"Shiva's love of music was sealed at an extremely early age when at 6yrs old, she started piano lessons, quickly becoming a classically trained pianist, with concerts under her belt by age of 10. She had no choice: coming from a family of musicians, she expanded her musical spectrum very wide and after 10yrs of studying in a conservatory, including dabbling with acoustic guitar, she moved on to become a jazz singer, singing in several lounges around Europe. At 23, Shiva was discovered for her external beauty and became a model, soon hitting the international scene in a very strong way. Her collaboration with world designers such as Valentino, Versace, Armani, Dior, Gucci, JP Gaultier, Elie Saab, Zuhair Mrad among others put her on the forefront of the modeling industry in Europe and especially in the Middle East.

Having left her birth home of Romania, Shiva fell in love and adopted her new city and country: Beirut, Lebanon. It is here where her modeling career flourished for several years but her love and need for music never died. Being immersed in the small and underground electronic music scene in Lebanon and Middle East, Shiva (real name Loredana aka Lory) sought out to become an important part of it and used her skills and talents in music to teach herself the art of DJing. Since the last few years, Shiva has been DJing in most of the local underground clubs in Lebanon. Spinning mainly progressive (dark) genre, she has performed with several top names dj/producers such as Fred Numf, Marco V, Andy Moor, Chris Lake, Tiesto, Max Graham, Topo, Denchev, Kintar and A. Pappa among others.

In 2007 Shiva hosted the show "Mistress of Sound" on the most listened to FM radio station in Lebanon, Radio One. While marking the progressive house scene, Shiva paved the way to another project by hosting the internet show "Preserve The Essence" on MCast. Moreover, in 2008 she teamed up with fellow artist Rasti Tkac by co-hosting "RitualSounds" on friskyRadio; She has also started producing her own EDM tracks... "

http://www.myspace.com/shiva_deejay

Born in Slovakia in 1978 into traditional musician family, Rasti Tkac grows up strongly influenced by music. Very early, he begins learning classical piano and music theory, already at age 5. After 1989, when his country opened its borders to the cultural variety of the world, he discovered a passion for electronic music. From the sound of Depeche Mode through the darker paths of E.B.M, Rasti found his way to club music, especially its progressive forms, with its fusion of groovy rhythms and emotional atmospheres and vocals. After high school, Rasti was desperate to express his own thoughts and emotions through the language of music. However, with a weak technical background, he couldn’t do much more than listen to other productions. Then, in 1998, a chance encounter led Rasti to cross paths with Tomas Haverlik, with whom he started to discover the path of computer-based production. Their experiments were the foundation for what would become the duo Tkac & Haverlik. 2001 was the breakthrough year for Rasti and Tomas, with the release of Tomas’ Hannah with Rasti’s remix on the B side. Their next productions — Tyra, Synthia, and Noel — were released by legendary progressive-house label Baroque Records, earning Rasti and Tomas the respect of the scene. A slew of remix work soon followed. Since 2005, Rasti is taking a break from the Tkac & Haverlik partnership to pursue solo projects while also playing DJ gigs throughout Europe. 2007 sees him debuting on Toes in the Sand, with the Sparkling Inspiration release coming out during WMC 2007. With his solo debut, Rasti proves that he is a guarantee for top quality progressive music. In 2008 Rasti takes his chance and starts his monthly show — Equilibrium — on the prestigious internet radio Pure.FM, where he presents his selection of best progressive music. Early in the year he also continues his production activity and works on remix for new-breed Hungarian label SoundTribe and prepares material for his new-born partnership with steeply rising, progressive essence preserving, Argentinean label Sudam.

http://www.myspace.com/rastitkac