Through his radio work Andi recently won Bronze Award for ‘The Music Broadcaster Of The Year’ in the Sony Radio Academy Awards, falling behind Radio 1’s Colin Murray & Steve Lamacq whilst beating Jo Whiley. The pair’s hectic DJ Diary sees them tour the world with gigs taking them across Russia, Asia, Europe and USA regularly rocking clubs like Cream, Godskitchen, Slinky, Passion Goodgreef, Judgement Sunday and their diverse play list sees them booked them alongside the likes of Tiësto, Sasha and Pete Tong.

Both artists have strong musical backgrounds (between them, classically trained in piano, keyboards, violin, and drums) and early on the decision was to focus on their own production. Working out of a tiny bedroom studio in Andi’s flat, their first track ‘Candesco’ (featured on this album) was a true trance anthem, picked up by the biggest DJ in the world – Tiësto and was a highlight of his record-breaking first 25,000 capacity ‘Tiësto In Concert’ show in Holland. Following this the remix work came flooding in and names that have been under the Riley & Durrant knife include Way Out West, Sinead O’Connor and Armin Van Buuren.

2006 saw the guys take a step back from remix work and take time to focus on their debut artist album ‘Research & Development’. Stripping their sound back to basics they teamed up with a variety of hot singers, songwriters, musicians and engineers from scenes as varied as folk, indie, house, minimal, trance and electro making their first album impossible to pigeon hole without losing their unique sound. It’s the same combination of electronic beats, big basslines, melancholic vocals, guitars, synths and strings that you’ll hear in a Riley & Durrant DJ set, but carefully brought together to create something that works as well in the club as it does on a Sunday afternoon.