Ace Da Bass

Shafa Shaimemanya, better known from his stage name on the African continent as ACE DA BASS hails from the world famously known “Gem” of Africa on the South Western edge of the continent, Namibia. A born and bred musician, Shafa amassed his artistic experience both in South East Asia and his home lands of Namibia, which is currently his artistic base. As a professional Artist on the Southern African DJ scene, the formation of his music is inspired through the constant shift, enhancement and adaptation of local and international influences. A true “Gem” of a Musician has evolved since emerging as a fully-fledged professional a year ago and while devoting his full attention to his craft, Shafa travels the length and breath of Namibia, gaining new sound creativity which is merged into his musical style.

While working with top international musicians like the world famous South African duo Goldfish, Ian Van Dahl and Jay frog of Germany and Afrikaans performer/entertainer Jack Parow, Shafa has a full understanding and respect for the business side of his profession, which he emulates from packed out festivals to supporting the local underground music scene in Namibia.
INTRODUCTION
Namibian born Pierre Pienaar is one of the most prominent names in the Electronic Dance Music scene of late. He has racked up over 50 single releases and over 50 remixes under his Pierre Pienaar, P.H.A.T.T., Melodia, ReBirth, JXS Project and Deep Sequence aliases. appearing on respected labels like Ministry of Sound, Sony / BMG, Universal, Warner Bros, EMI, Armada, Vandit, Flashover, Nukleuz, Tidy, Monster Tunes, Cloud 9, Be Yourself Music, Black Hole Recordings and have been commissioned to remix tracks for the likes of Technotronic, Roger Shah, Fabio XB, Lost Witness, BK, Ratty, CRW, Mario Piu, Ralph Novell, Mauro Picotto and even Bob Marley among others. He was the Head of Nukleuz Green which has released prolific productions from the likes of Mauro Picotto, Alphazone, Mario Piu, Gigi D’Agostino, Tillmann Uhrmacher and many others which was the #1 selling vinyl record label in the UK. In 2017 he co-produced “Stronger Together”, which went on to become one of the biggest modern trance classics.
Simon Eve at DJ Magazine was quoted as saying that Pierre is one of the A-Listers in the scene, having headlined alongside TOP100 DJ’s like Leon Bolier, Ummet Ozcan, Lisa Lashes, BK etc and with his tracks being playlisted by music heavyweights such as Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Paul van Dyk, Carl
Cox, W&W, Marcus Schulz, Aly & Fila, Sean Tyas, Bob Sinclar, Solarstone, Dave Pearce, Judge Jules, DJ Feel, Lange, Tidy Boys, Warp Brothers, Dave Joy, Lisa Lashes, Alphazone, Cosmic Gate, Dumonde and Technikal.
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HISTORY
Pierre started taking an interest in DJ’ing at the age of 15, doing weddings and birthday gigs to generate enough money to buy himself a pair of decks. However that dream almost came seemingly to an end when all his equipment burnt down at a matric farewell function. Insurance only paid out a small amount but Pierre decided to just buy a pair of decks and a mixer to train himself the basics of mixing and to try and land gigs at clubs, which turned out to be more of a problem than he expected because of his young age. However, once promoters listened to his demos he got a chance to shine at Pentagon Entertainment and from there on things just went from strength to strength.
In the meanwhile Pierre started to dabble with music production, getting himself a copy of Fruity Loops and reading tutorials on the internet and on music production forums. During the same time there were 3 other young producers doing exactly the same thing, posting samples of their latest productions for people to give feedback on. Gaz West (Dark By Design), Guy Mearns (Guyver) and Alf Bamford (Technikal) along with Pierre built up a small fan base among members of the upcoming production community and people started talking. Pierre and Alf Bamford decided to put their heads together on some tracks and from that spawned their first track “Darkside” which started getting DJ support from big DJ’s in the Hard Dance
scene.
Pierre finished his matric year at the age of 18 and enrolled at SAE (www.sae.edu) to study Audio Engineering in Glasgow, Scotland, working on his own productions when he had free time. He started to send out demos and it wasn’t long until he got a call from Kevin Energy who offered to sign Darkside as well as Stratosphere from Alf and Pierre on his Dynamix label. This was the start of big things to come. At this stage Pierre and Alf have never actually met in person, all of their productions were done over the internet.
A few months after the release of Darkside, Pierre got his first solo production signed to the highly respected Audio Rehab label, one of the in-house labels at Alphamagic under his ReBirth alias. Working closely with A&R Manager Lee Stacey he released a string of successful solo singles on Audio Rehab and Execute as well as the follow up release from himself and Alf, this time featuring a remix from the
legendary Anne Savage. The first single under Pierre’s new P.H.A.T.T. alias also got released on Alphamagic’s Phantom Trax label. Unfortunately Alphamagic went into administration which was a huge setback not only for Pierre, but the whole scene.
After taking some time off to re-think his role and position in the scene Pierre started working on new
ideas and new sounds, and decided to concentrate more on his P.H.A.T.T. productions. This ended up to be a very good decision and soon Pierre was contacted by Simon “Brisky” Brisk, who heads Monster Tunes (www.monster-tunes.com). He signed “The Gift Of Melody” and “Levitation” and also gave Pierre tracks to remix on his label, including Sundawner – Krystal Dreams (The Theme Of Wildchild), Sunblind – Believe and the now legendary “Ratty – Sunrise".
Meanwhile, Pierre and Alf collaborated on their biggest track to date…Global Panic. Tidy Trax quickly signed it and hype of the track started to build and spread throughout the clubbing community. They were toured to Australia and New Zealand and played in Sydney, Canberra and Auckland. This was also the first time that Alf and Pierre actually met each other in person.
When Global Panic finally got released it entered the national UK Dance charts at the number 10 spot.
As a DJ and performer Pierre has played and headlined many events around the world. In 2006 he did his first UK tour where he played for promotions and events like Twisted at the Fridge (alongside BK, Ed Real, Trevor McLachlan and Olly Perris), Tranzaction (with Charlie G and Rob Tisserra) Zoology and Addiction (alongside Ben Gold and Spencer Freeland) among others. He has also toured Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, playing at high profile clubs, festivals and events, the biggest being H2O in Johannesburg, where Pierre performed to a crowd of 17000 people on which was aired on MTV Base.
Pierre has also done guest DJ mixes for shows like DJ Tiesto’s Club Life, Trevor Reilley’s “Underground Sessions”, Judge Jules’ “International Show” Sean Tyas’ “Tytanium Sessions” and "Future of Hard Dance" on Ministry of Sound radio among others.
His own weekly show called Euphoric Sessions was aired on Dance Radio in Germany, Pulse in Australia, Totaal.fm in Holland, Derek The Bandit's "Sound Republic" web radio station in South Africa and Slinky.fm in the UK. Guests that has appeared on the show included the likes of Cosmic Gate, W&W, Matt Darey, Adam White, Sean Tyas, Mike Koglin, Gareth Emery, Lange, Warp Brothers and Andy Whitby among various others. He also mixed the bi-monthly “Nukleuz Trance Podcast” on iTunes.
Pierre got the first mixed compilation mixed by himself released in June 2007 on Nukleuz Records. Trance Sessions Solstice climbed into the TOP10 charts on iTunes UK’s dance album charts and followed up with Trance Adrenaline vol.1 at the end of 2008 and Trance Adrenaline vol.2 which was featured as the trance release of the month in Mixmag.
His tacks keep getting licensed to top selling compilations around the world mixed by others as well. He has featured on various TOP40 compilations including “Gatecrasher’s Trance Anthems which hit the number 1 spot on the UK compilation charts and stayed there for a month, beating off competition from the “NOW..that’s what I call music” series as well as the soundtracks to High School Musical and Twilight.
He has worked with Paul Almeida on various projects, including a remix album for some of the biggest
Afrikaans acts (Kurt Darren, Nicholis Louw, Shine 4, David Fourie, Manie Jackson, Die Campbells, Monique
& Snotkop) for Select Music, remixes for Locnville (Just Music) and ChianoSky (EMI Records) and the
remake of Technotronic’s massive hit, “Like This” on Universal.
In the last 3 years he has firmly planted himself as one of the trance elite with releases on Ferry Corsten’s Flashover Recordings, Paul van Dyk’s VANDIT Records, Roger Shah’s Magic Island and Alex M.O.R.P.H’s Universal Nation and co-producing “Stronger Together” with Paul van Dyk which reached the #1 Spot on the Beatport Trance chart.
No introduction needed for this Namibian superstar that rocks dancefloors all over with his unique flavour of techno.
Resident @ Technoloft, geraas oppi plaas and Befokte jol.
Owner at Afrika Boom.

The MicadE

The MicadE first emerged on to the Electronic Music scene in the fall of 2012 with an EP for On A Break Records in South Africa and have consistently been releasing ever since. In 2013 they released their EP, Modify, onto Elektroshok Records of Spain and a new sound was born. In 2014, The MicadE released their EP, Reboot, onto Elektroshok Records and saw their Title Track “Reboot Ft. Cicatrixx and Soul-Sista Tilo” gain a lot of attention on some of South Africa’s biggest local Radio Stations, such as 5fm on “Fresh at 5” with Dj Fresh and on Assembly Radio with Das Kapital. “Circuit Breaker”, another track from the Reboot EP, was noticed and reposted by EDM.com, one of the biggest Music- blogs in Electronic Music worldwide and gained over 13000 Plays on SoundCloud. 2015 has seen The Micade collaborate with one of South Africa’s biggest and most legendary Electronic Music acts, Sibot. The artists scheduled a meeting at Redbull Studios Cape Town and “Caprivi Diamond” was born, thus earning them a large amount of respect in the industry. Regarded as one of the new twists in Electro House and other forms of electronic music, the duo simply have a hunger for slamming beats and torn bass giving them a coveted, unique sound. Counting local and internationally renowned artists such as Dirty Loud, Sibot, Blitzkrieg, Das Kapital, Hot Shit!, Pziezzo Electric and George Daniel as supporters of their sound. Their music has earned them a hefty reputation among fans and peers alike.



Refining his craft since the vinyl days of late 90's hard house, techno and trance and influenced by his time in the London clubbing scene, Ned Lecka's passion for music production and DJ'ing stretches a vast array of genres - always bringing
a new perspective to his audience while keeping them hooked with his bass-heavy style.

NONE OTHER

Growing up with music all around him, Klaus Felsner, better known as timeLORD sought out to understand why music has such a different effect on people. Moving around from genre to genre he finally found the music that made him move and that gave him eternal bliss; Trance music or as he calls it, pony riding music. It had such an euphoric effect on him that he was hooked. In 2006 he had his official DJ debut, after being a bedroom DJ for many years before that. The legendary WackaZoo party organizers gave him the opportunity to show his skills. He has not been looking back since and has become a household name to many parties.

He has played at the legendary Color Festival, Summer Sessions, Amphis Desert parties, all WackaZoo parties, most of Brainwash events as well as most Laundry room Event parties. He has a European flair in all styles of music and does not believe in commercial music because for him music is special and every song out there has meaning.

After having a short residence at the legendary Club London in Windhoek, he has learned to adapt his music and has fine-tuned his skill of reading what the people want on the dance floor. No matter what time he plays, he has the ability to cook the dance floor and melt the music. His music style ranges from Trance to pumping Electro; depending on the party He thrives in playing the latest and greatest underground tracks from Europe, South Africa and Israel.

He has played in most of Windhoek's prominent night clubs such as Zanzibar, Club London, Club London 2.0, Bliss and VIBE. Having played alongside DJ legends like Sergio, RD (SA), Pierre Pienaar, James Damian (SA), Costa (SA, Bump), Taucher (EU), Jason47 (SA), Kaos (SA), Jessy (EU), Gaultier Brothers (EU), Kr4nky, JDL Quake (SA), Da Rick (EU), DHT feat Edmee (EU), Markus H (EU) Jason van Wyk (SA), Djane Special K (SA), Djane Vee Vixon, Chello, Quick, Ru-D, Rudi (SA), Ace, Jared-G, Eddie, Alu, Kunundrum, Wiaan, The Micade, RU and Droopy to mention just a few, he learned that it’s not what you play but how you entertain that is important.

INMiTTE

Inspired by the underground club music scene in Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam and elsewhere in Europe, and connected through shared musical taste, INMiTTE was formed by three friends out of a desire to share their eclectic sound. The DJ trio takes you through a musical journey that explores a wide range of sub genres; from deep house, tech house, disco to techno.

GUEST DJ

MHS

Dark synthesizers, high bass lines, hypnotizing atmosphere and deep sounds, is the perfect combination to describe this Dj and Colombian Producer. Decided to further his career as a musician and when he was doing his studies, he was attracted by groovy industrial sounds and surround effects. In his live sets, he crafts this perfect recipe into a unforgettable techno experience.

Show it Off to the World

Alex Silhue

M.Vortekk'z

German Techno Sensation

M.Vortekk's hails from Hildenheim Germany.

And in her own Words....

Mein persönliches Interesse ???
Techno !!!
Den Eigenen Sound...Mein Stil in der Welt verbreiten,
die tanzwütige Menge mit zackigen Beats in eine unvergessliche Nacht steuern. ♥

My personal interest ???
Techno !!!
The unique Sound...spread my style to the world, steer the dance-mad crowd with jigsaw beats for an unforgettable night. ♥
Dj LX has been involved with/in music since a young age and became hooked on turntablism. He has been dj'ing for 15 years+, 12 of the years at a professional level and considers himself a crafted Turntablist. He has played at various large clubs, festivals, locally and internationally in countries such as SA(Cape Town), UK, Portugal and Namibia of course. Locally he has played at festivals/events such as Beach Bash, Sound of Summer, AMPED, Colour Crazy(Colour Festival), Summer Sessions, Infectious Electro series of events, New Years Events at the popular Tiger Reef- just to name a few.
He made much of his first impression on listeners in Cape Town playing at some of the underground clubs, namely Blacksheep, Deluxe, Babaloos and Miaam Miaam, to then bring the Deep/Funky/Tech House with back to Namibia.
His love for vinyl brings him to have an extensive vinyl library and the willingness to pursue the full extents of his roots (house/jackin house/funky house), foundation (House) and future (Electronic/Dance music) without any restraints. He considers himself more than a DJ, a live audio visual

DJ KR4NKY


With about 10 years of experience in the music industry, KR4NKY is no stranger and one of Namibia's finest DJ’s.

After completing a Pro DJ course in the UK, at point blank London (www.pointblankmusicschool.com). He has landed top residencies in the capital city of Namibia, Windhoek. Residencies at: Club Zanzibar, Club Bliss, Club London and Club Vibe as well as featured in almost every club. lounge and pub clubs in the country, thus earning him the title 'The Club King'. In the last 10 years, KR4NKY has played at many parties and massive events creating a great musical experience to the party goers, by bringing such diversity in his sets with different genres and can cater for almost any crowd.