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Malik Berrabah

Malik Berrabah is owner of Wisseloord and founder of the Wisseloord Academy. His track record as a songwriter, composer, arranger and producer is rich of countless national and international records in various genres. He has contributed to the production of numerous albums, singles, television programs, etc., and regularly advises the Majors in a neutral way on the level of new musical projects in development. Malik is also Adviseur of the Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst, the organisation providing state grants to the main cultural projects of the dutch capital. His love for sharing with growing talents leads him, when his schedule allows, to participate as a jury for international conservatory exams.

Since the beginning of his career 25 years ago, Malik has decided to do all his musical work under various pseudonyms in order to keep his career detached from any stylistic labels, to keep his creative freedom and to stay away from the ego games of the music industry.

Davide Ruffini

Davide Ruffini has been connected to Wisseloord for years as mixing engineer. He has worked with names as The Voice, Soul & Noamle, Supa Dupa, NAVY, Nelson Dialect, Leelo, MAJAN, Kilian & Jo.

James Castelijn

In 2012, James joined the DJ collective BANGANAGANGBANGERS, focusing on producing and releasing their own work. Strongly inspired by artists like Noisia, Eprom, Hudson Mohawk, Ivy Lab, G Jones & Joker, they immersed themselves in the world of underground bass, (half-time) DnB, and glitch hop. Despite operating in a niche market, the energy of both the music and the DJ act brought the collective to stages such as Mysteryland, We Are Electric, Woo Hah, Melkweg, Solar Festival, ADE (own event), and many more.

After completing his private study in Audio & Studio Engineering at the Volver Academy in Tilburg in 2013, James began his studies at the Herman Brood Academy in 2015. Here, he connected with rappers who asked him to handle the mixing and mastering of their songs, marking the official start of his career as a mixing and mastering engineer. Following his graduation in 2017, demand and workload increased, quickly adding major Dutch Urban names like Henkie T, Snelle, Young Ellens, Latifah, Kimono, Chivv, Defano, Numidia, and record labels such as Quatro Vision, Trifecta, Avalon Music, and Rotterdam Airlines to his credit list.

Since 2017, James has also been involved in the development of Wisseloord Studio’s House of Music and Wisseloord Publishing in Hilversum. In 2020, James took on the role of both Mastering Engineer at this facility and A&R Manager of the House of Music and Wisseloord Publishing, a collaboration between BMG BNLX and Wisseloord. As the A&R manager of the Wisseloord Publishing, James has been involved with organizing numerous international writing camps and has been responsible to connect both national and international writers.

Noah Smits

Noah is one of the most recognized music marketeers and data analysts of The Netherlands. Working as consultant for numerous artists and labels, Noah is one of the figures of the field that cannot be missed out.

Nouri Avery

Noah Avery is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He studied vocals at the Herman Brood Academy, and now writes for different artists. He believes stories are the most important part of a song and the instrumental should be a perfect fit. Noah has worked with artists such as: Wulf, De Hofnar, Miss Montreal, Thomas Nan, George Holliday, Collin Jax and Robbie Mendez.

Reaubeau

ReauBeau’s sonic journey started at the very roots of his present future bass undertakings. Due to a strong love for hiphop during his formative years, his passion spurred into the restless fiddling and fine-tuning art of conveying finer (and often ineffable) emotions through the craft of composition. His sound has emerged into a versatile blend of (future)bass and trap with a touch of euphoria.

ReauBeau’s funky, hiphop influenced productions are always spot on. With shows at festivals such as Tomorrowland, Amsterdam Dance Event, Aalborg Festival, SXSW and Distortion Festival, his tracks have been supported by radio stations worldwide, including BBC Radio1 & 1XTRA (‘ ignition mix ‘, GB), SLAM FM (NL), KISS FM (DE), Diplo’s Revolution Channel, Hardwell on Air and more.

Eventually evolving his music asperations into two new dimensions called CASUAL (Pop, Funk, Soul ) and DOWORK (Hiphop instrumentals ) His music has landed syncs with America’s Got Talent , Mercedes ,Lincoln,JBL, Adidas,Victoria’s Secret and he has composed for major game trailers like FIFA 20 / Need For Speed HEAT and Apex Legends.

Chiara Gallerani

Chiara Gallerani is Italia Music Export’s project manager. Before working at Italia Music Export she was head of marketing and promotion at Indipendente Concerti (Live Nation Italia) which organized, among many concerts, I-Days Festival. From 2015 to 2016 she was marketing and promotion assistant at Vivo Concerti, a music promoter company in Milan. From 2015 to 2022, she also worked as artists liaison manager at MI AMI Festival, the popular Italian independent music festival held in Milan every year in spring.

From 2020 to 2022 she was the communication manager for EMEE, European Music Exporters Exchange, the network gathering all music export offices in Europe.

Chiara has a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literature and a master’s degree in Design and Production of Cultural and Arts events.

Giorgio Spedicato

Giorgio Spedicato, born in 1992, is an Italian musician and music producer. He’s been making music since 2012 with the moniker Machweo and is currently an author and producer within Sony Music Publishing Italy.

In the last ten years he released music for many independent Italian and American music labels (Lefse, Hyperjazz, Maciste among others) and he played more than 200 live shows in Italy and other European countries. In 2019 he played at Eurosonic Nooderslag and in the summer of the same year he imagined and conducted a radical impro concert with a band composed by James Holden, Emma Jean Thackray, Populous, Any Other, Bienoise and many more.

Giorgio signed with Sony Music Publishing in 2020 and he devoted his music career to writing and producing music as an author since then. He won a golden album in 2021 as the author for Cuore Amaro, which is the song sung by Gaia at Sanremo Music Festival in 2021.

Vincenzo Colella

Vincenzo Colella is a songwriter signed at Sony Music Publishing. He wrote songs for Marco Mengoni, Annalisa, Rosa Chemical, Giorgia, Gianna Nannini, Gaia, Luca Carboni and many more. He also has his own artist project called LACRAY with Sony Music Italy.

Iacopo Sinigaglia

Iacopo Sinigaglia (1990), aka BRAIL ⠇ ⠑, is a composer, music producer and sound designer. He studied sound engineering and music technology at Saint Louis College of Music and graduated in “Electronic Music” and “Audiovisual Composition” at the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone. Some of his works have been selected and screened within the most prestigious festivals around the world such as the Oscar ceremony, the Venice Film Festival, the David di Donatello awards, The International Computer Music Conference and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.
Iacopo works mainly as a music producer and has collaborated with several Italian artists including Aiello, Ariete, Fulminacci, Galeffi, Giorgia, Giuse The Lizia, Madame, Mannarino, Motta, Nuvolari and Psicologi. In 2021, he curated the production and orchestral arrangement of the song “Ora” by artist Aiello, also conducting the orchestra during Sanremo. He returns in 2023 to the Italian Song Festival with the song “Il bene nel male” by Madame.
In 2022 he worked as music producer for X Factor Italy in the Fedez’s team. He is an author and composer for Sugar Music, a historic label founded in Milan in 1989 by Caterina Caselli.
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