Ralph Kyau and Steven Moebius Albert are known to the EDM world as Kyau & Albert (formerly known as Kyau vs. Albert). Kyau & Albert are listed for the 4th year now in the DJ Mag Top 100 – ranked at #37. (last year #22)

For their single "Hide & Seek" they got an award at the Winter Music Conference 2009. After winning the Beatport Music Award for the Best Trance Track of Cressida’s "6AM" last year, once again another Kyau & Albert remix, this time for Bent "As You Fall", has been nominated for the Best Trance Track of 2010.

Kyau & Albert deliver massive, cutting edge DJ sets and their energy behind the decks is just simply infectious. Catching them live is something people won’t soon forget.

India Tour Dates:

Pune – Scream – Friday, 9th July
Hyderabad – Leonia Holistic Destination – Saturday, 10th July
Bangalore – Ezone – Sunday, 11th July

Bio:

Talamasca (or Talamaska) is a psytrance music project based in Paris, France. It is a project of Cedric Dassulle, also known as DJ Lestat. Dassulle played piano for over 13 years and started his career as DJ in 1992. In 1995/96 he was resident DJ at the Rex Club in Paris. He was influenced by trance music that he played during parties and wanted to create his own. In 1996 he met the other co-founders Steve Eli and Xavier de Galloy, house music producers with their own music studio. Together they decided to cooperate on a trance project and founded Talamasca. Dassulle currently operates it as a solo project. Talamasca’s album ‘Zodiac‘ was released in 2003. It consists of 12 tracks, each named after a different Zodiac sign. His 4th album, ‘Made In Trance‘, is a collaboration with other French musicians.

India Tour Dates:

9th July – Blue Frog, Mumbai
10th July – TBC, Hyderabad
11th July – Palace Grounds, Bangalore
17th July – Tantra, Kolkata
18th July – 1 Lounge, Pune

Details

Start Time: Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 2:00pm
End Time: Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 10:00pm
Location: Goa
Venue: Riviera De Goa, Arpora

Midweek Madness @ Riviera De Goa with some of India best DJ

Tuhin Mehta aka Brute Force
Rohit Barker
DJ Navin Rodrigues
DJ Ryan Nogar
Anish Sood

Venue: Riviera De Goa, Arpora
Time: 2 PM – 10 PM
Date: 24th June, 2010

Rule the pool to win some Tuborg merchandise. That’s not all, we have spot prizes, water polo and many more games. FIFA World Cup screening on big screen for Paraguay v/s New Zealand and Slovakia v/s Italy.

Office employees can get special discounts on group bookings at the Sao Joao Grind. So wind up work early and head to Riviera de Goa, Arpora for a day of fun and frolic with your colleagues.

For further details / guestlist contact:
Sean Faia: +91-9823206426

Details

Start Time: Friday, June 11, 2010 at 7:00pm
End Time: Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 12:30am
Location: Begumpet, Hyderabad
Venue: Bottles & Chimney

After the success of the second Muzic Matters Nights in April and a hiatus in May "We Are Back". And June is shaping up to be a killer month.

Get ready for some "High Octane Energy & Thumping Music", As we bring you Paul Trainer (Armada Records).

About Paul Trainer

Paul has always had a passion for music at an early age, but it wasn’t until 2001 that he bought himself his first set of decks after coming back inspired and influenced from the sounds of the Miami WMC. Being a keen clubber himself, this led to attendance at all the well known festivals and gigs in the UK and beyond. So as the years progressed Paul got more and more into modern day dance music.

To date, Paul has performed at some of Scotland’s top clubs including the Arches, Gatecrasher @ Room At The Top, Byblos, Sea, Blue and The Soundhaus, whilst also making his first international appearance’s in Ireland, Germany, India, Australia and New Zealand alongside artists such as Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Kyau & Albert, Andy Moor, Rank 1, Bart Claessen, Sied van Riel, Activa and Tom Colontonio to name a few. Paul’s sets feature rigorous tune selection which vary from progressive to uplifting trance, through to more tougher energetic trance, whilst always dropping some techno elements for good measure.

Paul has also spent the last 5 years in particular gaining experience by DJ’n / promoting his own nights with a few friends in Glasgow such as Vibe, Synergy and more recently Platinum and Rehab. With their main aim to offer something different to the Scottish clubbers, this resulted in several Scottish debut’s for the likes of Menno de Jong, Giuseppe Ottaviani (Live), John O’Callaghan, Aly & Fila, Stoneface & Terminal, Thomas Bronzwaer, Mat Zo, Chris Liebing, Anderson Noise, Axel Karakasis and Eric Sneo.

For the last year Paul has held his own radio show called Soundscape which originally aired on PVD’s Vonyc Sessions + Slinky FM, but has now moved to Afterhours FM. You can tune into Soundscape on the fourth Tuesday of every month @ 3pm GMT / 4pm CET on www.ah.fm which will showcase the tunes that are doing it for Paul at the moment.

2010 will see Paul complete his first artist album along with the launch of his new Record label Spellbinding Records‘ which will feature some of his own material and a host of other up and coming artists and established remixers. The label will cross the boundaries of trance, techno, progressive and everything in between! Watch this space…

Links

http://www.paultrainer.com/
http://www.myspace.com/paultrainermusic
http://www.twitter.com/PaulTrainer
http://www.youtube.com/PaulTrainerMusic

Downloads

Paul Trainer has made an exclusive mix for all his fans in India. Click here to download it now.

Beep! Beep! Horn OK Please… make way for Nucleya’s Udyan Sagar.

Nucleya is creating new inroads in Bollywood’s remix culture. Nucleya’s Udyan Sagar aims to push Bollywood music onto the international dance music charts, by inventing a cutting-edge blend of new-generation electronic music and evergreen Bollywood musical hits. Muzic Matters correspondent Neha Shaikh caught up with the man himself while on his tour to promote his latest album ‘Horn Ok Please‘.

NS: Hi Udyan, welcome to Muzic Matters. How is the tour coming along?

Udyan: Oh, It’s great. The response has been awesome. My first gig in Bangalore was great and I am totally looking forward to my upcoming gigs in Goa, Hyderabad and Chennai.

NS: We’re looking forward to seeing you in Goa. Tell us, from the days of Bandish Projekt to Nucleya, what’s the journey been like?

Udyan: As most people know I left Bandish Projekt one and a half year back. Since then I’ve had 13 international releases. I have done mixes for Shankar, Ehsaan & Loy for a movie called ShortKut and have also created a mix for a very popular track "Uff Teri Ada" from the movie Karthik Calling Karthik. I’ve also worked on a mix for the Vishal Bhardwaj movie, Ishqiya. So you see life has been good and thankfully there’s only forward to go. The journey has been extremely pleasant.

NS: What made you take up the genre of Dubstep considering it’s not very popular in India.

Udyan: I like to work on a lot of different styles. Yes, there is Dubstep in my album and even though it is not very popular right now, it is something that I like because it falls somewhere between House and Drum & Bass. Dubsep plays on a 140 BPM and on a half tempo. I love to merge genres, tracks that are extremely rich melody wise, sound amazing when mixed.

NS: If not a musician what would you have been doing today? :)

Udyan: When I was small I told my dad I wanted to be a pilot. Of course he said I have to finish my studies. Later he said I have to do MCA and then pursue pilot training but then music happened. And yes, my dad is convinced that the pilot dreams are now over (smiles). My dad and mum are both great musicians so I have always been inclined towards it. But I cannot imagine myself not being a musician. If I wasn’t then I would probably be flying a plane right now. (Laughs)

NS: Tell us a bit about the album. What’s the story behind the title ‘Horn Ok Please’?

Udyan: I started work on ‘Horn Ok Please‘ a year back. The whole idea behind it was to re-introduce Bollywood music. Earlier I used to always play tracks that had been remixed by others. Eventually I started experimenting and started making my own tracks live, on stage. The response was over whelming. I approached record label Sa Re Ga Ma, and told them I wanted to make an album with Bollywood remixes. They heard me, liked my music and that was it. The album is releasing soon.

NS: Which one is your favourite track from the album and why?

Udyan: Okay, now that’s a difficult one. All the tracks are beautiful. But if I was forced to choose, I’d say "Disco Dancer" and "Chandan Sa Badan". The latter is a dubstep track. Both of these are my favourites.

NS: What are your thoughts on new talent in India, especially Sound Avtar and Shivang as both have been featured on your album.

Udyan: Electronic music is becoming big and is creating quiet a splash. Sound Avtar aka Piyush Bhatnagar is a promising artist and has produced "Raat Baki" with me. Shivang is another young extremely artist from Ahmedabad. We have produced the song "Boom" together. Now youngsters write their own songs and compose some amazing music, which is great! There is also a vast amount of involvement from foreign music companies who invite our Indian DJs and artists on tours and music festivals which had given the much needed impetus to the industry. All in all the future of music in India looks bright.

NS: What’s in store for 2010. Festivals, tours, releases?

Udyan: The Indian release of my album will be happening over the next few days while the UK release is scheduled for the end of June. Additionally I have 3 more releases lined up where I’m collaborating with DJ Nasha and Medival Punditz. I’m also making music for a 3D animation film while will be released in the next few weeks. The next few months will see my touring around UK and Europe. So yes… this year looks pretty busy, but I am not complaining!

NS: Was super catching up with you Udyan. All the best for the album and we’ll see you behind the console :)

Udyan: Thank you! Thank you very much. Have a nice one listening to ‘Horn Ok Please’ and yes I’ll see you guys on the dance floor :)

Udyan is giving away a free track to all his fans. Log in to www.nucleya.com to catch some groovy tunes.

Catch Nucleya aka Udyan Sagar on tour in the following cities:
9th June: A.Z.U.R. @ Goa Marriott Resort
11th June: Blend, Chennai
12th June: Cube @ Ramada, Kochi
18th June: Café Morrison, Delhi
19th June: Black Magic, Chandigarh

For more info related to Nucleya check out the following links:
www.nucleya.com
www.myspace.com/nucleya
www.twitter.com/nucleya
www.facebook.com/nucleya

Luke Brancaccio is not only a highly skilled DJ, he’s also a hugely multi-talented remixer and producer.

Luke has in the past added his own record label, Player One to his long list of musical credentials, in addition to having been signed to numerous labels including Bedrock, Credence and EMI Parlaphone in the UK and Nettwerk in the US.

It is indeed through the release of the track "Lovely Day" on the former of the three labels, that Luke first saw success as a recording artist in his own right. "Lovely Day" reached the UK’s official Top 40 and also reached #1 in the American billboard charts – had dance floors rocking all over the world. The tracks simplistic vocals and harmonic progressive edge soon earned Luke and fellow collaborator, Bruce Aisher recognition as two of the hottest producers in town. As a result, Luke’s technical brilliance in the studio soon saw him remixing tracks for the likes of Timo Maas, Jimmy Van M, James Holden, Prophets Of Sound and Dirty Vegas to name but a few. Another string to his bow was having 3 essential new tunes on Pete Tong’s Essential Collection on Radio One. But production skills aside, it’s his accomplishment as a DJ, which has also landed Luke such lavish praise from the clubbing fraternity.

Tour Dates:

May 7th – Tantra, Kolkata
May 21st – Torque, Hyderabad
May 22nd – TBA
May 23rd – Final Wave, Goa
May 30th – Fuga, Bangalore

DJ Eve Carey is now considered to be one of the top female DJs, she has played for Hed Kandi and is sponsored by UMM records & clothes label, which will see her on a worldwide tour for them in 2007 starting at Pacha in Barcelona.

In her 14 year professional DJ career to date, Eve Carey has played in clubs all over the UK, continental Europe and the world. DJ Eve first got into clubbing back in the late 80s, sneaking into raves, and dancing all night to the likes of Top Buzz and Mickey Finn. At the tender age of 17 she got a job in a recording studio in her native Birmingham. There she learnt to mix & her career exploded! Known for her energy & passion behind the decks, Eve describes her musical style as a mix of house, electro & chunky beats all mixed in a style of her own & a technical ability that rivals any DJ in her class.

Eve has played for events such as Godskitchen, Miss Moneypennys, Ministry Of Sound, Fantazia, Perfecto, Ultra Vegas, Fuel, and the Decadence UK Tour and for the Warehouse Autumn / Winter 2002 Collection press launch. She is also one of the Resident DJ’s for COCOLOCO playing the back room of Ministry Of Sound & is on the regular line up for PUKKA UP parties.

Eve is now rarely in the UK you can find her in Russia, China, Australia, India and all over the Middle East & Europe most weekends! She is one of the 3 official Charlys Angelz appearing on tours & in Ibiza for them. She toured with the Underdog Project with there smash hit "Summer Jam" & presented an award to Club Fabrique voted best club in Russia where she also plays. She had a residency at Papas Beach Club – Egypt on 2005, and was the first female DJ to play at Cream-Beirut in 2000. DJ Eve has held her own playing alongside DJ’s such as Frankie Knuckles, Lisa Loud, Brandon Block, Alex P, Jeremy Healy, Public Domain, Ray Roc, Farley Jackmaster Funk and Anne Savage.

She has taught DJ courses in her hometown Birmingham and worked alongside Pato Banton as a studio engineer & works sound engineering bands at Barfly a live venue hosting bands such as Juliette Lewis & the Licks, Jet, The Riffles, MTV and Kerrang nights. Eve released a compilation CD in Europe with excellent records in 2005 and is now working on her own productions with engineers such as Timmy Vegas (Soul Central), Gabi Newman (Vendetta Records) and Jeremy Sylvester (Azuli Records).

With the looks of a cover girl and the skills to rock any dance floor, this girl is an asset to any party!

Tour Dates:

May 13th – Ahala, Hyderabad
May 14th – Venom, Kolkata
May 15th – Shiro, Mumbai
May 16th – Pebble, Bangalore

Paolo Mojo is now established as an acknowledged leading light on the underground house music scene. Already a highly respected DJ, his relentless production schedule throughout 2008 has sky rocketed him into the production premier league.

2008 saw him a virtual ever present on BBC’s Radio One Essential Selection / Mix with 7 singles on his Oosh label getting constant radio airplay. An Essential New Tune for ‘Nightlaw‘ in February was followed by one of the most well received Essential Mixes of the year in August, and Paolo was name checked as one of Pete Tong’s hottest producers of the year.

It’s easy to see why, his stylish, turbo charged tech house sound has been one of the success stories of 2008… singles such as "Brooksong", "The Dancer", "Interstellar", "Home", "Sirena", "Nightlaw" and "Ron Hardy Said" (in collaboration with Jim Rivers) have led people to start talking about the Paolo Mojo ‘sound’.

Into 2009 and original tracks such as "Deux Ex Machina", "Que Loucura De Som" and the massive "Lauda" have cemented his standing while simultaneously pushing the boundaries of his sound.

It has been almost 3 years since Markus Schulz rocked the electronic dance planet to its core with ‘Progression‘ – his critically-acclaimed sophomore album. Since its 2007 release he has smashed countless clubs with his kinetic, captivating DJ sets (breaking into the world’s top 10 ranks in the process), examined the musical make-up of cities with his compilation series and explored his darker, housier side with Dakota.

Now, in mid-2010, after 18 months of studio production sessions and an unrelenting pursuit of the perfect ‘Progression‘ follow-up, he returns with ‘Do You Dream?‘.

Since the earliest days of his Coldharbour label, fans and critics alike have seen Schulz as both the leading-light pioneer and ultimate standard-bearer of trance’s new wave. The album instantly absorbs the listener back into that world, delivering a masterful start-to-finish audio experience.

Tracklisting:

01 – Alpha State
02 – Away (featuring Sir Adrian)
03 – Rain
04 – Dark Heart Waiting (featuring Khaz)
05 – Not The Same (featuring Jennifer Rene)
06 – Do You Dream (Uplifting Vocal Mix)
07 – Last Man Standing (featuring Khaz)
08 – Surreal (featuring Ana Criado)
09 – Unsaid (featuring Susana)
10 – Lifted (featuring Angelique Bergere)
11 – Perception (featuring Justine Suissa)
12 – The New World
13 – Lightwave (featuring Angelique Bergere)
14 – 65.4Hz
15 – What Could Have Been
16 – Goodbye (with Max Graham featuring Jessica Riddle)

‘Do You Dream?‘ will be exclusively released on iTunes on June 8th, followed by a worldwide release both digitally and physically on June 15th. Pre-order the album on iTunes from Tuesday, May 25th.

For more information on the ‘Do You Dream‘ album, please visit http://doyoudream.markusschulz.com/