Shawn rubens & Clarence brandon

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Shawn Rubens (at the left) is the in 1979  in Rotterdam born tech-house/techno dj producer who in the mid 90's started deejaying as a resident in Roadhouz (Rotterdam) in ’96-’97, playing his sets each friday and saturday. During these years, he developed his mixing skills.

In the late 90's he discovered and fell in love with techno. This new discovery of deeper sounds and energy hooked him up and he got the chance to spin at a variaty of clubs and parties like Dance Valley, Lowlands and the Heineken Music Hall.

With his own concepts, LIFT at the Baroeg (street style underground drum & bass), and his Beatmac, a collab with Artech in Rotterdam's Nighttown Basement (art & pounding techno music) he became well known and was referred by Dutch medium "3voor12" as the follow-up for the "Future" parties from Michel De Hey, a decade before.

Nowadays Shawn is resident at the Bootleg DJ cafe in Rotterdam where he hosts his own party Detour and the 2009 DJ contest. Detour has proven to be a strong concept which had performances by Warren Fellow, Michel De hey and Estroe already.

His first release on Nightdrive Records, a remix of Harry Seldom ft. Screech’ “After the Hurricane” was released in September 2008 on Beatport Exclusive. After winning a remix contest on GZP for Illogical’s track “Tank” recently, his 2nd release followed in 2009 on Houston based Com’ere Records.

Clarence Brandon is a Holland based house/tech- house dj producer who began deejaying in Rotterdam during the mid 90's. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range and span a wide viaration of deep-house, tech-house and techno. He still is famous for his exceptional deep tech-house sound.

Early influences

During the 80's Clarence fell in love with the disco, funk, rock sounds and in the late 80's he discovered the clubbing scene. By than he was 15 years old and started mixing music on basic tape recorders. When he came back to Holland in 1996 he bought himself his first decks and started djing in the Rotterdam techno scene.

In 1999 he became resident at Rotterdams well known Bootleg DJ cafe were he still spins at special parties. This is also were he discovered the booming Rotterdam techno scene and got to meet the people behind the many local techno parties who invited him to spin at their club evenings.

Later he also became resident of the techno organisation Reactor where he played with some of the biggest names international dj's like Adam Beyer, Marco Carola and Speedy J. and also span also at foreign locations and clubs around the world.

Random EP is their first collab release on PM Deep, with the tracks "Cold Tea" and "The Burst".  These tracks are filled with many types of glitchy percussion and sounds which they record themselves using non-instruments mostly, creating moving and energetic electronic music. "Cold Tea" is supported by a nr of deejays already like Sandeep, Hertz & Vibes and Michel de Hey. Working studio overtime ,these guys are now busy on some new material with fresh ideas for new sounds, so keep your ears and eyes open for Random ;-)
 
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