John Acquaviva
"Collaboration" sounds boring and worthy, but watching sparks fly is where the best new work happens in music. Which is why one of the world's biggest DJs, John Acquaviva, plans to use 2008 to give up touring alone and return to his early days as the man who drove Plus8 and launched Ritchie Hawtin, Speedy J and Dan Bell; the guy behind Beatport, Final Scratch, Definitive Records, any number of Beatport #1s ...As well as a killer DJ who has played to more than 1m people across his 22-year caree (read more)

Olivier Giacomotto
He started in the recording studio as an engineer, working on mainstream production from the Blues Cafe Studio in Paris to Townhouse Studios in London. But in the background he was programming breakbeat, drum and bass, triphop, hiphop and lounge through projects like Shagshag, Dubweisers or Uprock Massive, with 20 EPs released across 2004 and 2005. Loved by scores of djs such as Misstress Barbara, Carl Cox, Chris Liebing, Umek, Marco Bailey, Christian Varela, Dave Angel, Felipe, Tonio and Green (read more)