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    <description><![CDATA[Just Banks lives and works in Linz/Austria.

He began his musical career in 1994 by founding a local Hip Hop project. Later on he started DJing and took the road from Drum´n´Bass to Techno, House and Breakbeats.

By having a fancy for many different genres and playing nationwide gigs Just Banks rapidly gathered experience and his sets are now like a sure shot for the demanding party crowd.

In 2004 he launched the netlabel Comatronic which soon gained a high reputation in the netaudio community and minimal techno scene.

With his productions and dj sets being caught in a crossfire of influences, they always represent a well selected and party-approved blend of different styles, tempos and grooves.

Just Banks is a long-time musical companion of Marcus Füreder aka Parov Stelar and in 2006 he engaged the talents of the Bay Area-based collective Blaktroniks, who came up with the catchy vocals for his first release on Etage Noir entitled 360 Degrees.

Later he earned worldwide kudos for the funky breaks EP Bust A Move (featuring K-Sun aka MC Kemo) that was released in 11/2007.

The next things coming up are his first longplayer entitled Under The Influence (out May 30 2008), the "Blockparty" 12" (a collaboration with Coppa) and a banging Etage Noir Special release.

www.justbanks.com]]></description>
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      <title>New album out  May 30</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Austrian musician and multi-talent Just Banks demonstrates his remarkable versatility in debut album "Under the Influence": Hip-Hop, funk, jazz, breaks and a pinch of minimal house come together here in flowing and coherent whole. The musical frankness of the tunes is continued when various guest artists are invited to contribute vocals, solos or phrases.

This is an album that also reflects the development and background of a musician who started his career in the mid nineties and who has never been prepared to nail himself down to any one single genre since then. "Under the Influence" refers to all that wide range of contemporary musical genres Just Banks has opened himself to, explored, fallen in love with.

He spices a relaxed stew of downbeat, midtempo breaks and solid electronica on "Under the Influence" with vocals from the Blaktroniks, BluRum13 (as known from Dj Vadim & Ninjatune), Coppa, Kristina Lindberg (Laine), Veda36 and others.

In 2006 Just Banks engaged the talents of the Bay Area-based collective Blaktroniks, who came up with the catchy vocals for his first release on Etage Noir entitled 360 Degrees.

"Under The Influence" is now his first full-length album and it also includes the title track of his most successful EP to date Bust A Move.]]></description>
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      <title>Bust A Move EP out now!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tracklisting:

A1 - The Meltdown
B1 - Bust A Move feat. K-Sun
B2 - Bust A Move (Boogie Army Remix)

Don´t hesitate and grab a copy over at:
<a href="https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/artist/detail/26653/just_banks" target="_blank">Beatport</a> (MP3/WAV)
<a href="http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemID=175462&SoulReferrer=etagenoir.com" target="_blank">Soulseduction</a> (Vinyl/MP3/WAV)
<a href="http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/292280-01.htm" target="_blank">Juno</a> (Vinyl)
<a href="http://www.junodownload.com/products/1286590-02.htm" target="_blank">Juno Download</a> (MP3/(WAV)

DJ reactions:

"Both sides of Bust a Move destroyed my dancefloors on Friday and Saturday. Chris Nicholson´s head exploded when I dropped The Meltdown. Well done."
Chris Grass (Soulshape)

"Yeah man, diggin it! Sounds great!"
DJ Icey (Zone Records)

"Nice and funky - will definitely rock this!"
Ursula 1000 (ESL Music)

"Once again Parov Stelar and his label Etage Noir show us how much potential Austria holds outside of Vienna. Following his grand debut on Etage Noir, Just Banks is releasing his second 12", full of surprises. Excellent Breakbeat, where the original tracks really stand out with their beat, phat bassline and vocals."
Ed Royal (Innvision Records)

"Bust A Move is a heavy dancefloor roller with nice sax and strong, groovy vocals by K-Sun. The 4/4 breakdown in the middle builds up the second part really nice and it rocks on. The remix by the Boogie Army builds up much slower and uses less of K-Sun´s vocals. There are some nice synths inside that effect a constant move. An Etage Noir release definitely to be recommended!"
Shroombab (Resident Magazine)

"Real BANGER!!! Full support."
Funkanomics (Rocstar Recordings)

"Bust a Move is a brilliant tune! I charted it at 1 in my Chilli Beat Science chart of 29th October - I love playing this one out. The Meltdown is also a real dancefloor driver with a solid pumping groove - with a great vocal sample that works well on the radio - so I´ve been playing this on my show as well."
Clive Crask (Radio Reverb)

"This is good dance music on a very original house-Break beat tip! When tried and tested all the mixes worked a treat, as I say very original indeed and is a cut above the rest. This will be in my sets and charts for many weeks to come. 10/10"
Crispian Aldis

"Playing the extended version feat K-Sun, it gives Run DMC etc. a run for there money..."
Graham Clark (Maximum FM)

"This is great, I need another copy of this."
Reajuka Sharma (Producer BBC Asian Network)

"Loving this. Especially loving the slap bass action and especially loving the Boogie Army remix. It's getting reviewed in the Jan issue of IDJ."
Dave Jenkins (Dept Editor IDJ)

"This is a damn fine piece of breaks, particularly digging the Boogie Army remix - Will support."
Richard Thair (Red Snapper / Toob)

"Great radio track, will support on the show for sure."
David Cullen (Oban FM)]]></description>
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      <title>The Meltdown hits Beatport top 20</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Wicked folks, my tune The Meltdown hit the Beatport top 20 in the Breaks category. Thanks for the support!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:35:39 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Bust A Move preorder</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My upcoming maxi "Bust A Move EP" is already listed on <a href="http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemID=175462&SoulReferrer=etagenoir.com" target="_blank">soulseduction.com</a>. Check out the audio snippets and preorder now!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:15:36 -0700</pubDate>
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