Now at the age of his early twenties and experiencing his very first steps in mixing only in the middle of 2005, Shadow full name Andrew Franke is building an enormous bio in just a glimpse of time.
Influnced by many names, it all started by experimenting in his room in the summer of 2005 with his own first set of equipment. Soon he earned his radio show, guest mixes and public appearances in just few months time. The beginning of 2006 found him winner of the "Best Newcomer Dj of the year" voted from the clubbers all over Cyprus.
The year 2007 started of with even better surprises. The official Cyprus Dj Poll found him landing right in the second place making him the runner up electronic dj on the island and the leader Dj in his own genre and style, gaining support from people all over the country. To date, he has played alongside with artists like Paul Oakenfoald, several times with Solarstone, M.I.K.E (Push), Kuffdam & Plant, Martin Roth, Jon O Bir, John O Callaghan, Matt Hardwick, Marc Van Linden, Hydroid, Amadeus, Rowan Blades, Rui Da Silva and the list goes on...
His weekly radio show Dance Vibes, hosted by MixFM Cyprus And Danceradio Greece, has ranked as of one of the most favourite local electronic radio shows, draging more and more fans during time. The latest and finest in progressive, electro, trance and any other genre, perfectly combined into a one hour journey, offer listeners a new different experience every week. Allso, exclusive guest mixes from hidden and well known top talents all over the globe hit the airwaves of his show on an often basis.
Now, by blending different styles of electronic music he has formulated his own unique style, widely taged as progressive trance with a mixture of many other genres and subgenres of dance music. Spining in every city of Cyprus, in the best club venues of the country, covering almost every corner of the island with his sounds and with past and future gigs in venues of countries of the middle east and europe, hosting shows and his weekly radio show on the bigest international radio stations such as Danceradio.gr, MixFM radio, ETN.fm, Party107.com, Sensegenerate.fm, to name a few and spending many hours in the studio transforming his own style into his own music productions, the limit is still out of reach.
