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Originally called Cascade until legal conflicts forced them to change their name, Cascada is the slick, uplifting Euro-dance trio featuring producers DJ Manian and Yanou along with vocalist Natalie Horler, although Horler is sometimes presented as Cascada herself
Milwaukee-based producer Erik Kowalski produces tracks of gorgeous listening techno, with baroque, haunting melodies, and distorted trip-hop beats After over two years of recording on his own, Kowalski released an eponymous debut on Star Star in 1998
Part of the widely successful progressive trance duo Cass & Slide, Cass Cutbush spent nearly a decade as a DJ before finally involving himself in production In about a year’s time, his tracks with partner Pete Martin were being spun by the likes of Sasha and John Digweed, appearing on these artists’ Global Underground albums
While most trance producers tend to aim for massive peak hour anthems, the duo of Cass & Slide has quietly made a strong mark on the trance community with their style of dark epic tracks perfect for establishing a sense of mood early in a trance set
The darkwave unit the Cassandra Complex formed in 1980 with Paul Dillion and Rodney Orpheus, a musically inspired duo in search of playing to big music events, specifically tagged “complex events
London-based experimentalist Si (Simon) Begg is a member of the notorious Cabbage Head artist collective, formed in 1990 in the midlands town of Leamington Spa, and also including noted dance producers Cristian Vogel and Tim Wright (of Germ)
Cassius, a new addition to the top ranks of French electronica circa 1999, actually comprised two of the scene’s most experienced producers: Philippe Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francart (aka Boombass)
Not to be confused with the teen R&B performer whose name is spelled Cassie, Cassy (aka Catherine Britton) made her first recordings as a vocalist on Elin’s Music Takes Me Higher EP in the late ’90s
The Goa trance group Cathexis recorded for the Matsuri label before inking a deal with the American Cleopatra label in late 1996 The group (which was named after an episode of Star Trek: Voyager) released their debut album Exempli Gratia in February 1997
Chicago-bred instrumentalist and producer Zachary Mastoon grew up playing jazz (he was one of the founders of the group Transmission along with Stuart Bogie and Eric Perney until they left for college) and funk (his band ended up backing rapper Diverse), though he didn’t discover the kind of downbeat experimental electronica and hip-hop that interested him most until enrolling at NYU in 1997 (after stints at various colleges studying different things)