Promoter and DJ Seb Merrick has been a leading figure on the UK Balkan music scene, working with a diverse range of artists from Bulgarian extreme clarinet legend Ivo Papasov and party king Shantel to surrealist Romanian singer Ada Milea. He compiled the 2010 release Balkan Fever London (Green Queen Music). A one-time student of founding member of BEAST Pete Stollery, Seb has kept an ear open for the weird and wonderful in world music and is looking forward mixing it up at SOUNDKitchen. www.kazum.co.uk