Claudio Pettanice has rather jealously held on to the S.H.O.K.K. name, even though he was only ever half of the classic line-up. Arguably, Marco Guardia (also known as Reverb) was the more important half, or more influential behind it, at least. Reverb was also a big part of the driving force behind Flutlicht, his other duo, with DJ Natron. Pettanice remixed most of the Flutlicht songs (as either DJ Giotto or DJ Emergency), but they're never the best remixes, and both of those names seemed to lack traction, it seems.
After Guardia's retirement and disappearance from the scene, Pettanice revived the S.H.O.K.K. name and did quite a bit with it, and... well, he's got some great remixes out there, and even some great original tracks, but they tend to have more of a DJ Space Raven sound to them relative to older S.H.O.K.K. titles. This isn't unusual, as DJ Space Raven partnered with Pettanice to become the second iteration of S.H.O.K.K., which tends to require a partner to really put out great stuff, it seems. Despite this, both of them want to hold on to whatever value they believe their stage names have, so Pettanice sometimes refers to S.H.O.K.K. as he and Space Raven working together, and sometimes as himself, and Nicholas Perrottey usually wants to keep his DJ Space Raven brand out there too; neither wants to be seen as merely one member of a group, it appears. The DJ Emergency and DJ Giotto stage names have been quietly forgotten.
In any case, in spite of the fact that they'd been working together as S.H.O.K.K. specifically for a number of years by the time they put this out, Spaceshokkers refers specifically to the concept of the two of them being separate artists but collaborating, rather than the more integrated type of collaboration they do when they both work together under the S.H.O.K.K. name. And the naming convention was interesting; Pettanice did something similar when working with Marcel Scheffers (stage name Marcel Woods) and they called that collaboration Woodschokkers.
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