Virtuoso remixers DJ Koze, Cosmic DJ and Erobique aka International Pony have made their name by taking works of Tocotronic, legendary French house master Bob Sinclair and Deejay Punkrock to yet new heights. Their music is a dangerously explosive mix of R&B, house, funk and pop with a touch of sheer madness. A techno-cabaret trio's performance included tie-sporting pony gentlemen dancing, singing, playing the percussion and generally having a hell of a good time. The audience was dancing till dawn and an end to this amazing party was put by the security's inevitable decision to cut the electricity off since the crowd refused to leave the venue.

Don Carlos has been spinning vinyl since late seventies and is now regarded as a deep house veteran. He's been DJ-ing at best European and American clubs and has also worked as a producer for Irma Records. His 'Milan-Chicago' single and 'Music In My Mind' and 'Caf? De Paris' albums proved him to be a talented solo recording artist.
Sax-player Andy Funk has traveled all over the world taking part in various musical, theatre and TV projects and has had a reasonably big collection of his work pressed to vinyl. Being an open-minded kind of artist he's performed with many a DJ and mastered a variety of styles from classical to modern jazz and pop music. Don Carlos' set spiced up with Andy's sax playing was original enough to please the most demanding audience.

Once a Talking Head, David Byrne has established himself as prolific yet astonishingly diverse artist. Over the years he has released a number of solo records, won an Oscar for the soundtrack to Bertolucci's historical epic 'Last Emperor', directed films himself and run his own world music label Luaka Bop. Nowadays Byrne's music incorporates mesmerizing tunes often entirely performed on strings and brass and introspective lyrics. The performance in Saint-Petersburg was delayed due to sound equipment truck being withheld at the Russian-Finnish border. When the show finally kicked off albeit a couple of hours late, the audience at once realized that it had been worth waiting for since it turned out to be a true feast of energetic and professional musicianship.

House music pioneers, creators of ambient house, who have remixed the likes of Erasure, Depeche Mode and Yello, were propelled to the stardom in the beginning of the nineties and have stayed there ever since. For the decade ORB records defined the state of electronic dance music in Britain, combining chart success with lower-key but crucially important John Peel sessions on BBC Radio One. Astonishing vocal samples with flex dub and techno grooves supported by a colorful video-mix made their Stereoleto 2004 appearance a genuinely special event and left the festival goers astounded with band's ability and devotion to drive audiences mad.

Chateau Flight is an electronic duo of young Nicolas Chaix aka I:Cube and Gilber Cohen, who has produced Cezaria Evora records as well as being a musical director on French Radio Nova and running his own label Versatile. The duo's critically acclaimed 'Remixent' album contains remixed tracks from the planet's most famous artists Manu Dibango, Peace Orchestra, Pierre Henry, Air and Seiji. Chateau Flight's exquisite blend of dreamy ambient chords and minimalist techno, down-tempo and jazzy rhythmic patterns, afro-funk and post rock was guaranteed to impress both amateurs and professionals.

Andrey Samsonov is rightly considered to be one of few Russians to break through successfully to European music market. He has done sound engineering for Mute and has produced Mark Almond records as well as a host of top Russian rock and pop stars including B.G. and Zemfira. His new Laska Omnia project brings together Nikita Kozlov's ('Segodnya Nochyu') seductive vocals and jazzy electro with added live music pieces from the town's best musicians.

Pioneers of the Russian dance music scene, who have worked with the likes of Sergey Kurehin, Brian Eno and Pete Numlook, present their new live project Indigo - soft ambient textures accompanied by sitar work from ethno-aficionados 'Bahadur'.

Ska Jazz Review is a collaboration between some of the best musicians in town - members of Spitfire, Marksheider Kunst and Leningrad teamed up with an American singer Jennifer Davis, who in turn is sometimes working with David Goloschekin's jazz band. Combining ska-jazz-punk spiced up with witty English-language lyrics sharply sung by Jennifer the band are considered to be not only the stars of the local club circuit but a pretty successful act in The USA and Europe.

Asian Dub Foundation, probably the best ethno-electronic act in Europe, are responsible for the emerging of the London-based 'Asian underground' scene. Their internationally acclaimed success could hardly be doubted as they received a BBC Asian Award for Music as far as in 1998 and since then have put out their music through major recording labels such as Virgin International, Mute Records, Polygram and EMI. They have also worked with Adrian Sherwood who produced Death in Vegas and AIR records, singers Natasha Atlas and Sinead O'Connor and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brian as well as touring with Beastie Boys and Primal Scream. Their Stereoleto 2004 festival appearance was a powerful and sincerely emotional experience which got hold of the festival crowd from the very first chord.

His beats baked in the Californian sun, hot-blooded Salvadorian Mauricio is representing the Naked Music label output at its best - melodic and beautiful. Deep-house and Latino are intertwined with St. Francisco based Gaelle's vocals softly touching the dancefloor and causing in light and pleasant vibrations. With their elegant, bright and truly comfortable set the duo ideally fit into the first day set of Stereoleto 2004 festival.