DJ Dus

Since he turned 17 (1989) Zvonimir Dusper, better known as Dus or DJ Dus,  has been working as a programmer, arranger and keyboard player, gradually developing those and other skills, such as song writting, guitar and percussion playing, sound engineering and producing. Together with his knowledge of informatics and computer sciences and interest in modern music production methods, this has led him to become one of the most wanted Croatian music producers in mid 90s. Throughout this period and later on he has been involved in practicly all styles of music and all phazes of music production and performance.

In 1996 he has started a collaboration with Eddy Ramich which resulted in an exclusive artist agreement with French club-music record company Penso Positivo.  For them Penso he co-produced the LP Eddy&Dus: High Life (1999, highly acclaimed in all relevant UK club music magazines). As a part of it’s promotion Eddy&Dus performed at the Glastonbury festival (2000, Dance Tent).

Since then he has co-produced or produced a number of remixes and songs for various international and domestic artists and different labels. The Eddy&Dus remix of Les Gammas song “Outra vida” (Compost rec.) has hit the tops of German club charts (summer 2002). Dus has also co-produced and produced remixes for Nicola Conte (Schema), Hajime Yoshisawa (Especial), Dzihan&Kamien (Couch rec.), Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Lillian Terry (Mo Smog), Miguel Migs, DJ Chus (Black Vinyl), Zeljko Kerleta (Cosmic sounds) and others.

From 1999 till 2003 he was a founding participant of an urban culture project named Kontrapunkt, based around a residence on Sundays at Aquarius. As a part of their activities, people around Kontrapunkt  have organised three festivals titled Future Jazz festival Kontrapunkt that presented some of the most sophisticated club/nu jazz music artists to more than 9000 music lovers. Festivals included, they had over 50 foreign guests in 36 months, (some of them being Azymuth, Les Hommes with Rosalia De Souza, Victor Davies, Jessica Lauren, Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, Da Lata, Beanfield, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Dzihan&Kamien, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Gotan Project, Reiner Trueby etc.).

In 2004. Dus started to work as a producer and creative manager for the croatian office of IDM music, a New York based company representing EMI, Kobalt, Bug, Beggars Group, Peer, Bixio, IRMA and other publishing companies for the ex-Yugoslavian territory, with domestic clients such as RTL Croatia, Nova TV, T Com, VIP Net and others (www.idmmusic.com).

2009. brought him a chance to try himself as a manager, as he was hired to direct and manage a new content and new media oriented company, Tom Tom Music.

In 2010. DJ Dus re-activated his DJ/club-music producer career with his funny new floor-filler – “Funny Little Song”.