Reg.: Mar 2002
Location: Vienna
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Soundkraft Rec (Romania) artist roster

Prode – Moscow, Russia

Prode consists of Proket (Alexei) and Denix (Denis). Both of them come from Moscow, Russia. They got acquainted via the Internet in 2002. They then decided to collaborate and the outfit Prode was born. They had 1 objective - to create sick technoid sounding music. Their favourite artists are: Konflict, Raiden, Pyro, Rob F, Sunchase, CybOrc, Kaizer, Fission.
Early 2005 Prode will have their first release on Recon Recordings - the 2 tracks are collaborations with Art Pathos and are called El Nino and Breakage. Another track, "Ghost Radar", is due to come out on Shady Brain Music ().
The great news is that one of Prode's tracks has been picked up by the allmighty Raiden for his own label Off-key Recordings.
As for their current projects tracks are being made with artists like Raiden, Pyro, Sunchase, D Struct, Cyb Orc and Temper D & K Fire.

releases:
CD:
Bad MF ft. Bad Girl - Let It Be (Proket Remix) / TAMCD012 - New Motion 3/
Prode - Serum /TAM19CD VA-TAMOGRAPHY2/
Prode - Ghost Radar /TAM??CD BES47RUS MIX/
Bad MF ft. Bad Girl - Let It Be (Proket Remix)/TAMCD014 - BES78RUS mix/
Proket - Suspicious eclipse /TAMCD014 - BES78RUS mix/
Prode - Ghost radar / FRGMNT019 - TIME2BASS /

forthcoming releases:
Prode album / TAM CD /
Prode & Art Pathos - El Nino (Recon 003)
Prode & Art Pathos - Breakeage (Recon 003)
Prode - Proportion (Off-Key 003)
Prode & Electro Soul System - Expedition on mars (Tilt002)
Prode - Ghost radar (ShadyBrain)

They had recieved dj supporting from Raiden, Pendulum, Pyro, ViciousCircle, Temper D & K Fire, Sunchase, Robot Death Squad, Nexxi.
Proket is very appreciated as a DJ as well, he already spinned together with C4C, Matrix, Noisia, Paul B, Sunchase.


Sunchase - Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Sunchase is the alias of Alexander Pavlenko, hailing from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
At the age of 15 he started playing around with production software being influenced by people like Orbital, Chemical Brothers, DJ Shadow, Crystal Method, Ed Rush & Optical and Decoder.
Later on Static Nitro(w/ Oxide) production outfit was formed and became one of the most successful duos in post-soviet countries.
In 2002 Sunchase decided to get back to his solo career. One of the first solo works was "Remember Me" in collaboration with Latvian singer Yana Kay. This soulful vocal smasher immediately started gaining attention from countless international djs including Fresh, Pendulum, Concord Dawn, John B, Bulletproof..
And he never looked back ever since firmly establishing himself on worldwide d&b map as one of the Eastern Europe's premier producers. Various collaborations followed with Counter Strike, Resound, Cyb Orc, Dissident, Bes and Proket.
Nowadays Sunchase is receiving full-on support from the likes of Kemal, Tech Itch, AK1200, Corrupt Souls, BSE, Optiv, C4C, Noisia, Bulletproof, John B, Raiden, Psidream and Paul B.

releases :
Hostile 003 (Remember Me, Remember Me (Illskillz remix)
FullForce 002 (Eclipse feat. Cyb Orc)

forthcoming :
Moving Shadow (Isida, Sands Of Time)
Recon (EP: Save Us, Marazmatick, The Mole, Ganesh)
Cabal (Sunchase & Cyb Orc: Axis, Anubis 5, Assyrian, Organizm)
Salvage (RDS - Therapy [Sunchase remix] )
Leet (Slush, Mind Error)
Phusion (Predator, Fir Choice)



BS Faction, Infuzoria, Crypton – Harkov, Ukraine

These 3 aliases hide a few projects run by Victor, one of the most talented producers of the new wave from Ukraine, together with different members of the Harkov massive. He is engaged in organizing drum&bass parties in Ukraine since 1997.
Since 2001 he has established Breathe Colonies Org, a very active promo group. In 2002, together with a few friends, he started producing his own music, ranging from liquid d’n’b to technoid and trancy d’n’b. Immediately, their tracks have received strong support in Ukraine and Russia, 12 tracks are already let out on various local labels.
In February 2005 an Infuzoria album will be ready to hit the local stores in Ukraine.


DJ Tonika – Lvov, Ukraine (Best female DJ in Ukraine)

experience: since 1998

style: Brazil, Soul Full Drum'n'Bass, Liquid Funk

Played at countless parties all over the ex-USSR countries, Poland and Romania

Organized "Plastmasa", "Drum'n'Bass Session ¹1,2,3…..", "Unisex", "Luna party", "Kazantip – afterparty" etc.; also events with Dylan (Freak Recordings, UK), Gvozd (St. Petersburg, Respect Family), Novak (Moscow)
Sequence of paties "Polus" (ski resort Slavsko)

Festivals: Festival of electronic music "Vilnyy Prostir", "Dj Battle-2002", "Kazantip-2002" - played at three dancefloors of the festival (Yevpatoriya), Dec. 2002ð. joint performance with "The Shrine Synchro System"/London (Dj Rita Ray, Dj Nikki Lukas)

Releases:
2003: - FunkMasters Mix "Drum-n-Bass Session" Virus production (VP-079-2)
- Mix "Drum-n-Bass Juice" Virus production (vp-085-2)


Alien Pimp – Bucharest, Romania

experience: Producer since 1997, Dj since 2000

style: Drum’n’Bass

Present in the musical life of Romania first as a radio DJ and journalist since the early age of 14 (no typo, it’s for real!), Alien Pimp is the less known founder of the most acclaimed dance act in Romania in the 90’s, NSK, in 1996. After a first gig, he left the group for a solo career, starting 2 projects: Alien Pimp and Sonic Tonic. In the early years he approached almost all styles of electronic dance music, from gabber to garage, from big beat to d’n’b. Fast enough, in 1998 Alien Pimp won first prize at ASSOS Music New Talent Festival, a national competition for the electronic dance music producers and since then he played at all the major festivals in the country, and at countless club parties.
In the last couple of years things cleared out for him: as Alien Pimp he’s dj-ing and producing drum’n’bass and under the Sonic Tonic alias he produces downtempo music. As well, in 2004 he founded another downtempo act, WeAreNotSure, together with the sensational young producer Silent Strike and a very gifted female vocal from Norway, Gunhill.
As a producer, he has more than 10 tracks and remixes released on several Romanian compilations, and he produced the unanimously acclaimed Bucharest Chills & Thrills compilation in 2004. As well, in 2004 he started building SoundKraft Records, a label, booking & management company focused on promoting East-european d’n’b & breakbeat artists. SKR awaits it’s first release in march 2005, a breaks & d’n’b compilation that will prove sun raises from the East.
In 2002 and 2004 he was member of the jury at the Eastern-European Discoveries national contest organised by Radio France Internationale for the electronic dance music talents.
As a Dj, Alien Pimp started to play for free in 2000 at the Web Club, which is the biggest suporter of the electronic dance music in Bucharest. After a few unexpectedly successful parties, he was offered a residency there that he has never abandoned untill present time. He began with a very eclectic selection of styles, but now he’s focused on d’n’b. Since then, he has constantly played in Bucharest (had 2 more residencies) and across Romania, but as well at the Sziget Festival in Budapest 2003 and in the Republic of Moldavia. His d’n’b set may go from oldschool d’n’b to clownstep or techy/trancy dnb In his sets, apart from vinyl, he uses loads of hi-quality demos or local cd releases which never had the chance to meet a vinyl press.

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part 2:

DJ Snow – Cluj Napoca, Romania

experience: since 1999

style: Drum’n’bass

Snow is one of the busyiest dnb DJs in Romania, right now. His quality selection of tough but danceable dnb makes him wanted everywhere there’s a junglist massive. Since his debut he was resident or guest in all major clubs in Transylvania (where he’s living right now), and he toured all over the country. He played with renowned dj’s as SUV, Palotai (Hungary), Lightwood and Jay Cunning.
He’s as well one of the main actors in the Zoom Out promo group, organizing regularly dnb&breaks parties in Transylvania.


Mesmer – Bucharest, Romania

Mesmer is one of the breakbeat *******s in Romania as well one of the most established acts here, manging to create his own recognizable sound, with a trancy flavour very present in it.
He started composing breakbeat back in 1996, when he was 16. In the early winter of 1996, him and Razvan Ghinescu formed the Industria project, having many live performances in Bucharest.
In 1998 they entered the ASSOS Music New Talent Festival competition and won first prize, together with Alien Pimp and Fire In Water.
At the end of 2001 Mesmer decided to disolve Industria and continue with a solo career. By the end of 2002 new material was ready.
Oct. 11th, 2002 - At this date he kickedoff his solo career with this first solo live performance at biggest electronica festival in Romania, TMBase, Timisoara, Romania
Since the debut, he played all over the country, in clubs or major festivals, being solicitated by organizers of all kinds of dance music events, due to the wide acceptance for his sound on all the scenes, from trance to breaks&dnb.
He has as well several tracks released on various compilations and forthcoming releases on SoundKraft Rec.


Cypher – Bucharest, Romania

Cypher is a 21-year old breakbeat DJ who proved in 2004 to be one of the best upcoming local DJ’s. His debut as a DJ took place in January 2004 in Bucharest, alongside Rolli Breaker, established Romanian nu-school breaks DJ.
Since then, he has played at a variety of events across the country, he organised three parties in Bucharest and started writing for an online music magazine (). He has been invited twice to Selectro (one of the few nationwide electronic music radio show in Romania), and he has done exclusive mixes for Selectro and understand.ro (one of the most prominent Romanian clubbing websites). He has also established a crew/non-profit asociation entitled Foo Events, whose aim is to expand and enrich the nu-breaks/dnb scene by organising events and promoting various DJ's and artists.
He plays breaks with emphasis on high bpm, (138+), high-energy funky/heavy electro tracks. For a long time bedroom dj, now he publicly proves great technical skills and a special ability to feel crowd’s moods. Some of his favourite labels are Killer Green, Cyberfunk, Passenger, Fingerlickin’ and Mob. His listening influences are very diverse, spanning a variety of genres - from old school electro to hip-hop, 70's funk, drum'n bass, nu jazz, industrial, triphop, idm, ethnic (especially Romanian/Balkan) and almost every other music genre since the 50's.


Walder – Minsk, Belarus

The most requested d'n'b DJ from Minsk who also produces his own musiñ and spins vinyl? Walder is the name.
At his first gig, in December 2002, at the 3d System Electronic Madness festival, he played his own music, as everyone does at these festivals since their very beginning. But Walder was also one of the first producers who started at System Electronic Madness to also try DJing.
Back then his stuff was mostly dark and heavy, but still most of his sets would feature tracks by Paul B, Noisia, Teebee, Subwave or Panacea. The most plates in his bag come from the labels like:
DSCI4, Subtitles, Renegade Hardware, Nerve, Armada, Hospital, Shadow Law, s2z.
June 2004 already saw him to be the only d'n'b DJ from Minsk to play at the biggest yearly open air event, the key night of the clubbing summer in Minsk.
A resident of most events organized by Electrokids promo crew, he is also often requested to spin at the events organized by other promo-groups in Minsk, to say nothing about his gigs in other big cities in Belarus and Ukraine.
As a producer, Walder got his tracks featured on 2 local compilations, and on the forthcoming Eastern Sound Architects, from the Romanian label SoundKraft.
His stuff sounds a bit like Resonant Evil or any generic neururofunk artist, but of course has his own attitude to music.


Ogonek & Cooh – Sofia, Bulgaria

In 2001 the Valeri "Ogonek"Sholevski and Ivan"Cooh" Shopov joined under the common name Ogonek&Cooh. They started working hard promoting the dnb style in the boarders of Bulgaria sending “patriotic” messages to the young generation. Individually they have devoted themselves to the production of electronic music and participated to different projects since 1998. Their sets entirelly consist of their own music. They have performed in the busyest clubs in Sofia the capital of Bulgaria. Between 2002-2003 Ogonek&Cooh released 4 bootleg albums. As the time passed, their style improved semnificantly untill attained the contemporary hard and dark dnb sound. Along with it Cooh has been working in the field of the liquid & atmospheric dnb. As well, Ogonek&Cooh participated to different compilations with IDM sound.

Cooh also had lots of collaborations with the likes of: FlipBeat (BG); DeTunes (BG); Rakoon (GER); DJ Jeph (CAN); Future Blues (UK); Cmotif (UK); Liquid Beats (UK); AdamC (USA); Diode(USA); Shultz (SRB); Paralizah (RUS); Kind Of Zero(UKR); Mloski(BG); Dark Biomass (RUS); Dj Odity (UK). Ogonek&Cooh has some hard smasher tunes with the female vocal Megi, one of them, "FEAR", has some good feedbacks in the reasonstation.net dnb chart. Cooh's track "Can u Feel" has become as well no1 in the dnb chart of the same site and on also. These days finds Cooh&Diode on the list of forthcoming releases of Signal Records (Audio&Mackie). As well, individually, both of them were selected by SoundKraft Rec. (Bucharest, Romania) to participate to the Eastern Sound Architects CD compilation, joining there some of the best talents in Eastern Europe. Same label intends to give them the chance to add one piece to their collection of own vinyl releases, in the summer of 2005.

releases:
"Fem'02"- Bootleg CD (2002)
"Sick of Amen" - Bootleg CD (2002)
"Beauty" - Bootleg CD (2002)
"Drum And Bass Massacre" - Bootleg CD (2003)
"After Coma" - Bootleg CD (2003) (produced by "Two and a Half" production company)
Cooh -"Water" (2005) - IGI Records net label - Austria
Cooh -"Outburst" (2005) - IGI Records net label - Austria
Ogonek -"Outlying" (2005) - IGI Records net label - Austria

forthcoming releases:
Cooh&Diode - Signal Records (Audio&Mackie)
Cooh – Fear 2005 (SoundKraft Rec)
Ogonek – We’re Lost (SoundKraft Rec)

Played at "Festival For Electronic Music'02" with artists such as: Transglobal Underground; Jimi Tenor
Also events with: Hoodlum; Spree; JFB; Deekline & Dona Dee; Ed Solo; Ragga Twins; Dom&Roland; Goldie.

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