So first question would have to be about how you guys met?

Well Sandy Turnbull a DJ from Sheffield, and great guy, gave me a demo of Nyra’s to listen to as I run my own label called Breakoutaudio. I went onto sign the track and I was playing my own edit of it at Sankeys in August 2008 when a great friend and promoter from Sankeys at the time, Jon McManus, persuaded David Vincent the owner of Sankeys to let me play with Steve Lawler one night when Greg Vickers was away djing in Brazil, I played the track and Steve Lawler was immediately interested in signing it, he asked both me and Nyra to do a remix for his Livio & Roby release of ‘Return Of The Jack’ on VIVa. That led to us being signed exclusively to Steve Lawler’s label. So it’s a combination of fate and also thanks to Sandy & Jon really that we had been given the opportunity to prove to Steve Lawler who gave us the chance to get ourselves out there and be heard.

How does it work in the studio between the two of you?

Well we both use completely different methods of production. I am very old skool using hardware and old skool software, Nyra uses Logic, but we both discuss what style we are gonna work on, then we find elements we wanna work with and one will work on the bass, the other on drums and the lead, then we sit and sequence together. It can get fiery but believe me I wouldn’t have it any other way, being passionate about anything always gets you the best results

Where is the best country you have visited to DJ?

There are so many great crowds out there, Moscow was amazing, but Toronto in Canada had a great clued up scene!

How was 2009 for the two of you?

Amazing, we travellled abroad to dj about ten times, we signed tracks to loads of top labels, we hit beatport top 10 a couple of times, was asked by Nic Fanciulli to do a guestmix for his worldwide sounds show, got remix request after remix request and have had so many people we would have never otherwise been in contact with from around the world contact us on Myspace and Facebook saying how much they love our music. Its all about the music, and that makes it worthwhile, to hear Steve Lawler praise us is fantastic too, I spoke with Steve last week and he said he mentioned us in 3 interviews on that day alone, so things couldn’t be better really. We have also signed two tracks to Lauhaus & Kabale's new label called WeDig.Music that will start in a couple of months

What do you think we should look forward to in 2010?
With regards to what? Us as a duo? Well we are playing in Miami Winter Music Conference at the massive VIVa party, plus looks like we will be doing a festival in Amsterdam over the summer, and loads more gigs wise, production wise. To follow our top ten Beatport hit ‘Luis Conte’ we have just done a remix for VIVa that will be out soon, we are remixing Paolo Mojo for Noir music, plus we have stuff coming out on American Blockhead recordings as well as loads more stuff.

What are your biggest 3 tracks of the last year?
Sorry no way we can answer this question, too many good tracks, Horacio, Mihai Popoviciu, Lauhaus, Julien Chaptal, and many many more producers out there have been knocking out amazing tracks, was a great year. Finally seeing the end of that nonsense minimal ketamine music and bringing back REAL house music, so cant just name three tracks, we could give you 20 top tracks of 2009 and still that wouldn’t cover the great tracks of 2009.

What do you both still aspire to?

To be happy doing what we do, its not about being a superstar, happiness isn’t measured by fame or money, its about being happy and getting to do what you are passionate about. That’s the attitude we apply when we make music or DJ and its what makes us get great results, but its not something you can force, that attitude has to come from the heart, some people don’t understand that and want the fame and money first and they will never be happy and I guess music is an art form and comes from the heart so I hope our attitude comes out in our music

How has your sound developed?

House music house music house music! Keep it house music and don’t follow trends, that’s the best way to develop, house music evolves but the main core of it should stay house music and its only when you jump on a bandwagon and follow trends that you will end up being pigeon holed when that ‘trend’ gets a backlash. Good house music from 1995 still features in our sets, that’s how we work and its great we are on the same wavelength otherwise I guess it wouldn’t work.

They say two’s company, three is a crowd but if someone else were to join you in the studio who would it be?

Any live musician who we can work with and add a real element to our music. We would write the music and they would play it. As for other producers there are loads we would like to do a one off with, collaborations are great

How did you get involved in Viva Music?

As I said before, I was playing at sankeys in august 2008 when a great friend and promoter from sankeys at the time Jon McManus persuaded David Vincent the owner of sankeys to let me play with Steve Lawler one night when the resident Greg Vickers was away djing in Brazil, I played a great set before Steve and his tour manager said that was one of the best sets anyone has played for a while before Steve comes on Then I also played my own edit of Nyra’s tongue track on breakoutaudio, Steve loved it and asked for the cd, he played it at space in Ibiza the following day and then emailed saying can we do a remix similar for the Livio & Roby track Return Of The Jack’ on VIVa. Steve Lawler loved that too and then asked us for an original. It was our osasuna and karaj tracks, that he absolutely loved. Then Steve called to say the new VIVa was ready to go but we had just made it in time to be the very last artists to be offered a contract on the label as exclusive artists, so it was great timing.

Are you guys going to Miami this year?

Yes we play 3 gigs out there, the biggest being VIVa Music @ Space MIAMI WMC 2010Thurs 25th March, the line up is insane!
Steve LAWLER / M.A.N.D.Y / Tiefschwarz / Radioslave
Joris Voorn / Timo Mass / Mathias Tanzmann / Hugo
2000 & One / Konrad black / David K / ME & Nyra
Leon / Sean Miller

Then we also play a secret villa party with Lauhaus, Kabale Und Liebe, Coyu and loads more! And then another gig is almost finalised! Its gonna be great to play with so many top DJ’s at such good parties

Any hobbies away from music?

I paint a lot, I have sold a few paintings and when i as younger I won a national competition coming first with over 27,000 entries. I am also really passionate about food and cooking. I also love sport, playing tennis and football, its really hard to fit it all in but life is never boring! Nyra loves snowboarding and when he can goes away to do it.