Barkin’Soul, aka Misha Laurent is a music lover, with a feel for all styles as long as they are well written and produced. Though his true passion lays in music of the African diaspora, which you can sense throughout his compositions. Blending his feel for the old and new , he doesn’t try to reproduce an era but inspires himself and picks the best bits to create an authentic sound. Having a hip hop background he samples his own live recorded hits and breaks, & one by one adds the instruments he feels and hears in his head.....

Ari is a musician & composer originally from Long Island, N.Y. & now living in Australia. He comes from a family that located themselves away from the mainstream, settling in the mountains for a lifestyle of quiet, no television, telephones, other kids (dammit!) but there was always the music.. His parents are heavily into sounds collected on travels from all corners of the globe. A youth spent listening to music thru rocksteady reggae, funk, african, disco, latin, electro, hip hop, classical, jazz led to a steady interest in record collecting & playing instruments....

He plays a wide variety of music -Jazz, Soul, Boogie, Brazilian, Afro, Latin, Old school to new school, north to south, east to west, but only on vinyl! He started DJing while studying at university in 1987 before dropping out to hit the decks full time. He was based in Tokyo from '89 to '03 before moving to Brisbane, Australia '03-'04 where he met DJ RAVI (of "Sunnyside up"fame) and DJ Blair Stafford (Straight up)........

Two Dee began making music in the early nighties, djing on belt-drive turntables, rapping through cheap mics into four-tracks and making beats with .mod files. He founded early Brisbane hop hop outfit Decipher with DNO (Resin Dogs). Hip hop samples led him to jazz, funk, soul, disco, house and so on. Living in Japan for three years allowed him to accumulate even more records. Two Dee has performed at the Big Day Out, Livid and Woodford Folk Festivals, as well as at countless Brisbane clubs and bars. He continues to produce various styles of music in his garage as well as doing edits and remixes.........