Andy Ward
I like machines. When I was a kid, I used to take apart any old electronics equipment I could get my hands on. But there's only so much you can do with a bunch of old radio parts. So one day we purchased an old Commodore 64 computer. The games for it were so terrible that it was just as much fun to write your own, so I started programming. When we moved up to an IBM, I moved on to BASIC and ZZT-OOP for writing game scores. (read more)

Dres
Almost every DJ comes from humble beginnings, and Dres is a perfect example of this. Born in Bogota, Colombia in 1978, Andres Escallon grew up surrounded by the sounds and rhythms of traditional Colombian music. His father, an avid music collector, helped expand Dres's tastes by exposing him to everything from classic rock, punk, new wave and british synth pop. It's these sounds that helped forge Dres's love for music at a very young age. (read more)