The project Shades of Gray is the brainchild of Beef Records managers Michal Ruzicka (DJ Schwa) and Nick West. Founded at the end of 2006 the collaboration was developed to reflect Michal and Nick's diverse musical backgrounds and tastes.

Their first Vinyl release – Simplicity (released in 2007), drew attention from Djs and producers such as Hernan Cattaneo, D‐Nox, Nick and John Dalagelis, Pena, Guy J and more. Early in 2008, four of their tracks were picked up by PlusMinus label founder Juergen Driessen. These tracks were released on a 12′ vinyl and achieved great success reaching the top 10 of the Beatport tech house chart and #3 on decks.de vinyl sales chart.

Shades have also shown a talent for remixing. Already cutting edits for some of the bigger names in the business including Ramon Tapia, Moonbeam and Deepchild. This has also been reciprocated with some great remixes by the likes of Alex Kenji, MOS, Hirtenfellner and Moonbeam to name a few.
Now Shades of Gray are back on track with "Projections" and "Time". Supported with remixes by Dan Drastic and Uone.

supported by Axilleas Dimitracopoulos, Baunder, Stephan Bodzin, Pierce, Dan Drastic, Daniel Bruns, Deepchild, DJ Wehbba, Harada,Anthony Collins, Jan Schmidhofer, Markus Wesen, Michal Ruzicka, BEEF records, Oliver Klein, Patrick Zigon, Tom Wax, Uone, YokoO, Flow&Zeo, Ramon Tapia, Kolombo

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