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Artist Profile Bio:

"painters paint their pictures on canvas, musicians paint their pictures on silence."

A musician like no other.

Not content to be labeled as merely a DJ, a producer, or even a DJ/Producer, Melvin Oliphant III aka Traxx is a lover of music — one with a passion so intense that it overcomes genre divides to weave an altogether original, exciting, and multi-textured musical fabric which envelops both the avid clubber and the home listener, as well as everyone in between.

As a self-described "artist of sound," Traxx morphs musical compositions into distinctive, highly emotional interpretations — he is, indeed, an innovator, and one who reshapes music into a progressive,forward-thinking document which defies classification and invites analysis and discussion. From eclectic and avant-garde tunes to old school jack tracks and lounge grooves, he hears it all without discrimination, pretension or elitism.

Traxx released on numerous labels such as Relief, M/O/S, Gigolo, Muzique, Crème Organization, Antenna and Crème-Jak under different monikers such as XXart, Saturn V, X2, The Green Goblin and Dirty Criminals. He collaborated with James T. Cotton, DJ Hell, Green Velvet, Hieroglyphic Being, DeeCoy and Legowelt to shape his unique definition of Jakbeat.

In 2007 Traxx founded Nation as a platform for the Jakbeat sound for artists like JTC, D’Marc Cantu, Saturn V, 2AMFM, X2, Naughty Wood, Lost Frequencies, Beau Wanzer and many more tocreate a new era from the backgrounds of dance culture of rhythm tracks, House Grooves,Synth, and Darker Wave to create a new era of sound influenced from our forefathers of the music scene in the early years of the 80's to the early 90's.

Discography TRAXX under the names of Traxx, XxArt, X, The Green Goblin, X2, Saturn V & The Dirty Criminals:

The Dirty Criminals - Collision Between Us And The Damned – Gigolo – 2x12“/CD – 2006 The Dirty Criminals - Are You Saved? Move! - Gigolo - 12“ - 2001 The Dirty Criminals – Organised Confusion – Gigolo – 2x12“/CD – 2004 Jak The Box – Kompute Musik 14 – 12“ – 2006
X2/Saturn/DMC-Primitive Cypher – Relief Records – 12“ – 2006
Traxx-Stranger In The Strangest Of Lands – Crème Organization – 12“ – 2006
Traxx-MTT Inversion – Crème Organization – 12“ – 2007
X2-Photon / Solara – M/O/S – 12“ – 2007
Saturn V-H-Sync 'The House Of Muzique' – Muzique  Records – 12“ – 2006
X2-Barely A Track – Crème Jak – 12“ – 2007
Saturn V-Your Mind – Crème Jak – 2007

Remixes:
Orlando Voorn – Flash – Gigolo – 12“ – 2002 (with Filippo „Naughty“ Moscatello)
DJ Hell – Repassion – Gigolo – 12“ – 1999 – (with Deecoy)
Ron Hardy – Acid Edit – Illinois Illuminated – Antenna International

Appears as vocalist on:
Let No Man Jack (from DJ Hells NY Muscle album) – Gigolo – 3x12“/CD – 2003
Let No Man Jack – Gigolo – 12“ – 2005
Let No Man Jack (Abe Duque Remix) – Größenwahn 1992-2005 / Monotoni Durch Automation
(NY Muscle Interpretationen – Gigolo – 2xCD – 2005

Appears on:
A Tribute To Robert Moog – Crème Organization – CD – 2006
International DeeJay Gigolos CD 9 – Gigolo – 2xCD – 2006
International DeeJay Gigolos CD 7 – Gigolo – 2xCD – 2003
International DeeJay Gigolos CD 4 – Gigolo – 2xCD – 2000
International DeeJay Gigolos CD 5 – Gigolo – 2xCD – 2000
The Japanese Gigolo Inferno – 2xCD – Music Mine Inc. – 2003
The Box Collection #1 – 5xCD – Gigolo – 2005
Funboy 3 – 12“ – Gigolo – 2006
We Are Gigolo 12“ Showcase No. 8 – Gigolo – 2006
American Gigolo II – CD – Gigolo – 2006