Ernest began his DJ career back in 2013 and quickly became a welcome guest at many night clubs and lounges in all the major Asian cities. He is a founder of a music showcase called Night Sport, playing vinyl and creating music in such styles as Techno, Deep House, Underground Disco, Acid Rave and Electro Beats. His inspiration derived from nature, people and being culturally aware during his world travels. In addition, he’s received 3 top 100 House music hits on Beatport.com and Decks.de Germany.
Mike Discoid is the core creator of the top end deep mix project Ideology of Sound – a well-known electronic dance music events brand and quality deejay trio music sets in Riga, Latvia (est. 2008). Driven by his desire for deep house, tech and techno, Mike is a regular at some of the best bars and clubs of Riga. Over the years he has played at countless events all over the country as well as in multiple venues in Europe. These include Weekend Baltic Festival 2018 and Under Festival 2019. His curiosity and endless digging for quality music has recently evolved into production of trio’s first release together with Ideology of Sound. Jomas iela was released on Datenbits Recordings in 2015 and followed several other releases on Spring Tube, Encesed, Incepto Deep and more. These days he’s working on several new projects with his team. He feels that music production is a great way connecting with peers and followers on a higher and deeper level. Mike’s dj sets are always thoroughly crafted bringing so much more that just groove to the dancefloor.
Judzhen was born in Latvia, lives in Riga. Music has always been a substantial part of his life. He has graduated musical school and majored in accordion. He was consistently interested in rhythm and beats, thats how he originated in the world of electronic music. He started to produce his own mixes in contrasting styles In 2008. Judzhen became a member of the producer union “Urban Soulz” in 2012. That is how he became a DJ. He is now a resident DJ in different kinds of clubs and pubs of Riga city. His style varies from hip-hop, base till house music.
“My music is for the pursuit of being who I am“. Found his Techno style in 2015 after making some Deep House and House sub-genres. Biggest reason of this was that the only genre that could express Mentality H’s style was Dub Techno and close genres to it. He likes to create fascinating chords and pads on settled drums as well as using some deep basses as an assist groove. His first EP published in August, 2015 which made a great success in dub techno scene and gained so much support from the biggest artists in this category. This is his way of battleing commercialism he is always looking for new ways to enchance his music quality. According to him Techno is a state of mind and lifestyle. In addition to music he likes other abstrakt arts as well as the nature trips. These are pushing him to think intangible things and he’s saying that there is no doubt about that our lifes and our ideas do have an influence on our music, Dub Techno is a escape hatch towards everthing we don’t like.
Dj Melody (Denis Grinenko) took to the decks in the early 90s in one of the northern cities of Russia playing techno, drum-n-bass & house. At a mere age of 20 years of age he had Urengoi-based radio show and his own label "Vinilovye Plyaski" which advocated a new unique approach towards dance music, and reflected modern tendencies in club culture and new styles in music. He was an organizer and producer of many club parties and promoted important public events. Dj Melody played a great role in the development of club culture in the northern region of Russia. He was among the first who popularized playing on vinyl. In 1999 Melody relocated to St.Petersburg for fresh musical inspiration and a change of scenery. He spent his time both playing on local clubs and developing a new label "Plastique". In 2002 Melody left "Plastique" and went on to create his own works. His new approach towards creation of new original compositions is characterized as a mesmerizing blend of deep world perceprion and inner world with new technologies. In June one of his new projects will be broadcast by radio in Ufa. His music fuses rythms of modern urban life with the lyrics and love to the past. His debut release, "City Strolling", was in May 2004. The track is a lonesome evocative chillout highlighting the anxious emotions and sense of overwhelming alienation in the city. Melody has toured in most big cities of Russia. According to www.dj.ru poll of 2005, Dj Melody is in the 77th place among the 100 top Russian Djs. He is a regular guest of Russian electronic festival Kazantip and other big Russian festivals.
Well-known electronic dance music DJ and producer from Baltic States since early 2000s. First worldwide release (vinyl and digital) was in 2006. The record was played by Pete Tong and reached #3 place on Juno records house bestsellers chart. Parallel the studio sessions, Electricano always is very concentrate on his DJ set preparations. Which certainly played a big role in his career development. His sets have always been distinguished by a driving grooves and positive energy. As a result, he was always in demand in local DJ scene. He also has international bookings to England, Germany, Netherlands, Ukraine, Belarus and all around the Baltics. Signed to: Toolroom Records, LouLou Records, Neurotraxx, Natural Rhythm, MixCult Records, Union Jack Records, Love Not Money, Spring Tube, Harvibal, Defined Music, and more.
iOAN is a young and talented artist from Latvia, member of the Micronica label. From an early age he has always been involved into music. He believes that the combination of sounds is a method of communication, a way of expressing emotions and deep feelings. He has been inspired by the underground vibes. The energy transmitted by such environment has enabled his creativity and capability of manipulating sounds and create something different form the usual. His deep dedication to music has driven his emotions and developed his knowledge through the years. iOAN sounds can be described as a mixture of micro house and minimal sounds creating an energetic and hypnotic groove. His desire to express emotions can be identified through his deep selection of records and his ability to create a coherent and captivating mix in accordance to what he wants to transmit to the public. iOAN’s future plans is related to his desire to improve and develop as a producer in order to release his first Ep and discover new way of experimenting sounds.
Yury Rets is a techno dj and producer, the author of «сдвиг» (sdvig)project. His sets are unique in taste and energy of musical compositions, which are carefully selected and give inexpressible hypnotic feeling energized by groove and rhythm. Yury Rets succeed in his musical career due to the deepest comprehension and sinking in the world of sounds and techno rhythms. Yury Rets gives special importance to the final effect in his sets, it's simple - performance of an artist must make people dance.
Here is the fresh mix from our friend, DJ and producer from Moscow. Hope you enjoy it! Soon Datenbits Recordings prepare new EP, which will be released in mid-May. You can also listen to this artist on labels like: minim.all label (Ekaterinburg) / Minimal Force Records (London) / Tip Tap Records (Spain) / Verform Records (Hamburg) / Plusquam Records (Gruenwald) and others..
Charch is a Georgian DJ/Producer who started his career in 2012, when the first release on Kore Music Records was out namely "Nicolas Beat" the produced sound could be specified with more deep house genre. After few releases in a row, Charch took a small break for around 4 years, for new inspirations and ideas. Last year he moved to Tallinn and started a professional Dj career, the sound he plays is full of groovy old school house/techno records mixed with contemporary Tech/Deep house genres. He is also a co-founder of House/Techno event series Dilation, which aims to bring and share Tbilisi underground rave culture to Baltic cities.
Steve Gemmell is a DJ and an artist from the United Kingdom, a dedicated music lover and the man behind the Poisonoise project. He explores the deeper states of techno , constructing sets, based on dub and ambient. Over the last 18 months his mixes found their place up to some great labels, such as Hello Strange, Deep Electronics and Moshitaka.
Ochu Larross was born July 7, 1991 in the former Yugoslavia. In a very early age he was getting more and more interested in electronic music. The first mixes are from the year 2003. His parents wanted him to be a musician, for his father is a musician and a music teacher. He went to music school, and played drums, but in 2007 gave it up, and decided to be a DJ. He played music at smaller parties, and his friends liked his music. One year later he got the chance to play at some music festivals. In 2009 everything changed. Ochu LaRoss got the opportunity to play at the biggest music festival of Vojvodina as a beginner DJ at the Underground Arena. He got a lot of attention after that and started having more gigs. After one month he joined the Highlight Radio, where ever since then his mixes are being played weekly. That year he was also heard on Globalparty Radio, Budapest and some other internet radios. Sometimes on private parties he would play up to 8-10 hours. In 2010 the live shows continued, and he starts to make his own tracks. He joined the Strong and Deep organization, which organizes parties like the Summer Pulse Festival. By their help, he got to play at the biggest East European music festival, the Exit. Ochu Laross likes the weird, dark music, and the after parties. Record Labels: Lethal Dose Recordings (Ukrain), Impact Musique (Italy), Krad Records (Argentina), Shout Records (Italy), Fourth Kind (USA), Redukt Digital (Turkey), Simplex Records (Spain), LCR Records (Germany), Undertech Records (Colombia), Minustop Records (Colombia), Echodeluxe Recordings (Brasil), Divided Recordings (Italy), Robotica Records (Serbia), Wormy Records (Clolombia), Killing Machine Records (Costa Rica), Triskel-Tech Recordings (Belgium), D-Ser Records (Columbia), Plunk Records (Greece), NuLabel (Spain), Lost Land Records (Italy), Bos Tech Records (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Login Records (Ireland), Play & Rewind Musik (Argentina), Stoffwechsel Records (Germany).
Nicolas Balas (Barnes). DJ and Producer from Riga, Latvia. DJing already 4 years , his way began with a recording deep house mixes and already a year later he began playing on cdj, preferences in music gives to such genres like House, minimal and techno in different its variations. Recently launched his own label with House music. Also in Riga started to make parties under the name of Absolut House where plays a different variations of House and techno.
Lasha Maruashvili. Georgian DJ, co-founder and producer of the TV Show Urban Stories, which played big role in developing electronic music scene in Georgia. Collecting music and working in field for years inspired him to start playing. The groovy, infectious rhythms of different genres of electronic music continue to charge music he plays today.
La Mish aka Kaspars Lacis is a DJ and music collector from Riga, Baltic States. His favorite music styles are deep, tech, progressive and groovy house music. Inspaired by local scene parties and DJ's at 2007, he start to spin records too. From that time La Mish music taste stays true to House music groovs.