Artists
Derek Scott
(aka The Rhythmist, Number 8 )
Derek has been making electronic music since 1987. His deep and shuffled grooves layered with abstract textures and funky, disjointed melodies have a futuristic quality that gets your body moving. Inspired by groups like Art Of Noise, Kraftwerk, and Mantronix he started an all-synth band in high school with some friends. The band broke up shortly after graduating, so he started working on music solo. His first release on a label was in 1994 on Flask (once a subdivision of the now defunkt Silent Records) under the alias ‘Number 8′. He teamed up with local veteran Mattski and Solid Trax label manager Lucas Rodenbush to launch the Trax Cafe project in 1997. Their EP helped Derek to land apperances on two compilations and to get his own EP on Resource Records in 2000. He has also contributed to releases for the Audio Abuse and Medasu labels. Along with his releases on DoBox, he has also made an appearance on the Seedsound netlabel.
Qorser
We’ll have more info on Qorser here soon. In the meantime, visit him at MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/qorser .
Igor O. Vlasov
Born in Volgograd in 1980, later moving to Moscow, Igor became interested in electronic music at the ripe old age of 13 years. In 1994, he began to produce his own tracks along the lines of older skool house and techno.
Then in 1998, Igor’s first professional works came about when he started to produce deep house tracks for his electronic project named the “Squid Project”. In 2002, ‘Squid Project’ was renamed to ‘S.P.C.’.
Later he formed a techcore/techno project named ‘Celtic Rhythm’ for producing danceable minimal tech tracks for clubs.
A versatile producer with projects spanning deep, minimal, experimental, downtempo and dub styles, Igor is interested in the genre entanglement as a means to birth unique sounds. His influences include Kraftwerk, Front 242, Tangerine Dream, Abba, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, Plastikman/Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Adam Bayer, Mr. Fingers/Larry Heard, Frankie Knuckles and Deep Dish.
Steve Cooley
Steve Cooley has been involved in music since the early ’90s. He started out using trackers on i386 PCs back then, but has been using Macs for quite some time. Over the years he built his own analog synth (thanks to Paia), helped his brother Deeje develop a dj application called QTTurntable for Mac OS9, and now he’s even making music with his cellphone/pda/camera (pictured above). His current tools also include a G4 Powerbook, GarageBand, Reason, Renoise, and other various softawre and hardware. He even owns a near-mint Roland TR-808 that his dad found at a pawn shop for $25! Not only is he a musician, he’s also an excellent graphic designer, PHP programmer, and woodworker.
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Izidor Radmanovic aka bLURiX
Born in Zagreb (Croatia) in 1983, Izidor was exposed to many styles of music at an early age. His father would constantly be playing music from records, tapes, radio, etc. The wall-mounted speaker in their home would be blaring anything from disco to rock to blues. Later in his life, Izidor was influenced by Acid House, Techno and artists like Jean-Michael Jarre, Kraftwerk as well as composers like Franz Schubert.
In 1995, he made his first steps into electronic music production by remixing a few tracks for his own pleasure. By 1999, he had become more productive and developed a much deeper understanding and philosophy about making electronic music. He also began DJ’ing in 2001. With a desire to go even deeper and learn more about himself and his beliefs, he applied and was accepted to the theological university in Zagreb in 2004. From that point on, Izidor approached music with more desire and passion. He puts a little bit of his soul into each and every one of his tracks. There are no boundaries for him. To him, all is relative in music so therefore his sounds and tracks are ever changing.
Dip
The project Dip appeared in 1997 composed of two musicians, Sergey Bobrov (Di99er) and Sergey Stanovov (Dj Sergey Placid). The basic direction of creation for Dip are styles of House and Techno.
In 2000, the group collaborated with MC Propan to write a few hip-hop tracks. During the course of a year, those tracks made it’s way onto the sound systems of many clubs in Moscow. The first officially published track of the collective was the composition “Come Back” from the compilation “Discotech - Progressive House” on Grand Records in 2001. Their contribution to the compilation was due to their support of electronic musician and producer, as well as one of founders of Russian label Solaris Station, Evgeniy Rodionov.
In 2002, Dip took part in a project in association with Kurindas at a club called ‘City’, along with such musicians and deejays as The Greenpoint Dub Orchestra, LMC project, Alina Sekventsiya, DJ Fish and DJ Dima Fly. Later that year the musicians of project Dip submerged deeper into the world of techno and ambient, doing parallel remixes of compositions by different musicians and sharpening their skills as DJs.
In 2005, the group’s debut album, “Something to share”, saw the light of day. The project of Dip were invited to play by the organizers of the annual summer festival ‘Kazantip’ that same year. On their own time the participants of Dip still continue their journeys as DJs.
