About
His real name is Ivan and he loves music. Although he has no formal musical education, music always has been an important part of his life. As every teenager of his generation he enjoyed heavy metal and punk rock, as well as many other music styles. His affection for electronic music dates back to 2000 when he heard some trance/progressive trance tracks as well as Astral Projection and various psy-trance artists. Later his musical taste has been heavily influenced by the Global Underground series, The Essential Mix on BBC, as well as John Digweed’s Kiss 100 radioshow. The DJ’s that shaped his vision for the modern electronic music – Kleineberg, Sasha, Digweed, Oakenfold, Dave Seaman…to name a few.
At some point he decided to try some DJ software to make a mix with only the tracks he likes and that was the moment he fell in love with the DJ mixing. After a year of rather underground mixing, he was invited to do a guest mix as “Artist Of The Week” on friskyradio.com – and that event logically led to his own DJ show on the same radio. The show is called Immersed and features new and established talents on the progressive electronic music scene. Currently the show has an average of 3000 listeners from all over the world. The show has been a good start for many young and upcoming artists (many of them are now residents with their own show on friskyradio). In October 2009 d-phrag has been invited by DJ Balthazar to play on one of the biggest events in Bulgaria, RENESANZ – featuring many big names in the electronic music.
In 2010 due to the big popularity of friskyradio.com in former Soviet countries, d-phrag has performed in Ukraine and Belarus, gaining very positive feedback.
Over the past few years d-phrag’s DJ style evolved alot, but one thing remains the same – the passion for music, carefully selected tunes and energetic mixture of sounds.
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