John Rapson

Groban maintains his position as the consummate American showman in 2022 and beyond. This year, he returned to the hallowed stage of Radio City Music Hall for his Great Big Radio City Show residency and launched a nationwide live tour. He remains an active arts-education philanthropist and advocate, and his Find Your Light Foundation helps enrich the lives of young people through arts, education, and cultural awareness.

Groban maintains his position as the consummate American showman in 2022 and beyond. This year, he returned to the hallowed stage of Radio City Music Hall for his Great Big Radio City Show residency and launched a nationwide live tour. He remains an active arts-education philanthropist and advocate, and his Find Your Light Foundation helps enrich the lives of young people through arts, education, and cultural awareness.

Blake Shaw is an upright/electric bassist, composer & arranger, bandleader and private lessons teacher originally from Lisbon, Iowa who now resides in Iowa City. Shaw studied with John Hall on double bass at the age of 17 with encouragement from his high school band director Roger DeYoung after becoming familiar with electric bass a few years before. He started his college career in the fall of 2008 at Kirkwood Community College and studied double bass with Jeanette Welch. He moved on to the University of Iowa to pursue a Bachelor’s of Music in classical double bass performance studying with professor Volkan Orhon and completing that degree in 2013.

John Gerard and Luke MacNeil met at a monthly coffee shop open mic in Bellingham, MA called the Cafe Espresso in 2004. Gerard had been pursuing a solo acoustic career after a decade of performing with local rock bands. MacNeil was new to performance and was drawn to the authenticity and intensity in Gerard’s performances. The two began performing together all around Massachusetts.

For over a decade, Defected Miami mix albums have brought together the best new underground house music, championing upcoming talent and highlighting material from established artists. ‘Defected Miami 2018’ continues the tradition of forecasting the records that will soundtrack the Miami Winter Music Conference and go on to remain playlist fixtures for tastemaker DJs throughout the summer.

Most Rated is the series that consolidates the DJ essentials and biggest records of the moment and the future, presenting them in an unmissable package of full length, unedited, unmixed tracks. House music has enjoyed an incredible year and 2018 looks set to continue to provide yet more outstanding additions to the genre. With tracks and remixes from the biggest artists in house music. Defected presents Most Rated celebrates the wealth and variety of house created, played and enjoyed on dancefloors worldwide, showcasing the records doing the business in clubs right now, all the way through to the more soulful vocal cuts that characterise Defected enduring domination of the house universe, and reflecting on the big tracks from the past twelve months that are destined to become tomorrows classics.

Your summer officially starts here! This is Marbella Collection 2018 mixed by Marbella’s No.1 platinum selling DJ, Colin Francis. MC18 is your essential summer selection, loaded with the hottest party anthems perfect to soundtrack the pool-party right through to the VIP. The album features all the bangers you’re guaranteed to hear this summer, from the biggest upfront dance hits and urban club-jamz, to the classic dance anthems everyone knows and loves; from MK, CamelPhat, Jax Jones and Duke Dumont to Not3s & Mabel, Chris Brown, Lotto Boyz and B Young through to Livin’ Joy, Shadow Child, Green Velvet, The Martinez Brothers, Disclosure and many more. This is Marbella Collection 2018 from Ministry of Sound.