All the best London producers have their roots in the warehouse and house party scenes. But even in the early days of the Cheshire Catz, Jon Blond and Dan Gerrett were doing something that little bit more out there than their contemporaries. Like the early "Cheshire Street sessions" after which the Catz were named - a set of parties that had to be finally abandoned when NYE 2004 saw an insane 1500 people crammed into four flats across a shared rooftop terrace. Or "At Night", a set of six parties that eschewed the typical London warehouse approach of minimal music and decoration and maximum attitude - in favour of rocking the guts out of a set of secret, dressed up locations...

But that approach got the Catz noticed. In 2004 they were made "Mixmag Future Heroes" and from there it was onward and upward. The Catz were picked to close the second room at one of the world's best-known clubs, Ministry of Sound, NYE 2005 and the final night of Nastydirtysexmusic, what had been London's hottest party the year before. They delivered a four-decks-n-fx set so blistering that it lead to a new residency at the next night by Nastydirty founder Tim Sheridan, the famously crazed Veryveryverywrongindeed afterparties, as well as regular slots at Turnmills, Ministry, Egg, the End, Canvas and the Cross. Then there were the gigs at key UK nights - Playtime, Together, Riot, Play, Heat, Twisted, The Gallery, and Koko, Brixton Academy and Neighbourhood amongst others - not to mention regularly presenting shows on Ministry Radio and recent tours to France, Canada and Denmark, and now a new residency at GEEK, the only London night for beatport.com, the world's biggest dance-music download site.

And at the same time, they've hammered out a new career in production. Starting with labels like Berwick Street ('The Drop', 'Dunewalker', 'Squeal' and Radio One Essential new tune 'Discotech'), Whoop! Records ('Electronic / Doctor Acid') and FAKT Recordings - a joint label project fronted by the Catz - (tracks such as 'Wide Awake', 'Ringshifter' - licensed to 7 compilations - and 'Battlecat'), as well as remixes on Black Van US and Ninja Tunes (Coldcut's 'Walk a mile'), the Catz are now launching a new label CatzMuzik, with first tracks due early this year. Raves for their sound - a new, stripped-back wonky electronic sound that is carving out its own place in the London scene - include DJs as varied as Sasha, Claude Von Stroke, Tim Sheridan, Mike Monday, Ralph Lawson, Steve Lawler, David Duriez, Tom Neville, Nic Faniculli, James Zabiela, Funk D'Void, Tom Middleton, Tom Stephan, Sebastien Leger, Audiofly, Gabriel & Dresden, Audiofly, Trente Cantrelle, and Radioslave.

Not bad for two guys who started out just playing for mates at a house party. And it gets better: in 2007, the Catz have been asked to join the touring roster for Electronik, a new night where music-industry legend John Acquaviva picks the best new up-and-coming producers and plays with them round Europe, starting with Ibiza, mainland Spain, Latin America, Italy and the UK. There's an EP due out on Playtime Records, Candiru/Music Box, as well as more tracks on Catzmuzik, Berwick St, FAKT, a second French tour, NYC and Russia gigs in spring in addition to an already full diary of UK gigs and the GEEK residency. Plus in late 2007, the first Catz compilation, Wonkytech...