Kraak&Smaak (Nu Disco) @Oil - 深圳

The Dutch producer trio consisting of Oscar de Jong, Mark Kneppers and Wim Plug released their first album 'Boogie Angst' in 2005 and things immediately took off with Europe and the US all hungry for the Kraak & Smaak sound.

Performing both as DJs and with a full live band, quickly turned out to be a musical phenomenon on the Dutch club and festival circuit, leading to invitations to play at Europe’s s biggest festivals and renowned US festivals like SXSW, Coachella, Miami's WMC and New York's CMJ, a month-long Australia tour and remix duties for Jamiroquai among others.

The second album 'Plastic People' dropped in 2008, and off that album, the hit single 'Squeeze Me', made for an even more rapid international rise of Kraak & Smaak. The acclaimed UK dance magazine IDJ labelled K&S as a “Must see live act”, together with big guns such as Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. The band subsequently performed at Glastonbury in the UK, Lowlands in the Netherlands and Europe's biggest festival, Sziget.

During a five-week live tour across the USA they performed at Jimmy Kimmel's late night show on ABC television and further mainstream support came from the unlikely source of US Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. Even Kanye West (!) declared himself a fan after seeing Squeeze Me’s ground breaking video. To top things off, they won the European Border Breakers Award (EBBA), the same year as a then emerging Adele.

In the following years, the upward trend of K&S continued with the release of the albums 'Electric Hustle' (2011) and 'Chrome Waves' (2013) alongside a gruelling schedule of international live and dj touring including career highlight shows at Detroit Movement, Glastonbury and Exit. Key single releases included “Let’s Go Back” which featured a superb vocal from the sadly departed Romanthony which when remixed by then rising star Solomun became an absolute anthem of the deep house scene. “The Future Is Yours” saw the band hook up a second time with Ben Westbeech who at the time was hitting the top of the charts under his Breach guise and the soulful “How We Gonna Stop The Time” with Irishman Stee Downes was an instant club hit that went on to be licensed for release on Axtone Records. Moreover, new remix work came through for Moby, Aretha Franklin, Chromatics, and Royksopp.

In 2015 Kraak & Smaak started planning their fifth album Juicy Fruit. After a run of single releases on acclaimed dance labels like Spinnin’ and Axtone they wanted a return to the organic sound of their debut. This lead to a collab with Mayer Hawthorne on the successful single I don’t Know Why – picked up again by Jimmy Kimmel, and fresh new vocal contributions by upcoming international talents as Parcels, Cleopold, ALXNDR London and Eric Biddines.

Released in Spring 2016, a string of new international live and dj dates followed, with 2016 and 2017 performances in countries in West-, Central- and Eastern-Europe, the Americas and Asia, topping it all off with an extensive tour in the USA and again a live show on 2017’s Glastonbury.

Alongside their K&S work the guys also set up their own label in the mean time, Boogie Angst, which releases material from themselves and upcoming electronic and leftfield dancefloor acts Moods and Snacks.

The Summer 2017 release of “Juicy Fruit Remixed”, with input from Eli Escobar, Fouk, Purple Disco Machine, Moods and Thatmanmonkz among others, also gave a new fresh outlook on the tracks by producers they admire, and effectively rounded off the album campaign to give way to work on new material: the balearic-vibed ‘Hendo’ single was subsequently picked up by the well-known Exploited label, while the track ‘Scorched’ made waves for globally renowned Spinnin’ Records. Furthermore, recent remix work involved UK soul man Omar, upcoming Australian band Parcels and French wunderkind Roman Kouder.

Finally, for Spring 2018, a single with LA disco don Luxxury is in the works for Future Disco, plus a mix compilation is set up for Toolroom’s Poolside Disco series. Furthermore, the guys are frantically working on new material to be released later on this year.

On any given night, Purple Key is probably locked away in his studio working his magic on synths and keys. Hailing from Alexandria and residing in China, he is a true representative of Chicago house music.

Purple Key started his musical journey as a producer and DJ in the late 90’s. His musical style alters between soulful, vocal driven tunes and harder, rough acid tracks.

Recently he joined the acclaimed Deeplomatic Recordings along with Chicago & Detroit house legends such as Paul Johnson, Terrence Parker, and Gene Hunt, to name a few. and currently he is running shenzhen’s house and techno record label Cutt. Records with a rich roaster of local and international artists.

Keep your eyes and ears open for more to come from Purple Key.

Quest hails from the east coast of USA and grew up on 90s hip hop. One of Shenzhen’s original underground DJs, he started throwing monthly drum & bass parties in 2008. Then he founded Fresh Crew in 2010, Muzikbox in 2014, First Fridays in 2015, Mettasonic Recordings in 2017, and co-founded Cutt. Records in early 2018, supporting all forms of underground music along the way. Quest has played festivals such as MIDI, Strawberry, Spirit Tribe, and cities around China. He is currently focused on pushing young producers and releasing quality music through his labels. A record collector for life and always dedicated to the cutting edge of electronic dance music, he loves building sound systems in the Jamaican tradition. Quest specializes in manually mixing a variety of genres: jungle, drum & bass, reggae, hip hop, soul, nu-disco, and also dives down the rabbit hole of deep house & techno. 

Dante is a young man with great ambitions, influenced by his brothers and surrounded by musicians in Colombia, where he spent half of his childhood.

He grew up with South American sounds and quickly found a passion for percussions and acoustics at a young age.

As a young child, at school or on the streets and in parks he could always be found jamming with whatever he had in his hands, “spoons and plates, I’ll make my own way to find my game.”

Mixing all those melodies with a bit of synthetic sounds, and listening to different kinds of genres and styles, he was drawn to House music.

He arrived in China in 2011, inspired by his new experiences and full of energy and getting involve more into the music production willing to show the people creativity into his own music, wanting to express it all with great passion and to bring different experiences to those who were ready for a new journey with him.

Loving the sweet sound of dusty house and dirty bass, Dante started his journey as a DJ and quickly discovered his passion for all kinds of music, including UK Garage, Soul, Trip Hop and  Drum n Bass.

He started to play in small bars and parties while, and later moved on to perform at some beach parties and festivals, where he began to play Deep House and Techno, releasing his great energy on the decks and becoming known as a DJ who can keep the dance floor bumping with his great attitude and tremendous vibe. With his arrival and his experience he has done great things for the music scene  the community, building up and sharing the music with  a great team of local a international Djs. Participating in  great Electronic Music Festival around China and international such as : Strawberry music festival , The Bond , One Love, MIDI Electronic Festival (SH) Kraxy Baja (MEX) .Party Organizer (Endless Summer),Resident Dj in multiple successful clubs around Shenzhen  , music Director at Very Siam , Future One, MadBar.

Using its imagination to reconstruct visual nostalgia from a futuristic angle, Futurarcade is a visual arts live project that creates a unique party atmosphere. Each installation highlights the night's topic using rare film clips and mesmerizing patterns, bringing about an exceptional story to the audience. Starting from creating simple animation for fun Futurarcade now regularly performs at parties of Spirit Tribe and TechTonic.