During years playing on guitar in his own metal and punk projects Valeri Sholevski (born in Sofia, Bulgaria - 1981) started to travel deep into the electronic sound and techno logies...
In 2000 under the name "Invitro" and "Under Construction" he produced a lot of break beat, idm, funk tunes using sounds from oldskul classical records.
In 2001 he joined the organization "Art Place", (organization which unites underground electronic art and culture. Then he had made the first step on the scene b2b with Dj Hydrashock from "Digital Nightmares"- DNB organization in Sofia Bulgaria. His production became unique with the drum and bass sound which he promotes under the name Ogonek.
The same year with a group of young music producers and engineers (one of them is KiNK[http://www.discogs.com/artist/KiNK]) he created a label and promoting agency found in 2001 in Sofia under the "Porno BPM" [http://pbpm.net/] . Those days Porno BPM label unites and relese different electronic music styles - techno, acid, drum and bass, break beat and idm. Now without Ogonek Porno BPM continue releasing only techno and house stuff.
In 2002 came out the 1st Porno BPM artists LP release -promo CD including the tunes of Ogonek - "Wien02", "Chicken Heads [FF ver.]"
During this period Ogonek met COOH [http://www.myspace.com/coohbg] (Ivan Shopov) and together under the name OiC (Ogonek+COOH) they started to play in a deep basement clubs performing and promotingtheir music almost like jam sessions with a lot of live muscians. In those days they were plaiyng live with the bands Ambient Anarchist [BG][http://www.myspace.com/ambientanarchist] and the band now known as Auditory Ossicles[http://www.myspace.com/audoss] . Consequently Ogonek & Cooh put out a garage bootlegs: 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). With this Ogonek & COOH put a really important point for the bulgarian drum and bass scene development.
Ogonek & Cooh popularity grow bigger outside Bulgaria and Ogonek had been involved in the compilation "SKR001CD Various Artists - Eastern Sound Architects vol. 1: East-European Drum'n'Bass" released by SoundKraft Recordings - Romania with the tune : Ogonek - We'v Lost (SoundKraft Rec). Later he played in one of the most famous club - Fleda in Chechz Republic, also in Glaz'Art - France, Romania, Hungary, Germany and Industrial Copera club inSpain...
In 2005 the label Porno BPM released the two versions of the track "Dancing In The Rain" made it by Ogonek & Cooh feat. Megi: Ogonek & Cooh - Dancing In The Rain (Version 1) Featuring - Megi / Dancing In The Rain (Version 2) Featuring - Megi (pbpm.Net Records ) (pbpm_breaked001)
The same year ogonek joined and started to perform with the HMSU Drum And Bass organization (the biggest drum and bass promoters in Bulgaria organized more than 130 successful events and hosted some of the greatest talents of the worldwide drum and bass scene )[http://www.hmsu.org]. HMSU net label [http://www.hmsu.net] started and put out a promo - compilation with Bulgarian author tracks by Digital Soul (BG) , Kigami (BG) , Kink (BG) as well as Ogonek, Cooh: ogonek - Mashinite (The Machines) ogonek - Sleep And Listen In (in the dark)
Ogonek shows with HMSU and COOH continues till now.
Valeri Sholevski intensively entered the sphere of video montage and visualizations as in the middle of 2005 he produced the 1st video clip of OIC - "Let the music play" . By being put for free download the video gained popularity and success in the drum and bass society. At the end of 2005 OIC released the video of "Scared Of Dark" tune, vocally performed by the vocalist of the Neo Metal group Kuln[http://www.myspace.com/kuln]
In November 2008 together with dj "Mad Twist" Ogonek established METAFIZIQ Recordings [http://www.myspace.com/metafiziqrecordings]- a dnb label with unhuman power, starting with names like DUB ELEMENTS [Spain][http://www.myspace.com/dubelements], KIGAMI[Bulgaria][http://www.myspace.com/kigamidnb], DB [France][http://www.myspace.com/deebeemusic], DIGITAL SOUL [Bulgaria][http://www.myspace.com/digitalsouldrumnbass… Most of the ppl saying that the debute METAFIZIQ 2 X 12" EP – “Missing Particle” [MTFZ001] is breaking directly the physics theoryes of the universe… In 2009METAFIZIQ Recordings released the artists: C.V.I [Russia][http://www.myspace.com/cvidnb], KAIZA + SHOTS [Germany][http://www.myspace.com/kwazzzar]. Forthcoming METAFIZIQ artists in 2010 are: Venganza [Spain], COOH [Bulgaria], Gancher & Ruin [Russia], YMB [Holland], BLOCK DODGER [UK], UNKILLAZ [Russia], SFS [Russia]
Transglobal Underground; Jimi Tenor; East Sound Architectures (Bucharest - Romania), Subject13 and 1stDigital Wave; Hoodlum [UK]; Spree; JFB; Deekline & Dona Dee; Ed Solo; Ragga Twins; Dom & Roland; Goldie [UK] ; Dj Zen; TeeBee; Twisted Individual & Mc Biggie; DJ Vadim, Yarah Bravo, BLU RUM 13, Bongo Pete; Noizia; Psychofreud; The Sect, Dieselboy [USA], Bad Company [UK], Technical Itch [UK], Evol Intent [USA], Current Value [GER], Prode [RUS], Dylan [UK], Audio [UK], Panacea [GER], Raiden [EST], Gridlok [USA], LTJ Bukem [UK] & MC Conrad [UK] , Adam F [UK], Shy FX [UK], Bryan Gee & Mc Darrison [UK], Dillinja [UK], EZ Rollerz [UK], Dj Hazard [UK], Ray Keith [UK], Dj SS [UK], Future Prophecies [NOR], Zen [UK], Robyn Chaos [UK], Spor [UK], Pendulum [UK], Killa Kella [UK], Mc Skibadee [UK], Mc Shabba D [UK], MC 2SHY [UK], MC Tali [UK], Psychofreud [NOR] & MC Jamalski, Aaron Spectre [USA], Outrage [UK], Fanu [FIN], Nero [UK], Mutatet Forms [EST], Deadbeat [CAN], Theodosii Spassov [BG], Stoyan Yankoulov Quintette [BG], VIARA [BG], DarkoStepic [MK], Adam Strang [Noise Camp, AUT], Gvozd [RUS], DarkEast [RO], DB [FR], Spor, Syze, Counter Strike, Black Sun Empire, Jacky Murda, Kaiza, Nocturne, Gancher & Ruin, Zardonic, Masheen and many more....
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