Alek Szahala represents the first wave of FINRG. During his music production career, he has toured on four continents and left behind over 50 releases. Alek has played live PAs in numerous well-acknowledged international electronic music events on the same stages with several respected hard dance and hardcore DJs and acts, including Proteus, Lab-4, Gammer, Chris Liberator, Lisa Lashes and Angerfist. Some of his first vinyl releases, ”Man Eaten”, ”Caballo” and ”Tlaloc”, which all featured recognizable characteristics of Alek’s early signature sound, quickly gained him some recognition also in the international scene. By the end of 2004 Alek had already performed live PAs in well-established Finnish hard dance events, and made his debut performance in the UK. Alek’s tracks such as “Darkstar”, which had been featured as an epitome of Freeform in Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic music at DI.FM, “Lumi”, “Unholy Word”, “Dryad Machine” and “Maruuk” reached the hard dance and rave communities all over the world. Alek’s music was particularly well received in Australia, where he did his first overseas tour in 2005. He performed at clubs in Melbourne and Adelaide, a hardcore hall party “Godspeed” in Sydney, and headlined the Mayhem Electronic Music Festival in Brisbane. As of now, Alek Szahala has one of the longer track records in terms of physical releases and live performances among Finnish hard dance artists in the past two decades.