingly, visually documents all that he sees, the results of which can be viewed on our website, mailouts, releases and the like. There is an exclusive range of t-shirts forthcoming [...]
Deporto
Deporto comprises southern, deep house dandy Mickey Blue and northern, progressive fiend Dodge. These cheeky chappies have been forging their own paths through dance music’s murky waters since the early 90s; Mickey a self-confessed slave to the rhythm, toured the DnB and techno DJ circuites whilst Dodge quietly got on with putting out quality progressive [...]
