Andy James, aka @soniktexture, has played all over the United States with his infectious brand of bangin' Techno & DNB since 1999. Some of the DJs/Producers he has played alongside are Richie Hawtin, Dan Bell, Stacy Pullen, Frankie Bones, T-1000, Dustin Zahn, John Tejada, Seth Troxler, Photek, Dom & Roland, A-Sides, Matrix & Futurebound, & Artificial Intelligence.

His first release was for Detroit/San Diego label BerettaMusic in 2005. He has since released originals & remixes on Tek-Know?, Miniatura Records, Klectik Records, Noise Complaint Records, Pound Recordings, The Seed, Aerotek Recordings, & Amalgm8 Musiq.

Transitioning into the 2020s, Andy formed his Soniktexture alias - DNB production within Ableton/VSTs and downtempo, synthwave, dub, & ambient hardware jams.

“What am I to build, if my hands are broken, if I’m not the chosen one?” sings Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight on “Story of An Immigrant”, over a lush, dynamic beat that evokes the sounds of his native South Africa while steeped in the band’s everevolving present. The foursome (Steven, his brother and guitarist Andrew, drummer Richard Wouters and Kevin Dailey on keys and guitar) are living proof of what happens when you stop worrying about being the chosen one and make music built on both the roots that grew you and the love that keeps you thriving every day. Civil Twilight’s songs embrace every corner of human emotion, balancing delicate, poetic lyrics with sweeping arrangements that touch all the senses: a phrase to make you think; a rolling drumbeat you can feel in your bones; a guitar vamp as illustrative as a picture; a shimmer of keys whose light can nearly be seen and heard. Produced by Ben H. Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cut Copy), their third record on Wind-Up is built on this vibrancy, on the permanent dust of a Cape Town youth; on the connection that unites them all as brothers beyond blood and on their new home in America where they pull from the innate, thriving musicianship of Nashville, where they live. When you listen to Civil Twilight, from their self-titled debut, to 2012’s widely lauded Holy Weather to now, it’s easy to understand why the band has topped five million YouTube views and reached historic success with film and television syncs – because it’s music you can’t shake, that translates experience into moments and creates melodies that become imbedded deep under the skin. We’re all immigrants, in some way, and Civil Twilight’s singing our national anthem.

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Brought up in the woods by a rag-tag bunch of tea-loving goblins and rough-and-tumble forest fairies, Pandanāndi emerged from the underbrush in 2004 with a knapsack of noises and a pinch of dementia dust.

Well I'm 26 year old drummer living in Calgary with a brain full of melodies and arrangements, ALL of which come to me at 2:00am! I started playing when I was 13. My dad "Johnny V" got me into music being a Juno winning, Canadian blues hall of fame guitar player (plug ;) and what not and having a seemingly endless amount of records, tapes, cds, etc. for me to listen to! I've found my tastes to be in Metal, Funk, Prog, and Classical but I will not shy away from anything that can be classified as music (insert sub-genre joke here).

Feel free to check out my shtuff as for I will be putting my random tunes up on this page as well as my recordings I deem "listenable". I've also got some drum covers of some other tunes up on youtube (see link above) and my demo "Warlord" is up for sale on littlev.bandcamp.com (see link above) if you feel inclined to support my musical habits.

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ALSO AVAILABLE // Universal Language EP
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