DC-10   (Finland)

AKA : DCX
EuroDance group
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Latest DC-10 news

26/05/2021 : DCX joined forces with Mike Emilio and B3nte to release a new version of their hit Flying High

09/05/2021 : New from DCX, single Meet This Day

02/08/2019 : DCX released a new version of their song Out of My Head, this time featuring vocals by Katri Metso.

23/06/2019 : DCX released a Handsup Style Mix for their song Bang Bang Bang.

05/05/2019 : New from DCX, single The Mutiny (Mytteriet), a song composed for a Norvegian graduating class to celebrate the Russ in their bus.

10/12/2018 : DCX recorded a cover of the 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor's hit Dreams (Will Come Alive).

19/06/2018 : DCX's new single is a cover of K-pop band T-ara entitled Roly-Poly.

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DC-10 albums

	Mayhem		BUY X
	Soft & Tender		BUY X
	Take Off		BUY X

DC-10 singles

	And The Base Kicks	1997	BUY X
	The Real Desire	30th Apr 1999	BUY X
	Flying High	25th Jun 1999	BUY X

DC-10 remixes

	Bang Bang Bang (Handsup Style Mix)	19th Jun 2019	BUY X
	Flying High (Ade Square Remix)	1st Dec 2021	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	DCX - Flying High	17th Nov 2005	BUY X
	DCX - Hold Me	12th Dec 2005	BUY X
	DCX - Poor Romeo	9th May 2007	BUY X
	DCX - Knowing Me, Knowing You	20th Jun 2007	BUY X
	DCX - Don't Break My Heart	21st Nov 2007	BUY X
	DCX - Flying High (album)	30th Jan 2008	BUY X
	DCX - Bang Bang Bang	29th Oct 2009	BUY X
	DCX - Flying High (best mixes)	2012	BUY X
	DCX - Fallen Angel	20th Feb 2012	BUY X
	DCX - Erase You	12th Mar 2012	BUY X
	DCX - Lightyears	22nd May 2012	BUY X
	Damn Cool Ex - Intensify	27th Aug 2012	BUY X
	DCX - Keep On Dancing	31st Oct 2014	BUY X
	DCX - Fantasy (Dance With You)	22nd May 2015	BUY X
	DCX - Sampled Stories (album)	1st Dec 2015	BUY X
	DCX - Flames	12th Feb 2016	BUY X
	DCX - Breaking Free	4th Apr 2016	BUY X
	DCX - Eurodance EP	27th May 2016	BUY X
	DCX - Tuned for Road (album)	21st Oct 2016	BUY X
	DCX - Everytime	10th Jul 2017	BUY X
	DCX - Roly-Poly	18th Jun 2018	BUY X
	DCX - Sherpa	4th Aug 2018	BUY X
	DCX - Dreams (Will Come Alive)	21st Dec 2018	BUY X
	DCX - The Mutiny (Mytteriet)	19th Apr 2019	BUY X
	DCX - Out of My Head	1st Aug 2019	BUY X
	DCX - Don't U Get Me Like This (Handsup Style Mix)	Nov 2020	BUY X
	DCX - Meet This Day	7th May 2021	BUY X
	DCX - Flying High	21st May 2021	BUY X

DC-10 biography

DC-10 was founded at first as a hardcore band on spring 1997 by Joel Kalsi and Ari Myllymäki (aka DJ Dee). Tero Laihanen (aka Floppi) joined the crew soon after the founding of the group. They prepared their first album Take Off between the 1st of March and the10th of June 1997. Dance Current Recordings & Productions followed the creation of DC-10 as a label for releasing the records of DC-10 and as a labelname for other smaller projects.

Whole summer 1997 was spent on composing and partying. Due to starting of the studies on 12th August 1997, the compiling of next album Mayhem was delayed. On 20th August 1997, DC-10 hired a singer, Petra Vallo, one of the 4 vocalists of The Shape. She gave her voice for couple of songs and that material was the kick-start for DC-10's style change from hardcore to eurodance. On 29th August 1997, DC-10 kept a recording session in DJ Dee's home studios when Peppi Lended's voice for couple of tracks. The first shooting star of DC-10 was the song And The Base Kicks which was their first "on-air" play. The album edit was first played on the opening ceremonies of a new ice hall in Kangasala and radio edit got many listeners by the play on radio 538 in Holland. The Second record, Mayhem, was recorded on 12-13th of September 1997 at IT Studios and many technical problems occured during the session.

Various singers took part to the next album's recording between January and April 1998. They found a new singer named Maria to perform as a vocalist on the tracks of Soft & Tender, the new album which was released on 17th May 1998.

At the end of 1998 DC-10 compiled the song The Choice Is Yours as a Radio Mafia entry in Z-Studio with help of P. Sinivuori. The long awaited debut single, The Real Desire, was released on the 30th of April, 1999, at the Mayday parties.

The guys kept a little break before starting to work with the third album. Various singers took part to the next album's recording between January and April 1998. They found a new singer named Maria to perform as a vocalist on the tracks of Soft & Tender, the new album which was published by H. Mäenpää.

At the end of 1998 DC-10 compiled the song The Choice Is Yours as a Radio Mafia entry in Z-Studio with help of P. Sinivuori. The long awaited single, The Real Desire, was released on the 30th of April, 1999, at the Mayday parties. The next single, Flying High, premiered on June 25th 1999 in Rantarock, Vaasa. Pinya Mattila did the vocals for Flying High and the single presents various remixers through europe (Messa, Joyce Inc, DJ Zamo, DNS / 18db productions). The DC crew also remixed songs for other dance artists and acts such as Another World and Joyce Incs.

2001 : DC-10's members finally decided to split up. They were too busy with their other projects. Dexter says : "It's time to move forwards, everything beautiful ends some day." and Laite adds "When I look back few years, this project taught me a lot, though i wasn't so active with DC-10. Even now with my own projects along Jole & Ari, I can still refer to things I learnt from these guys."

2005 : ex DC-10 was back now under the name DCX. Their first official release was a new version from the track Flying High.

2007 : in December, the video for their new single Don't Break My Heart was presented on their official website. Their very first album since they changed their name to DCX was entitled Flying High and it was available on January 30th 2008.

2008 : a promo of the single Fortune & Fate was released. They performed Meet This Day at several summer festivals. The next single ?

2009 : vocalist Katri went solo. The project planned to officially introduce their new vocalist in August, after a farewell show with Katri at Club Fever in Helsinki Finland.

2012 : their 2 new singles was entitled Erase You (that competed to represent Finland at ESC) and Lightyears. Then came Intensify. Then they released a collection of the best version of Flying High

2014 : they contributed to the single Screams with Herbie, Tina Cousins and Applejack. Keep On Dancing was the title of their new single

2015 : they released the single Fantasy (Dance With You). their new album was titled Sampled Stories

2016 : DCX published the singles Flames and Breaking Free, then a Eurodance EP, then a new album called Tuned for Road.

2017 : DCX released a new single entitled Everytime. Then they did a cover of Somewhere Over The Rainbow to celebrate 100th independence day of Finland

2018 : after releasing their own version of K-pop band T-ara Roly-Poly, they covered 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor's hit Dreams (Will Come Alive).

2019 : the project released The Mutiny (Mytteriet) for a Norvegian graduating class. Then they dropped a new version of Out of My Head, this time performed by singer Katri Metso

2021 : a new single entitled Meet This Day was released in May. Then DCX joined forces with Mike Emilio and B3nte to release a new version of Flying High

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Thanks to Eric-X, Gianni, and Joel Kalsi himself

DC-10 biography was last updated Fri, October 15th 2021

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