Davip (Ilgiz Shamsiev) is recognized as the most successful and productive drum & bass/breaks producers from the Former Soviet Union. Davip has 16 vinyl releases on the best electronic music labels behind his back, as well as over 30 digital labels and CD compilations.
2010 was a real breakthrough year for Ilgiz, when his twelve inch, Ignition/Level Up came out on the cult Hardcore Beats UK label (with Ignition remix by a dubstep act Bare Noize on the filpside). The same year tracks called Vamonos/High Technology (featuring Encode) saw the light through the famous drum & bass imprint Breed 12 Inches (sublabel of Lifted Music). Both records took Beatport, Chemical Records, Juno and many other charts by storm: Vamonos #1, High Technology #9, Ignition #2, Level Up #5, Ignition (Bare Noize Remix) #2
In 2011 Hardcore Beats released a new Davip masterpiece entitled Brick EP, which repeated the Ignition/Level Up success. A UK magazine Mixmag gave the release 5/5, making Brick the track of the month.
In January 2012 two massive releases followed: a drum & bass one called Vertigo/Massacre on Mainframe Recordings and a breaks record Crash!/Sistema on Hardcore Beats UK.
After that his long list of productions have won support and praise from the some of the biggest names in bass. Downlink, Excision, Spor, Calyx & Teebee and Noisia are all fans.
Davip is a resident of the labels: Invisible Recordings, AYRA, Uplink Audio, Hardcore Beats, Breed 12 Inches, Mainframe.
In the past had released remixes and original tracks for Rottun (CA), Sub Slayers (UK), Rocstar (UK), Sony Music (UK), AYRA (Hu), XSSR (Ru), Subtribe (Ru), Cut & Run, Malpractice, IBWT (Ru), Recorta Y Pega (ES), Fall Out, Ammunition (USA), Don’t Panic (UA), Big Riddim (USA), Downbeat (USA) and others.
