hired DB as an A&R consultant for dance music at Profile Records. 1991 In 1991, DB co-produced the "Best Of Techno Volume One" compilation with Gary Pini, which included such artists as Moby & Richie Hawtin. The success of this album led to six follow-up volumes. Pini and DB were then given their own imprint within the profile system, which was originally to be named NASA Music, after DB's club night by the same name. However, DB's ex-partner in the club night would not come to an agreement with the label over the name. Pini then proposed the name Sm:)e Communications, which was one of the first uses of emoticons in a name. 1993 From 1993 to 1998 (when Justin Nichols took over from DB in A&R), Sm:)e Communications released over 150 titles including singles, EP's, and albums. One such album was "History Of Our World," acknowledged as the first U.S.-released British Drum & Bass album. Sm:)e was also known for manufacturing all of their vinyl singles on colored 10"’s, or other collectible types of vinyl, such as die-cut shapes, and picture-discs. In 1993 Gary Pini and DB were responsible for getting Robot Wars started by convincing Profile records to back the project, originally conceived by ex-Industrial Light & Magic model maker Mark Thorp, they staged the first live events in San Francisco. During this time, Pini and DB also became integral to the start of Robot Wars, before it became the hit British TV show. With the originator of the concept, Marc Thorpe, they organized live events in San Francisco from 1994–1997. Through a relationship formed with German Techno musicians Air Liquide by releasing their music on Sm:)e, DB was invited to become a partner in their Temple Records store in 1994. The store was located in the basement of a rave/alternative lifestyle boutique called Liquid Sky. Dara also worked at the store. The pair had now lost interest in DJing any other subgenres of electronic music, apart from Drum & Bass. They discussed the concept of a record shop that would sell Drum & Bass exclusively. While he began to DJ around the U.S., DB befriended Paul Morris, a fellow Londoner then at university in Gainesville, FL. Paul was close friends with Richard Russell, whom DB had met while licensing music from XL Recordings where he did A&R, and releasing Russell’s own Kicks Like Mule record "The Bouncer"