06 & 07 June

After more than a year it is time to dust your old surf and get on the wave once again. On the new wave of Bulgarian house djs that is. After the huge success of last years show we decided to reward you with another issue this June. After literally hundreds of hours spent in different clubs and venues across Bulgaria, and at home with headphones, Yeahman was able to pick the best up and coming Bulgarian djs for this past year. Tune in the first weekend of June for a journey trough contemporary house and techno music ? from deep and chilly techno trough funky, jackinf house to progressive and tribal.

06 & 07 May @ 07AM PST | 10AM EST
yeahman
Ataneus
Clipper
Dj Ally
DJ Muggsy
Dockoff
D-Soul
End
Ewan Manitou
Inert
Mr Moon
Petar
Pete Thompson
PHM
Phonic Deep
Plastica
Surreaslism
Zon

yeahman

"Music always was an essential part of my lifestyle" admits yeahman. Around 10 years ago he became really interested in the electronic genres, and especially in house music. Back in the day it was djs like Paul Oakenfold that got him into this, and he gradually started realizing the beauty and variety intelligent house music offered. Fascinated by the simplicity and pureness of progressive and deep house he couldn't help but fall in love with it. Always being on the creative side of things and inspired by djs like Hernan Cattaneo, Sasha and John Digweed, and with the help of friend & colleague d-phrag he started developing his mixing skills. Over the last decade the progressive sound has been a "life-shaping" factor in my life and the result is the Moonphases show.

yeahman is very discerning about the music he plays. He usually gathers inspiration from hours upon hours of listening to a very broad range of sounds. His unique style of mixing allows him to fuse seemingly contrasting music into harmonious sets. Expect to hear a carefull blend of progressive & deep sounds, quality being the essential aspect of his selection.

Info: http://www.yeahman.be/

Info: http://myspace.com/yeahman_be

Ataneus

In 1998 Ataneus made his first contact with the electronic music. It was the albums of Faithless, Orbital and Leftfield that introduced him to this genre. Two years later, inspired by DJ Steven from Metropolis, he bought his first record, and in 2002 he made his debut as a DJ in club Blade (Sofia) with the support of DJ Da Red Guy.??In 2003 Ataneus, Chester and Laylla Dane started gIntelligente nightsh ? a night dedicated to the Italian techno groove from Naples. During the next couple of years Ataneus played at many clubs and on lots of big parties with artists like Carl Cox, Thomas Schumacher, Henrik B, Lori Hi-Fi Princess to name a few.??Currently Ataneus is studying sound engineering and work on his own productions. His first tracks and remixes came out on Edy C's Decoded label and Elton D's Notle Music and there are a lot more to be released. In April 2008 he started his own digital label ? Render Obedience , a label for new talents and well known artists. The musical genre will be something between tech house , minimal and electro. The main purpose - to find some good artists with individual sound, based on feelings and emotions.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/ataneus

Clipper

Clipper is 25 year old from Bulgaria.He first started to appreciate electronic music through the Bulgarian parties of the late 90fs and as a direct result began to DJ in 2004, heavily influenced by Gigolo artists in addition to spending summers in NYC where Clipper attends as many parties as possible, picking up on the sounds of cosmic disco, italo and detroit house. After securing his first residency at club eHidef in 2005, Clipper started to work on his sound after having the opportunity to seriously work a crowd on a weekly basis. Now playing different locations around the capital you can find him DJfing bi-weekly Fridays at eButchersf, where you can expect to hear something new and interesting.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/swankypunk

DJ Ally

Ivan Metodiev known as Dj Ally was born on 22.10.1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has been attracted to music for 15 years . His first appearances were in school where he presented himself as a Dj at the self-organized school disco parties. His career began at the end of 2005 in club Traffic where he plays together with Dj Zon. He plays his favorite styles mixed with tribal and progressive and his style is defined as aggressive, mixed with hypnotic and sexy vocals. As behavior behind the panel is often determined by Dj Lion, Dj C-Fusion and the Serbian star Dj Zares as Carl Cox. In 2006 he created together with Dj Zon several remixes of some of the biggest names in the club music as Fat Boy Slim - Right Here Right Now, Morandi - Fallin a Sleep, David Kassi - Dub be God To Me and etc. In 2007 he presents three new pieces: - Different World, Ethnic together with Dj C- Fusion - Caberet Velvet with Dj End. After his long absence from Bulgaria, Dj Ally returned in his country at the end of September 2007 and since then he has been a resident Dj in one of the most elite clubs of Bulgaria namely club Bedroom. At the end of 2007 he made ? tour along with Dj Lion and Dj C- Fusion. Dj Ally plays in some of the biggest and most elite clubs in the country as: Bedroom - Sofia, Bedroom- Stara Zagora, Bedroom - Sunny Beach, Arro Dance, Horizon, Eravagahza, Stilisimo,Tequila, Kanape, Biju, Elite and many others. In 2008 Dj Ally makes several remixes of the most popular hits over the years such as: Cosheen - Catch, Goran Bregovic - Ederlezi, Roger Sanchez -Lost, Shakedown - At Night and others. At the end of 2008 together with Dj C- Fusion and singer Lady B he created the song 'My Bedroom' which is special for their favorite club Bedroom. At the beginning of 2009 he makes remix of Santra and Christo`s song - 'Hell No' and creates his two new hits: 'Wrong Love' feat Lady B and ' Buffalo'. These hits were presented in several Bulgarian TV Channels. The song "Wrong Love" was liked in one of the most popular radio station in Bulgaria - Radio Fresh which enters in the top six of the radio hits Do Ally likes to surprise his audience, so be ready for new and unforgettable experiences with him and his music. Contacts: www.myspace.com/djallly Skype: vachkata2337 e-mail: djally@abv.bg tel.: 0889621515

DJ MUGGSY

Alexander Velkov is the real name of DJ MUGGSY, who was born in 1980. He is one of the well known DJ's in his country Bulgaria. He grew up in a musical family where many different kinds of music were present most of the time. His music career began at a very early age, when he started collecting vinyl at the age of 10. Through his childhood he has shown an addiction and interest for music, which immediately introduced him into mixing music. His preference was for hard rock, metal and alternative music and he vividly pursued its cultural development. In 1997 DJ Muggsy got interested in electronic music. His first musical idol must have been DEEP DISH. His first touch with house music was on a party at Florida club that DJ Muggsy saw a record-player for the first time and maybe it was love at first sight, because very soon mixing became his hobby. Thanks to his friend DJ Juan Alvarez, Dj Todd he learns the basics of mixing and makes his first steps behind the decks as a House DJ in club Florida. Through remixing and working at a DJ agency he started focusing more on the progressive side of House music from 2000 to presents. Nowadays he got a residency at club MAKALALI (www.myspace.com/ makalaliclub), a club in Plovdiv who is special by his strong musical quality and also the quality of the guests DJ's invited. He played also in Dark Side, Planet, Plazma, Eskada, Gallardo, Bash, Bukowsky, Tifany and many more clubs. In 2006 DJ Muggsy was beginning to work into some projects like "Progressive minds" with DJ Mr.Moon, DJ Bate, DJ Toppy Chovec and others. Progressive minds has a show-time in ones of the most popular online radiostations like Frisky radio, Pure FM radio, Dance radio.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/djmuggsy69

dockoff

dockoff was born in 1981 in pleven,bulgaria.growing up music became very important for him and by the time he was 7 ,he was taking piano lessoms.he went through a lot a music stiles while he was growing up until 1997,when his cousin introduce him to hause music ,giving him some LOVE PARADE GERMANY tapes.several years later the hause music became a part of him.in 2004 came his furst steps in to the hause music producing and in 2008 darkcruise EP came out.shortly after that in april 2009 - illusions EP{kansak recordings}came out.his work was on the charts of some of the best dj right now ,like gerardo boskarino,dj tarkan,fernando ferreyra,mariano favre and they have been on air on frisky radio and proton radio

Info: http://www.myspace.com/dockoff

D-soul

D-soul as known as like Drummer is mixing and producing electric sounds last seven years. In the past he was played in clubs like Alibi, Guarana, Barcode /Burgas/, Comics /Varna/, Weekend /Varna/, Hazard /Plovdiv/, Lifehouse /Sofia/, The Hive /London/, 4 Dame Lane /Dublin/, Tripod /Dublin/ with many famous dj's like Nathan Coles, Terry Francis, Eddie Richards, DJ Tangun, DJ Mouse, Asad Rizvi, Jimpster, RPO, Simon & Shaker, and many more. Last two years he was in UK & Ireland and plays music there on many clubs and parties. He has resident night in 4 Dame Lane, Dublin and also is part from Subject Events, Dublin. His sets are going from deep and funky house to more tech and minimal sounds. Also he produce music sense the last 6 years. His first famous single "Nothing to say about me" in duet with Jette Ives from Virginia, USA was released in 2006 from Deep East Records and after that was played and remixed from a lot of famous Djs and Producers like DJ Tarkan, Soul Tan, Hymera, etc. He continue to produce music under different names and labels.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/dsoulorg

END

END a.k.a. Anton Paunov is born in 1988 in a southwest bulgarian city, called Blagoevgrad. At the age of 16 the music overwhelms him, and he starts producing. Hip-hop is his main influence at that time, as he acts both like MC and a producer. Few years later techno music entered seriously in his life. END had to move to the capital (Sofia) , where he meets different DJ's , producers and other people, connected with the music he likes. Pretty soon he receives the oportunity to release his first remix, collaborating with danz0, another key influence. They start working together as a team, playing and making music. Percussions, deep bass and sharp highhats are the main definition of his sound. Don't panic when things come to an END, because the END himself, may just be starting.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/nextend

Ewan Manitou

My name is Ivan Diamantopulos and my monicker - Ewan Manitou. I was born on 7th of September 1987 in Bourgas,Bulgaria. For me everything started in the end of 2003 year, when I started collecting electronic music mainly deep, tech and funky house. During this time I was growing up with the music and my passion and sense about it has increased when I did my first mix. Later on I managed to get the required technique and three years ago I started playing the music that I liked mostly at parties organized by friends. Right now I can describe my style as a mix of deep, funky, vocal, tech house even minimal elements sometimes.Through the years my style got affected by artists like Grant Dell, Nathan Coles, Terry Francis, Asad Rizvi, Justin Long, Pete DaFeet and lately The Timewriter and Sascha Dive. In the begining of 2009 I started my weekly residence in small club called Label 69 where I was able to develope some of my skills as a Dj and my style. There I played side by side with DJs such as Kink, Alex Scott and Asad Rizvi. Not so long after that, I started playing in other clubs around the city. My main reason for doing this is to entertain myself and the crowd with the music that I like.

Inert

I was born in 1989 in the beautifull city of Varna. Thanx to my older sister i was introduced to music in my early age. I jave been digging my way in electronic music production since 2007. No doubt my biggest succes for that short period was winning Robert Babicz`s worldwide remix contest in 2008. I`m headed for strictly tech house and as feedbacks say, i have managed to develope an easy to distinguish style. My music has been supported from Dj`s like Dave Spoon, Harvey Mckey, Misjah, Eddie Richards, Nathan Coles, Honey Dijon, Ralph Falcon, Hernan Cattaneo, Patrice Baumel, Dave Mothersole both on radio`s and club`s. Keep an eye on me, because i definitely got something.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/in3r7

Mr Moon

Mr. Moon is the artistic pseudonim of Mladen Dimitrov. He is born in Plovdiv Bulgaria where, after graduating from music school and academy as a percussionist, starts building his carrier as a producer and DJ. Remixing and producing tracks for some of the renowned labels and artists in the genre, Mr. Moon gradually becomes an intrinsic part of the Bulgarian soulful and funky house scene.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/mrmoonbg

Petar

29 years old Petar Georgiev is born and lives in Sofia. His interests in music started as he was very young. Everything began with heavy metal and was followed by the so called ggrunge", the alternative and industrial sound, the hip-hop and the whole MTV culture at the time. 9 years ago he started paying attention to electronic music - the techno and house sound especially. After a couple of years he began to work with DJ software and to mix on decks. 3 years later he started playing in some of the clubs in Sofia. In his DJ career so far he has been playing alongside DJs like: Sergio Fernandez, Adolf Marsan, Christian Cambas, Christian Duran and some of the biggest Bulgarian DJs in diverse Bulgarian clubs. Influences like Sergio Fernandez, Angel Anx, David Tort, Dominique Costa, D-Nox & Bekers and D-Formation are what makes his music sound groovy, dynamic and dancy.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/petar5ar

Phonic Deep

Born in 1983, Alex's life is closely connected with music. He starts to play the piano at age 7 and later, influenced by artists such Westbam, Miss Kittin, Sven Vath, Underworld, he discovers the electronic sound. He spends the next few years developing the skills he acquired as a child and in the meantime he spins at some of the best clubs in Bulgaria. Born in 1985 in Sofia - Bulgaria, Petar Delov's interest is captured by electronic music from an early age. He starts to attend parties and one day comes across a poster announcing a DJ competition led by one of his favorite DJs at the time DJ Yemo. He decides to give it a shot. As time goes by, Peter Delov decides that this is what he wants to devote his life to. Thereafter he takes part in and organizes parties in Sofia. He meets many people and djs along the way. As a result, he becomes the main Dj in many of the elite clubs in Sofia.

They met in 2005 and joined up in the studio. Under their current title Phonic Deep, they are coming up with their own unique sound style. Their tracks are deep, filled with energy and very rhythmic.

Their career reached high leves quickly in 2008.They produced for Seaburn Records . Two tracks are to follow, produced for Lups Records (property of the Dutch dj and producer Jacco@work , whose lable includes artists such as Josel , East Cafe , Aeron Aether , Matias Chilano , Jacco@work , Michael & Levan , Chris Drifter , Soundstorm , Redwolf , Faces , Silence`O`Phobia , Dave Ferol and many more) in the same year, improving on their style.

Danceradio , Frisky radio and Proton radio are just some of the radio statisons they've been invated to play on.

The goals for this year are no less ambitious: "No Smoking Records", property of Dj Tarkan and V-Sag is one of the few labels toward which the guys are aming.

The proof of their success and the growing popularity of Phonic Deep can be seen in the charts and sets in which they are featured, as well as the support of famous djs such as :Miss Nine , Faskil , Michael & Levan , Dj Marcus , Python, East Cafe , Enrique Echd , Elke Kleijn , d-phrag to name a few.

Info: www.myspace.com/alexiliev

Info: http://www.myspace.com/phonicdeep

Pete Thompson

Pete Thompson a.k.a Petar Kyuhov is born 21.01.1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He starts mixing electronic music at the age of 17. Inspired by Dj Rady - the creater of one of the biggest agency for promoting electronic parties "Metropolis", he decides to devote his life to the underground club sound. Dj Rady sees the potential in Pete Thompson and takes him deep into the world of electronic music. In the year of 2007 Pete Thompson becomes on the the finalists in the Dj contest in club Chervilo, and next year he joins the agency "Adultempo", which promotes him with great success. "Good mixture of Progressive, Tech House, Minimal and Techno, makes the style of Pete Thompdon so attractive and one of a kind. During the years Pete Thompson has become a real talent as a Dj, playing in most of the clubs in Sofia:"Chervilo","Lifehouse","Escape",Pr.", along with a lot of famous djs like:Dimas, Paco Maroto, Ismael Rivas, Segio Fernandez, Sultan,Martin Garcia,Stephane K,Tony Thomas and many others.

PHM

PHM (or Petar Filipov) was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1989. His passion for the electronic music started at a very young age. He first found the Techno & Hard Techno sound at the age of 13, but a year later he fell in love with the Progressive house! After a few years being only a listener, he decided to try being a DJ. He met his most inspiring person - DJ Retek (also known as Escodero) at the end of 2006, and he helped him to make his dreams come true! After a lot of hard work, Petar became a dj and a producer at the same time! It took an year before his first achievements arised - some releases for respected labels like Filthy Groovin, Sirion & Progress Recordings, and few events at small clubs over Bulgaria! At the beginning of summer 2008 his dreams came true! He made a remix with his friend Escodero of their idol - Sergio Fernandez, signing it for one of the biggest labels world-wide - Baroque! After having spent a serious amount of time and a great deal of efforts, creating his debut album together with Escodero, both of them are quite happy with the final result, which was released on the 19th of February (2009) by Hush Recordings! Having in mind that the album was supported by DJ Dextro, Elias R., TKC, G-Pal, D-Formation, Luigi Daniell, Simon & Shaker, cRAIG mITCHELL, Sir Garrett, Behrouz, Paolo Mojo, Mike Swells, Nikos Toscani & Drum Movement before it was even released, it seems that it is going to be well accepted by the electronic music lovers all around the globe.

Info: http://www.myspace.com/darkershadesrec

Plastica

Behind the project Plastica, are two of the young hopes of the biggest, also the best bulgarian DJ agency "E-Booking" - Evelin & Svetlesse. Shortly said - they have been acquaintanced at early age by common friends of them, when a party was organized, but unfortunately all the people there had the bad luck that the DJ didn't arrived. So Evelin and Svetlesse decided to go behind the decks and take the party off the chain. After the successful night and the good words of the many pleased people, they started playing both at some parties. Understanding about their same musical tastes and the good parties that have been made a few times, they became a duo. Officially that was confirmed when both of them were already members of the DJ agency "E-Booking" who has noticed their talent and started promoting them and helping of the developing on their project. What can u expect to listen from them? A real journey through almost all the styles of the electronic music as deep & tech house at the beginning of their performance, tight progressive rhythms with distinguishing modern techno and minimal sounds at the peak time of the night. A new wave of parties is forthcoming, so watch out for Plastica in your town!

Surrealism

Surrealism is a joint project of the well established Bulgarian DJ Kalin Todorov and the outrageously young producer Nick Nikolov, also from Bulgaria.

Born in 1980 in Sofia, Kalin Todorov is one of the younger talents on the Bulgarian club scene. Yet, his achievements to date have won him recognition as a major player behind the decks. Among them are his participation in the 2001 Sofia Street Parade, his opening for Tiesto in 2005, his several performances at the legendary Cacao Beach, and his long-time residency at the famous Toba&co bar, all of which logically lead to signing with the first proper DJ agency in Bulgaria - Back2Back in 2006 and a steady residency at the first and number one Bulgarian house club - Chervilo hosting regular gigs of world renowned DJ celebrities.

Kalin bumped into Nick sometime in 2007 and naturally was astonished by his young production talent. Being aged only 15, Nick already had some releases for significant labels like Proton Music and 16 Bit Lolitas' Bits & Pieces. As is usually the case, a young producer like Nick needs the guidance of an experienced DJ like Kalin who is constantly in contact with the crowd and knows what's shaking. Having very similar musical tastes and sharing the enthusiasm to produce music and infect the world with their sound, the chemistry seemed to work for those two. Kalin and Nick established the Surrealism project aimed at producing intelligent deep tech-house and techno, having fun and maybe making the world love them and their music. They already have a bimonthly residency at club Yalta which is probably the oldest one in Sofia and with the richest history, renovated a couple of years ago and featuring the best international talent since.

In the summer of 2008 Kalin played with Monoroom in Focsani, Romania where he was noticed by the local agency Electro Events Booking. Looking to expand his horizons beyond the Bulgarian club scene and give a decent start to Surrealism, he signed with Electro Events Booking and faced 2009 with new perspectives

ZON

Every person has something to live and die for. Our lives are guided by our will and our will - by our spirits. Martin Dimitrov aka Zon is one of the people that decided to listen and follow his inner voice at any cost. He was born in 1989 in Bulgaria, small country, located in eastern europe. Democracy entered at that time, so while the communism has been fading out, the musical culture was still bordered. Few years later Bulgaria had it's own electronic dance music scene and internet seriously changed people's point of view. In 2001 Martin had his first computer and started using music production software. 15 years old, he was already spinning music to different audiences and various clubs. His work swallowed him, and in soon he had to left school to pursuit his career. Meanwhile his works reached lots of dj's in Bulgaria, so he finally had the oportunity to show himself in front of true electronic music crowd and started playing in some of the best bulgarian clubs, trying everything possible to break in with his unique and innovative style. Zon was really hooked by modern electronic and techno music, but still has the influence of gods like Music Instructor and Bomfunk MCs... At that time Zhivorad Milich (aka DJ Lion), had a key influence, starting collaboration with Martin and gave him a hand, so his first tracks could reach rest of the world. In 2008 he made a successful remix of Let's Go Outside's "You make me struggle" and earned 3rd place for a release on "Soma records" as "Most creative remix". Now Zon has released music for labels such as: "Underground Sound of Bulgaria"; "Outta Limits"; "Franz Franz"; We can't say that a bird can bring the spring, but if his music has overtaken the world, earth would be very phat, dark, deep and sexy place...

Info: http://www.myspace.com/zonbelowthemusic

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