Ivan Sashev Shopov (Cooh aka Balkansky) started playing bass guitar in a hardcore-metal band when at 16 and got involved with creating electronic music at the age of 18. Producing Drum And Bass for 9 years, now at the age of 27, he has 40 vinyl and 12 CD releases. Together with Valery Sholevski (Ogonek), in 2002 he began intense promotion of drum and bass in the borders of Bulgaria, sending “patriotic” messages to the young generation and playing a lot in the busiest clubs in Sofia (the capital city of Bulgaria.), mainly with the H.M.S.U. crew. As time passed, his style improved significantly until finally he adopted the contemporary hard and dark dnb sound. With a lot of hard work behind him, Cooh is now releasing for some of the well known and most respected drum and bass labels: Position Chrome, Obscene, Commercial Suicide, Subsistenz, PRSPCT, Obsessions, LB ,Sinuous, TOV, G2, Bass Rejects and more. His energetic author tracks are often played by leading artists in the genre: The Panacea, Dylan, Limewax, Raiden, Ed Rush & Optical, Gain, Audio, BSE, Tech itch, Future Prophecies, Evol Intent, Counterstrike, Vengeanze, Proket, The Sect, Infiltrata, EBK, etc. Cooh has had appearances in many parts of the world. So far he has played in England, Australia, Russia, France, Denmark,Swiss, Slovakia, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Germany, Holland, The Czech Republic, Austria, Serbia, Switzerland, Kazakhstan and Romania, and is booked to perform in many more countries. He has a special knowledge of how to make the crowds go crazy and loves to share his own emotions with the people on the dance floor. In the meantime Ivan has also been working in the field of Dubstep, IDM and downtempo, and last but not least - jazz music under another alias - Balkansky. He has played at some of the biggest jazz festivals in Bulgaria as part of The Stoyan Yankuolov Quintete, also with one the best Bulgarian ethno-jazz musicans - Theodosii Spassov. In parallel with making music, he is also active in the sphere of fine arts, studying and drawing graphic prints and has created a remarkable collection of works. Releases: on CD:: Ogonek&Cooh - “Fem’02”- Bootleg CD (2002)| Ogonek&Cooh - “Sick of Amen” - Bootleg CD (2002)| Ogonek&Cooh - “Beauty” - Bootleg CD (2002)| Ogonek&Cooh - “Drum And Bass Massacre” - Bootleg CD (2003)| Ogonek&Cooh - “After Coma” - Bootleg CD (2003)| EASTERN SOUND ARCHITECTS Vol. 1: East-European Drum’n’Bass Compilation CD| - Cooh & Black Science Project – Mirage / Cooh - Fear (2004)| Respect 7 compilation - Cooh feat. CA2Key & OTM - Like An Angel - VIP| Endangered Species CD [Double CD]| Balkansky - Kuker (Kuker Music 2009)| Cooh - Bongia (OffKey The Firm CD) | Cooh - Crypt (9M OHM -You Need Therapy CD) on Vinyl:: 1.Diode&Cooh - Cylcone / Diode - Final Night (Signal Recordings) (2005)| 2.Diode&Cooh - Bonkers / Diode - Spoken Word (Signal Recordings) (2005)| 3.Odity&Cooh - Gnome Kill / Odity&Cooh - Dark Seeds (Signal Recordings) (2005)| 4.Odity&Cooh - Gnome Kill (GPK Remix) (Signal Recordings) (2005)| 5.Psychofreud&Sunjammer - Murda Dem /Cooh -Murda Dem(Bass Rejects) (2006)| 6.HARM * - Scary / HARM - Scary [Audio & Mackie Remix] (GAIN)(2006)| 7.Cooh - Remaker / Redeyes - Rivers Of Dub (TOV music) (2006)| 8.Here Comes The Trouble EP - Cooh - Meet Me (TOV music) (2006)| 9.Unfinished Business vol 2 EP - Cooh - Seen (TOV music) (2006)| 10.Cooh - Love In Cage / Cooh - Breath Stop (G2) (2006)| 11.Tomic & Barracuda - Kill ‘em all / Kill ‘em all (Cooh Remix) (G2) (2007)| 12.Cooh - Ganja Lighter / Cooh - Ganja DUB Lighter (Bass Rejects) (2007)| 13.GPK - Most Henious (Cooh&Odity RMX) (REAPA) (2007)| 14.Cooh - Dead Rock / Dead Rock (Audio RMX) (G2) (2007)| 15.Cooh - Armeny / Black Sun Empire - monologue (Obsessions) (2007)| 16.Cooh - Duuure / Ventil (Position Chrome) (2008)| 17.Cooh - Noisy Sneaker / evolution of mind EP / (Sinuous) (2008)| 18.Cooh - Be Blast / HARM - Head Stomp (PRSPCT) (2008)| 19.Woody McBride - Off The Ceiling [Raiden RMX] / [Cooh RMX] (Subsistenz) (2008)| 20.Cooh - Moth Machine LP (Position Chrome) (2008)| 21.Cooh - Record the Silence EP (Mentally Disturbed) (2008)| 22.Cooh - Trigrad / Cooh - Crypt (Obscene) (2009)| 23.Cooh - Adons (Temper D Productions) (2009)| 24.Cooh & Vengeanze - Infected / Love Control(HABIT) (2009)| 25.Cooh - Black Monday (Future Sickness) (2009)| 26.Cooh & Counterstrike - Computer Control (Counterstrike Recs) (2009)| 27.CV - Running (Cooh rmx) (Future Sickness) (2009)| 28.Cooh vs DVK - Off The Leash / Ones Bitter Twise Shy (Subsistenz) (2009)| 29.Dune - Hardcore Vibes (Cooh bootleg rmx) (Love recordings) (2009)| 30.Cooh - New Lay / Froger (LB) (2009)| 31.Cooh & Counterstrike - Blood And Steel (Prspct) (2009)| 32.Cooh - Sleepwalkers EP (Prspct) (2009)| 33.Counterstrike & Cooh - Fission (Mentally Disturbed) (2010)| 34.The Outside Agency & Cooh - Soul Keepers (One Seven Five) (2010) as Balkansky and Underhill: Balkansky - East Operation EP part 1 (Subtrakt)| Balkansky - Dubre (Subtrakt)| Current Value and Dean Rodell - Requiem (Balkansky remix) (Subtrakt)| Underhill - User Error (Subtrakt)| Underhil - Dead Foot (Subtrakt)| Temper D vs Balkansky - Clockwise EP (Rocstar) DIGITAL : Cooh&Vengeanze - Pussy Debra (Habit Digital)| Cooh - Stomana EP (Offkey Digital) | Cooh - Alord / Everdream (Subsistenz digital)| Temper D - Techno Prisoners (Cooh Remix) (TDP digital)| Temper D - Wankey Glasses (Balkansky remix) (Standart Audio)| Stephan Panev - You Can Loose Your Self Tonight (Balkansky Remix) (Hole)| Balkansky - Sundown (Subtrakt)| Balkansky - Deliverance EP (Subtrakt) Future releases ::| | forthcoming on (Habit) Cooh - Helmet, Silver Spoon, Bassteria (EP)| forthcoming on (Position Chrome) Naglfar EP | forthcoming on (Commercial Suicide) :: Cooh - Triler / Cooh - Obel | forthcoming on (Guerilla) Cooh & Silent Killer & Breaker - The Galaxian| forthcoming on (Prspct) The Panacea & Cooh - The Large Hadron Colider| forthcoming on (Prspct) Broken Note - Pyrotek (Cooh Remix)| forthcoming on (Prspct) The Sect & Cooh - Danger Nation| forthcoming on (Union) Ogonek&Cooh - Mindless / Cooh - Gerdan| forthcoming on (Synthwist) Cooh - Moscow / VTAKT| forthcoming on (Bass Rejects) :: Psychofreud - Bad Man / Bad Man (Cooh RMX) DUBSTEP : forthcoming on (Subtrakt):: Balkansky - East Operation EP part 2| | PROMO MIXES :| | 2009 Metal VS Drum And Bass mixed by Cooh : http://dnbshare.com/download/Cooh-MetalvsDrum_Bassmix.mp3.html 2009 Balkansky - Dubstep Promo Mix July 2009 : www.balkansky.bg 2009 Subsistenz Podcast - Cooh and MC Coppa : http://www.dnbshare.com/download/SubdivisionPodcastvol2CoohandMcCoppa.mp3.html 2008 Hard Knocks Of Dnb Promo Mix : http://cooh.hmsu.org/HARD%20KNOCKS%20PROMO%20MIX/| | 2008 Offkey Podcast - Cooh : http://feeds.feedburner.com/OffKey 2006 drum and bass promo mix : cooh.hmsu.org/promo_mix| |
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