Theory is the newest signing on Mindtrick Records.

The Sound designer by day Antuan Graftio is a member of several musical projects such as:
Sacris Tandem, Conjuncture, and some music has been released under his own name.
His name is under at least 20 other Ep`s and albums but the best is yet to come out under his Theory alias for Mindtrick Records at the end of 2016.

I just try to be as honest as I can through the work I do, and try to capture the emotion and perception I wish to convey. I make music for myself, partly because I don’t like to assume that people will want to listen to it, but if they choose to listen to it and it helps them, then that’s cool. I feel that if I do things from a visceral level and just stick to the path I’m on, then I am doing the will of the universe so to speak, and that’s one thing which keeps me going.

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The new darkjazz project from Jason Kohnen / Bong-Ra the founding member of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation.

THE THING WITH FIVE EYES ventures deeper into mystical and occult territories of the soul. Exploring the vast universes of the unknown.

 

Aeon Waves is a solo project by ahmedabad based producer, Gujarat (India). Apart from working as a full time sound engineer He has been working on his original tunes and producing
music since then. He released his first 6 track Debut EP “Coldfront”
on a SEATTLE, WA (U.S.A) based record label “Onset Audio” which includes
genre like Ambient, Drum & Bass and Electronic. Followed By his debut
EP He released his second EP “Time” on “Onset Audio”. His thrid EP “One
Day I’LL Be Gone” on “Easy Summer Limited” a San Francisco (U.S.A)
based label, “Bearskin” a U.K based Record Label. Recently his forth EP
“The Last Siren Before The Extinction ” is been released on
“Easy Summer Limited”. Meanwhile he also ve released few Singles like
“Tears Of Elare” & “Into The Lights ” On “Bearskin Records”.His some on
the tracks is been made really good impact like the track “Coldfront”
from his first “EP” is been supported on Blu Mar Ten Podcasts by
“Akuratyde” an artist signed on Blu Mar Ten Label, And his single “Into
The Lights” just crossed 15k plays on Youtube channel which was
released on “Bearskin”Record Label and was supported by “Ambient”a very
well known youtube channel. He is set to release more EP’s this year
which will be based on Ambient and Electronic Genre. Lot of people have
used his tracks for their personal projects like videos and short films
also is working on a soundtrack for scifi animation movie (U.S.A).

Huron is a Berlin based musician. In his early years he is influenced by the music of bands like Depeche Mode, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and styles like EBM/Industrial Music, Acid and Detroit-techno he recorded his first mix-tapes in the early 90´s.
At the age of 17 years he constructed his first own tracks of electronic music (industrial, techno, ambient).

His passion for mixing grows and since 1990 he has established himself a professional DJ under different synonyms. Around 1998 his music style developed more and more to IDM, Glitch and Electronica.

His first 2 own albums came out on trachanik and crazy language.

crazy language is a net-label he founded with a good friend (axiom) to publish experimental, electronica and idm stuff.

In the last years he released many tracks on different label-compilations from labels like trachanik, crl studios, miga,

solanic org, wounds of the earth, raumklang music, anchorage sound, aliens produktion, Eonian Autumn or tympanik audio and he remixed tracks from many arists like se,atmogat, dnn, datacrashrobot, geodesique, structural fault, headdreamer, machinecode, midmode and many more.

His sound is characterized by glitchy and detailed beat-structures, crispy percussions and deep emotional pads. Nice dsp-influenced techniques and high quality sounding textures which usually expresses melancholy combined with a slight and subliminal touch of darkness are typical for his music.
“a picture between of journey into the abyss of soul , uncertainly dark future and hopeful morning light: ”

HURON

1992
The original Hajee started producing around the age of 16 when he got his first synthesizer. At that time he was living in a small village in the north of the Netherlands and it was hard to get in touch with non-main-stream music those days. Fortunately his father had a little TV-fetish so a satellite-receiver was installed and the first editions of MTV partyzone changed his life completely: Trip to Trumpton, Stakker Humanoid, Everybody in the Place, Sweet Harmony, FSOL and so on.

Once his producer skills got more evolved he joined forces with Riez. Together they explored their relatively simple equipment and a lot of Acid erupted from their fuzzy speakers. In 1993 a collaboration was made with another, more hardcore oriented duo called Pharcyde Terror. A small studio was created in the outskirts of the city called Steenwijk where Hajee got his first hand on a hardware sampler: Roland S-760. Meanwhile the first signs of Jungle had reached Hajee and Riez and after hearing Jonny L “I Want You” it became all clear: Jungle it will be.

1994
In 1994 Hajee and Riez started the band Time Convert! Whereas their first jungle tracks could be regarded as experimental projects to gain gear-experience (read: sampler experience) their later tracks became more and more grown-up DnB- productions. Intensive demo spamming and their ambition to trash the world with their sound resulted in their first gigs. Being one of the first Dutch live DnB acts, Time Convert! was asked to perform at the Noorderslag festival in Groningen in the Drum n Basement. Along with Theremin, Simm Alley, Drum Origins, Opex (Loes Lee band), Amp Error and DJs Dreaz, Chaos and Esther, Time Convert proved that the Dutch DnB scene was rocking as hell.

1997
After being support-act for the Urban Dance Squad, Time Convert! made it through the first rounds of “De Grote Prijs van Nederland” and in accompany of MC Cesar they made a devastating performance in Paradiso, Amsterdam during the final of “De Grote Prijs van Nederland”. Unfortunately they did not win, but since Amsterdam is de least DnB-area of Holland, they could cope with it very well. After this big adventure Riez and Hajee each went their own way.

1999
Hajee decided to finish his studies and started focusing on DJ-ing. It took him more than two years to grew over his Amen-addiction. At that time he only bought records that in some way contained the famous Amen-loop. His current criteria for good records can be regarded as well produced, atmospheric, deep and energetic. Some of his favorite artists are The Green Man, DJ Hidden, Silent Witness and Simon V.

2003
In 2003 Hajee started producing again with an EMU E6400 Ultra sampler and an old PC, running an even older version of Cubase. Slowly his bedroom-studio evolved to a satisfying home recording studio and very recently he switched to a new Digital Audio Workstation running Ableton Live. His style as a producer can be characterized by atmospheric sounds, saturated, although well controlled basses and smashing beats. He still has the ambition and the faith that someday he will produce that specific track that will change mankind forever!!!

Zinovia Arvanitidi was born in Athens, Greece and has been honing her music-composing skills from very early on by learning piano at the young age of 8 and further on by obtaining various diplomas in Classical Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, orchestration and music technology.

Since the completion of her musical studies she has been experimenting with electronic sounds, incorporating her influences in classical, electro, ambient, dub, neo-classical, jazz, and film scores into her own sound creations.

In 2012 Zinovia composed music in the collaborative album ‘Vanishing Mirror‘ under the moniker Pill-Oh which was released by the Singapore-based Kitchen.Label, and in 2013 she joined the Chicago-based label Tympanik Audio to present her solo album ‘The Gift Of Affliction”. A work consisting of beautiful, haunting melodies, ethereal vocals and warm, entrancing atmospheres, underlined by subtle beats, piano arrangements with the addition of melodica, which is constantly receiving remarkable reviews from people all over the world.

In the beginning of 2014 Zinovia joined the roster of Oticons film composer’s agency among the names of Rachel Portman, Shigeru Umebayashi,Jan A.P. Kaczmarek etc.

Zinovia has also written music for theatrical plays, short films and an animated feature film titled “From the Earth to the Moon” (based on the novel by Jules Verne) created by Angelos Spartalis, featuring two of the most significant composers / performers of Greece, Dionysis Savvopoulos and Psarandonis.

Her latest work is the soundtrack of the Russian mini TV series titled “Godfather ( Крестный )”, scheduled to be broadcasted within early 2015.

Julien Mier is a composer, instrumentalist, sound sculptor but in the first place an artist. He graduated from the School of Arts & Technology in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In his own words, he “combines found sounds with found objects to create a cascade of melodic, textural and rhythmic patterns. To use fragments which have no existence on itself, the composition is his instrument to blend pointless musical words in a meaningful way.”

Mier started his journey in 2009, with a release called „Have Courage, Funny Thing”. Followed up by a 12’’ record called “The Galaxy Twitch.”
August 2012 saw the release of acclaimed EP “When Will You Wake Up?”. Joined by a conceptual videoclip, filmed in Canada for the single “Watercolour Sky”.

Julien Mier enters 2013 with a release of yet another 12” record called “Jane’s Junkyard.” followed up by a remix EP of When Will You Wake Up with remixes by Robot Koch among others.

Mier has released on Mindtrick Records,Cascade, King Deluxe, Shipwrec, Lowriders Collective, Project Mooncircle, Schematic and Squelch & Clap.

Roel Funcken is a musician, DJ and producer from the Netherlands. He is one of two members of Funckarma – the other member is his brother Don Funcken. Roel Funcken has been releasing music since the late 90’ and on numerous labels off course Mindtrick Records,Schematic Records, Eat Concrete, Ad Noiseam, ShipWrec, Tympanik Audio and Combat Recordings to name a few. Last but not least on the Funckarma self-operated Funcken Industry record label.

I believe I have a unique vision on music in its pure form, an unrestrained funck. Structure in the sense of driving rhythms, freeform melodics layered over each other in complex structures.

Few facts about the origins of dubstep are widely accepted – but a few stand out in my mind as certainties. The fact that the sound originated from South London. The fact that the sound we know and love grew from the intersection of genres like dub/ reggae, grime and garage (to name a few) and the UK’s Jamaican soundsystem culture.

It’s the latter that strikes me as the most important when listening to three Dutch producers who make music under ‘The Illuminated’ moniker. Dyzz, Rebus and Vence’s music reminds me of the early days of dubstep – with inspiration drawn from the same places as the sound’s forefathers. The trio may have only been producing together for a few years, but they’re quick on their way to joining the likes of Noisia, Icicle, Proxima and TMSV as internationally known and respected Dutch bass music producers.

I’ve been working with the trio since hearing ‘Scavenger’, one of their first productions caught the attention of Skream and Benga on Radio 1. Support from other big names quickly followed with the likes of Joe Nice, who’s often quick to rewind many an Illuminated tune, Wheel & Deal’s N-Type and Biscuit Factory Records’ Walsh lining up to support The Illuminated’s music.