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The Squatters is the brain child of Oliver Portamento and Alex Powell, who have been working together for many years, not just as DJs but also as successful Promoters, Event Organisers and Producers. Taking influences from Oldskool, Hip Hop and Rave, then fusing it with today’s modern House, Electro and more experimental genres such as Dub Step, Drum n’ Bass and even Trance. By cut n’ pasting these together, adding chopped vocals and colossal breakdowns, they have created a unique big room sound that has closed the ranks between the genres ensuring a heavyweight impact on the dance floor.

Their productions and remixes have received consistent airing by BBC Radio One, Kiss100 & Capital FM, as well as support from a countless list of elite radio and club DJs. Having remixed and produced for some of the worlds’ finest Labels & graced some of the world’s finest dance floors.

The Squatters newest track releasing on August 29, ‘Higher’ sticks firmly to their signature sound with stomping 4×4 beats and drops to a rave-influenced riff before building to a bleepy, slidy crescendo, accompanied by an all important vocal tag. We’ve seen this one do damage on an unsuspecting dancefloor and it does NOT disappoint! On remix duties, HeavyFeet with a stompy House mix and Flask with the Dubstep remix.

It’s a great day for a high energy stompy House mix from the Squatters! And if you like this one be sure to head over and subscribe to their Podcast for a regular dose of their sound.

Enjoy!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:17:03 — 88.2MB)

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Mac Monroe is a Belgian DJ and Producer. It’s in 2007 that Mac Monroe made his first steps as a DJ in a club. A few months later, he became a resident DJ in two well-known Belgian clubs. In he 2008, focused his work on producing his own tracks, and after a few months had released his third single ‘Wrong’, a huge record supported by well known DJ’s as Freemasons, Agent Greg, Ted Nilson, Dubfire, Sharam and Peter Brown. Two months later, Mac Monroe returns and unleashes ‘Amazonia’, ‘True Happiness’ and ‘Organic’, three massive tracks supported by international DJ’s such as: Joachim Garraud, Armin Van Buuren, Copyright (Defected Records), Dave Spoon, Antoine Clamaran and Above & Beyond. After the great success of ‘Amazonia’, Mac Monroe keeps up the pace with the release of ‘Roll With You’, a tremendous EP supported by: Roger Sanchez, Thomas Gold, Dave Spoon and Sarah Main, to name a few. The package includes a Trancey Tech-House original mix, a chugging Deep Techy remix from Bartosz Brenes & Nick Mentes, and last but not least, a Techy powering club remix from Eric Powa B. In 2010, Mac Monroe has become resident DJ on Radio NRJ for Extravadance from 2 AM to 3 AM every Saturday.

We would like to welcome our newest resident DJ, Mac Monroe, to DMb with a Uplifting mix that spans Trance, House, and Progressive for the Big Room and Arena crowds! In addition he has generously given us a Free Track of his “Dirt Diver” which is a massive melodic track in the style of AVICII. Get it here.

Enjoy!

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:19:38 — 72.9MB)

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