Hectic is a multi-genre producer from London, UK. Releases including ''The Play Deep Sessions" with Melleefresh, as well as a ton of remixes for an incredibly diverse range of artists, show off Hectic's unique style of production. He has also received radio play and support from DJs on BBC Radio 1Xtra, Kiss FM, XFM, Sub FM and Reprezent Radio. Hectic embraces new music technology and is always on the lookout for interesting pieces of kit to add to his studio. 

Contact email: hectictracks@gmail.com

DOHMA | EHMN | AMHOD

Donnie Martin is an electronic music performer-composer, sound synthesist, and educator committed to exploring unique sonic experiences and perspectives. Much of his work exhibits expressive control and movement of organic timbres within a modular synthesizer. Martin combines elements of Avant-Garde, noise, techno, and ambient electronic music while traversing the outer edges of musical perception.

Martin’s work as DOHMA seeks to dismantle the core of typical underground club scenes with a sound that extracts order from madness and cohesion from contrast. His distinctive live sets deliver a powerful statement on the dancefloor exploring complex rhythms with layers of off-kilter sample loops, complex modular textures, and idiosyncratic percussion. While his previous livesets relied on meticulously designed Ableton Live templates and MIDI control, he shifted in 2020 to an improvised hardware setup. DOHMA represents the energy of natural discovery while emphasizing improvisation in both production and performance mediums. In 2021, he released his raucous single, Everything is Derivative, on the Boston-based label, PUZL Records.

Through the EHMN project, Martin explores complex concepts by drawing influence from the beauty and ugliness of the dichotomies and imperfections of nature and the human condition. In 2021, he composed a fixed-media piece, First Exhale, an expression of temporal reality of conscious existence from our first breath to our last. He delivered another short work later that year, Anxygdala, a conceptual piece inspired by the experience of internal coping during an anxiety attack. Based on the concept of “being honeyed” described in an excerpt from Merleau-Ponty’s 1945 book, Phenomenology of Perception, Honey is the Martin’s first multi-channel work composed for Max and modular synthesizer. Composed in 2022, the piece presents an aural experience that blurs the audience’s perception of the location of individual sound sources through in-air sound synthesis.

Conversely, Amhod is a return to Martin’s roots as a classically trained violinist of 30 years with a modern nuance. This minimal project strips the synthesizers and computers away from his primary toolkit and holds nature close to the heart while he creates vast soundscapes amid washed loops layers of violin. The result is an ambient collage of tonal and timbral exploration from a single instrument. The drastic vagaries and isolation during the peak of COVID-19 in 2020 prompted Martin to record The Great Empty EP, which was an improvised manifestation of rediscovering one’s purpose. All proceeds earned from the Bandcamp release were donated to the Boston chapter of the NAACP.

In 2023, he co-authored a paper with Paul Geluso and Lars Graugaard published to the AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio focusing on in-air sound synthesis and the creative applications of multi-channel sound systems in electronic music composition, performance, and installations. This mode of sound synthesis uses the three-dimensional interaction between polarity-inverted copies of sound waves within acoustic environments.

Martin currently teaches fundamental and advanced electronic music and sound synthesis courses at NYU Steinhardt to undergraduate and graduate students. In class, he promotes a guided freedom of exploration in his classes with goal-oriented assignments that encourage focused experimentation and discovery. His teaching philosophy and curriculum centers around his unwavering belief that progress is fueled by curiosity and hindered by perfection while the basic dimensions of sound can be individual tools to elevate his students’ sonic creations and expressions.

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MC/Producer from Palestine. Co-Founder of the Ramallah Underground collective. 

SoundClouder of the Day (April 9th 2013)
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I'm an ambitious upcoming rapper coming strait from BO$TON, MASS, now living in LEE COUNTY, FLORIDA....I've been writing rhymes since a kid developing and perfecting my unique type of flow hoping to expand my fan base and allow people all around the world to hear my words......feel free to comment on tracks and download your favorites....SUPPORT BO$TON NICK....give me feedback and remix requests......thankx to all!!!

Vieka Plays (:vee-e-ka p-l-aa-ys). Born, will die. A female singer-songwriter-electronic-fiddler-producer-engineer currently residing in the fair lands of Manchesterville, UK. Inspired and nourished by music and sound.

 Vieka plays her music full frontal, sometimes delicate, sometimes brash but always dedicated to the senses. Alikened to Björk, Portishead with a dash of Cocorosie, Vieka moves through you in a whirl of challenging stories and sounds created by all manors of electronic geekery that can be harnessed, beated and whipped into shape. 

...'Combining sonic brutality, unfettered on-stage physicality, never-quite-reassuring periods of calm and moments of breath-taking spectral beauty'...'Ostensibly an avant-garde musician in the Portishead/Björk mould mould, Vieka’s beguiling live performances set her apart from other experimentalists.'
 … 'Their live concerts can veer from dubstep mood-pieces to eerie swing narratives and sexual psycho-dramas all with an underlying Burial-style-soundtrack-David Lynch intensity'... 

With a lustful desire for the wild world, Vieka weaves through all manner of sounds; blending, warping and creating impassioned soundscapes with subtle sound recordings from nature, life and the wide-wide world. Obtuse creations of synthesised bass, glitch noise and samples come from deep within the digital spectrum while the vocals cut through unabashed.

'With a tongue stuffed thoroughly in her cheek she blissfully hovers her sound in the darker sides of life (or hoovers her music up from the filthy corner of the proverbial room).'

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