Dan Creasy and Nikos Kalogerias[1] (Daniel John Creasy and Nikolaos Kalogerias[2]) met via mutual friends who were running a club in Zakynthos where Kalogerias was from. They completed a summer season together[3] before forming a duo together the following year.[4] They played mash-up sets for several years; one of their mash-ups, of Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" and Bicep's "Glue",[5] caught the attention of Relentless Records, who signed them.[3] In 2021, the pair released "Everything", which samples Donna Lewis' "I Love You Always Forever";[6] the pair opted to sample the record after playing the song at the end of one of their DJ sets, and deciding to do something with it.[7] The song was used in the opening scene of the first episode of the seventh series of Love Island, which caused its Spotify streams to increase by 185 percent.[8]
In 2023, having previously released several mashups using "Children" by Robert Miles, the pair released "React", a collaboration with Ella Henderson, which heavily sampled the song.[3] The song charted at No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart[9] and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry.[10] The song was in the charts at the same time as "Closer" by Bou featuring Slay,[11] which also sampled "Children",[12] and became popular at a time when sampling 1990s hits had become the norm.[13] They later released a music video for the song, and performed the track on the ninth series of Love Island'sReunion show with Nonô.[14] In February 2024, they released "Sleep Tonight" with Sam Feldt and R3hab, which sampled Amy Macdonald's "This Is the Life".[15]