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Artist Lineup
Artist Lineup
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DJ CHUCKY |
| DJ CHUCKY is the manager of the Hardcore specialty store “GUHROOVY” located in Shibuya and also works as a Hardcore DJ, producer, and organizer.
He’s been managing the labels “GABBADISCO”, “Humanoid Typhoon”, “X-TREME HARD”, and many others since the year 2000. Through these labels, he’s released many remix CDs and compiliation albums. Besides that, he’s also had releases with overseas labels such as Canadian Speedcore Resistance (in Canada) and COCK ROCK DISCO (In the United States) and has made songs for the home versions of the Beatmania IIDX music game series. |
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| GUHROOVY – myspace – discogs |
DJ Da/Le |
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| “Da/Le” is the owner of AVSS, a Doujin-Music centered Indie label. He has also organized many parties in Japan and performs live as both a DJ and VJ.
He is also inviting/looking for new talented Artists to join the AVSS family and lineup. Over the course of his involvement in the J-Core scene he has hosted 60 parties, and appeared in over 150 more. He’s also overseen the release of more than 50 CDs and 1 vinyl EP for worldwide distribution. |
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| AVSS |
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GUHROOVY |
| Hardcore Artist GUHROOVY’s specialty is Shibuya Hardcore Techno. he is the president of the record shop “GUHROOVY” that has stores in Shibuya and Harajuku.
GUHROOVY came to America in 1980 as a singer. He was motivated by the Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, and Hardcore that he heard in Los Angeles. After he returned to Japan, he became involved in the Japanese Hard Rock and Heavy Metal scene dominated by groups such as X JAPAN. In the 1990s, he once again got inspiration, this time from the Jungle music I heard in the U.K. and the Hiphop I heard in New York. He and NO+CHIN are currently working together as the unit “Groove Rockers”. He’s also in charge of the band “ANIplugged”, which performs unplugged versions of anime songs. He started the shop “GUHROOVY” in the streets of Harajuku in 1995. It opened as Japan’s first Mixtape/CD specialty store with connections with New York DJs. This year they will celebrate our 15th anniversary and continue to release Hardcore music. GUHROOVY says “HARDCORE isn’t a music genre, it’s a lifestyle.” |
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| GUHROOVY – myspace |
JAKAZiD |
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| JAKAZiD is the nickname of 21-year-old dance music producer, remixer and DJ, Josh McInnes. Since an early age Josh was obsessed with dance music so it was only natural for him to want to start producing it himself eventually, and that’s exactly what happened. But what does JAKAZiD mean? Is it a foreign word, an acronym, or possibly something you can chew? The answer is actually neither of these, and is somewhat of an enigma.
In his first year of being signed to Nukleuz, JAKAZiD has made a number of remarkable achievements. Making an appearance on FOUR top-selling UK hardcore compilations, playing a highly successful gig in Japan, remixing for artists such as Lisa Pin-Up, Niels Van Gogh and Koja Yukino and then becoming hired as a regular in-house producer for Nukleuz are just a taster of what’s in store from this young and talented DJ and producer. |
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| NUKLEUZ – myspace – discogs |
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M-Project |
| M-Project started making music in the year 2000. He’s worked to spread the Spanish style of hardcore music commonly knows as “MAKINA” and is currently managing four hardcore labels including “MOB SQUAD TOKYO” and “TERRAFORM MUSIC”. Through a variety of genres, they seek to give chaotic performances of hardcore sounds, and we of course appreciate our overseas fans.
The worldwide appeal of this music was shown as in the consecutive years of ‘07-’09, as MAKINA and BIT MUSIC, the largest hardcore label in Spain, teamed up at one of America’s largest anime conventions, “ANIME CENTRAL”. Also in 2008, M-Project provided a remix for L.E.D.’s “DENJIN K” album (KONAMI) which was released on March 5th. From November of the same year, he provided music for beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS, beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS, and jubeat ripples as well as becoming increasingly more active in the international dance music scene. |
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| GUHROOVY – myspace – discogs |
NO+CHIN |
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| Member of the Hardcore Techno specialty store “GUHROOVY” located in Shibuya, Tokyo. As a singer and Club DJ, he produces music that transcends musical genres and national borders.
As a ragga artist, he has provided songs for Konami’s beatmaniaIIDX, pop’n music, Guitar Freaks & Drum Mania, DDR, and jubeat. As a club DJ, he was the chief DJ for GASPANIC YOKOHAMA from 2002 to 2005, and the chief DJ for GASPANIC SHIBUYA、ROPPONGI from 2005 to 2006. Currently he plays at many different places in the Yokohama area. He has appeared at the large car customization show “AUTO SALON” at the GOOD YEAR booth since 2009. In February of that same year, he performed at the TOYOTA Lexus RX Museum “Certified Caro van” event. He has been performing at ACEN since 2007 and this year will be his 4th consecutive appearance there. |
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| GUHROOVY – myspace – discogs |
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DJ SHARPNEL |
| DJ SHARPNEL (sharpnelsound) is an influential and well-known “Japanimated” hardcore, or gabber, group formed in Tokyo, Japan. In 1996, Jea started his first own hardcore project named “Project Gabbangelion” in west side of japan. In 1998, after his move to Tokyo , sharpnelsound was formed.
Over 300 tracks have been released under sharpnelsound since it’s inception, and its sounds have had influence all over the world. DJ SHARPNEL regularly performs at “X-TREME HARD” with M-Project, DJ CHUCKY and other top hardcore artists from japan in tokyo. Recently DJ Sharpnel has created some major label remixes including but not limited to ones for “Daichi no Uta”, “Tamble girls” and other game music. DJ SHARPNEL delivers the most impressive “ANIME-HARDCORE” experience over 200bpm with the chaos of high density hardrave sounds. |
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| SHARPNELSOUND – myspace – discogs |
DJ Shimamura |
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| DJ Shimamura is a pioneer of the Japanese hardcore scene, having set up one of the first Happy Hardcore labels in Japan, DYNASTY RECORDS.
In 2005 and 2007 his remixes for Japanese pop artists achieved record sales which gained him recognition outside of the hardcore scene, and this has led him to produce music for the video game industry as well. During this time he continued releasing vinyl and has mixed various compilation cds such as ‘Dancemania SPEED’ and ‘TRANCE RAVE’ which were all big sellers in Japan. In December 2007, 2 of his tracks were included on the Nukleuz CD compilation, ‘Hardcore Adrenaline 3′. One of the tracks, ‘Cant Hold Back’ (DJ Shimamura Remix) was played on Radio 1 by DJ Kutski and also featured in Kutski’s Top 5 Chart in M8 Magazine. |
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| DYNASTY RECORDS – myspace – discogs |
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DJ Silver |
| DJ silver has so many credits to his name, it’s impossible to tell where to begin. Originally from Australia, Silver began DJing over 15 years ago, before moving to Japan. He’s a figurehead of the global hardcore community, being the owner and webmaster of happyhardcore.com, as well as maintaining several prolific hardcore labels (including but not limited to Infinity Recordings and Masterwax).
DJ Silver also runs, maintains and is a resident DJ for Digitally Imported’s hardcore radio station, which stands as one of the most listened to internet radio stations across all genres. Having been online for more than 10 years now, his live broadcasts attract tens of thousands of listeners at any given time. He’s also a prolific live DJ, performing at well more than 50 events on almost every continent! You can find his tracks on a multitude of compilations, 12″s, singles and Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution series. Most recently he’s been working closely with youtube hardcore superstars DJ Cotts and DJ Ravine as the producer for the Hardcore Addiction mix CD series. Hardcore Addiction 3 just recently released on his label for happyhardcore.com |
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| happyhardcore.com – myspace – discogs |