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Max Martin (real name — Karl Martin Sandberg; born February 26, 1971, in Stenhamra, Stockholm County, Sweden) — is a Swedish songwriter, music producer, arranger and musician. He is one of the most commercially successful songwriters in the history of modern pop music. Since the mid-1990s, Max Martin has contributed to songs by Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Robyn, Céline Dion, Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson, P!nk, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake, Adele, Coldplay and many other artists. Among his best-known works are «...Baby One More Time», «I Want It That Way», «It's My Life», «Since U Been Gone», «I Kissed a Girl», «So What», «Teenage…

ASTER (Korean: 아스터; real name — Choi Min-woong, 최민웅; born September 19, 1990, in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea) — is a South Korean DJ and electronic music producer. After beginning his career on Seoul's club scene, he gradually moved on to major festivals, solo concerts and international releases. His music combines electro house, progressive house, festival EDM, bass house and elements of electronic pop music. ASTER has performed at World DJ Festival, EDC Korea, S2O, Waterbomb and other major Asian festivals, and has collaborated with Firebeatz, BlackCode, VIVID, Robbie Rosen, BBGIRLS, Sonnet and Alan Shirahama. A separate part of his work is connected with the ASTER MUSIC project, through which the artist and DJ NEO release long-form mixes, live sets and EDM…

WADE (real name — Juan Carlos Cruz López; born in 1991 in Dos Hermanas, Seville Province, Spain) — is a Spanish DJ and music producer working primarily with house, tech house and minimal/deep tech. He is the founder of the club brand and label Criterio. Wade's professional career began in the early 2010s. Before his name became widely known in Spain, he spent several years releasing music on European underground labels and touring outside his home country. His records have appeared on MOOD, Suara, Solid Grooves, AVOTRE, Sola, SOLOTOKO, Black Book Records, Musical Freedom and Insomniac Records. One of Wade's biggest international releases was «Mi Amor», recorded with Cloonee in 2021. Other notable entries in his catalog include «Passion»,…

Mahmut Orhan (born January 11, 1993, in Bursa, Turkey) — is a Turkish DJ, music producer and composer. He gained international recognition in 2016 with the release of the single «Feel» featuring Sena Şener. The success was followed by «Save Me», «6 Days», «Schhh», «Fly Above» and other releases. Orhan's music grew out of house, deep house and indie dance, but over time it became considerably broader. His catalog includes melodic house, melodic techno, Afro house, organic house and pop-oriented releases. One distinctive feature of his work is his attention to melodies from Turkey, the Balkans and the Middle East, which he brings into a contemporary club context without simply copying traditional folk music. In 2024, Orhan…

Joseph Capriati (real name — Giuseppe Capriati; born July 25, 1987, in Caserta, Campania, Italy) — is an Italian DJ, music producer and founder of the labels Redimension and Metamorfosi Records. His career is closely connected with the Neapolitan school of electronic music, the Drumcode, CLR and Analytic Trail labels, Ibiza club culture and the development of contemporary techno. At the same time, the description «techno DJ» does not fully define Capriati. His first serious passion in electronic music was house, and over the years his sets and studio recordings have moved freely between techno, house, tech house, minimal, dub, melodic electronic music and more experimental forms. This side of his work became especially evident on his third studio album Metamorfosi…

Padre Guilherme (full name — Guilherme Guimarães Peixoto; born July 31, 1974, in Guimarães, Portugal) — is a Portuguese Catholic priest, military chaplain, DJ and electronic music producer. In his performances, he combines techno, melodic techno and house with choral singing, church bells, liturgical motifs and excerpts from speeches by Popes John Paul II, Francis and Leo XIV. Padre Guilherme reached a broad international audience after his performance at World Youth Day in Lisbon in August 2023. Early in the morning before Pope Francis' closing Mass, he played an electronic set for approximately 1.5 million pilgrims. In the years that followed, the priest performed at Afterlife at Hï Ibiza, Medusa Festival, Zamna, beside the Christ the Redeemer statue in…

ZHANGYE (Chinese: 张野, Zhang Ye; born in 1983 in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang Province, China) — is a Chinese DJ, electronic music producer and composer, founder of the Cyanhill Music platform and initiator of the CHINA EDM project. Before launching his professional career in electronic music, he received an academic education in composition at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and spent several years working in venture capital. Under the name ZHANGYE, he began regularly releasing electronic music in 2022. Among his most notable works are «When I Was Young», «Wherever The Wind Blows» with KARRA, «Own Way» with Janieck, «Heart Of Peace» with Zhou Shen, «Nobody Else» with Bassjackers and JVZEL, «Where Do We Go»…

Alan Shirahama (Japanese: 白濱亜嵐, Shirahama Aran; born August 4, 1993, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese dancer, DJ, music producer, composer and actor of Japanese-Filipino descent. He is the leader of GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE, a member of the creative collective PKCZ® and a member of EXILE, whose activities he temporarily suspended in 2025. As an independent electronic musician, he works under the name ALAN SHIRAHAMA. His solo music spans EDM, bass house, tech house, trance, melodic dubstep, drum and bass, speed house and other styles of contemporary club electronic music. In addition to his own releases, Shirahama writes music for GENERATIONS, EXILE, FANTASTICS, BiSH, Koda Kumi, THE JET BOY BANGERZ and other artists. His career has developed in several…

«Аккад» is a Ukrainian rock band from the city of Bar in Vinnytsia Region, founded on January 22, 2005. The main 2005–2006 lineup consisted of vocalist and songwriter Oleg Pylypenko, bassist Yevhen Valchuk, guitarist Oleksandr Dedov, lead guitarist Ruslan Kyrpa and drummer Taras Shcherba. In 2005–2006, the band recorded twelve songs at Air Force Studio in Vinnytsia, performed at festivals and club venues, won the SMS voting at the «Перлини сезону» festival, reached the final of «Тарас Бульба», and played at Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. The recorded material circulated on compact discs and through the internet but did not receive an official release at the time. Twenty years later, «Аккад» returned to these songs: in 2026, both…

«Качели-Качели» is a Ukrainian rock band from Odesa, formed in the autumn of 2001. The core lineup consisted of Vitaliy Doroshenko — vocals, bass guitar; Viktor Plakhtiy — guitar; and Oleksandr Ponomaryov — drums. In the later period, violinist Yana Luzman joined the group. The musicians performed their own material and described their style as European pop-rock, often using their own shortened term «Europoprock». Their sound was based on melodic guitar songs, a live rhythm section and predominantly lyrical texts. British rock culture played a noticeable role in the group’s musical and visual references: the members themselves spoke of their love for English music of the 1970s and 1980s and cited The Beatles and The Rolling Stones among…

DJ Mistral (real name — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Golyadkin; born May 15, 1975, in Voronezh) is a Russian composer, songwriter, vocalist, arranger and music producer. In the 1990s, he was the founder and leader of the band «Мистраль», and later performed under the stage name Vladimir Svetlov. After a long hiatus, he returned to original music under the name DJ Mistral. Vladimir Golyadkin dates the beginning of his professional career to 1994, when he recorded his first original album, «Девочка моя», and formed the band «Мистраль». Over the following years, he moved from the regional pop scene and live ensembles to independent studio work with electronic music. His current sound is built around EDM, House, Dance-Pop, Eurodance and Electro-Pop, while…

Mikhail Galustyan (officially Nshan Sergeyevich Galustyan; born October 25, 1979, in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian comedian, actor, television host, producer and performer of Armenian descent. He became widely known as a member and captain of the KVN team «Utomlyonnye Solntsem», which won the KVN Premier League championship in 2003. He later played Ravshan, Alexander Rodionovich Borodach, Zhorik Vartanov and numerous other characters in the sketch comedy series «Nasha Russia», appeared in films and television series, voiced Po in the Russian-language versions of «Kung Fu Panda», and in 2019 launched the musical project Super Zhorik. In 2023, Galustyan obtained Armenian citizenship. His best-known screen projects include…

ALIGASH (real name — Song Qiang; previously performed as DJ JOE) is a Chinese DJ and music producer working primarily in trance and uplifting trance. His professional career spans around three decades. He has worked under the name ALIGASH since 2019, when he began focusing on trance music. His releases have appeared on Future Sound of Egypt (FSOE), Pure Trance NEON, AROS Music and Amon Vision. His key works include «Spring And Autumn», «Belief», «Moon Bay At Sunset», «Indelible Memory», «Quicksand», «Starshine», «Half a Dream», «Clouds' Hometown» and «Evening Primrose». Apple Music lists Dalian, Liaoning Province, as the artist’s place of origin. Career before ALIGASH…

Slava KPSS (real name — Vyacheslav Valeryevich Mashnov; born May 9, 1990, Khabarovsk, Russia) is a Russian rapper, poet, battle MC and streamer, also known under the aliases Gnoyny, Sonya Marmeladova, Valentin Dyadka, Buter Brodsky, Vorovskaya Lapa and a number of other stage names. He is one of the most prominent figures of Russian-language battle rap of the 2010s and a member of the «Антихайп» collective. Mashnov became widely known after defeating Oxxxymiron in a joint Versus Battle and #SlovoSPB event in August 2017. Long before that, he had already built an extensive underground discography, participated in the group «Ежемесячные», won the first season of Saint Petersburg’s Slovo league and experimented with grime, punk, trap, spoken word and…

Megadeth is an American thrash metal band founded by Dave Mustaine in Los Angeles in 1983 after his departure from Metallica. Along with Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, the band is commonly regarded as part of the so-called “Big Four” of American thrash metal. Megadeth developed one of the most technically complex forms of the genre: its music is built around Mustaine’s fast and rhythmically dense guitar playing, the interaction of two lead guitars, prominent bass parts, and frequent changes in tempo and structure. The band’s lyrics regularly address war, politics, religion, nuclear threats, social instability and human self-destruction. Over the course of its career, Megadeth released 17 studio albums, sold around 50 million records worldwide, received 13 Grammy…

DJ White Shadow, also known as DJWS (real name — Paul Edward Blair; born September 20, 1975, Youngstown, Ohio, USA) is an American music producer, songwriter and DJ. He is best known for his long-running collaboration with Lady Gaga: Blair contributed to nine tracks on the album Born This Way, became one of the key producers of ARTPOP, and later worked on six songs for the film A Star Is Born. In 2020, as one of the soundtrack producers, he received a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. Some reference sources still list 1978 as DJ White Shadow’s year of birth. However, Astro-Databank states that it obtained information from Blair’s birth certificate, which records the date as September 20, 1975. DJWS’s career extends far beyond his work with…

Prince (full name — Prince Rogers Nelson; June 7, 1958, Minneapolis, Minnesota — April 21, 2016, Chanhassen, Minnesota) was an American singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and actor, and one of the most influential musicians in popular culture from the second half of the 20th century into the early 21st century. His work cannot be reduced to a single genre: Prince freely combined funk, R&B, soul, rock, pop, jazz, psychedelia, electronic music, new wave and gospel, often playing most of the instrumental parts himself and maintaining complete control over the recording process. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame describes him as an artist who changed the understanding of what a songwriter and performer could do through his fusion of numerous genres…

Drake (full name — Aubrey Drake Graham; born October 24, 1986, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, producer and actor, and one of the most commercially successful figures in 21st-century popular music. He made the fluid transition between rap and melodic R&B one of the foundations of his style and significantly influenced the way these forms are combined in contemporary popular music. The Recording Academy has described his career as one of those that noticeably changed the development of rap in the 21st century. Among Drake’s best-known songs are Best I Ever Had, Forever, Over, Find Your Love, Headlines, Marvins Room, Take Care, The Motto, Started from the Bottom, Hold On, We're Going Home, Hotline Bling, One Dance, Controlla, Passionfruit,…

Oliver Tree was the stage name of American singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist Oliver Tree Nickell (June 29, 1993 — June 14, 2026). He combined alternative rock, pop, hip-hop, and electronic music with comedy, absurdist video art, and deliberately exaggerated stage personas. Oliver Tree became widely known through songs such as Alien Boy, Hurt, Life Goes On, Cowboys Don't Cry, and Miss You, but his creative story began much earlier — with experimental electronic music under the name Tree, independently recording and editing videos, and a fascination with skate and scooter culture. What made Oliver Tree distinctive was that his music and visual identity almost never existed separately. His deliberately ridiculous bowl haircut, oversized jackets and jeans,…

Pharrell Williams is an American producer, songwriter, singer, rapper, and designer, and one of the defining figures in popular music at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. His career has developed along several parallel paths: as one half of the production duo The Neptunes alongside Chad Hugo, as a member of the experimental group N.E.R.D., as a solo artist, and as a songwriter and producer for other performers and film projects. His studio work has encompassed hip-hop, R&B, funk, pop, and electronic music, while The Neptunes' distinctive minimalist production style became one of the most recognizable sonic aesthetics of the early 2000s. Pharrell was born on April 5, 1973, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He became involved in music while still at school, playing drums and meeting…