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BENNY BENASSI
YOU can be pretty sure that any year you win The award wasn’t the only good thing that
a Grammy is a good one, and with that in happened to Benny this year — he also
mind Benny Benassi has indeed had a good supported Madonna at her massive Rome
year. gig on the Sweet & Sticky Tour and played
“I couldn’t believe it,” he says of picking at Miami’s Ultra and Detroit’s Movement
up the gong for his remix of Public Enemy’s festivals. His Pump-Kin label signed up
‘Bring The Noise’. “I wasn’t even sure what ‘After The Rain’ by Fedo Mora & Camurri,
a Grammy was until I won one.” which has since gone on to even greater
A lifelong Public Enemy fan, the success on Bob Sinclair’s Yellow imprint.
‘Satisfaction’ producer has been playing And he’s fi nished new album ‘Rock ‘n’
the seminal hip-hop outfi t’s records for Rave’, full of collaborations with the likes
years, but it’s rock rather than hip-hop of Black Box, Dino Lenny and Iggy Pop.
that has been his defi ning infl uence in
2008 — alongside minimal, electro, Benny’s also found the time to embrace
trance… some new technology, using Serato “more
“I’m a bit confused but everyone says I’m and more”, investigating Traktor and using
eclectic,” he smiles. Ableton for radio mixes. JAMES KENDALL
First record you ever bought? Diana Ross ‘Upside Down’
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? A group of polite gentlemen having
breakfast watching a girl serenely shag her boyfriend on the rocks near Café
Mambo, in Ibiza.
Top gadget of 2008? My Grammy award!
Style: Electro-house Best known for: ‘Satisfaction’ and my remix of
Your year in fi ve words... Fantastic, unique, unforgettable, unrepeatable,
‘Bring The Noise’ by Public Enemy. Tune of 2008: Alex Gopher
exceptional.
‘Aurora’ (Go 4 Music) Producer of 2008: Boys Noize
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? What a Grammy is.
BOB SINCLAR
IF a change is as good as a rest, there’s no But that’s not to say that he has avoided
wonder Bob Sinclar sounds so tranquil as dance music completely. Living in America
we approach the end of 2008. After aiming has meant that for the fi rst time he was
to escape the “craziness” and the “energy” able to devote the time to DJing across the
of Paris, he’s now just returned to the expansive country, clocking up three gigs a
French capital after being holed up in LA month.
for the year.
“I wanted to come back with more of a But this year has also clearly been about
positive vibe to my music,” he says. “I his massive single with Axwell. ‘What A
didn’t want to get infl uenced by dance Wonderful World’ welds a new instrumental
music. I wanted to listen to classic rock from the Swede with a song from Bob
and pop for a year and I could never do that’s almost fi ve-years-old. A huge club
that in France.” and radio hit, it’s set the Frenchman in
recycling mode for DJing too.
The Yellow boss says that it was very “Because I’ve made a lot of tracks and
inspiring for his forthcoming album, one people want to hear me playing my own
that will be “a mix of black infl uences with stuff, I tried to give my classics a twist this
more folk and ’70s-style Californian year,” he says of his year behind the decks.
music”. JAMES KENDALL
First record you ever bought? Herbie Hancock ‘Rockit’
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? Me in the Playboy Mansion Jacuzzi with
ten playmates.
Top gadget of 2008? My private jet.
Style: All about love. Best known for: Being smart and sexy like
Your year in fi ve words… Gorgeous, sexy, amazing, dirty, perverted.
George Clooney, what else? Tune of 2008: Axwell & Bob Sinclar feat.
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? That I have to follow my
Ron Carrol ‘Wonderful World’ Producer of 2008: Axwell
emotions.
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