In 1983, looking for an English mother tongue artist to sing and write lyrics for his songs Aldo met Simona and they worked together on the Doctor's Cat "Feel the Drive": her vocal talent, together with the fact her mother tongue was English, made her singing credible for export. His attention towards melody and his care for vocal and instrumental harmonies immediately satisfied the craving of dance music fans in Europe and signed a milestone in what would be called the Italo Disco music. Sure enough that first song led way to a successful series of dance music productions in which Simona was the lyricist and lead vocal, and Aldo was the player of all instruments and arrangements, often male vocalist and the co-producer. Shortly they climbed the charts in Europe. To be able to support multiple releases of the prolific team in a relatively short period of time, the recordings were released under different stage names - but always with the same female lead voice and the same instrumental performer. For this reason several models were hired for television appearances and playback in disco or music shows. Among the stage names: Doctor's Cat, the duo Martinelli, Topo & Roby and Moon Ray, with the worldwide hit "Comanchero".
Within five years, since 1983, they show at the top of the charts in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland with many of these different names at the same time, earning gold records in all these countries.
The success of their hits induced other producers to seek cooperation from them: the first Radiorama hit, "Chance to Desire" was written by the duo and sung by Simona.

Simona continues to write and sing for Radiorama for a few more songs and also writes for other artists, the most successful being "The Legend" album of Valerie Dore, (lyrics, vocals and production), released by EMI. In 1987 she continues to work behind the scenes, she puts up a small production & music publishing company and a recording studio, coproducing young Italian pop music for the Sanremo Festival and goes back to singing live, in local clubs also performing in other genres, rock and west coast.
In the years 2000 she experiences the marketing and trading side of the music business, managing a music import company.

During the next years Aldo followed the promotion of his Italo Disco hits in many TV shows such as "Discoring" , "Superclassifica Show", "Festivalbar" (the national hit parade TV reviews), Raffaella Carrà and many TV shows in France and Germany.
Throughout his music career, Aldo never abandons teaching music and as a matter of fact he is working on an innovative text book for Music Education in school.

The experience gathered by both of them in various fields of music production during the years and the affection of DJs and fans of the 80's Italo-disco music, who know the name of those who were behind the various stage names, have led them to return to the genre and work together on new music, this time performing in person on stage.

Duplantis released his first single, "Bop", on 28 February 2025.

1) Riviera (USA) was founded in the thriving Chicago music scene in 2000. Through personnel changes and musical shifts, the band has created a sound that is grounded in American folk and rock with electronic overtones and feedback.

Riviera’s musical palette contains shades of artists you already love (Neil Young, Rolling Stones, George Harrison) blended together with colors unique to each of the band’s three singer-songwriters.

Singer-songwriter Derek Phillips formed the band in an attempt to bring together the elements of American music that had grabbed his attention over the years. His lyrics paint colors rather than shapes in your mind and leave you with feelings that creep up on you days later.Lead guitarist Mick Radichel writes songs with a decidedly southern flair, though he hails from Milwaukee. Wide varieties of playing styles from Keith Richards to Smokey Hormel to Jim O’Rourke provide the bones to the songs.

Josh Boisvert has a repertoire of material reminiscent of the lonesome troubadour. His piano and organ playing and harmonizing vocals round out the band’s sound. Bassist Matt Usner brings folk sensibilities and quiet anchoring, while drummer Joshua Rogers lends the foundation with solid rhythm and unexpected flair.

2) Riviera (Europe/USA/Japan)
Lounge retro 60ies pop group founded by the german siblings Julia and Roland Wolff. It is mainly a brother/ sister studio project in which Julia and Roland play all the instruments on their own compositions.
From 2001 on Riviera successfully released six CDs in Japan (Philter/Sony) and South Korea (Chilimusic/t-entertainment).
Artists such as Fantastic Plastic Machine, Konichi Yasuharu of Pizzicato 5 or Shuya Okino remixed their works.
Their songs have been used in various TV-commercials for LG Telecom, KIA and others in Asia.

3) Riviera (AUS) a rock/screamo band from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Little known outside of Brisbane, but known but many local bands and a few of the nations bigger bands. Supporting bands as Behind Crimson Eyes and more.

4) Riviera (ITA) is a punk/emo band from Romagna http://megariviera.bandcamp.com

5) Hardcore punk band from Oulu, Finland https://rivierahardcore.bandcamp.com/

1) Millenium is a progressive rock group from Poland.

2) Millenium is a Melodic Heavy Metal group from the United States. Altough some of the members are from other countries. They were formed in 1997 and have released 4 albums so far. Millenium (1997), Angelfire (1999), Hourglass (2000) and Jericho (2004). One compliation album has also been released in 2004.
J. Todd Plant : Lead And Backing Vocals
Ralph Santolla : Guitar, Keyboards
Shane French : Rhythm Guitar
Manfred Binder : Bass
Oliver Hanson : Drums

3) Millenium is a Polish electronic group from Piła. It was founded in 1993 by two producers: Phobos & TR. Their first songs were only trance & techno.

4) Millenium is Heavy Metal band from Bangalore, India. The band was formed in 1988 in Bangalore by Rio on the guitars, Roberto on the drums, Vehrnon as the vocalist and Stanley on the bass and Cecil on the guitar. They were also the openers for Deep Purple and Megadeth/Machinehead in India.

5) Millenium is a pop-rock group from Moldova. The band took part in the Moldovan national final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Before You Go".

6) Millenium is a black metal band from Brazil, formed in 2000.

7) Millenium is a hip hop group from Alexandria, Virginia, USA.

More than a decade ago, KUKO began his journey as a birthday DJ, dreaming of playing in clubs and releasing his own music. That dream became reality when he released his debut vinyl EP on 44 Label Group, a milestone supported by artists like Kobosil and Somewhen. His ability to connect emotion with energy has earned him a dedicated following in the European techno scene.

Based in Cologne, KUKO is a resident for Adrenaline Cologne and Unreal Germany, and has performed at major events including Verknipt and other leading techno stages across Europe.

Their self-titled debut album was released in 2004, featuring UK top 10 single Cutt Off and has been followed with:
2005: Live from Brixton Academy
2006: Empire, featuring UK top 10 single Empire
2009: West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, featuring the global hit single Fire
2011: Velociraptor!
2012: Live!
2014: 48:13
2017: For Crying Out Loud
2022: The Alchemist's Euphoria, the first album since the sacking of Tom Meighan.
2024: Happenings

Pescod started out in the early 2000s with a series of Drum & Bass releases under the moniker of DJ Clipz. By the end of the decade, he had developed a different garage/house-based sound under the name of Redlight. 2010 saw Redlight's rapid rise with the release of two dance floor destroyers. The first, 'Stupid' on Digital Sound Boy featuring the vocals of Roses Gabor. The second 'What You Talking About!? on Chase & Status' More Than Alot imprint, which saw the return of Ms Dynamite.

Redlight also released via Digital Sound Boy, 'Source 16' & 'Progress', as well as selectively remixing some choice artists from Ceelo Green to Mavrick Sabre to Ms Dynamite as well as continuing to produce tracks for some of the most promising up and coming UK acts.

The Redlight sound is spreading fast with his unique DJ sets throughout the UK and Europe and with his bi-monthly Rinse FM show this ensures people are sitting up and paying attention the World over.

Hooking up w/ producer Michael Jay, Martika landed a deal with Columbia Records. Martika's self-titled debut album was released in the fall of 1988. But it wasn't until 1989 that she broke through in a big way. By January her debut single "More Than You Know" was a US Top 20 smash. Her second single, a haunting ballad about addiction, entitled "Toy Soldiers" spent 2 weeks at #1 in the US during the summer of 1989. Up next was a dance/rock version of the Carole King classic "I Feel The Earth Move" which would eventually score Martika her 3rd Top 40 US hit. This song as well as her previous singles also became huge hits all over the world by charting high in the UK, Australia, Japan and Spain just to name a few. A fourth single was released in Europe and Australia entitled "Water".

After the success of her debut, her label compiled a 4 song EP of Spanish language versions of 3 of her hits ("Water" was included as well but in it's bilingual original state). It was during this time that Martika would perform throughout many Spanish speaking countries, and was heavily promoted to the US Latino market.

During the fall of 1990, Martika returned briefly to acting playing Dahlia Mendez on the CBS drama "Wiseguy". Playing a sultry nightclub singer & girlfriend to the then new lead Steven Bauer, Martika turned heads w/ her sexy outfits & latin jazz standards sprinkled throughout the show. Much like her character's untimely death, the show also was cancelled after failing to catch on with viewers. Luckily for Martika all 4 of her episodes aired.

Martika followed up her debut (which eventually went gold in the US) with 1991's "Martika's Kitchen". Led by the first single, "Love…Thy Will Be Done", a prayer that Martika had written which would later be turned into a song by Prince, Martika would find herself once again on the charts. The song peaked at #10 in the US and was a #1 hit in Australia. Unfortunately a sophmore slump of sorts took its toll on what could have been a huge hit album. The 2nd single, a funky Prince penned and produced tune, failed to set the charts on fire and stalled at #98 in the US. However it did fare better in Europe making it all the way to #1 in Spain. A third single, the C+C Music Factory produced "Coloured Kisses", failed to chart in the US but was a modest hit internationally. Two more singles would see the light of day in Europe, a club only release of yet another Prince produced track "Spirit" made the rounds as did a 4th single "Safe In The Arms Of Love".

It was during 1992 that Martika would walk away from her music career. After a headlining stint at the Expo Sevilla in Sevilla, Spain, Martika walked off the stage and began a long hiatus from music. Rumors of her whereabouts would range from the weird to plain ridiculous.

During this time Martika wrote songs for several artists (Maria Nyler, Tevin Campbell, etc.) as well as lending her voice to several projects (C+C Music Factory's "Música es mi vida" and the Conga Club's "The Happy Song" to name a few). But it was not until 1999 that Martika would come out of musical obscurity by launching a website (the new defunct martika.net) and talk of a new album brought many fans out of the woodwork so to say. At this time several demos leaked on the internet and she even went as far as to release an internet only single "The Journey" available exclusively on mp3.com.

This brief return sort of came and went and it wasn't until the beginning of this decade that Martika would again return. This time as 1/2 of the musical duo Oppera. Along with her musical partner (and husband) Michael Mozart, the duo released their internet only debut "Violince". Since they have released a self-titled follow-up, opened for Pat Benatar.

In 2010 Martika, under the name Vida Edit, starred in the internet series J8DED along w/ her hubby Michael Daemon. The show is currently on hiatus.

Martika is currently working on her first solo album in 20 years. It will see her return to her dance/pop roots. Expect a fall 2011 release.

Also of note rapper Eminem sampled Martika's "Toy Soldiers" in his 2004 hit "Like Toy Soldiers", thus resparking some interest in this often ignored pop star. To boot, in 2007 British shoegaze/alternative rock band My Vitriol covered the song for their A Pyrrhic Victory EP.

A lot of bands meet as kids at school. Others come together after an over-enthusiastic conversation about music at some random party. Aluna Francis and George Reid however, met through the internet.

While their online encounter is more MySpace than Match.com, it was in fact through a mutual respect for each other's work that led them to go on to form AlunaGeorge. Now together for just barely a year, the talented duo have been churning out a series of infectious mixes which fuse Francis' sweet vocal harmonies with the hushed electronic stylings courtesy of Reid.

Having already caught the attention of Rob da Bank who championed their initial collaboration Sweetheart on Radio 1; they've since succeeded in initially tapping the American market having had a track featured in the US series of Skins earlier this year. Now this month sees the release of their debut AA single Analyser/ We Are Chosen, two impressively mastered melodies of sensual synths complemented by Francis' contagious vocals which evoke notions of the likes of Shanks and Bigfoot, yet at the same time remain utterly unique.

Featured in Narcity’s Top 10 Canadian Artists to Watch, Kelland continues to push the development of his idiosyncratic sound and complimenting imagery with a fresh branding pivot that will be transmitted to his fans come top of 2024 that showcases his comedic and playful personality. this new brand direction features dance/house-forward songs with influence from tech house and techno, with warm impactful bassline melodies, playful vocal-driven songwriting, and hard-hitting drums. This sound is complimented by a new highly visual brand identity that is soaked in color, personality, comedy, energy, and personable attributes.

- 3. Deco was Attala Zane Giles & Phillip Ingram

The Deco album was recorded and completed, through to it's final packaging, and then withdrawn leaving a few cut-outs circulating at the time. The time was 1983 and Deco were Zane Giles and Phillip Ingram. The album was due for release on Quincy Jones's Qwest label and was produced by the great man additionally. The artistic input included the 'dynamic duo' of Patrice Rushen and Sheree Brown. Of the tracks that were on offer here, 'I'm So Glad I Met You' was popular amongst soul fans, however, . a fine album that never saw the official light of day.

- 4. Deco is a Los Angeles-based producer who makes bass-driven electronic music with a touch of soul. From dub to techno to downtempo and songs that defy classification, Deco's style always comes with ample amounts of vibe, whether its deep and contemplative or techy and driving. Rooted in the underground days of drum & bass and dubstep, Deco wears his influences on his sleeve and blends the sounds of yesteryear with today's styles & production standards.

With over a dozen singles, remixes and EPs credited to his name, Deco has been creating music below the radar for several years. Prior to getting the studio bug, he DJ'd in clubs and on radio throughout the 2000s, holding positions as a Music Director for WRAS Atlanta 88.5FM, America's highest-wattage college radio station and serving as a resident DJ for Insomniac, America's largest promoter of dance music events like Electric Daisy Carnival.

In 2009, Deco established Deceast, a record label to serve as an outlet for music created by himself and a small circle of friends. Championing a quality-over-quantity approach, Deceast puts out a limited number of releases each year comprised of only the best in bass music. Since being established as a label, the Deceast brand has expanded into radio and live events, with a bi-weekly radio show on SubFM and periodic club events held in and around Los Angeles.