I LOVE TECHNO 2009

TRACKLISTING

1 . Photek - Glamourama
2 . Emve e - Glitch Dub
3 . Nadastrom - Ghetto Pass
4 . Osborne - The Count < br> 5 . Harvard Bass - Caked
6 . Jesse Rose - Touch My Horn (Crookers Rem ix)
7 . Jahcoozi - Watching You (Oliver$ Remix)
8 . Fever Ray - Seve n (Crookers Remix)
9 . Crookers - Knobbers
10 . Zomby - Aquafresh 11 . Rustie - Bad Science
12 . Untold - Anaconda
13 . KU BO feat . Anbuley - Lefe
14 . Deepgroove - Spike
15 . Noob & Brodinski - Pea nuts Club
16 . Mumdance & Brodinski - Eurostarr (Nic Sarno Remake)
1 7 . Jack Beats - U.F.O. (K-Hole Riddim)
18 . Metronomy - Radio Ladio (Mica chu Remix)



INFO
Taking place on the 24th of Oct ober, this year's I Love Techno is held at the Flanders Expo in Ghent and as eve r is expected to attract some 35,000 people across 5 rooms making it Europe's le ading indoor dance event.
Crookers are one of the headliners this year, nex t to other hot acts such as Laurent Garnier, Tiga, Boys Noize, Paul Kalkbrenner and Surkin.

GIGS:
Jul 24 ZOUK Singapore
Jul 25 FUJI ROCK FE STIVAL Niigata
Jul 27 WARHOUSE702 Tokyo
Aug 1 SPIAGGIA KURSAAL Lignano
Aug 2 PARCO URBANO Imperia
Aug 5 LIV Miami, Florida
Aug 6 SKYBAR Toronto, Ontario
Aug 7 CONGRESS THEATER Chicago
Aug 7 LOLLAPALOOZA Ch icago
Aug 8 HARD Los Angeles, California
Aug 9 REHAB Las Vegas, Nevada
Aug 13 WAY OUT WEST Gothenburg
Aug 14 ELECTROCITY 2009 @ Castle Cyste rsow Lubiaz
Aug 20 PUKKELPOP Hasselt
Aug 21 LOWLANDS Biddinghuizen
Aug 22 BOOTSHAUS Cologne
Aug 27 CREAM AMNESIA Ibiza
Aug 28 COCORICO Riccione
Aug 29 CREAMFIELD Liverpool
Aug 30 GET LOADED London
PR:
UK: EPM (Jonas Stone)

EXTRA PROMO OFFICES:
IT: RNDpr omotion.com
DE: Partytickets.de

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DISCOGRAPHY:
EP's on Man Recordings (Funk Mundial), Mad Decent and Southern Fried.
REMI XES for Kid Cudi, Armand Van Helden, Moby, The Chemical Brothers, Diplo, Brodins ki, Radioclit, Wiley, Tocadisco, Britney Spears, U2.......
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LINKS:
www.myspace.com/crookers
www. ilovetechno.be

CROOKERS BIO:
The hot fuss surrounding Crookers i s about to reach fever pitch. Already the hippest act in dance circles they will soon unleash their debut album on the world and things are expected to go mad f or the two men from Milan. Their remix of Kid Cudi's Day 'n' Night reached numbe r two in the UK earlier this year and is now riding high on the US Airplay chart s. This, and their already huge body of work, has attracted the attention of Kan ye West and Will I Am who have become fans and collaborators. Dolce & Gabbana re cently used their U2 remix for the catwalk and their MySpace page is getting mor e traffic than Coldplay. Like we said, Crookers are about to go boom!
Crook ers started in 2003 when two DJ's, nick-named Phra and Bot, met and paired up ov er a shared love of hip hop, house and the emerging skewed, bass heavy sounds pi oneered by Switch in the UK and Diplo in the States. "We decided to call ourselv es Crookers to descibe what we do. To make beats and tracks that are not straigh t up, that are twisted or crooked." Though they both grew up listening to a lot of hip hop; Beastie Boys, Tribe Called Quest, Madlib and J Dilla it was when Bot bought second-hand turntables that they first got into house music. "I bought d ecks and the guy threw in some house records. At first we didn't like it, we wan ted to scratch and be hip hop DJ's. But then we got into more quality house like Moodymann and Theo Parrish and then we started to love it." It's from these com bined influences that Crookers derive their hybrid sound. Being based in Milan, away from London where the bassline scene initially thrived, meant they could ho ne their own musical identity.
Their first release End 2 End, was released in 2006. But it was with Love To Edit in 2007 and Knobbers, for their current la bel Southern Fried, when they really made an impact with peers and a burgeoning fan-base. There's footage on You Tube of their appearance at I Love Techno last year captures 10,000 people singing the riff to Knobbers. Phra recalls it as the pinnacle of their DJ gigs so far, "It felt like nothing else, because people we re there for us and knew all our tracks so it was very personal." Their rising s tatus was confirmed with over two dozen remixes including club smashes for Dusty Kid (The Cat) and Kid Cudi (Day and Night) and their services have also been ca lled on for A-list stars to crook out The Chemical Brothers, U2 and Moby.
After remixing such huge names in pop and rock Crookers have now gone direct to some of their favourite artists to work alongside on their debut album. Aptly ti tled Tons Of Friends the roll call of pals involved is jaw dropping. It includes , Kelis, Soulwax,Major lazer, RadioClit, Spank Rock, Pitbull, Tim Burgess, Kardi nal official and Roisin Murphy. The tracks have been worked on in various studio s around Europe or ideas have been developed through i-chat and e-mail. "Will I am was great to work with, he's constantly searching for new sounds. He was full of energy in the studio, bouncing ideas around all the time." "Roisin was amazi ng, she wrote to a beat in the studio and recorded her song in one day. So did S pank Rock, just heard the beat and then wrote and recorded that same night"
In Ibiza last year they met Chas Smash of Madness, an unlikely alliance seeing as the group are so quintessentially English. "When we realised he was 'the heav y, heavy monster sound' guy, we wanted to work on an updated version of this tra ck we loved (One Step Beyond)." Also expect feisty performances from Kelis and R oisin Murphy, "Kelis is about making the party blow up and Roisin is singing abo ut not being taken for a sucker." There's also a collaboration between the daddi es of this scene as Crookers hook up with Diplo and Switch for a track called Ju mp Up. All ears will be on that one from the three heavyweight pioneers of basta rd basslines.
So watch out this summer as Crookers retain their status as dons of the dancefloor but further their audience with their mutant take on R&B and pop. They already have tons of friends but by the end of the year they'll ha ve a whole load more.