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Anyone interested in deep house music and Second Life should really have found Zaza by now - Every Thursday the club opened by Yvonne Bourgoin in August 2009 (and now co-owned with Lillian Howley) has hosted some of the best house DJs around, from…

Denard Henry and Jana Clemen are dj/producers from opposite sides of the Atlantic who have joined forces to develop a fusion of techno, ebm, electro and industrial dance music. Their Sonic Warriors United (SWU) Project is a group of producers and djs who are actively exploring and deploying this fusion, and features artists such as…

Contrast-r is a new record label which has been set up by Irma Brawick (aka SL’s Claude Fizz) and Ionic Benton. Having previously run the Impact Audio record label in their native Luxembourg, and with busy production careers of their own, Irma and Ionic are building on a well-established…

The Berlin-based duo of Ramtin Asadolahzadeh and Erik Schaeffer have been producing music together as Monosurround since 1999. Their brand of techno, chunky electro pop and nu disco comes jam-packed with twists and ideas, and has been released on labels such as Moonboutique, 1st Decade and Citizen Records. Their DJ and live acts have taken them to many clubs and festivals around the world, including Sonar in Spain and Les Plages festival in…

Robot Recreant is the Second Life avatar of electronic music producer Coefficient. His production work is precisely crafted techno infused with visions of outer space and faraway galaxies, and has been released on Labrynth, M_REC, and Profound Records. His Coefficient work brings to mind producers such as Oscar Mulero and Exium as well as Basic Channel and Jeff Mills’ Metropolis sound track.…

Wanting to know what Blue Mars will have in store for people interested in music in the virtual world, Olaf Quintessa got in touch with Glenn Sanders, the community director of the company behind Blue Mars, to ask a few questions. For anyone not already familiar with Blue Mars,…

Silver Titanium is the Second Life avatar of electronic music producer Joseph McGeechan. Together with techno cohort Colin Bain he produces music as the BCR Boys and runs the Backwater Community record label. The last couple of years have seen a steady rise in fortune for the Glasgow-based BCR Boys, from the release of their first tune “Stolperfalle” on Perc Trax in 2008, to their upcoming releases on Impact Mechanics and Perc Trax (again)…

Check out the charts section on the dancefuel.dj website and, alongside all the fresh DJ talent charted in January, you’ll find five of SL’s finest listed too (Nelscat, Glitch, NlightN, Evah and Stig). As far as I know this is the first time a digital music store has turned its attention to the virtual scene, acknowledging what it sees as a new market and extending charting opportunities to a new set of…

RED is a techno threesome from the UK which is bringing some serious underground credentials to the virtual world, with a new weekly residency at The Drome in Second Life.



Between them, Japhy, Jim Bull and Marley Cole have organised and played at numerous techno clubs around the UK and graced the decks alongside the likes of Derrick May, Green Velvet and Subhead. They are no strangers to Second Life either – last year they organised a mixed…

Anyone who wants to sample the house and techno scene in Second Life need look no further than the SL Bootlegs website, run by Olive Meriman and renanyoy Oh. Since 2008 Olive has been recording and collecting…