Famous philanthropist Glubenkian's home country of Armenia was where, in 1975, an art lover by the name of Vahagn Voskerchyan was born. He now resides in Lisbon, Portugal, for over 15 years, living through his passion for music and good times.

Vahagn spent his entire childhood surrounded by musical instruments, something that was pivotal in his process to inspire music with his every breath. The opportunity to do so came when, after a period as a television producer in Armenia, he settled in Portugal to open up a recording studio upon graduating on a degree of Management.

Shortly after, he founded the label Music Mob, a small editorial business where he broke such important portuguese projects as Balla, Tora Tora Big Band or Telépathique - in the first half of the two-thousands. While this went on, he became addicted to the time he spent on DJ booths, and it's now been eight years since he has played regularly in clubs and bars across Portugal. Music Mob parties where something Vahagn loved to do, and they would have stars the likes of Idjut Boys, Putsch 79, Prins Thomas, Muallem and many others.

The last chapter on his musical quest got underway when in the last few years Vahagn closed the door on his past with Music Mob and decided to make his own music. He has since been methodically writing and producing music from that moment onward... as a composer and producer, Vahagn became a specialist in classic harmonies, which reflect a mixed universe, somewhere between classic Chicago House and Detroit Techno, up to Jazzfunk and even Dub. This reflects a very particular sound texture, all his own, that crossed the profoundly electronic with the profoundly acoustic... in the intersection of these two languages it's impossible not to take heed of a strong and emotional heart, that lurks behind a sincere sort of creativity. That is the way of Vahagn Voskerchyan.

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Infestus is the creative persona of Luís Pinto, a young musician hailing from Lisbon.

He started out as a beat-maker, producing hip-hop instrumentals for local rappers, who would label his beats as "strange electronic shit". After a while, tired of being seen as an odd beat-maker, he discovered dub music, and started exploring the alchemy of using studio effects as a creative process. For a couple of years he spent his time producing "dub-hop" gems in his bedroom, being occasionally invited to collaborate in a live experimental project called Volte-Face, in which he was responsible for the musical part, trough a laptop and midi controller setup.

One day at a Volte-Face performance opportunity knocked. He did his first dj set ever and from that point on he would always warm up the crowd. It didn’t take too long to start being invited to other events under his own name. The quest to make people dance led him play other genres in his sets like dub-techno, discoid dub and dubstep, and from that he went on to discover 2-step garage, rave and acid-house, never forgetting his hip-hop upbringing.

Early 2010 he founded the Circus Maximus collective with other people he'd been working with, aiming to bring all of his projects together. In that same year he was selected to participate in Red Bull Music Academy London, a two week event that changed his life forever. He's now producing hard, buying more records than ever and learning to perfect his music, pretty much influenced by his peers and great ancient masters of dance music history.

Infestus is currently finishing his debut for Groovement. He makes part of the label's upcoming generation.