Pascal Quatretemps akka Crashguard - Shakti sets his first steps in house music as the resident dj and co-founder of Radio Laser in 1991. With the opening of a local club 'The House', he then started at the by now legendary club "LaRocca" to be the resident dj at many 'Laser' parties to come, after co-founding another radio station called 'Channel X' he became the resident dj at club 'The Qu', meanwhile setting up dj-sets for parties at 'Barocci', the decision was made to cut back on the party sets for radio stations and begin working more specifically towards composing. After a period of many years, producing as exclusive artist for 'Bonzai records' ,lightning records and many dj and live performances on events like The Love Parrade Pascal is nowadays completely independent. Since then he produced many different styles like goa, psytrance, techno, hardtrance and so on &. In the beginning of 2003 a commercial project with a female singer was released. In May 2003 Pascal decided to start his own label. The idea was just a complete independent label with only digital releases (pay per download). Together with his wife Kristel Willems akka Shiva, a real goa angel, he invented 4-Stroke Produktunes. A complete digital label with no vinyl or cd releases but only legal pay per download releases. Nowadays 4-Stroke Produktunes also have a sub-label for trance produktunes called Trance4M8
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