Maxim Donskoi and Levi Verspeek are both hailing from Amsterdam. They bonded over their mutual love for intricate and layered house music and started producing tracks together under their Makcim and Levi moniker. Soon they found out that Makcim's strong musical vision and Levi's productional finesse make for a combatant combination of ideals that resulted in the Daan de Pup EP