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- ↑ Shark Vegas Official Myspace Myspace.com
- ↑ Electronic Beats On Air with Mark Reeder Archived 18 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine Electronicbeats.net 26 November 2009
- ↑ Shark Vegas Official Myspace music. Myspace.com
- ↑ Strut Records Archived 9 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine strut-records.com
- ↑ Interview with Mark Reeder about Shark Vegas strut-records.com 26 October 2011
