New album ‘Europa’ out now: http://found.ee/EUROPA.

Holly Johnson's first foray into the world of popular culture was as frontman for conceptual multi-million-selling pop act 'Frankie Goes To Hollywood'; 'Relax' burst onto the airwaves and was banned by the BBC. FGTH reinvented remix and EDM culture. Holly Johnson later went to number One in the UK with his platinum-selling debut album 'Blast', recently reissued by Cherry Red along with his further solo albums 'Dreams That Money Can't Buy' and 'Soulstream'.

Holly's new album, 'Europa', is released on 29th September 2014. 

Winner of numerous awards, including the prestigious IDA Award for Best Original Score, Ramachandra Borcar's passion for the unconventional has led to an astonishing array of scores, albums, and creative collaborations with artists and filmmakers from around the world, establishing him as one of the few poly-stylistic composers in the industry today.

From his work with metal icons Voivod and Metallica's Jason Newsted to collaborations with the legendary Mulatu Astatke (father of Ethio-Jazz), bandleader Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra) and UK Afro-jazz icon Shabaka Hutchings, Ram's musical multiverse glides effortlessly between modern orchestral writing, post-rock soundscapes, modal jazz, experimental electronics, and lyrical melodies.

An avid collector, Ram's ever-expanding library of over 15,000 vinyl LPs reflects his musical curiosity and versatility, serving as a constant source of inspiration for his critically acclaimed, award-winning scores across documentary, film & TV, and video games, including the commercial success, Far Cry 4.

Temperamental: Sound Scapes, Shapes, Shadows.

stolen, created, self assembled, re-produced

sound collector, sonick wizard, sound worshipper.

theres no earthly way of knowing+which direction we are going

"Pardon my early exit; Hope you survive!" is an open multimedia platform existing as a solitary experiment at times, at others as a shared journey along fellow creators equipped with a mis//matched approach and fascination towards sound.
I also utilise it as a cathartic self help tool for finding semi-sanity.

an obsessive/compulsive collector interested in what others reject/can't find use for.
to give it a new life, name, identity, a different meaning.
mixing analogue/digital equipment, electroacoustic techniques with electronics, percussive vocals, real life samples and broken melodies.
loud or quiet, clean or distorted, rhythm without beats, a bit of rhythm,thinking of dancing, dancing without thinking, no preconceptions, maximalist sometimes, other times using restraint and limitations as a tool to reach further, sink deeper, spread out wider and then again shrink.
in the world I inhabit sound and image work together or against each other.
hearing becomes a spiderweb to capture the other senses.to alter dimensions.
sometimes a guess,all ways a bet, never ready.

"Pardon my early exit; Hope you survive!" shapes  up near the end of the first decade of the new millennium, as a continuation, expansion and  'memento mori' of "Devotchka.s Conundrum", the masked duet sound project which had started this sonic exploration in Londons underground noise scene experimental underbelly a few years earlier, fast living and young dieing.

My search takes many disguises, such as site specific installations, especially in places other than art galleries, creation of other spaces through soundscapes, sonic walks and interventions, live performances, often collaborative efforts inviting the destruction of the divide between audience and performer, calling for a more participant interaction of the former,  alternative realities via sonic illusions and sensory deprivation, random sound chaos rituals, collective  invocations of the aural gods, goddesses and sonic daemons... 

Since its researching and wandering started, "Pardon my early exit: hope you survive!" got involved with beHind bars Collective in london and barcelona, blew up schwarzer Kanal's sound system In Berlin,  playing along  experi-mentalists of sound from all corners, such as Big City Orchestrae, Meira Asher, Yann Keller & Jan Schlaeger, Hermann Kopp, before almost killing itself while setting up its own funeral waves at Milk and Lead Art Gallery. Further actions happened at Interzone and KaosLondon by Lee Adams, Cafe Oto, Abattoir,  London Underground Film Festival, Undogmatisch in Berlin, on the Ms Stubnitz German ship... invites to participate remain open.

Influenced by: +in a wild order and as far as i recall+ 
viruses and bacteria, infrasound, fairground and funeral music, toys,extremism,tecknokolor, haruki murakami, melancholy, medical equipment, MILKandLEAD, jose' macabra, chorozon chaos, ron athey, nurvuss, petra flurr, black sun productions, sudden infant, patricide, othon mataragas & ernesto tomasini, vulkan, mary & the boy, symbols, optical illusions, the circus, martyrs, zen, evolution, conspiracy theories, lunatics, taxidermy, fairy tales, matthew barney's cremaster cycle, completely white rooms, georges méliès, electricity, tim burton, genesis breyer p-orridge,noise, dead trees, alejandro jodorowsky, anechoic chambers, feral children, saints, natural disasters, circa-industrial music, dust, pirates, sadness, lukas moodysson, coil. wolves, pipe organs, delicatessen and the city of lost children, snow and ice, danny elfman, cabaret music, anatomy, the apocalypse, decadence, altered states, numbers, david lynch, bulgakov's master and margarita, the pioneers of electroacoustic music, children drawings, bjork gudmundsdottir, deep sea creatures, aliens.

I’M NOT COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS ❄️ out now:
https://hypeddit.com/christianoshi/imnotcominghomeforchristmas

London-based dance-pop artist Christianoshi returns with ‘I’m Not Coming Home for Christmas’ - a hyperpop festive rebellion anthem. Originally from North Wales, he abandons mountains for messiness on this unapologetic ode to self-definition and freedom.
 
This release caps a prolific year for Christianoshi, from the Y2K trance-inspired 'Tryhard' EP in September to a previously unreleased bloghouse remix of his 2011 track ‘You’re Like Drugs’, which quickly became his most-streamed song to date.

Since emerging in 2011 with tracks co-produced by Medicine 8’s Liam May and Anthony Chapman (Klaxons, Franz Ferdinand), Christianoshi drew comparisons to Depeche Mode, Erasure and Pet Shop Boys with early releases such as ’Trust’, a favourite of BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson. Its accompanying 2014 video - depicting a chemsex chillout - remains his most viewed at over 32K plays.

On the back of live performances across London and New York City, Gay Times described Christianoshi as “an electropop act deeper than most.” Following a nine-year hiatus, he returned in 2024 with the 'Little Deaths' EP, produced with DJ Massimo Paramour (ROAST, Trough London, BEEFMINCE), who also co-produced 'Tryhard' and ‘I’m Not Coming Home for Christmas’.

Christianoshi shares: “After the gradual evolution of my sound in the last couple of years, I wanted to go a bit harder musically. The novelty of Christmas songs felt like the perfect excuse to do something unexpected. For me, that meant exploring hyperpop and reconnecting with a younger part of myself that found belonging and freedom on the dancefloor.”

‘I’m Not Coming Home For Christmas’ is accompanied by a lyric video inspired by the indie sleaze and Super Super Magazine aesthetic, reflecting the clubbing era referenced in the song. Riding his strongest streaming momentum yet, Christianoshi shows no signs of coming down any time soon.

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