History Adam Kershen and Soha Radjpoust first met in junior high school and began jamming together and playing music in local bands. Kershen began working with studio equipment and discovered a talent for creating electronic music. Radjpoust trained on multiple instruments and pursued composing and writing his own songs and music. He graduated from
Humber College's Jazz Music program specializing in piano. The duo teamed up in 2006 to begin working on original progressive house tracks. Their 2007 release "Twilight" became their most successful single. The single peaked at #2 on the
Beatport Top 100 chart and being named an "Essential New Tune" by
BBC Radio 1's
Pete Tong. A nomination for Best Progressive House Artist followed at the 2009 Beatport Music Awards as did a period of remix work for artists including "4 AM" - Kaskade, "Come Fly Away" - Benny Benassi, "
Loneliness" - Tomcraft, "From The Speaker" - Mark Knight. More singles followed including "Long Distance", "Questions EP", "Save Us Now EP" and "Circadian Rhythm". In 2013 the duo took a break from collaborating and took time to pursue their own sounds and ideas. They reunited in 2016 after seeing the positive reaction to re-posts of some of their past work on social media outlets.
Musical style and influences Much of the group's work is in the style of melodic progressive house, and their influences in electronic music include
BT,
Daft Punk, and Tiesto. Adam is a studio engineer and played drums in several local bands during high school. Soha has been playing professionally since age 15 and is a musician in the genres of
jazz,
blues,
funk,
soul and
rock. He is versed in traditional
Persian instruments and he acknowledges his heritage as a key influence on his melodies and songwriting. ==Members==