Textbeak has been making musick and DJing for many years now. Influenced by artists like Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, and Skinny Puppy, in the late 80s he began making music with whatever he had on hand in projects with long-time friend Todd Sines (Peacefrog, 7th City, Background, Planet E). In 1991 Mike moved to Columbus, Ohio with Todd and joined up with Titonton Duvante (Residual Records) and Charles Noel aka Archetype (Ongaku, Black Nation) to start B/Re (Body Release). In 1994, his band Bath was signed with Jevan Records (owned by gothic band Lestat) and recorded at Noise with producer Kramer (Shimmy Disc, Bongwater, Low, Galaxie 500). In 1998 he began to release solo works as Textbeak on labels such as Dark Daze (Carlos Peron of Yello), Moon Sounds (Dallas), Lasergun (Savas Pascalidis in Berlin), Tundra Dubs (San Francisco), and others. In 2011 he began TXTBK's CHVяCH XV BяXK3N 7ANGvAG Radio which has become a staple of the dark electronic scene and featured mixes by Philipp Strobel [aufnahme + wiedergabe], CRIM3S, BLVCK CEILING, Clan Destine Records, Mannequin Records and many others. He has done many DJ mixes including Grim Harvest Halloween 2012 for Мишка with actor Omar Doom (Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds), Cleopatra Records, and THE BRVTALIST. He has performed at events nationally and internationally opening for Merzbow, Modern English, Bestial Mouths, Larry Tee, Nitzer Ebb, David J (of Bauhaus), Light Asylum, Test Department, Skin Town (Nick Turco of Zola Jesus), Meat Beat Manifesto, and The Legendary Pink Dots to name a few. He has remixed many artists including Blush Response (Ant-Zen), Architect (Daniel Myer of Haujobb), Tamara Sky (Lil Death LA), Bestial Mouths (Cleopatra, Clan Destine, Negative Gain), and ∆AIMON (Tundra, Artoffact). From his compositions to his genre-destroying DJ sets, he constantly creates new and unusual sound collages and DJ mixes. His latest release, Sick For Songs A Season Eats is on Cleopatra Records with a follow-up remix album featuring mixes by Click Click, Satanic Hispanic, MORGVE, Alka (on Vince Clarke's Very Records), Antoni Maiovvi (Ye Gods), Mark Stewart (The Pop Group), Frank Weyzig (Vaselyne, Clan of Xymox), and more.

Biography
Nathaniel Eras is an American born multi-disciplinary conceptual artist, sound designer and composer based in Los Angeles & Playas de Tijuana. Works include music scores for films “Drunk Bus”, “How I Learned To Fly”, and “Bedtime”. Other sound design work includes IFC’s Speak No Evil, A24’s Midsommar, and Blitzar Media’s “And They Will Talk About Us”.

Eras’ contemporary sculpture and interactive works include “Behold A White Horse“ a multi-media interactive installation at Kunsthalle Faust Hannover Germany, “Fronteras Simbióticas” as an interactive sound design architect with MDAP for World Design Capital: 2024, presented at CECUT Centro Cultural and Antiguo Cine Bujazan and "The Embrace Of The Infinite Here & Now" as a featured artist in residency at NettNett Space Tijuana BC MX. Eras also cites inspiration from experimental performance art and underground rave culture, scenes in which he is deeply entrenched in running and developing his art practice at the collaborative ephemeral art space Vertexx.io 2017-2021 which hosted some of Los Angeles' most revered gatherings in recent memory.

On Nathaniel Eras' evolving music series project stemming from earlier conceptual works, a series of 3 releases are slated for release titled 'Omniaglyph 0,1 & 2. The LA-based producer offers a sonic triptych and averts any strict notions of genre, diving headfirst into deeper, esoteric soundscapes and embracing the moodier elements that have punctuated his catalog by pairing mystic beauty against a bleak, industrial and dystopian compositions. Taking an instinctual approach to his music, Eras' creative process merges sounds, patterns, and textures intending to open discussion and connect disparate musical ideas.

With a zeal for noise, minimalism, and dizzying sense of rhythmic prowess - the 'Omniaglyph' triptych wields power with restraint reminiscent of the adventurous post-human atmospheres of Autechre and the dark growling sound design of Ben Frost or Jóhann Jóhannsson. Riding the fine line between drone squall and euphoric ambient explorations, Eras' latest is a potent tangling of film score abstractions with spectral electronics. While much of 'Omniaglyph' is a solitary effort, there are collaborative experiments with live instrumentation featuring saxophone (Scott Page of Pink Floyd), electric viola (Kathia Rudametkin), modular synth (Samur Khouja) and musique concrète tape loops (Ana Reptiliana).

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