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About: PTNA aka Justin Olson began his music journey with the Violin at age 3. By the time he was in college, Justin shared his songs in live performances and open mics building confidence as a performer, and learn the satisfaction of sharing his creations with the world. As an artist, it is easy to become lost in your head and process, live performance is a very important tool to receive feedback and input that guides your creative output and can give you the needed confidence to share it with the world. In 2014, Justin began his journey into Synthesizers, Electronic Drums, Samplers and Drum Machines. Since 2014, Justin has focused on creating musical projects, performances and albums on his Eurorack Modular. He has released 20 + albums of music during this time-frame and has enjoyed the process of patching a song over hours to days and then performing it live and capturing the performance. Justin has performed around the state of Arizona including: Tempe Center for the Arts “ Singer Songwriters Showcase

About: Sleep of Eons is the glitchy electronic modular/computer based audio visual work of Jorge Bojorquez from Tucson, AZ. In 2018 a shift from guitar based drone music to modular synths provided a long sought after solution to creating generative, slowly changing, self evolving soundscapes which could still be controlled by the player. With the aid of a/v programming languages like Max/MSP and Processing the project now is taking on a visual manifestation as well. RGB Riot was an EP released in early 2020 that showcases the opposite of these ideas and focuses on minimalism and what can be done with nothing but a couple of Pocket Operators and a delay pedal. The range of glitchy to drone and anywhere in between is welcome territory. At his core Sleep of Eons is inspired greatly by science fiction and the seires Rendevous with Rama and hopes to capture some of that monolithic, alien, otherwordly yet familiar feeling in musical and visual form. Links: https://www.instagram.com/sleepofeons/ https://sleepofeons

Data Cult Audio 0267 - Blakmoth by DC Audio

About: Yates is an Atlanta native artist. He spent his early years on drums and guitar in metal bands before discovering synths in the early 90’s. He has an avid love for the sonic artistry of early industrial acts and how they performed. He currently finds himself in a few musical pathways from creating songs for Internet personalities, scores and sound fx for local film makers, and also a long time musical partner and he are developing a "band" based around live electronics inspired by how Author and punisher and Skinny Puppy plays instruments. He, like many others in the synth world, found himself deep in the modular wormhole. Yates Has a firm belief that his rig knows what he is feeling and knows how to spit it back out at him in ways you wouldn’t expect. This session was recorded while under the thumb of chaotic life happenings during the month of sept 2022. It represents a lot of emotions from anger to peace. A sonic pallet swirling inside a black hole millions of light years away from earth. Links: h

Bio:  Ecotech is a solo electronic music project started by Zachary Sedefian in January 2021. Ecotech often releases dub techno or deep house tracks, but he also records a lot of other music. His submission to Data Cult Audio is an amalgamation of experiments he made in Upstate New York and Lima, Peru. The first half is an exploration of the MengQi Wing Pinger as an instrument, accompanied by a Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus, Lorre-Mill DoubleKnot, and eurorack modular synthesizer. In the second half Ecotech used a Charango (traditional Andean instrument), iPhone, and Cocoquantus to make contemplative grainy soundscapes. This recording combines an interest in the limits of frequency modulation and ping with time-stretched garden sounds and false nostalgia. Links:  https://ecotech.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/Ecotechnologist https://www.instagram.com/ecotechnologist_/

About: A.M. Filipkowski is fascinated by dystopian fiction. This is the starting point for his aural projects. He attributes this to growing up in inner city Detroit, and watching as the city seemed to die around him. Remnants of industry diminished into a barren wasteland engraved a mark on him that is expressed in the sounds he creates. He is also the founding mind behind Data Cult Audio. Links: Bandcamp: https://datacultaudio.bandcamp.com/ FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/DataCultAudio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacultaudio/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-cult-audio/id1234835844 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/datacultaudio Twitter: https://twitter.com/DataCultAudio Web: http://datacultaudio.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Datacultaudio

About: Dexba, in his awkward first attempt at talking about himself in the third person, is an Italian musician in love with big soundtracks, ambient noise, and chants coming from the rocky steppe. He started his journey as a cellist, swore he would never work in an orchestra, and decided to move on to synthesizers in order to play more than one note at a time. Born too late to own property, too late to be La Monte Young, and even too late to be a YouTube star, Dexba is trying to find his way in music and maybe this podcast is a sign he is on the right path. Links: https://www.youtube.com/c/Dexba https://www.instagram.com/dexbasynth https://dexba.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/dexbasynth

About: Rodrigo Passannanti is an Italian-born electronic musician based in London UK at the forefront of numerous productions and world-wide releases including bespoke compositions for Sync-music, Caprisar Productions, Media music manager and Warner/Chappell Music as global publisher. Links: https://rodrigopassannanti.bandcamp.com/music https://www.facebook.com/rodrigo.passannanti https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hypercube/159239163 https://soundcloud.com/rodrigopassannanti https://www.instagram.com/rodrigo.passannanti/

About: (As per Aelk Minsur) I’m blessed to be able to do what I love for a living. As an industrial and commercial electrician, I spend my days with badasses building badass stuff. It’s incredibly fulfilling to be a part of large scale projects and build things that get put to use everyday. Each construction site has a strong energy - energy from the site itself and especially from the people that work there. It’s a loud and in-your-face energy that has a positive, forward momentum. This recording is a distillation of that energy. Some of the beats are brand new and some are taken from my album, "Everything is a Nail". Shoutout to the Data Cult Audio crew for inviting me back. Be sure to support them at their Patreon. I hope you enjoy this set. Turn it up to 11 and bang your head! Links: https://linktr.ee/aelkminsur

About: Glinca is Tazio Iacobacci, a composer from Sicily, Italy. In the early ‘90’s he started making music as a drummer with several noise bands. In 2002 he joined a band called “Tellaro", a slow core project signed to 2nd Records which put out four releases. At the same time he developed his interest in composing music ranging from acoustic to electronic soundscapes and he mainly did this under the moniker "Pola" (three records, the first released on Ionik Recordings). He joined several productions as a drummer, guitarist and programming electronic stuff. Actually he started making music with modular synths under the “Glinca" moniker and put out three records, the last one on Werra Foxma Records. "In general, the way I compose does not follow a pre-determined path.Sometimes I search for a sound.Melodic lines are often extrapolated by a process of subtraction: I make a pattern of 16 random notes, I keep 4 or 5 of them, just to make things clear. I leave a lot of room for randomness and in this particular

About: Analog Monoxide is frequently mistaken for being the name of a group, but is in reality a working alias of Stian Høyberg, musician and producer from Norway. The music released under this banner is typically a huge mix of various influences over the years, ranging from experimental electronica to acoustic jazz, and anything in between. Composition usually happens in his home studio, and is a very free-form process. He started out as a piano player at an early age, and has worked for over 30 years honing his skills on guitars, vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, synthesizers, and other instruments along the way. While studying music, learning to play jazz, and working with an analog studio recording to 8track tape, he also discovered computers and their increasing capabilities as music tools, while also allowing access to sampling and software emulation of synthesis. The workflow has undergone changes over time, with the development of technology and better tools, but it's essentially the same toda

About: [moos] is an electronic music producer from the Netherlands. “I’ve been making music for over 20 years: electro, dubstep, techno, dub, ambient. For three years now I’ve been focussing on modular synths, which I find truly inspiring. I did live modbap sets (modular + hiphop beats), glitchy tracks and lofi ambient pieces. Something that’s always present in my music is a feeling of melancholy. When I create stuff, I start with an idea, start patching and develop it further. In that process the modular always brings me to new unexpected sound territories. Everything is recorded straight to stereo, no overdubs or edits on the computer. This is challenging but also very rewarding - once it’s done it’s done.” For Data Cult Audio [moos] created and recorded a new modular set. Enjoy. Links: BandCamp ► moos4.bandcamp.com/releases Instagram ► instagram.com/moosdohmen Spotify ► open.spotify.com/artist/69IMlvgP7PXhl3TXyCgoR5?si=AcRwv6NIQXeTvzD-tmHPhw All music, videos ► linktr.ee/moosdohmen

Luca Francini is a music composer and producer for media. In his quest to find new sounds he discovered the Eurorack world; being able to establish a direct connection between me and the sound in its rawest form is what he find fascinating and inspiring. When Luca is in front of his modules and synths he enjoy creating experimental, generative soundscapes where the listener can loose themselves, meditate or just relax. Links: www.youtube.com/lucafrancinimusic www.Instagram.com/lucafrancinimusic

About: Production Unit Xero (PUX) is an American electronic musician who has been cultivating high-quality IDM that stirs emotions and expands the mind since circa 2001. His work, which also heavily incorporates ambient, electro and breakbeat constructions, evokes the likes of Jega, early Mike Paradinas projects, and Proem. While many like-minded artists who explore the fragmentation and deconstruction of electronic music hot rod down the proverbial bit-crushed strip of plugins and knob twiddling to only forget the importance of emotional connection, Ramon does not fall into this trap. Instead his work summons the spiritual and emotional element that often escapes experimental electronic music. His work takes me elsewhere and this is an important variable that I look for in art. Mr. Mills who resides in Portland Oregon, is an active member of Portland’s vibrant live hardware scene and also runs the exquisite and stealthy net label Heterodox Records – which boasts a fine selection of experimental electronic

About: James Staub has spent the last ten years composing music through the design of electroacoustic systems and processes. Pieces are constructed from a tapestry of recorded improvisations for guitar, upright bass, cello and a vast toolkit of original interactive music software. Staub’s work as a music technologist and programmer centers on the development of real-time human-computer improvisation. These tools employ machine listening and synthesis techniques to interpret and play along with instrumental improvisations. The incidental and the imperfect nature of his custom made audio programs create a dynamic, texture-rich interplay between acoustic and electronic voices. This mix for Data Cult Audio contains selections from several of James’ albums (released under the name Muddy Wires), as well as unreleased studio material. Links: https://muddywires.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/jamesstaub https://www.instagram.com/j_a_m_e_s__a__s_t_a_u_b/

About: Gloom Mountain Gospel is a electronic duo of Jason Vapor and Goldie Paris from the mountains of East Tennessee. They create what they call Electro Gloom a mix of ambient soundscapes and driving drums. They have been creating music together since 2016 with several albums and singles independently released and the last two albums released on Heterodox Records. Links: www.gloommountaingospel.com

About: Android Superstar is the result of monkeys cohabitating with machines. The result is electronic noise distilled into pulsing beats. Links: https://datacultaudio.bandcamp.com/music

ABOUT: Stefano Trezzi, sound engineer and musician, in 2018 approaches modular synthesis and experimental music. He explores and is guided by the various sounds that are generated consciously or not, building a changing story. His sound is a walk through different atmospheres in order and chaos, created by synths, effects, samplers and sounds of the world. The result is a changing flow of ideas, sounds, instinct and emotions. Stefano is a member of the family, Milano Modulare, a collective of musicians who keep the world of modular synthesis alive in the Milanese hinterland with events and unique live performances. As a bassist and guitarist, he collaborates in productions with different artists from the alternative-rock and hip hop scenes of Brianza and Milan. About the track: Sunset is a live performance recorded during a live show in Milan, all sounds come from modular synths and pedal effects. LINKS: https://www.instagram.com/stefano_trezzi/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/7lYEm3Kc3uETMi8Ak0jvsa http

About: "shrill thru worlds, the enereph calls!" Connie Fu plays the enereph, one of many characters in her audiovisual universe. She weaves together sounds that remind her of home. In this piece. Octatrack, Digitone, and Hydrasynth recordings are arranged with lap steel guitar*, modular, and soft synth sounds. Peking opera samples and recitations of her poetry offer a glimpse into the inner world. She lives in Seattle with her rabbits Frank and Akemie and can be found working at Patchwerks, the local synth shop. Split album 'premoniss / Bukimi no Tani Genshō' with Production Unit Xero set to be released 2/12/22 on Heterodox Records. *gratitude to Maluhia Castillo for the lap steel > Night Sky jam on 12/21/21. Links: Heterodox Records: https://heterodoxrecords.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/_enereph/ Bandcamp: https://enereph.bandcamp.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwe8PraHAbLCutZkUoZ_NLQ

About: JacqNoise- In her compositions, JacqNoise is looking for the spot where rhythms cross each other’s paths. She is deconstructing sounds in order to understand the symphony and the themes that are reflected in it. Andreas Krach-  Andreas Krach spends sleepless nights with crunchy electronic sounds, deriving from circuit bent instruments, no-input mixers and analogue synthesizers. Lots of analogue synthesizers. Besides creating exotic sound he also  built the bulky bleep machine "Krach der Robotter" that haunts clubs and venues on a regular basis. Links: JacqNoise- www.facebook.com/jacqsbook/ www.instagram.com/jacqnoise/ Andreas Krach- www.facebook.com/KrachDerRoboter www.instagram.com/andreas_krach/