Dobox Recordings

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.

links:
http://www.diggarama.com/

discography on Discogs.com

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.

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discography on Discogs.com

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.

links:
http://somesoundswelike.com
http://somejunkwelike.com
http://www.sc-fa.com/blog/

discography on Discogs.com

Although interested in electronic music and DJ’ing since the early 1990s, it wasn’t until the year 2000 when Qorser made his first productions. Some of the musicians that made an impact on him were Ken Ishii, Autechre and Funk D’Void. His attention to detail developed early, and he was able to make exceptional tracks with just his Sony Playstation and Jester Interactive’s Music 2000 (licensed as MTV Music Generator in the United States). A couple of years later, he met several local San Jose artists who helped put him on to using software like Propellerhead’s Reason and Synapse Audio’s Orion. Since then Qorser’s knowledge of music software and music making skills have greatly expanded, and he definitely knows how to move a crowd.

links:
http://www.myspace.com/qorser

discography on Discogs.com

(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, Random Access Recordings, Digital Kunstrasen and Diggarama netlabels.

links:
http://myspace.com/rhythmist

discographies on Discogs.com:
The Rhythmist
Derek Scott
Number 8