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The Piano Guys are an American musical group consisting of musicians Jon Schmidt (pianist) and Steven Sharp Nelson (cellist) as well as behind-the-scenes collaboration from Tel Stewart (videographer/editor), Paul Anderson (producer/videographer) and Al van der Beek (music producer). The group was formed in 2011 in St. George, Utah, United States. They became famous through YouTube, where they posted videos of renditions and mashups of popular songs accompanied by professional-looking video shots. Over one million people subscribe to their Youtube channel. In December 2011, they released their first album, titled YouTube Hits, Vol. 1. Their second album, The Piano Guys, reached...

Dmitry Shurov is a young Ukrainian composer, pianist and arranger, who is in the process of creating his first opera, "Leo And Leya". Dmitry has created music for numerous films in Russia and Ukraine, several fashion shows by Russian top-designer Alena Akhmadullina (the latest one was presented in Paris on the 11 of March 2009, it's soundtrack was based on the aria of Leya and the Dragon from Dmitry's opera), co-produced and arranged the latest album of Russian number one female rock-artist Zemfira, toured as a pianist in most cities of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Baltic countries. Dmitry is a...

Nick Douwma a.k.a. Sub Focus came to the DnB scene from Guildford, UK in 2003, and broke through with a number of tracks in his first year including "Acid Test", and "X-Ray". Entirely self taught, he was noticed at first by Andy C and, in a matter of months, went from being one of many wannabe producers to becoming a permanent fixture of the award winning Ram Records family. Recent releases on Ram Records include tunes such as "Airplane", "Flamenco", "Juno" and "Swamp Thing". His latest release was his first and self titled album, which came out on October the...

"<...>for Sensate Focus, everything is done using the pencil icon in Digital Performer, which is the software I use. So that was why the logo is a pencil – we had pencils made, because everything is made using the pencil tool. You know in this kind of software, you have a grid and you can put the notes it, draw them in and make them shorter or longer and stuff. So everything’s done with the pencil, so there’s a very clear distinction between the generative stuff that I do under my name and the other stuff with the pencil." Mark...