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Todays political climate is rather turbulent to say the least. With tensions rising across the globe over threats of war, immigration reform, unbalancedeconomies and more, were entering a time of uncertainty. Protests have become an almost daily occurrence, some more peaceful than others. Just this last Monday, here in Seattle and Portland,thousands took to the streets to make their voices heard as part of May Day:A day of political marches marred byviolence in recent years. Also making a stand against the establishment? Famed trance DJ/producer Craig Connelly and English heavy metal vocalist Renny Carroll.

An unlikely meeting of worlds, the two artists joined forces to create Elevate, the latest single off One Second Closer,Connellys debut studio album. Featuring an uplifting, progressive melody and Carrolls gritty vocals, Elevate calls for its listeners to make a stand and elevate as one. We want the world to be as one. We got the power to see it done, Carroll strongly proclaims throughout the track. Elevates message is taken a step further with last weeks release of the tracks music video, available below.

A music video portraying a politicalrevolution is a rarity in trance, let alone electronic dance music. However,Elevates visual story is just that. Shot entirely in black and white, Connelly and friends don bandanas and, led by an emotionally charged Carroll, come together to destroyposterssaying resist change, give up, obey and other words meant to silence a society.

The combination of music and visuals helps create an uplifting trance anthem of a new kind, and not one that focuses on mendingheart break, promotinga unifiedglobal movement for change. As the world becomes increasingly edgier it seems, itll be interesting to see if more artists, from all genres,promote the same goal throughsong, and video,too.

What do you think about the song and video? Will you join Craig Connellys revolution?

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Robert Miles, who has died from cancer aged 47, was the DJ and music producer behind the Nineties trance smash hit Children, a favourite chillout tune for clubbers at the time and ever since.

He was born Roberto Concina in 1969 in Fleurier, Switzerland, to Italian immigrants Albino Concina and Antonietta Lauro. He spent his early years in Friuli, Italy, where he began playing piano, aged ten. Three years later he was already DJing at friends house parties. Miles began working as a club and pirate radio DJ in the mid-Eighties, using the stage name Robert Milani. He later anglicised the name to Miles, in anticipation, he said, of the musical journey ahead of him.

Children, the track for which he is best known, had its genesis in his garden studio during 1994 as an instrumental tune, featuring synthesiser and acoustic guitar, and was released the following year. The songs title was Miles response to the ongoing war in Yugoslavia and its child victims. He later recalled the reactions to the first club outing for his composition:

I was anxious to see how people would take to this piece. The following Sunday morning I opened my DJ set with Children, feeling both scared and excited... I lifted my gaze and saw a sea of hands reaching up high and a smile stamped on every face... A girl approached me in tears. 'What music is this?' she asked me. I don't think I shall ever forget that moment, when I realised that my feelings had been conveyed through my music. My dream turned into reality.

In an era before music streaming and YouTube, the sales were initially slow. But the tune was gradually picked up by radio DJs across Europe. On BBC Radio 1 Pete Tong made it his Essential Tune of The Week for three weeks in a row. The single sold an initial 350,000 copies, had already sold more than 5 million copies worldwide within two years going platinum in several countries and continues its success in the age of online music.

As a chillout track, played by DJsat the end of the night and giving clubbers a chance to wind down before making the drive home, the tune is credited with saving lives. And in pioneering the genre of dream house, "Children"led the way to the trance music that has since entered into mainstream music consciousness.

Childrenwas featured on his debut album, Dreamland (1996), and won him best international newcomer at the 1997 Brit Awards. Miles moved for a time to London and continued in a more experimental vein, releasing four further album titles, including 23am (1997) and Organik (2001), to critical acclaim. In 2012 he launched the radio station and music community, OpenLab, broadcasting from Ibiza.

His friend and former DBX label head, Joe T Vannelli, said of him I will miss the fights, brawls, criticism, judgements but especially your talent in finding sounds and melodies unparalleled.

Roberto Concina (Robert Miles), DJ and composer: born 3 November 1969; died 9 May 2017

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Its not that unusual for an Islamic society.

After all, the usual features are all on display the Muslim call to prayer, the teaching of Islam in the nations schools to the exclusion of other religions, preferential treatment afforded Muslims by government and the courts, news coverage reflexively portraying Islam in a positive light, the rapid growth in mosque construction and also the disturbing cultural phenomena of female genital mutilation, honor killings and so on.

Except this is not Saudi Arabia or Egypt were talking about, or any of the worlds approximately 50 Muslim-majority countries.

This is the United States of America. Not America as it might be one day if current trends continue, but as it is right now today.

Thats right. While North Korea threatens to nuke the U.S. mainland, while the left (including most of the media) continues its infantile post-election meltdown into madness, while President Trump endeavors to remedy the torrent of national and international problems unleashed by his predecessor Barack Obama beneath the radar and largely out of view, America is inexorably becoming ever more Islamized.

While a few brave souls have been sounding the alarm over the progressive inroads Shariah Islam is making into American culture, schools,colleges, religion,medicine,law, government and even the military, perhaps the most important question that needs to be addressed at this point is, why?

Why, when Judeo-Christian America has been hands-down the most successful nation in history indeed why, when Americans are blessed with a crystal ball called Europe in which they can clearly see the disastrous future awaiting a once-Christian civilization that recklessly embraces Islamic expansionism would we continue down the same suicidal path that has led to Europes virtual suicide?

There are several reasons, some obvious, some less so.

Lets start with the obvious: Power-mad Beltway Democrats obsession with importing multitudes of voters in hopes of attaining a permanent progressive voting majority, since statistically the vast majority of Muslims in America vote Democrat. Big businesss selfish desire for cheap immigrant labor. Liberal-left Christians naive compulsion to welcome Muslim refugees, not simply to help the needy and downtrodden, but to prove to others and to themselves that they are good people and not racists, Islamophobes or xenophobes. And of course, Muslim Brotherhood-front organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations go-to tactic of exploiting Americas expansive First Amendment religious freedom protections to aggressively advance their Shariah-supremacist agenda.

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But there are othernot-so-obvious, but ultimately more fundamental, reasons America is bending over backward to welcome the growth and influence of an ideology openly dedicated to dominating us.

To understand the forces truly at work here, we need to focus for a few moments on the most basic, core, bottom-line issues of life: Unlike previous generations of Americans who grew up under the strong moral umbrella of Judeo-Christian values, tens of millions of todays Americans and indeed virtually the entirety of our nations elites have essentially abandoned the biblical understanding of right and wrong, good and evil, morality and immorality, life and death that served for millennia as the moral foundation of Western Civilization.

Lets get specific: What we cryptically call the left which for the last two to three generations has shaped American life, politics, culture and government simplycannot operate without violating all of the Ten Commandments. Replacing Americans traditional Judeo-Christian reverence for life and higher law is the lefts substitute religion, which violates Gods commandments even as it celebrates its false gods of reproductive rights (Thou shalt not kill), sexual freedom (Thou shalt not commit adultery), wealth redistribution (Thou shalt not steal) and so on. Moreover, as I document in The Snapping of the American Mind, because of this rebellion against reality, the left has succeeded, whether intentionally or not, in pushing millions of decent Americans right over the edge into widespread dependency, debauchery, family breakdown, crime, corruption, addiction, despair and suicide.

This inversion of Americans traditional core values, which causes us, for example, to glorify and celebrate immorality, perversion and mental illness (like troubled people amputating healthy body parts and pretending to be the opposite sex) while reviling and punishing virtue (like the Christian county clerk jailed for conscientiously objecting to signing a marriage license for two homosexuals) is the same inversion of values that inspires us to enthusiastically import into our country as many people as possible who are steeped in a religious and political ideology dedicated to crushing our own.

Its as though were living in a hypnotic trance, in a dream state, wherein we are moving in slow motion toward certain destruction. A few of us see the danger and shout warnings, but to no avail. No one seems to hear us, or else if they do hear they dont comprehend the peril and instead attack us and call us terrible names or worse.

Bizarre alliance

Lets take a closer look now at the bizarre alliance between two seemingly incompatible utopian ideologies the progressive left and expansionist Islam currently undermining America at every turn. After all, those on the Democratic left are continually defending, excusing and running interference for Islamic supremacists in America, not to mention welcoming into our countrythousands of Muslims from the most radicalizedregions on earth. Why would they do that?

The alliance between the left and Islam can best be explained by the overarching reality that both share a common enemy, Christianity. Thus does the left warmly sidle up to Islam, which, truth be known, were it in charge would destroy the left, throwing members of some of the lefts main constituent groups off buildings or hanging or stoning or otherwise executing or enslaving them.

Both since the Marxist left and Shariah Islam both detest and fear Christian civilization more than each other, they therefore are natural, albeit temporary, allies in their shared aim to defeat a common enemy. (After all, America temporarily allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler.)

Andrew C. McCarthy is the former federal prosecutor who convicted the notorious blind sheikh and other jihadists for waging a terror war against America, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He explores the strange alliance between Islam and the left in his 2010 book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.

Zeroing in on the disturbingly symbolic yet pregnant-with-meaning spectacle of President Barack Obama scandalously bowing waist-deep to Saudi dictator King Abdullah bin Abdul Azziz, McCarthy asks the obvious: Why would the leader of the free world grovel before a corrupt Muslim potentate?

Because, writes McCarthy, Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Islam. More specifically, it is the bottomless purse and symbolic crown of a movement which aims at nothing less than supplanting Western political, economic and cultural values. The subversion of those values is Obamas fondest wish: the work of his presidency, the Hope behind the Change. The president was bowing to a shared dream.

Setting aside as equally irrelevant both Obamas Muslim affiliation as a youth in Indonesia and his professed Christianity as an adult, McCarthy observes: The faith to which Obama actually clings is neocommunism. It is a leftism of the most insidious kind: secular and uncompromising in its rejection of bourgeois values, but feverishly spiritual in its zeal to tear down the existing order, under the banner of its all-purpose rally-cry: social justice.

Neocommunists need not adhere to a formal religion, explains McCarthy. Instead, they tend to infuse causes like environmentalism, privacy and secularism with religious fervor. For most leftists, though, religion is a useful tool. It is never a straitjacket because neocommunists consider themselves no more bound by the strictures of creed than by the constraints of tradition.

Still, one wonders, how could the lefts consuming utopian obsessions possibly mesh with the equally uncompromising demands of Shariah Islam, bent on world domination for 14 centuries? The former federal prosecutor of terrorists explains the strange dynamics allowing this alliance:

Nihilism is the key. Todays hard left is defined by what it is against: the United States, free-market capitalism, and any foreign policy premised on defending American interests or promoting individual liberty. Only this part of the agenda is concrete, leaving neocommunism elastic enough to strike alliances with any movement that shares it. What neocommunists are for, by contrast, is a set of abstractions social justice, equality, redistributive rights, the rule of law, and, of course, our values. The details of those can be worked out later, once the more pressing imperative of undoing the existing order has been realized.

In other words, says McCarthy, to the left, change is not designed to create a new system. Its purpose is to destroy the old one. What comes next is negotiable. Thus, he explains:

That is why neocommunism aligns so seamlessly with revolutionary movements catalyzed by religious fervor. What comes next for a millenarian movement may not be negotiable, but before the new can be imposed the old must be swept aside. That calls for collaboration among all factions that need to depose the established order, even if their ultimate designs dont perfectly mesh.

Theres another critical dynamic that explains, at least in part, the cravenly pro-Muslim trance state of the leftist media, academy and culture: Terrorists provide powerful public relations cover for non-violent moderate Muslims seeking the same ultimate end as jihadists for America to become Islamic. As McCarthy explains:

Just as the Soviet collapse has been a boon for the left, the ferocity and overreach of Muslim terrorists has been a dual boon for Islamism. So atrocious has been the bloodbath wrought by al Qaeda, its affiliates and its imitators that it has enabled more methodical Muslim extremists to operate under the radar. Repeated terror strikes, culminating in the death of nearly 3,000 innocents and the surreal demolition of the seemingly impregnable Twin Towers, shock Americans and their government into a myopic determination to prevent additional mass-murder attacks.

In this climate of fear, the calculating but apparently non-violent Islamist compares favorably with the uncompromising, blood-soaked Islamist terrorist. He is thus regarded as cause of hope indeed, as a moderate by government and opinion elites. This, despite the fact that his agenda is essentially the same as the terrorists: Only their methods differ, and even those differences are shades of gray.

We are just scratching the surface here. I invite you to join me in exploring this crucial subject much more fully in the current eye-opening issue of Whistleblower magazine, titled HOW ISLAM IS SECRETLY TRANSFORMING AMERICA.

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Acclaim Gary Barlow watches as Louise presents the Brit award for international breakthrough act to Robert Miles in 1997. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA

Robert Miles, trance producer and DJ best known for his No 1 hit Children, has died aged 47.

News of the Swiss-born Italian artists death was first reported by DJ Mag Italia, who claim he died of an unspecified illness but this has yet to be confirmed. Producer and longtime friend Joe T Vannelli verified the reports to the Press Association, saying: Yes man, (it) is a tragedy.

He later posted a tribute to the producer on his Facebook: The tragic news of the death of a very talented artist of our time, makes me incredulous and upset, Vannelli said. I will miss the fights, brawls, criticism, judgements but especially your talent in finding sounds and melodies unparalleled.

Miles - real name Roberto Concina - released his debut, Dreamland, in June 1996, an album which went platinum in Europe. It featured the hypnotic trance track Children, which cost just 150 to produce, and went to No 1 in more than 12 countries. In the wake of this success, he retreated from the glare, releasing a string of albums that included 1997s 23am, 2001s Organik and Miles_Gurtu in 2004. He was also known for launching Open Lab, a Balearic radio station which broadcast from Ibiza and covered arts, media and technology.

Many established names in the world of electronic music have since celebrated the late artists career, with DJ Pete Tong, an early champion of Children, thanking Miles for the music and Darude thanking him for the inspiration, direction and courage.

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Trance is a genre of electronic music that reached the peak of popularity and the end of 90s and early 2000s with the names such asPaul Oakenfold, Tiesto,Paul Van Dyk andFerry Corsten. Emotional brakes with uplifting melodies and 130 BPM was the first contact many had with electronic music.

Now, trance is a dirty word in dance music. A label few underground DJs would ever be comfortable with carrying. And while the term itself is not nearly as reviled and divisive as EDM these days, it certainly hasnt been cool in a very long time.

This was a genre pioneered by the likes of Jam & Spoon, The KLF, and most importantly, Sven Vth, whose labels Eye Q and Harthouse released genre-defining albums like 1992s Accident in Paradise and 1994s The Robot, The Harlequin and The Ballet Dancer. It was the sound of Berlins Love Parade for years, full of techno-based rhythms and inspired musicality miles away from the sappy, contrived, formulaic drivel it wound up becoming (and still is today).

As is all too common, what the genre gained in popularity it lost in originality, becoming a cheap copy of the original blueprint laid out by its founding members. And consequently, even as all things old school continue their unstoppable comeback, trance has remained one of the few early dance music genres not to see a resurgence in the world of house and techno until now.,

There have been hints of this coming for a while, in the trance-inspired melodies in techno that have taken hold in the last few years. Acts like Solomun and Tale Of Us have made careers out of weaving dark, emotive techno with trance-inspired melodies. But few would call it trance (other than Mixmag, who dubbed this sound man trance), and aside from the fact that it occasionally uses synth-based melodies and vocals, shares very few characteristics with the roots of the genre. Plus its usually melancholic, something trance rarely is.

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But even if its not trance, it has opened discriminating ears to the idea of trance. So much so that Bicep even recorded an After Hours Essential Mix that exclusively featured trance, albeit slowed down enough in BPM to make it brilliant instead of offensive. It worked so well that the Irish duo have continued to push the slow mo trance sound in their DJ sets. Seeing them in the DC-10 Garden at Circoloco recently, I heard both Orbitals classic Lush 3.1, and Lauers positively sparkling H.R. Boss interspersed with Dennis Ferrer and Jerome Sydenhams Pan-African Electro Dub of Timbuktu, giving that tracks already radiant trance-like melody even more of an uplifting glow.

Theres nothing tongue and cheek about Russian heavy techno purveyor Nina Kraviz dropping Binary Finarys 1998 in Amnesias Club Room at Cocoon, though it was slowed down from its original breakneck speed to match the BPM of her set. Shes leaped far beyond hinting at the past glories of trance, very bravely jumping into the deep end, bringing a bona fide trance classic back for a well-deserved reprisal lately. Mind you, this isnt Age Of Love were talking about. Even the most ardent techno fan has at least recognises that timeless female vocal line, and it could be argued that Age Of Love is techno anyway.

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Nina also startedGALAXIID, label that has strong connection with trance and psychedelic music. Familiarity aside, why wouldnt she bring 1998 out of retirement? Its a beautiful track full of wandering acid melodies that raise the hair on your arms without fail.

As if to almost prove the point, Drumcode boss Adam Beyer recently published a live mix from Cavo Par Adiso in Mykonos that begins with Radio Slaves edit of Humates Love Stimulation, a tune that fit perfectly with Fabio Neural & Fideles Shamana. The latter is out on Drumcodes sub-label Truesoul, and sounds almost like it would be right at home in a darker Armin Van Buuren set. Well, before he started trying to fit in with the EDM crowd, that is.

Of course, big daddy Sven is still as trancy as ever. He even told RA back in 2006 that Actually I think I play trance, and he most certainly still does. Of course, his trance has always leaned towards the techno side of the genre. But if theres a more euphoric techno DJ on the planet playing today, Ive yet to hear them. Its one of the reasons hes long been one of my favourites, and why any return to the uplifting melodies that made trance so popular is so exciting.

Trance became the biggest genre in the world because of its raw, emotional energy and power to bring clubbers together. And now, because of a few brave techno acts, it once again is. Many of your favourite djs will tell that they actually like or played trance.. Trance revival, here we come.

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You have been alone for so long i know youve seen the dark edge close and personal

and youve lost your faith in love but love has always tried to find you bring us back to life

can you remember scattered pictures the love you left behind can you remember that long hot summer we shared dreaming in the sun

only summer knows i didnt want it to end the power of our hearts could light up a day summer knows we showered in the moonlight believing that love could last can you believe again?

Written by Susana and Raz Nitzan

Susana is back on Amsterdam Trance Records and to say we are excited is an understatement! One of our favourite vocalists of all time and the voice of an incredible number of Trance smash hits, her performances are always powerful, impressive and summed up perfectly here on Only Summer Knows. This one is HUGE and weve got it CRANKED.

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A proper obituary will be released shortly.

Robert Miles cause of death has been revealed as stage 4 cancer,following yesterdays announcement that the trance producer had died aged 47.

According to an official statement posted by OpenLab the online radio station set up by the Swiss-born Italian DJin 2012 Milesdied from stage 4 metastatic cancer.

Robert passed away peacefully last night after a courageous battle with stage 4 metastatic cancer over the last 9 months, reads the statement. Throughout it he was strong, determined, incredibly brave and did everything he could to fight this horrendous disease.

Robert was more than just an artist, he was a pioneer, a creator, an inspiration, a son, a father, our friend, continues the statement, adding that a proper obituary will be released shortly. See the full statement and artist tributes below.

The trance legend was behind the 1995 smash hit Children, which reached number one in 12 countries and earned Miles real name Robert Concina a Brit award in 1997.

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The Anjuna family came out in full force for Sunny Lax at The Underground.

Excitement for the show began hours before doors opened. Laxs new tune, Pequod,premiered as the record of the week onEpisode 229ofAbove & Beyonds Group Therapy Radio.Right before releasing the track, group member Tony McGuiness mentioned the show in Seattle at The Underground. For aclub that celebrated its one year anniversaryjust earlier this year, hearing its name mentioned on a radio show that broadcasts worldwideisa pretty big deal.

After a good deal of hype and anticipation, the sun set and showtime finally arrived. As we walked down the narrow stairs and into the venue, we were greeted withdeep tunes, courtesy of local artistThomas Crown. A few personal favorites he played included the Eric Prydz remix of Flashback by Calvin Harris, and Word by Chris Lake and Sebastien Leger.

Up next, we heard mellow beats from resident DJSunriser. He built onthe laid-back vibes, playingseveral Anjunadeep tunes, including a few tracks from Yotto. Then,Gotekjumped on the decks and continued energizing the crowd.Several attendees, including Gotek himself, were spotted wearing Anjunabeats merch. The crowd was energetic, and as they always are at the Underground, warm & friendly to boot.

At long last, Hungarian producer Sunny Lax arrived. He started off with a tune that instantly united the room: Above & Beyonds club mix of Another Chance by Oceanlab. Whenthe crowd heard this song, they immediately ran to the main room and belted out the lyrics in unison. These type of moments are quite common at Anjunabeats shows; theyre what bring members of the Anjuna family together. When we saw the crowds reaction to this song, we knew it was going to be a great night.

Smiles, hugs and love filled the room. There were no strangers, just members of the Anjuna family waiting to meet one another, and Sunny Lax gave the crowd exactly what they wanted: Uplifting tunes and melodicbeats. We heard some of our favorite tracksof his, including Everythings a Lie and Onyx. He also played several Above & Beyond tunes, like Thing Called Love and Fly To New York. Other well received tracks included Higher Love by Seven Lions & Jason Ross, and Easy by Porter Robinson & Mat Zo.

In the end, we were treated to two-and-a-half hours of bliss-filled trance. Lax did an amazing job connecting with the crowd through smiles and high fives, and the crowd, the venue, the atmosphere were all on point. Suffice it to say, everything was perfect. Sunny Lax certainly gave us our Anjunabeats fix, and now were counting down the days until ABGT250. Perhaps hell be one of the artists on the lineup? Wesure hope so!

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Dance fans hold onto your hats and get your glowsticks at the ready as a Newcastle nightspot is playing host to three Clubland favourites all on the same night.

Fresh from hosting Ibiza sax sensation Lovely Laura this Saturday, May 13, Cosmic Ballroom will welcome Ultrabeat, N-Trance and Flip n Fill a week later on Saturday, May 20.

Ultrabeat well known for Clubland classics Pretty Green Eyes, Elysium and Feeling Fine are actually starting a new party at Cosmic Ballroom - Ultrabeat & Friends - and for their launch they will be inviting two fellow dance legends to join the festivities.

N-Trance were formed in 1991 and since then they have sold over five million records worldwide. Their most famous hit single is still probably Set You Free. With Kelly Llorenna on vocals, the track was smash of epic proportions at the end of 1994 and is still a real anthem today. Their other top 10 hits included Stayin Alive and Forever.

Flip n Fill are most famous for early Noughties tracks True Love Never Dies and Shooting Star as well as their remix of Whitney Houstons I Wanna Dance With Somebody.

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During the '90s a new force in music rose to prominence, and became an all-conquering force.

For many teens growing up in the later years of the decade and early Noughties, the likes of Sandstorm, Right Here, Right Now, Ride, and Children were the soundtrack to their coming-of-age.

But what happened to the pioneering mixers who pioneered the defining Balearic beat and conquered the charts at the same time?

Darude

Ville Viranen, better known to the world as Darude, is most famous for his 1999 floor-filling chart-topper, Sandstorm.

Following the release of the 1999 hit-single, which smashed into the Top 10 in seven countries, the Finn saw his star rise, with his debut album Before the Storm securing him a place in the pantheon of the new dance gods.

Now, 41, Ville has turned his hand towards the business of running a label EnMass Music (which he co-founded with Randy Boyer), the DJ is still making music and touring the world blasting out bangers.

Sasha

Welsh DJ Sasha, real-name Alexander Paul Coe, began playing acid house back in the '80s but made the move into the progressive house and trance scene in the '90s.

Having escaped his hometown of Bangor, Sasha was voted the World No. 1 DJ in 2000 by the readers of DJ Magazine.

Having only released four studio albums, his 2002 effort, Airdrawndagger remains his biggest hit, and earned him a place in the UK top 20 and Billboard 200 in the US.

Also famed for performing and mixing with long-term collaborator Digweed (John Digweed), the Welsh master mixer has since gone on to release a number of mix tapes as well as work on remixes of The XX, Foals and Benjamin Damage.

He has since released his Last Night On Earth project, which has seen him throw huge parties and raves around the globe, with a festival in London even taking place back in 2014.

Pete Tong

Apart from helping to give birth to the phrase, "everything's gone Pete Tong", the Kent-born star is one of the undisputed legends of the house movement.

Rising to the forefront of the House and Balaeric beat movement of the nineties and noughties, Pete has seen his star rise exponentially since his days packing out the famed Cream nightclub in Ibiza.

Having held his own show on BBC Radio 1 since 1991, which sees him plays the most essential house tracks, has seen him gain an MBE (2014) and become the second longest-serving DJ on the station.

Still firmly in the musical mix, the father-of-two has also recently been joined in the musical field by his daughter Becky.

Fatboy Slim

Perhaps the most commercially successful of the superstar house DJs, Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, has come a long was since his break-out debut, Better Living Through Chemistry (1996).

More recently the Praise You hit-maker has hit headlines due to the breakdown of his marriage to TV presenter Zoe Ball last year.

More recently Norman has been cracking on with his passion, and has been spinning block-rocking beats across the world.

Robert Miles

Having passed away aged 47 from an unkown illness, the Swiss-born DJ and House pioneer will be remembered for his iconic House anthem, Children.

Choosing to step out of the limelight in his later years, Robert set up OpenLab radio in Ibiza in 2013, and worked on the project up until his death in May.

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