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Born in Belgium, MIGHTY PATCH aka Mat Harford is a saxophonist, dubhead and music producer. In 2009, he launched The Mighty Patch Dub Crew, a little sound team from Brussels, established with a few musicians, ex-fellows of Pepper Seed live band: the singers Ichman and J-Low. Some years later, the Malian singer Mic Mo Lion joined the adventure and brought his African roots vibrations to the project.

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In a sound system style, they mash up dances with their selections rocking around Ska, Reggae, Roots, Dub, Stepper, Digital, and Jungle stuff. Only vinyls selections mixed with some wicked homegrown I-ductions!

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Since the last years, Mighty Patch spend his blessed time by producing some dubz, collaborating with many musician friends. The main purposes of The Mighty Patch Dub Crew existence is to share the creation vibes and try to collaborate positively and musically - in anyway, anytime!

Zazzle is the stage name of the talented producer Dimitar Shopov. Born in the small country of Bulgaria he fell in love with music and as a huge hip hop head, he started out by making rap beats at first. After discovering the face melting sound of dubstep he felt inspired to pursue a career in music.

After several dubstep releases including tunes like Greedy Ganja Smoker, Judgment days and Take A Deep Breath, he moved on to a more experimental sound with few unconventional trap releases including “Mind Control”, “Ha Ha” and “The Other Side Of Trap EP”.

Around this time he started to enjoy  the more energetic sound of tech house. This led him to release two tech house tune on Bedroomrecords09.

Recently he found his music home in the face of the mysterious Dub lands. Ever since he has been working on his first official Dub release.

Zoroastafari is a Polish-Canadian collaboration project that developed over the pond, but despite the great distance separating its crew it has been persisting and growing since .  

In a very organic fashion it unifies the talents and efforts of artists from Katowice (JPL Retro Style), Krosno (Julian Burger) in Poland and Winnipeg (Pucona and Hypernashion) in Canada.  

Due to this rich mixture of inspirations and passions the sound is very unique and modern, but also tribal and real.

Takuma Ebisawa aka Robot Speaker got into music production at the age of 17 using a Roland ms-1 sampler, shortwave radio & old tape machine and toy keyboard, creating sound collages and industrial music. Though he does not play any, he owns a few instruments which he uses for improvisation performance and recordings, to be sampled again in his songs. 

Studying recording, engineering, PA and electronics at school tought him the basics of music, though free-thinking and not adhering to any rules are of more importance to him. Strongly disliking equalization, he prefers music with free and diverse values. "Musicians should always be open to adventure and experimentation".

Drawing on influences and tradition from around the world, Dub Across Borders is a melting pot for musical ideas and creativity. With a strong anchor in the dub genre, the music takes on folkloric instruments and rhythms and puts them in new found contexts - Colombian percussion, African voices, Indian strings, Romanian horns - everything goes in the dub machine.

Dub Across Borders was founded by Mathias Engstrøm while working as a sound engineer in Colombia. Inspired by the soulful and spiritual traditional sounds, lots of music was written in a short amount of time, and so the project was taking shape. As the music was taken back to London, he joined forces with a few other musicians to form a live band around it. Vocals, percussion and instrument players from different parts of the planet made up the first series of DAB live concerts, where especially improvisation and personal interpretation let the music take its own path, taking the idea of the initial music a step further.

The productions are all a mix of sampling, recorded interments and programmed material. Everything is done with a foot in both the digital and analog realm.

The very first Dub Across Borders release was the track Antchi Dub, which found its home with Dub-o-phonic - a digitalised cumbia-inspired riddim, that made it on to the Explorations in Dub compilation. This has recently been followed up by a 7" on Leipzig-based imprint 45seven, showing yet a different approach on the two cuts Dub Over Distance and Dub Pacifico.

From both the slow, dub-techno infused lounge vibes to more uplifting, cumbia-inspired roots sounds, the music is crossing borders where it feels right.

Jon Evans aka Riviera Rockers hosts a popular reggae radio show on www.soundartradio.org.uk 

The show Dub on the Dart was voted music show of the year in 2012!

The experience gained from radio production has seen Riviera Rockers been asked to support Reggae artists Ziontrain /Black Roots  Lionstar /Dubclass & has been guest DJ on The Bassment sessions hosted by Top Dub Producer Dubmatix. Riviera Rockers supported top reggae outfit The Barefoot bandits in Oct in Exmouth Devon 2015 for their new release tour. Riviera Rockers continues to produce their own take on Dub in their small studio in the heart of the English Riviera and are available for gigs/events /festivals. Contact them on Facebook for more info.

Arkadiusz Burger aka Julian Burger (born Oct. 1982) hails from Poland and is a musician & producer whose creations lean towards various genres like Dub, Reggae, Drum and Bass, World music, Ambient, and Chillout.

" I like to combine different styles of music. I use many oriental samples within my compositions. I can`t limit myself to a single musical genre, which is audible within my music. I experiment a lot. I also use live instruments like keyboard, guitar, and melodica. "

Julian started creating music in 2001, initially composing music

on the keyboard and recording his tunes on cassettes - drawing inspirtion from Dub numbers such as Alpha and Omega, Zion Train, Lee Scratch Perry, Jah Free and Bush Chemist to name a few.

Kurt De Lannoit aka UltraBase hails from Belgian Babylon. He got into music production around 2004 - uses all gear he can get his hands on, and derives inspiration from various music genres.

Kurt learned accordion at the age of 7; moved on to playing the bass at age 14 and keeps on learning to this present day. He is also involved in the Dubrising Collective. 

Madi Simmons hails from the States and has been performing, recording and touring for the past 20 years. He has graced stages from the pacific northwest, California, Hawaii, the Midwest to the West Coast at events like the Cougar Mountain Festival 2011; Benbow Summer Arts Fair 2012, Unity Fest 2012, North Country Fair(1993,94,2005,2006,2013); Reggae on the River 2013, and has been receiving interest in Europe.

He entered the performing-scene at the age of 16 as he started out playing drums, singing and writing. His influences then and now include Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Don Brewer <drummer> John Bonham, Bob Marley, and Peter Tosh amongst many others. 

Madi is still known to play drums as he learned

to perfect the one drop and other styles of

reggae drumming, but his preference remains

lead vocals.

Music ignites all human Passion... earth Passion, animal Passion. The child-cries of our wounded Souls become powerful Arias sung by the great Gypsy divas. Deep, life-giving Rhythms of our Mother’s Heartbeat are transformed into the drumbeats and chants of oppressed peoples.

My path, my mystical journey, becomes the Passion of the Dance, the Tango. A Metamorphosis occurs, and my Shadow is released from her bonds. My inner-Wolf roams the dark, ancestral forest, unfettered once more. In Music, she and I dance as One, we are re-united.

I am a musician and oil painter from a tiny island off the West coast of Ireland. I play many instruments, mainly djembe, bass, guitar and Irish penny/low whistles. I sometimes abuse other

instuments, such as piano, bodhrán and didgeridoo, but I have also learned to rely on loops to mask some of my more dramatic musical eccentricities and screw-ups. I occasionally howl at a mic.

Logic 9 is my DAW platform with an Apogee One interface.

I like to experiment with a fusion of different styles of music. I listen to everything from jazz to classical to rock to international folk, which is reflected in an eclectic approach to my work. Soul, Reggae and Latin are what move me the most. Music of the Heart.

Karl Jahsper, born in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy on 06/24/89 was first inspired by songs of the famous hip hop band Articolo 31, Neffa and Italian rap group Colle Der Fomento. He approached the reggae genre in 2008 listening to Africa Unite, Alborosie and Groundation, appreciating the syncopated rhythm and the positive vibes of this beautiful music.

A few years later King Tubby knocks on his door and Ticklah plucked the right strings of his soul. The first track composed, Ratas de ciudad in 2014, a hip hop Sampling by a 80’s vinyl, was all done on the computer using the art of sampling. With a great desire to create good music, he plans to release a reggae riddim with artists of his island during 2016.

The song Bloody Money is a wail of sorrow for all the victims of the god of money and a song of rebellion to try to put affixed this suffering world. 

Kandee approached the music scene with guitar and vocals at age 13. At 17 he started electronic music production, focusing on drum’n’bass and psytrance during his first year.

He later naturally gravitated towards dub music and released his very first LP, motivated by his meeting of the sound system culture, the UK crew “Iration Steppas”, "Vibronics" as examples.

Kandee draws inspiration from the French dub scene, such as “Panda”, “Mahom”, “Miniman”, “Mayd hubb” and also “OBF”

Negritage are a bunch of youths based in Argentina who started to play reggae dubwise for more than a decade, inspired by the Jamaican culture and sound experimentations of the dub tradition.

"We only want to express our feelings through di musik, we use whatever is available to develop our sound. Some times we record the roots way with live instruments and other times we go digital. Of course we explore the way in the middle.. always with love, respect & gratitude for all the living things aroud us, sending positive vibrations for release of our souls and minds."
 

For Fortress of the Rebel Soul (BWR/12) they joined forces with Eter Dub, a bro-producer from Los Andes who plays the flute on the track Mindwise dub-o-lution, following their aim to collaborate with others artist all over the world.

VisionarySoundSystem, AKA Drew Relf, is an independent music lover from the Garden of England. A music enthusiast who presents shows on totally independent internet radio stations, his shows focus on his love of diverse artists & styles - this can be heard in his own music. With his own somewhat unique way of working, he tries to fuse styles together in an experimental way to challenge the listeners ear & offer full aural satisfaction. Peace, Love, Justic & Respect.

visionarysoundsystem.bandcamp.com

Eyal Greengrass aka Palagran, (b. 1985, Israel), is a  studied marine biologist (MSc at marine sciences Technion) who lives in Haifa. Eyal works predominantly in the medium of sound and music and has a laid back electronica, melodic IDM, deep, dark ambient, avant-garde and alternative sound.

He grew up listening to music by Autechre, Boards of Canada, Jega,  and Thomas Köner to name a few. At the age of 16 he discovered that he has his own way with music, and that it is a language, one he can at times use better than talking or writing.

"My inspiration comes from doing!  When I do, I`m inspiried to do more! And from the bottom of the ocean, I don`t know what I left there, but it`s constantly drawing me towards it (probably a former life!)".

Besides electronic music production and working on his live act for future performances, he also plays bass and guitar in other band projects, experiments with sound-visualization, photography, free-diving and yoga.

Rob Neubauer is an experimental performer and composer from Baltimore. His work fuses his conservatory background with the interactivity and aesthetics of the electronic and DIY underground. Custom programming and unorthodox sampling intertwined with classical composition creates an integral part of his work.

Neubauer’s work has been performed and presented in his hometown’s Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins (where he currently studies) and the Maryland Institute College of Art as well as internationally.

He performs in a handful of bands and ensembles with custom rigs best fit for his artistic expression, most recently exploring contact mics on strobes, bio-sensors, and projection mapping. 

Nicholas Andolina aka Sinking Feeling is an electronic musician from Cape Cod in the USA. Currently attending the school of hard knocks, Nicholas has background studies in music theory and started making albums at age 11 when he really fell in love with music. Nic also plays a bit of piano, guitar, bass and vocals; and over the years has tried any instrument or program he could find, "but electronic music always remained a constant. It just seemed to lend itself to coming up with sounds I hadn't heard before, and that has always been an inspiration". 

Nic draws his inspiration from his musical heroes and close music friends. 

"Once I heard John Cage say he loved listening to traffic because it never repeated itself. I live in the country right now so I try to listen to what seems like silence, but after a while you start to hear all the subtle ambience which can really inspire something."

Sinking Feeling currently uses only KORG apps on an iPad to create music. Often labeled as Drum n Bass, and likened to Aphex Twin, Sinking Feeling is also known for his prolific writing. 

Janis Dej (Endlicht Frühling) is a Ukraine born music producer who currently resides in Graz, Austria.

The EF project (Endlicht Frühling - Production ; Froebl -Mastering) emphasises a spontaneous creative workflow in electronic production as well as digital mixing. Tracks released thus far have been snapshots of an experimental journey that started around 2012, when Ableton Live was discovered. 

EF relies on heavy usage and mutilation of samples, and abstractions of rhythm and texture to highlight and promote the formless vibrations. Feel free to interpret, reconstruct and solidify on your own, or simply remain formless during the experience..

Bassbarrique is a small anarchistic group, where people complement and enrich each others creative work. Competencies include Audio (Production, Sound design, Recording, Mastering, DJ mixes) and Video (Graphical Design, Film, Event videos, Music videos, Photography).

For collaborations contact: janis.dej@gmail.com

Rotten Tropics is the music of graphic designer, Jakub Tywoniuk, who is inspired by foreboding anxiety, challenging literature, monotonous solitude and the allure of ambiguity. It began in 2008 in Canada and is constantly mutating— the connective tissue being electronics and atmosphere. Jakub has no illusions of grandeur and often debates whether his output is needed in an over-saturated world. 

Liam Noel Patrick Francis Leonard Tobin (Somatic Waves) is a London-based, OCD-riddled, cat-loving music producer with a passion for science and nature. His main styles are Electronica, IDM, Breaks, Techno, Dubstep, ambient and a dash of Hip Hop. He is known for inserting humorous samples into his music and also occasionally dabbles in bizarre, caricature-based artwork, and photography. 

Tobin grew up in Norwich, East Anglia and has spent much of his life living and working at the Exotic Garden. In 2006 he acquired a Djembe and prior to his music production years, learned to play a syncopated style imitating the beat structures of artists such as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Venetian Snares. These would become the main influences for his work once becoming acquainted with electronic music production. He was also inspired by underground free-party based rave music such as Techno, Old School Breaks and later Drum and Bass and Dubstep.

After finishing a course in Access to Music he now studies Electronic Music at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. During his London stay he has contributed to several performances at the Barbican Centre, collaborating with other electronic musicians to write music for silent film. He has also dabbled in sound design, one particular example being his vocal contributions and sound effects remade for a section of the Pixar film Wall E as part of a college project.

He is currently working on level design and music for a computer game as part of a collaboration with the animator/programmer Tatiana Alisova, as well as contributing to a body of new work leaning towards a dark acid style incorporating his trademark alien vocal sounds. 

Kim Bleus (Project Hybrid) is a passionated Belgium-based HR data-consultant who draws his musical ideas from a wide range of experiences. Inspired by nature, people and technology, a high susceptibility to his environment makes for a cinematic musical style ranging from gloomy to upbeat. This is all further covered in an experimental style as he aims to expand musical boundaries.

His electronic trademark sound comes from years and years of practice with his favorite software 'Reason'.  At the age of 19 he discovered the world of music production, and with this a way to express himself & his surroundings. This left him instantly addicted and there was no turning back for this Belgium born music producer. Kim is completely self-taught and he has recently started learning the piano, and studying composing and music theory. Kim also plays Life. 

Favorite artists are among many others include Solar Fields, Hans Zimmer, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Laurent Garnier, Amon Tobin, John Hopkins, Metallica, Enya, Low... 

"My inspiration stems from all the different roots I encounter. As such is Project Hybrid. An ongoing passion to translate human experience into sounds from abundance of influences."

Fabian Acuna is a trumpeter/composer who lives South East of Melbourne, Victoria; and a graduate from Victorian College Of The Arts with a Bachelor of Music Performance degree. Not only is he a member of The Woohoo Revue, but he also composes music that can be described as cinematic, warped pulse, rock, dance music for the band and his ensemble 'Quantum Milkshake'. 

"I want to write music that shows inner conflicts flourishing with energy and urgency, developing through theme, setting and emotions."

His love for video game and anime soundtracks have always influenced his work, so much so that it brought him into music production. Under the alias of Mr Kapow, Fabian has been able to experiment and have the abilities to arrange, compose and mix for himself as well as for University movie makers, Youtubers and a video game arrangement compilation album. 

Scanner Darkly's music is less about some clearly defined goals and more about finding a groove in those tiny conflicts that are the result of trying to get the precision of a drum machine working together with the imprecision of what is mostly one take live recordings - not so much a way to establish some strict rules just to break them, but rather a way to find (and lose) these moments that you would not have found otherwise.

It can be a harder techno track that just paves a way for a simple melody to catch you unaware with sadness, or you might get something more unabashedly euphoric, or moody, or tongue in cheek, but really it's just about trying to pretend like you have control over something that is meant to make you lose control in the first place.

If you'd try and define it in genre terms you could call it fuzzy house, obtuse techno or morning dub, but rather think of it as something you'd be listening to while walking along the train tracks, finding little bits of this and that that tell you a story in that very moment, next moment gone.

Scanner Darkly is based in Vancouver, Canada. When he's not writing music he is programming Arduino to write music for him.

Hailing from Allentown, PA, Tethys has been writing music since the age of 8. Being raised in a family of classical, jazz, funk, and rock; he initially took up piano as well as guitar since his father was a guitar professor. Growing up he was guitarist for various bands with music styles ranging from funk to hardcore.

Taking more interest in what his guitar pedals did and the noises he could create, Tethys gravitated towards electronic music around 2000. His initial works hovered around the sounds of acid house and breakbeat cultures as well as industrial flavors. 

Since recently joining Passive Front Records, Tethys has delved into the more obscure and natural elements of electronics yet keeping a rhythmic relationship to the atmosphere. It’s not unusual for Tethys to drive off his common path to write a different style and bring about something new, yet he always finds himself nestled within the abstract throughout all his works. His music is driven by emotion and are always part of a story to tell.

Combo Reseller is the project of Argentinian, Ignacio del Gallo, who currently resides in Italy. Ignacio started playing bass at age 15 and progressed to music production with Ableton about 7 years later.

"When I produce, I don`t just focus on the sounds, but imagine a story or otherwise some concrete image.  I also draw inspiration from scifi films and some anime".

Samples from organic sounds like the forest and different things at home can also be found in CR. music. 

APHEXIA is the electronic side project of multidirectional musician Ophelia The Suffering (ECSTASPHERE) and exists since 2012, based in Hamburg, Germany.

Spherical soundscapes and emotive melodies meet complex rhythms. Stylistically, APHEXIA can be described as a mixture of Electronica, IDM and Ambient, however its sound aesthetic and is heavily influenced by Industrial elements. The occasional use of Ophelia's vocals also gives APHEXIA a distinctive touch.

Substantially, the tracks deal with Ophelia's emotional and intellectual experiences to reveal, process and explore them. APHEXIA is not as radically concept driven as Ophelia's main project ECSTASPHERE, but more intuitive and designed as a more direct approach for the affective expression.

Sean Harte, also known as Mr Sunshine, hails from Glasgow in Scotland and currently lives in Govan. With its very rich history, this town is one of his biggest influences and sources of inspiration. 

"Walking around plugged up to headphones allows me to view the neighbourhood in a different light, looking at the flickering street lamps, the uneven, broken concrete pavements and the neon shop signs illuminating and highlighting the all the imperfections of the streets replays in my mind whenever I make music. I believe it’s responsible for my haunting yet relaxed style of music."

Sean has always been an avid music fan and started creating and producing at age 16. With no band to supply music for the death metal band he started up with a friend, he began producing tracks so they could lay down their vocals.

"After a while I started experimenting with different kinds of music, but it wasn’t until I was introduced to Brian Eno and Aphex Twin by a friend, and then later discovered Boards of Canada, that my  mind was blown. I never knew this type of music existed, but I knew then and there that I wanted to make it. Over the years it became an obsession and I started collecting equipment and

creating a home studio."

Alex Yiannaras aka Elixirion was born in Athens back in late 60′s and is currently located in the island of Crete. After years of music exploration mainly in electric guitar, he now runs a computer based home studio, producing a blend of rock, ambient, blues, atmospheric and oriental vibes, all presented in a unique way.

Alex`s inspirations range from Mike Oldfield, Vangelis Papathanasiou to Nacho Sotomayor and Deep forest.

Kikai is the musical project of Marius C. Hammerich’s who seems strongly inspired by the

Teutonic tempos of Software and the intergalactic atmospheres of Jean Michel Jarre.  

The music is beautiful and catchy; offers memorable melodies, haunting harmonies, stellar production and an ambience that conquers body and soul. 

" kikai | …speed with silence, absence of vibration, the mysterious harnessing of great energy…"

Since 1997, Marius composes EM which serves the cause of humanitarian works. Distributed by the independent label Kikai Kikagu, his music is also available on several download platforms.

Besides contributing to "peace-partners", a global project for musicians supporting Amnesty International, he also does artists-coaching, song production and mastering for "peace-partners" and other social projects. Needless to say, Kikai is definitely a group of talented individuals and

philanthropists, always open to collaborating with artists/bands.

Kostas Pantelis, born 1983 in Thessaloniki, Greece, is a mechanical engineer and a passionate

producer/musician, currently based in New York, USA. 

Though he took piano & guitar lessons for a few years at a very young age, it was not enough to keep him interested and involved with music. It was Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygen remixes back in 1995 that really grabbed his attention and steered him towards the experimental genre. In 2007 he finally moved into production mode while working with a few synthesizers & software in order to start putting his ideas and melodies down.

"Like many other artists out there following the same hobby, you don’t need to be a professional musician to come up with sounds or melodies. All you need is to let yourself go & get inspired by everything surrounding you in order to get the most out of it! "

In other words, he loves composing and producing music, from instrumentals and soundscapes, 

to downtempo/ambient and trance/electronica tunes.

Isotherme is the musical alias of New York guitarist/keyboardist/composer Jeffrey Kirn.

Born in 1969, Jeffrey was fortunate to absorb music from many genres while growing up in the late-1970s through the 1990s and has played guitar and keyboards in a number of rock, jazz and experimental groups since age 15. 

Jeffrey studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA in the late 1980s, and went on to earn a degree in Music and in English from the State University of New York at Cortland. He continues to study traditional and jazz composition independently, and has his eyes on teaching composition at the university level in the future.

Influenced by jazz, ambient/electronic and symphonic rock in nearly equal parts, Isotherme's music

offers a unique experience in blended sonic texture.

Isotherme's musical approach is to employ ambient soundscapes and rich harmony as a compositional foundation, building upward into collages of sound, frenetic electronic percussion and fragile melodies- all to evoke feelings of ache and longing, the frosts of cold winters, memories of lost love and the ghosts of departed lovers.

He is as comfortable with composing accessible, melodic music as he is with composing music a bit more abstract and challenging to the listener.

"I see myself primarily as a composer. Solo artists in the ever broadening field of electronica need to be producers and engineers also, and achieving a facility in these areas does interest me. but I get a bigger rush from using thick, rich chords and layering multiple melodies than I do from programming complex beats and audio editing. Mastering all of it is essential these days, but my inner musical voice very much speaks in terms of melodic and harmonic composition."

Martin Kristopher aka 3dtorus was born in 1980 and resides in Bremen, Germany.

He discovered Hip Hop in the early 90s and essentially started out as a Drum´n´Bass DJ, finding himself mostly in deserted military facilities in the former Eastern parts of the country, where there was a huge illegal party scene busy evolving. Producing music and working as a DJ, he organized parties and spent the nights of his youth partying hard in Germany´s Techno-clubs like Tresor, Stammheim and Phonodrom. He also gathered up some experience in audio technics, working as a stage audio assistant for concert & musical productions and live recordings.

As many of us do, Martin took a break from music production to "learn different lessons in life", but came back in 2008, working as a full-time artist, developing his sound and production skills. Genres include a mix of electronica, experimental, techno, dub and ambient soundscapes.

"Producing music has, like every other process of creation, its own temporal measures. The deeper one devotes himself to this process, the further his reach for the universal essence. For me, it is by any means necessary to focus on the highest principle of creation within this process."

He developed an interest in remixing via Soundcloud and participated in various competitions and challenges since 2013. Artists he has worked with include Almark, Störsender and Naked Ape.

Originally from the UK and now living on the Maltese island of Gozo, Ged Rodger aka ‘qollop’ is slowly adding more pieces to his depository of work.

Although influenced by a huge range of musical styles right through from classical, 70s prog, indie and beyond, he still adds his own inimitable style to each track and takes the listener on a journey through progressive, ambient and atmospheric soundscapes (sometimes structured but often arbitrary).

Ged played bass for a small number of bands in and around Manchester in the 90’s and accidentally started messing around with Apple Garageband in 2007. Once he saw the potential offered by digital audio, he decided to forget traditional instrumentation (and ridiculously heavy bass amps) in order to fully concentrate on DAWs. With a fairly modest set-up, he programmes all pieces using Logic Pro X, Camel Audio’s Alchemy, AMG, Waves and Puremagnetik software for additional instrumentation. Occasionally he calls on the vocal talents of his partner, Liz Downer, to add that special addition to his work.

His latest album ‘Kerinduan’ has been 2 years in the making and explores the emotional side of ‘unobtainable longing’.  

ZDSO is electronic space music.

A soundtrack project for space adventure stories inspired by classic science-fiction heroes and travellers. Zixel's Deep Space Orchestra is a conceptual music project under the Transcorps Sound banner conceived by Transcendental Desecration's members Gideon Trillian and Maggy Mjolnir.

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Every track is intended to be experienced within the context of the full album it is part of. Each album has a specific story or chapter in the continuing misadventures of their main character Captain Zixel who is the sole crew member of a deep-space exploration vessel the S.S. Ormen Lange, along with his android assistant "P.A.L.". Each album is accompanied by a fully scripted program guide outlining each scene/track. Like any film score, the various tracks on each album can differ in mood quite noticeably, making it rather difficult to assign an easy genre to the albums.

Ilpo Jauhiainen is a composer, music producer and sound artist, born 1977, Finland, and he currently lives and works in Helsinki. A Sonic Arts graduate from Middlesex University UK, 2003, he works collaboratively and globally across the arts, from music production to art installations, from dance and performance to film and theatre.

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"After seeing a documentary about “some African village” I tried to emulate the landscape with an electric organ at age6. By the age of 15, I started experimenting with electronic music production: a discovery of techno through radio waves had changed my worldview forever. Through techno, trance, ambient, triphop, electro, noise, avant-garde, IDM, feeling lost…I was eventually rescued and inspired by Brian Eno, Bjork, Steve Reich, John Cage and Jon Hassell; followed by Fela Kuti, Rokia Traoré, Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté, among others."

Ideas from ecology, urbanization, sustainable development and multiculturalism equally inform his work while his musical interests revolve around the possibilities and combinations of pop music and sound art, new global musical styles, modern composition and generative music. 

"I play keyboards along with a limited software studio, and use the limitations of technology as a compositional tool: with conviction you can use any set of ingredients no matter how rubbishy they are."