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Ipnoteca is an Italian born electronic musician base in Tokyo with a true passion for analogue gear, strange sounds, patch cables and blinking lights.

During his 20+ years of personal music and sound research, Ipnoteca has discovered modular synthesizers to be the perfect instruments to create the characteristics of his sound, which ranges from IDM to ambient to glitch music.

His system is composed of various modules, and is mainly comprised of modules by Intellijel Design, Make Noise, Mutable Instruments, Industrial Music Electronics (formerly Harvestman) and Noise Engineering.

Since moving to Tokyo Ipnoteca has had the chance to become a regular performer, and play various shows, clubs and modular events such as Modular Cafè, Cave, TFoM 2015 and Dommune. He is currently working on various sound design projects for emerging visual artists and a cassette album that will be released in early 2018.

Links:

YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/user/ipnoteca

SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/ipnoteca

INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/ipnoteca/

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/ipnoteca

Beginning fresh somewhere late in 2016, Lithe is the pet solo project of Alice Blunt, and is a mixture of introspective feelings and fuzzy memories of transient sensations.

She takes influence from bangy UK techno acts, and the hedonistic shadowy parts of the Berlin techno scene with the occasional nod to trippy ambient and IDM sonic magic.

She primarily uses a mixture of modular and desktop hardware, with frequent use of sample mangling for percussion, texture and rhythm.

https://soundcloud.com/iamlithe

https://www.instagram.com/importjingles/

(Be sure to check out her upcoming debut EP release on VLSC)

JMoNoisey (Asheville, NC) has been recording and producing music since 2004. His background is industrial noise, techno and psychedelic trance and influences are Throbbing Gristle and all the sub-projects, but mostly Coil. He currently plays live ambient music on a variety of hardware synthesizers, samplers and eurorack modules. This music was played live on a modular synthesizer and recorded as two, one shot performances.

http://www.howton.net http://www.soundcloud.com/jamiehowton

Hataken has been an electronic music producer, performer since the mid 90’s. His musical style employs ambient chilled out grooves using synthesizers to span multiple genres that create a unique style and psychedelic feeling. Hataken has performed many festivals including Boom 2012 (7 hours live show with analog vintage rigs), Ozora festival, Sonica, Sound Wave, SXSW and more. Hataken released his solo album “A Prana Planet” on Matsuri Digital Chill in Nov. 2017

Shifting from vintage analogue synth performances to modular synthesizers, Hataken has become an icon in the Japanese modular scene. In 2013 he organized the Tokyo Festival of Modular; a yearly event that showcases international modular synthesizer technology and artist performances. His goal is to foster the next generation of modular synthesizer music.

Hataken has taken part in many collaborative projects. Wåveshåper was a project with Greg Hunter which produced an album and series of live performances in Europe. He is an organizer of the alternative culture underground platform ZEN ZEN. Hataken performed and recorded with renowned guitarist Sugizo twice, and will be featured on Sugizo’s upcoming album and remix in 2018.

HATAKEN：

official web

http://hataken.info/

music archive

http://soundcloud.com/hataken/

live perform archives

http://mixcloud.com/hataken/

album releases

https://hataken.bandcamp.com/

Wåveshåper ：

http://mutantra.bandcamp.com/

organizing:

Tokyo Festival of Modular

http://tfom.info

ZEN ZEN

http://zenzen.asia/

album : A Prana Planet

https://www.beatport.com/release/a-prana-planet/2160155

album : Ascension

https://www.beatport.com/release/ascension/1005223

HATAKEN Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/HATAKEN.HATAKEN/

Tokyo Festival of Modular (TFoM) Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/TokyoModularFestival/

Infideltek is the work of Daniel Miller from the suburbs of Seattle. Under this project the premise of one individual locked together in binary state with a fluid ever changing relationship with electronic instruments. In various forms of ambient or noise. 


Links:

www.infideltek.bandcamp.com

http://instagram.com/infideltek

DivKid is a composer, producer, sound designer and audio engineer come YouTube demonstrator. DivKid started as a composer and producer of electronic music before running into mastering for various labels and working with sound design projects for audio software and sample packs. Developing out of the initial “in the box” workflow led DivKid to work with modern desktop synths, guitar pedals and rack gear before moving through vintage keyboard synths and finally onto modular synths. Modular synths made their way into various sound design projects and composition work before an clear gap in the modular was presented that needed filling. That gap was demonstration and education around modular synths products and companies which led to the first DivKid videos on YouTube demoing euro rack modular gear. This grew and is now the main output for the “DivKid Project” demonstrating modules for the amazing community of users, designers and makers that make working with this equipment so inspirational.

LINKS:

http://www.patreon.com/divkid

http://www.youtube.com/divkidvideo

http://www.instagram.com/DivKidMusic

http://www.twitter.com/divkid

http://www.facebook/com/sir.divkid

PERSONAL NOTE:

Hello everyone, this is DivKid (Ben) and this is a mix of tracks in various stages of development all exploring my musical headspace of late which is textural exploration and merging performative modular work with randomly generating patches. The pieces you’ll hear cross two albums I’m working on as well as single tracks and odd “moments” I’ve captured. None of the tracks here will released or presenting in another form for some time. So enjoy the mix and the journey through my little sonic adventure.

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Booksy is an underground electronic music project recording in Brooklyn, NY. A native of NYC and a founding member of Fictions, in his solo work Booksy explores a sonic topology flowing between skittering nomadic techno/electro and primal drone constellations. Modular and non-modular analog and digital synths, samplers, and drum machines were assembled for these recordings, which were all conducted and recorded in live takes.

Links:

https://booksy.bandcamp.com/album/civilization-and-frivolity

https://soundcloud.com/booksy-1

https://vlsc.bandcamp.com/album/things-we-stole

Norma Saguaro lives in Portland, Oregon where she is finishing a degree in Economics. She hosts an electronic music focused radio show called 'Beyond the Marble Palace' on Freeform Portland, 90.3 fm, and after a long sabbatical has just recently started writing music again. Her favorite things include the smell of incense, long walks in fog, fried chicken, the sound of a saxophone being played far off in the rain and her sweet dog, Lucy.

You can catch her on radio show online every Saturday at 4am Pacific Standard Time (GMT-7 or GMT-8 depending on Daylight Savings Time).

Links:

Radio: https://www.freeformportland.org/program/?show_name=beyond-the-marble-palace

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/proximal_distal/

During the embryonic development of the modern musical synthesizer, Morton Subotnick envisioned a day in which an individual could become the audience, the director, and the performer of a musical work all at once. The belief was that a device could exist that one could explore a sonic space with in real time and move from "point to point" within this space guided by feelings, emotions, or any other perturbation of the mind. With the creation of such a device (the "synthesizer") in 1963, Subtonick's idea became reality however alternative interpretations of its utility also emerged. With time, the "synthesizer" came to predominately be an instrument with which equal tempered, melodic music was created, recorded, and distributed among the masses. A select few have, however chosen to investigate and develop the concept closer to Subotnick's original vision of the man-machine interaction. adamon is Damon Mar’s pursuit of this.

adamon is Damon Mar

Lawrence F**king Kansas

Links:

https://soundcloud.com/adamon

https://adamon.bandcamp.com/


https://www.youtube.com/user/adamonnoise


http://marsynth.com/

https://ethereallive.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/el012-adamon-ships/