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BIO 2009 Ivan Sashev Shopov (Cooh aka Balkansky) started playing bass guitar in a hardcore-metal band when at 16 and got involved with creating electronic music at the age of 18. Producing Drum And Bass for 9 years, now at the age of 27, he has 40 vinyl and 12 CD releases. Together with Valery Sholevski (Ogonek), in 2002 he began intense promotion of drum and bass in the borders of Bulgaria, sending "patriotic" messages to the young generation and playing a lot in the busiest clubs in Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria.

Dominik Piechocki aka Switch Technique, is a drum and bass producer from Pniewy, Poland. Over the last few years, he has emerged as one of the leading forces in Polish Drum and Bass movement. His adventure with music began in 1999 from the game “Extream G2”, the soundtrack of which was his the first encounter with the above mentioned phenomenon, commonly known as Drum and Bass. While exploring billions of broken sounds Dominik began experimenting with software in the search of the perfect beat and his individual approach to music resulted in a one-of-a-kind style.

Future Signal were formed in 2004 by Tom Parkin, James Gorely and Mike Quick. Tom and Mike began writing Drum and Bass together in 2002. 2 years later when James began producing with them, Future Signal were born. They were influenced by attending DnB events in the mid to late 90’s, artists such as Bad Company, Ed Rush and Optical, Konflict and the Ram Records camp. More recently, artists such as Noisia, Phace, Audio and Misanthrop have set the standard to which they aspire.