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Jamie Woon (born March 29, 1983) is a British singer, songwriter and producer signed to Polydor who gained widespread acclaim in 2010 for his single Night Air, following his previous independent release, Wayfaring Stranger Ep.

The son of Celtic folk singer and backing artist Mae McKenna, he was born and raised in New Malden in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. He was educated at Sacred Heart RC Primary School (New Malden), S.T Catherines RC Middle School (Raynes Park) & Wimbledon College (Wimbledon). He later attended the BRIT School, where he graduated the year before Amy Winehouse, whom he later supported live.
Woon’s sound and style is presently described as soul inflected vocals backed by samplers and programming, or a single guitar track. He describes his music as “… R&B, it’s groove-based vocal-led music …”.

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Vittorio Waxman spent his early years in Italy demoralizing the enemy with his analogue sonic weapon armada, following which, after the break down of the Iron Curtain he returned to his native Budapest and became one of the definite pioneering djs especially well-known for his gigs in duo featuring the godfather of Turkish soul - Dj Soultan, with whom they remained to be the best known duo playing hilarious soul-funk-disco from the 70-ies America homed by the Daddy’s Favourite nights.

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Thanks to momentous tunes such as Inner City Life, Warhead, or Friday, Mentalien got introduced to drum & bass when he was thirteen, but only got addicted around the millenery whe he felt in love with the genre. He purchased his first records around the same time when liquid funk was borned, and since then the subgenre has an important role in his musical taste, but as a huge music fan, he always keeps his eye on several styles, like hip-hop, broken beats, house and techno or jazz.

After a few local gigs and guest appearances on Hungary's well known radio station called Est FM, he joined the 3Elements' group self-titled radioshow in his hometown. However the two hour slot proved to be short for four-five DJ's, so the idea of Mentalien's own show, 3K was born, which was on air on every Sunday for more than four years. Over these years many talented hungarian DJ's has been on the show and a few international guests aswell, and of course the showrunner himself proved his diverse taste of drum&bass and other music styles many times. In the beginning of 2008 Mentalien decided to finish his succesful show for several reasons. He felt like it's better to end it in a good phase.

Besides the radioshow, he started playing on gigs too on the countryside (Debrecen, Szeged, Kecskemet, Szolnok, Sopron, Szekesfehervar, etc) and in Budapest on events promoted by Bladerunnaz, Drum Club, Different Drum, ImpulseCreator and Sound-O-Phonics. He played alongside not only the main hungarian DJ's, but with acclaimed international artists, such as TC1 & Stress Level, Redeyes, Craggz & Parallel Forces, Brooklyn, Q Project, DJ Lee, ASC, Fracture and Universal Project. Concentrating on his crowd, most of his selection comes from dancefloor oriented liquid with a few heavier tracks, but sometimes he likes to push his boundaries and pick some unexpected or leftfield tunes. Besides spinning records, he's producing occasionally, in which the main man of ImpulseCreator, ICR has helped him collaborating with him for a few tracks. Since 2004 Mentalien takes part in the hungarian scene as a journalist and editor too, writing articles, interviews and reviews for drumandbass.hu.

He is mainly influenced by the earlier music of the stlye that Hospital Records is reknowned for. His musical palette is getting always more and more colorful: on the smoother side of dnb he favours artists like Random Movement, Danny Byrd or Nu:Tone; and when it comes to the heavier sound, he always has room to the jump up/liquid crossover TC and Heist records. In the last few years he decided to stop concentrating on drum&bass only, and tried himself in other genres like deep house or uk garage as a DJ.

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From his skateboarding background he grew up listening to his dad's rock and metal vinyls. The soundtrack to the movie "Judgement night" made him an enormous hiphop fan. From just collecting vinyl, got to the point that in 2001 he got invited to Hungary's infamous underground (sometimes pirate) radio the „Tilos” and made his own show. He was a contender in major international remix and mix contests and achieved remarkable positions. In 2004 he formed Memo Records with a childhood friend. They released an album in the fields of hiphop, triphop, downtempo. Around that time, he hosted Budapest's only open mic night Grab The Mic, for 3 years every week with fellow hiphop veteran Györemix!. Recently he joinded the crew Goodfellaz, formed by longtime friends. Nowadays his musical spectrum widened to nearly all electronic music genre with the urban influence. As a DJ he shared stage with international acts like Rza, Gza, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Mos Def, B Real, The Glitch Mob, Blu Daisy Appleblim, Mosca, Girl Unit, Pearson Sound, Dj Format, First Rate just to name a few. He is a decisive element in the underground club scene in Budapest and the countryside also, and has been asked for several gigs outside the country.