After a successful career with Ian Dury & The Blockheads, co-writing some exceedingly famous hits and playing guitar and keys for them, Chaz decided to go solo for a bit. Some Numero Unos in the club charts cropped up throughout the '80s, as well as a spot in the top 20 in the "normal" charts with Quincy Jones' version of "Ai No Corrida". Also with a couple of film-score credits to his name, Chaz could honestly say, without a hint of pretension, that he's been there and done that. Having said that, it's probably more likely - considering that he did have a hand in writing the dubiously sane "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" - that it'll be "Been where? Done what?"

See also Chaz Jankel's compilation album My Occupation, among other releases, on our sister label Tirk.

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Chris Coco is a tastemaker, DJ, broadcaster, producer, musician and journalist.

He is currently promoting his new artist album Feel Free Live Good (Big Chill Recordings) and working closely with the Big Chill festival on a stage for this Summer.

His radio show, Melodica, is growing from it’s base on Ibiza Sonica to include broadcasts in cities from Sydney to Istanbul to Chicago.

With regular gigs at cool venues Supperclub, Sosho and Player in London and international shows, Chris is a busy live DJ too.

The Russian quartet D-Pulse (Klim Suhanov, Anton Kochnev, Semen Perevoshikova and Pavel Shoutov) began their careers when they were just schoolboys - on the cover of their first album, four 16 year-olds stand blissfully unaware of their future. Today, they spread the new fresh sound of Russia all over the world. D-Pulse sets new standards of quality dance music from the very depths of the snowy forests of Russia, but the real effect their music has can be felt during live shows. The band already has the status of the most expressive, vivid live electronic band in Russia. Their shows were appreciated in Japan, where they had a tour in 2007, and, since last year, the band has begun to strut their stuff on European stages. At the moment D-Pulse are working in a studio in Prague as well as playing the occasional gig.

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The veteran DJ Enne has certainly been around. Hailing from Innsbruck, Austria, Robert Ennemoser, as Enne is also known, has a wealth of DJing experience and quality releases.

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Holmar Filipsson and Klas-Henrik Lindblad aka Sasse both discovered electronic music in the late eighties and started djing shortly there after; Sasse in his hometown Turku, Finland and Holmar in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sasse started his label Moodmusic in '96 when still living in Finland, but has since succumbed to the irresistible pull of Berlin. Holmar threw some of the first Warehouse parties in Iceland in the early nineties before moving to NYC in '96. Since then he has spent his time founding his labels Crack&Speed and Thugfucker Recordings.

The collaboration album has been a long time coming; Work started at the "Reykjavik Massive" Studio in Brooklyn a few years back. Then, following a lot of net file swapping, they completed the album in Berlin, at Sasses "BlackHead" Studios last year.

The Scandinavian pair share a love for disco and deep house music and this is very apparent in the music they have come together to make. Once in the studio each song happened naturally, one song progressing into another, each song portraying a little personal story. The collection of songs over the extended period eventually morphed into "A Splendor In The Grass".

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Foto are Kevin Swain and Enzo Amico. Kevin first came to the forefront of electronic dance music as DOP in the 90's on William Orbit's seminal Guerilla Records label. He was there at Shoom when it started and later went on to DJ at such legendary clubs like The Raid, Back to Basics, Love Ranch, Sign Of The Times, and for Charlie Chester's Flying Records outfit. Enzo Amico set up the London record shop Plastic Fantastic Records, a move which kick-started his DJ career. He now runs Plastic Music an online record shop and is a member of the exciting DJ outfit The Balearic Brothers.

Kevin & Enzo have always shared a love for all things "Balearic", from the early sounds of Byrne & Eno to the early ground-breaking Balearic Beats, also taking in the 80's Italo Disco sounds. Now, Foto gives them an opportunity to take journeys into the past as well as incorporating all the new exciting sounds being produced by labels such as Eskimo, Full Pupp, Perm Vac, and Italians Do It Better.

Ichisan & Nakova (aka Igor and Jure) hail from the fine country of Slovenia, one of the republics of former Yugoslavia. Over the past few years the pair has steadily been carving out a name for their unique style of nu disco, called Yugo Disco, which is already becoming a music brand of its own. Beside this Ichisan & Nakova has become well recognized with their innovative DJ sets. The two of them combine a great artistic whole – Igor is one of the most prominent Slovenian photographers with great sensitivity for visual and auditory art, who started his relationship with music playing guitar in various bands. He has later developed preference for electronical sounds, which he blended with his organic feel and started producing his own projects. Jure is a very well established DJ and a vynil collector, who has an over 10 year status - he started with Detroit house in the early days to all sorts of brakes and disco house later on. With their attributes and background they ideally complement each other, that’s why their music and their sets are so unique. When they produce they basically live together for a few days at a time and work on music day and night – coming up with ideas, playing the instruments and recording all kinds of unusual percussive sounds using everyday items such as spoons, bottles, etc. Their so far releases include several EPs on Spanish "Disciple Of Groove" and Italian "Pizzico" records as well as some fine remixes.

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Pete Gooding is one of the few British dance producers whose music is as likely to appear in a set by Laurent Garnier, Tom Middleton, and Dubfire, as it is by David Guetta, Pete Tong, or Groove Armada. Similarly, as a DJ, you’ll find him at the Big Chill or Roskilde, as well as regular gigs at Matter, Ministry Of Sound, or at We Love at Space Ibiza.

London-based Gooding has spent the past decade conjuring up a quiet storm. Sure, he’s had another worldwide chart, radio, and club hit with collaborator James Doman (‘Runnin’), a project that is about to yield yet more crossover potential with ‘Pacific State’ and ‘Hyperactive’, and remixes for Groove Armada - Love Sweet Sound Cheryl Cole & Will I Am - 3 Words [Polydor], but his own remixes of Ultraviolet’s ‘Kites’ for Big Life (currently getting hammered by Sasha), and Humate’s ‘Choose Life’ for Yoshitoshi have fed the underground’s unabated hunger for his work, as well as picking up plays on Radio 1.

Away from his big room sounds, in the past 12 months Pete’s work with Chris Coco, Alex Tepper, Afterlife’s Steve Miller, and Phil Dockerty, has redefined the cutting edge sounds that soundtrack the outer limits of 21st century electronica. With Tepper his Warp-style forays into the territory recently mapped out by Flying Lotus and dubstep’s current protagonists, is but a continuation of Pete’s experimental manoeuvres that have soundtracked sunsets (and sunrises) past and present.

On a club level, this year he’s played alongside Moby, Trentemoller, Soulwax, Deadmau5, Ewan Pearson, Miss Kitten, and more, rocking floors with his mix of deep house, techno, and alt dance. One minute headlining well-known floors such as Cream and Gatecrasher, the next playing under the radar parties in Shoreditch, Croatia, or Sweden, at the request of promoters whose crowds expect that little bit more from their weekend entertainment.

Slovenian based Sare Havlicek - actual name (Jure Havlicek), is a bit of a hoarder. A hoarder of old synthesizers, drum machines and most of all 70's & early 80's euro/cosmic disco sounds. A trip around his luxurious studio is a bit like a day at the synth museum. All these elements go into Sares current cosmic-disco music. Any one would think he had Italian blood.

Sare's production career began way back in 1988 (he has had several aliases including Freeze, Hyperactive, Moob and Sare Muratore).

One thing's for sure - Sare's no newcomer when it comes to attention to sound quality. All tunes come with no samples or loops inside!

Old school production and playing all the way. Which is one of the reasons we just love the sounds here at Nang.

See Sare Program his MC-4b and Roland Sys 100

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The electro disco stylings of Space began back in 1977. Founded by composer and front man Didier Marouani and producer JP Iliesco, Space pioneered the space disco subgenre and inspired a whole generation of electronic dance enthusiasts. Their greatest hit, "Magic Fly", was a worldwide number 1 in 1977. They went on to record 4 albums and sell 10 million records worldwide.

Toby has been bustin out beats since the early 90's. He has put out a well recieved album on Rekids, as well as singles - and released on Bearfunk, Tirk, Tiny Sticks, Jisco amoung others, as well as putting many remixes out there (in a recognisable house tinged with disco style). He has collaborated again with Kathy Diamond for the second album also on Rekids.

He also finds time to collaborate with Felix Dickinson (Mythical Beasts), Nesreen Shah, and Marcus Marr. Catch Toby DJIng at a club in a city near you soon.