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RANK	SCORE ?	GENRE	LOCATION
14240	6	Breaks, House	Miami, US

Originally from Europe... Born in Geneva, Switzerland to Swedish Mum and English Dad. Grew up part of his early years in Ferny Voltire, France near Geneva, Switzerland then relocated and grew up in Brighton, England. His parents dragged him along with them to relocate once again to Florida in 1986, where he was unable to continue his musical explorations and developments due to lack of musical outlets. He then decided to move back home to England in 1996 for 5 1/2 years to pursue his aims to work in the music industry in London prior his move to Miami in 2001. Mid-2005 relocated to Sarasota, Fla to further his Financial Services business & also now involved Real Estate to expand his business portfolio, whilst continuing to develop his music aspirations.

Beats & Grooves run thru his blood and shakes his world!! Used to play drums in his youth years. A hard of hearing DJ who overcame his deafness by using his right ear to DJ. Congenital deafness was caused by German Measles during his mum's pregnancy. Refusing to accept that deafness would be a barrier to his dream of a Professional DJ career that he aspires to achieve one day. Due to his love and passion of music. So, to prove his critics wrong, he decided to practice to dj for years in order to perfect his DJ skills to be able to match the skill levels of a career professional hearing DJ. He has the confidence to make it to the top when his day and time comes with patience he continues to check out tunes, clubbing and networking etc. To date, he has djed since 1994 to present.

During 1996-2001 in London, Magnus has previously worked within the music industry for both several Indie and Major Labels with the likes such as Mushroom Group of Companies (Mushroom, Infectious, Flying Nun etc), Virgin UK, EMI, MCI, Sanctuary Group including Sanctuary Records & In-Flight Entertainment. In addition from 1998 to 2001, Magnus was a 'UK DJ Assistant' for DJ Jon Bishop who is one of the top USA Hard House DJs from San Diego during his rising UK DJ Profile in the early days of his entry into the UK dance scene. Who Jon quickly became one of the major Hard House DJs around among the top UK DJs prior to Magnus return to Florida in 2001. Due to Jon Bishop success, he also has done productions with Tidy Trax Records. Where Jon is also with both Tidy Management (UK) and One World Entertainment (Rest of the World). Magnus has worked in the Pro Audio Department at Sam Ash Music Megastore in Miami. Today, Magnus is now focusing on working hard to complete his dream Production Studio set-up to go along with his DJ Studio. To further develop his music aspirations / aims to another level by working at nights and weekends when time permits in order to achieve his eventful goals.

Plans for 2006 & beyond: Increase his DJ profile, bookings and to complete the set-up of his production studio to eventually establish his own production label. To develop further his creativity senses and production ideas to broaden his musical horizons. In addition, he aims to continue to push, support and develop the Nu Skool Breaks & Hard House (NRG Dance in general) sounds and respective scenes. In order, to build and develop grass roots of dance music / scenes and to educate the public of different dance genres including quality dance tracks and tunes.

Due to his love of dance / electronic music in general - He also DJs other quality styles of music such as Disco, Progressive, Tech, Funky, Tribal, Vocal and Trance influenced quality House music depending on the venue etc.