POPOF / UMEK / APOLLO 84 / REACTIVITZ - REFORMERS VOL.2

Popof (born Alexandre Paounov) is a French DJ/composer/arranger hailing from the rave party scene. A former member of the free-party underground collective “Heretik System”, Popof has now participated as a solo artist in countless events throughout France, other European countries, North America, Latin America, the Middle-East, Asia and Australia. Popof is a versatile artist who explores various genres of music. Today, he stresses his preference towards minimal techno and electro. His cutting edge tracks are made within the best traditions of techno mixed with a sip of tech-house . Popof is featured on various labels such as Turbo, Cocoon, A.F.U, Cr2, Mistakes and others and is often playlisted by many renowned artists: Tiesto, Benny Benassi, Richie Hawtin, Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Sven Vath, John Digweed, Tiga, Sasha, Erol Alkan, etc. Popof has now become a superstar at the level that each release gets at least into the Top 5 download lists, if not the first place . Popof is now very in demand for his remixes. The list of them is already quite impressive, it includes famous artists such as Depeche Mode, Chemical Brothers, Moby, Booka Shade, Vitalic, Tiga, Martin Solveig, Butch, Zoo Brazil, Tocadisco and many more. In 2009 Popof created his own label ”Form” to express his artistic ambitions more freely. Releases include new tracks from Julian Jeweil,Sébastien Léger, James Harcourt, H2, Alessio Mereu,N'To, Joachim Pastor Max Bett and Sam Paganini. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Uroš Umek, better known as DJ Umek or simply UMEK, is a Slovenian dance music composer and DJ. Musically active since 1993, he is the owner of several techno record labels. In 1999 he founded Consumer Recreation and Recycled Loops, the former of which he co-runs with Valentino Kanzyani. Recycled Loops formed the sublabel Earresistible Musick in 2001, and in 2007 Umek founded the large techno label 1605. Umek began DJing in 1993 at the age of 17. He was among the pioneers of the electronic music in Slovenia. In 1999 he released music on his own labels Consumer Recreation and Recycled Loops, the former of which he co-runs with Valentino Kanzyani. Umek became famous by techno-supporters in Europe about 2001, for his fast mixing skills and his uplifting dj-sets. In the later years he changed his style a little bit. He has released a large number of EPs and anthems and has a reputation as an innovator. He is known to play the music from 4 turntables simultaneously. In 2006 he released a single "Posing As Me," which was a big hit in Slovenia. In 2007 he did another video supported project with a Croatian singer and lyrics writer Anđa Marić Carbon Occasions, and also released music on the label 1605 Records. On his birthday May 16 he organized a musical event called Dan Elektronike (Electronica Day). He was ranked at position 29 of the TOP 100 DJs for the year 2007 by the DJ Magazine. During all the subsequent years - until 2015 he managed to rank in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs chart among the best DJs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.