A veteran DJ with more than ten years of experience under his belt; Detroit native, T.Linder has done his homework and paid his dues.
T.Linder takes a no-nonsense, working-class approach to the art of spinning records. He cites old-school Detroit street jocks: The Wizard (aka. Jeff Mills), Gary Chandler, and Steve "DJ Energy" Crawford among others, as major inspirations for his unorthodox aesthetic. "If someone's going to pay money to hear me spin, I'm going to make it worth their money. The way I look at it, there's too many DJs out there meticulously and methodically blending records that all sound the same. As a listener, I'm easily bored with that. I like to take some risks when I perform, skipping across genres and eras, doing scratch tricks with two copies of the same record. I want to give the listener the experience of hearing something they haven't heard before."

Ronin Selecta is the headlining Drum and Bass Dj representing the Breakloose Label. Aaren aka Ronin Selecta comes from a long line of musicians. Almost all of his family plays at least one instrument. His grandfather is a Chinese Classical musician and has taught some of the bigger virtuosos in classical music today. Aaren's own teachings began when he six years old with the piano. From there he took on the saxophone and the drums as well as the electric, acoustic and stand up bass. With these talents, he performed live music for many years in many different groups and music genres. These include Blues, Funk, Rock, R & B, Soul and Fusion Jazz. Aaren has also been involved with a folk music project and sound design for live theatre. With such diversity, it is no surprise that he has worked with Gillian Eaton from the London Royal Shakespeare Co.

In 1995, Ronin Selecta was introduced to Jungle. From that moment, he has taken this genre of music to the limits. Performing at full scale events, parties and night clubs from coast to coast including Groovetech in San Francisco to CBGB's in New York as well as holding down many residencies over the years including the Labyrynth, Motor Lounge, Tonic, The Magic Stick and the longest running D & B night in Michigan which was "Breakbeat Etiquette" at the Carbon Lounge. In 2005, Ronin started a new Residency at the Necto in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This was the legendary Hydro night that ended in August of 2007.

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Mark Moss was raised outside of St. Louis and discovered electronic music through his Uncle who was getting all the new sounds out of Chicago and Detroit in the late ‘80’s. He began learning to DJ at the tender age of 12 with Acid House and the new rave sounds coming out of Belgium and the UK. During early 1991 Mark discovered what was then known as "breakbeat", which became hardcore and later Jungle. He immediately fell in love with hardcore and the emerging Jungle sounds. Mark's family moved to the Detroit area in 1992 and he began going to parties, noticing a lack of (and hatred of) Jungle in the Detroit scene. Mark then began his mission to aid Detroit in its Jungle deficit and began playing anywhere he could, from parties to houses to radio to retailers such as Urban Outfitters in Ann Arbor. In 1997 8en helped found Kinetics, (the original Detroit Jungle night and crew) and became a rotating resident/ face in the Detroit scene with hundreds of appearances at legendary venues such as the Motor Lounge, Alvin’s, the Blind Pig and the Magic Stick.

What DJ Minx loves most about her musical profession is that it allows her to fuse with some of the world's most talented people. Inspired to spin by the famed Music Institute in Detroit, she quickly developed her own style - described as funky and powerful with a smudge of grace.

In the early 90s, Minx partnered with Jerry the Cat and Dana Keaton to develop the Skyloft Gallery which provided an exceptional opportunity for Minx to program innovative events showcasing Detroit's underground community of artists, musicians, DJs, and designers. Minx now runs Skyloft Productions LLC, a production company developed with Jerrald James, which is a vehicle to produce music and media for various artists in multiple genres.

Every Saturday night for two years, Minx engineered and hosted "Deep Space Radio", an electronic music show on a Detroit’s WGPR radio station. The show was headed by the innovators of techno music: Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Eddie Fowlkes, and Derrick May. She played mixes by many well-respected Detroit DJs and conducted live interviews on the show. Minx also did a weekly radio program at the University of Windsor. “Steamy Windows” on CJAM 91.5 FM featured house music by various local and international artists. Minx was a resident of the world-renowned Club Motor where she banged opening sets for Basement Jaxx, Doc Martin, Cajmere, and Afrika Bambatta just to name a few. She has played alongside Richie Hawtin, John Acquiviva, and Timmy Regisford at various venues across the country. Minx has also shared her love of house music with massive crowds in Paris, Berlin, Cancun, New York, Switzerland, Tokyo, Spain, Belgium and numerous other domestic and international locales. Minx was also a featured performer at the first Detroit Electronic Music Festival (D.E.M.F.) in May 2000 (with over 1 million people in attendance). Since then, she's played at Toronto's Film Lounge, Club Ohm in Portland, Club Sugar in Baltimore, Air in Japan and has been featured on Much Music's Electric Circus weekly television Dance Show.

Currently, Minx hosts a weekly show on Handz On Internet Radio. Every Tuesday afternoon hundreds log on to listen to live mixes from Minx and special guests on occasion.

Born in 1976 in a small suburb of Detroit, Big Joe had a front row seat to the rise of the techno and house music scene. Taking in acts like Eddie Fowlkes, Derrick May, Mike Huckaby, Twonz & Rich hawtin on a weekly basis, in 1994 he decided to take up the art of djing. Buying a handful of records from a friend and two very old direct drive turn tables from salvation army he began his quest to become a dj and a dj he became. Starting with his first real gig at St. Andrew's Hall's infamous three floors of fun, upstairs in the burns room, He then moving on to such venues as the Packard plant, the Motor Lounge, and various underground warehouse parties.

In 1996 big Joe and two close friends started throwing parties under the name Twilight Productions and threw several warehouse parties, "Melting Pot", "Sample", and "Floored" to name a few. Twilight Prod. stopped throwing parties in 1999 but Big Joe continued to dj. Playing venues like Corktown Tavern, The Works, Proof, and holding a residency at Shelby street.

These days Joe is throwin down a style of house that can only be described as Hot House which also happens to be the name of the monthly house night that Joe puts on with Tim Nobody, Lindsay Yeager, & Christos. The four of them host and have held residency at this venue in Detroit for the past year and a half pulling acts like Pat Nice, the Sound Republic, Justin Long, Slater Hogan, John Larner, & Dan X. The Hot House Collective have made it the most successful house night currently in Detroit and intend to keep it that way through hard work and dedication.

Whether he is playing with the Hot House crew, or flying solo Big Joe Hix is definitely a force to be reckoned with on the one's & two's and is truly a class act.

Bileebob creates
sexy electronic music featuring vocals,
soft & hard synths, acoustic guitars, and life sounds.
He currently performs under the moniker Agriculture,
with Marshall Tito.
Their music is dancefloor and road-trip friendly.
www.gainrecordings.com/audio.html

Dj Southside was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Growing up on a steady diet of hip hop and dance music has led him to rock out parties all across the U.S. Whether he is playing House, Hip Hop, or in a Dj battle you know he is going to bring it every time he steps behind the decks!!

It all started in 1994 when a friend asked him to a party. Little did he know he was about to find his life calling. “My friend took me to the now infamous Packard Plant to Ritchie Hawtin’s Spastik party. It was the craziest shit I’ve ever seen!! I remember seeing these guys play records and was amazed at how they totally controlled the vibe of the party. After watching Ritchie Hawtin play Spastik LIVE I was hooked” Recalls Dj Southside.

Shortly after that party a co-worker by the name of Dj Space Ace agreed to show him how to DJ. Showing him the fundamentals, Dj Southside took in all he was taught and ran with it.

Jacq is one of Detroit's most talented musicians. A Detroit native and accomplished DJ, jacq has been behind the decks for over 20 yrs experience that has had him tour from coast to coast in the States as well as tours through Europe including stops in renowned haunts like Germany’s, Tresor and Spain’s Catalingo. Jacq’s early influences include; The Electrifying Mojo, Jeff Mills as the Wizard, George Clinton and Marvin Gaye. He has taken these influences and fused them together in a beautiful mixture that touches the souls of the audiences he performs in front of. Jacq is very diverse and his eclectic taste in music translates to the dance floor through his unique style which combines house, soul, and funk into a remarkable mix that keeps the crowd moving all night long.

Jacq gained notoriety in the early Detroit underground scene playing at loft parties as well as Detroit's most infamous dance club; the legendary Music Institute. Back then he was releasing his production work on City Boy records and also assisted with production work with some of the days most influential musicians including Juan Atkins, Eddie Fowlkes, Niko Marks and Tyree Cooper to name a few. This garnered the attention of the mid-nineties underground scene across the world. Jacq was soon performing as a headliner at all of the underground parties for the likes of Deff & MCM & every other rave promoter due to his unique sound and exciting DJ skills that were unmatched at the time. As a DJ, Jacq hasn't lost a step and brings an energy level to his sets that remind listeners why they started listening to this music in the first place. Having performed at thousands of events worldwide has helped this talented musician hone his craft into something that is pure energy on the dance floor.

Micho aka Detronik is native to Detroit’s underground since the inception of electro. Micho began doing live visual mixing in the early 90’s with his project Inter Animi, one of Detroit’s most innovative Performance Art troops. Starting in the mid 90’s and into the next millennium; Micho formulated a series of installations that integrated electronic visual devices to Detroit’s progressive sound. Eventually Micho started being featured as a regular “VJ” at the world renowned motor lounge creating massive television structures and implementing a surveillance network which would encompass the dj/performer giving a new perspective to the sound. By mid 1996 in the shadow of his media space Critical, deep within the underbelly of Detroit’s eastern market, ascended Detronik. From the blood stained floors and vast tunnels of the vacated slaughterhouse, Micho scavenged an army of recovered televisions and resurrected surveillance cameras from abandoned police precincts to mobilize an aggressive new visionary force. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s Detronik spread its roots as a visual manipulator hijacking television systems and constructing a more formidable visual architecture throughout Metro Detroit’s after hour venues and establishments. Today, Detronik still uses many of the original methods adopted from the early 90’s running a full arsenal of surveillance cameras while mixing images live. Micho’s mixes are vengeful and aggressive, a blatant assault for the viewer, completing the sensory experience with lo-fidelity, contrast, and bleak imagery of a mediated reality and Detroit’s underworld.

DJ Psycho (Dezi Magby) has been repping the streets for the last 25 years of his life, dedicating himself to the art of not only rocking the crowd, but making a mix that is as complex as his interests. Mike Banks (UR) himself said, after seeing him for the first time, “Look at him! Just look at him! He truly doesn’t give a fuck! Records don’t make him. He makes THEM do what he wants them to do!” He’s been referenced as being “the split difference between The Wizard and The Tazmanian Devil”.His live mixes cross boundaries and genres effortlessly, and his mixes on CD go beyond simply beatmatching records – they tell stories. Being a DJ is not so much how he makes a living as it is how he lives. At this stage in the game, he still practices 3-5 hours daily with no breaks.

Psycho took to the turntables after watching Grandmaster Flash on MTV in 1981. He had already been taking up guitar, piano and percussion, so the musical aspect was already there. He also had uncles in Detroit and Pontiac who introduced him to the game, and by 1983, their training paid off when he started DJing junior high and high school dances. He had co-founded a band the same year, Your’z Truly, playing guitar on stage and various instruments in the studio. In 1987, he met Kevin Klida (DJ Max Jerome), who ended up helping him secure his very first club gig at The Mikatam in Genesee, MI. After that first taste of notoriety, he started smashing everything in sight, touring alongside Digital Underground, Ice Cube and Naughty By Nature, getting his own mix show on local radio station WWCK-105 fm, and procuring the Midwest DMC finals championships 3 years running.

Katalist began his love for underground music in the early 90’s. Growing up in Detroit, he was influenced by the classic Motown sound and early Detroit techno/electro. After high school he moved to Lansing to pursue a career in Recording Engineering. In this time, he began to promote and throw local parties and club nights under his company Protostar Productions and in conjunction with Eidetic Communications and AudioArt Productions. Word spread quickly and soon Katalist was DJing across the state. After becoming a Recording Engineer Katalist moved back to Detroit and began producing and building his studio. While back in Detroit, he began producing with Twonz aka Mr. Faulkner, who he performs live with, and many local hip hop acts. He engineered at local recording studios including The Disc, and began to play shows throughout the Midwest, across the country, and in Canada. In his nearly 10 years as a DJ, he has performed over 1000 shows in 12 states and can definitely rock a crowd. He currently is a resident at Bookies Tavern in Detroit where you’ll find him mixing everything from Motown to hip hop to rock to techno. Now with his studio, Elements of Sound, complete and refined, he is producing and remixing. He is also creating his own patches and synthesizers for electronic production. Be on the lookout for new tech/minimal house tracks late this summer.

With his hands in many projects, Joshua Adams Crilley certainly keeps busy and has garnered attention in various forms. On one hand, Josh, as a drummer has been playing since eight years old in everything from funk, jazz, rock, punk, reggae and classical groups. The most recent project Exchange Bureau formed in 2005 and is set to release their second album (with remixes from Alton Miller and Paul Randolph) and has attracted the attention of Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, Simbad, Marc De Clive-Lowe, and Bugz in the Attic with its unique mix of live house, funk, and electronic sounds. They performed at Winter Music Conference '08, with two energetic sets including a disco boogie set with the legendary Leroy Burgess. The forthcoming "Spookie Dookie" (EXB Meets John Arnold) is to be released June 2008 on Third Ear Records as part of the Detroit Beatdown 2 compilation.

Over the years, G. Major has propelled himself as one of the coolest house music Djs in Detroit. Bringing to the dance floor a brand of funky / disco house, the notorious “house pimp” thrills crowds around the motor city and beyond. He has dropped magic on the turntables at major nightclubs around Detroit, Toledo, Windsor, Ontario and as far as Miami, Florida. Large events are not far out his realm either. He is always involved in and around Detroit’s annual electronic music festival, he was in the artist showcase during the winter music conference in Miami, Fla. and he was in the summer music showcase at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. House music lovers have also been lucky enough to catch his music stylings on air on stations like WJLB, WCBN and his features on internet radio like Mercury Sessions. G. Major has also co-founded a group of Djs , Solid House Inc. This includes members, DJ Mo Reese (TPMT), Todd Perrine (Soriee Records International), Jason Bolles (Soriee Records International) and Laura Hardgrove (Women on Wax). The shared knowlegde within the group, has given him uplifting stylings to continue to bring a fun vibe to venues with amazing grooves and tight mixes.

With nearly a decade of mixing under his belt, dj nimbus is a sure-fire
party-rocker! known for his precise mixing style and versitile selection,
nimbus is quickly making a name for himself, not only in the D, but
regionally and beyond. his high energy performances flow flawlessly through
all the sub-genres of breaks with the occasional electro house injection.
his style is unmistakeable and never fails to create good vibes and a great
atmosphere. when asked about his growing success, nimbus said " its been a
long time coming. you cant be this passionate and not go anywhere. i love
this music and i thank god every day for putting me in this position."
currently expending most of his creative energy in the studio, nimbus is
making the conversion from dj to producer. with one tune finished and many
more to come, this rising star is nearing the horizon and is showing no sign
of slowing. as a proud original member of the breakloose crew, and an
exciting new edition to bang tech 12, nimbus is not easily over looked. but
dont take our word for it..." im discrete, i let the beat speak for me"

Born on the East Side of Detroit in January of 1979, but shortly thereafter relocated to the western suburbs of the Motorcity Todd Weston takes pride in what he calls his “Suburban Soul”. He accredits his mother, father and grandfather as the primary roots of his musical influence. As a child he grew up listening to the sounds of Motown legends like The Temptations, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. At 3 years old, he was often found sitting back with his grandfather, listening to the sounds of Art Blakey, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal, all the while playing along on percussion.

This passion for the music and most notably, the drums, led Todd on to appreciate a multitude of musical genres while growing up. However, it wasn’t until age 16 that he was personally introduced to the electronic sound Detroit had to offer at the infamous St. Andrew’s Hall. From that point on, it was off to the many Detroit after-hours parties with a clear mind and open ear to get his fix of the music.

A late bloomer, "The Vandal" was a student in the classroom of many talented local acts. He observed for years some of the finest acts that Detroit has had to offer from all genres. Nowadays, reflecting back on the insight that others have kindly shared, he is enjoying his own journey thru the various moods of music that techno provides. A true "In it for the love of it" individual, he falls in line like other diehards locally that believe that Detroit is still a very special aptmosphere to behold and cherish. Most of all, he calls the darker soundbank of synths and melodies in combination with aggressive basslines and percussion his true love.