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What to expect from a young Polish guy who preferred Brian Eno's MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS over Michael Jackson 's THRILLER when he was like, 12 years old ? His father, a real music-lover and always on the lookout for new things put him on this trail.. Unusual music with a strong mood. Emotion. The next thing was discovering samplebased music. After being swept away by people like PORTISHEAD and especially the instrumental hip-hop of DJ Shadow and DJ Krush in the '90s he started out making his own music using just his PC and, after a while, a turntable. [The Technics 1200.. the NOON-model, so to speak..] The final addition to his setup was a MPC2000 sampler, which became affordable after being signed by dDrecords' Syds Marra, who discovered him on the internet around 1998. But how can you make music if you limit yourself to using only samples? All of which should be strictly from vinyl records as a matter of fact.. Well... listen and find out. The main ingredient of his music is a strong mood... His music is unlike Viktor Sjöberg 's tracks but he shares the same attitude nevertheless. He knows what he wants and keeps digging the crates till he finds those samples that will help him shape those feelings into music. He has the rare ability to give a sampler a soul, to control it instead of being controlled by it. He simply knows what he wants and works those tracks until they are right. It is not techno or hip-hop. It is not dance. It is trippy, but no triphop. Introspective and contemplative are words that come to mind when listening to his tracks. Soundtracks for unmade movies.... Ten years after the release this album still sounds fresh..
BLEAK OUTPUT, his first album, was released in 2000 by dDrecords and became an instant classic in the Polish sub-culture and abroad.
It was re-released in Poland several times, incl. a vinyl version. Check this link for a complete overview of his musical career. Here is an old interview [2001], done right after the release of Bleak Output.
And this one, very extensive, but in Dutch only.
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All demo's are from the 1998 cassette tape that made Syds Marra offer Noon a record deal with dDrecords.
Until now, never before released.