Mad and Spectral (AM)
[House, Progrsv House, Electronica]

The formation of the DJ/Producer duo Mad and Spectral was the logical aftermath of the constant collaboration between two artists, Mad Dee Jay (born Ashot Babayan) and DJ Garry Spectrum (born Garry Mkrtchyan).

In 1998, being among the few pioneers of the Armenian electronic music underground, the two - still strangers at that point, started producing music separately: Mad was a co-founder and member of a pioneer electronica project X-PHOBOS, while Garry dropped beats under his alias of Spectrum. Ashot and Garry met during a radio-show in 1999, and soon became not only musical collaborators, but also good friends.

In the spring of 2006, musicians Garry Spectrum and Mad Dee Jay launched their long-awaited producer-duo - Mad and Spectral. Their production development activity can be divided into two main periods: during the first one, Mad and Spectral were concentrated strictly on house music, starting with such tracks as "Beautiful Dayz Of Our Life", "Pop-Porn", "Funk Above", "Sex Me Slow" and "Tomorrow".

By the end of December 2006, Mad and Spectral slowly started to fuse their sound with deep house, tech and progressive. The process went further till the middle of the next year, when finally, the duo's signature sound was shaped and became recognizable in any type of production - from house to progressive, from deep house to deep tech and minimal. Mad and Spectral also work under the alias of Salt Sweet, dropping deep tech/tech-house tunes, as well as Artificial Twins - an underground project which is concentrated on IDM, ambient and trip-hop production.

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