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Growing up in London, James Ruskin comes from a background that first put him in touch with hip hop and electro and later with the emerging Detroit techno scenes. This inspired him to become a dj. in '91 and venture into production with studio-partner Richard Polson by '94. It wasn't until '96 though that he developed his own sound by building his own studio and starting Blueprint Records the home of his first true record -First Contact- under the name of Outline.

In the meantime James Ruskin was also travelling the world as a dj. From New York to Singapore and from Barcelona to a bi-monthly residency at Tresor in Berlin, he gathered a lot of information about music in different cultures and used them to further develop the sounds of his own imprint Blueprint. He also found a powerful connection with Oliver Ho with whom he made the second track on the label and still continues to work. As the reputation of Blueprint grew stronger, he delivered his first solo releases and appeared also elsewhere as remixer and co-producer.

It was his debut-album -Further Design- that propelled his status as one of the Uk techno scene leading lights. His records are played by the biggest names as Jeff Mills, Dave Clarke, Surgeon, Claude Young and many others. With his follow up in 2000 he ventures away from the Blueprint familiarity and creates a new project with it's own identity. -Point2- serves its role on both the dancefloor and at home as a design for living: listenable blueprints for biography.

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Isu alias István Kántor received his first Jacko casette when he was eight. This way Bad was his first experience with black, electronic music. From this time his pocketmoney was spended on the increasing of his casette collection. In elementary school he organised tiny parties, where he played early industrial, techno, EBM and Depeche Mode tracks. At secondary school he met Kalt and Dexter collegues, with them he right away became a vinyljunkie. During this time they were cruising around the electronic parties of Budapest’s night. In his years of civilian service from 1998 he had been working at Tilos Radio as a technician for 3 years. After 6 months of the service he started to play at Tilos Radio parties, and Tizso offered him an hour in the Radio’s broadcast, weekly on Sunday dawns. For now he has his own 3 hours show at the radio every Saturday night to Sunday morning. Then he started to work for I&I recordstore where he took care of, moved, booked and sold the vinyls until the store closed down. Since then he continues this activity, for now he runs Akt records with a friend Arnold by themselves, which has became a meeting point for minimalists in the town. He was the first to run Tilos’s club Saigon then as the most active member of the group minimalheadz he took possession of Club Desperados for ELECTRO music. From 2000 to 2005 minimalheadz crew organised parties with among others Dj Assault, Godfather, Matthew Herbert, Brian Aneurysm, Mr De, AJ McGhee and so on. The biggest project was Labyrinth under the Buda Castle which has became an intercontinental party area realized by Tégla and him. Later on in 2005 he found common thoughts about minimal music with Crimson and Chrom so they started a club series, namely Lick the Click. For the events several fine minimal artists were invited, like Butane, Matthias Tanzmann, Jeff Samuel, Someone Else etc.
The intensity of his love to music is shown every time in his sets, and maybe in the future it will appear in an other way.