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William Wright alias, artist name Topazz, was born in Nashville Tennessee, a 4th of February as the 8th of 9 brothers and sisters. Williams love for music shows at the young age of 13 when William and 4 other friends, he grew up with , started a group call the junior temptations. At that time he used to study the voices of Melvin Franklin, Larry Gram, Issec Hayes, Lou Rawels and Barry White. This music experience was short since William was very sportive. He played football, baseball, and basketball. Because of his height (2 meters) he stood out in basketball....

People in the West blame weird moods on a string of things: the wind (those Santa Anas), the end (of the country), the moon (crescent is cursed), even the movies. But it doesn’t matter which is right/real, because the effect is the same, freaked souls in a trapped environment, lotuses floating on a lake littered with bodies. Topaz Rags is a new late night downer trio devoted to mapping these sour times and long goodbyes, and California Ash is their 2-sided elegy for the Golden State’s darkest ghosts, the rich hills full of fire, the day after the kool-aid. Back-alley...

Since 1994 Stefan Eichinger a.k.a. Lopazz has been part of the Heidelberg based HD800 team. He also runs the multimedia label 800achtspur, and is renowned as a film composer, having written more than 30 scores over the years. In 2001, he had success with Redagain P when they remixed the Miami Vice theme; then, in 2003, Lopazz’s self-titled EP was released by Output Recordings, followed by the singles “Blood” (including a Tiefschwarz remix) and his first bona fide club hit “I Need Ya” (later re-licensed by French fashion label Colette). It's success led to Lopazz remixing Germany’s biggest pop act...