d-phrag

d-phrag (aka Ivan Filipov) was born in Bulgaria. Although he has no formal musical education, music always has been an important part of his life. His affection for electronic music dates back to 2002 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. Since 2008 d-phrag co-hosts Immersed with his young colleague Plamen K. They also started a collaboration as a DJ duo, playing on various events in Bulgaria. 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 d-phrag has been invited to play abroad and he has few very successful gigs in Ukraine and Belarus.
d-phrag also has been featured with exclusive mixsets on almost every electronic music internet and FM radio stations.
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.