Welcome the third and final piece of the Shocks trilogy. While these challenging bits of sin have gone under the radar to most, they hold an invaluable place in the ESP Institute. Italian producer Wanmhope's meticulously folded layers of sound and his generally warped melancholic sensibility may suggest that beauty is in the ear of the beholder, but there is a subtlety to his craft that is undeniably intoxicating. This is all merely preparation for the Shocks full-length album slotted for this Summer.

A1 - WHITE MOUNTAIN (snippet)

Its been a long musical journey, from trance, to progressive house, to house, to tech house, to minimal techno, only to settle on the grandfather of all electronic music: that which gave birth to many of the styles we love and crave, TECHNO!


In eight parts Iona acts as conduit for extraordinary, invisible and arcane forces. Inspired by the I Ching’s fundamental principles, her music resonates with a visceral and cosmic conception of human essence, infusing minimalist frameworks with finely tempered but lush emotive cues that bring to life the I Ching’s conviction that, according to the Wilhelm translation, 1950 of Hex 16 豫 (yù) “music has the power to ease tension within the heart and to loosen the grip of obscure emotions.” Iona’s music most beautifully manifests this idea in concisely exacting forms and to contemplative ends, creating a slow, serene and harmonious music that coolly commands relaxed states of reception, best for mulling over life, and stuff.

"At once as light as a fleeting thought but permanent as an organism passing on its code, the music conjures mindsets comparable to Coil at their uncanniest, the post-erotica 4th world sensations generated by Jon Hassell, or the dark energy expressed in David Lynch films and their soundtracks. Most crucially Iona achieves this through a synthesis of self-exploration and instrumental actualisation, employing an unusual composition strategy of inner cultivation and empathic performance to divine and realise a spellbinding, penetrative otherness."

In the search for spiritual enlightenment, her music brings an enchanted fourth world sound into a disenchanted twenty-first century.

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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

His musical spectrum goes from classical to electronic and experimental music.

With different albums, series, collaboration projects and live performances since 1998, his work also includes original soundtracks for theater plays, film and video installations.

El Fulminador lives and works in Berlin, Germany.